Wachwitz

Wachwitz District of the state capital Dresden Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 15 ″  N , 13 ° 49 ′ 55 ″  E
Height :	110–260 m above sea level NN
Incorporation :	October 15, 1930
Postal code :	01326
Area code :	0351
Location of the Wachwitz district in Dresden

Aerial view of Wachwitz

Wachwitz is a district of Dresden . Together with Loschwitz, it forms the statistical district of Loschwitz / Wachwitz and belongs to the Loschwitz district . Wachwitz is located directly on the Elbe on the Dresden Elbe slopes to the right of the river. Its entire structure has been preserved in the village . The Dresden television tower rises directly above Wachwitz .

location

Wachwitz is about seven and a half kilometers upstream of Dresden city center between Loschwitz and Niederpoyritz on the slope of the Elbe. The Wachwitzbach and the Pillnitzer Landstrasse ( Staatsstrasse 167) run through Wachwitz . As one of the old fishing villages on the Elbe, it was part of the Dresden Elbe Valley World Heritage Site from 2004 until the World Heritage title was withdrawn in 2009 . On the other side of the Elbe are Tolkewitz and Laubegast Wachwitz.

history

The Wachwitz settlement was once founded on the rubble cone of the Wachwitzbach, which flows into the Elbe. In 1350 Wachwitz was first mentioned as "wachwicz" in the feudal book of Friedrich des Strengen . In the 19th century, manufacturers, state officials, painters and poets settled here (especially on former vineyards). The Royal Vineyard of Dresden-Wachwitz was built in 1824. In 1893 the lower castle was built in place of the previous summer villa. The upper Wachwitz Castle, visible from afar , was built between 1934 and 1936. On March 23, 1839, the first election of a community board took place, which from 1901 carried the title of mayor . In 1901, the municipal office was opened, which was used as such until it was incorporated in 1930, after which it was a post office and is now a private residence.

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  Elbe bank in Wachwitz

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  Wachwitz village center at the Elbhangfest (2008)

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  Summer house of the painter Woldemar Hottenroth

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  Old school Wachwitz

Attractions

• Wachwitz Castle with the Wachwitz Rhododendron Park
• List of cultural monuments in Wachwitz

Personalities

Native watchdogs

• Carl Heinrich Hübler (1822–1893), horn player and composer
• Theodor Schäfer (1850–1932), teacher and local researcher in the mountain association for Saxon Switzerland
• Max Arlt (1876–1933), architect and social reformer
• Otto Reuter (1886–1922), aircraft designer
• Horst Wolfram Geißler (1893–1983), writer

Friedrich Christian von Sachsen lived at Wachwitz Castle from 1937 to 1945

Associated with Wachwitz

• Woldemar Hottenroth (1802–1894), painter, representative of Dresden's late romanticism
• Otto Mohr (1835–1918), engineer and structural engineer
• Woldemar Müller (1860–1928), folklorist and draftsman
• Rudolf Heubner (1867–1967), lawyer and writer
• Edmund Schuchardt (1889–1972), architect
• Friedrich Christian of Saxony (1893–1968), Prince of Saxony
• Albert Herold (1894–1974), painter and graphic artist
• Gerd Seifert (* 1962), former football player, innkeeper

Web links

Commons : Wachwitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Wachwitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Literature about Wachwitz in the Saxon Bibliography
• Information about Wachwitz on Dresdner-Stadtteile.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rainer Ehlich, Claudia Müller, Otto-R. Wenzel: Wachwitz - history of a fishing and wine village. Elbhang-Kurier-Verlag, Dresden 2000. Without ISBN. In particular, pp. 63–74.