Wantewitz

Wantewitz community Priestewitz Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 11 ″  N , 13 ° 30 ′ 4 ″  E
Height :	193 m above sea level NHN
Incorporation :	January 1, 1950
Incorporated into:	Gävernitz

Wantewitz is a district of the Priestewitz community in the Meißen district . It can be found about two kilometers south of the town center on federal highway 101 .

history

Wantewitz is probably originally a Slavic foundation. From this a German Gutsweiler developed. The place was first mentioned in a document in 1207 when Rodolfus et Dipoldus de Wantwiz and his brother appeared as witnesses in Hayn . The place name is interpreted as a settlement of the people of a Van (o) ta . Other forms of the place name were in the course of time: Wantewiz (1288), Wantwitz (1316), Want (e) wicz (1378) and Wanthewicz (1466).

There have been a few changes of ownership over the centuries. Mentioned in 1288 as Allodium and belonging to Seusslitz Monastery , the place became part of Hayn Castle in 1373 . In the middle of the 16th century he belonged to the Meissen Princely School , in 1551 to the city of Hayn. At the end of the 17th century, the Naundorf manor held the manor over Wantewitz, which had fallen desolately during the Thirty Years' War . The associated district size was given in the years 1406, 1547 and 1825 as seven hooves. Around 1840 belonged to the forty-inhabitant town next to the church, a school, two goods and a syringe house.

In 1873 Gutsweiler Piskowitz was incorporated into Wantewitz and on January 1, 1950, this rural community was finally incorporated into Gävernitz . Since 1973 the place belonged to Kmehlen-Gävernitz , this community came again in 1994 to Priestewitz.

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Landmark Wantewitz

Saint Urban Church

In place of the old Wantewitz church , which became too small for the Protestant parish due to the increasing population, the church was consecrated in 1864 with around 700 seats. The construction of the church cost 27,000 thalers.

The windows and roof were damaged by Russian artillery fire in 1945. The church could be refurbished by the centenary. The tower was last renovated in 1996 and 1997. The namesake of the church is Saint Urban , the patron saint of winegrowers. The church is visible from afar due to its elevated position and is considered a landmark .

Inside there is an organ , which was created in 1864 by Borna organ builder Urban Kreutzbach (1796–1868).

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literature

• Cornelius Gurlitt : Wantewitz. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 37. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Grossenhain (Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1914, p. 455.
• Otto Mörtzsch: Historical-topographical description of the administrative authority in Großenhain . Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz , Dresden 1935, p. 88 .
• Dietrich Hanspach, Haik Thomas Porada: Grossenhainer care. A regional study of the area around Großenhain and Radeburg . Ed .: Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-09706-6 .

Web links

Commons : Wantewitz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Wantewitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Notes and individual references

1. ^ ^{A b} Dietrich Hanspach, Haik Thomas Porada: Grossenhainer care. A regional study of the area around Großenhain and Radeburg . Ed .: Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-09706-6 , p. 132-135 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Otto Mörtzsch: Historical-topographical description of the administrative authority in Großenhain . Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz , Dresden 1935, p. 88 .
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Wantewitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony , accessed on December 10, 2017
4. ↑ Sankt-Urban-Kirche Wantewitz on www.kirche-im-grossenhainer-land.de ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ List of monuments of the State of Saxony , accessed on December 11, 2017.