Wechselburg

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Wechselburg
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Coordinates: 51 ° 0 '  N , 12 ° 47'  E

Basic data
State : Saxony
County : Central Saxony
Height : 185 m above sea level NHN
Area : 25.65 km 2
Residents: 1778 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 69 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 09306
Primaries : 037384, 037346
License plate : FG, BED, DL, FLÖ, HC, MW, RL
Community key : 14 5 22 580
LOCODE : DE WLB
Community structure: 13 towns
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Bahnhofstrasse 16
09306 Wechselburg
Website : www.wechselburg.de
Mayoress : Renate Naumann ( CDU )
Location of the community of Wechselburg in the district of central Saxony
Altmittweida Augustusburg Bobritzsch-Hilbersdorf Brand-Erbisdorf Burgstädt Claußnitz Döbeln Dorfchemnitz Eppendorf Erlau (Sachsen) Flöha Frankenberg/Sa. Frauenstein (Erzgebirge) Freiberg Geringswalde Großhartmannsdorf Großschirma Großweitzschen Hainichen Halsbrücke Hartha Hartmannsdorf (bei Chemnitz) Königsfeld (Sachsen) Königshain-Wiederau Kriebstein Leisnig Leubsdorf (Sachsen) Lichtenau (Sachsen) Lichtenberg/Erzgeb. Lunzenau Mittweida Mühlau (Sachsen) Mulda/Sa. Neuhausen/Erzgeb. Niederwiesa Oberschöna Oederan Ostrau (Sachsen) Penig Rechenberg-Bienenmühle Reinsberg (Sachsen) Rochlitz Rossau (Sachsen) Roßwein Sayda Seelitz Striegistal Taura Waldheim Wechselburg Weißenborn/Erzgeb. Zettlitz Zschaitz-Ottewig Sachsenmap
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Wechselburg is a municipality in the Saxon district of Central Saxony .

geography

Wechselburg: 51st parallel

Wechselburg is about 12 km west of the city of Mittweida and about 25 km north of Chemnitz . The community is located in the valley of the Zwickauer Mulde at the foot of the 353 m high Rochlitz mountain . Part of the disused station after 51 runs latitude . As of 2009, a total of 738 inhabitants lived in the actual place without districts. The Via Porphyria and the Luther Trail Saxony lead through Wechselburg .

Districts

The districts belong to the municipality:

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are Königshain-Wiederau and Seelitz and the cities of Lunzenau , Penig and Rochlitz . The city ​​of Geithain , which belongs to the district of Leipzig, borders in the west .

history

The Romanesque Basilica of the Holy Cross (monastery and parish church)
Porphyry bridge over the Zwickauer Mulde near Wechselburg

The nearby Wechselburg castle stables originate from Slavic times .

The place, founded as Zschillen ('Bienenort'), is closely connected to the establishment of the Zschillen Monastery in 1168 by Count Dedo von Rochlitz-Groitzsch for the Augustinian Canons . The church built for this purpose also served as the burial place of the count's family. In 1278 it was given to the Teutonic Order . After the Reformation it became the property of the Saxon Duke Moritz . During the Thirty Years' War the community was devastated several times. After the war, the current baroque palace was built on the site of the former, dilapidated monastery . There was an exchange of territory (castles) between the Saxon Duke Moritz and the Count of Schönburg . This probably gave the place its current place name and became the property of the noble family of the Counts and Lords of Schönburg . In 1843, Countess Emilie von Schönburg founded the first deaconess hospital in Saxony in Wechselburg.

The palace complex was owned by the noble family of the Counts and Lords of Schönburg-Glauchau until it was expropriated without compensation as part of the land reform in 1945 .

In the 50s and 60s of the twentieth century the castle was a TBC -Heilstätte for children, later a children's hospital and by 2005 the hospital for child and adolescent psychiatry housed.

The history of the renewed use of the monastery church, evangelical since the Reformation, as a Roman Catholic church, as well as the regained importance of Wechselburg as a place of pilgrimage, goes back to the permission of private Catholic devotions in this church from 1843 and to the conversion of the Count of Schönburg to Catholicism in 1869 . This was initially followed by a decade-long dispute: the Protestant regional church pursued this "recatholicization" with suspicion. The events culminated in the “Wechselburger Kulturkampf” in 1900: the visit to the Corpus Christi procession in the castle park, at that time probably the only such event in Evangelical Saxony, was prevented by people who did not belong to the count's household by means of police operations and threats of punishment . Eventually the Schönburgers and the responsible ministry reached an agreement; public Catholic masses were now allowed to take place. However, the basilica (no longer in family ownership due to expropriation) only became a Roman Catholic parish church after the Second World War . Since then, it has also been one of two pilgrimage churches in the state of Saxony and the diocese of Dresden-Meißen . Since 1992 the castle has again housed a monastery. Benedictines from Ettal Abbey have set up a monastery as well as a family and meeting place in the so-called small castle, which is very popular. The church was raised to the papal rank of minor basilica in 2018 .

Incorporations

Former parish date annotation
Altzschillen May 1, 1967
Carsdorf June 20, 1957 Incorporation to Mutzscheroda
Corba April 1, 1974 Incorporation after Göhren
Goehren January 1, 1994
Goeppersdorf July 1, 1950 Incorporation to Nöbeln
Hartha 1st January 1969 Incorporation to Nöbeln
Meusen July 1, 1950 Incorporation to Nöbeln
Mutzscheroda January 1, 1994
Nub January 1, 1994
Side grove April 6, 1972 Incorporation to Nöbeln
Zschoppelshain January 1, 1994 Incorporation without the district of Winkeln (incorporation after Seelitz)

Population development

Wechselburg primary school

Development of the population (December 31) :

year Residents
1834 1,122
1871 1,427
1890 1,340
1910 1,363
1925 1,323
year Residents
1939 1,186
1946 1,620
1950 1,437
1964 1,332
1990 1,222
year Residents
2000 2,290
2007 2.142
2010 2,045
2012 1.938
2013 1.929

politics

City Hall Wechselburg

Municipal council

The municipal council election on May 25, 2014 led to the following result for the composition of the municipal council:

Party / list Share of votes +/- * Seats
CDU 51.4% - 11.3% p.p. 8th
FWG 36.2% + 13.4% p 5
SPD 8.9% - 0.9% p 1
Green 3.5% + 3.5% p -
left - - 4.7% p -

* Profit / loss compared to the previous choice

mayor

In June 2015, Renate Naumann was confirmed in office in the second ballot.

Culture and sights

  • see also: List of cultural monuments in Wechselburg
  • Wechselburg Abbey with basilica (Catholic collegiate church from the 12th century) and Benedictine monastery complex
  • Baroque palace (1753–1756, master builder Johann Gottlieb Ohndorf ) - currently empty and dilapidated
  • 18 hectare castle park with 180 year old rare trees
  • First deaconess house in Saxony
  • Rural museum in the so-called pigeon house at St. Otto's Church
  • Crodo table (old sacrificial table in the owl area - replica of the original)
  • Historic market place
  • Town center with small, winding streets
  • Paul Fleming House
  • Porphyry councilors (monument at the Muldenbrücke)
  • Porphyry bridge over the Zwickauer Mulde near Wechselburg
  • Town hall from 1924
  • St. Otto Church on the market square with Schramm organ (JJ Schramm was a student of Gottfried Silbermann)
  • Confluence of the Zwickauer Mulde and the Chemnitz
  • Göhrener Viadukt , one of the most imposing German bridges from the early days of railway construction, crosses the Zwickauer Mulde
  • Royal Saxon milestone as a junction stone and road construction management stone in the Carsdorf - Grüne Tanne district

  • City Church

  • Baroque castle

  • Göhrener Viaduct and Muldentalbahn

Regular events

  • Historical market festival

  • Wechselburg station (2016)

  • Platforms in Wechselburg station (2016)

Transport links

The B 107 runs between the districts of Göppersdorf and Zschoppelshain through the east of the municipality. The Wechselburg train station is on the Muldentalbahn from Glauchau to Großbothen , and the Chemnitz Valley Railway to Chemnitz also branches off here . The operation on these railway lines was stopped in 2002 and 1998.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

People in connection with the community

  • Count Alban von Schönburg-Fordglauchau (1804–1864), owner of the estate and the Wechselburg Castle
  • Countess Emilie von Schönburg-Fordglauchau (1806–1880), née Countess Jenison-Walworth , built the first deaconess house in Saxony and a custodian for small children in 1843 in Wechselburg
  • Karl Gustav Hesse (1795–1851), physician and writer
  • Joachim Graf von Schönburg-Glauchau (1929–1998), hunting author, member of the Bundestag for the CDU 1990–1994
  • Martin Keller (* 1986), athletics sprinter and Olympic participant in 2008 and 2012

literature

  • Richard Steche : Wechselburg. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 14th booklet: Amtshauptmannschaft Rochlitz . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1890, p. 95.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
  2. ^ Website of the Via Porphyria
  3. ^ Website of the Luther Trail Saxony
  4. ↑ When the Count became a Catholic. In: die-tagespost.de. Retrieved June 26, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Diocese of Dresden-Meißen pilgrimage sites. In: bistum-dresden-meissen.de. Retrieved June 14, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Steffen Zimmermann: Pope gives pilgrimage church in Wechselburg honorary title: East Germany has its first "Basilica minor". In: kathisch.de . November 13, 2018, accessed November 13, 2018 .
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
  8. ↑ a b c d State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony: Area changes
  9. ↑ a b Lists of the municipalities incorporated since May 1945 and evidence of the breakdown of the independent manor districts and state forest districts, 1952, publisher: Ministry of the Interior of the State of Saxony
  10. ↑ https://www.statistik.sachsen.de/wpr_alt/pkg_s10_bmlr.prc_erg_bm?p_bz_bzid=BM152&p_ebene=GE&p_ort=14522580
  11. ^ Robby Joachim Götze : Count Alban von Schönburg (1804–1864) in portraits of his time. In: Series 10, Museum and Art Collection Schloss Hinterglauchau, Glauchau 1994, p. 43.

Web links

Commons : Wechselburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Wechselburg in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony