Wehlitz (Schkeuditz)
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Wehlitz
Large district town of Schkeuditz
Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 25 ″ N , 12 ° 11 ′ 25 ″ E
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| Height : | 102 m above sea level NHN | |
| Incorporation : | July 1, 1950 | |
| Postal code : | 04435 | |
| Area code : | 034204 | |
Location of Wehlitz in Saxony |
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Wehlitz is a place in the Saxon town of Schkeuditz in the northern Saxony district without district status.
geography
Wehlitz is two and a half kilometers west-southwest of Schkeuditz city center on the state border with Saxony-Anhalt . Coming from the state border, the S 8 leads through Wehlitz to the city center. To the west of the town, the A 9 runs in a north-south direction, which meets the B 6 at the Großkugel junction 1.5 kilometers away , from which the B 186 branches off and leads north from Wehlitz to Schkeuditz. To the north of the Großkugel junction is the Schkeuditzer Kreuz , where the A 14 runs in a west-east direction. Leipzig / Halle Airport is located between the A 14 and the B 6 .
To the south of the locality, the White Elster flows westwards and takes up the Neue Luppe southwest of Wehlitz . The Elsterbogen at the city limits is 91.1 m above sea level. NN the lowest point of Schkeuditz.
Surrounding places are Rübsen and Ermlitz in the west, Großkugel and Beuditz in the northwest, Kursdorf in the northeast, Schkeuditz in the east and Kleinliebenau and Maßlau in the south.
history
The street group village Wehlitz was mentioned in a document in 1240 as Weliz . In the middle of the 16th century it belonged to a part of the Schkeuditz office , which also exercised the higher administration. After the Congress of Vienna , Wehlitz was in the part of Saxony that had to be ceded to Prussia . It came to the Merseburg district in the province of Saxony in 1816 and remained with it until the administrative reform in the GDR when it was assigned to the Leipzig-Land district in 1952 . Two years earlier, Wehlitz was incorporated into Schkeuditz on July 1, 1950.
Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 1818 | 423 |
| 1880 | 593 |
| 1895 | 774 |
| 1910 | 1477 |
| 1925 | 1515 |
| 1939 | 1674 |
| 1946 | 2002 |
In 1568 there were 32 farms in Wehlitz, the number of which increased to 44 by 1716. After the Seven Years' War there were still 24 farms and 22 cottages in Wehlitz and the desolate Mark Wilsdorf in 1764 .
The population was 423 in 1818 and rose to 593 by 1880, 29 of whom lived on the manor . In the 15 years from 1895 to 1910 the population almost doubled from 774 to 1477. In the following decades the population continued to rise and reached around 2000 after the Second World War. The official survey ends with the incorporation into Schkeuditz.
Personalities
- Johann Friedrich Krietsch (* 1804), founder of the Krietschmühle in Wurzen
- Christiane Apitzsch (1806–1838), presumed lover of Robert Schumann
Footnotes
- ↑ The city of Schkeuditz in numbers. Retrieved March 22, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Wehlitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
