Wittgendorf (Schnaudertal)

Wittgendorf Community of Schnaudertal Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 36 ″  N , 12 ° 11 ′ 41 ″  E
Height :	267 m
Area :	12.81 km²
Residents :	664  (Jan. 1, 2008)
Population density :	52 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2010
Postal code :	06712
Area code :	034423
Location of Wittgendorf in Saxony-Anhalt

Wittgendorf is a district and a village in the municipality of Schnaudertal in the Burgenland district in Saxony-Anhalt . In addition to Wittgendorf itself, the districts of Dragsdorf , Großpörthen , Kleinpörthen and Nedissen belong to the village of Wittgendorf .

geography

Location of the former municipality of Wittgendorf in the Burgenland district and in Saxony-Anhalt. South of Wittgendorf is the former municipality of Bröckau, which today forms the municipality of Schnaudertal with Wittgendorf.

Wittgendorf is about eight kilometers southeast of Zeitz on the border with Thuringia . The Wittgendorfer Graben flowing through the village is a tributary of the Schnauder .

history

In 1288 the name was mentioned for the first time in a document as the name of a knight from Wittichendorf (already for the year 1230 mention of a knight from Wittindorf or Wittekendorf, who came from Zeitz and belonged to the German Order of Knights, in a chronicle of the German Order of Knights from the time around 1330). The family named themselves after this place. Wittgendorf belonged to the district of the Roten Graben court, which came to the Naumburg-Zeitz bishopric in 1286 . In 1323 Wittgendorf was mentioned as a place for the first time in a document. From 1561 on, the Naumburg-Zeitz Monastery was under the sovereignty of the Electorate of Saxony ; Between 1656/57 and 1718 it belonged to the secondary school principality of Saxony-Zeitz and then fell back to Electoral Saxony. By the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna , Wittgendorf came to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 . The place was in 1816 the county Zeitz in the administrative district of Merseburg of Saxony province assigned.

In 1939 the neighboring town of Dragsdorf was incorporated into Wittgendorf. On July 1, 1950, Großpörthen, Kleinpörthen and Nedissen were incorporated into the municipality of Wittgendorf. On January 1, 2010, the municipalities of Wittgendorf and Bröckau merged to form the municipality of Schnaudertal.

Manor

The Wittgendorf manor was a Naumburg monastery fief. The von Trautzschen family had their seat there since the end of the 14th century. A patrimonial court was connected to the manor; the files of the patrimonial court have been preserved, even if they are far from complete. The owners of the manor also had patronage over the church in Wittgendorf. Hans Karl Heinrich von Trautzschen (1730–1812), the last of the family in the male line, was also the last owner of the family. The imperial captain Christoph Johann von Rockhausen , lord of Kirchscheidungen and Albersroda , acquired the property in 1747 as part of an auction. The von Rockhausen family lived in Wittgendorf until 1825. The manor house, three barns, a brewery, as well as merrymaking, hereditary interest, meadow wax, wood, a tree garden, fishing, hunting, garden, and quarries belonged to the manor. In mid-1825, the heavily indebted Wittgendorf manor was auctioned off to the retired main customs office renter Friedrich Leberecht Garcke. The Garcke family owned the estate until it was expropriated by the land reform in 1945.

church

Wittgendorf Church

The core of the church dates from the Romanesque period. It formed a residential tower. The fortification was protected by a moat. The residential tower was only converted into a church in the late Gothic period, in the second half of the 15th century, by adding the choir and sacristy. The church is right next to the house of the former manor.

To the left of the entrance to the St. Jakob Church, two gravestones in Luis Seize style remind of the von Rockhausen family. In the church there is a tombstone adorned with a coat of arms from 1650 for a couple of siblings and a baroque tombstone for the first lieutenant Heinrich von Trautzsch, who was born in Wittgendorf in 1698. Next to the churchyard is the family cemetery of the Garcke family. The church has not been used since around 1980. The service took place in a room of the neighboring house belonging to the parish (outbuilding of the former rectory). From 1993 the carpenter Jörg Junghans, born in Wittgendorf, took the initiative to restore the church. Regional Bishop Axel Noack consecrated the church again on April 3, 1999.

Population development

Development of the population (from 1995 December 31st) :

1990-737 1995-698 2000-676

2003 - 675 2007 - 661

Data source: State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt

Economy and Infrastructure

Wittgendorf had a connection to the Gera-Pforten – Wuitz-Mumsdorf railway from 1901 to 1969 .

Personalities

• Hans Karl Heinrich von Trautzschen (1730–1812), Saxon poet and military writer
• Moritz Ferdinand Gustav von Rockhausen (1792-1859), Saxon lieutenant general and commandant of the Königstein Fortress
• Michael Krüger (* 1943), poet, writer and publisher

literature

• Ernst Zergiebel: Chronicle of Zeitz and the Zeitz villages. Vol. 3, Zeitz 1894, pp. 381-382
• Klaus Garcke: Is Wittgendorf near Zeitz the place of origin of the Knights of Wittgendorf? A methodical-practical research example. In: Zeitschrift für Mitteldeutsche Familiengeschichte Volume 48, Issue 2, 2007, edited by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Mitteldeutsche Familienforschung e. V. (AMF)
• Klaus Garcke: The Wittgendorfer branch of the von Rockhausen family . In: Zeitschrift für Mitteldeutsche Familiengeschichte , Volume 49, Issue 1, 2008, published by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Mitteldeutsche Familienforschung e. V. (AMF) class
• Klaus Garcke, History of the Garcke Family, Insingen (Degener) 2018 (German Family Archives, Vol. 161), pp. 93-108 (Wittgendorf Manor)
• Klaus Garcke: Chronicle of Wittgendorf. In: Heimatverein Wittgendorf e. V. (Ed.): 730 years of Wittgendorf. Wittgendorf 2018, pp. 5–29

Individual evidence

1. ^ Christian Schöttgen / Georg Christoph Kreysig: Diplomataria et scriptores historiae germanicae medii aevi . tape 2 . Altenburg 1755, p. 206 .
2. ↑ Achim Masser (ed.): Kronike von Pruzintlant. Chronicle of the Prussian Country, a selection published with a translation into New High German . Nicolai, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-87584-463-7 , pp. 30, 31 .
3. ^ Heinz Wiessner: The Diocese of Naumburg . In: Germania Sacra, NF, 35, 1 . tape 1 . de Gruyter, Berlin 1997, p. 571 .
4. ↑ Ernst Zergiebel: Chronicle of Zeitz and the Zeitz villages . tape 3 (part 4). Zeitz 1894, p. 381 .
5. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , p. 86 f.
6. ^ The Zeitz district in the municipal directory 1900
7. ^ Paul Grimm: The prehistoric and early historical castle walls of the districts of Halle and Magdeburg . In: German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, publications of the section for prehistory and early history, volume 6, manual of prehistoric and early historical ramparts and fortifications . Part 1. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1958, p. 324 .
8. ↑ Hans Joachim Mrusek: Shape and development of feudal self-fortification in the Middle Ages . In: Treatises of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Philological-Historical Class . tape 60 Issue 3. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1973, p. 140 .
9. ^ Helfried Weidner: Building history of the church in Wittgendorf . In: Heimatverein Wittgendorf e. V. (Ed.): Wittgendorf village church . Wittgendorf 1999, p. 12 .

Web links

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

Wikisource: Wittgendorf (near Zeitz)  - sources and full texts

www.garcke.de (Garcke`s home page) - local history