Witzschersdorf

Witzschersdorf City of Leuna Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 11 ″  N , 12 ° 7 ′ 57 ″  E
Residents :	201  (June 30, 2017)
Incorporation :	July 1, 1950
Incorporated into:	Kötzschau
Postal code :	06237
Area code :	03462

Witzschersdorf is a district of Kötzschau , which in turn is a village of Leuna in the Saalekreis , Saxony-Anhalt . About 100 people live in the village. Neighboring places are Schladebach and Pissen .

geography

Witzschersdorf is located between the cities of Leipzig and Merseburg and south of the federal highway 181 , which connects these cities with each other.

The place is located in the area south of the Elsteraue on the L185 , which, coming from Kötzschau, leads in the direction of Rodden - Günthersdorf and where it joins the federal highway 181. Another road, which is run in the village as Schladebacher Weg, leads to Schladebach. The next train stop is Kötzschau on the ( Leipzig – Großkorbetha line ).

history

Witzschersdorf manor around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

The first mention of Witzschersdorf goes back to the year 1285. The manor located in the village was later bought by the v. Zcweym (1436), v. Obschelwitz (1530), v. Uechtritz (1689), v. Hayn (1693–1759), Gottlieb von Zinck (died 1785) and Wurmb von Zinck (1786–1945). The existence of the manor ended in 1945 with the expropriation without compensation through the land reform in the Soviet-occupied zone . The estate with a total size of 121 hectares was closely linked to the village of Witzschersdorf. This was a typical farming village, which has largely lost its rural structure with the land reform from 1945. The Witzschersdorfer Feldflur is managed by an agricultural cooperative ( LPG during the GDR era ).

Until 1815, Witzschersdorf belonged to the Merseburg administrative office of Lützen , which had been under Electoral Saxon sovereignty since 1561 and belonged to the secondary school principality of Saxony-Merseburg between 1656/57 and 1738 . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna the place with the western part of the Office Lutzen came in 1815 to Prussia and in 1816 the county Merseburg in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony allocated. In April 1945 an aerial bomb hit the estate and village, killing 36 estate and village residents and causing severe damage. The gate tower characteristic of Witzschersdorf, as the entrance to the manor, was also destroyed.

On July 1, 1950, Witzschersdorf was incorporated into Kötzschau, with which it came to Leuna on December 31, 2009. The village center with its farms has been preserved, the post-war buildings were limited to the northern edge of the village.

Web links

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

• Private website about Witzschersdorf
• Wolfdietrich Wurmb v. Zinck: The history of the Witscherdorf estate , accessed on July 23, 2018
• Plate with description from: Duncker, Alexander (Ed.), Berlin: Duncker, (1857/83). [Digitized print]; [Electronic Resource]. Berlin: Central and State Library 2006.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Witzschersdorf on the Leuna website ( memento from October 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , p. 84 f.
3. ^ The district of Merseburg in the municipal directory 1900
4. ↑ Witzschersdorf on gov.genealogy.net