Colliery (Niesky)

Colliery City of Niesky Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 29 ″  N , 14 ° 48 ′ 25 ″  E
Height :	164 m above sea level NHN
Postal code :	02906
Area code :	03588
Location of colliery in Saxony
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Zeche (until the end of the 19th century Moholzer Ziegelscheune , then until around 1971 Moholz Zeche ) is a village in the Görlitz district in Saxony . It belongs to the See district of the city of Niesky . Originally the colliery was part of the municipality of Moholz , which was incorporated into See on April 1, 1938. Zeche has belonged to Niesky since the incorporation of See on April 1, 1974.

location

Zeche is located in Upper Lusatia in a forest clearing, around two kilometers northwest of Niesky. Surrounding villages are Sandschenke in the north, Neuhof in the southeast, See in the southwest, Moholz in the west and Petershain and Neu-Kosel in the northwest. Bundesstrasse 115 is around 500 meters east of the colliery .

Natural resources such as alums , clay and lignite can be found in the vicinity of Zeche .

history

The name "Zeche Moholz" was originally the name for the brown coal mine (see Zeche ) in the municipality of Moholz to the northeast of the town . The colony was originally a brick factory and was initially called Moholzer Ziegelscheune . In the second half of the 19th century the settlement already had three brickworks, a grinding mill, a sawmill and two coal mines. The place was finally renamed to Zeche Moholz . In 1890 the excursion restaurant Gasthof zum Waldfrieden was opened in the center of the village. At that time, Zeche was part of the rural community of Moholz in the district of Rothenburg (Ob. Laus.) In the Prussian administrative district of Liegnitz in the province of Silesia . In 1919 the Province of Silesia was divided and Zeche came to the Province of Lower Silesia .

On April 1, 1938, Zeche came to the See municipality with the dissolution of the Moholz municipality as part of a municipal reform . In the same year Upper and Lower Silesia were reunited to form a province of Silesia, which was dissolved again three years later. After the end of the Second World War, the mine became part of the Soviet occupation zone . The community of See and its districts became part of the district of Weißwasser-Görlitz on January 16, 1947 , which was renamed the district of Niesky the following year . Zeche had belonged to the GDR since 1949 , when the district reform on July 25, 1952, the municipality of See was assigned to the Niesky district in the Dresden district . In 1971 the place was only referred to with the name Zeche . On April 1, 1974, the municipality of See with the villages of Moholz and Zeche was incorporated into the town of Niesky .

After reunification , the mine was initially in the Niesky district in the Free State of Saxony, which was incorporated into the new Lower Silesian Upper Lusatia district during the district reform in 1994 . On August 1, 2008, the Lower Silesian Upper Lusatia District was merged with the Löbau-Zittau district and the independent city of Görlitz to form the Görlitz district.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Niesky-See-Moholz. Topographic map of the Prussian State, sheet 251 Niesky. circa 1867 ( online , accessed July 14, 2020).
2. ↑ Niesky-See-Moholz. Measuring table sheet, 1: 25,000, Sekt. Mücka. 1886 ( online , accessed July 14, 2020).
3. ^ Willi Löwenberger v. Schönholtz: Alphabetical index of all cities, towns and individual possessions of the North German Confederation. 2nd volume. Berlin 1869, p. 939 ( online ).
4. ^ Ernst Eichler , Hans Walther : Ortnamesbuch der Oberlausitz: Studies z. Toponymy d. Districts of Bautzen, Bischofswerda, Görlitz, Hoyerswerda, Kamenz, Löbau, Niesky, Senftenberg, Weisswasser and the like. Zittau. Volume 2. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1975, p. 380.