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Consume Diera-Zehren municipality Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 55 ″ N , 13 ° 24 ′ 19 ″ E
Height :	106 m
Residents :	426 (May 9, 2011)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1999
Postal code :	01665
Location of Zehren in Saxony

Zehren, aerial photo (2017)

Zehren, St. Michaeliskirche, aerial photo (2017)

St. Michaelis Church in Zehren

Zehren is a district of the Saxon community Diera-Zehren in the district of Meißen .

geography

location

Zehren is to the left of the Elbe on federal road 6 from Meißen to Riesa . In the village, the state road 32 and the district road 8071 branch off from the federal road. Zehren is usually mentioned as the central district of Diera-Zehrens. The surrounding soils are mainly used for agriculture .

Neighboring places

Obermuschütz	Niedermuschütz	Small needle
Schieritz		Zadel
Priesa	Seilitz	Mixed joke

history

Zehren was first mentioned as Castellum Cirin (today's Zehren Castle Hill) in the chronicle of Bishop Thietmar von Merseburg from 1012 to 1018 in 1003. The place belonged to the Castrum Meißen and later to the Hereditary Office Meißen. The basic rule exercised the from 1696 manor Schieritz out. Between 1856 and 1875, Zehren belonged to the Meissen court office, then to the office of the same name . In 1900 the size of the district was 257 hectares . Of the 943 inhabitants in 1925, 883 were Evangelical Lutheran , 22 Catholic and 38 were non-denominational. The center of Zehrens is the St. Michaelis Church, built between 1756 and 1785, with its parish, to which most of the surrounding villages belong. On November 1, 1935, Keilbusch , Mischwitz, Nieder- and Obermuschütz, Schieritz , Seebschütz and Seilitz were incorporated into Zehren. Wölkisch followed on March 1, 1974 . During the GDR period, several industrial companies were based in Zehren, e. B. the stove factory or the furniture factory (spatial art). Zehren also owned a small shipyard . As a result of the district reform in 1952 , Zehren became part of the Meißen district as an independent municipality , which expanded several times after the reunification. In 1994 Zehren and Niederlommatzsch merged, on January 1, 1999, the municipalities of Diera and Zehren formed the new municipality of Diera-Zehren with 21 districts.

Development of the population

year	population
1552	15 possessed men , 5 cottagers , 22 residents
1764	12 possessed men, 2 gardeners , 22 cottagers
1834	314
1855	454
1871	491
1890	624
1910	884

year	population
1925	943
1939	1954
1946	2197
1950	2189
1964	1870
1990	1697
2011 ¹	426

¹ : Data for Zehren without districts as part of the 2011 census

Attractions

baroque Michaeliskirche Zehren
Zehren Local History and School Museum

Personalities

Christoph Ludwig Fehre (1718–1772), composer and organist

literature

Cirin Zehren 1003-2003. Chronicle of a small community in Saxony on the Elbe . Ed .: Gemeindeverwaltung Diera-Zehren, editor: Inge Grimm u. a., Diera-Zehren 2003, ISBN 3-929705-08-7 , 464 pages.
Elbe valley and Loess hill country near Meissen (= values of our homeland . Volume 32). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1979, p. 82.
Cornelius Gurlitt : Consume. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 41. Issue: Administrative Authority Meißen-Land . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1923, p. 571.