Zeithain

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Zeithain
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Coordinates: 51 ° 20 '  N , 13 ° 21'  E

Basic data
State : Saxony
County : Meissen
Height : 98 m above sea level NHN
Area : 81.62 km 2
Residents: 5582 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 68 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 01619
Primaries : 03525, 035264 (Lorenzkirch)Template: Infobox municipality in Germany / maintenance / area code contains text
License plate : MEI, GRH, RG, RIE
Community key : 14 6 27 360
LOCODE : DE ZTN
Community structure: 11 districts
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Hauptstrasse 36 a
01619 Zeithain
Website : www.zeithain.de
Mayor : Ralf Hansel ( independent )
Location of the municipality of Zeithain in the district of Meißen
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Zeithain is a municipality in the northwest of the district of Meißen in the Free State of Saxony near Strehla and Riesa .

Districts

The districts belong to the municipality:

Geography and traffic

The community is on the edge of the Elbaue at the transition to Grossenhainer Pflege . The neighboring cities are the city of Großenhain (14 km), Gröditz (12 km) and Riesa (5 km). The community is located at the intersection of federal highways 169 and 98 . The Riesa – Elsterwerda and Riesa – Falkenberg railway lines run through the municipality. The Zeithain stop is available for passenger traffic. There are currently seven regional bus routes.

The districts of Röderau-Bobersen, Lorenzkirch , Zschepa, Gohlis, Cottewitz, Promnitz, Moritz and Kreinitz have been badly hit twice by the Elbe floods in recent years.

history

In 1233 Zeithain was first mentioned as "Cytene" and as a parish village. In 1406 Zeithain paid land prayers to Hain and belonged to Heinrich von Keckeritz.

In 1730 August the Strong organized the " Lustlager von Zeithain ", a gigantic military parade and army show. In the course of this event, which is known as the “spectacle of the century”, thousands of wooden plates were thrown into the Elbe. The Saxon writer Gustav Nieritz wrote a story about it. In addition, the famous " Large Stollen Knife " was used to cut a giant Christian stollen , which the Dresden Stollen Festival , which has been taking place since 1994 , is intended to remind of. In the village of Streumen, which now belongs to Wülknitz , a magnificent opera house was built especially for the pleasure camp, where comedies and comedies were performed.

In the time of the German Empire was established in 1873 north of the Zeithain for the Saxon army the military training area Zeithain . It was expanded several times, and the Zeithain army ammunition facility (Muna) was set up nearby .

From mid-1941, the prisoner-of-war crew camp Stalag 304 (IV H) Zeithain was operated by the Wehrmacht as a branch camp of Stalag IV B Mühlberg . Thousands of prisoners of war, mostly members of the Red Army , died due to the inhumane living conditions . After September 8, 1943, several transports with Italian prisoners of war from army hospitals arrived; they were called Italian Military Internees (IMI). The Ehrenhain memorial, which was built in 1984, was the first in Germany to commemorate only Soviet prisoners of war.

After 1945 a garrison of the Allied forces was stationed there, which continued until 1989 as a local branch of the NVA . The military training area, on the other hand, was abandoned by the Bundeswehr in 2007 after it became federal property in 1990 with the fall of the Berlin Wall . The former Muna site has been used by the Ordnance Disposal Service (KMZE) of Saxony since then .

Incorporations

Former parish date annotation
Bobersen January 1, 1994  Merger with Röderau to Röderau-Bobersen
Cottewitz January 1, 1902  Incorporation to Lorenzkirch
Gohlis (*) January 1, 1999
Jacobsthal January 1, 1994  
Kleintrebnitz January 1, 1957  Incorporation to Jacobsthal
Kreinitz January 1, 1994  Incorporation according to Zeithain
Lessa October 1, 1936  Incorporation to Bobersen
Lorenzkirch (*) January 1, 1994
Moritz April 1, 1970  Incorporation to Röderau
Neudorf April 1, 1970
Promnitz April 1, 1938  Incorporation to Röderau
Röderau January 1, 1994   Merger with Bobersen to form Röderau-Bobersen
Röderau-Bobersen July 1, 2002
Zschepa April 1, 1937   Incorporation to Lorenzkirch
Zschepa, district of Kleinzschepa April 1, 1937   Incorporation to Gohlis

(*) Gohlis and Lorenzkirch used to belong to the district of Oschatz .

religion

17% of the residents of Zeithain are Protestant, 2% Catholic.

The churches and chapels in Zeithain, Bobersen, Gohlis, Jacobsthal, Kreinitz, Lorenzkirch, Röderau and Zschepa belong to the parish Zeithain in the parish of Meißen-Großenhain of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony .

  • Jacobsthal

  • Kreinitz

  • Lorenzkirch

  • Röderau

The few Catholics in Zeithain are assigned to the parish of St. Barbara (Riesa) , which belongs to the Meißen deanery in the Dresden-Meißen diocese .

politics

Municipal council

City council election 2014
Turnout: 54.5% (2009: 50.5%)
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
39.8%
38.7%
16.9%
4.5%
BIG
Gains and losses
compared to 2009
 % p
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
+1.3  % p
+ 3.6  % p.p.
+ 0.8  % p
-1.4  % p
BIG

Since the municipal council election on May 25, 2014 , the 18 seats of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

  • CDU : 8 seats
  • Citizens' interest group in the Zeithain community area (BIG): 7 seats
  • LEFT : 3 seats

In June 2012 Ralf Hänsel was elected as the new mayor. He is the successor to Hannes Berger. He prevailed against Dieter Wamser and Martina Georgi.

Partner communities

The German communities Teningen and Hausen ob Verena in Baden-Württemberg and Todtenweis in Bavaria are partner communities of Zeithain.

Culture and sights

Zeithain Memorial Grove
Water tower in Neudorf
  • Saxon Fire Brigade Museum Zeithain
  • Zschepa post mill
  • Jacobsthal animal enclosure
  • Gohrisch-Heide nature reserve
  • Zeithain Memorial Grove
  • Memorial stone to the first meeting of the US Army and the Red Army in Kreinitz in 1945
  • Memorial stone next to the municipal office at Moritzstrasse 2 in memory of the resistance fighters Arthur Schöne and Walther Wenzel , who were imprisoned by SA men and who died between 1933 and 1940
  • Museum of Encounters in Kreinitz with exhibitions on the first encounter between Russian and American troops on April 25, 1945 in Kreinitz and on the history of the village
  • In the former military area there is a freely accessible collection of Soviet remains. These include u. a. a statue of Lenin, a sculpture of "Mother Homeland" and two relief walls.

societies

As a result of the incorporation there are a large number of clubs that belong to the Zeithain community, such as the SG Kreinitz, the SV Königsblau Gohlis, the SV Röderau-Bobersen, the TuS Röderau-Bobersen e. V. and SV Sachsen Zeithain. In the cultural field, the Kulturverein Kreinitz e. V. very active. He runs the Museum of Encounters in Kreinitz. Numerous exhibits relating to the first encounter between Russian and American troops on April 25, 1945 are shown here. An exhibition on the history of the village and a school museum, which reports on the 300-year history of school development in Kreinitz, can also be found here. The museum was inaugurated on April 25, 2010 on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the encounter on the Elbe and has enjoyed growing popularity ever since.

Sons and daughters of the place

  • Valentin Heerbrand (1611–1674), court preacher in Dresden
  • Max Hoelz (1889–1933), revolutionary and communist politician, born in the Moritz district
  • Willi Arlt (1919–1947), SV Bobersen and Riesaer SV soccer player, youngest national player at the time under Sepp Herberger
  • Ellen "Elly" Rometsch (* 1936), a former photo model, was suspected of espionage by the FBI
  • Frieder Andrich (* 1948), former German soccer player
  • Ulf Kirsten (* 1965), former national soccer player, from the Gohlis district

literature

  • Michael Roes : Zeithain. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt a. M. 2017, ISBN 978-3-89561-177-3 [1]
  • Stanislaw Iwankiewicz: Polski Szpital Wojskowy w Zeithain. Akademia Medyczna im. Piastow Slaskich we Wrocławiu, Wrocław 2000, ISBN 83-7055-342-7 .
  • Jörg Osterloh: A completely normal warehouse. The prisoner-of-war team main camp 304 (IV H) Zeithain 1941 to 1945 . Edited by the Saxon Memorials Foundation . Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 1997 (series, 2) ISBN 3-378-01018-5 .
  • Maria Vittoria Zeme: ... and ignite a spark of hope. Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Research at the Technical University of Dresden, Dresden 1996, ISBN 978-3-9805527-2-1 .
  • Walter Donath: Zeithain grove of honor. To commemorate the dead, to warn the living . Ed .: SED-Kreisleitung Riesa, Commission for the preservation and continuation of the revolutionary traditions of the labor movement u. of the anti-fascist resistance struggle; in conjunction with the Commission for Research d. History of the local labor movement. Riesa 1985.
  • Hans Beschorner: Descriptions and illustrations of the Zeithainer camp from 1730 , in: NASG 27, 1906, pp. 103–151 and NASG 28, 1907, pp. 200–252.
  • Zeithain . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 13th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1826, pp. 439-443.
  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Zeithain. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 37. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Grossenhain (Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1914, p. 503.

Web links

Commons : Zeithain  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ Homepage of the Elbe-Röder-Dreieck e. V. ( Memento of the original of February 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.elbe-roeder-dreieck.de
  3. ↑ Saxon Official Gazette p. 747 of July 4, 2002. Area changes from January 1, 2002 to December 31, 2002 (PDF; 12 kB) at www.statistik.sachsen.de
  4. ↑ 2011 census database
  5. ↑ Results of the 2014 municipal council elections
  6. ↑ Results of the 2009 local elections
  7. ↑ https://leninisstillaround.com/2016/10/16/der-gelassene-lenin/
  8. ↑ Valentin Heerbrand in the Saxon Biography