Zochau
Zochau is a deserted area in the Königsbrücker Heide nature reserve on the site of the former Königsbrück military training area in Saxony .
geography
location
The village of Zochau, surrounded by meadows and fields, was eight kilometers north-west of Königsbrück at the transition from the Großenhainer Pflege to the Krakauer Heide . The street perch village with a corridor stretched north of the Bornberg ( 176 m ) on the Tännichtbach. On the left side of the brook, three and four-sided courtyards were lined up; the opposite, southern side consisted mainly of house corridors. To the west of the village is the forest pond at the confluence of the Huschgengraben with the Tännichtbach, behind which the Steinberg rises. To the northeast, the Heidefurt leads over the Pulsnitz into the Dürre Heide. In the north is the former Zochau airfield.
Neighboring places
| Liège | Naundorf , ( Rohna ) † | Zeisholz , Cosel , Grüngräbchen |
| Liège / Cultivation |
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( Otterschütz ) † |
| Stag | ( Krakow ) †, ( Sella ) † | ( Zietsch ) †, ( Quosdorf ) † |
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history
The first mention of Zcoch comes from the year 1350. In 1378 the village belonged to the castrum Grossenhain. Other forms of name were Czuche (1374), Czoche (1398), Zcochau (1484), Zschwocha (1530), Zochenn (1555) and Zocha (1732). The village has been called Zochau since 1791 .
Zochau was in the northeast of the Mark Meissen on a road that led on the Heidefurt through the Pulsnitz into Upper Lusatia . Originally Zochau was parish after Ponickau , in 1540 it was assigned to the parish of Cracow . From 1551 on, Zochau was always subject to the Krakow manor. Administratively, Zochau belonged to the Hayn office from 1547 and to the Kamenz office from 1843.
With the reorganization of the Saxon administrative structures, Zochau was assigned to the Königsbrück court office in 1856 and to the Kamenz district administration in 1875 . In 1938 the community of Zochau was dissolved in the course of the expansion of the Königsbrück military training area . The property of the village was bought up by the German Reich and the 143 inhabitants were resettled. The 449 hectare parish corridor became part of the military training area.
After the end of the Second World War, the military training area was seized by the Soviet occupying forces . A repopulation of the undestroyed village was not permitted by the local commander of the Red Army in Königsbrück for military reasons. The village was later shot to death.
In 1992 the last Soviet troops withdrew, the area became a nature reserve Koenigsbrücker Heide , but is only accessible to a very limited extent due to the high load of ammunition. Remnants of walls have been preserved on the marshy village site, which is now completely enclosed by the heather forest. From the Lüttichauer Heide the Zochauer Heidepfad leads to the edge of the nature reserve to the Sandheide on the former Zochau airfield. The wooden Zochauer Heideturm erected on the path provides a wide view over the heath over to the north-west Lusatian hill country.
Population development
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1551 | 12 possessed men, 17 residents |
| 1764 | 13 possessed man |
| 1834 | 106 |
| 1871 | 138 |
| 1890 | 140 |
| 1910 | 136 |
| 1925 | 142 |
| 1938 | 143 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.koenigsbrueck.de/tuep-ab-1919.html
- ^ Zochau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ N , 13 ° 50 ′ E