Zschöppichen

Zschöppichen City of Mittweida Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 6 ″ N , 12 ° 59 ′ 29 ″ E
Residents :	361 (1964)
Incorporation :	July 1, 1973
Postal code :	09648
Area code :	03727
Location of Zschöppichen in Saxony

Zschöppichen is a district of the large district town of Mittweida in the Saxon district of Central Saxony . It was incorporated into the city of Mittweida on July 1, 1973.

geography

Geographical location

Zschöppichen is the southernmost district of Mittweida. It is located in the central Saxon hill country on the west bank of the Zschopau .

Neighboring places

	Mittweida	Turning three
Altmittweida		Schönborn
	Krumbach	Sachsenburg

history

General

The forest hoof village Zschöppichen was first mentioned in 1350 as the property of the Knights of Wolkenburg and was named in 1445 as a knight's seat in the Rochlitz office . In the middle of the 15th century, the place came to the von Stockhausen family and from there by inheritance to the von Schönberg family . In 1464 Zschöppichen was converted with two woods in a Mannlehn which in 1482 than Lehnbrief for farm and Vorwerk "Zschöppichen" with the village and forests Caspar Schoenberg was created. When the inheritance was divided between Caspar and Wolf von Schönberg in 1535 , the latter received all of the Schönberg possessions to the left of Zschopau as well as Schönborn with the three-growing mill. Since then the manor in Zschöppichen has been called "Neusorge". After a fire in the castle complex, Neusorge Castle was built in its place in 1579 in the Renaissance style .

After the castle and the Neusorge rule with 9 locations were sold to the Elector Christian II of Saxony in 1610 , the area belonged to the Augustusburg Office , which was territorially separated from it until 1783. In 1832 the places under the administration of the Neusorge manor were assigned to the Frankenberg-Sachsenburg office. The offices were dissolved during the administrative reforms carried out in the Kingdom of Saxony in the 19th century . Zschöppichen and Neusorge Castle came under the administration of the Mittweida court office in 1856 . In 1875 they were placed under the administration of the Rochlitz District Authority. On October 1, 1936, the manor district of Neusorge was incorporated into Zschöppichen.

As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , the municipality of Zschöppichen became part of the Hainichen district in the Chemnitz district in 1952 (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ). On July 1, 1973, Zschöppichens was incorporated with Neusorge to Mittweida. In 1990 Zschöppichen came to the Saxon district of Hainichen as a district of the city of Mittweida , which was added to the district of Mittweida in 1994 and in 2008 to the district of Central Saxony.

The place name, its origin and meaning

The following spellings can be found in certificates:

1350: Shepikhin
1378: Schepchen
1404: Czschepgin
1455: Czepchen
1482: Zschepchen
1551: Schczephgen
1749: Zschöpgen

The place name is undoubtedly of Slavic origin. There is no evidence of a former Slavic settlement. Zschöppichen is a German foundation from the 2nd half of the 12th century. The name could go back to the river name Zschopau. The ending -chen would mean " small settlement on the Zschopau ". The Old Sorbian field name čep = pin cannot be completely ruled out.

Neusorge Castle

Neusorge Castle as Elsa Brändström's children's home in the 1920s

After a fire in the castle complex in Zschöppichen, the Neusorge Castle was built in its place in 1579 in the Renaissance style . It came into the hands of the von Arnim family in 1689 . It was subsequently rebuilt in the Baroque style, but remained unfinished due to the Seven Years' War . It later belonged to different owners.

Neusorge Castle was sold to the Leipzig Welfare Association in 1913, where it was used as a reform home in the following years. In 1923/24 Elsa Brändström took over the building to house a children's home for children of former German prisoners of war who died in Russian captivity. After Elsa Brandström gave up the building in 1931, the Leipzig Welfare Association got the house back. In 1934 the National Socialists stopped using it as a children's home. The NSKK motorsport school was set up in the castle . The manor was known as the “1. Sächsische Bauernsiedlung ”divided into 10 farms.

After the Second World War, the castle served as a refugee home and briefly as a sports school. After the castle became the legal entity of public education for the Karl-Marx-Stadt district , it was used again as a children's home and school for difficult-to-educate children and young people. In 1984 a new building was erected in the palace park using prefabricated panels and was only used as a home school. After the home and school were closed in 1993, the castle stood empty and fell into disrepair.

Development of the population

year	population
1551	6 possessed men , 3 residents
1764	5 possessed men, 5 cottagers
1834	79 (Zschöppichen), 81 (new care)
1871	97 (Zschöppichen), 86 (new care)

year	population
1890	88 (Zschöppichen), 71 (new care)
1910	229
1925	301
1939	264

year	population
1946	356
1950	338
1964	361
2020	142

religion

Zschöppichen was parish to Mittweida as early as 1752, Neusorge as early as 1555. Today the place belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish Mittweida.

Attractions

Neusorge Castle

Neusorge Castle , built in the Renaissance style in 1579, is located in the village . This building, later converted into a baroque palace, is an eleven-axis three-wing complex (park side: 13 axes) with a courtyard . The manor complex Neusorge includes the castle with the castle courtyard, the gatehouse, the inspector's house, the cowshed, the chapel wing, the orangery and the garden with park. As a result of the Seven Years' War, the entire complex remained unfinished. A children's home was housed in the building between 1913 and 1934 and 1945 to 1993. The castle has been empty since then.

Zschopautal area hiking trail and Zschopautal cycling trail