Zschadraß

Zschadraß City of Colditz Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 16 ″ N , 12 ° 49 ′ 9 ″ E
Height :	222 m
Area :	1.37 km²
Residents :	3247 (Dec. 31, 2010)
Population density :	2,370 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2011
Postal code :	04680
Area code :	034381

Church in Zschadraß

Zschadraß is a district of the city of Colditz in the south of the Leipzig district in the Free State of Saxony . Until December 31, 2010, Zschadraß was a community-free community with its seat in Hausdorf.

Geography and traffic

The former community is located 2 km northeast of the city of Colditz in the middle of the Saxon castle and heathland . The B 176 runs through the south of the former municipality .

Local division

The districts belonged to the municipality:

history

Former municipal coat of arms

House 15a of the Zschadraßer Psychiatry with a self-deprecating poster with the inscription "something history was written there"

Zschadraß as the main town is first mentioned as Zcadroz in 1294 . Several districts are older and were first mentioned in a document in 1215. Zschadraß belonged to the city of Colditz for a long time . On January 1, 1995, the communities of Hausdorf, Erlbach and Zschadraß merged to form a large community. On January 1, 1996, the Tanndorf community joined. Today 18 localities are members of the large community.

Here, Friedrich August Hermann Voppel, then a recognized psychiatrist and at the same time director of the state supply institute (insane asylum) at Colditz Castle, founded an agricultural colony in Zschadraß in 1868. Even after that, the community remained closely linked to his clinic for psychiatry and neurology.

During the time of National Socialism , the former Zschadraß regional institution served as an intermediate institution for the National Socialists' euthanasia program under the then incumbent director Max Alwin Liebers . More than 3,400 patients were transferred to the killing centers in Pirna-Sonnenstein and Brandenburg between June 1940 and September 1941 and murdered there. In 1942, the institution was re-profiled as a lung sanatorium with a psychiatric department and from then on was called Hainberg Lung Healing Center . Until 1998, Zschadraß housed a globally recognized lung clinic, which moved to Chemnitz in 1999. Then the clinic was taken over by the Diakoniewerk.

On January 1, 1995, the communities Erlbach and Hausdorf were incorporated. On January 1, 2011, the community of Zschadraß and the city of Colditz were merged together with four former districts of Großbothen to form the city of Colditz.

Zschadraß became known throughout Germany through the impostor Gert Postel , who was employed as a senior physician in the local psychiatric clinic from 1995 to 1997 .

Population development

Development of the population of the community of Zschadraß (from 2000 reference date December 31, data source: State Statistical Office Saxony) :

year	Residents
1990	* 3723
2000	3839
2005	3451
2006	3360
2007	3310
2010	3247

* October 3

Specialized hospital

The specialist hospital for psychiatry, psychotherapy and neurology with the Diakoniewerk Zschadraß non-profit GmbH as the carrier has 110 beds for psychiatry and psychotherapy and 30 beds for neurology. In addition, 15 day clinic places are available in Rochlitz , Grimma and Borna . The hospital is the teaching hospital of the Paracelsus Medical Private University Salzburg .