Zschernitzsch (Altenburg)

Zschernitzsch City of Altenburg Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 27 ″  N , 12 ° 25 ′ 26 ″  E
Height :	191 m above sea level NN
Area :	1.46 km²
Residents :	231  (Dec. 31, 2009)
Population density :	158 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	October 1, 1922
Postal code :	04600
Area code :	03447
Location of Zschernitzsch in the city of Altenburg

Zschernitzsch is a district of the city of Altenburg in Thuringia . It was incorporated on October 1, 1922.

geography

Altenburg Nord stop, station building (2019)

Geographical location and traffic

Zschernitzsch is located about two kilometers north of the city center on the boundary with the municipality of Rositz and borders in the southwest on Altenburg-Nord, in the northeast on the Rositz district of Molbitz , in the north on the district of Oberzetzscha and in the east on Rasephas . The district, which is more likely to be described as a village, has primarily loess - loam and heavily degraded black earth that is weakly pseudo-gleyt . Between 1899 and 2002 Zschernitzsch was connected to the Zeitz – Altenburg railway via the "Altenburg Nord" stop .

Place name

Zschernitzsch appears twice in Altenburger Land , and apart from being a district of Altenburg, it is also a district of Schmölln . The name is of Sorbian origin and derived from Old Sorbian čiŕn- ("black", cf. Upper Sorbian čorny ), whereby a derivation from the name for a certain berry or cherry variety is also possible, regional Sorbian čornica or Czech černice .

Church from the northwest

history

Zschernitzsch is a Sorbian round foundation and was first mentioned in a document between 1161 and 1186. During the Thirty Years' War, the population suffered badly from the wandering armies, which is why the church tower served as protection, which was probably a defensive tower earlier. On September 6, 1797, a large fire raged in the village, in which the church, parish, school as well as twelve estates and a residential building were destroyed.

Politically, Zschernitzsch belonged to the Wettin office of Altenburg , which was under the sovereignty of the following Ernestine duchies from the 16th century due to several divisions in the course of its existence : Duchy of Saxony (1554 to 1572), Duchy of Saxony-Weimar (1572 to 1603), Duchy of Saxony- Altenburg (1603 to 1672), Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1672 to 1826). When the Ernestine duchies were reorganized in 1826, the place came back to the duchy of Saxony-Altenburg. After the administrative reform in the duchy, it belonged to the eastern district (until 1900) and to the Altenburg district office (from 1900). From 1918 Zschernitzsch belonged to the Free State of Saxony-Altenburg , which was added to the State of Thuringia in 1920.

Zschernitzsch, which then had around 660 inhabitants, was incorporated into the independent city of Altenburg on October 1, 1922. On February 14, 1945, during the bombing of Dresden , the DEA plant in Rositz was bombed. Bombs also fell in Zschernitzsch, as well as on Molbitz, Oberlödla , Steinwitz , Kosma and on Altenburger Zeitzer Strasse, where four houses were partially destroyed. A total of 106 people died that night. Due to the proximity to the HASAG plant in Altenburg, the church was hit by a bomb on March 17, 1945; the reconstruction lasted until 1950.

With the first district reform of the GDR in 1950, Zschernitzsch came to the Altenburg district as a district of Altenburg . During the second district reform in the GDR in 1952, the existing states were dissolved and the districts were redesigned. Thus Zschernitzsch came with the district Altenburg at the Leipzig district , since 1990 as a county belonged to Altenburg Thuringia and opened in 1994 Altenburger in the district of the country. Between 1899 and 2002, Zschernitzsch owned a stop on the Zeitz – Altenburg railway line , which since 1938 has been called Altenburg Nord stop . In 2009, 231 people lived in the place.

church

Like the Rasephas district, the place has one of ten churches in the immediate Altenburg urban area. The nave was added in 1499. The church was rebuilt from 1803 to 1804 after a fire in the previous late Gothic building. Here, distinctive components of the earlier church were integrated, such as the buttresses made of wood, window and door inserts as well as masonry and the entire church tower (28 m high) preserved from the previous building (former defense tower). In 1822 the building received two bells from the Ulrich company from Apolda, but they were removed on March 3, 1942 for war purposes. It was not until 1957 that the Schilling & Lattermann company delivered new bells . In the years 1885 and 1886, the Poppe brothers from Stadtroda built an organ. After a bomb strike in 1945, the church was rebuilt from 1949 to 1950 and inaugurated on December 26, 1950.

Stone cross on the old path from Zschernitzsch to Altenburg

Atonement Cross

Originally there was a stone cross from the Middle Ages on the road to Altenburg. In 1973 it was temporarily transferred to the castle museum for the construction of the new Altenburg-Nord development area. After construction was completed, it was placed in its current location. The cross could either be a weather cross , a plague cross, or a murder cross. In the vernacular there are various stories circulating about the occasion to erect the cross: In a legend it was said that two peasant guys are said to have stabbed each other in an argument with pitchforks and were buried at the place of the cross. On the other hand, farmers are said to have killed a French soldier during the Napoleonic Wars, in which the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg was a member of the Rhine Confederation. Because the local pastor stood up for the peasants who were to be executed for the French officers, they were ultimately spared.

Personalities

• Alfred Tittel (born September 1, 1891 in Zschernitzsch; † September 25, 1965) was a German metal pusher , miner, resistance fighter against National Socialism, party functionary (KPD / KPO / SED) and district administrator.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ernst Eichler: The Slavic place names between Saale and Neisse . tape IV . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 2009, ISBN 978-3-7420-1716-1 , p. 136 .
2. ^ Wolfgang Kahl: First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2005, ISBN 3-937135-61-8 , p. 177
3. ^ The Altenburg Office in the book "Geography for all Stands", from p. 201
4. ^ The locations of the Altenburg district from p.83
5. ↑ The eastern district of the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg in the municipal directory 1900
6. ^ The Altenburg district office in the municipality register 1900
7. ^ Altenburg contemporary witness from September 2011
8. ↑ Statistical Yearbook of the City of Altenburg 2010 (PDF; 1.1 MB), page 34
9. ↑ http://www.suptur-abg.de/startseite/karte/
10. ↑ http://www.suehnekreuz.de/thueringen/zschernitzsch.htm

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