Zschortau

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Zschortau
community Rackwitz
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 43 "  N , 12 ° 21 ′ 37"  E
Height : 104 m above sea level NN
Incorporation : March 1, 2004
Postal code : 04519
Area code : 034202
Zschortau (Saxony)
Zschortau

Location of Zschortau in Saxony
St. Nikolai village church

Zschortau is a district of the municipality Rackwitz in the district of North Saxony , Free State of Saxony . It has around 1700 inhabitants and is primarily used as a place of residence.

location

Zschortau is one of seven districts of the municipality of Rackwitz with a very good infrastructure. The place is on the B 184 , approx. 12 km north of Leipzig and approx. 6 km south of Delitzsch . In the vicinity there are former lignite opencast mines , the mining areas of which are currently being flooded, so that Schladitzer and Werbeliner See are created. The land is flat and belongs to the Leipzig lowland bay and is traversed by the Lober . Due to the new lakes, which lie in the main weather direction and divide the clouds through their thermals , it is often drier than in the vicinity.

Manor of the upper estate

history

Pond at the Obergut
Prussian milestone in Zschortau

According to the name, Zschortau is a Slavic local foundation. The meaning of the name is derived from Zschorny = black, devil. The first German settlement of the Slavic area since the migration of peoples probably took place around 1200. The place is mentioned for the first time as Czorttow in 1349 in the loan book of Friedrich the Strengen . In 1442, 22 families were resident in Zschortau. In 1547 two manors were mentioned. A school was founded in 1590. The church in the village received a tower clock in 1726. The church's disc organ was approved by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1746 . Johann Jacob Volkmann , heir to Zschortau and Biesen, built a late baroque manor house on the upper estate after 1764 and had the park designed in the English style.

Zschortau had 300 inhabitants in 1800. The place belonged to the electoral office of Delitzsch until 1815 . As a result of the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna , he was ceded to Prussia and in 1816 assigned to the Delitzsch district in the Merseburg administrative district of the province of Saxony , to which he belonged until 1952. The Prussian milestone shows a distance of 20 miles to Berlin.

The connection to the railway network took place in 1859 ( railway line Leipzig - Bitterfeld - Dessau / Wittenberg ). A year later the Zschortau volunteer fire brigade was founded. In 1900 there were 999 inhabitants in Zschortau. On May 5, 1902, the D-Zug 21 from Leipzig to Bitterfeld had an accident in Zschortau.

At the end of the Second World War , the place was occupied by the Americans in April 1945. From June the Red Army moved in and Zschortau became part of the Soviet occupation zone. The upper estate became an agricultural college and the lower estate became a state-owned estate. On July 1, 1950, Biesen and Brodenaundorf were incorporated. In 1952, the place with the Delitzsch district was added to the Leipzig district. A new school building was completed in 1968. A gym was built from 1976 to 1977. In 1974 Kreuma became a district of Zschortau. With the expansion of the Delitzsch-Südwest opencast mine to the west, the village of Kattersnaundorf was devastated in 1981 and its corridor was incorporated with the Werbelin district to Zschortau.

After the fall of the Wall , Zschortau was declared part of the state of Saxony again in 1990. The Werbelin district was demolished in 1992, one year before the Delitzsch-Südwest opencast mine was closed. The town hall was no longer dredged over. From 1994 Zschortau belonged to the district of Delitzsch . In the same year Lemsel was incorporated. The former upper estate was extensively renovated in 2003 and then serves as a training facility for engineers as part of development cooperation. Zschortau merged with the municipality of Rackwitz on March 1, 2004.

Incorporations

Infrastructure

railway station

Zschortau station is on the Bitterfeld – Leipzig line and is served exclusively by the Central German S-Bahn . The previous lines RB 54 and RB 57 have been merged into the S-Bahn line S 2 since December 13, 2015.

Zschortau belongs to the network area of ​​the Central German Transport Association (MDV) and is in its tariff zone 165.

line route Tact
S 2 Markkleeberg-Gaschwitz - Leipzig-Connewitz - Leipzig Central Station (deep) - Delitzsch - Bitterfeld - Dessau 30-minute intervals

The federal highway 184 leads around the place, the motorways A 9 and A 14 are about 15 and 8 kilometers away. It is around 12 kilometers as the crow flies to Leipzig / Halle Airport .

The most important facilities of the basic supply are available in the place. The place also has a crèche , kindergarten, elementary school, day- care center , general doctor, dentist, physiotherapy and library. There is also a sports club with football, handball, table tennis, darts and gymnastics departments. There is also a dog sports and fishing club and the Zschortau volunteer fire department.

Personalities

literature

  • Ernst-Niklas Kunath: Family book Zschortau with Biesen, Brodenaundorf and Lemsel 1605-1902 (district of northern Saxony). 2 volumes. Leipzig: AMF 2016 (= Central German local family books of the AMF 94)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 56 f.
  2. ^ The district of Delitzsch in the municipality register 1900
  3. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2004

Web links

Commons : Zschortau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files