Zwochau
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Zwochau
community Wiedemar
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| Height : | 112 m above sea level NHN |
| Area : | 18.84 km² |
| Residents : | 1080 (December 31, 2011) |
| Population density : | 57 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 2013 |
| Postal code : | 04509 |
| Area code : | 034207 |
Zwochau is a village in the municipality of Wiedemar in the district of North Saxony , Free State of Saxony .
The village consists of the districts of Zwochau and Grebehna .
Geography and traffic
Zwochau is about 20 km east of the city of Halle (Saale) and 13 km southwest of the city of Delitzsch . The federal motorway 9 runs west and can be reached via the Wiedemar connection (approx. 3 km). The village is characterized by the large opencast mining holes of the former central German lignite mining area. The Werbeliner See , the Grabschützer See and the Zwochauer See are currently being built in the area of the village as part of the new one
history
Zwochau is first mentioned in a document in 1158.
Until 1815, Zwochau and its later districts belonged to the electoral office of Delitzsch .
As a result of the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna , the town became part of Prussia and in 1816 was assigned to the Delitzsch district in the Merseburg administrative district of the province of Saxony , to which they belonged until 1952.
On April 1, 1936, the communities of Flemsdorf with Ettelwitz and Schladitz were incorporated into Zwochau.
On July 1, 1950, Grebehna and Grabschütz were incorporated, which in 1985 fell victim to open- cast lignite mining.
In the course of the district reform in the GDR in 1952, Zwochau and its districts were assigned to the newly cut Delitzsch district in the Leipzig district, which was added to the Delitzsch district in 1994 .
Until December 31, 2012, Zwochau was an independent municipality in the Wiedemar administrative association .
On January 1, 2013, Zwochau, Neukyhna and Wiedemar merged to form the single community of Wiedemar.
Attractions
- Saxon Lake District, north of Zwochau with Grabschützer See and Zwochauer See
- St. Martin Church, Zwochau
- Catholic parish church St. Pius
- Quarter milestone in Grebehna
- Memorial to the fallen of the First World War
New post mill : As early as 1844, the property (today Am Sportplatz 5) was the location of a post mill . The current mill dates from 1806 and was originally located in Schkeuditz . In 1930 the drive was switched to a diesel engine. In 1936 an electric motor was added. The mill remained in operation until 1956. A comprehensive reconstruction took place in 1995. However, since the structure stood in the way of the expansion of Leipzig / Halle Airport , the mill was dismantled in 2007 and moved to Zwochau. After the reconstruction, it could be inaugurated again on the 16th German Milling Day 2009 as an operational post mill . A special technical feature is the rare inclined stick gear.
Infrastructure
There is an Evangelical Church in both Zwochau and Grebehna.
The Catholic Church in Zwochau was built because, as a result of the Second World War, Catholic expellees had settled in Zwochau, which had been evangelical-Lutheran since the Reformation . The church, consecrated in 1956, initially bore the patronage of Pius X. From the 1990s onwards, Delitzsch took care of the pastoral care of the church, and in 2007 it was transferred to the Focolare Movement . After a redesign of the interior carried out under the direction of the architect Elmar Paul Sommer from Monschau , it was reopened in 2011 as the Holy Trinity Church . The neighboring Focolare Meeting Center Mariapolizentrum Einheit was inaugurated in 1978 as the Episcopal Education Center St. Adalbert and expanded from 1996 by the Focolare Movement.
The Sankt Martin elementary school in Zwochau - pro Montessori is a state-recognized substitute school.
A former horse stable was converted into the Hotel Zum Gutshof .
Catholic Church in Zwochau
Mariapolizentrum
Hotel Zum Gutshof
Information board at the parking lot for Grabschützer and Zwochauer See
Werbeliner See
Personalities
- Johann Karl Kell (* 1693), poet of sacred poetry and probably identical to Le Pansiv , a writer of crude , erotic poems
- Johann Friedrich Baltzer jun. (Born November 18, 1801 in Hohenleina; † January 22, 1885 in Dresden), pastor, revolutionary (1848/49) and man of letters; 1833–1849 pastor in Zwochau
- Armin Baltzer (1842–1913), German-Swiss mineralogist and geologist; born in Zwochau
- Erich Rudorffer (1917–2016), highly decorated fighter pilot in World War II .
Web links
- Zwochau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Individual evidence
- ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 56 f.
- ^ The district of Delitzsch in the municipality register 1900
- ^ Administrative history of Delitzsch
- ^ The places in the historical register of places of Saxony
- ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 1st to December 31st, 2013
- ^ Website of the German Society for Milling Customers , accessed on June 2, 2015
- ^ History of the Church of St. Pius X in the Lord's Day , accessed March 28, 2016
- Jump up ↑ Church of the Focolare Meeting Center in the Lord's Day , accessed March 28, 2016