Brachwitz

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Location of Brachwitz in Wettin - Löbejün

Brachwitz is a district of the city of Wettin - Löbejün in the Saale district, in Saxony -Anhalt, Germany.

• 2.1 Brachwitz
• 2.2 Friedrichsschwerz

• 3.1 Coat of Arms

• 5.1 traffic

Geography

Brachwitz located in the Saale valley, northwest of Halle.

Community structure

As the district of Brachwitz Friedrichsschwerz is reported.

History

Brachwitz

The place has Slavic roots, of which Wall remains of a castle on the mountain cherry testify. 1271 (?) He was first mentioned. The town's parish church was built at the end of the 13th century. 1603 large parts of the town were destroyed by a fire.

In the 18th century, was built from hard coal and brown coal, which were found at shallow depths. Old quarries also testify from porphyry degradation.

From the deserted villages in the district Brachwitz, Luckenau and Pushed Elitz, no remains have survived. Both places were probably left by repeated flooding even before the Thirty Years' War.

On 1 January 2011 the municipalities of cities Löbejün and Wettin and the communities Brachwitz, Döblitz, Domnitz, Gimritz, Nauen village, Neutz - Lettewitz, roach and Rothenburg, who had previously teamed in the administrative community hall county north were the new city Wettin - Löbejün summarized.

Friedrichsschwerz

Friedrichsschwerz 1288 was first mentioned in a deed as Swersczs, however, was a 1467-1573. At the request of Frederick the Great (25 December 1769), a colony was founded with 20 families, which represents the roots of the present-day village. The church was consecrated in 1883 by Friedrichsschwerz 1970 but demolished. In their place was on October 3, 2004, a memorial column for the re-founder of the place, Frederick the Great revealed.

Policy

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on 25 May 1998 by the regional council hall.

Blazon: ". Argent, a blue, finished with silver thread shaft shaft bar between a red plow and a green oak branch with increasing red fruit between two upright leaves "

Culture and sights

• Brachwitzer Alps, a nature reserve porphyry landscape along the river Saale.
• Local Museum

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

A car ferry crosses the at Brachwitz flowing past Saale; across the street on the south side of the Saale and Others Salzmünde and the west of the city hall can be achieved.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Friedrich August Alexander Eversmann (1759-1837), Prussian technologist, mountain officials and publicist
• Carl Wentzel (1875-1944), victims of 20 July 1944
• Franz Richard Behrens (1895-1977) poet of the Expressionism
• Manfred Thon (* 1935), politician ( CDU)