Rietschen

Rietschen, Upper Sorbian Rěčicy, is a municipality in the district Görlitz, in the east of the Free State of Saxony. The community is home to the administrative community Rietschen.

The village has about 2800 inhabitants, 1150 of them in the same capital. The community is fully in the Sorbian settlement area of Upper Lusatia, but the majority of places is largely Germanized since the mid -19th century.

2.1 Local History
2.2 Amalgamations

3.1 Mayor
3.2 Local Partnerships

4.1 people from the community
4.2 Persons who worked in the community

5.1 Structures
5.2 educational institutions
5.3 Regular events

Geography

Community structure

The municipality consists of the villages

Rietschen ( Upper Sorbian Rěčicy 1866 inhabitants on 31 December 2009 )
Daubitz ( Dubc, 563 inhabitants),
Teicha ( Hatk, 208 inhabitants)
Hammer City ( Hamoršć, 92 inhabitants),
Altliebel ( Stary Lubolń, 28 inhabitants) and
Neuliebel ( Nowy Lubolń, 44 inhabitants).

The district Rietschen in turn divided into the following places

Rietschen ( 1158 inhabitants),
Neuhammer ( Nowy Hamor, 201 inhabitants),
Lower Prauske ( Delnje Brusy, 351 inhabitants) and
Werda (179 inhabitants).

Other settlements within the municipality are field houses, Heath Houses, New Daubitz and forest village.

The Places Berg, Linda, Mocholz, Publick, potions, Wunscha, Four Oaks and two bridges exist today mostly no longer open pit due.

Geographical location

The community Riet 's located in the northern part of the district. It is located about 10 km north- west of the city Niesky on the northern edge of the nature area Lusatian Heath and Pond area near the Muskauer Heath. Federal highway 115 and the railway line Cottbus- Görlitz lead by the community. Several districts are traversed by the White Schoeps.

To the west of the open pit Reichwalde follows, in the north of Truppenübungsplatz Upper Lusatia.

Neighboring communities

Surrounding municipalities are Weißkeißel in the north, Krauschwitz in the northeast and east, Rothenburg / OL in the southeast, and Hänichen Niesky in the south, which belongs to the administrative community community Kreba -Neudorf in the southwest, and Boxberg / OL in the west and northwest.

History

In the 19th century west excavated from Rietschen vessels of a Bronze Age burial ground, a prehistoric settlement evidence.

The according to the Migration largely deserted Upper Lusatia was settled only from the 7th century by Slavs, which was followed by German settlers in the course of eastward expansion. The documentary first mention of the place in 1362 as Reczicz, indicates that the original Slavic settlement on the River, the White Schoeps.

Already existed in the late 14th century in the village of a manor, who became the manor until the beginning of the 17th century. The farm with its fields, meadows, ponds and forests was for Gutssiedlung of immense importance. To the parish, the village was already in pre-Reformation period after Daubitz.

The Kingdom of Saxony had in 1815 the Congress of Vienna accept large cessions of territory to the Kingdom of Prussia, including so Rietschen was a large part of 1635 received from the Kingdom of Bohemia in the wake of the Peace of Prague Lausitz in 1815 for the next 130 years under Prussian administration. As part of an administrative reform of the place came in 1816 to the newly formed county Rothenburg (Colonel louse. ) In the Prussian province of Silesia.

In the second half of the 19th century, especially after the connection to the railway line Berlin- Görlitz in 1867, the manor became less important and the town developed as an industrial village. The 1852 existing sawmills followed from 1872 to 1900 three glassworks and 1907 the sound and mining company Teicha.

The 1885 furnished in Rietschen school received its own building in 1890. Before the school was carried out until 1847 in Daubitz and then in the new school in Lower Prauske. Another school building took place in 1913.

Due to the constantly growing population, it was decided in 1911 to build a daughter church to coincide with the construction of the new church was built Daubitzer in the years 1914 to 1916. The artistic design took over, as in Daubitz, Joseph Langer. After Riet 's then the places Werda, Hammer City, Linda, Neuliebel and low Prauske were gepfarrt.

After the Second World War Rietschen came with the western part of the Prussian Upper Lusatia again to the state of Saxony and in 1952 the circle white water in the district of Cottbus assigned. In 1956, the parish became independent, and in 1961 the school expanded again.

In the turn of time, industrial production slumped in Rietschen as well as in other industrial locations. As of 1991, the Erlichthofsiedlung from 200-300 years old log houses that were converted from the lying ahead of the open pit Reichwalde villages emerged in Rietschen on Erlichtteich.

Incorporations

On April 1, 1938 there was a larger number of incorporations in the district of Rothenburg (Colonel louse. ), Under which Neuliebel after Altliebel, Lower Prauske and Werda after Rietschen and Mocholz were incorporated to Four Oaks.

After Neuhammer on 1 July 1950 and potions on October 1, 1962 came to Rietschen and the communities Altliebel and Hammer City were incorporated by Four Oaks on 1 January 1973, the number of municipalities was reduced to the present territory Riet Schens to four.

The remaining four municipalities Daubitz, Rietschen, Teicha and Four Oaks joined on 15 March 1992 at the current community Rietschen.

Policy

Mayor

Since 1990, Eberhardt Meier Mayor of Rietschen until he resigned from office due to illness in 2010. His successor is 14 November 2010 Ralf Brehmer, longtime building authorities in Rietschen, elected with 63 % of votes.

Local partnerships

Rietschen maintains with the community Feldkirchen ( Munich) and the Polish city Iłowa ( German: Halbau ) partnerships.

Personalities

People from the community

Karl David Schuchardt (* 1717 in Linda, † 1781), Protestant theologian
Kurt Stache (* 1903 in Rietschen; † in the 20th century), a Communist and Nazi resistance fighters
Joachim Nowotny ( born 1933 in Rietschen, † 2014), writer
Erich Schulze ( * 1949 in Daubitz ), District Administrator
Lothar Bienst (* 1956 in Teicha ), Saxon Landtag

People who worked in the community

Christoph Gabriel Fabricius (1684-1757) was in Daubitz pastor since 1740. From him several church writings originate in German and Sorbian.
The Daubitzer pastor Henner -Jürgen Havenstein (1931-2001), 1989 was a co-founder of the New Forum in the district of Cottbus. In 1996 he received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Culture and sights

Erlichthof ( Village Museum )
Wolf exhibition at Erlichthof
School Museum Daubitz
Forest Village Ranch with bison enclosure in Daubitz Forest Village

Structures

Castle Daubitz with Park
Churches in Daubitz and Rietschen

Educational institutions

Primary school Daubitz
Free School Rietschen

Regular events

St.Georgsfest in Daubitz on the last weekend in April
Children and street festival in Werda on the first weekend in July each year
Country Fest in Daubitz on the last weekend of June each year
Autumn Festival in September / October
Imp festival on the 1st Advent
Carnival events of the Riet Schener Carnival Club eV in February and November
Oktoberfest in September / October

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