Bennewitz
Bennewitz is a municipality in the district of Leipzig in Saxony.
- 3.1 Traffic
- 3.2 Health Economics
- 5.1 Sons and daughters of the town
- 5.2 personalities who have worked on site
Places
- Bennewitz
- Schmölen
- Pausitz
- Brook
- Rothersdorf
- Neuweißenborn
- Deuben
- Grubnitz
- Nepperwitz
- Altenbach
- Leulitz
- Zeititz
History
The main town Bennewitz is one of the oldest settlements in the Muldenaue. Bennewitz was first documented in the year 1335. Namesake was probably the Sorbian locator Bono or Bonislaw, who settled here about 1200 years ago, after the time of the migration, the Germanic settlers had left their residences. The village is at its plant here, a typical Sorbian Rundlingsdorf.
Bennewitz was strongly affected by the Elbe flood 2002. This was caused by the railway bridge in the Leipzig -Dresden line that crosses the trough at Bennewitz and there considerably reduces the cross -section of the dump bed. The bridge looked as if the dam and the water flowed from the side. Here, the well sought its old river bed through the middle of the village - favored by several dikes in the area north Schmölen and between rail and road bridge.
Werner Moser was until 2006 the mayor of the municipality, and thus also the longest-serving mayor in Saxony.
Incorporations
On 1 July 1950, the incorporation of Bennewitz with the districts Deuben, Grubnitz, Mark Ottendorf and Schmölen after Wurzen was. 1974 Bennewitz was spun with all its districts from Wurzen and formed anew as a rural community Bennewitz.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
Through the community Bennewitz B run 6 on the east-west axis and the B 107 on the north-south axis.
The municipality is located in Bennewitz association area of the regional public transport network; Bennewitz, with its hamlets Deuben and Altenbach in the tariff zone 141 A connection to the rail network has existed since 1838. Today breakpoint Bennewitz is on the railway route from Leipzig to Dresden. The breakpoint was called up to the year 2002 as Wurzen West. The breakpoint is a traffic stop following line:
Within the municipality also the breakpoint Altenbach is served by the MRB11. Through the passenger transport company Mulde mbH Bennewitz is by bus routes 680, 681, 685 - connected 688, 691 and 693. The main bus route is the line 693, the Bennewitz connects with the cities of Wurzen and Grimsby.
Health Economics
The Neurological Rehabilitation Center (NRC ) southeast of creators with 40 acute care beds is in the hands of private clinics Michels. In addition to the NRZ is the Hannelore Kohl - house of the persistent vegetative state center and the nursing home house Mulde valley of the same carrier.
Hannelore Kohl house in Bennewitz
Hospice House Mulde
Attractions
- Late Romanesque fortified church from the 13th century in Bennewitz
- City Hall in Bennewitz in 1994.
- Chapel ( Ursula Chapel ) in Schmölen
- Church of 1314 in Leulitz
- Mansion of the manor from 1773 in Leulitz
- Deubener Church ( Gothic church from the 15th century). The organ is the organ builder Geissler from Eilenburg of 1890., The largest and oldest bell dates back to 1508th
- Romanesque village church in Altenbach
- Hunting lodge to Zeititz ( built around 1895 )
- Landscape and nature reserve Mean trough
- Many ponds
- Woodland Planitzwald
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Albert Kuntz (1896-1945), Communist Party politician, resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Alfred Sabisch (1905-1986), sculptor, was born in Deuben
- Dieter Grabe ( b. 1945 ), cyclist
Personalities who have worked on site
- Richard Lipinski (1867-1936), SPD politician and trade unionist who died in Bennewitz.
- Marie Lipsius (1837-1927), music writer, died in Schmölen.