Deutzen

Deutzen is a municipality in the district of Leipzig, Saxony. She is a member of the administrative community Wyke Regis.

Geography and transport

The community Deutzen is located south of Leipzig lowlands about 16 km north of Altenburg and 7 km west of Borna. Borders the east Leipzig New to the storage pool Borna and the northwest of the open pit Schleenhain to the community. The B 176 runs north and the B 93 east of the community. Deutzen has a break point on the railway line Leipzig -Hof. By Deutzen the splices flows with a gradient step.

History

Deutzen was the first time in a document from 1238 mention was in which reported that a Herwicus de Dycin ( Herbert von Deutzen ) the exchange of goods between King Wenceslaus of Bohemia and the convent Plaz was present as a witness. The development of the town was very eventful. Until the 18th century dominated the agricultural development. The location of the village in the floodplains of the splices and the White Elster, 25 km south of Leipzig offered favorable conditions for this farming activity.

At the same time beneficiary of this landscape area millions of years ago the emergence of brown coal, so that after initial small abrasions in the late 19th century, around 1900, begins the industrial use of lignite. The construction of a lignite-fired plant in Deutzen attracted people from different parts of Germany to ( including a remarkable number of Bavaria).

The result was that in the period 1910 to 1968 increased the population from 350 to 4300. The coal mining caused a change in the community of the local economic and population structure of the country to an industrial community. In 1934 the village was incorporated Röthigen and destroyed by brown coal mining in the year 1964/1965 the old town center of Deutzen. Today's Deutzen was built on ausgekohltem site of the mine force II. The area of Old Deutzen is today occupied by the memory pool Borna, popularly known as the Adriatic, which is fed with water from the splices for the purpose of flood protection.

Memorials

• Graves in the local cemetery for a Polish prisoners of war and an Italian military internees during the Second World War victims of forced labor

Attractions

• Cultural Park Deutzen
• Reservoirs Borna
• Open Pit Lookout
• Catholic church of "St. Conrad of Parzham " 1954-56 built with wood from the Bavarian Forest
• Water tower in the district Röthigen, built in 1955 as a replacement for the water tower of the demolished village Blumroda
• Technical monument water ball, implemented in 1938 by Graefenhainichen.
• Splices with cycle track
• Wild horse paddock east of the road to Neukieritzsch