Dreitzsch
Dreitzsch is a municipality in the Thuringian Saale- Orla-Kreis. It belongs to the administrative community Triptis.
- 3.1 Coat of Arms
Geography
The municipality is located in the eastern part of the Dreitzsch Orlatales and consists of the districts Dreitzsch and Alsmannsdorf.
History
The name Dreitzsch is Slavic and means figuratively " bump, bruise, tear up ", ie Clearing of fallow land. The first mention of Dreitzsch is in 1120.
In the hallway Dreitzsch a broad cremation cemetery of the Hallstatt period and a Slavic body burial ground from the Early and High Middle Ages were exposed by the Germanic Museum at the University of Jena and the Institute of Anthropology at excavations in 1936, 1976 and 1979.
The independent district until 1956 Alsmannsdorf did not develop until later in the Vorwerk Dreitzscher of the manor. This was in 1844 converted into a state farm, which existed until the land reform in the Soviet occupation zone in 1945. A the townscape essential formative castle was blown up in 1948.
During the Second World War had in the district Alsmannsdorf 14 workers from Czechoslovakia, Poland and the Soviet Union on six farms forced labor. In the churchyard is the grave of a Polish forced laborer.
Population Development
Development of the population (each 31 December):
- 2002: 467
- 2003: 469
- 2004: 454
- 2005: 463
- 2006: 459
- 2007: 451
- 2008: 446
- 2009: 449
Policy
Coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved on 11 October 1993:
Blazon: " split half and shared by red, silver and blue; Up front, a composite of sherds silver vessel, behind a right slanting red harp, below a two- arch stone bridge silver, including a floating silver wave beams. "
In the coat of arms symbols appear both districts. A field symbolizes the found excavations of the cremation burial cemetery. The harp in the second part refers to the district Alsmannsdorf, who led a harp with sessile ducal crown in the historical seal; the importance of the harp is unknown. The pictured in the sign (now a listed ) historical arch bridge located in the district Dreitzsch and once led on the Orla, which is symbolized by the wave beam.
The coat of arms was designed by the Goßwitzer Manfred Fischer.
Attractions
- Listed Stone bridge over the Orla in the district Dreitzsch
- Baroque Church of St. John in Dreitzsch ( restored in 1993 ) with original equipment from 1703
- Homesteads in Dreitzsch and Alsmannsdorf
- Since 1998, existing village and local history museum, in which the settlement history of the town hall and the rural life of the past two centuries is illustrated