Moritzburg

Moritzburg is a municipality in Saxony, which was called Eisenberg - Moritzburg until 1934. She is known primarily for hunting and in Baroque style.

  • 3.1 mayor and council
  • 3.2 Town twinning
  • 4.1 Structures
  • 4.2 events
  • 6.1 traffic
  • 6.2 Economics
  • 6.3 Road Access
  • 8.1 Sons and daughters of the town
  • 8.2 Further standing with the site in conjunction personalities

Geography

Location

Moritzburg is located in the center of Saxony and is located about 13 kilometers north-west from the city center of Dresden. The place is located in the district of Meißen and forms a community with surrounding villages. Moritzburg is located in the middle of the nature reserve Friedewald and Moritzburger pond area. This area includes 22 Moritzburg ponds with about 418 acres of water surface. Geographically, the place is assigned to the West Lusatian hill and mountain country. The hill country is between 124 m and 312 m above sea level. It is part of the Lusatian plate and the Meissner syenite - granite massif. A moderately dry climate prevails.

Neighboring communities

Community structure

  • Auer
  • Boxdorf
  • Friedewald with beech wood and Dippelsdorf
  • Moritzburg with Eisenberg
  • Reichenberg
  • Steinbach

History

The municipality of Moritzburg originated from the rural community Eisenberg, who was also a district called Moritzburg. This was around the Castle Moritzburg, the building closer to its environment and the associated Gutsbezirk, ie lands and forests from Fasanenschlösschen to the hamlet Auer. Even before 1900, the community was given the double name Eisenberg Moritzburg. In 1934 the municipality of Moritzburg was around and so named permanently to the castle.

In GDR times Moritzburg was known by a training aid for the socialist Vietnam. The GDR offered to the Vietnamese to be trained a number of children here. In July 1955 this training program began initially for 149 Vietnamese children between nine and fifteen years of age. A total of about 350 children and young people have been trained and brought up to the skilled workers and university degree in Dresden and Moritzburg. This Vietnamese " Moritzburg " went back to their country and entertain up to the present a cultural tradition club.

From 1945 to 1996, in the forest near Moritzburg known as the " Treasure of the Saxons " hidden.

The municipality of Moritzburg grew on 1 January 1996 to the community of Steinbach and on 1 January 1999 at Reichenberg, further comprising the incorporated on 1 January 1994 districts Friedewald and Boxdorf with earning.

Policy

The mayor and council

The Moritzburger council consists of 19 members, including the mayor, who is the chairman. In April 2006 the mayoral election was held. Georg Reitz (CDU ), first elected to office in 1999, it received 94 percent of the vote.

The last mayoral election was held on 24 March 2013. This Jörg Hanisch was elected with 53.54 % for mayor. The long-serving Deputy Mayor, Volker John who competed for the CDU Moritzburg came to 32.34%.

At the council elections on 7 June 2009, the following composition of the council was:

Twinning

  • Cochem ( Rhineland -Palatinate )

Culture and sights

Structures

The best-known attraction of Moritzburg is the Moritzburg Castle. Additional points of interest

  • Fasanenschlösschen
  • House of the horse
  • Kathe Kollwitz House
  • Lighthouse at Fasanenschlösschen
  • Red House, Dippelsdorf
  • State Stud Moritzburg
  • Lößnitzgrundbahn
  • Wildgehege Moritzburg
  • Windmill in Boxdorf

Events

There are a number of recurring events.

  • Wedding Fair
  • Stallion Parade
  • Moritzburg Festival
  • Moritzburger Advent Calendar
  • Moritzburg fish and Forest Festival ( Fishing out of the castle pond end of October)
  • Schloss-Triathlon Moritzburg
  • Carnival club Moritzburg e.V.

Cultural landscape Moritzburg GmbH

The cultural landscape Moritzburg GmbH is a 100 % subsidiary of the municipality of Moritzburg. The tasks of the cultural landscape Moritzburg are divided into four areas: 1 operate the Holiday Parks & Camping Bad Sun Country, with bungalows, camping and caravan sites 2 debt Tourist Information Moritzburg 3 debt of parking spaces in and around Moritzburg 4 organization and logistic support of major events in Moritzburg 5 tourist marketing of the municipality of Moritzburg

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Moritzburg is on state roads with Dresden ( with connections to the motorway 4) Radeburg connected ( with connection to the federal highway 13) and Meißen. The narrow Lößnitzgrundbahn connecting Moritzburg and Radebeul Radeburg. The beginning of the mound -like castle driveway flanked by two traffic historically interesting, sometimes even original Electorate of Saxony postal distance columns of 1730, which were otherwise situated just outside the city or in the marketplace of cities, with distances in leagues ( 1 pc = 4.531 km ) to cities, post offices, but even then Saxon castles and palaces.

Economy

The local economy is dominated largely by tourism. In Moritzburg is the stud Moritzburg, an economic operation of the Free State of Saxony, a resident. The origins of the stud back to the hunting passion of Augustus the Strong (1670-1733) and led him through reconstruction of the castle into a hunting lodge. With the horse breeding was begun in 1828 for the then royal hunting stables.

Transport links

  • Highways: Federal Highway 13 and Federal Highway 4
  • Access to national transport networks by S 80, S 81 and S 179
  • S- Bahn connection via Dresden, Meissen and Radebeul
  • Bus to Dresden, Meissen, Radeburg, Großenhain
  • Narrow gauge Radebeul Ost - Radeburg

Education

In Moritzburg is the Evangelical College of Religious Education and community diakonia.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Samuel Locke (1710-1793), architect
  • Albert Casimir of Sachsen -Teschen (1738-1822), patron of the arts
  • Carl Ludwig Alfred Fiedler (1835-1921), physician
  • Adam Bruno (1846-1918), architect
  • Curt Trepte (1902-1990), actor, theater director
  • Wilhelm Rühle (1906-1993), an organ builder

Other charges related to the place in connection personalities

  • Maurice of Saxony (1521-1553), Elector
  • Augustus the Strong (1670-1733), Elector of Saxony
  • Friedrich August I (1750-1827), first king of Saxony
  • Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945), sculptor and graphic artist
  • Ernst Heinrich of Saxony (1896-1971), Wettin
  • Walter Henn (1912-2006), architect and university teachers
  • Hans Georg Annie (1930-2006), printmaker and sculptor
  • Roland Adolph (1946-1997), Protestant pastor
  • Jan Vogler (* 1964), cellist and artistic director of the Moritzburg Festival
  • Dulig Martin ( b. 1974 ), leader of the SPD in the Saxon parliament
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