Ostritz

Ostritz ( Upper Lusatian dialect: Usterz, Upper Sorbian Wostrowc ) is a Saxon country town in the district of Görlitz in Upper Lusatia. Ostritz located in the southeast of Saxony, on the western bank of the Neisse, right on the border to the Polish urban and rural community Bogatynia.

4.1 municipal
4.2 Mayor
4.3 Coat of Arms
4.4 Town twinning

6.1 traffic

Geography

Geographical Location

The urban area stretches along the west bank of the Lusatian Neisse river in the natural area Eastern Upper Lusatia. From north to south follow each other: Leuba, the actual city Ostritz (the area of the medieval German city ), Old Town ( Ostrusna, the former Sorbian village) and the very south of the monastery of St. Marienthal with its upstream settlement.

History

The first settlement around AD 500 was a simple Slavic village of wood and mud built huts, which had the form of a not completely closed the winder. It lay on a tributary of the River Neisse on the old road to Friedland. By Neisse only led a ford, there was then no bridge.

The rule Ostritz passed to the Viscount of Dohna Castle Grafstein in 1230 by the Czech king. The first owner of the domain Ostritz might have been Viscount Otto I of Dohna, which is mentioned in the years 1206 and 1239. His daughter, Adelheid von Dohna ( † before 1267 ) was the first abbess of the Cistercian nunnery founded in 1234 St. Marienthal.

Incorporations

In 1933 the place was old town (formerly Old Ostritz ) incorporated to the city. The village of St. Marienthal followed in 1950. Leuba The municipality was incorporated on 1 January 1994 in the city Ostritz.

Policy

Parish council

In the city council three groupings have passed since the municipal elections of 2009 represented:

(As at municipal election on June 7, 2009)

Mayor

Marion Prange since August 1, 2008 Mayor, she sat down with 80.46 % through against a competitor. Your predecessor, Friedrich Tschirner, did not start in the election in June 2008.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of Ostritz shows an abbess with rod under a tower crowned archway. It recalled that the nuns of St. Marienthal on December 9, 1368 is posted under the guidance of the Abbess Agnes of Grißlau outside the city walls under construction, so as to prevent their destruction by the rival Six town of Zittau. Although this project could not be prevented, but the relationship between cities and monasteries were established, which symbolizes the coat of arms since the outside.

Twinning

On 3 October 1990 concluded Ostritz and the Westphalian town of Schloss Holte- Stukenbrock a partnership agreement, which was dissolved in 2008.

In 2003 the nearby Polish town of Bogatynia expressed the desire of a partnership. So far there was no partnership contract, however, the cooperation between the two cities was intensified.

Culture and sights

Kloster St. Marienthal
Catholic cemetery war memorial
Sawmill
Evangelical Church
Market with town hall
Bike path through Neißetal after Hirschfelde
Pin Joachim Stein

Town house with holy figure

Renovated Town Hall 2008

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Ostritz is located on the main road 99 between Görlitz and Zittau, the 1825 instead of the old transport connection, which at the southern end took a westerly course, the road was built. There is also an important road link in a northwesterly direction over Bernstadt ad Eigen by Lobau and A4 towards Dresden.

The city is situated on the Neisse River Valley Railway, which connects Zittau Goerlitz. By the demarcation of 1945, the east of the Neisse located Ostritzer station was now in Krzewina ( Grunau ) in placed under Polish administration area. The 1945 demolished bridge was rebuilt, but with only half the width of the abutment. Only in 1948, facilitated through traffic has been agreed between the responsible authorities in the former Soviet occupation zone in Germany and Poland. After that travelers could use the makeshift border bridge exclusively to and from Krzewina Zgorzelecka station. This was strictly supervised by the Polish military, to stray from the prescribed path or the platforms was impossible. Since 1990, the Neisse River Bridge also serves as the official border crossing for pedestrians and cyclists between Ostritz and Krzewina Zgorzelecka. With the accession of Poland to the European Union accounted for 2004, the customs formalities during passport checks were conducted until Poland's accession to the Schengen Agreement in December 2007.

Ostritz has signed with its neighboring Polish city a letter of intent to replace the makeshift Neisse bridge on Bahnhofstrasse with a new one that takes advantage of at least the original width of the existing abutment. This would again cross the Neisse car. It was also decided to build the monastery bridge in the district of St. Marienthal again. Despite the Schengen accession of Poland and elimination of formalities at government level, both projects have not been implemented due to lack of financial resources.

Others

Ostritz is known as an energy- ecological model city Ostritz -St. Marienthal, which has been the use of renewable energy sources prescribed.

Personalities

Christian August Pfaltz (1629-1702), canon of the St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, major Catholic preacher and writer
Mechthild of the Neisse (1647-1699), Cistercian nun in the convent of St. Mariental, significant mystic and herbalists
Gottfried Tollmann (1680-1766), Protestant pastor and church hymn writer
Karl Heinrich Seibt (1735-1806), educator, and Catholic theologian
Franz Gareis (1775-1803), painter
Joseph Gareis (1778-1844), sculptor
Franz Bernhard Schiller (1815-1857), sculptor
Henriette Sontag (1806-1854) German opera singer
Edmund Kretschmer (1830-1908), composer
Julius role (1889-1977), teacher and author (home of the city Ostritz, published in self-published the city Ostritz, 1990)
Erna von Abendroth (1887-1959), nurse
Alfred Zerbel (1904-1987), Chief of Staff Army of the Bundeswehr
Emil Pischel (1908-1989), painter
Hans Pflugbeil (1909-1974), church musician and founder of Greifswald Bachwoche
Klaus Fröba (* 1934), writer

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