Schmölln-Putzkau

Schmölln- Putzkau ( sorb. Smělna - Póckowy ) is a municipality in the southern part of the East Saxon administrative district of Bautzen, which was created on 1 March 1994 by the merger of the formerly independent communities Schmölln / OL, Putzkau and Tröbigau. The municipality is located in Upper Lusatia.

• 2.1 Church Planting
• 2.2 perspective
• 2.3 Local History

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Mayor 3.2.1 Prior to the merger
• 3.2.2 Total community

• 6.1 Education
• 6.2 churches
• 6.3 Museums
• 6.4 history
• 6.5 Language

• 7.1 freeman
• 7.2 Sons and daughters

Geography

Schmölln- Putzkau is located about 14 km southwest of the district town of Bautzen and 4 km east of the county seat Bischofswerda. The municipality is crossed at Putzkau in a wide valley basin of the Wesenitz. The northern part with the districts Neuschmölln, Schmölln and Tröbigau contrast drained out over several streams to Hoyerswerdaer black water.

Geographically, the municipality is part of the majority of the Upper Lusatian Mountains, which borders the West Lusatian hills and mountains in the northwest of the municipality. Significant elevations within and in the immediate vicinity of the community are the High Hahn ( 446 m), monastery mountain ( 394 m), Tröbigauer mountain ( 401 m ) and the butter mountain ( 388 m). Southeast of the community, the highly visible 587 meters high Valtenberg rises.

Neighboring communities

Community structure

The municipality consists of the villages

• Neuschmölln (Sorbian Nowa Smělna ) - about 100 inhabitants
• Putzkau ( Póckowy ), districts Oberputzkau and Niederputzkau - about 1,850 inhabitants
• Schmölln ( Smělna ) - about 1,150 inhabitants
• Tröbigau ( Trjechow ) - 300 inhabitants

History

Church Planting

As part of the municipal reform in Saxony in 1994 was aimed to form communities with a minimum size of 3000 inhabitants. Thus, smaller rural communities were invited initially volunteered to look for potential partners. In Schmölln you preferred a tie-up at eye level with a partner in rural areas instead of incorporation in the neighboring town of Bischofswerda. For this purpose came Demitz - Thumitz and Putzkau into consideration. Finally they agreed with Putzkau, which was to be the seat of the local government as the greater common place for both place names should be continued in future community name. In Tröbigau is first aimed at a merger with the Eastern neighbors Gaussig, but in this case failed the accession negotiations, so you also opted for a merger with the neighboring villages Schmölln and Putzkau, especially in particular to Schmölln has long been a close bond existed.

The merger was completed on 1 March 1994, a few days later the previously reigning in the community Schmölln Wolfhard Venus was elected the new mayor of the total community. Then voices were raised in Putzkau and Tröbigau to name the new community only after the largest district Putzkau. However, this was rejected in Schmölln, on the grounds that this district has a long history and is economically and culturally equivalent to the community with transferring. So a petition was started and written a petition to the parliament of Saxony, who eventually also decreed that the previously adopted community name Schmölln- Putzkau was retained.

Perspective

Despite numerous efforts, it could not succeed to this day, to establish a common Schmölln plaster Kauer identity. The residents of the two major districts Schmölln and Putzkau often find themselves at a disadvantage compared to the other one, the small districts Tröbigau and Neuschmölln see into insignificance. Since the 2009 local elections, there is also a tense relationship between the incumbent since council and the mayor, which can not be understood by most citizens of the community.

By 2013, the Free State of Saxony aims at further municipal reform, this time should be the minimum number of inhabitants per municipality 5000. For voluntary associations until the end of 2012 so-called wedding premiums are promised. In Schmölln- Putzkau consists of the above mentioned reasons only limited interest in the continued existence of the community, so that is a look around since the beginning of 2011 reinforced by potential merger partners. Also, a break-up of the community and a union of the individual districts to various neighboring communities seem feasible at the moment. That is why an initiative called Quo vadis, Schmölln- Putzkau was launched in March 2011, in which the citizens could communicate separately by districts, their preferences for the future of the community. At participated in the survey 35% of all households in the community. A large majority of 75 % advocated a merger with a neighboring community from before the end of 2012. In preference the partner of the trend is clearly to the city Bischofswerda (56% ), followed by Neukirch / Lausitz (20 %) and Demitz - Thumitz (16 %). The trend is similar in all districts, in each case, the location for the district closest municipality cuts relatively better.

History

On the history of individual towns: see the relevant local products

Policy

Parish council

In the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, the following distribution of seats in the municipal council was:

Mayor

Prior to the merger

• Margitta wet (until 1994)

• Dieter Ludwig
• Wolfhard Venus (until 1994)

• Max Gnauck
• Manfred Pietsch
• Siegfried Wobst (until 1994)

Total community

• Wolfhard Venus (1994-2001)
• Steffen Schmidt ( since 2001)

Community partnership

With St. Peter in the Black Forest, the community has formed a partnership.

Economy

Small and medium enterprises in the manufacturing and service industries dominate the municipal economy. The greatest of this are:

• Bistra Bau GmbH & Co. KG,
• Fiedler Engineering and Technology Sales GmbH,
• Wood products Simundt GmbH.

Traffic

The community is connected through the stations Schmölln and Putzkau on the rail link Dresden- Zittau. Other important arteries are the federal highway 98 in Putzkau and state highways in S 120 and S 155 Putzkau and Tröbigau in Schmölln.

The most striking building of Putzkau is the 401m long railway viaduct over the wide Wesenitztal.

Culture

Education

The community Schmölln- Putzkau has with the " Dr. Alwin Schade- school" a primary school with full day care. The daycare, which was opened in 1985, was partially restored with the help of funds from the economic stimulus package of 2009.

Churches

In the municipality there are the Evangelical Lutheran parishes Putzkau and Schmölln. In a vault of plaster Kauer Marienkirche the Electorate of Saxony Cabinet Minister Jacob Heinrich von Flemming is buried. Furthermore, there is an Evangelical Free Church congregation.

Museums

The local museum Schmölln shows a collection of weapons, valuable rustic furniture, tools and workpieces of the granite industry.

History

In the late 17th century the plaster Kauer priest founded a branch of the family of scholars Stöckhardt.

Language

According to Hans spills the language spoken in the villages of the commune belongs to the northwestern dialect variant of the Upper Lusatian dialect.

Personalities

Freeman

2010: Gerhard Rodig (* 1921), Schmöllner teacher, local historian and local historian

Sons and daughters

• Alwin Friedrich Schade (1881-1976), German botanist
• Harald K. Schulze ( born 1952 ), German painter and draftsman