Thallwitz
Thallwitz is an administrative community free municipality in the north of the district of Leipzig in Saxony. The parish seat is located in Thallwitz.
- 5.1 freeman
- 5.2 Persons who are in connection with Thallwitz
Geography and transport
The community is located between Wurzen ( 8 km) and hurry Castle ( 6 km), in the middle of the floodplain of the trough and the eastern mountains in Hohburger Tauchaer Endmoränenhügelland on the outskirts of Leipzig lowlands.
To the north of the municipal territory, the B runs 87, south of the B 6
The railway line runs through Eilenburg - Wurzen Thallwitz; the passenger has already been set in 1978. Nearest passenger station is now Eilenburg East located on the railway line Halle - Cottbus, about four kilometers north of Thallwitz. Weekdays develop several bus passenger transport company Mulde all belonging to Thallwitz villages and provide connections to the cities Eilenburg and Wurzen. It is the rate of the regional public transport network.
West of the village flows the trough into which opens the Lossa in the municipality.
Local structure
To the municipality still include not only Thallwitz the districts:
- Lossa
- Nischwitz
- Kollau
- Wasewitz
- Canitz
- Röcknitz with Treben and Zwochau
- Böhlitz
- Zwochau
History
Thallwitz
On July 31, 1253 Thallwitz was mentioned for the first time in a document of the Margrave of Meissen, Henry the Illustrious, as Talvitz. Maybe Thallwitz but older and originated as Slavic settlement much earlier. No later than 1266 Henricus de Scof Lord on Thallwitz and changes his name to Henricus de Talwiz. In the 16th century, the lords of Canitz built the Thallwitzer castle in the true Renaissance style and named according to the 1575 mentioned spelling of Canitz and Dallwitz. 1791 can be found for the first time today notation.
From 1554 the site to the Official sausages, from 1875 belonged to Amtshauptmannschaft Grimsby. For the rural community Thallwitz owned the former Good For Städt. After the East German district reform in 1952, the approximately 1,000 inhabitants Thallwitz came to the circle Wurzen in the district of Leipzig. Incorporated in 1957 were Kollau, 1973 Canitz and Lossa and 1993 Nischwitz. From 1994 to 2008 Thallwitz was part of the Mulde circle. On April 1, 1996, Thallwitz united with the community Röcknitz - Böhlitz.
Böhlitz
Böhlitz the village was mentioned as a manor in documents for the first time early on June 6, 1222.
Attractions
Castle Thallwitz, 2012
Information panel to the castle Thallwitz
Bust of Wolfgang Rosenthal front of the castle Thallwitz
Church in Thallwitz
Area Natural Monument Lehmstich at Thallwitz
Kollauer weir fish ladder
- Palace and Park Thallwitz
- Palace and Park Nischwitz
- Sawmill Thallwitz
- Park Canitz
- Mansion manor Röcknitz
- Churches in Thallwitz, Wasewitz, Röcknitz, Böhlitz and Nischwitz
- Floodplain at the trough with trough cycle path
- Kollauer weir fish ladder
- Hohburger mountains
Personalities
Freeman
- Wolfgang Rosenthal (1882-1971)
Those associated with Thallwitz
- Christian Benjamin Schmidt (1783-1838), German theologian, educator and first superintendent of the Royal Gewerbschule Chemnitz, the predecessor institution of the Technical University of Chemnitz, born in Thallwitz
- Karl Ernst Wilhelm von Canitz and Dallwitz (1787-1850), Prussian general and statesman, his master narrowness bad comes from Thallwitz
- Richard of Könneritz (1828-1910), German politician, diplomat and squires on Lossa, President of the First Chamber of the Saxon parliament
- Wolfgang Rosenthal (1882-1971), German dental surgeon in 1943 opened a clinic in the castle Thallwitz for the treatment of cleft patients and ran it until 1962
- Cornelius Gurlitt (1850-1938), German architect and art historian, born in what is now the district Thallwitzer Nischwitz