Vierkirchen, Saxony
Four Churches is a municipality in the district Görlitz, Saxony. The municipality belongs to the administrative community Reichenbach / OL of.
Geography and transport
The community of four churches located in the Midwest of the county, approximately 15 km east of Bautzen and about 10 km northwest of the county seat Reichenbach / OL removed. The Federal Highway 6 runs south of the community, the Federal Highway 4 runs through the municipality and can be reached via the connections Weissenberg or low Seifersdorf.
History
The community of four churches was formed on 1 January 1994 from the communities Arnsdorf - Hilbersdorf, Buchholz and Melaune during the Saxon municipal reform. The four churches of Arnsdorf, Buchholz, Melaune and Tetta here were eponymous; these four churches also appear in the arms of the municipality. Since its creation, the church belongs to the administrative community Reichenbach.
In the district of Arnsdorf is a generations -run business for the degradation of granite. The Arnsdorfer granite floor was built in the Carboniferous and is mined today. Here the Congress Hall in Nuremberg and the CMEA building was, inter alia, the material for the Berlin Olympic Stadium, won in Moscow. Ago 80 million years ago, a typical for the Lausitz boiler breakdown occurred. From the reduction of approximately 100 meters of just under 80 meters deep oval next to the lake resulted quarry near Heideberg.
Demographics
Local partnerships
Four churches maintains with the Polish Jeżów Sudecki ( Grunau ) a local partnership.
Local structure
Districts are:
- Arnsdorf,
- Buchholz ( Upper Sorbian Křišow )
- Döbschütz ( Debšk )
- Heideberg,
- Hilber village,
- Melaune ( Měrjow )
- Prachenau ( Prochnow )
- Rotkretscham,
- Tetta ( Ćetow )
- Wasserkretscham.
Attractions
- Four village churches
- Castle Döbschütz
- Another attraction is an impressive archaeological site on the banks of the Black Schoeps: It is probably a Slav section of the Wall is separated addressed as " Merburg ". Excavations took place in the 1920s. To care and placement cares in Melaune the association " The Milzener eV", which is planning in collaboration with the University of Jena, area Prehistory and Early History, an outdoor museum of Slavic early history.
- Ice-skating rink in the winter and summer sports
- Football stadium
- Playground
- The Way of St. James in the section Gorlitz Bautzen White Mountain passes through Arnsdorf, Döbschütz, Melaune, Tetta and beech wood.