Wiedemar

Wiedemar is a municipality in the district of North Saxony, Saxony.

Geography and transport

The municipality is located in Wiedemar westernmost tip of the district on the border with Saxony- Anhalt. Halle ( Saale) is located about 17 km west and 13 km north-east of Delitzsch eponymous hamlet Wiedemar. The A 14 ( to the south) and the A 9 ( centrally from north to south ) through the municipal area and intersect in Schkeuditzer cross on the municipality. The former is about the Gröbers connection, the latter is accessible via the Wiedemar connection. The community is dominated by the large, flat fields of Leipzig lowlands.

Community structure

The community Wiedemar divided into three villages in accordance with the existing to 31 December 2012 individual communities, each with several hamlets:

  • Place Neukyhna with the districts Doberstau, Kyhna, Lissa, Pohritzsch, Quering, Serbitz, Zschernitz and Zaasch
  • Place Wiedemar with the districts Klitschmar, Kölsa, Peterwitz, Rabutz, Werlitzsch, Wiedemar and Wiesenena
  • Place Zwochau with the districts Grebehna and Zwochau.

History

Wiedemar was first mentioned as Villa Wedemar in 1272. The district Kölsa was first mentioned in documents in 1158. The name was from the Slavic Colsow, which means as much as " Rodungsort " derived. Wiesenena was first mentioned in 1342 as a possession of the knight Hermann von Wiesenena and Klitschmar first time as Gliczene in 1349 in a document. The name also comes from the Slavic and probably as much as " place at the source " mean.

On 1 January 2013, the former municipality Wiedemar joined with the municipalities Neukyhna and Zwochau together the new unified community Wiedemar. The communities worked together previously in Management Association Wiedemar, which was dissolved with the municipality combination. As the seat of the district administration Kyhna has been set.

Memorials

A memorial stone in 1964 in the village square is reminiscent of the communist resistance fighters Willi Grübsch, who was murdered in the concentration camp Sachsenhausen to jail and prison stay in 1944.

Attractions

  • Late Gothic church Wiedemar from the 14th and 15th centuries
  • Church in Kölsa 1522 with a Romanesque tower
  • Dirfkirche in Klitschmar, probably from the 15th century

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Bruno Garlepp (1845-1916), writer,
  • Willi Grübsch (1907-1944), communist resistance fighters, victims of the Nazi dictatorship,
  • Werner Peters (1918-1971), theater, film and television actor and voice actor,
  • Friedrich Christian Petzold (1743-1788) Rector of the University of Leipzig,
  • Christoph Gottfried rings (1713-1797) Anhalt- Köthen shear Hofporträtmaler,
  • Carl Gottlob Kuttner D. J. (1755-1805) significant travel writers,
  • Christian Salomaon Pollmächter (1756-1826) theologian and historian,
  • Theodor Fritsch (1852-1933), anti -Semitic publisher and politician
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