Delitzsch

Delitzsch (German pronunciation: [ˈdeːlɪtʃ], Slavic: delč or delčz for hill) is a town in the Free State of Saxony in Germany, 20 km north of Leipzig and 30 km east of Halle (Saale). With 24,850 inhabitants at the end of 2015, it is the largest town in the district of Nordsachsen.

For Franz Delitzsch, German theologian and Hebraist, see Franz Delitzsch.
Delitzsch
From top: View over old town, Delitzsch Castle in winter, Breite Straße in the old town, Breiter Turm at Wallgraben
Coat of arms
Location of Delitzsch within Nordsachsen district
Delitzsch
Delitzsch
Coordinates: 51°31′35″N 12°20′33″E
CountryGermany
StateSaxony
DistrictNordsachsen
Subdivisions15 town-quarters
Government
 • MayorDr. Manfred Wilde (Ind.)
Area
 • Total83.57 km2 (32.27 sq mi)
Elevation
94 m (308 ft)
Population
 (2019-12-31)[1]
 • Total24,823
 • Density300/km2 (770/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
04509
Dialling codes034202
Vehicle registrationTDO, DZ, EB, OZ, TG, TO
Websitewww.delitzsch.de

Archaeological evidence outside the town limits points to a settlement dating from the Neolithic Age. The first documented mention of Delitzsch dates from 1166 and it later became the elector's residence in the 17th and 18th centuries. The old town is well preserved, with several plazas, citizens' and patrician houses, towers, a baroque castle and the town's fortifications.

Delitzsch and its surrounding area contain water areas, hiking and cycling networks and nature reserves.

Geography

Location

Delitzsch is located in the northwestern part of Nordsachsen in Saxony, at an altitude of 94 meters above sea level. Due to its location on the border with Saxony-Anhalt, Delitzsch is the northernmost town in Saxony. It is situated on the north heath and recreation area Goitzsche which extends across the Saxony-Saxony-Anhalt border to Bitterfeld-Wolfen. To the east is the spa town of Bad Düben, which is the starting point for the Düben Heath.

The total size of the urban area is 83.57 square kilometres (32.27 square miles). The north-south extension is 10 kilometres (6 miles) and the east-west extension 8.3 kilometres (5.2 miles). The adjacent communities are Löbnitz, Schönwölkau, Rackwitz and Neukyhna clockwise called from the north of town.

The graphic below shows the main towns and cities around Delitzsch and their distance from downtown Delitzsch. They are located in the districts Nordsachsen, Anhalt-Bitterfeld or in the cities of Leipzig and Halle on the Saale.

Districts
Name of the District Area
in km2		 Population at September 2011
(Main domicile)[2]		 Density
inhabitants/km2
Delitzsch
with Gertitz, Kertitz and Werben		 38.04 20,974 551
Beerendorf 2.38 585 246
Benndorf 3.62 382 106
Brodau 3.16 314 99
Döbernitz 1.17 833 712
Laue 5.22 203 39
Poßdorf 7.78 66 8
Rödgen 4.12 224 54
Schenkenberg 2.43 832 342
Selben 3.33 664 199
Spröda 6,42 287 45
Storkwitz 3.59 150 42
Zschepen 2.31 407 176
Overall 83.57 25,921 310

History

Delitzsch was founded as a town around 1200 AD (according to chronicles) and became recognized as a city in 1300 AD. Both before and after its founding, the city fought off many invaders: first the Slavic tribes who had lived there before the city was founded and then, later, in the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), the Swedes. A legend arose from this final encounter with the Swedes, saying that when the Swedes reached the river Lober, the tower warden's daughter spied them and blew a trumpet, allowing the citizens of the town to get to safety and prepare, and as a result the invaders were defeated. Every year there is a historical medieval style fair to celebrate this victory over the Swedes and, during the fair, shops are open on Sundays.

As a result of the Congress of Vienna in 1814-15, Delitzsch was granted to Prussia from the Kingdom of Saxony. A district of Delitzsch was established for administrative purposes.

In World War II (1939 - 1945), only one building, the station, was burned, minimal damage in comparison with many other German urban centers.

According to a 1996 census, Delitzsch had more than 27,000 inhabitants.

1747 - 1999

(using town boundaries as at the time)

Date Population
1747390 houses, 70 ½ Oxgangs
17892,500
18182,953
31 December 1837 ¹4,332
31 December 1841 ¹4,533
31 December 1871 ¹8,111
31 December 1880 ¹8,225
31 December 1890 ¹8,949
31 December 1895 ¹9,560
31 December 1910 ¹13,031
31 December 1925 ¹14,892
Date Population
31 December 1933 ¹16,476
31 December 193817,931
31 December 1939 ¹18,016
29 October 194625,148
31 August 1950 ²24,195
31 December 196022,892
31 December 196423,336
31 December 197024,435
31 December 198025,248
31 December 198427,953
31 December 198828,384
Date Population
31 December 199027,051
31 December 199126,534
31 December 199226,249
31 December 199325,828
31 December 1994 ²26,045
31. December 199525,762
31 December 1996 ²25,579
31 December 199727,235
31 December 199826,963
31 December 199926,704

¹ Census
² Merging districts

Source: Statistisches Landesamt des Freistaates Sachsen[3]

2000 - present

(using town boundaries as at the time)

Date Population Moving in Moving out Births Deaths Change
31 December 200026,3319331251203258-373
31 December 200125,7748911366197279-557
31 December 200225,57312021322195276-201
31 December 200325,2879981150170306-286
31 December 2004 ¹28,0019901070209328-197
31 December 200527,7809251026203324-221
31 December 200627,521885982179341-259
31 December 200727,1818751107232341-340
31 December 200826,9589611069202316-223
31 December 200926,5328011078198348-426
31 December 201026,344853899212355-188
Census 2011
(new basis of calculation)
Date Population Moving in Moving out Births Deaths Change
9 May 201125,361-----
31 December 201125,1628521023216357-312
31 December 201225,1481116962183349-12
31 December 201325,005954992204317-151
31 December 201424.91110631005192348−98
31 December 201524.85012231122195366−70

¹ Merging districts

Source: Statistisches Landesamt des Freistaates Sachsen[4]

Politics

Town council

The town council consists of the lord mayor and 30 town councillors. Every five years, the town council is chosen anew. The inaugural meeting of newly elected council always takes place in the conference hall of the city hall. The current councyl has been in place since the last local election (held on 26th May 2019), and is constituted as follows:

Party % of vote
2019		 Seats
2019		 % of vote
2014[note 1]		 Seats
2014		 % of vote
2009		 Seats
2009
CDU CDU 25,9 % 8 34,4 % 11 34,9 % 11
FWG FWG 23,3 % 7 18,5 % 6 14,6 % 4
AfD Alternative for Germany 16,0 % 5 – – – –
SPD SPD 14,3 % 4 20,5 % 6 20,5 % 7
LINKE The Left 10,0 % 3 15,6 % 5 08,9 % 6
BI Bürgerinitiative Menschenskinder e.V. 03,9 % 1 – – – –
HV Heimatverein Döbernitz e.V. 03,5 % 1 03,3 % 1 02,7 % 0
GRÜNE Alliance 90/The Greens 03,1 % 1 02,4 % 0 – –
NPD NPD – – 04,4 % 1 [note 2] 03,8 % 1
FDP FDP – – 01,0 % 0 04,6 % 1
Total 100 % 30 100 % 30 100 % 30
% of Vote 53,7 % 42,4 % 39,5 %
  1. Percentages are rounded
  2. The elected representative left the NPD in January 2015 and remained as an independent until the May 2019 election]]

The next council elections are scheduled for 2024.

Mayor
  • Arno Erhardt: 1945
  • Richard Hampe: 1945-1950
  • Paul Heinze: 1951-1952
  • Walter Lange: 1952-1956
  • Rudolf Kunath: 1956-1959
  • Otto Paul: 1960-1973
  • Hans-Joachim Kumrow: 1973-1977
  • Wolfgang Neubert: 1977-1979
  • Karl Lubienski: 1979-1990
  • Heinz Bieniek: 1990-2008

Historian Manfred Wilde (born 1962) won the mayoral election in 2008 with 60.2 percent of the votes cast.

Coat of Arms

The emblem of the town Delitzsch combines two different arms, the house of Wettin or tribal emblem and the County of the Mark Meissen. It shows two upright poles blue (Landsberger piles) that are in a golden box, and this split in three parts. In the middle of the main shield of the emblem can be seen in an inclined position as a means to shield Meissen black lion on a golden shield. The middle blade is tilted forward, and so the lion appears as upright as possible, or borders. He has two tail tuft, with their division begins in the middle of the tail, which should point to the Mark Meissen County. As an accessory, the coat of arms (1526 introduced) a fluttering ribbon bearing the inscription: "Secretum civium in delitzsch" (loosely translated: Privy Seal of Delitzsch).

Twin towns – sister cities
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany

Delitzsch is twinned with:[5]

Traffic

Road

To the west of the town the national roads B183a and B184 intersect.

Rail transport

Delitzsch has an "upper station" with two platforms and a "lower station" with three tracks. Both stations are in the tariff zone 165 of the regional public transport network (Mitteldeutscher Verkehrsverbund). Since December 2008 the two stations have been served Mitteldeutsche Regionalbahn ("Central German regional railway" (MRB)) in addition to Deutsche Bahn (DB), services to and from Delitzsch oberer Bahnhof have been taken over by Abellio in 2015. The upper station is served by regional trains hourly on weekdays, two-hourly on weekends. The lower station is served by S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland and by regional trains between Leipzig and Magdeburg. Long-distance services can be reached by changing in Leipzig or Halle.

Air traffic

Leipzig/Halle Airport is located 14 miles (23 km) southwest of Delitzsch.

Local businesses

The most important industries in Delitzsch included the sugar and confectionery industry. Currently, the Delitzscher Chocolate Factory (acquired on 1 October 2008 by the Halloren Chocolate Factory AG), the EuroMaint Rail GmbH (former rail car plant SFW Delitzsch GmbH), URSA Insulation and the Smurfit Kappa Corrugated board plant are the major industrial employers. Most of these big companies are located in the industrial area on the south-west side.

Due to the EU production quotas for sugar, the sugar factory (Südzucker) was shut down in 2001.

Lignite mining was discontinued in the early 1990s, the remaining mines are planned to be a system of lakes and heathland in an arc from the southwest to the north.

Sights
Breiter Turm in the Delitzscher old town
  • Baroque castle with Lustgarten (pleasure gardens), formerly temporary residence and administrative centre, later dower of the Dukes of Saxony-Merseburg, built on the foundations of a medieval moated castle
  • kennel gardens, terraced green space created between the city wall and moat (re-opened to visitors in 2010)
  • fortifications dating back to the 14th and 15th century with two towers, defensive wall, and water-filled moat
  • rose garden
  • city church of St. Peter & Paul, brick church of the 15th century with significant high altar
  • memorial to Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch
  • executioner's house (resident executioner first documented in 1619)
  • Stadtschreiberhaus, former home and workplace of the town clerk, now a gallery
  • city park with water basin
  • zoological gardens

Sports

Among the many sports clubs in North Saxony district town, among other things, the annual sporting events like the LVZ Bicycle Ride, Delitzsch moves or the old town race. More than 13 sports clubs are based in the region of Delitzsch. Some of the clubs:

  • 1. SV Concordia Delitzsch
  • NHV Concordia Delitzsch 2010 e.V. (second handball club)
  • GSVE Delitzsch 1995 e.V. (volleyball club)
  • Delitzscher Sportfüchse 1995 e.V. (judo club)
  • 1.FC Delitzsch 2010 e.V. (football club)
  • RV Germania Delitzsch 1891 e.V. (bicycle club)
  • Korean Tigers 1989 e.V. (Taekwondoverein)
  • Delitzscher tennis club 1921 e.V.
  • Badminton club Delitzsch
  • Dive club Delitzsch 1958 e.v.

Education
Christian-Gottfried-Ehrenberg-Grammar School

The first school was built around 1426 as a boys school and was expanded in the 16th century to cater for girls. Today more than 3,500 students learn in ten public and three private schools. These include three primary schools, two Mittelschulen (secondary schools), one grammar school, two colleges and two special schools. The School of Music, the Adult high school and the acting school are private schools.

  • Primary schools
    • Primary school Diesterweg
    • Primary school on Rosenweg
    • Primary school Delitzsch-East
  • Middle schools
    • Artur Becker- Middle School
    • Middle School Delitzsch-North
  • Grammar school
    • Christian-Gottfried-Ehrenberg-Grammar School
  • Technical and vocational schools
    • School of Social Sciences
    • Vocational School Dr. Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch
  • Special schools
    • Special Educationscool Rödgen - school for mentally disabled
    • Pestalozzischool – school to promote learning
  • Other schools
    • Delitzsch Music School
    • Theatre Academy Saxony (Acting School)
    • Adult high school

Famous Delitzschers
Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch in 1863
  • Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795-1876), bioscientist who co-discovered the use of bacteria in medicine
  • Lucas Brandis (c. 1450-1500) and his brothers, Moritz, Mark, and Matthew Brandis († after 1512), important early book printers
  • Erasmus Schmidt (1570-1637), mathematician and philologist.
  • Christian Saalbach (1653-1713), professor and poet, born in the district Schenkenberg
  • Ernst Friedrich Pfotenhauer (1771-1843), jurist
  • Carl August Ehrenberg (1801-1849), botanist and plant collector
  • Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch (1808-1883), founder of the German cooperative system and politician, was born in the house market 11 (plaque). In 1848 as Prussian delegate he added the city name to his to be better distinguished from other delegates by this name.
  • Clementine Helm (1825-1896), children's and youth book author
  • Bernhard Förster (1843-1889), high school teacher, cultural critic and husband of Elizabeth (Forester) Nietzsche
  • Paul Fürbringer (1849-1930), physician
  • Walter Tiemann (1876-1951), book artist and graphic designer
  • Max Bruning (1887-1968), painter, born in the house market 20
  • Erich Bauer (1890-1970), student historians
  • Anna Zammert (1898-1982), German politician and Gewerkschaftsfunktionärin
  • Helmut Schreyer (1912-1984), German telecommunications specialist, inventor and professor at the Technical College of the Brazilian army in Rio de Janeiro
  • Eberhard Ruhmer (1917-1996), art historian and curator, son of the city minister Wilhelm Ruhmer
  • Joachim Fritsche (born 1951), football player in the East German league and played from 1973 to 1977 in the GDR national team
  • Lutz Mack (born 1952), gymnast
  • Siegfried Mehnert (born 1963), boxer
  • Katrin Huss (born 1969), moderator

Media related to Delitzsch at Wikimedia Commons

References
  1. "Bevölkerung des Freistaates Sachsen nach Gemeinden am 31. Dezember 2019". Statistisches Landesamt des Freistaates Sachsen (in German). July 2020.
  2. Registration office of the town of Delitzsch
  3. Statistisches Landesamt des Freistaates Sachsen: Regionalregister Sachsen: Delitzsch
  4. Statistisches Landesamt des Freistaates Sachsen: Regionalregister Sachsen: Delitzsch
  5. "Corona-Infos für Delitzsch, 24. April 2020". delitzsch.de (in German). Delitzsch. 2020-04-24. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
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