Narsdorf is a former

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...

district, in

Saxony Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...

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. As of 1 July 2017 Narsdorf has been incorporated into

Geithain Geithain is a town in the Leipzig district, in Saxony, Germany. Geography Geithain is northwest of Chemnitz and southeast of Leipzig. It lies in hilly country by the wooded area Wickershain and the river Eula. History The first documented ment ...

. The villages of Ossa (with Bruchheim, Kolka, Wenigossa, and Niederpickenhain), and Rathendorf (with Oberpickenhain) had been incorporated administratively into Narsdorf in 1996, while nearby Seifersdorf had already been incorporated in 1934 and Dölitzsch in 1973.Informationen über Narsdorf beim Landkreis Leipzig

Geography

Narsdorf is located about 42 km south-southeast of

and 25 km north-northwest of Chemnitz on Bundesstraße B175 and motorway A 72, immediately west of

Wechselburg Wechselburg () is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. It is well known for its twelfth century Benedictine monastery, the Wechselburg Priory. The lordship and the castle were owned by the House of Schönburg fr ...

and south of

. It has a station on the Neukieritzsch–Chemnitz railway. With the exception of Dölitzsch in the southeast, most of the incorporated communities lie to the west of Narsdorf proper. Hegeteich

Narsdorf is situated in the landscape of '' Kohrener Land'' which is part of the Central Saxon Hills and the Saxon Loess country. The area is rich in

clay Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4). Clays develop plasticity when wet, due to a molecular film of water surrounding the clay par ...

which is mined and processed into

roof tiles Roof tiles are designed mainly to keep out rain, and are traditionally made from locally available materials such as terracotta or slate. Modern materials such as concrete, metal and plastic are also used and some clay tiles have a waterproof ...

. Woodlands are mainly found in the western part of the municipality. Bodies of water include ponds and a flooded

clay pit A clay pit is a quarry or mine for the extraction of clay, which is generally used for manufacturing pottery, bricks or Portland cement. Quarries where clay is mined to make bricks are sometimes called brick pits. A brickyard or brickworks is ...

as well as several streams of which Katze and Ratte are the main ones.

History

The oldest recorded part of Narsdorf is the ''

Waldhufendorf The ''Waldhufendorf'' ("forest village"; plural: -''dörfer'') is a form of rural settlement established in areas of forest clearing with the farms arranged in a series along a road or stream, like beads on a chain.Dickinson, Robert E (1964). ''G ...

'' Seifersdorf which was first mentioned as ''Sifridesdorp'' in a document of 1208. Until the 18th century it was partly administrated by the magistrate of Geithain and the '' Ämter'' of Borna ( Syhra manor) and

Rochlitz Rochlitz (; hsb, Rochlica) is a major district town (Große Kreisstadt) in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. Rochlitz is the head of the "municipal partnership Rochlitz" (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Rochlitz) with its other members ...

(Ossa manor). In 1934 it was incorporated into Narsdorf. The ''

'' Narsdorf itself was first mentioned in 1350 as ''Nordinsdorff'' and was founded during the German eastward expansion in the 13th century as a settlement in a woodland clearing. Around 1424 it is supposed to have been temporarily abandoned due to a

plague Plague or The Plague may refer to: Agriculture, fauna, and medicine *Plague (disease), a disease caused by ''Yersinia pestis'' * An epidemic of infectious disease (medical or agricultural) * A pandemic caused by such a disease * A swarm of pe ...

outbreak. In the early modern period it belonged to ''Amt'' Rochlitz. Dölitzsch, a clustered settlement, was also first mentioned in 1350. It was part of Königsfeld manor in ''Amt'' Rochlitz and joined Narsdorf municipality in 1973. Ossa, the seat of a former manor and temporarily also referred to as ''Großossa'', which had incorporated Wenigossa with Niederpickenhain, Bruchheim, and Kolka in 1948, joined Narsdorf municipality in 1996 together with Rathendorf, which had incorporated Oberpickenhain in 1956. NarsdorfBf-alt2

In 1872 the railway station (only a halt since 2006) was opened together with the branch line to Penig and Rochlitz which closed in sections between 1991 and 2000. The section of motorway A 72 between Rochlitz junction and Borna was opened in 2013.

References

External links

* {{Authority control Geithain Former municipalities in Saxony