Podelwitz [SEP] located in the administrative territorial entity
Podelwitz
Podelwitz is a village in the municipality of Rackwitz in the Nordsachsen district of the federal state of Saxony in Germany.
Geographical Location.
Podelwitz is located approximately 9 kilometer north of downtown Leipzig and about 14 km south of Delitzsch.
History.
The village was first documented in the year 1250 as "Bodelwicz" when on Christmas Eve of this year Henry III, Margrave of Meissen gifted the church in Podelwitz to the Teutonic Order. The church dates from the 13th Century, the reredos from the
Reichskommissariat
Reichskommissariat () is the German designation for a type of administrative entity headed by a government official known as a "Reichskommissar" (). Although many different such offices existed primarily throughout the Imperial German and Nazi periods in a number of different fields (ranging from public infrastructure and spatial planning to ethnic cleansing) it is most commonly used to refer to the quasi-colonial administrative territorial entity established by Nazi Germany in several occupied countries during World War II. While officially located outside the German Reich in a legal sense