Weistropp

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Weistropp
Community Klipphausen
Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 13 ″  N , 13 ° 35 ′ 6 ″  E
Height : 240 m above sea level NN
Incorporation : January 1, 1994
Postal code : 01665
Area code : 0351
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Location of the Weistropp district in Klipphausen
Weistropp Castle (1832, Robert Krause)

Weistropp is a district of the village of Klipphausen in the municipality of the same name in the district of Meißen , Saxony .

geography

Weistropp is located in the part of the Meißner highlands known as Wilsdruffer Land near the slope to the Elbe valley . The village is surrounded by the other districts of Klipphausen, Hühndorf in the south and Kleinschönberg in the west, and Wildberg in the north, which is part of the village of Scharfenberg . The border between the district of Meißen and Dresden runs east of Weistropp. Niederwartha as part of the town of Cossebaude northeast and Oberwartha southeast of Weistropp already belong to the Saxon state capital.

The most important street in Weistropp is the Wilsdruffer or Niederwarthaer Straße, which leads through the district in the direction of the namesake places. The Dresden regional traffic that uses this route connects Weistropp with the 331 bus to Wilsdruff and Cossebaude. The center of this alley village , in which, among other things, the church and the castle are located, lies along Kirchstrasse and Dorfgasse. Several housing estates have sprung up around it. Several buildings in the village are protected as cultural monuments (see list of cultural monuments in Weistropp ).

The Kleditschbach begins in Weistropp and forms the Dresden city limits on an 800 meter long section up to the confluence with the Elbe near Niederwartha. On the slopes of the Kleditschgrund below Weistropp there is also the “ Political Beech ” natural monument . The eastern border of the Weistropper Flur is marked by the Tännichtgrundbach, which runs in the Tännichtgrund and flows into the Lotzebach tributary in Niederwartha around 100 meters south of the Elbe . To the west of Weistropp, the Prinzbach cuts deeper and deeper into the terrain until it flows into the Wilde Sau above Constappel . Weistropp is surrounded by agricultural plateaus and flat peaks, including the Breite Berg in the west and the Gohlberg in the northwest.

Place name

The place name Weistropp was first mentioned in a document in 1233 in connection with the mention of a " plebanus de Wizdrop", ie a pastor of Weistropp. Since the exact origin cannot be reconstructed, the place name is explained in different ways. Linguist Ernst Eichler is looking for Old Sorbian roots and traces the toponym back to the personal name “ * Vyšetrop”, which he in turn combines from the Old Sorbian roots “vyše” (German: higher) and “trop” (German: trace).

Another possible explanation for Eichler is a combination of “vy” (German: from) and “strop” (German: ceiling, hall). It is widely believed that the place name is associated with the former Burgwart Woz above Niederwartha . The thesis comes from Pastor Schönberg, who was active in Weistropp around 1900, that the name goes back to north German colonists who brought it with them from their home village in Schleswig .

In 1271 a "Theodericus de Wiztrop" was mentioned. A large number of different spellings for the place name are guaranteed for the following centuries, including "Wiztrob", "Wystrob", "Wystroppe", "Wystrup", "Wiestrop", "Wystorp", "Weistrop" and "Weistorff". If the latter form shows that the second part of the place name was temporarily based on the German “-dorf”, the place was then called “Weistropp” in 1551. In the 18th and 19th centuries the spelling "Weißtropp" was also used.

history

"Weißtrop" on a map of the Meißen office from 1750
"Weistrop" and its neighboring towns on a map from the 19th century

It is estimated that the Weistropper area was settled before the year 1000. The village was founded at this time and was first mentioned as such in 1287/88 when Friedrich von Schönburg left the Geringswalde monastery and part of Weistropp to the pastor Godofredus . It was inhabited by farmers and had a block and strip corridor . Weistropp was administratively part of the Dresden Castrum in 1378 and was part of the Dresden Office since 1537 . From 1856 the place was subordinate to the Wilsdruff court office and from 1875 it belonged to the administrative authority of Meißen , from which the district of the same name emerged.

There is evidence of a saddle yard or Vorwerk in the village for the year 1413 . In 1511 the first teacher Weistropps was mentioned. The manorial system and the associated genetic and Upper jurisdiction exercised both parts of the village since reunification - the since 1287/88 the church subordinate part bought Bernhard Roth contactor 1543 by the Abbess Ursula von Leutzsch back - completely the respective owner of the local Rittergut out. In 1601 they also had today's palace built. The plague broke out in Weistropp for the first time in 1613 and killed two people. Further waves of plague in 1630 and 1632 resulted in 28 and 113 deaths, respectively.

Before the Thirty Years' War , the Weistropper farmers fled to the Elbe islands near Gauernitz and Gohlis in 1632 . On the occasion of the armistice of Kötzschenbroda , a supplication service was held in the quarry in Tännichtgrund in 1645. Between May and September 1762 the fighting of the Seven Years' War raged in and around Weistropp. The last execution took place in 1768 on the Galgenberg south of the village.

In 1838 there was a big fire in the village in Weistropp - five farms burned down completely. The school house on the village square was built in 1877. The Saxon rural community order of 1838 had meanwhile turned the village into a rural community . Her hallway was about 419 hectares in 1900. On July 1, 1950, Kleinschönberg was incorporated. Weistropp merged on January 1, 1994 with Röhrsdorf and Klipphausen to form the municipality of Klipphausen, which was again considerably enlarged on January 1, 1999 through the incorporation of Gauernitz and Scharfenberg . Today Weistropp is one of more than 40 districts in this community.

In the more recent past, Weistropper residents demanded the construction of a bypass. They predicted a dramatic increase in the transit traffic through its site upon completion of the bridge over the Elbe Niederwartha end of 2011 and were concerned that motorists on the road to Wilsdruff to A 4 pass through Weistropp as an abbreviation.

Population development

year Residents
1551 13 possessed men , 9 gardeners, 22 residents
1764 26 possessed men, 3 gardeners, 3 cottagers
1834 347
1871 376
1890 448
1910 546
1925 543
1939 669
1946 842
1950 1382
1964 1069
1990 764
2000 see Klipphausen

building

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Weistropp Castle before renovation, 2006

Weistropp was a border fortress of the Gaus Nisan . The old fortress was demolished at the beginning of the 13th century and replaced by a new building on the same site. At the end of the Middle Ages it was subordinate to the noble families Miltitz , Schönburg , Karras and Rothschütz. It was mentioned as an old manor manor in 1551. This passed in 1590 to the house marshal Heinrich von Eckersberg , who had the castle built by the Miltitzen demolished in 1601. The three-winged palace complex, which has been preserved to this day, but has been partially modified, was built in its place.

In the 17th century, a landlord von Güntherode founded the Weißtropper line of this noble family. The head chef Adolph Freiherr von Seifertitz had the castle connected to the church by a wing in 1723. By marriage in 1745 the property passed to the Saxon adventurer and Russian general Gottlob Curt Heinrich von Tottleben . His family finally sold the manor to the Austrian consul general Jacob von Krause , whose nephew Robert Krause painted the castle in 1832. Around 1860, the bourgeois Karl II. Ludwig Duke of Parma lived as a private citizen on Weistropp after abdicating in 1849 in favor of his son.

To this day, different architectural styles can be recognized on the building, with classical elements predominating. After the castle had been left to decay for decades and temporarily housed a youth club, it was renovated and furnished with apartments by 2016 after another change of ownership. The former castle nursery in the neighborhood with its quarry stone masonry was renewed in 1993 and now houses a mediation center.

church

church

The first mention of the place name Weistropp in 1233, when a Weistropp pastor appeared in a document with the name “plebanus de Wizdrop”, indicates the early existence of a church or small chapel. This was rebuilt several times over the centuries, possibly even rebuilt, including in 1499. Around 1500 the Weistropper Church was a parish church of the Archdeaconate of Nisan. The baptismal font and pulpit date from 1602 and 1607 respectively. The donors are depicted on the pulpit, a married couple from Güntherode's former manor family. Since 1723, the landlords have been able to access their patronage box directly from the castle via a passage in a new wing of the building . In 1725, George Bähr , the master builder of the Dresden Frauenkirche , directed a baroque redesign of the interior.

In addition to the parish church in Weistropp, the parish also includes the branch church in Unkersdorf and the St. Nicholas Church in Constappel. Hühndorf, Kleinschönberg, Niederwartha and Wildberg are part of the parish of Weistropp, and Sachsdorf was also part of it until 1903 . The 49 meter high church tower, a landmark of Weistropp, is visible from afar. The church bells date from 1949. The parish towns gave 100 hundred pounds of horseshoes to make them. One of the forerunners of this ringing, a bell that was melted down in 1836, is said to have carried the Roman year "MIV" (1004). The neighboring rectory was rebuilt in 1666 and the north wing of the four-sided courtyard, which was located there until 1900, was converted into an apartment in 1782. After his suicide in the Elbe, probably on April 15, 1878, the Dresden architect and painter Woldemar Hermann was buried in the churchyard. A few 100 meters south of the church is the Weistropper Friedhof on Kleinschönberger Straße.

Tännichtmühle

Drawing of the Weistropper Tännichtmühle that burned down in 1872

In 1553, Bernhard von Rothschütz had the Tännichtmühle built near the old quarry in Tännichtgrund, east of the Weistropp location. In 1709 it became the property of the legendary "devil miller" Andreas Reiff. The history of the mill ended by arson in 1872, which was then torn down.

societies

Several associations are based in Weistropp, including the “Förderverein Weistropp e. V. “, which stands up for the interests of the local population. The “Weistropper Sportverein e. V. “offers soccer in different age groups. The "Hundesportverein Am Galgenberg e. V. "

literature

  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Weistropp. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 41. Issue: Administrative Authority Meißen-Land . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1923, p. 528.

Web links

Commons : Weistropp  - collection of images, videos and audio files

References and footnotes

  1. ^ Ernst Eichler / Hans Walther : Historical book of place names of Saxony. Vol. 2, Berlin 2001. p. 571.
  2. Weistropp. In: klipphausen.de. Retrieved April 24, 2017 .
  3. ^ Weistropp in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  4. Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
  5. StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1999
  6. The population of Hühndorf and Kleinschönberg is included in this number after their incorporation from 1950 onwards.
  7. Peter Weckbrodt: Weistropp Castle awakens from ruinous twilight. In: Oiger. January 18, 2016, accessed June 16, 2019 .
  8. Weistropp Mediation Center. In: abtille.de. Retrieved December 19, 2014 .
  9. Ev.-Luth. Meißen church district: Weistropp ( Memento from March 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  10. Hans Fischer: History of Oberwartha. In: oberwartha.de. Retrieved December 19, 2014 .
  11. ^ Weistropper SV
  12. galgenberg.info