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Ölschwitz (sometimes also Olschwitz) is a desolate settlement in the area of ​​today's city of Leipzig that fell in the Middle Ages .

location

Ölschwitz was located about four kilometers in a south-southeast direction from today's city center of Leipzig in the area of ​​what is now the Leipzig district of Marienbrunn . From bone finds that could possibly be interpreted as a cemetery, the church is believed to be the center of the village at the intersection of the streets Rapunzelweg and An der Märchenwiese. Oil sweat was on the Trenkengraben , which at that time still ran openly from Probstheida to Pleiße and is now piped.

history

Due to the Slavic origin of its name, Ölschwitz was probably a Sorbian foundation in the time of the Old Sorbian conquest , which can be set from the 7th century.

A chapel was built in Ölschwitz around 1000. In 1017 Ölschwitz was mentioned as Olscuizi by Thietmar von Merseburg . The neighboring villages of Connewitz and Döbschitz are also likely to have belonged to the district of the Ölschwitzer Chapel .

Ölschwitz was mentioned for the last time as early as 1372, as the farmyard of the Augustinian canons of St. Thomae in Leipzig. The reason for the decline of the place is unknown. The chapel continued to exist and became a well-known place of pilgrimage as the Holy Cross Chapel . She is said to have owned a relic from the cross of Jesus. The importance of the Ölschwitzer Chapel is also confirmed by the fact that it was built twice - in 1463 by Pope Pius II and in 1493 by Pope Alexander VI. - the right to grant indulgences has been granted. After the Reformation, the importance of the chapel ceased, and in 1556 the Leipzig account book reports that the stones from the chapel were used to build the water pipe from the Marienbrunnen to Leipzig.

At the end of the 15th century, the Augustinian canons established a sheep farm on the Mark Ölschwitz, which was abandoned during the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War . Most of the former Ölschwitzer Flur fell to Connewitz in the course of history.

literature

  • Connewitz - A historical and urban study . PRO LEIPZIG 2008

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Digital historical place directory of Saxony
  2. ↑ a b Claus Uhlrich, Der Marienborn , Pro Leipzig 2001 p. 29 and 30th

Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 22.02 "  N , 12 ° 23 ′ 42.09"  E