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Old track City of Leisnig Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 35 "  N , 12 ° 53 ′ 47"  E
Incorporation :	July 1, 1950
Incorporated into:	Polditz
Postal code :	04703
Area code :	034321
Location of Altleisnig in Saxony
Panorama view of Altleisnig (2005)

Altleisnig is a district of the city of Leisnig in the district of Central Saxony with less than 100 inhabitants.

history

Altleisnig rectory

Altleisnig, church around 1840 (Saxony's church gallery)

About two kilometers northwest of Mildenstein Castle , located directly on the Freiberg Mulde , a merchant settlement developed around the year 1100 on the long-distance trade route from Leipzig via Grimma , Leisnig and Waldheim to Bohemia . It is called the first time with her Nikolai Chapel in 1214 in a document of the Bishop of Meissen for Klosterbuch, in the monastery, the parish ( parochia ) Leisnig is transmitted. The chapel was a subsidiary church of the Matthäi-Kirche Leisnig and thus came under the patronage of the Abbot von Buch.

In 1265, the abbot Heinrich von Buch, as the responsible patron saint, ordered the residents to belong to the churches of the Leisnig district. Ecclesia S. Nicolai is explicitly mentioned . The inhabitants should receive the sacraments in the church in whose area they lived.

A letter of indulgence from Pope Nikolaus for the Nikolai Church in the new town of Leisnig ( in novo civitate Lisnic ) from 1280 has come down to us, named as patrons of the church (in this order): Maria, Michael, John the Baptist, Peter and Paulus, Maria-Magdalena, Nicolaus, Katharina and Elisabeth, Nikolaus by no means come first.

At the end of the 13th century, the residents increasingly moved to the planned city of Leisnig south of the castle and the Matthäikirche. The planned town had certainly been laid out on behalf of the Burgraves of Leisnig. The reasons for relocating the city are not documented. It may have been the better protection provided by the castle, including the fear of flooding.

In 1286 the place is already known as veteris civitas (old town Leisnig). On the occasion of the reorganization of the parish of Leisnig, which had become necessary due to the relocation of the city, a pastor Reinbold von St. Nikolai is named. The church gets its own parish church, so it becomes a parish church. All places to the right of the Mulde are assigned that formerly belonged to St. Matthäi.

This district soon became too big, the distances too long. The Bishop of Meißen, arranged by Pastor Heidenreich von Altleisnig because of the danger to souls, divided the Sprengel and made the newly built church of Bockelwitz a parish church, the Criscowe (a desert near Bockelwitz), Kroptewitz, Dobernitz, Leuterwitz, Nicollschwitz, Groß- and Kleinpelsen were assigned, all of course with the consent of the Abbot von Buch as the responsible patron saint.

After the move, there were probably only a few people left in the village, although it was not completely abandoned. In the centuries that followed, Altleisnig developed into a village whose residents had little real estate of their own. Altleisnig had no division into hooves. Most therefore worked as small farmers (then called gardeners). Since these sub-farmers could not support themselves from their agricultural work, they pursued other trades. In Altleisnig, the quantitative lack of own cultivation areas was compensated by the cultivation of high-quality crops. This included u. a. the poppy seeds that the residents of Altleisnig had to deliver to the Leisnig office in kind. By 1500 at the latest, these taxes in kind had been converted into taxes. In addition, fish from the Mulde and the Altleisniger Lachen were given to the city. In addition, the Altleisnig gardeners had to perform guard duty at Mildenstein Castle on Shrove Tuesday until the 15th century.

In 1496 two residents of Altleisnig are named. Income was allocated to a newly donated altar of the Matthäikirche Leisnig, including from Blasius Gritener and Merten Haferkorn from Altleisnig.

In December 1942 the bridge house, which also housed a small shop and which had served for many years to collect the bridge money, was demolished.

From July 1, 1950 to May 31, 1973 the place belonged to the municipality of Polditz . With this he was incorporated on June 1, 1973 into the municipality of Polkenberg, which has belonged to the municipality of Bockelwitz since January 1, 1999. With their dissolution, the place came to the city of Leisnig on January 1, 2012.

Development of the population

year population 1548/51 13 possessed men , 19 residents 1764 13 gardeners , 4 cottagers 1834 149

year population 1871 179 1890 190 1910 187

year population 1925 159 1939 138 1946 356

literature

• Cornelius Gurlitt : Altleisnig. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 25th booklet: Office governance Döbeln . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1903, p. 5.
• Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, Saxony II, p. 822, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-422-03048-4

Web links

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

• Altleisnig in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ capella S. Nicholai in oppido novo Liznik in the original document: SHStA Dresden: 10001, older documents, No. 193. Printed by Schöttgen , Codex Diplomaticus Monasterii book, as No. 4
2. ↑ Original document: SHStA Dresden: 10001, Older documents, No. 653. Printed by Schöttgen, Codex Diplomaticus Monasterii Buch, as No. 51, incidentally the first document from an abbot from Buch.
3. ^ Printed by Johann Burckhardt Mencke , Scriptores rerum Germanicarum praecipue Saxonicarum, Volume III. Column 1094-1095. Letters of indulgence were often requested from the Pope to finance construction work on a church.
4. ↑ Original certificate SHStA Dresden: 10001, older documents, No. 1147a. Printed by Schöttgen, Codex Diplomaticus Monasterii book, as no.82.
5. ↑ Original certificate SHStA Dresden: 10001, older documents, No. 1781, printed by Schöttgen, No. 130.
6. ↑ Jens Kunze: The Leisnig Office in the 15th Century, Leipzig 2007, p. 47
7. ↑ SHStA Dresden: 10001 Older documents, No. 9171. Printed by Schöttgen, No. 275.
8. ↑ Max Grimmer: Chronicle of Leisnig (1700-1954) . Leisnig 2003, ISBN 3-00-012023-8 , pp. 210 .
9. ↑ ^{a b} Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1st, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
10. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1999
11. ↑ Cf. Altleisnig in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony