Old Town (Stolpen)
Altstadt is a district of Stolpen that was incorporated in 1950 in the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district .
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history
Old town probably goes back to the medieval village Jochgrim (also Jockrim or Jockgrim ), which had town charter in 1276 . According to an old tradition, Jock (g) rim and surrounding villages were cremated by the Hussites in 1429 , but this is doubted by recent research. Nevertheless, around that time, a new city, today's Stolpen , was built closer to Stolpen Castle , whereby the old Jochgrim could have become the old town . The first mention of the old town took place several decades before 1400. The settlement core of Jochgrim is located by some researchers in the area of Oberaltstadt, where remnants of a medieval urban settlement structure can be made out, while others, due to the defensive character of the old Lorenz Church, a possibly existing town fortification deny and therefore reject the equation of Jockgrim with old town.
Ever since the new town of Stolpen, protected by its walls and castle, began to develop as an urban area, the old town was an insignificant country town, the farmers of which were also bought out from Stolpen. If the place should ever have had a closed urban character, then this, u. a. by outworks , which consists of two goods Zscheppa lost and installation of Berghäuser settlement in the early 17th century and soon. During the Thirty Years 'War, the Seven Years' War, the Napoleonic Wars and on the occasion of other wars and troop transfers, the place suffered a lot. Between 1630 and 1670, only one new house was built in the old town. The state road (today's Pirnaer Landstraße ) was built through the town from 1832 to 1835 and the Wesenitz was relocated on this occasion , which for a long time drove several mills in the old town.
The organ builder Christian Gottfried Herbrig, who was important for the region, lived with his family in the Altstadt from around 1828 to 1837 . In 1850 he died in the old town and was buried in the local cemetery. In the St. Lorenz Church in the old town there is an organ from 1856 by Wilhelm Leberecht Herbrig , the youngest son of the family.
In 1872, the agricultural machinery factory of Carl August Klinger opened, which soon became the largest employer in the formerly agricultural and craft-based town. Due to the abundance of jobs, the number of residents rose from 424 to 659 between 1850 and 1910.
From an administrative point of view, the old town was part of the Stolpen Office , and from 1875 it was part of the Pirna Office . On July 1, 1950, the old town was incorporated into Stolpen and has shared its history since then. In 1952 it became part of the Sebnitz district and, thanks to the district reforms of the 1990s and 2000s, it became today's Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district .
Culture
The Herbrig organ in the Lorenz Church, which has been preserved almost in its original condition and restored in 2006 in the sense of monument preservation, is the focus of the since May 2007 by the Kulturwerkstatt Stolpen e. V. initiated concert series Stolpen-Altstädter Organ Concerts . The old town is also the starting point of the Herbrig-Orgelstraße initiated by the same cultural association
literature
- Richard Steche : Old Town. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 1. Booklet: Official Authority Pirna . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1882, p. 7.
- R. Barth: Local history of the old town near Stolpen i. Sa. , Stolpen 1929
- Alfred Meiche: The old town Jockgrim under the Stolpen. A study of language and settlement history . In: The city and the district of Sebnitz in the past and present , issue 6/1989.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Old town in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Herbig organs
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ' N , 14 ° 4' E