Batitz
Batitz is a deserted area on the left bank of the Elbe, northwest of the city of Mühlberg / Elbe, which is not an official city, between Lausa in the Elbe-Elster district in Brandenburg and Sitzenroda in the Free State of Saxony .
history
In the Middle Ages, on the site of today's desert, there was an outbuilding with an associated settlement, which was called Batitz , also spelled Boticz , Baytitz or Patitz .
The Vorwerk belonged to the care or lordship of Mühlberg , which had been exchanged as a Bohemian fiefdom by the Elector Friedrich von Sachsen in a contract signed in Torgau on February 26, 1443 from Hinko Birke von der Duba for his family seat Hohnstein . His descendants were mostly called the Duba birches . Mühlberg was incorporated into the Kingdom of Bohemia by Emperor Charles IV as early as 1370 . At that time, Batitz was owned by Heinrich von Köckeritz, who was now subordinate to the Birken von der Duba. Due to the childless death of the last male representative of the Birken von der Duba on New Year's Eve 1519, the rule of Mühlberg and Batitz fell back to the Wettins.
Duke Georg von Sachsen enfeoffed the brothers Melchior, Balthasar and Hans von Radestock with the Batitz Vorwerk in 1523, just as they had it from their late father George von Radestock from the noble Hans Birken von der Duba.
The residents were parish to Lausa .
In 1554, Elector August von Sachsen renewed this lending to the brothers Melchior and Balthasar von Radestock. Upon request, their cousin Gelfart von Radestock and his heirs were also enfeoffed with Batitz. In 1559, Batitz was only owned by the younger brother Balthasar von Radestock, who got more and more into financial difficulties and ran into numerous debts. Ultimately, Balthasar von Radestock was forced to sell the Batitz Vorwerk and accessories that belonged to him on May 1, 1564 to Elector August von Sachsen for a total of 16,000 guilders.
A little later, Elector August had the Vorwerk and the associated settlement razed to the ground so that the area could be better used for hunting purposes. Even decades later, the foundation walls of the earlier settlement could be seen in the area. The area was still called Holzmark in the 19th century and was used for forestry.
literature
- Hermann Knothe : The Berka from the Duba on Mühlberg . In: New Archive for Saxon History , 1885, pp. 190–209.
- Manfred Wilde : The knights and free estates in northern Saxony. Starke, Limburg 1997, p. 455. ISBN 3-7980-0687-3
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Knothe: The Berka from the Duba on Mühlberg . In: New Archive for Saxon History , 1885, pp. 190–209.