Berbersdorf (Striegistal)

Berbersdorf Striegistal municipality Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 38 "  N , 13 ° 10 ′ 50"  E
Height :	290 m above sea level NN
Area :	8.1 km²
Residents :	475  (Jan 1, 2014)
Population density :	59 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1994
Postal code :	09661
Area code :	037207

Berbersdorf

Berbersdorf is a district of the Striegistal municipality in the district of central Saxony , Free State of Saxony . The place with its district Schmalbach merged on January 1, 1994 with three other places to form the Striegistal municipality, which in turn was expanded to include the Tiefenbach municipality on July 1, 2008 .

Geographical location

At the Berbersdorf stream

Geography and traffic

Berbersdorf is located in the center of the Striegistal community in a depression in the lower reaches of the Berbersdorf Brook, a tributary of the Striegis . To the west of the village, the Große and Kleine Striegis unite to form the Striegis. In the valley of the Striegis is the lookout point "Hoher Stein" northwest of the village. The distance to the state capital Dresden is about 40 km, to Chemnitz it is about 30 km. Leipzig is about 100 km away via the A 14 .

The federal motorway 4 runs south of Berbersdorf with junction 74 “Berbersdorf” of the same name . Between 1874 and 2001 Berbersdorf owned a train station on the Roßwein – Niederwiesa railway in the Striegis valley. Passenger traffic ended on May 24, 1998; freight traffic on January 1, 2000. In the meantime, the section between Roßwein and Hainichen has been closed and dismantled. The bus line 616, which is also a tourist line, runs as a replacement service for the train at the weekend. Other bus routes that serve Berbersdorf are lines 690 and 695. A cycle path from Hainichen to Roßwein has been planned for many years on the railway line. So far, this has failed due to protests from nature conservationists.

Neighboring places

Böhrigen	Etzdorf
Arnsdorf		Schmalbach
Cold furnace	Pappendorf	Goßberg

history

The former Berbersdorf train station in the Striegis valley

EDEKA central warehouse in Saxony

Berbersdorf was founded a short time before the year 1162 as a two-sided row village with Waldhufenflur as part of the German East Settlement at the instigation of Margrave Otto von Wettin . It is one of the villages that were donated to the Altzella monastery in 1162. Berbersdorf was first mentioned in a document in 1428 (see below) as "Berbirsdorff". The mill is named in 1510. Berbersdorf has always been parish to Pappendorf .

After the Reformation and the associated secularization of the Altzella monastery in 1540, Ulrich von Mordeisen became the landlord of the village after a short transition period . After his death, his son Rudolf Mordeisen sold the village to the Elector Christian I of Saxony . The purchase contract of July 5, 1587 has been received. The village thus became an official village in the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office of Nossen , to which it belonged until 1856. From 1856 Berbersdorf belonged to the Hainichen court office and from 1875 to the Döbeln administration , which was renamed the Döbeln district in 1939. In 1874 Berbersdorf received a train station on the Roßwein – Niederwiesa railway line , which was closed in 2001 when the Roßwein - Niederwiesa section was closed.

On July 1, 1950, the village of Schmalbach , parish after Marbach , was incorporated into the Berbersdorf community. With the second district reform in the GDR in 1952, the Berbersdorf community was incorporated into the newly founded district of Hainichen in the Chemnitz district (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ), which was continued as the Saxon district of Hainichen from 1990 and in 1994 in the Mittweida district and in 2008 in Central Saxony district rose.

On January 1, 1994, the Berbersdorf community merged with the Schmalbach district with the Goßberg , Mobendorf and Pappendorf communities (with Kaltofen ) to form the Striegistal community. This in turn merged on July 1, 2008 with the municipality of Tiefenbach to form the new municipality of Striegistal.

Place name forms

The spelling of the place name Berbersdorf has varied over the course of history. The following forms have come down to us from historical sources.

• 1428 Berbirsdorff
• 1449 Berwerstorff
• 1510 Berbistorff
• 1814 Berbersdorf, Berbsdorf

The place name goes back to a personal name, the second part of which can no longer be given with certainty today. Berbersdorf was the village of a Ber (n) ward, Berwig or similar. It could have been the representative of the settler community, the first local judge.

Necessary note

Following a tradition, an anniversary of the first documentary mention of the village in 1168 is celebrated in Berbersdorf at regular intervals. It is strange that in the past no one was interested in the content of this document. One would have noticed quickly: there is no relevant document from 1168.

When a church wall was torn down in the Meißen district, a wooden box was found in 1769, and inside it a document with the seal of Margrave Otto from 1186. This document mentions an Everberrindorf. The assumption made by historians in 1889 that it was Berbersdorf turned out to be wrong. For example, Richard Witzsch wrote in 1929 in his booklet “Die Dörfer an der Striegis”, which is well known in the region: “The interpretation of the name Everberrindorf = Berbersdorf is a mistake”

If you swap the last two digits of 1186 you get 1168! So it came about that the celebrations were based on two mistakes: wrong certificate and number rotator.

Berbersdorf was first mentioned in a document in 1428, 260 years after 1168.

Attractions

Confluence of the Great and Little Striegis

• Striegistäler landscape protection area
• Tiefenbach landscape protection area
• Area natural monument lime quarries Berbersdorf with mining relics, former lime burner house (today restaurant)
• Confluence of the Großer Striegis and Kleiner Striegis with a memorial column for the flood
• Post milestone, quarter milestone (replica) on the slip road to A4
• several circular hiking trails, signposted parking spaces

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

Hermann Franz Gerhard Starke (born August 16, 1916 in Berbersdorf (Striegistal), † May 24, 1996 in Berlin) was a German journalist .

literature

• Richard Witzsch: Between Chemnitz and Freiberg, A home book for school and home, II. The villages on the Striegis , Frankenberg 1929, Striegistal 2012 (reprint)

Web links

Commons : Berbersdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Codex diplomaticus saxonia regiae
• Official website of the Striegistal community
• Berbersdorf (Striegistal) in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 70 f.
2. ↑ The Döbeln administrative authority in the municipal register 1900
3. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. doebeln.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
4. ↑ Schmalbach on gov.genealogy.net
5. ^ Berbersdorf on gov.genealogy.net
6. ↑ Tiefenbach on gov.genealogy.net
7. ↑ Berbersdorf. Digital historical directory of Saxony, accessed on January 3, 2014 . 
8. ↑ Ernst Eichler , Hans Walther (Ed.): Historisches Ortnamesbuch von Sachsen , Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-05-003728-8 , Volume I, page 56
9. ^ Richard Witzsch: Between Chemnitz and Freiberg, a home book for school and house, II. The villages on the Striegis Frankenberg 1929, Reprint Striegistal 2012, page 69.