Berthelsdorf (desert)

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Berthelsdorf is a deserted settlement in the Bornwald between Großolbersdorf and Lengefeld in the central Ore Mountains, first mentioned in a document in the 14th century .

location

The exact location of the place has not yet been proven by finds, but it can be reconstructed on the basis of a wood order from 1560 in the main state archive in Dresden and a map from 1616 that is also located there. Accordingly, Berthelsdorf was located on today's Schwarzbach ; The field boundaries are assumed to be north of Grenzbach , east of Lautenbach and south of Goldbach 1 .

The best way to get to the area is from the “Resting Area of ​​Friendship” on federal highway 174 near Großolbersdorf and from there on foot along forest paths.

Description and history

The Born- / Heinzewald area was the southernmost tip of the Hersfelder and Chemnitz monastery land . In order to generate income from the monastic estates, they were lent to feudal lords who let them settle. It can be assumed that Berthelsdorf was created in connection with the state development in the Ore Mountains around 1200 at the latest. The place name most likely goes back to a locator - chief of the settlers - named Bertold .

The first mention of the place as Bertoldesdorph can be found in a document dated 1369 for the Lords of Waldenburg about their fiefdom Schellenberg.

In the map from 1616 mentioned, the area in which the town was located is referred to as the Berthelsdorfer Wald . There is also the name Der Kirchhoff for the area between Schwarzbach and Grenzbach . The latter suggests that Berthelsdorf owned a church. However, the indication of a churchyard is not an indication of a church building, but rather referred to the Christian burial place in early New High German times and is also the older name for cemetery in this area - a churchyard therefore did not have to contain a church building. Based on a legend - which can only be traced back to 1900 - according to which a bell was found by a swineherd in the churchyard wing, after Krumhermersdorf and integrated into the bells there, one could assume the existence of a chapel in the cemetery of Berthelsdorf. What is certain is that the casting of the oldest and largest bell in Krumhermersdorfer Church, due to its specifics (rough surface, without inscriptions), was to be made before 1430. Likewise, before 1805, there were three such old bells in the tower, a bell found by chance would hardly match the existing sound pattern in terms of its sound. If there were bells in Berthelsdorf, it is very certain that none of them are in Krumhermersdorf.

A mill on Berthelsdorfer Flur was probably the Gern-Mül , which was located at the confluence of the Lauten- and Grenzbach rivers . This probably no longer existed when the map was created around 1600, because in it the place is referred to as near the Gern-Mül .

The desolation of the place is to be classified before 1452. After 1420 the von Waldenburg family had to sell their property, the buyers were the Wettins . In an arbitration ruling on the hunting grounds of the Electors and Lords of Waldenburg from 1452, only the Bertilsdorfer Wald is mentioned, which allows the conclusion that the place was already desolate at that time.

literature

  • The middle Zschopau area (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 28). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1977, p. 196. 2
  • Heinz Bauer: On the history of the deserted Berthelsdorf in the Bornwald near Zschopau. In: Der Heimatfreund für das Erzgebirge, 23rd year, issue 6, 1978. 2
  • Christine and Hermann Doerffel: Bertelsdorf - desolate place in the Bornwald / Heinzewald. In: Erzgebirge 1988, Karl-Marx-Stadt 1988, p. 41ff. 2
  • Renate Wißuwa, Heinz Bauer: Again: Berthelsdorf - ein Wüster Ort ?: on some corrections to the content of a contribution in our 1988 yearbook. In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter 5/1989, ISSN  0232-6078 pp. 136-139. 2

Web links

  • Berthelsdorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Remarks

1Based on these assumptions, the existence of the places Schwarzbach and Mittelbach first mentioned in the “Neue Sächsische Kirchengalerie” from 1908 - but without any evidence - can be excluded within these limits, since there simply would have been no space for them. Against this, the fact that the Schwarzbach was only given this name around 1821 - in older maps it is recorded as Heyden-Flößel . The locations that cannot be documented can be found in the subsequent literature (cf. above listing).
2The literature references listed are only mentioned here to point out that they are sometimes - as mentioned under 1. - flawed.
The basis of this article is the well-founded and detailed elaboration by Christine and Hermann Doerffel: Berthelsdorf - desolate place in Bornwald / Heinzewald on their private website.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Saxon. HStA Dresden, Cop 27, Bl.79b; (In wording and standard German on krumhermersdorf.de) ( Memento from October 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Saxon. HStA Dresden, Loc. 38424, Rep XVIIIa Augustusburg No. 44a, Secret Finance Archive; (Excerpt from krumhermersdorf.de) ( Memento from October 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b Saxon. HStA Dresden, map collection, cabinet 1, compartment 11, no. 2; (digital and edited version on krumhermersdorf.de) ( Memento from November 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ “Die Sau-Glocke” ( memento from October 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 4, 2011
  5. ↑ Abskizzierung a map of Matthias Barren (period 1586-1607) ( Memento of 30 October 2007 at the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Rudolf Herfurth: Geschichtliche Nachrichten von Zschopau. Scientific supplement to the 15th annual report on the royal school teacher seminar in Zschopau, Zschopau 1885, p. 27; ( quoted on krumhermersdorf.de ( Memento from October 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))
  7. ^ The parish of Krumhermersdorf. in: New Saxon Church Gallery, Ephorie Marienberg. Strauch Verlag, Leipzig, Sp. 368–369 ( digitized version )
  8. ^ Berthelsdorf - desolate place in Bornwald / Heinzewald ( Memento from December 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 38.3 "  N , 13 ° 7 ′ 29.9"  E