Biensdorf (Liebstadt)

Biensdorf City of Liebstadt Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 13 ″  N , 13 ° 50 ′ 52 ″  E
Height :	279 m
Residents :	217  (1946)
Incorporation :	1950
Incorporated into:	Großröhrsdorf
Postal code :	01825
Area code :	035025

Biensdorf is a district of the Saxon town of Liebstadt in the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district .

geography

Biensdorf is located on the ridge between Seidewitz and Müglitz about 5 km north of Liebstadt.

Neighboring places

Mühlbach	Burkhardswalde
		Nentmannsdorf
Großröhrsdorf		Lochau

history

Biensdorf and Großröhrsdorf on the Oberreitschen map from 1821

View of Biensdorf, Schmorsdorf can be seen in the background

Dreiseitenhof in Biensdorf

The place has been part of Großröhrsdorf since 1950, which in turn has belonged to Liebstadt since 1994. Biensdorf was first mentioned in documents in 1347 as Behemersdorf . From the following time are u. a. the spellings Behemstorff (1404), Behmistorff (1448), Bemestorff (1465), Bemßdorff (1504), Binsdorff (1529), Biensdorff (1658) and Bünßdorff (1677).

In terms of the layout, it is a square-like row village with forest hooves , whereby MEICHE (1927) believes to recognize a Slavic cul-de-sac village in the center . The formerly independent village of Lochau, a small settlement consisting of three courtyards in the valley of the Lochau basin (Biensdorfer Tälchen) that slopes down from Biensdorf to Seidewitz, also belongs to Biensdorf. A group of houses in the Seidewitztal is also part of the village. Their emergence can be seen in connection with the limestone deposits immediately to the east and extending over Nentmannsdorf to Borna . The location in the steep and briefly sloping Lochaugrund required strong, sometimes several meters thick, foundation reinforcements for the farms on the hillside.

On the one hand, the economic basis of Biensdorf was agriculture , which is still evident today in a number of well-preserved three-sided farms . On the other hand, lime mining and processing were important.

The limestone deposits that come to light here are part of a camp that originated in the Devonian and extends from Maxen to Berggießhübel . In the area east of the Seidewitz, lime extraction has been documented since 1596 by the naming of a Kalckberg near Nentmannsdorf . The first dismantling was carried out mainly by local cottagers and gardeners in small open quarries. The limestone was processed in so-called Kalkschnellern (kilns), one of which was located in 1827, as well as a brick kiln in the outworks of the village. The onward transport then took place largely to the Elbe in Pirna , where the shipment took place. The growing demand for building lime and fertilizer lime, especially since the 18th century, brought the farmers a second secure income and, due to the need for labor, accelerated the population growth in the village, even if this growth was modest compared to the neighboring villages. The mining of the up to 20 meters thick lime deposits on Biensdorfer Kalkberg, which was still described as active in 1927, has now been discontinued.

The straw weaving that flourished in the 19th century has also ceased .

Today Biensdorf, like the other village districts of Liebstadt, offers its 180 inhabitants only a modest number of jobs in agriculture or in smaller local craft and service companies. Most of the residents commute to work in the surrounding area. The life of the association is determined solely by the Großröhrsdorf volunteer fire brigade , which has a location with a fire station in Biensdorf.

Development of the population

year	population
1551	10 possessed men , 31 residents , 5 gardeners
1764	15 possessed men , 3 gardeners, 3 cottagers
1816	approx. 150 inhabitants
1834	148 inhabitants in 24 houses
1871	164 inhabitants
1890	169 inhabitants
1910	179 inhabitants
1939	153 inhabitants
1946	217 inhabitants

Source: Biensdorf in the HOV Saxony

literature

• German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (ed.): To Gottleuba, Berggießhübel and Liebstadt. Values ​​of the German homeland volume 4. Berlin 1961.
• Johannes August Detterle: Burkhardswalde (Ephorie Pirna): History of the church journey and the four villages that belong to it Burkhardswalde, Biensdorf, Großröhrsdorf, Nenntmansdorf . Verlag Glöß, Dresden 1900. ( digitized version )
• Alfred Meiche: Historical-topographical description of the Pirna administration. Dresden 1927. ( Digitized version ( memento from July 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ))

Web links

• Biensdorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Digital historical directory of Saxony: Biensdorf (2) , on hov.isgv.de, accessed on December 27, 2018