Birch grove (Wilsdruff)

Birch grove City of Wilsdruff Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 26 ″  N , 13 ° 29 ′ 21 ″  E
Residents :	144
Incorporation :	July 1, 1950
Incorporated into:	Limbach
Postal code :	01723
Primaries :	035204, 035209
Location of Birkenhain in Wilsdruff

Birkenhain is a district of the Saxon town of Wilsdruff in the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district .

geography

location

Birkenhain is located, surrounded by farmland, directly on the federal highway 4 . The Dorfbach, an eastern tributary of the Kleine Triebisch, flows through the birch grove .

Neighboring places

	Lotzen	Clip houses
		Wilsdruff
Limbach

history

Loading ramp at the Birkenhain-Limbach stop

Birkenhain is a forest hoof village and was first mentioned in a document in 1380. Since 1696 was the basic rule in manor Wilsdruff, before the manor Limbach. In 1856 Birkenhain was transferred to the Wilsdruff court office , before the place belonged to the Dresden office . In 1875, Birkenhain became part of the Meißen administration . On July 1, 1950, Birkenhain was incorporated into Limbach. Since 1952 the place belonged to the Freital district in the Dresden district (later the district ). Between 1899 and 1972 the place had a connection to the Freital-Potschappel-Nossen narrow-gauge railway with the "Birkenhain-Limbach stop" .

During the GDR era at the beginning of the 1950s, the "Kinderglück" holiday camp was built and operated in the village . Since 1971, apprentices have also been taught there who were given language lessons in German centrally here before starting their vocational training in the GDR. They came from Vietnam , Cuba , Mongolia , Angola , Mozambique , Yemen , Mali , Madagascar , Laos , Namibia , Zambia , Cambodia , Congo and Zimbabwe , among others . The PLO had also sent young Palestinians here.

On January 1, 1974 Limbach was incorporated into Wilsdruff. From 1994 Birkenhain belonged to the district of Meißen . In 1998 it became the Weißeritzkreis and in 2008 it became the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district .

Development of the population

year	population
1551	8 possessed men , 1 house owner , 14 residents
1764	6 possessed men, 4 gardeners , 7 cottagers
1834	155
1871	154
1890	151
1910	172
1925	167
1939	154
1946	231

Place name forms

The name of the village Birkenhain changed historically as follows:

• 1380: Hermann Birkinhayn
• 1428: Birckenhayn

Web links

Commons : Birkenhain  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Birkenhain in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Birkenhain on wilsdruff.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ wilsdruff.de ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1st, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Birkenhain in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony