Bischofsweg (Meißen – Stolpen)
The Bischofsweg is an old street in Saxony that led from Meißen via Dresden to Stolpen .
course
Most of the Bischofsweg was laid out as a high-altitude path to avoid the damp lowlands of the Elbe . From the bishop's seat with the Meissen Cathedral , the path initially led on the left side of the Elbe in a south-easterly direction through the Meissen highlands . Until Klipphausen there were two possible routes. The eastern route ran via Bockwen , Reichenbach , Reppnitz , Naustadt and Röhrsdorf to Klipphausen, the western route reached the place via Spittewitz , Riemsdorf , Ullendorf and Sora . From Klipphausen, the Bischofsweg led via Sachsdorf , Hühndorf , Brabsütz and Merbitz down into the Elbe valley . In Briesnitz , where the ravine leading to the banks of the Elbe still existed on the Borngraben until about 1930, the path crossed the Elbe in the course of the "Iron Ford".
On the right bank of the Elbe, which the Bischofsweg reached directly above the present-day Dresden-Kaditz sewage treatment plant , it continued in an east-west direction, across what is now the northern part of Dresden. He followed along the Scharfenberger Straße the boundary between Übigau and Mickten and on the right bank of the Elbe between Altmickten and the later Ballhaus Watzke . The Bischofsweg touched the town centers of Pieschen and Neudorf east of today's Leipziger Straße and ran roughly in the area of Konkordien- and Fritz-Reuter-Straße. From today's Bischofsplatz , the street still bears the name Bischofsweg and is an important main street in the Äußere Neustadt district of Dresden . The path continued over the Alaunplatz in the direction of Jägerstraße to the ford "Drey Stegen", where it crossed the Prießnitz .
Its continuation in the area of the Radeberger Vorstadt up to the Jägerpark is largely built over, but can still be recognized by some property boundaries. At Schotengrund near Albrechtsberg Castle , he met Bautzner Strasse , in order to follow it via Bühlau and Weißig to Karswald . From Rossendorf it continued via Wilschdorf to Stolpen. In the meantime, a more northerly variant was also used. It ran through the Dresdner Heide on the paths named after old signposts "Hämmerchen", "Doppel-E" and "HG-Weg" to the "Breiten Furt", where the Bischofsweg had to cross the Prießnitz again. This section is only partially preserved today. From the ford the way was popularly called "Hakschar" after his symbol , which was probably a bishop 's cap. In Ullersdorf he left the heath area and moved further southeast via Kleinerkmannsdorf , where he is still called Bischofsweg. Another section ran from the Massenei east past Fischbach via Rennersdorf-Neudörfel to Stolpen.
history
Around 1218, the Meißner bishop Bruno II of Porstendorf came to the Stolpen fief . The castle Stolpen is 40 kilometers from the Albrechtsburg house, making possible a direct connection was created between the two. The Bischofsweg created in this way served the Meißner bishops to maintain dominance over their possessions and to maintain contact with them, as well as to remove their taxes. The bishops used the existing fortifications as in Stolpen as a temporary residence and mansion.
First there was a route from Dresden to Göda ("north route"), the connection to Stolpen is accordingly the "south route". According to tradition, Bishop Benno von Meißen near Briesnitz is said to have crossed the Elbe when he was on the way to Göda. It can be assumed that the way from Meißen via Briesnitz to Lausitz already existed when the Meißner Hochstift was founded. A completely right-Elbe variant of the Bischofsweg from Meißen is also conceivable. There were episcopal wineries in the Radebeul district of Zitzschewig ( Hohenhaus ) and between Serkowitz and Kaditz. The Bischofsweg probably formed a common system of paths with the Augustusweg .
The route to Stolpen in particular has been subject to several changes over the centuries. Presumably in the course of the electoral road code of 1462 there was a separation of urban-secular car traffic and church traffic. The former was compulsory on the way between Franconia and Lausitz via Bischofswerda and Altendresden and thus continued to follow Bautzner, then still Stolpischen Straße. From now on, the Bischofsweg had to circumvent this route to the north on the described alternative route through the Dresdner Heide. However, the bishops were given the sole right of use for the section from Briesnitz to the Dresdner Heide. These separations and special rights were abolished after the Reformation . From 1559 Stolpen was no longer subject to the Meißner bishops, which is why the connection was meaningless to them. Individual sections are known to the present day as the Bischofsweg, but the original route was only partially preserved, especially in the Dresden city area.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Briesnitz . ( Memento from November 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) dresden-und-sachsen.de
- ↑ Übigau . dresdner-stadtteile.de
- ↑ Friedrich Bernhard Störzner: The bush mill . In: What the Heimat tells. Legends, historical images and memorable events from Saxony . Arwed Strauch, Leipzig 1904, pp. 70–71 ( Wikisource )
- ↑ Bischofsweg . dresden-briesnitz.de