Brothers meadow

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Brothers meadow
Deutschneudorf municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 10 ″  N , 13 ° 28 ′ 46 ″  E
Height : 655–710 m above sea level NN
Postal code : 09548
Area code : 037368
Brüderwiese (Saxony)
Brothers meadow

Location of Brüderwiese in Saxony

Brüderwiese is a scattered settlement belonging to the Saxon municipality of Deutschneudorf in the Erzgebirgskreis .

geography

location

Brüderwiese is located about 3.5 kilometers southeast of Seiffen in the Ore Mountains . The settlement lies directly on the German-Czech border, which marks the course of the Schweinitz here . It is cordoned off by forest areas from its immediate neighbors on the German side; on the Czech side, the corridor of Mníšek v Krušných horách is adjacent.
The state road 214 Olbernhau –Deutscheinsiedel leads through the locality , via municipal roads there is also a connection to the district road 8109 Seiffen – Deutschneudorf and the S 207 Eppendorf –Deutscheinsiedel.

Neighboring places

Oberseiffenbach Heidelberg German hermit
Neighboring communities Mníšek v Krušných horách
Deutschneudorf Nová Ves v Horách

history

First settlement by Cistercians

Depiction of a monk in the seal of the former community Deutscheinsiedel with Brüderwiese from around 1900

The first settlement and management of the place took place around 1209 as part of the colonization of the ridge region of the Ore Mountains by the Cistercians of the Ossegg monastery .
The decisive factor for this was the first mountain screaming in the Freiberg area , which was followed by the seizure of land for the respective domain and thus the safeguarding of the natural resources there.

The only viable connection from the south to this region at the time was a route via Dux, Brüx and from there following a Bohemian path northwards into the region around the present-day towns of Böhmisch-Einsiedel and Deutscheinsiedel. In a file from 1560 in the main state archive in Dresden , this area is described as follows:

"With, [...] the brothers - Do ethero a Clauss and Capelle confessed, Ford Arnsbergk up to the Einsiedel, a village thus called, Which kegen Brüx belongs, And a house with several fields and meadows [...], do then until threesome Mr. Reinung [...] "

This proves that the field name Brüderwiese can be traced back to the presence of monks ("brothers") in this area. In addition, there are other names around the place that indicate the presence of monks. On the Czech side, for example, As the brothers mountain , in Saxony there is also a Brothers Mountain (now Gray Hübel) and a Brüderweg . The task of looking for ores in the direction of Freiberg meant that the Cistercians expanded their field of activity further north to Dörnthal , Nassau and Schönfeld and the distance to the monastery increased. The monks working here wanted to pray in a church according to their rules, but the area near Deutsch- and Böhmisch-Einsiedel is already a day's walk from Ossegg and is also several hundred meters above it. This created on the present territory of brothers meadow a branch monastery (Eremus) with a chapel and hermitage , as they are in the above-mentioned acts mentioned as formerly.

The local area was - as one of their rules says - off a main path and with three shallow side valleys offered good conditions for creating fish ponds. Brotherswiese thus became the central starting point for the settlement of the area to the north and the monks could live here permanently through the hermitage and chapel and carry out their duties. It can be assumed that after the looting of the Ossegg monastery in 1248 and 1278, this subsidiary monastery also lost its importance. The chapel and a hermitage are said to have existed until the 16th century, and the site has apparently become desolate as a result .

Repopulation to the present

Former Hammerherrenhaus Brüderwiese, today a technical monument

The repopulation took place in the second half of the 17th century by Bohemian exiles . The first recorded place name form dates from 1735 in its present form. In the work "Neue Sächsische Kirchengalerie" from 1901 it says in relation to Brüderwiese:

"Brüderwiese derives its name from the Mäder brothers 1 , who built a copper hammer and two board mills on a meadow in Schweinitzthale in 1666 and whose descendants only died out a few years ago. According to other, but not very credible reports, the founders of the place are said to have been three brothers who lived here as hermits and gave the village of Bömisch-Einsiedel its name. One of the bells belonging to them is said to have been found here 2 , which is still in the church in Seiffen today. "

In 1696, the Seiffen residents Samuel Lorenz and Samuel Zeidler acquired building land for a board mill near the Brüderwiese.

Albert Schiffner mentions in 1827 in the State Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony Brüderwiese concerning a. a. the manufacture of wooden and toys, as in the neighboring towns of Deutschneudorf and Heidelberg. In addition: “Otherwise, apart from the board mill , there should also have been an iron hammer .” This iron hammer, together with another board mill, was built by Christian Mäder, who had acquired a piece of forest in 1707. The under monument protection standing two stories designed as a half-timbered former Hammer mansion was built 1713th Even though Schiffner only reported hearsay about the iron hammer in 1827, a blacksmith's workshop must have existed at least until 1878, in which artistic ironwork was carried out. According to local researcher Werner Markgraf , the former hammer mill burned down in November 1893 and a sawmill was then built on the foundation walls.

In 1839 the old manors were dissolved. The community Deutscheinsiedel was newly formed from the royal and lordly share, and the area of ​​Brüderwiese, which until then belonged to the Seiffen district of Heidelberg, was added.

On January 1, 1999, the previously independent communities Deutscheinsiedel merged with Brüderwiese and Deutschneudorf to form the new community Deutschneudorf.

Development of the population

year population
1787 4 cottagers
1834 113
year population
1871 179
1890 117

literature

  • About Olbernhau and Seiffen (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 43). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1985.
  • District Office Middle Erzgebirgskreis, Ed .: On the history of the cities and municipalities in the Middle Erzgebirgskreis , a time table (parts 1–3)
  • The conquest of the Cistercians in the Seiffen area. In: Albrecht Kirsche: Cistercians, Glassmakers and Turners - Glassworks in the Ore Mountains and Vogtland and their influence on Seiffen's wood art. Waxmann Verlag GmbH Münster, 2005, pp. 38-47 ISBN 3830915446
  • New Villages In: The Bohemian Exiles in Saxony , Christian Adolf Pescheck , Leipzig at S. Hirzel, 1857, pp. 104-107 ( digitized version )

Web links

Commons : Brüderwiese  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Brüderwiese in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Remarks

1 According to the first settlement by monks shown above, it can be assumed that the place name does not come from the Mäder brothers.
2 According to the illustration of the first settlement, it should be the bell of the chapel from the 13th century.

Individual evidence

  1. cf. Albrecht Kirsche: Cistercians, glassmakers and wood turner , Waxmann-Verlag, Münster, New York, Munich, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3.8309-1544-6, p. 45 ( digital copy )
  2. Saxon. HStA Dresden, Rep. XXII, Frauenstein No. 1a, Bl. 2
  3. a b cf. Albrecht Kirsche: Cistercian, glassmaker and turner , Waxmann-Verlag, Münster, New York, Munich, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3.8309-1544-6, pp. 39–41 ( digitized version )
  4. Origin and development of the Eastern Erzgebirge dialects. In: Harald Kraut, Günter Claußnitzer, Herbert Kaden , Albrecht Kirsche: Osterzgebirgsche dialects. 800 phrases and quotes. Freiberg 2009, p. 14
  5. a b cf. Brüderwiese in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  6. ^ The parish Neuhausen. In: G. Buchwald (Ed.) :, Neue Sächsische Kirchengalerie, Ephorie Freiberg. Strauch Verlag, Leipzig, Sp. 154 ( digitized version )
  7. cf. Brother . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 14th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1827, p. 697 f.
  8. ^ Werner Markgraf: Erzgebirge Hammerherrenhäuser. Special issue of the Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter , Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft Marienberg mbH, 1994, pp. 61–64
  9. ↑ Area changes from January 1, 1999 to December 31, 1999 on the website of the State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , p. 3 (PDF; 39 kB), accessed on January 21, 2011