Breunsdorf

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Reconstruction of Breunsdorf around 1500; State Museum for Archeology Chemnitz

Breunsdorf was a street village about 30 kilometers south of Leipzig in the former district of Leipziger Land . It was devastated in 1994 by the United Schleenhain opencast mine and its corridor was incorporated into Neukieritzsch (today in the Leipzig district ) in the same year .

Geographical location

Breunsdorf was in the Leipzig lowland bay between Neukieritzsch in the north, Lobstädt in the east and the also devastated town of Heuersdorf in the southwest. The Leipzig – Hof railway line runs east of the devastated location on the edge of the opencast mine .

history

Adjacent building of a Breunsdorf homestead, relocated to the Dölitz watermill property in the course of the devastation

Breunsdorf was first mentioned in a document in 1226. The place was until 1856 in the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office Borna . From 1856 the place belonged to the Borna court office and from 1875 to the Borna district administration . In 1952 Breunsdorf came to the Borna district in the Leipzig district .

Between 1987 and 1994/95 the site was devastated to expand the Schleenhain lignite mining field . In this context, it was incorporated into Neukieritzsch in 1994 . When the site was demolished, the Saxon State Office for Archeology, Dresden excavated the entire area of ​​the village with funds from the German Research Foundation . a. also the complete cemetery and the church, which dates back to Roman times. Together with the documentary, geographical, botanical, building and folklore research, Breunsdorf, although no longer existing, can be considered the best-researched village in Germany. Particularly noteworthy is the clarification of the settlement development. The later street village , whose ground plan was previously set in the time of the German East Settlement , did not show a regular settlement ground plan when it was founded in the early 12th century. Rather, it arose from the amalgamation of a core settlement around the later village church and individual farms to the east and west of it.

For the 450 resettled residents, new apartments were built in the "Breunsdorfer Weg" and "An der alten Schäferei" settlements in the Plateka district of Zedtlitz (now part of Borna).

The Breunsdorfer windmill is one of the surviving witnesses of the place. It was built in 1862 as a post mill and was in operation until 1942. In January 1986 the structure collapsed and was then dismantled. Since 1995 it has been a mill monument in the Schönau district of Frohburg .

exhibition

The urban development of Breunsdorf is the subject of the permanent archaeological exhibition in the State Museum of Archeology in Chemnitz .

literature

  • Stefan Hänsel: Breunsdorf family register 1631–1799. Berlin: epubli 2014, ISBN 978-3-8442-9197-1 , 1205 families.
  • Judith Oexle (ed.): Church and cemetery of Breunsdorf. Contributions to sacred architecture and the customs of the dead in a village south of Leipzig . Breunsdorf 2. Publications of the State Office for Archeology with State Museum for Prehistory 35. Dresden 2002.
  • Ansgar Scholz: Settlement development and building history of rural homesteads in Breunsdorf. The development of a rural settlement in the south of Leipzig from the 18th century to the present . Breunsdorf 1. Publications of the State Office for Archeology with State Museum of Prehistory 27. Stuttgart 1998.
  • Regina Smolnik (Ed.): Breunsdorf - A disappeared village in the western Saxon lignite mining area. Archaeological evidence and written records. Breunsdorf 3. Publications of the State Office for Archeology with State Museum for Prehistory 56. Dresden 2011.

Web links

Commons : Breunsdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 62 f.
  2. ^ The Borna District Administration in the municipal directory 1900
  3. ^ Description of the Schleenhain opencast mine in a LMBV document
  4. ^ Church and cemetery in Breunsdorf. Contributions to sacred architecture and the customs of the dead in a village south of Leipzig. In: Oexle, Judith (ed.): Breunsdorf . tape 1 . Dresden 2002.
  5. ↑ Hauke Kenzler: Village research in Breunsdorf . In: Hauke ​​Kenzler, Barbara Scholkmann, Rainer Schreg (Ed.): Archeology of the Middle Ages and the Modern Age. Basic knowledge . Darmstadt 2016, ISBN 978-3-534-26811-5 , pp. 161-163 .
  6. ^ Breunsdorf in the story of Borna
  7. ↑ Website of the German Milling Society , accessed on June 8, 2015


Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 48 "  N , 12 ° 24 ′ 23.6"  E