Burkhardswalde (Müglitztal)

Burkhardswalde community Müglitztal Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 16 ″  N , 13 ° 51 ′ 28 ″  E
Height :	298 m above sea level NN
Incorporation :	March 1, 1994
Postal code :	01809
Area code :	035027
Location of Burkhardswalde in Saxony

Burkhardswalde is a district of the municipality of Müglitztal in the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district in Saxony .

geography

The demand stop lying on the Burkhardswald district .

Burkhardswalde is located about eight kilometers southwest of the district town of Pirna and four kilometers south of Dohna on the edge of the Eastern Ore Mountains . The place is 298  m above sea level. NN on a plateau between the valley of the Müglitz and the Seidewitztal . On the east of the village located Ziegenrück pond springs from the stream of Burkhardswalde which at Weesenstein joins the Müglitz. Weesenstein is home to the nationally known Weesenstein Castle , and there is also a stop on the Müglitztalbahn , where Burkhardswalde has the Burkhardswalde-Maxen stop together with the neighboring village of Maxen .

Burkhardswalde extends along two district roads that connect the place with state road 178 , which runs in the Müglitztal . At the Pirna junction, it creates the connection to the federal motorway 17 (Dresden– Prague ), which runs about two kilometers east of Burkhardswalde over the Seidewitztal bridge .

Burkhardswalde forms a 650-hectare district bounded on the north by the district Weesenstein. Meusegast (zu Dohna) borders northeast and east of Burkhardswalde, while its southeastern neighbor is Nentmannsdorf (municipality of Bahretal ). Biensdorf (zu Liebstadt ) is located south of Burkhardswalde , and Häselich is neighboring to the southwest . Maxen borders in the west, and the Crotta district is northwest of Burkhardswalde . Weesenstein, Häselich, Maxen and Crotta are, like Burkhardswalde, districts of the municipality of Müglitztal.

Burkhardswalde-Gesundbrunnen around the stop of the Müglitztalbahn exists as a suburb of Burkhardswaldes without official suburb status.

history

Burkhardswalde on a map from 1822

Burkhardswalde Church (Müglitztal) year	Residents
1834	415
1871	512
1890	611
1910	700
1925	775
1939	639
1946	782
1950	805
1964	759
1990	532
1993	604

The village, which was mentioned for the first time in 1400, was initially assigned to the Dresden district , but subsequently belonged to the Dohna care and from the 17th century to the Pirna office . In the years 1445 and 1551 a Vorwerk was mentioned. After the devastation by the Bohemians in 1455, Burgkartswalde was designated as belonging to the Weesenstein rule , which exercised the manorial rule. In Burkhardswalde there were 29 possessed men , 6 cottagers and 78 residents in 1551 , there were 24  hooves . On November 20, 1759, the battle of Maxen between the Kingdom of Prussia and the Habsburgs took place in the Seven Years' War . A little later, in 1764, there were 14 possessed men, 9 gardeners and 17 cottagers living in the village. The Saxon rural community order of 1838 gave the village independence as a rural community. Since 1875 the community has belonged to the Pirna administration . In terms of the type of settlement, Burkhardswalde is a forest hoof village , the district of which in 1900 had an area of ​​662 hectares. From the middle of the 19th century, more and more people lived in Burkhardswalde, in 1910 there were 700. During the Weimar period , the place had 775 inhabitants, but at the beginning of the Second World War only 639 people lived in Burkhardswalde. In 1936 the district of Neuburkhardswalde was reclassified into the municipality of Mühlbach , which today also belongs to Müglitztal. After the Second World War, Burkhardswalde with its 782 inhabitants (1946) became part of the Soviet occupation zone and later the GDR . The connection to the administrative center of Pirna, which had existed since the early modern period, was not dissolved in the 1952 regional reform either, Burkhardswalde became part of the Pirna district in the Dresden district .

In April 1945 an American aviator landed with a parachute in the neighboring town of Biensdorf, which was brought in by an SS unit located in Burkhardswalde, interrogated in the village inn and then shot to the west of the village. His grave was in the local cemetery until 2005.

In the GDR, the population of the place steadily decreased and fell from 805 in 1950 to 532 in 1990. After the fall of the Wall , the population rose again to 604 by 1993. Burkhardswalde became part of the re-established Free State of Saxony in the course of reunification . The community remained independent until February 28, 1994, with effect from March 1, 1994 Burkhardswalde, Maxen, Mühlbach and Weesenstein merged to form the Müglitztal community. It became part of the Saxon Switzerland district on August 1, 1994 and in 2008 it became part of the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district.

The church of Burkhardswalde was first mentioned in 1444. Until 1865 she was burial place of the family of Bünau on Weesenstein . Today the church belongs to the parish of Burkhardswalde-Weesenstein, which also includes the places Biensdorf, Großröhrsdorf and Nentmannsdorf. The parish was created in 1917 from the union of the parishes Burkhardswalde and Weesenstein. After the Reformation in Saxony, the inhabitants of Burkhardswaldes were predominantly Evangelical-Lutheran . For every 775 inhabitants in 1925 there were 736 Protestants, 24 were Catholic and 15 of other or no religion.

Burkhardswalde was best known for the Margonwasser company , which had been based in the Gesundbrunnen district for a long time and discovered the mineral water springs in the village at the beginning of the 20th century. After Hassia Mineralquellen GmbH & Co. KG took over the fountain in 2005, production was relocated to Lichtenau and operations in the Müglitztal were closed. At the beginning of 2010, Hassia Mineralquellen GmbH & Co KG sold the former Margon location to KMS Kuchenmanufaktur Sachsen GmbH as a production location for baked goods.

Personalities

• Johannes Karl Walther (* 1860 in Burkhardswalde; † 1921), poet and pastor

literature

• The legendary Müglitztal. Old and new stories from Zinnwald to Heidenau. Publishing house Niggemann & Simon. Maxen 2003. ISBN 3-9808477-1-3
• 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 )
• Richard Steche : Burckhardtswalde. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 1. Booklet: Official Authority Pirna . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1882, p. 9.
• Horst Torke: Landkreis Sächsische Schweiz , Meißen 1996, pp. 197–198.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Geodata Center
2. ↑ ^{a b} Burkhardswalde in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
3. ↑ Changes in population / area for 14 0 44 100 municipality Burkhardswalde in the regional register of Saxony. Retrieved February 3, 2013
4. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
5. ^ Zeit Online: The power of Margon is drying up . Retrieved February 3, 2013