Crotta (Müglitztal)

Crotta community Müglitztal Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 50 ″  N , 13 ° 50 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	270 m above sea level NN
Incorporation :	April 1, 1994
Postal code :	01809
Area code :	035027

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

geography

Crotta is in the north of the municipality of Müglitztal. It is located on a plateau on the orographic left and 100 meters above the valley of the Müglitz, southeast of Dresden . Crotta lies in a side valley of the Müglitz, which is still relatively flat in the locality and digs deep into the terrain immediately east of Crotta. The steep slopes there are wooded. Crotta is a small, relaxed round with about ten buildings. The block corridor around the place had an area of ​​about 89 hectares in 1842. In the southeast it extends down into the Müglitztal and in the north to the Spargrundbach.

Neighboring Müglitztal districts are Schmorsdorf in the west, Mühlbach in the south, Burkhardswalde on the other side of the Müglitztal in the east and Falkenhain in the northeast. The closest places to the north or north-east are the Dohna districts of Sürßen and Tronitz . The road from Weesenstein to Maxen leads past Crotta, which can be reached as a dead end . Because of the small size of the place, the address of all houses is simply Crotta, supplemented by the respective house number. The Dreßler travel service provides a public transport connection from Crotta to Heidenau , Dohna, Mühlbach and Maxen with its bus line 202 . In the Müglitztal run on the edge of the Crottaer Flur, the Müglitztalstraße and the Müglitztalbahn , which stops there at the Burkhardswalde-Maxen stop.

history

Crotta on a 19th century card

The old Sorbian original form on which the place name is based was probably * Krotov- and goes back to * Krot-, the first name of a Slavic locator . This personal name is derived from the Slavic words for "short", "mole" or "gentle, modest". The place name was first mentioned in 1408 as "Crottauw". In the 15th century, a variety of other spellings were in use, including "Crottaw", "Crettow", "Krotthaw" and "Krote". In 1548 "Krotta" is documented, in 1791 the forms "Crotta" and "Crotte" were used.

Crotta was first parish in Dohna in the Marienkirche and since the 16th century in Maxen. The owners of the Maxener manor also exercised the manorial rule in Crotta. In the middle of the 16th century it was under the control of Anna von Karras zu Maxen. For centuries, the administration of Crotta was the responsibility of the Pirna Office and then, in 1856, the Pirna Court Office. On the basis of the rural community code of 1838 , Crotta gained independence as a rural community , but lost it again in 1856 when it became part of Schmorsdorf. Thus around 1900 it belonged to the Pirna Authority , and then to the Pirna District during the GDR era . As part of Schmorsdorf, Crotta came to Maxen in 1973 through incorporation , which in 1994 merged with other municipalities to form Müglitztal.

Population development

year	Residents
1764	4 obsessive men , 2 gardeners
1834	35
1871	39
1890	30th
1910	see Schmorsdorf

Web links

• Crotta in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

References and footnotes

1. ^ Ernst Eichler / Hans Walther : Historical book of place names of Saxony. Vol. 1, Berlin 2001. pp. 162f.
2. ^ Repertory Saxonicum