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The former inn
Painting on the facade

Dürrer Fuchs (also Zum dürren Fuchs or simply Zum Fuchs ) is the name of a former inn in the Großharthau district of Schmiedefeld in Saxony . The building, which was built in 1796 as a replacement building, is located directly on Bundesstraße 6 between the Schmetterlingholz and Großharthau and is a listed building .

history

In the course of the construction of the connecting road between Dresden and Bautzen in the 12th century, various inns and accommodations for travelers were built along the route. Around this time, an inn and a blacksmith's shop were opened on the site of the later inn. These buildings formed both the origin and the namesake for the village of Schmiedefeld. How the inn was called at that time is not known. The name Feld Schencke zum Weißen Fuchße has been handed down for the year 1678, and Der Dürre Fuchs is recorded for the first time in 1699 . From around 1740 until the middle of the 19th century, the property was called Wirths Hauß zum Dreyen Linden , named after three linden trees that stood in front of the inn. Around 1850, the then innkeeper Richter had the trees cut down, after which the name Dürrer Fuchs was re-established.

The road between Dresden and Bautzen was actively used as an army and trade route. For example, during the Seven Years' War in 1757 and 1758, the Prussian troops engaged in fighting at Dürren Fuchs.

In 1796, the building that is preserved today was erected on the site of the previous structure. In addition to the inn, attention was paid to the generous layout of horse stables during the construction, since the Fuchs drought was a heavily frequented facility up to the opening of the Görlitz – Dresden railway line in 1846 by the post office in Schmiedefeld , which was visited by numerous stagecoaches, wagoners and travelers has been. Merchants from the east of the country who traveled to the Leipzig trade fair also often took quarters in the inn.

The Fuchs drought was also affected by the Napoleonic Wars . Ten days after the Peace of Tilsit , which ended the Fourth Coalition War , Napoleon Bonaparte returned to Dürren Fuchs for the first time, and the Russian Emperor Alexander I also visited the inn several times. During the Russian campaign in 1812 , the inn was plundered by French soldiers passing through. During the Wars of Liberation in May 1813 there were heavy skirmishes between Russian and French troops on the nearby Kapellenberg and in Schmiedefeld, which also affected Dürren Fuchs. The French had fortified the inn, making it one of the few buildings in the area that remained usable. Thereupon the fox was converted into a hospital , which served as a stopover for the transport of the sick and wounded soldiers to the main hospital in Dresden.

Boulder at Dürren Fuchs

A stone about 80 by 50 centimeters in size has stood on the west gable of the house since 1913, which was mistaken for a meteorite when it was discovered in a nearby field . Investigations of the stone showed, however, that it is a quartzitic sandstone that was transported through glaciation from the Lusatian lignite mining area to the Schmiedefelder Flur during one of the last ice ages .

During the GDR era , the Dürren Fuchs housed a polytechnic training center that belonged to the Schmiedefeld / Seeligstadt school combination.

After the reunification , a café called Café Napoleon was opened in the building . Today (as of 2016) the former inn is empty.

Others

The room in which Napoleon stayed at the Fuchs was often presented to guests and visitors as an attraction. Until the end of the 19th century there was said to have been a window in the pane of which Napoleon personally carved his name with a diamond, but this was lost.

literature

Web links

Commons : Dürrer Fuchs  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schmiedefeld list of monuments. Großharthau community, 2009, accessed on July 7, 2016 .
  2. ^ Günther Gieraths: The combat operations of the Brandenburg-Prussian army, 1626-1807 . New edition. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1964, ISBN 978-3-11-000455-7 , p. 242, 382 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Coordinates: 51 ° 5 '23.1 "  N , 14 ° 3' 43.7"  E