Dohna suburb

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Dohna suburb
City of Pirna
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 35 ″  N , 13 ° 56 ′ 20 ″  E
Height : 120 m above sea level NN
Postal code : 01796
Area code : 03501

The Dohnaische Vorstadt is a historic suburb of Pirna , the district town of the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district .

geography

The Dohnaische Vorstadt got its name from its location in front of the Dohnaischer Tor, which was razed in the 19th century and part of the city ​​wall around the old town of Pirna . The Dohnaische Tor stood at today's Dohnaische Platz and was the passage through the Dohnaische Strasse.

The Dohna suburb, which was in the soft image of the city of Pirna, is in front of the old town in the direction of Dohna . The center of the suburb is the Breite Strasse between Königsteiner Strasse ( Bundesstrasse 172 ) and Dr.-Külz-Ring. To the east of it is the Obertorvorstadt , to the northwest the Westvorstadt and south of the Südvorstadt . The bilingual Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium Pirna is located in the Dohnaische Vorstadt .

history

Dohnaisches Tor, in the background the Sonnenstein , 1755, after the painting by Canaletto

The Dohnaische Vorstadt was possibly created as a market settlement in front of the Dohnaischer Tor to the left and right of the Breite Straße, previously called Breite Gasse. The alley was first mentioned in 1338 as "platea contra sanctum Nicolaum" (alley against St. Nikolaus), since the Nikolaikirche , also mentioned several times in the 14th century, was located there. Other early mentions concern the houses “uff der Breytengassen ken sente Niclaus kirchen oebir” (1423) and 1483 “uff der Breitengasse at the corner of steynen martir”. Sometimes the area was also referred to as the "Zschacketal". In 1488, the Breite Gasse burned down completely. The Hospital of the Holy Spirit was located in the vicinity of the Nikolaikirche. In 1553 there were 60 residents in the suburbs in front of the Upper and Dohna Gate.

In the 16th century, the Pirna grave digger lived in the Dohna suburb; the Nikolaikirchhof served as the main cemetery in Pirnas. When Swedish troops approached during the Thirty Years' War in April 1639, the Pirna city commandant had the suburb, including most of the buildings, the church and the hospital, burned down in order to maintain a clear field of fire. After that, many buildings lay desolate, some of them for decades; the hospital was moved to the Pirna monastery.

Nikolaikirche, 1875

In the 18th century, because of the importance of the Breite Gasse for traffic, the postmaster's seat was in the Dohnaische Vorstadt; the three-story post house still stood in 1838. As early as 1820, the Dohna Gate was demolished in the course of the demolition of the Pirna city fortifications. On July 3, 1875, the highest church authority approved the demolition of the Nikolaikirche. The churchyard had already been closed years earlier when the current cemetery on Dippoldiswalder Strasse was opened.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population history (PDF; 1.1 MB)
  2. ^ Alfred Meiche (Ed.): Historical-topographical description of the Pirna administration. Dresden 1927. (PDF; 414 kB)
  3. ↑ Hugo Jensch: From the history of the Pirna district . (PDF; 480 kB)