Donatsviertel

Donatsviertel Large district town Freiberg Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 56 ″  N , 13 ° 21 ′ 8 ″  E
Postal code :	09599
Area code :	03731
Location of Donatsviertel in Saxony

Donatsviertel is a district of the Freiberg-Ost district in the old town of the large district town of Freiberg in the district of central Saxony (Free State of Saxony ). It is named after the no longer existing Donatskirche and the Donatsturm located there, which is a remnant of the medieval fortifications of the city of Freiberg.

geography

location

The district borders immediately to the east on the city center of Freiberg. It is bordered in the north by the Scheunenviertel, in the east by the former Freiberg-Ost train station and the Himmelfahrt Fundgrube , in the south by the Silberhofviertel and in the west by the Freiberg old town.

Neighboring places

	Freiberg, Freiberg-Ost district ( Scheunenviertel district )
Freiberg, Freiberg-Altstadt district		Freiberg, Freiberg- Ost district ( Himmelfahrter Revier district )
	Freiberg, Freiberg-Süd district ( Silberhofviertel district )

history

Donatsturm

Jakobikirche

Today's Donatsviertel is located east of the Donatsring , which formed the eastern city wall of Freiberg until the 19th century. Freiberg, which was founded between 1162/70 and developed from the Christiansdorf settlement , initially had three churches. These were the Nikolaikirche and the Jakobikirche within the city walls (original location in Pfarrgasse), as well as the wooden Donatskirche outside the city walls, first mentioned in 1225. Donatskirche was named after Saint Donatus of Arezzo , the patron saint of the Meissen diocese and namesake of the Meissen Cathedral . The churchyard of Donatskirche was first mentioned in 1430, but the church was demolished in 1443 and replaced with a chapel. In 1531 declared Duke Henry the Pious the Donat cemetery to the central burial place of Freiberg. In the 16th century it developed into a plague cemetery . The Donatstor, which is located in its vicinity, got its name from the Donatskirche . It was the oldest gate in the city of Freiberg. To protect it, the 35 meter high Donat Tower was built in the 15th century , which was the only round tower in the Freiberg city fortifications. The tower, which has been designated as a Freiberg cultural monument since the 1960s, was first mentioned in a document in 1455 and originally served to defend the city. In the 19th century it was used as a grain store and warehouse. While the Donatsturm still shapes the Freiberg cityscape today, the Donatstor disappeared in the 19th century when the city fortifications were torn down. In the 19th century, the area between the old town in the west and the Assumption Fundgrube in the east was coherently developed . While the area initially consisted of “only a few houses”, the quarter now comprises Schmiedestrasse , Jungestrasse , Oststrasse , Erzweg , Breithauptstrasse , Albert-Funk-Strasse and Peter-Schmohl-Strasse . It is located south of the Donatsfriedhof and Dresdner Straße . At the end of the 19th century, the Jakobikirche was given its current location opposite the Donatsturm. The old building on Pfarrgasse was demolished.

Individual evidence

1. ^ City structure of Freiberg
2. ^ Description of the Nicolaikirche on a private website
3. ↑ August Breithaupt: The mining town of Freiberg in the Kingdom of Saxony, outlined in terms of history, statistics, culture and trade, especially mining and metallurgy . Craz and Gerlach, Freiburg 1825, p. 51 ( digitized version in Google book search).
4. ^ Description of the Freiberg city gates
5. ↑ Geog Piltz: Art Guide to the GDR. 4th edition, Urania-Verlag, Leipzig / Jena / Berlin. 1973; P. 473f.
6. ^ The Donatsturm on the TU Freiberg website
7. ^ Website of the sights of Freiberg
8. ^ Albert Schiffner: Handbook of geography, statistics and topography of the Kingdom of Saxony . Second delivery: containing the Dresden district directorate. Fleischer, Leipzig 1840, p. 569 ( digitized version in the Google book search).
9. ↑ The Donatsviertel on www.unser-stadtplan.de
10. ^ Website of the Jakobikirche Freiberg