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The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Blasewitz (disambiguation) .

Blasewitz with Neugruna district and statistical district No. 51 of Dresden
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Coordinates	51 ° 3 '10 "  N , 13 ° 47' 45"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '10 "  N , 13 ° 47' 45"  E.
height	117  m above sea level NN
surface	2.84 km²
Residents	10,083 (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density	3550 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation	Apr 1, 1921
Postcodes	01309, 01277
prefix	0351
Website	www.dresden.de
Borough	Blowjoke
Transport links
tram	6, 12
bus	61, 63, 65

View of Blasewitz and Striesen

Blow joke from the air

Schillerplatz in Blasewitz around 1910

Blasewitz is a historic villa suburb and has been part of Dresden since 1921 . The district belongs to the district of the same name and is located east of the city center in the left Elbe part of Dresden. The most striking building is the Loschwitz Bridge, known as the Blue Wonder, leading to Loschwitz .

location

Blasewitz borders in the north on Loschwitz , in the west on Johannstadt , in the south on Striesen and in the east on Tolkewitz .

history

General

Blasewitz was first mentioned in 1349 as the Vorwerk blasewicz of Nikolaus von Karas . The place name can be traced back to the Slavic personal name Blohas . The Meissnian Margrave Wilhelm I enfeoffed half of the village to the Dresden citizen Peter Münzmeister with Blasenwicz in 1384 . Blasewitz was a fishing and winegrowing village. The Dresden Bridge Office was in charge of the Blasewitz interest income and meadows . Due to its location on the Elbe, Blasewitz was hit by severe floods several times. Land, fields and gardens were devastated during floods and ice in 1799. The Elbe flood in 1845 also left damage in Blasewitz.

During the founding period, the place developed into a villa suburb of Dresden . Arthur Willibald Königheim left in Blasewitzer Tännicht the Forest Park Blasewitz Create. Architects such as Constantin Lipsius and Rudolf Schilling built numerous villas in the adjacent streets . In 1872 Blasewitz was connected to the horse-drawn tram and on July 6, 1893, the first electric tram in Saxony was opened. It led from Dresden Schloßplatz over the Terrassenufer and Sachsenplatz to Schillerplatz in Blasewitz.

With the influx of manufacturers, high officials and officers, Blasewitz was one of the communities in Saxony with the highest tax revenue. Since 1901, Dresden conducted negotiations about Blasewitz's incorporation. After Blasewitz successfully fought against it for a long period of time, this was forcibly carried out on April 1, 1921. In the last 20 years of his independence, Blasewitz was already completely surrounded by Dresden on the left side of the Elbe. Due to a low tax rate, it was a popular place to live for the wealthier citizens of Dresden. After the incorporation, the district was also extended to the neighboring Neugruna to the south , with which Blasewitz forms a common statistical district .

Population development

year Residents December 1, 1834 ¹ 220 December 1, 1843 ¹ 265 December 3, 1846 ¹ 267 December 3, 1849 ¹ 256 December 3, 1852 ¹ 336 December 3, 1855 ¹ 291 December 3, 1858 ¹ 429 December 3, 1861 ¹ 542 December 3, 1864¹ 889 December 3, 1867 ¹ 985 December 1, 1871 ¹ 1577

year Residents December 1, 1875 ¹ 2568 December 1, 1880¹ 3542 December 1, 1885 ¹ 4189 December 1, 1890¹ 4828 December 2, 1895 ¹ 6304 December 1, 1900 ¹ 7344 December 1, 1905 ¹ 7719 December 1, 1910¹ 7659 October 8, 1919 ¹ 7417 ¹ census result

Culture and sights

After the sometimes extensive restoration of historic villas from the Wilhelminian era, for example several buildings by Schilling & Graebner on Goetheallee, Blasewitz is now one of the more upscale districts of Dresden. The numerous listed villas and residential houses include Villa Marienlust , Villa Ilgen , House Loschwitzer Strasse 38 , Villa Marie , Villa Stock , Villa Vogesenweg 4 and House Wägnerstrasse 18 ; The listed objects are fully recorded in the list of cultural monuments in Blasewitz .

The Holy Spirit Church as the central Blasewitz church was built in 1893 in neo-Gothic style by the Blasewitz builder Karl Emil Scherz .

In literary terms, Blasewitz was immortalized by Friedrich Schiller , who had the innkeeper's daughter Justine Segedin perform at the Fleischers' tavern in Wallenstein's warehouse : “What? the Lightning! That's Gustel von Blasewitz ! ” .

The Blasewitz rowing center and the regatta course are important for water sports .

Infrastructure

Alexander Frantz Observatory in Blasewitz

Villa Weigang

The central square in Blasewitz is Schillerplatz , which is served by several lines of the Dresden transport company and near which is the Schillergalerie shopping center (architect Horst Witter).

Starting from Schillerplatz, as a connection to the Loschwitz district, there is the Blue Wonder , to which Loschwitzer Strasse leads as one of the most important connecting roads with the city center.

Blasewitz is home to the University of Church Music of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony , part of the Dresden International School , the Saxon State High School for Music Carl Maria von Weber and a number of institutes. The Martin-Andersen-Nexö-Gymnasium , with its high profile in mathematics and natural sciences, was also in Blasewitz until he moved to Striesen in 2008.

You can find relaxation in the Blasewitz forest park with restaurant, on the tennis courts or on the Elbe meadows . Blasewitz is home to the “Alexander Frantz Observatory” by Alexander Frantz (1886–1962), one of the oldest private observatories in Europe.

The marriage department of the Dresden registry office is located in the Villa Weigang .

The supply of “fast internet ” in Blasewitz has been below average since the beginning of the 21st century and, in 2012, is still well behind other parts of the city, especially in the areas with villa developments. See article / paragraph Striesen # 21. Century .

Sons and daughters

• Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741–1801), composer and court conductor
• Friedrich Gotthard Naumann (1750–1821), painter
• Friedrich Traugott Helbig (1859–1886), sculptor
• Martin Pietzsch (1866–1961), architect
• Paul Bohrisch (1871–1952), university professor for pharmacognosy
• Otto Oppermann (1873–1946), German-Dutch medievalist
• Fritz Karsch (1893–1971), philosopher and educator
• Gertrud Rudloff-Hille (1900–1983), art and theater historian
• Günther Heinze (* 1923), GDR sports functionary

literature

• Wolfgang Schumann et al .: Blasewitz. From the history of a Dresden district . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2007. ISBN 978-3-937602-91-2
• Stadtlexikon Dresden A-Z . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1995, ISBN 3-364-00300-9 .
• Otto Gruner: Blasewitz: past, development and current facilities of a village community . Strauch, Leipzig 1905.

Web links

Commons : Blasewitz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Streets and squares in Blasewitz
• History of the Dresden district of Blasewitz
• Current information
• dresden.de: Statistics (PDF; 374 kB)
• Blasewitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Footnotes

1. ↑ Alexander Frantz Observatory