Elbe houses

Map from 1893

Location of the Elbe houses northwest of Königstein

Elbhäuser is a place without district status in the town of Koenigstein (Saxon Switzerland) in the district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains , Saxony .

geography

The Elbe houses are located southeast of the Saxon state capital Dresden in Saxon Switzerland . You are in the Elbe valley on the orographic left bank of the river, immediately north of the Königstein Fortress . It is a group of houses that are lined up in a single row on Elbhäuserweg. This is due to the narrowness of the undercut slope side of the valley between the river and the Koenigstein , one for this part of Elbsandsteingebirges typical Table Mountain . Few buildings can also be found in the small valley cut at the mouth of the Pehnabach , which flows from the neighboring town of Thürmsdorf , Struppen municipality , to the Elbe. The Pehnabach is slightly radioactive in this area, since this is where the discharge point for the mine waste water from the nearby Königstein uranium ore deposit is located. Other neighboring towns are the Struppen district of Strand in the northeast, which is also on the left bank of the Elbe, Halbestadt in the east and Königstein in the southeast. Like the other places without district status Halbestadt and Ebenheit , the Elbe houses are also in the Königstein district . Above the Elbhäuser, the federal highway 172 (Dresdner Straße) climbs steeply from Bad Schandau via Königstein towards Struppen-Siedlung and Pirna . Between the Elbe houses and the Elbe, the Děčín – Dresden-Neustadt line runs on its section between the Dresden S-Bahn stops in the health resort Rathen and Königstein. Between the railway line and the Elbe, Elbstrasse and the Elbe Cycle Path run along the banks.

history

The place was mentioned in 1755 as "Elbergemeinde", 1764 as "Elb" and in 1791 as the "Elbgemeinde bey Koͤnigstein". In 1875 the names "Elbe" and "Elbhäuser" can be found. The place name is of German origin and self-explanatory in its meaning as "municipality or houses on the Elbe". Probably the place originated in the 18th century as a housing estate with block plots. According to the pastor of the Königsteiner Marienkirche , where the Elbe houses were and are parish, from 1755 there were eleven houses in the place. A nearby twelfth house, which according to the description stood on a plot of land called Schindler's Garden, was therefore already part of the Königstein municipality. The inhabitants of the place at that time included two tripper and kit makers , a carpenter and several fishermen. They obtained their drinking water from a spring located directly on the Elbe, whose water, according to tradition, is said to have the same origin as that of the deep well at the Königstein Fortress. After originally being part of the township, the Elbe houses merged with Strand and the town of Hütten, south of the fortress, to form a hut community as early as 1755 . As an official municipality, it was subordinate to the Pirna Office in manorial and administrative terms . In 1834 the Elbe houses had 105 inhabitants. Some of them were affected by the severe flooding of the Elbe in 1845 . The railway line was built five years later. In 1865 the two exclaves of the hut community were reclassified: Strand came to Weißig , the Elbe houses were connected to Königstein. Since 1875 the place belonged as part of Königstein to the Pirna administration , which was renamed the Pirna district in 1939.

Web links

• Elbe houses in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernd Laquai: The discharge point for radioactive mine waste water into the Elbe near Thürmsdorf from the Wismut uranium mining area Königstein. October 17, 201; accessed on September 29, 2016.
2. ^ Ernst Eichler / Hans Walther : Historical book of place names of Saxony. Vol. 1, Berlin 2001. p. 239.
3. ↑ Johann Gabriel Süße: History of the town of Königstein, which is very next to, and under the high rock of the mountain fortress of this name on the Elbe. Dresden, 1755, p. 217.

Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 37 ″  N , 14 ° 3 ′ 20 ″  E