Erbendorf (desert)

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Erbendorf is the desolation of an early modern mining settlement in the upper valley of the Große Mittweida south of Wolfner Mühle and north of Tellerhäuser .

Oral hole of a tunnel near the desert of Erbendorf
View into the tunnel near the desert of Erbendorf

The Erbendorf, presumably built as a mining settlement around 1400, was possibly devastated during the Hussite Wars around 1430 or abandoned again for other reasons. In the oldest known documentary mention in the Crottendorfer Amtserbbuch from 1559, which was created as part of the sale of the Upper Forest portion of the Schoenburg rule to the Electorate of Saxony, Erbendorf is only mentioned as a field name of a forest, although reference is made to the desert village town:

" Is a desert village town, between the obbemeled Henneberge and the Thaufichtigk , in which the Buchenholtz hewn in front of it, unndt kolet, eintzels has spruce and fir tree, quite beaten. "

The Erzgebirge chronicler Christian Lehmann knew the heritage village from a legend and wrote about it at the end of the 17th century:

“ The mountain opposite is called the fire / because everything burned away from Hinter-Holtz. And should there / as old people report / two villages / Erbendorff and Großmitweyde / have stood / because there you can still see a fire site and Aecker-Beethe. "

An application made on December 16, 1791 by citizens from the neighboring communities to be allowed to re-raise the settlement was rejected. .

To the south of the Erbendorf desert there are still references to the former mining activity, including the mouth of a tunnel. In June 2011, a display board was set up on the Katzensteiner Wiesen in the valley of the Große Mittweida, which reminds of the Erbendorf desert.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the display board set up in June 2011.
  2. ↑ Documentary evidence or archaeological findings to verify the destruction by Hussites are missing.
  3. ↑ State Archives Chemnitz , 30346 district tax revenue Annaberg No. 143: Schönburgisches Erbbuch de ao. 1559. fol. 301
  4. ↑ Christian Lehmann: Historical scene of their natural peculiarities in the Meißnischen Ober-Ertzgebirge. Leipzig 1699, p. 154. ( digitized version )
  5. ↑ a b Freie Presse , local edition Annaberg-Buchholz of June 29, 2011, p. 9: Disappeared hereditary village is visible again. Retrieved July 2, 2011.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 27 ′ 25.8 ″  N , 12 ° 54 ′ 56 ″  E