Fürstenborn
The Fürstenborn , alternatively also known as Steinborn , is a spring in the Dresden district of Klotzsche .
description
The Klotzscher Steinborn, a small, cased brook that flows into the Klotzscher Dorfbach after about 30 meters, rises from the Fürstenborn spring. Both the stream and the source are sometimes referred to as Steinborn. The spring itself was surrounded by a border around 1800. To protect against contamination, the Fürstenborn was given a small vault made of sandstone , which is closed with a wrought-iron door. The source including edging, vaulted door, which is now on private land, is under the object number 09218151 under monument protection .
story
It is believed that the spring played an important role in the settlement of the area by the Slavs and thus in the founding of Klotzsche. When the town received permission from Meißner Bishop Withego II von Colditz to build its own church in 1321 , the water from the spring was used as holy water . At that time the spring was considered a “special well”, the water as “charitable”. With the Reformation , which Heinrich the Pious introduced in 1539 in Albertine Saxony, the spring lost its importance for the church, as the custom of holy water was no longer cultivated in the Protestant church.
The Dresdner Heide bordering on Klotzsche has been used as a hunting area for the rulers of the Electorate of Saxony since the Middle Ages . In 1583, a hunting lodge with stables was built near the source in order to provide accommodation for the electoral hunting parties on hunts lasting several days. As a result, the source gained in importance again. Their water was used as drinking water, and wooden water pipes were installed to supply the stables and the hunting lodge. During this time the spring was named Fürstenborn. The hunting lodge was destroyed by Swedish soldiers in the Thirty Years' War in 1637. This and subsequent military conflicts also severely impaired the game population and thus hunting in the Dresdner Heide, so that the spring lost its function as a supplier for the stately hunting societies. The name Fürstenborn, however, remained.
A street built in the early 1920s that leads past the source was given the name Am Fürstenborn ; since 1945 it has been called Am Steinborn .
Historical perception
Christoph Heinrich Jenichen (1773–1838), pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Klotzsche from 1815 to 1838 , processed the story of the source in a poem.
Jenichen begins with the description of the source at times long before the area was settled:
“On the slope of the hill country runs a spring,
hidden and quiet as crystals as bright.
It ran even in the grayest of times.
Then life was still silent, there was no house yet
, the forest jutted out to the clouds,
and deer roamed the heathen. "
Then he describes the settlement of the Sorbs and the associated establishment of the place Klotzsche:
“Millennia hung with a serious face
Already above the brightly flashing light,
And the days fled inactive;
Then the
careful sorb grew , He drew the spring and took pleasure in it.
This is what the tongue of the saga reports. "
Jenichen describes the use of the spring as holy water for the Catholic Church before the Reformation in another stanza:
“But lighter and lighter the world
lights up , The Savior's Cross wins the field, Carried
from south to north.
Now the faith is strengthened, now the spring is consecrated to the
holy water of the Wunderkapell ';
The sinful must not hesitate. "
Finally, Jenichen describes how the source got its name Fürstenborn through the electoral Saxon hunting societies in the Dresdner Heide:
“There it was, then to the native fountain,
The joyous hunts, distant horn called out
the thirsty prince of the land.
He sprang up on his stately horse,
after him the huge, crashing baggage train,
and scooped, in spite of the star and ribbon.Arches around me, he commanded, the flowing spring,
It mouths so lovely, it flashes so brightly,
He bears the name of the princes
And refreshes my people when the sun ball rises
And everything in the burning
beam bends , Refresh the pilgrims who are thirsty. "
literature
- Detlef Eilfeld, Jochen Hänsch: The Dresden fountain book - water in its most beautiful form. Volume 1, Saxonia Verlag, Dresden 2013, ISBN 978-3939248873 .
- Dietmar Schreier, Roland Rothmann: Memories of the old Klotzsche. Volume 3, Ch.Hille , Dresden 2019, ISBN 978-3947654109 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cultural monuments in the Free State of Saxony - Monument Document 09218151. (PDF; 427 KB) State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, accessed on August 4, 2021 .
- ↑ Bernd Heinrich: Our fountain collection. brunnen-wandern-dresden.de, accessed on August 4, 2021 .
- ↑ Water profile Klotzscher Dorfbach. (PDF; 1.8 MB) State capital Dresden, accessed on August 5, 2021 .
- ↑ a b c Saxon Pestalozzi Association (ed.): Colorful pictures from the Sachsenlande . Julius Klinkhardt, Leipzig 1892, p. 91 ff . ( Digitized version ).
- ↑ Lars Herrmann: Streets and squares in Klotzsche. dresdner-stadtteile.de, accessed on August 4, 2021 .
- ↑ a b The hunts of the Saxon princes in the Dresdner Heide. (PDF; 2.9 MB) Das Klotzscher Heideblatt, issue 1/1998, p. 5, accessed on August 4, 2021 .
- ↑ Karlheinz Kregelin: Namenbuch of streets and squares in the north of the city of Dresden (manuscript). Dresden 2000.
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 53.1 ″ N , 13 ° 45 ′ 49.4 ″ E