Franzosenborn
The Franzosenborn is a water source in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains on the Lilienstein , whose history can be traced back to the 16th century and which was repaired in 1983 after years of neglect.
Geographical location
The Franzosenborn is located at the foot of the northeast side of the Lilienstein directly on the block sea located there near the Kirchsteige, which connects Waltersdorf and the city of Königstein (Saxon Switzerland) . The water flows out of the groundwater-conducting sandstones of the Oberturon and collects in a depression in the mountain slope that rises at this point to the west of the homestead called " Auf der Sellnitz ". The circular path around the Lilienstein, used as a hiking trail, passes about 50 meters from the Franzosenborn.
history
In the vicinity of the Franzosenborn there was a village on the Sellnitz that was still called Seldensath or Seltensaat in 1474 and 1501 . In particularly hot summers, the spring water is said to have been fetched from here by the inhabitants from flat terrain. At the beginning of the early modern period, the village of Seltensath / Seltensaat became a desert.
On the map of Saxon Switzerland from 1592, the Saxon land surveyor Matthias Oeder noted a high born at this point , which refers to the jay as the namesake or can be interpreted as a high born.
During the wars of liberation against the French, the source was given its current name, as French troops camped here on Lilienstein for several weeks in the year of the Battle of Leipzig in 1813. The water from the spring was used for the water supply and on this occasion the well was redesigned. A neighboring spring, which is only a few meters away and is known as a horse trough , served as a watering place for the horses . It is a depression also carved out of the sandstone.
The sandstone walls of the Franzosenborn collecting basin had been destroyed on one side by the pressure of the slope in the middle of the 20th century and mostly filled with old leaves and humus. Members of the group for cave and karst research Dresden in the Kulturbund of the GDR met in April 1983 to repair the Franzosenborn. In this context, the collecting basin was also given a wooden structure for protection.
literature
- Dieter Funke: Repair of the Franzosenborn at Lilienstein (Saxon Switzerland). In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 30 (1984), 3rd and 4th cover page .
Individual evidence
- ↑ A picture of the repair work in 1983 can be found on the title page of issue 2/1984 of the Sächsische Heimatblätter .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 55 '52 " N , 14 ° 5' 27.8" E