Gönnsdorf

Gönnsdorf District of the state capital Dresden Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 53 ″  N , 13 ° 52 ′ 11 ″  E
Height :	300 m above sea level NN
Area :	1.15 km²
Residents :	989  (Dec. 31, 2009)
Population density :	860 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1994
Incorporated into:	Schönfeld-Weißig
Postal code :	01328
Area code :	0351
Location of the Gönnsdorf district in Dresden

View of Gönnsdorf, the observatory on the left, the top of the Dresden television tower on the right

Gönnsdorf is a district of the city of Dresden in the Schönfeld highlands .

Geography and infrastructure

In the center of the village is the old manor house with a park and two ponds.

From Gönnsdorf hiking trails lead over the Hornweg to Weißig and Schönfeld, through the Zachengrund and Wachwitzgrund to the Elbe and through the Helfenberger Grund to Rockau.

In Gönnsdorf there is a restaurant, a supermarket and a sports and leisure center.

In Gönnsdorf there is an observatory built between 1973 and 1975 by the Technical University of Dresden , which was renovated for public use from 2009 to 2010 by a donation-financed association.

Gönnsdorf can be reached by city bus 61, which runs every 20 minutes or every 30 minutes.

history

Shell fountain in Gönnsdorf Castle Park

Gönnsdorf was first mentioned in a document in 1378 as "Godinsdorff". The place name means "village of a Godwin", so it goes back to a German personal name. It developed in the 15th and 16th centuries via the forms "Godinßdorf", "Jodenstorf", "Godestorff", "Godißdorff", "Godemsdorf", "Gaudensdorf", "Gauderßdorff", "Godigßdorff" and "Gönßdorff" 1791 occupied form "Gönnsdorf".

On January 1, 1994, Gönnsdorf merged with eight other communities to form Schönfeld-Weißig. This municipality, which has been part of the Saxon Switzerland district since 1996 , was incorporated into Dresden on January 1, 1999. Since then, Gönnsdorf has formed the statistical district of Gönnsdorf / Pappritz with the surrounding districts of Pappritz , Cunnersdorf , Eichbusch , Helfenberg and Rockau .

Since the fall of the Wall , the population has risen from around 300 to over 900. A major reason for this is the new development of two residential areas (upper and lower "mountain of debt") for terraced and single-family houses.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Gönnsdorf

Web links

Commons : Gönnsdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website for the Gönnsdorf observatory
• Gönnsdorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Gönnsdorf @ dresdner-stadtteile.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office