Gemssteig

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The Gemssteig is an inner-city street in the Saxon city of Radebeul , located in the Niederlößnitz district . The narrow, medieval Berggasse begins directly at the foot of the steep slope of the Lausitz Fault on the Obere Bergstrasse at the confluence of the Ledenweg and crosses the ascent in a north-northeast direction to the Erdmann winery , then turns north-northwest and meets the Finstere Gasse .

Location and development

Koberscher Weinberg, plan from 1714. Left the Gemssteig ( Kemitz Gäßgen )
House Reinhardtsberg and Villa Oswald in the 19th century. View of Kötzschenbroda. In front of Villa Oswald (left building, bottom right), the Gemssteig runs up the steep slope to the right corner of the picture.

The steep Berggasse is located in the major Saxon vineyard location Lößnitz within the individual location Radebeuler Steinücken and in the landscape protection area Lößnitz ; it is part of the historical vineyard landscape in Radebeul . It starts at about 146  m and rises to 200  m above sea level. NHN at the meeting with the Finsteren Gasse. It is 335 meters long above the ground.

The Gemssteig was the western border of the Minckwitz vineyard, which was listed as a whole as well as a work of landscape and garden design . Altenberg , located between Oberer Bergstrasse, Finsterer Gasse and Gemssteig , a previous name owned by Hans Müntzmeister, appeared in the Dresden city register in 1407. In 1412 Margrave Friedrich the Peaceful lent the Altenberg and Taschen vineyards to the Council of Dresden.

At the northern end of the vineyard, at 5 Finstere Gasse, is the property of the Winzerhaus Erdmann , the former upper winegrower's house of the winery, separated from it in 1933 , to whose gate the Gemssteig leads. This winegrower's house was built there in 1724 in place of a previous building. From there, Gemssteig and Finstere Gasse form the upper access path from the Höhenweg.

Today a narrow strip of land the width of four house numbers on the left edge of the Minckwitz vineyard below Haus Erdmann is separated and is being rebuilt.

On the left side of the Gemssteig there is not only the listed vineyard estate of Villa Oswald with buildings from the 19th century at the latest, but also to the west of it the Haus Reinhardtsberg cultural monument . The replacement building there from 1770 stands at the foot of the Lezenitzberg (namesake for the Lößnitz , today Reinhardtsberg ), mentioned in a document from Meißner Bishop Withego I as early as 1286 , which was built by the bishop that year together with the neighboring Aldenberg ( Altenberg , see Minckwitzscher Weinberg ) was lent to the Dresden Council.

Naming

The historic Berggasse was mentioned as a continuation of the Ledenweg in the Kötzschenbrodaer Dorfrügen ( Thanneberger Rügen from 1497). The originally West Slavic name Kempnitz or Kampnitz (Slav for stony / rocky path) was corrupted in the course of the early modern times: First Kemnitzgäßchen was created , which became Chemnitzgäßchen and then around 1800 Gemssteig . The name has remained to this day.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Milestones from the chronicle of the Minckwitz vineyard ( Memento from July 13, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Matthias Donath, Jörg Blobelt (photos): Sächsisches Weinland . Historic wineries and vineyard houses in the Elbe Valley. 1st edition. Redaktions- und Verlagsgesellschaft Elbland, Dresden 2010, p. 152-156 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 54 "  N , 13 ° 38 ′ 31.3"  E