Gersdorf (Striegistal)

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Gersdorf
Striegistal municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 40 ″  N , 13 ° 12 ′ 48 ″  E
Height : 280 m above sea level NN
Area : 3.48 km²
Residents : 110  (2014)
Population density : 32 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1875
Incorporated into: Etzdorf
Postal code : 09661
Area code : 034322
Gersdorf (Saxony)
Gersdorf

Location of Gersdorf in Saxony

Gersdorf is a district of the Striegistal municipality in the district of central Saxony in Saxony . The place was incorporated into Etzdorf before 1875 . On January 1, 1994, this merged with five other places to form the municipality of Tiefenbach , which in turn has belonged to the municipality of Striegistal since July 1, 2008.

geography

Geographical location

Gersdorf is located in the north of the Striegistal community, east of Roßwein and south of the Freiberger Mulde .

Neighboring places

Horse wine Seifersdorf Gleisberg
Neighboring communities Sorrow home
Etzdorf Marbach

history

Central intersection with the seat of the Segen Gottes Erbstolln association

Gersdorf belonged to the foundation area of the Altzella monastery . There is no specific record of the beginnings and the first centuries of Gersdorf. It was first mentioned in a document in 1502 as Gerßdorf (mentioned in 1541 as Girßdorff, also Girsdorff). The origin and the original meaning of the name are uncertain; it is presumed that there is a connection with a personal name that begins with Ger-. There is evidence of a certain Gerhardus in the year 1200, who was abbot of the Altzella monastery from 1216 to 1224 . He could have been the namesake.

Silver mining began in the first half of the 13th century. In 1221, Margrave Dietrich granted the monastery mining rights. The document has not been preserved, but the facts are pointed out in a document from 1241. In this document a Gerhardus magister montium (Bergmeister Gerhard) is named as a witness of the monastery . Field names such as Schmiedefeld, the old market town, Kramerbusch (Kramer = trader) as well as finds of forge slag, medieval ceramics and other settlement remnants prove the existence of the settlement of miners and thus the temporary existence of a mining town . The name of this city is not known. The ores were smelted in a smelter in the monastery in Böhrigen . The ores were transported there on a specially constructed road. The mining itself and the smelting of the ores were not carried out by members of the monastery, but by a cooperative of miners and smelters that was relatively independent of the monastery and supervised by a monastery miner. After the decline of the first mining period in the 14th century, the presumed mining town was abandoned, fell into disrepair and was forgotten.

Until the Reformation in 1540, the Altzella monastery in Gersdorf maintained a monastery courtyard. After the secularization of the Altzella monastery in 1540, Gersdorf belonged to the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office of Nossen until 1856 . The Vorwerk in Gersdorf, which previously belonged to the Altzella monastery as a farm yard, came to Hans von Komerstedt in 1544, to Barthel Lauterbach in 1556, to the von Pflugk family in 1587 and, from 1661, to the von Starschedel family . In 1696 the Vorwerk was upgraded to an independent manor when it was sold to Friedrich Adolf von Haugwitz . After two further sales in the following two years, the Gersdorf manor remained with the von Einsiedel family until 1849 . After that it was owned by the von Arnim and von Carlowitz families . Under the latter, the manor was expanded into a castle in 1890. From 1856 Gersdorf belonged to the Roßwein court office and from 1875 to the Döbeln administrative authority , which was renamed the Döbeln district in 1939. Gersdorf was incorporated into Etzdorf before 1875 . In 1885 mining in Gersdorf was finally stopped. The Gersdorfer Schloss was owned by the Prinzen zur Lippe-Weißenfeld from 1925 and was sold to Daniel Freiherrn von Hoenning O'Carroll in 1937 . In the course of the land reform in the Soviet occupation zone from 1945 , the last owners were expropriated and an FDGB district school was set up in the castle . After that, the building served as a home for apprentices and later as a general boarding school. With the second district reform in the GDR, Gersdorf came as part of the Etzdorf community in 1952 to the newly founded Hainichen district in the Chemnitz district (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ). The non-profit association of the same name has been looking after the “Segen Gottes Erbstollen” mine facilities, which were closed at the end of the 19th century, and has been active in the preservation of monuments on approx. 35 hectares above and below ground.

Since 1990 Gersdorf has belonged as part of the Etzdorf community to the Saxon district of Hainichen , which was added to the district of Mittweida in 1994 and in 2008 to the district of central Saxony. On January 1, 1994, the municipality of Etzdorf and the district of Gersdorf merged with the municipalities of Dittersdorf , Arnsdorf , Naundorf , Marbach (with Kummersheim ) and Böhrigen to form the municipality of Tiefenbach . The municipalities of Tiefenbach and Striegistal in turn merged on July 1, 2008 to form the new municipality of Striegistal, which has made Gersdorf a part of the Striegistal district of Etzdorf ever since. Gersdorf Castle has been used as the company headquarters and for residential purposes since 1997. At the end of 2012, the residential community located in the castle acquired the property, including some outbuildings and the property, thus converting the previous lease into an ownership relationship. As part of the Freiberg mining area, the mining area in Gersdorf has been part of the Ore Mountains Mining Region UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2019 .

Attractions

Gersdorf Castle

Personalities

literature

  • Richard Witzsch: Between Chemnitz and Freiberg, A home book for school and home, The villages on the Striegis. Frankenberg 1929, Reprint Striegistal 2012
  • Georg Dehio : Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Saxony II, administrative districts Leipzig and Chemnitz , Munich 1998, ISBN 3-422-03048-4 , page 237
  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Gersdorf. . In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 25th booklet: Office governance Döbeln . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1903, p. 52.
  • Wolfgang Schwabenicky : The medieval silver mining in the Erzgebirge foothills and in the western Erzgebirge. Chemnitz 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-20-1 , pages 172-179

Web links

Commons : Gersdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Manors and castles in the kingdom of Saxony: Gersdorf  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karlheinz Blaschke (Ed.): Historical local directory of Saxony , new edition, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-937209-15-8 , page 249
  2. ↑ Ernst Eichler , Hans Walther (ed.): Historical book of place names of Saxony. Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-05-003728-8 , Volume I, page 304/303
  3. ↑ Karl Heinrich Ferdinand von Zehmen: The order of the Aebte of the former Cistercian monastery Alten-cell ... , Dresden 1845 page 12
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Schwabenicky: The high medieval mining near Gersdorf, community Tiefenbach (district Mittweida) and the Altzelle monastery , in Martina Schattkowsky, André Thieme (ed.): Altzelle, Cistercian abbey in Central Germany and house monastery of the Wettins, Leipzig 2002, page 172f.
  5. ^ Copy of the certificate
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Schwabenicky: The high mediaeval mining near Gersdorf, community Tiefenbach (district Mittweida) and the Altzelle monastery , in Martina Schattkowsky, André Thieme (ed.): Altzelle, Cistercian abbey in Central Germany and house monastery of the Wettins, Leipzig 2002, page 160ff.
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Schwabenicky: The medieval silver mining in the Erzgebirgsvorland and in the western Erzgebirge. Chemnitz 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-20-1 , page 179.
  8. ↑ comparable with the mountain town on the staircase
  9. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 70 f.
  10. ↑ The Döbeln administrative authority in the municipal register 1900
  11. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. doebeln.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  12. ↑ Gersdorf on gov.genealogy.net
  13. ↑ Etzdorf on gov.genealogy.net
  14. ↑ Tiefenbach on gov.genealogy.net
  15. ↑ The blessing of God's Erbstolln Gersdorf on www.bergbautradition-sachsen.de