Faithful to God

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Faithful to God
City of Altenberg
Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 34 ″  N , 13 ° 51 ′ 15 ″  E
Residents : 20  (Dec. 31, 2018)
Faithful to God (Saxony)
Faithful to God

Location of God faithful in Saxony
Look at Godly
Look at Godly

Gottgetreu is a district of the city of Altenberg in the district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains in Saxony .

geography

Faithful to God is located in the Eastern Ore Mountains , right on the border with the Czech Republic and about 2 km from Fürstenau and Fürstenwalde . In terms of location, layout and economic conditions, the place is a typical late 18th century settlement.

The protected location on the valley slope of the Müglitz allows very nature-loving fruit trees to grow at an altitude of over 700 m above sea ​​level . Your crop rotation is not continuous. In some years the fruits do not ripen.

history

typical ground floor house ("Einhaus") in the upper part of the village
Bell tower

The small town was founded between 1729 and 1732 by eleven evangelical families, so-called exiles , who were expelled from the neighboring Vorderzinnwald in Bohemia , directly behind the Saxon border. The name of the place preserves the memory of the steadfastness to the doctrine of the faith of Martin Luther . The landlord at that time, Rudolf von Bünau auf Lauenstein , had approved the settlement with the tolerance of August the Strong and provided them with timber free of charge.

The striking, right-angled shape of the settlement goes back to the original ownership at the time of settlement. The upper row was the continuation of a hoof of the neighboring Fürstenau Niederdorf, but is already on the Lauenstein manor floor and was built on first. The lower one was used later on the already existing Kirchweg to Fürstenwalde .

In the upper wing of the settlement, ground-floor houses dominated, which were either covered with straw or with shingles or with slate. The buildings in the lower wing are two-story. Originally only a grass garden belonged to the houses, the residents of which, apart from a moderate hereditary interest, did not have to pay any tax for a long time. Most of the settlers leased larger, nearby “Laasstücke” or “Löser” from the landlord or bought fields. Only individual properties grew to full farms. In addition to the residents who worked in agriculture, others were employed in mining, quarrying, forest work or various trades.

The wooden tower that dominates the townscape was built in the supposed anniversary year of 1927 and provided with a bell from the old Fürstenau church.

Gottgetreu belonged to Fürstenau as a district and was incorporated into Geising together with this settlement in 1994. Geising and its districts were incorporated into Altenberg on January 1, 2011.

Population development

  • 1834: 64
  • 1871: 70
  • 1890: 65
  • 1997: 41 (1)
  • 1998: 37
  • 1999: 39
  • 2000: 39
  • 2001: 39
  • 2002: 35
  • 2003: 35
  • 2004: 30
  • 2005: 30
  • 2006: 29
  • 2007: 28
  • 2010: 18
  • 2011: 21
  • 2014: 19
  • 2015: 19
  • 2017: 20
  • 2018: 20

(1): from 1997: population at the beginning of the year (residents' office of the cities of Geising and Altenberg)

Regular events

  • annual bell tower festival

literature

  • Around Altenberg, Geising and Lauenstein (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 7). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1964.
  • Günter Groß , Rikarda Groß : Georgenfeld and God faithful. Two refugee settlements on the Osterzgebirgskamm. Dippoldiswalde 2015
  • Hermann Löscher : The story of Fürstenau .
  • Pastor Siedel: Festschrift on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the Fürstenau church tower .

Web links

Commons : Godly  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Numbers and facts on the website of the city of Altenberg