Hertigswalde

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Hertigswalde
City of Sebnitz
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 45 ″  N , 14 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 310 m above sea level NN
Residents : 918  (2009)
Incorporation : July 1, 1950
Postal code : 01855
Area code : 035971
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Location of Hertigswalde in Sebnitz
Aerial view

Hertigswalde is a district of the large district town of Sebnitz in the district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains , Saxony . The place is on the border with the Czech Republic .

geography

Hertigswalde is located in the right Elbe part of Saxon Switzerland in the valley on both sides of the Hertigswalder Bach, a left tributary of the Sebnitz . To the east of the town rises the Tanzplan , whose almost 600-meter-high peak (Tanečnice) is on Czech territory. To the north of the village lie the 495 meter high Kaiserberg and the 459 meter high Buchberg, the slopes of which are forested. To the south of the location there is a plateau with the Lusatian Fault , which marks the geological transition to the Elbe Sandstone Mountains . Along the local watershed between Sebnitz and Kirnitzsch , the Hohe Straße, an old connection from Bad Schandau to the Bohemian Netherlands, runs in an east-west direction .

The Hertigswalde district borders on Sebnitz in the north. The districts of Hainersdorf in the west, Lichtenhain in the southwest, Ottendorf in the south and Saupsdorf in the southeast are also adjacent . To the east, the district of Tomášov (Thomasdorf) borders the north Bohemian town of Mikulášovice (Nixdorf).

The most important street in town is the state road 165 leading from Lohmen via Hohnstein , Sebnitz, Hertigswalde and Saupsdorf to Bad Schandau . From here, under the name Ottendorfer Straße, the district road 8738 branches off via Ottendorf into the Kirnitzschtal. To the public transport Hertigswalde on the bus lines 268 and 269 of the is regional transport Saxon Switzerland & Eastern Ore Mountains tethered.

In Hertigswalde you will find, among other things, the Sebnitz tourist center with a natural swimming pool as well as numerous holiday homes and holiday apartments. In the center of the village there is an old stone cross .

history

Hertigswalde in the 1820s on a map from the Oberreitschen Atlas

The place name is, just like the names of most places in the area, not of Slavic but of German origin. It is made up of two components that can be derived from a variant of the first name " Hartwig " or from " Wald ". The village was first mentioned in 1446 as "Hertewigisswalde"; further documents from the 15th century are "Hertingesswalde", "Hertigiswalde", "Hartiswalde" and "Hertzigißwalde", whereby the place name was temporarily based on " Herzog ". As recently as 1875, the subsidiary form "Hertwigswalde" is attested.

Hertigswalde was created as a Waldhufendorf in the course of the German East settlement . As an administrative village, with its 12.75 Hufen forest hoof area, it was directly subordinate to the Hohnstein Office from the 16th to the 19th century in terms of manorial, hereditary court and administrative matters. On the other hand, it was and is parish to Sebnitz, whose court office was also responsible for the administration of Hertigswalde in 1856. At the end of the 18th century, mining was carried out in the Silberbusch east of the village. The Hertigswalde inn opened in 1831.

On the basis of the rural community code of 1838 , Hertigswalde gained independence as a rural community. This was part of the Pirna administration in 1875 , the size of the parish corridor in 1900 was around 709 hectares. On July 1, 1950, Hertigswalde was incorporated into Sebnitz , which in 1952 became the seat of the new Sebnitz district . In 1994, a merger resulted in the Saxon Switzerland district and in 2008 the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district . In 2001 Hertigswalde celebrated the 555th anniversary of its first mention with a party.

Population development

year Residents
1547/51 30 possessed men , 52 residents
1764 28 possessed men, 1 gardener, 32 cottagers
1834 547
1871 728
1890 906
1910 1633
1925 1736
1939 1682
1946 1994
2009 918

Personalities

  • James Krüss (1926–1997), German poet and writer, lived in Hertigswalde in his youth as a Heligoland evacuated during the Second World War.
  • Albert Kunze (1877–1949) worked as a freelance painter in Sebnitz and Hertigswalde from 1904.
  • Quentin Tarantino (* 1963), American screenwriter, director and producer, shot part of his successful film Inglourious Basterds in Hertigswalde in September 2008 .

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References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Bus routes 268/269 (PDF; 48 kB)
  2. ↑ sebnitz.de : districts
  3. ↑ suehnekreuz.de
  4. ↑ bergbau-im-hohwaldgebiet.de
  5. ↑ hertigswalde.de