Back wall
Hintermauer is an old suburb of Meissen . It is located immediately west of the old town . Remnants of the old town fortifications have been preserved in the area of the Hintermauer street. The back wall lies behind the Afraberg, on which the Afra Church and the Saxon State High School St. Afra are located.
history
The place name comes from the location just outside or behind the city wall . A settlement "behind the wall" was mentioned as early as 1752, as early as 1791 there was "behind the wall behind the princely school in front of the Lommatzscher Thore". The suburb was also called Hintermauer in 1834 and 1875. The row of houses extended on a block corridor , which in 1900 was only about six hectares in size. The parish in the Meißner St. Afra parish was administered by the Meissen Hereditary Authority, in 1856 it was subordinate to the Meißen court office. Then Hintermauer came to the Meißen administrative authority , from which the Meißen district emerged .
Despite its small size, the place formed an independent rural community on the basis of the Saxon rural community code of 1838 . This united in 1921 with the other suburbs north and west of Meissen, Fischergasse , Niedermeisa and Obermeisa, to form the municipality of Meisatal . As part of it, Hintermauer came to Meißen in 1928.
The painter Karl Christian Sparmann (1805–1864) comes from Hintermauer.
Population development
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1667 | 12 cottagers |
| 1764 | 20 cottagers |
| 1834 | 313 |
| 1871 | 440 |
| 1890 | 476 |
| 1910 | 595 |
| 1925 | see Meisatal |
literature
- Elbe valley and Loess hill country near Meissen (= values of our homeland . Volume 32). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1979, p. 150f.
Web links
- Back wall in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Hintermauer address book from 1905
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 50 ″ N , 13 ° 28 ′ 2 ″ E