Back town

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The cabinet map (1762) by Isaak Jacob von Petri gives an overview of Eilenburg and its suburbs:
(1) Sand community
(2) Leipziger Steinweg
(3) Zscheppelende
(4) Valley community
(5) Hainichen
(6) Hinterstadt
(7 ) Alley community
(8) Torgauer Steinweg

Hinterstadt was a municipality in the Eilenburg district and from 1815 in the Delitzsch district . The community was north of Eilenburg directly in front of the Badertor and was one of the eight suburbs of Eilenburg . In today's cityscape, the former district of the Hinterstadt is located in the northern Bernhardistraße and around Jacobsplatz.

history

In 1400 the Eilenburger Chronik mentions 126 "souls" in the back town. According to the Eilenburg high school teacher and place name researcher Arthur Hoffmann, it was a garden city with hop gardens and a large meadow with a pond on today's Jacobsplatz. The rear town was bordered in the south by the Eilenburg city wall and in all other directions by the river bends of Mühlgraben and Mulde . The Baderpforte, at which a footbridge led over the moat since 1515, was used to access the city area. In 1548 there were ten farms and one free estate in the community .

In the first half of the 19th century, the settlement of industrial companies began to grow in the community and to merge with the city of Eilenburg. In 1822 HG Költz built a wax light factory and a wax bleaching facility. In the same year the wooden bridge at Badertor was replaced by one made of stone. In 1827 Ehrenberg & Richter opened what was now the third calico factory at the gates of Eilenburg. On April 9, 1856, the rear town was incorporated into Eilenburg. As a result, the area was further developed and built on. This resulted in a closed residential development as well as the Catholic parish church of St. Franziskus Xaver (1854) and the middle school (1887). The factory halls of Ehrenberg & Richter , which served as the production facility of the world's largest piano manufacturer Zimmermann from 1904 to 1945 , were demolished or converted into residential buildings. The former municipality is a popular residential area and is still growing today due to the settlement of single-family houses.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eilenburg in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  2. ↑ a b History of the city of Eilenburg chronologically in excerpts, taken, revised and compiled from chronicles, non-fiction books and treatises by Siegfried Buchhold ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ In Arthur Hoffmann's footsteps - Part 6: Eilenburg field names and terms in the northwest on the website of the Eilenburg cultural company (accessed on December 2, 2015)

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 '  N , 12 ° 38'  E