Hirschsprung (Altenberg)

Deer jump City of Altenberg Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 58 ″  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 46 ″  E
Height :	677 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	124  (December 31, 2018)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1965
Postal code :	01773
Area code :	035056
Location of Hirschsprung in Saxony
Hirschsprung in winter

Hirschsprung is a district of Altenberg in the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district in the south of Saxony .

geography

Hirschsprung is located about 37 km south of Dresden in the upper Eastern Ore Mountains . The place borders on Altenberg , Bärenstein , Geising and Falkenhain .

history

Population development

year	Residents
1834	112
1871	112
1890	123
1910	121
1925	150
1939	148
1946	181
1962	213
2009	111
2010	119
2011	119
2014	117
2015	120
2017	122
2018	124

On June 29, 1541, bailiff Werner von Nassau bought "a number of desolate rooms" and built an outbuilding in the Altenberg district that belonged to Bärenstein Castle . The building was erected on the site of the former Hirschsprung Forestry Office. Werner von Nassau invested considerable funds and made it possible for the Vorwerk to be elevated to a manor in 1549 . The manor belonged to land on which further houses and two mills, the Mahlmühle Ladenmühle (mentioned in 1585) and in 1589 the cutting mill Brettmühle (on the site of today's sawmill) were built.

In an Altenberger record from 1589, the area is called "zum Hirschbrun". In 1747 Meissner referred to the place as "Hirschbrunn" and also as "Hirschsprung". The place name was reinterpreted and originally referred to the Hirschquelle. In 1793 the first house was built next to the manor . Other houses followed in the 19th century. According to Meissner, around 1600 the location comprised 32 pits and 3 tunnels. In 1620 two more mills were built on the front Biela, the manor thus comprised 3 board mills.

In 1839 the last owner of the manor, Johann Friedrich Klingsohr, had to file for bankruptcy as no new buyer could be found. The Royal Saxon State bought the property and, after some renovations, set up the forestry office there in 1840. In order to represent the predominantly agricultural and forestry interests and to promote the cooperation in the church and school community with Altenberg, the community of Hirschsprung was founded on April 15, 1839 .

Hirschsprung was incorporated into Altenberg on January 1, 1965 .

Hirschsprung consists of two settlement areas that are about 500 m apart. They are connected by the old Dresdner Straße, which was built in 1491 to connect Altenberg and Dresden . The upper part of the village lies in the valley of the Hirschsprunger Bach at 645 to 685 m above sea level. There is the Klengelpark in memory of the local historian Arthur Klengel. In the immediate vicinity, in the flat valley of the Kleine Biela, there are some small farms. The lower village with the Gasthof Ladenmühle on the road to the bobsleigh run has a sawmill with a historic gate from 1907 is about 600 to 620 m above sea level.

During the GDR era, Hirschsprung developed into a popular local recreation and holiday destination. In addition to numerous private holiday apartments and the Haus Charlotte guest house, there were a number of holiday properties from various state- owned companies and combines in the GDR:

• Buschhaus ( Kabelwerk Köpenick )
• Vacation property of the Planeta printing machine factory
• Hirschkopfbaude (ZBE Landbau Meißen)
• Waldhaus ( Radebeul shoe factory , location of today's bed block of the Ladenmühle)
• Ladenmühle (Compressor Construction Bannewitz)
• Budelsdorf (partly municipal housing administration Berlin)
• Rauschermühle ( Animal Breeding Meißen )

Both the Buschhaus and the Ladenmühle operated public restaurants. With the completion of the racing sledge and bobsleigh run , Hirschsprung became a popular place to stay for athletes from all over the world. With German reunification, some of the properties remained unused due to the closings. The Gasthaus Buschhaus continued to operate as a restaurant for a few years, was converted and today contains rental and holiday apartments. With the exception of the Ladenmühle hotel, all objects have been used for other purposes, are empty or have been demolished.

Tourism and gastronomy

• Hotel Ladenmühle with restaurant and beer garden

freetime and sports

View of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains from the bobsled run

Riesengrundschanze in winter 2005

Due to its location, somewhat away from busy roads and embedded in a gentle high valley surrounded by extensive forests, Hirschsprung is ideal for leisure activities and summer sports. Hiking trails with a view of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains and Dresden , the Geisingberg or over the ridge of the Ore Mountains into the Czech region invite you to go hiking and mountain biking . Hirschsprung has been part of the Mad East Challenge 500 route , a cross-border mountain bike stage race, several times .

On Hirschsprunger Flur there are numerous trails that can be used as cross-country trails in winter, as well as the following winter sports facilities:

• Racing sledge and bobsled run (DKB ice channel)
• Riesengrundschanze (no longer in operation)

societies

• Heimatförderverein Hirschsprung e. V. (founded 2001)
• Altenberg volunteer fire brigade , Hirschsprung fire fighting group
• Erzgebirgsverein , Geising / Hirschsprung branch association

Memorials

In the upper part of the village is the Klengelpark with several memorial stones:

• Arthur Klengel memorial stone
• Seff-Gessinger memorial stone
• Otto-Eduard-Schmidt memorial stone and the O.-E.-Schmidt-Steig in the lower district

literature

• Around Altenberg, Geising and Lauenstein (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 7). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1964.
• Deer jump . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 4th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1817, p. 98.
• Saxon forays. Vol. 5. From the Erzgebirge , Otto Eduard Schmidt

Web links

Commons : Hirschsprung  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Hirschsprung website
• Hirschsprung in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Numbers and facts on the website of the city of Altenberg
2. ↑ ^{a b} Dieter Böttrich: Foundation of the community: hirschsprung.de. (No longer available online.) In: hirschsprung.de. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; accessed on September 20, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Around the Geisingberg, sheets for the care of local research, the love of home and the protection of the homeland in the mountainous region between Weißeritz and Gottleuba, No. 6, June 1934 , article Hirschsprung by Arthur Klengel
4. ↑ 450 years of Hirschsprung , booklet accompanying the 450 year celebration, text and compilation: Günter Urbank
5. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
6. ^ History of the Hirschsprung sawmill. In: saegewerk-hirschsprung.de. www.saegewerk-hirschsprung.de, accessed on September 20, 2015 .