Johann Gottlob Mehlig

Johann Gottlob Mehlig (born February 5, 1809 in Hoflößnitz , † November 29, 1870 in Oberlößnitz ) was a Saxon chronicler , Bergvoigt and winemaker .

Live and act

Mehlig came from a long-established family of winemakers who had already been cultivating Wolframsdorf's vineyards on Wahnsdorfer Flur in the 17th century . In 1835 Mehlig, like his father before, became a farm winemaker on the Hohenhaus above the Hoflößnitz . In 1863 he was appointed Bergvoigt of the Hoflößnitz State Winery .

In the years from 1835 to 1870 Mehlig kept a five-volume diary on "natural and world events". The manuscript is now kept as a rarum in the Radebeul city archive and is one of the most important sources of regional history and the weather conditions in the Loessnitz wine-growing region .

Mehlig also provides important chronicler information on the Elbe flood in 1845 (these "strangest waters"). In particular, these detailed eyewitness reports serve to substantiate the contemporary map representations of the Elbe floods, "which seemed hardly believable".

Fonts

From the diary of Johann Gottlob Mehlig (diary entries on the Elbe flood in 1845), accessed on June 21, 2012.

literature

Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .
anonymous: Reality and prophecy of the winemaker Johann Gottlob Mehlig. In: The Saxon winemaker. Meißen 2002, No. 3, p. 1.

Individual evidence

^ Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 , p. 132 .
↑ Flood in Radebeul
↑ Curt Reuter; Manfred Richter (arrangement): Radebeul chronicle . Radebeul, S. 29 f . ( Online version ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF] 1966; 2010).

personal data
SURNAME	Mehlig, Johann Gottlob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Saxon chronicler, Bergvoigt and winemaker
DATE OF BIRTH	February 5, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hofloessnitz
DATE OF DEATH	November 29, 1870
Place of death	Oberloessnitz

[stadtlexikon-1] Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 , p. 132 .

[2] Flood in Radebeul

[3] Curt Reuter; Manfred Richter (arrangement): Radebeul chronicle . Radebeul, S. 29 f . ( Online version ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF] 1966; 2010).