Krietzschwitz

Krietzschwitz Large district town of Pirna Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 35 ″  N , 13 ° 58 ′ 50 ″  E
Height :	246 m
Residents :	161  (December 31, 2011)
Incorporation :	April 1, 1974
Postal code :	01796
Area code :	03501

Krietzschwitz has been a district of Pirna since 1974 and is located on the federal highway 172 between Pirna and Königstein , where the country road (Hohe Straße) branches off to Langenhennersdorf in the Bielatal .

The small town was first mentioned in a document in 1359 . In addition to agriculture, its location directly on the trade route to Bohemia made it a stopover for merchants, iron and ore transports.

A monument to the general Duke Eugen von Württemberg (1788–1857), who managed to stop the Napoleonic troops here in August 1813 , is worth seeing . This event is known as the Battle of Krietzschwitz .

literature

• Alfred Meiche: Historical-topographical description of the Pirna administration. Dresden 1927. ( digitized version )

Web links

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

• Krietzschwitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony