Ledenweg

The Ledenweg is a city road in the Saxon town of Radebeul , in the districts Kötzschenbroda and Niederlößnitz . The local Altstrasse originally represented a connection between the village center of Kötzschenbroda, Altkötzschenbroda , and the associated vineyard corridor, as it began on Meißner Strasse directly next to the Gradsteg , and extended through the Gemssteig to the highlands of Kötzschenbroda Oberort .

Development

Ledenweg with a view of the school, in the foreground on the right Ledenweg 22. In the background on the slope edge: on the left Friedensburg , on the right Minckwitzsches Weinberghaus . Postcard, 1912

Magician Harry Houdini in front of Villa Frikell, April 8, 1903

Various cultural monuments are located along the Ledenweg and are therefore included in the list of cultural monuments in Radebeul-Kötzschenbroda and -Niederlößnitz (A – L) , some with addresses of cross streets:

• Kötzschenbroda: No. 1, Hofmann-Villa (No. 2a / 2b) , No. 8
• Niederlößnitz: No. 13 , No. 14 , No. 21, No. 22, No. 31 , Niederlößnitz Elementary School (No. 35) , Villa Salbach (No. 39) , No. 41, No. 43, Obere Bergstrasse 35

At the end of the street, at its confluence with Obere Bergstraße , you will see Haus Reinhardtsberg (Obere Bergstraße 44) on the left and Villa Oswald (Obere Bergstraße 42) on the right . The Gemssteig begins to the right of this.

The Hofmann Villa (Ledenweg 2) with its listed gardens (hence the Lindenhaus ) was already under monument protection as a so-called culture house in GDR times as a monument of architecture .

Until 1936 the Villa Frikell (popularly "Witcher's House von Kötzschenbroda") stood in Ledenweg , the retirement home of the magician Wiljalba Frikell , in front of which the younger Harry Houdini had himself photographed in 1903 when he tried to visit Frikell personally.

Naming

In the first writing obtained village complaints Kötzschenbrodas, named after their Schreiber Thanneberger complaints 1497, which is fußsteygk to the kempnitz ascend mentioned, that is, a communication path between Kötzschenbroda and the associated Weinberg corridor and further over the kempnitz , the present Gemssteig , to the high plateau above of the Minckwitz vineyard .

The path was named Ledenweg in the Kötzschenbroda area in 1897 , after the Lehde , a word for fallow land . On Niederlößnitzer Flur the route was called Schulstraße until 1935 , after the neighboring Niederlößnitzer school.

In 1935, the northern part, i.e. Niederlößnitz part, was renamed Ledenweg like the southern part .

Residents

• Kötzschenbroda: Johannes Wilhelm Hofmann , Wiljalba Frikell
• Niederlößnitz: Clara Salbach , Alfred Naumann , Adolf von Rabenhorst (No. 34)

literature

• Volker Helas (arrangement): City of Radebeul . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, Large District Town Radebeul (=  Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Saxony ). SAX-Verlag, Beucha 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-004-3 .

Web links

• City map Niederlößnitz around 1924
• Manfred Richter: Ledenweg. In: Niederlößnitz from yesteryear. Retrieved January 24, 2015 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barbara Bechter, Wiebke Fastenrath u. a. (Ed.): Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony I, Dresden District . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-422-03043-3 , p. 730–739 (building mentioned as an example).
2. ^ 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 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 38 ″  N , 13 ° 38 ′ 19 ″  E