List of streets and squares in Wölfnitz (Dresden)

Location of the Wölfnitz district in Dresden

The list of streets and squares in Wölfnitz describes the street system in the Dresden district of Wölfnitz with the corresponding historical references. Are listed roads in the territory of the district are Wölfnitz. Cultural monuments in the district of Wölfnitz are listed in the list of cultural monuments in Wölfnitz .

Wölfnitz is part of the statistical district Naußlitz , which in turn belongs to the Cotta district of the Saxon state capital Dresden. The most important street in the Wölfnitzer Flur is Kesselsdorfer Straße , which in sections forms the northern border of the small district. There are a total of seven named streets and squares in Wölfnitz, which are listed in the following list.

Legend

The following table gives an overview of the streets and squares in the district as well as some related information. In detail these are:

• Name / Location: Current designation of the street or the place as well as under 'Location' a coordinate link via which the street or the place can be displayed on various map services. The geoposition indicates approximately the middle of the street.
• Length / dimensions in meters: The length information contained in the overview are overview values rounded up or down according to mathematical rules , which were determined in Google Earth with the local scale. They are more for comparison purposes and, if official values ​​are known, are exchanged and marked separately. For squares, the dimensions are shown in the form a × b. The addition “in the district” or “in the district” indicates how long the street is within the city / district, provided it runs through several city / districts.
• Name origin: origin or reference of the name.
• Year of naming: Time at which the street was given its current name (if known).
• Notes: Further information on nearby institutions, the history of the street, historical names, monuments, etc.
• Image: Photo of the street.

Street directory

Name / location	Length / dimensions	Origin of name	Year of designation	Remarks	image
Altwölfnitz location		Old village center of Wölfnitz	1904	Altwölfnitz originated as a farming hamlet.
Location on the Stieglitzgrund		Field name Stieglitzgrund	1925	The local section of the Gorbitzbach valley is known as the Stieglitzgrund . The street Am Stieglitzgrund is a dead end that leads through a striking gatehouse.
Dessauerstrasse location		Prince Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau , called "The Old Dessauer"	1904	The former Wölfnitzer Dorfstrasse was given its current name in 1904. It is not named after the city of Dessau , but after the Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, who came from there and who won a victory for Prussia in the battle of Kesselsdorf nearby in 1745 .
Hofwiesenstrasse location		Field name Hofwiesen		The courtyard meadows that were on this street bore this name because they belonged to the Gorbitz Chamber Estate , which was directly under the electoral Saxon court. The Hofwiesenstraße leads south past the town center as a garden path.
Kesselsdorfer Strasse location		Kesselsdorf	1904	The Kesselsdorfer Straße was originally part of the connection between the Altzella monastery and its possessions in Leubnitz-Neuostra and connected the royal seat of Dresden with the important mining town of Freiberg . In the 18th century it was turned into Poststrasse, and from 1810 to 1812 it was expanded into a Chaussee . From 1871 it was initially called Wilsdruffer Straße, in the 20th century it was important as Bundesstraße 173 until it was relocated to the north ( Bramschtunnel ).
Olbernhauer Strasse location		Olbernhau	1946	The street was originally called Albertstraße after King Albert . In order to avoid confusion with other streets of the same name in Dresden, it was renamed Rutowskystraße in 1904 after the incorporation to Dresden after Friedrich August Rutowsky . Rutowsky was a field marshal in Electoral Saxony. Since street names reminiscent of the “militarism” era were undesirable after the Second World War, the street was renamed Olbernhauer Strasse.
Wendel-Hipler-Strasse location		Wendel Hipler	1953	The spiral-Hipler Street was originally called Grenzstraße as it along the corridor boundary between Wölfnitz and Naußlitz runs.

literature

• Adolf Hantzsch : Name book of the streets and places of Dresden (=  messages of the association for the history of Dresden ). Wilhelm Baensch, Dresden 1905 ( Online [PDF; 37.1 MB ; accessed on May 24, 2019] 17th and 18th issue).

Web links

• Themed city map of Dresden. Retrieved June 27, 2012 . 
• Lars Herrmann: Streets and squares in Naußlitz and Wölfnitz. Retrieved June 27, 2012 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wölfnitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
2. ↑ Weidigtbach water profile (PDF; 2.2 MB)
3. ^ Kesselsdorfer Strasse

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