Mark Wittendorf
On the Beuthenbach, the upper reaches of the Würschnitz , the forest and meadow meadows of the Mark Wittendorf desert , the remnant of a lost village by name , extended between the villages of Neuwiese and Beutha .
history
Wittendorf is first mentioned in 1174 in Wildenfels court files. In 1406 the village of a Witticho is mentioned as a desert in the pledge of the old county of Hartenstein to the Schönburger and was therefore not destroyed by the Hussites in 1429/31 or even by the Croats or Swedes in the Thirty Years War . Notions of warlike destruction were nourished because small rusty horseshoes appeared in the corridors of the desert marches , which people called Hussite or Swedish iron. Such finds are not uncommon in the area, including in the Lohwald , in the Reithwiesen of Oberoelsnitz and in the Steegenwiesen near Niederdorf such remnants of old horseshoes from riding and draft animals have been found. The Lößnitz pastor and chronicler Oesfeld reported in 1773 that at that time the remains of walls and old tombstones could still be seen on Wittendorfer corridor. Ferns and nettles indicated the old settlement location.
Several legends are connected with the lost village, in the past the desert of Mark was always a place of superstition. At night, a dull bell can be heard from the depths, especially where the bracken grows so lush today, because that's where the church and the cemetery would have been. In addition, the Wittendorf pastor would haunt the desert as a ghost at midnight and moan loudly mourn the death of his slain parishioners. The desert is also closely linked to the Stollberger Kärrnersage . The last trip of the unfortunate Karrner Martin is said to have led to neighboring Wittendorf that Christmas Eve. A second version of the legend tells that it did not end in the Stollberg whale pond, but in the “Kärrnerloch” on the desert corridor. Old maps actually note such a “Kärrnerloch”, and the vernacular also knew a “Pfaarloch” (horse hole) on the way to Beutha . In the swampy desert terrain, where will-o'-the-wisps shone at night, riders and carters could be sunk in the mud.
Today it is assumed that Wittendorf as well as the nearby deserted areas of Steegen near Niederdorf as well as Sebottendorf (Sebaltendorf) and Kämpfersgrün near Lößnitz became deserted at an early stage, because they were either false foundations on unfavorable terrain or the settlers moved on for various reasons, to find a better place to settle. However, the effects of wars and epidemics cannot be completely ruled out. The corridor of the desert Mark Wittendorf was later divided up to the neighboring villages of Oberwürschnitz , Thierfeld , Zschocken , Mittel- and Oberdorf . On the Zschockener part the small settlement Neuwittendorf was built around 1830, which in 1928 moved to Neuwiese (later Neuwürschnitz ) today Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. was incorporated. The Neuwittendorf district still exists in the official real estate cadastre of the city of Oelsnitz / Erzgeb.
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedemann Bähr: Neuwürschnitz then and now. European Library Publishing House, 1996, ISBN 90-288-5800-8 .
Web links
- Mark Wittendorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 51 ″ N , 12 ° 43 ′ 15 ″ E