Mass egg

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The Massenei is an approximately 1500 hectare forest area east of Dresden, which raints on the corridors of Kleinröhrsdorf , Großröhrsdorf , Bretnig , Frankenthal , Großharthau , Schmiedefeld , Seeligstadt and Arnsdorf . It is a landscape protection area , a local recreation area and is used for forestry.

The Massenei extends south of the loess clay-covered granodiorite hills of Großröhrsdorf and Bretnig over a strikingly flat terrain at 280 to 300  m above sea level. NHN . Wide-span troughs and very gently sloping slopes as well as isolated very flat bulges with a maximum difference in height of ten meters dissolve the level. The forest also represents the watershed between Steinbach ( Große Röder ) and Goldbach ( Schwarze Röder ).

history

Border stone between the Mark Meissen and Upper Lusatia
The Massenei ("Silva Massenavia") on a map from the 18th century

The mass egg is possibly a remnant of the Hercynian forest described by the Roman historian Tacitus , which stretched far east from the Rhine for sixty days.

Until the year 1000, it formed a contiguous and almost uninhabited forest area with the forests around Moritzburg and Königsbrück , the Karswald and the Dresdner Heide , on the edge of which there were small villages inhabited by Slavs and German settlers.

The Oberlausitzer border certificate from the 1241 reports from the border between the marquisate of Meissen or the episcopate Stolpen and the Kingdom of Bohemia belonging Oberlausitz .

Origin of name

The oldest spelling of the mass egg , popularly called Mastche , from 1512 is Masteney . The name Massenei could be derived from the Upper Sorbian word mjeza for border. There is also a likely connection with the Middle High German mastunge (= place for pig fattening) and forest fattening for pigs ( masterei ). Near the valley of the Schwarzen Röder, maps show an Upper and Lower Schweinsgrundweg .

use

In order not to let the game break out during the hunt , a fence was erected in 1557 under Elector August from Großröhrsdorf through the Massenei to Stolpen . With the establishment of the Moritzburg hunting lodge by August the Strong , Stolpen Castle and with it the hunting grounds of the Massenei lost its importance, but the Saxon rulers held hunts until 1892. Since 1971 the number of wild boars has increased considerably.

In times of war, the mass egg served as a place of refuge for the residents of the area. On August 11, 1929, the now no longer existing excursion destination Waldidyll west of the Bornematzenbrücke was inaugurated. The mass egg bath was inaugurated on June 23, 1935 . From 1961 to 1991 there was an anti- aircraft missile site of the NVA at the Kleiner Stern intersection in a 360 hectare restricted area . Their team building then served for years as a temporary residence for asylum seekers . Today the intersection at the Kleiner Stern is the starting point for a nature trail . The associated club building burned down in November 2011. In 2013 it was rebuilt as the WaldHaus Kleiner Stern . The legend hiking trail also leads over the Kleiner Stern. It starts at the mass egg bath .

Say

Various legends about the mass egg are known. According to Reinhard Korn , the tradition of Bornematz , who allows hikers to carry him for a stretch (see Aufhocker ), refers to an actual incident that goes back to Matz Brückner and Born Hans Schöne . According to the entry in the Großröhrsdorf church book, both were shot in the mass egg in 1637 and have since appeared as ghosts .

Another legend tells of Berndittrich , the wild hunter at night.

literature

  • Mass egg. In: Lausitzer Bergland around Pulsnitz and Bischofswerda (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 40). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1983, pp. 134-136.
  • Gottfried Nitzsche: sagas and stories of the masses and surrounding places. Oberlausitzer Verlag, Spitzkunnersdorf 2004, ISBN 3-933827-25-6
  • Friedrich Bernhard Störzner: What the homeland tells, legends, historical images and memorable events from Saxony. Contributions to Saxon folklore and local history. Strauch, Leipzig 1904

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Lausitzer Bergland around Pulsnitz and Bischofswerda (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 40). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1983, p. 134.
  2. ↑ a b Die Massenei ( Memento from June 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) in www.waldhaus-klesz.de
  3. ↑ Birgit Buchner: Asylum accommodation - human rights activists denounce conditions in refugee camps  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), from: Frankfurter Rundschau of July 26, 2004@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / nolager.de
  4. ↑ Asylum home no longer in the Massenei (Sächsische Zeitung - Rödertal) , December 9, 2010
  5. ↑ Major fire in the Massenei forest : Peter Pirschel, head of operations and fire chief volunteer fire department Großröhrsdorf, about the fire on November 24, 2011 (current reports from the city of Großröhrsdorf)
  6. ↑ Klaus Schlieter: The roots of the Bornematz saga. In: De Bornematz'n - The secret of the mass egg forest. Klaus Schlieter, accessed on January 23, 2010 (The texts are taken from the book ”Sagen undgeschichte der Massenei” ISBN 3-933827-25-6 OLV www.oberlausitzer-verlag.de).
  7. ↑ Lausitzer Bergland around Pulsnitz and Bischofswerda (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 40). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1983, p. 134f.

Web links

Commons : Massenei  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

See also


Coordinates: 51 ° 6 '58  .3 " N , 14 ° 3' 54.3"  E