Merbitz (Dresden)

Merbitz District of the state capital Dresden Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 3 ″  N , 13 ° 38 ′ 24 ″  E
Height :	160–250 m above sea level NN
Area :	1.21 km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 1950
Incorporated into:	Brabuetz
Postal code :	01156
Area code :	0351
Location of the Merbitz district in Dresden

Merbitz is a district in the west of the Saxon state capital Dresden , which has been part of the municipality or locality Mobschatz since 1994 . The name Merbitz is probably derived from the first name of the Sorbian locator Miran .

geography

Village center

Merbitz located 7 km west of Dresden city center, the interior of the old town , on the left bank, Meissner highlands called Lösshochfläche . The edge of the Elbe valley is only a good 1 km further northeast. Adjacent districts are the other Mobschatz districts Podemus in the southwest, Alt-Leuteritz in the northwest and Mobschatz in the northeast. In the neighborhood of Merbitz also are the Gompitzer district Ockerwitz in the south and already the district Cotta associated Omsewitz the east. The district or the identical area Merbitz is part of Dresden's statistical district Cossebaude / Mobschatz / Oberwartha .

The south-eastern boundary of the district to Ockerwitz and Omsewitz runs in the Zschonergrund . Here is also 160  m above sea level. NN the deepest point of the demarcation. About the Merbitzer hallway of the runs at an almost 1-km long section east motorway interchange Dresden-West , the A 4 . She passes the at a height of 220  m above sea level. NN located Merbitz town center only 300 m away and is crossed here by the Merbitz bridge. Merbitz has retained its original village character thanks to the preserved town center and the still largely undeveloped corridor. Several old farms are still standing on the village square. Many of them were rebuilt after the village fire of 1815. In addition, a small industrial area was created after 1990 .

history

The originally Slavic, dead-end, extended Rundling Merbitz was probably built as early as the 10th century and was first mentioned in a deed of donation as Merenwicz on July 24, 1332, when the village became the property of the St. Afra Monastery in Meißen . The place name is derived from the Old Sorbian personal name "Miran" or "Miron" and then developed quite straightforwardly and quickly. The name forms Morenwicz (1378), Merenwitz (1402) and Merewicz (1445) have been handed down in writing . The current name of Merbitz appears in the years 1524 and 1551.

Merbitz and its neighboring villages on a map from 1821

Merbitz was equipped with a block corridor and was divided roughly in a ratio of 2: 1 between the Meißner Augustinian canons monastery and the Dresden bourgeois family Busmann . The smaller part went to the Dresden Maternihospital in 1429 and the monastery property came to Dietrich von Miltitz in 1445 , who exercised his manorial rule from the nearby Scharfenberg Castle . In 1580, a financially distressed successor to Dietrich sold his part of the village to the Saxon Elector August . Merbitz thus became the administrative village of the office or the administrative authority of Dresden . The village was divided into two, however, until the 19th century . It was parish to Briesnitz since the 16th century .

Agriculture and animal husbandry were initially the most common occupations of the local farmers. In 1700, a decree of Augustus the Strong encouraged fruit growing. In order to gain space for the numerous new plantings, even the slope of the Zschonergrund has been cleared since the 17th century . Viticulture was also practiced, as evidenced by a preserved farm vineyard from the 18th century . Until the First World War , numerous harvest workers from all parts of the German Reich supported the cherry harvest.

In 1830 the theologian and publicist Carl Christian Ernst Richter (1795–1863) lived in the village for a few months. He was editor of the only independent and government-critical newspaper Biene in Saxony and emigrated to America after it was banned in 1837. He thus had a share in the later introduction of bourgeois reforms in what is now the kingdom, which were a consequence of the Dresden May uprising in 1849. In the middle of the 19th century, Merbitz became an independent rural community and in 1857 entered into a school community with Brabschütz . Since July 1, 1950, it had been a district of Brabschütz and came with this in 1994 to the municipality of Mobschatz, which in turn was incorporated into Dresden on January 1, 1999 .

Country hotel "Merbitzer Hof"

Village center

Population development

year Residents 1547 6 possessed men , 2 residents 1764 11 possessed men, 1 cottage owner 1834 113 1871 110 1890 144 1910 171 1925 150 1939 146 1946 156 1950 see Brabuetz

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Merbitz (Dresden)
• List of streets and squares in Merbitz (Dresden)

Web links

Commons : Merbitz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Merbitz district
• Dresden-Merbitz
• Merbitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mobschatz village. In: dresden-lexikon.de. Retrieved July 7, 2016 . 
2. ^ District 90 - Cossebaude / Mobschatz / Oberwartha. (PDF; 342 kB) In: dresden.de. Retrieved July 7, 2016 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Merbitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
4. ↑ Merbitz in the Repertorium Saxonicum
5. ↑ Merbitz. In: dresdner-stadtteile.de. Retrieved July 7, 2016 . 
6. ↑ History and present of the districts. In: dresden.de. Retrieved July 7, 2016 .