Mergendorf

Mergendorf Large district town Riesa Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 13 ″  N , 13 ° 18 ′ 44 ″  E
Area :	27.7 km²
Residents :	324  (1950)
Population density :	12 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1961
Incorporated into:	Riesa
Postal code :	01587
Area code :	03525
Location of Mergendorf in Saxony
Map from 1840

Mergendorf is a district of the Saxon town of Riesa in the district of Meißen .

geography

The village is located south of Riesa, west of Poppitz , east of Pausitz , northeast of Nickritz and Gostewitz and north of Prausitz . Mergendorf is 4 to 10 meters above the Aue of the Jahna , close to the Mühlgraben, which was branched off from the brook in the Pausitzer Wiesen. The village was specified in 1900 as a square village with a strip structure similar to that of a winch and a size of 277 hectares.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1214 as Sentemariendorf. Mergendorf's name was changed several times, so the place was called in 1233 villa St. Mariae , 1234 villa Sancte Marie , 1266 Henricus dictus de Mergendorf , 1297 Mariendorf , 1334 Mergendorf , 1378 Mergindorf and Mergendorf in 1547. The place name Sentemariendorf, den Mergendorf 1214 is a form that perhaps creates a connection to the nuns of the Riesa monastery named Marienmägte in 1274. The area was settled much earlier, so two prehistoric sites have become known from the vicinity of the place. About 300 meters west of Mergendorf there is a larger cremation cemetery of the Bronze Age Lusatian culture on the southern bank of the Jahna and 250 meters south of the village on the road to Prausitz there is a skeleton cemetery from the oldest Bronze Age ( Aunjetitz culture ). In 1214 the village belonged to the Riesa monastery as a manorial estate , and the grain decem was paid to the provost of Meißen. In 1378 Mergendorf was administered by the Castrum Meißen and the Supanie Riesa and pays the margrave. After the Reformation in 1547, 1764 and 1816 it was administered by the Meissen Hereditary Office, in 1856 by the Grossenhain Court Office and in 1874 by the Grossenhain Authority. After the Reformation, the court was at the Riesa manor. Blasius Biettigk was a judge in 1581 and also in 1591; Uler Kießling and Gge. Cuckoo are lay judges.

Mergendorf was 18 Hufen tall in 1233 and a mill belonged to the place, in 1547 the place was 18 Hufen tall and was inhabited by 14 possessed men. In 1600 the village consisted of seven farmers, three gardeners and two cottagers, a total of twelve men. In 1604 Hans Hironymus sold his mill to Mattes Reichel von Waldheim for 1700 guilders. In 1266 a manor in Mergendorf is mentioned and in the same year a water mill . In 1661 there were 18 taxpayers living in Mergendorf, there were 6 estates, 1 Gütlein, 7 Halbhüfner and 4 wild threshing gardeners, in 1721 18 men lived there, 1 man had 2.5 hooves, 5 men each 2 hooves, 1 man 1.5 hooves, 1 Man 1 hoof, 6 men each 0.5 hooves and 4 gardeners.

After the dissolution of the Riesa monastery to which the villagers were subordinate, the Riesa manor took over its rights. The place was parish off to Riesa and it remained that way from 1555 and 1930 to 2003. In 1925, 160 inhabitants of Mergendorf were Evangelical-Lutheran , 4 inhabitants were Catholic and 7 inhabitants belonged to other denominations. The Saxon rural community order of 1838 gave the village independence as a rural community. There was a hiking school in Mergendorf until 1837, after which Mergendorf formed a school association with Poppitz. In 1840 54 students were taught in two classes. In the years 1892/93 a school was built in Mergendorf on the corridor border to Poppitz and in 1900 extensions were made. In September 1882 an imperial parade was held on the Mergendorf corridor. Saxons came after the Second World War in the Soviet zone of occupation and later the GDR . After the territorial reform in 1952 , Mergendorf was assigned to the Riesa district in the Dresden district . On September 1, 1961, the place was incorporated into Riesa . After the German reunification , Mergendorf came to the re-established Free State of Saxony . The following regional reforms in Saxony assigned the district to the Riesa-Großenhain district in 1994 and to the Meißen district in 2008.

Population development

year Residents 1552 14 possessed men , 9 residents , 18 hooves 1764 17 possessed men , 19 hooves 24–30 bushels each 1834 137 1871 119 1890 137 1910 165

year Residents 1925 171 1933 188 1939 267 1946 295 1950 324 1961 → Riesa

literature

• Otto Mörtzsch : Mergendorf . In: Historical-topographical description of the administrative authority in Großenhain . Verl. Landesverein Sächs. Heimatschutz, Dresden 1935, p. 55 ( SLUB Dresden [accessed December 27, 2017]).
• About Oschatz and Riesa (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 30). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1977, p. 131.
• Saxony's church gallery. 7th volume. The Grossenhain, Radeberg and Bischofswerda inspections . Dresden 1840. Page 89 ( online. , Accessed December 27, 2017)

Web links

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

• The genealogical place directory The database of current and historical place data Mergendorf on the website of the Verein für Computergenealogie
• Mergendorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mergen village in historical digital gazetteer of Saxony .
2. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Grossenhain district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
3. ↑ With the incorporation of Mergendorf into Riesa in 1961, only official population figures were collected for the entire community.