Meuscha

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Meuscha is a desert area in the border area between the cities of Dohna and Heidenau in the district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains , Saxony .

location

"Meusche" on a map from the middle of the 18th century (center)
" Vorwerg Meusche" on a map from the 19th century (top right)

The Meuscha desert is located in the district of the same name in the area of ​​the city of Dohna. It is located directly on the border with Heidenau, a little north of the center of the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district. The border of the state capital Dresden runs about one and a half kilometers to the northwest . The area of ​​the old village is used for agriculture . It is located on the summit of the Meuschaer Höhe ( 206  m above sea  level ), which drops to the east into the Müglitz valley and to the north to the Elbe valley. Neighboring, still existing settlements are Dohna in the southeast and its districts Gamig in the south and Bosewitz in the southwest as well as the Heidenau districts Wölkau in the west, Gommern in the north and Heidenau itself in the east. About one kilometer south of the desert, the Meuscha green bridge leads over the Meuschaer Höhe landscape tunnel ( federal motorway 17 ). Blochwitz, another desert, is located between Bosewitz and Meuscha.

history

Meuscha was the name of a Slavic local foundation. It was first mentioned in 1378 as "Mischow". The place name can be explained on the one hand as a derivation * Mišov from the short name Miš of a Sorbian locator, which in turn could refer to the first name "Milorad". On the other hand, the designation could also mean * Myšov in Old Sorbian * Myš (mouse), meaning “settlement where there are many mice”. Over the centuries, the place name appeared, among other things, in the forms "Myschaw", "Mischo", "Meuschaw", "Meischa" and "Meusche". Field names such as “Desert Mark Meuscha”, “Meuschaer Seite”, “Meuschaer Stück” and “Meuschaer Höhe” have been preserved up to the present day. Both in Heidenau and in Dohna streets called “Meuschaer Weg” point to the former village.

The forerunner of today's desert was a village that had existed for several centuries and was mentioned as Meuscha in 1393 and 1555. In the middle of the 16th century, five possessed men lived in Meuscha who farmed three and a half Hufen and eight residents . This village was subject to the Dohna parish , in which it was parish, and administratively belonged to the Dresden office . During the Thirty Years' War it was destroyed by Swedish troops around 1640 and not rebuilt afterwards.

A Vorwerk , first mentioned in the documents in 1656, emerged from the village . This is also mentioned in 1791, 1834 and beyond and in 1842 had a block corridor with an area of ​​95 hectares. Like the previous village, the Meuscha Vorwerk was parish off to Dohna. Since the 17th century it was connected to the Gamig manor and therefore administratively belonged to the Pirna Office . The landlords were successively the Lords of Bärenstein, the Counts of Hofkirchen, the Lords of Hanau, the Lords of Heinicke, the Counts of Bose , the Counts of Vitzthum and the Lords of Lüttichau .

On the basis of the Saxon rural community order of 1838 , Meuscha, like the neighboring Gamig, became part of the rural community Bosewitz. Due to their proximity, the municipalities of Klein- and Großluga , which are now part of Dresden, founded a joint school association with Gommern, Meuscha and Wölkau in 1841. The corresponding school house was built in Großluga by October 1841. The Meuscha Vorwerk was given up in the middle of the 19th century and the manor buildings fell into disrepair until they were finally demolished. The now undeveloped Meuschaer Flur was incorporated as part of Bosewitz in 1950 to Gorknitz and again in 1993 to Röhrsdorf , has belonged to Dohna since its incorporation in 1999 and continues to exist as an independent district. Not far from the old village, the Heidenau Albert-Schwarz-Bad was built in 1921/22 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Eichler and Hans Walther : Historical book of place names of Saxony. Volume 2, Berlin 2001.
  2. ↑ Meuscha (Wstg.) W. Dohna: taxes. In: Repertorium Saxonicum. Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (ISGV), accessed on February 3, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Meuscha w. Pirna - manor / Vorwerk. In: schlossarchiv.de. Retrieved February 3, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Grand Luga. In: dresdner-stadtteile.de. Retrieved February 3, 2014 .
  5. ^ Bosewitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  6. ^ History of Heidenau. (No longer available online.) In: elbtal.com. Archived from the original on November 16, 2004 ; Retrieved February 3, 2014 .

Web links

  • Meuscha in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 27 ″  N , 13 ° 51 ′ 2 ″  E