Mockritz (Dresden)

Mockritz District of the state capital Dresden Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 54 ″  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 29 ″  E
Height :	150 m above sea level NN
Incorporation :	April 1, 1921
Postal code :	01217
Area code :	0351
Location of the Mockritz district in Dresden

Former Mockritz Inn

Mockritz is a district of Dresden in the Plauen district . Together with Kleinpestitz it forms the statistical district of Kleinpestitz / Mockritz .

location

Mockritz is in the south of the city on the outskirts. In the north Mockritz is delimited by Zschertnitz and Strehlen , in the east by Gostritz and Leubnitz-Neuostra , in the south by the municipality of Bannewitz and in the west by Kaitz and Kleinpestitz .

Mockritz is located on the edge of the Dresden Elbe valley in the valley of the Kaitzbach and Nöthnitzbach , a small tributary of the Kaitzbach.

One of the oldest settlements north of the Ore Mountains was created here by the linear ceramicists.

history

In the well-preserved village center, Mockritz is still recognizable today as an originally Slavic Rundling . The name is also obviously of Sorbian origin, mokry means damp, wet in Sorbian and other Slavic languages .

Mockritz was first mentioned in 1350 as Mokerus and a few years later it was under the parish of the Kreuzkirche in Dresden. In addition to the water mills in the valley, agriculture dominated in Mockritz through arable farming. Mockritz was partly owned by the citizens of Dresden and partly owned by the Meissen Cathedral . In 1921 Mockritz was incorporated into Dresden and survived the Second World War without major damage.

Village center Altmockritz

Mockritzer Mill 1876

Mockritz has a village center where farms from the 18th century and mills have been preserved. The dammed mint pond for these mills was converted into a natural swimming pool, which is still in operation today. The pond was created in 1621 for the operation of the Dresden Mint on the left bank of the Elbe below the Augustus Bridge in Dresden. The minting operation was supplied with water from the Kaitzbach . The pond was used, among other things, to regulate the water requirement for coin operation.

As a result of industrialization, the loose suburban development typical of Dresden with rental houses and small villas also emerged in Mockritz.

Attractions

• historic village center Altmockritz

See also : List of cultural monuments in Mockritz (Dresden)

• Mockritz natural pool

traffic

Mockritz is connected via the bus lines 66 and 63 of the Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe and can also be reached via the tram line 11 and the bus line 75. Furthermore, the A 17 is not far away.

literature

• Cornelius Gurlitt : Mockritz. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 24. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Dresden-Altstadt (Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1904, p. 80.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Brestrich, Rengert Elburg: Die Bandkeramische Siedlung von Dresden-Mockritz (DD-27) , in: Archäologie Aktuell im Freistaat Sachsen, 4 (1996), accessed December 16, 2013.
2. ↑ Cf. Max Barduleck: The last years of the mint in Dresden, list of works 1865 to 1911 , published by Dr. Paul Anold, Berlin, 1981

Web links

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

• Mockritz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony