Nikolsdorf (Königstein)

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Nikolsdorf is a village in the Saxon town of Königstein (Saxon Switzerland) in the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district . Nikolsdorf is located directly east of Leupoldishain , with which it also forms the district of the same name.

history

Location of Nikolsdorf near Leupoldishain (1821/1822)

Like Leupoldishain, Nikolsdorf was created by clearing as a forest hoof village during the German settlement in the east . The first documented mention of Niklasdorf (as with Leupoldishain) dates back to 1379. Later forms of name are Nickelstorff (1445), Nickelßdorff (1548) and Nicolsdorf (1791). The village is probably named after its locator , who was probably called Nikolaus or Niklas.

year Residents
1834 45
1855 81
1871 67
1890 117

The village was never very big, in the middle of the 16th century there were four possessed men who worked on 2 1 ⁄ 2   Hufen . A good 200 years later, in 1764, a year after the Seven Years' War (1756–1763), there were three possessed men and four cottages in the village. A good 90 years later, 15 families were counted in 9 residential buildings with a total of 81 inhabitants. In the late 19th century, Nikolsdorf temporarily had over 100 inhabitants.

To the south of the district lie the Nikolsdorfer Walls , a sandstone plateau that is deeply structured by several grounds and breaks off all around with steep rock walls up to 30 meters high. The Nikolsdorfer walls and especially the rock group of the labyrinth to the south are a popular hiking destination. Since 1959 there has been an open-air theater in Bärs Grund, the eastern of the grounds that run into the walls from the north .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nikolsdorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  2. ^ History. Leupoldishain.de, accessed on February 2, 2013 .
  3. ↑ The number of buildings, family households and residents in the cities and rural communities of the new judicial districts of the Kingdom of Saxony . In: Journal of the Statistical Bureau of the Royal. Saxon. Ministry of the Interior . No. 11 u. 12, 1856, pp. 178 ( digitized in Google book search).
  4. ↑ Gerhard Engelmann: In the south of the Barbarine (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 3). 2nd Edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1960, p. 15.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 15 "  N , 14 ° 2 ′ 20"  E