Obervogelgesang

Obervogelgesang Large district town of Pirna Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 38 ″  N , 14 ° 0 ′ 31 ″  E
Residents :	80  (December 31, 2011)
Incorporation :	April 1, 1974
Postal code :	01796
Area code :	03501
Location of Obervogelgesang in Saxony

Obervogelgesang is a district of the Saxon major district town of Pirna in the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district . The left Elvish village has belonged to Pirna since 1974.

geography

Obervogelgesang station

Obervogelgesang is located about five kilometers southeast of the city center of Pirna on an Elbe bend. The village is stretched along the river bank with houses lined up next to each other, only around the train station is a kind of settlement core. The Struppenbach also flows into the Elbe at this point . Obervogelgesang is located in the part of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains called Saxon Switzerland . At the top Elbhang comes daphne ago. The narrow corridor of the place covers only part of the Elbe and its wooded slope, agriculture can hardly be practiced in these areas.

The place is best known for the "Obervogelgesang (Kr. Pirna)" stop on the Děčín – Dresden-Neustadt railway line . This is served by the Dresden S-Bahn line S1 ( Meißen - Schöna ). The railway line runs through the entire corridor of the district and shapes the townscape with its high sandstone wall. Obervogelgesang can be reached by car via Struppen or Niedervogelgesang . The connection to Niedervogelgesang leading from the village to the west is also part of the Elberadweg . Its eastern continuation (towards the city ​​of Wehlen ) may only be used by residents.

Obervogelgesang forms its own local marker , the dimensions of which are similar to those of the Obervogelgesang community, which was independent until 1974. In the north there are signs adjacent. In the east the district borders on Pötzscha (both to Stadt Wehlen), in the southeast on Naundorf (to Struppen) and in the south on the Struppener district. The western boundary Obervogelgesang forms Niedervogelgesang, the northwestern Ober- u. Niederposta (each to Pirna).

Within Pirnas, Obervogelgesang and Niedervogelgesang are part of the “Pirna-Innenstadt” district.

history

Obervogelgesang (right, top center) and surroundings in the Topographical Atlas of the Kingdom of Saxony .

Population
development

year	Residents
1834	157
1871	148
1890	155
1910	170
1925	169
1933	185
1939	191
1946	205
1950	192
1964	169
→ Pirna

Obervogelgesang is mentioned for the first time in 1539 as a king's nose and emerged from a Vorwerk . In 1548 birdsong was also used as a place name. At the end of the 16th century, both name variants existed side by side. Vogelgesangk was mentioned in 1628 . The distinction between upper and lower bird song appeared for the first time in 1651, when upper bird song was mentioned.

In the early modern period , Obervogelgesang was administered from Pirna. At the end of the 16th century, the place already belonged to the Pirna Office , then from 1856 to the Pirna Court Office. From 1875, the administration was then the responsibility of the Pirna authorities . Before Obervogelgesang was given independence as a rural community by the Saxon rural community order in 1838, the place was characterized by the feudal system . The manor Kleinstruppen exercised the manorial rule over six cottagers and three residents in 1554 . After the end of the Seven Years' War (1756–1763), the manor had the manor over four gardeners and 17 cottagers.

In 1900, a 36 stretched around the cottagers series Obervogelgesang hectares large parcels hall , operated whose inhabitants mainly fishing and working in the nearby fields. In 1834 157 people lived in Obervogelgesang, in 1890 there were 155. Then the population rose again slightly to 169 in 1925. The majority of the people in the village (162 of 169) belonged to the Evangelical Lutheran parish in Struppen. Already in the 16th century the place was parish in the local church. Today Obervogelgesang and the surrounding villages are still in the Struppen church.

At the end of 1938, the official name of the municipality was changed from Obervogelgesang (Saxon Switzerland) to Obervogelgesang (Pirna district) , as the name of the landscape "Saxon Switzerland" was not desired during National Socialism . The state of Saxony came into the Soviet occupation zone after the Second World War and later became part of the GDR . After the end of the war, the number of inhabitants reached the determined high of 205 inhabitants in 1946. The historically grown affiliation to Pirna was retained even after the territorial reform in 1952 , which assigned Obervogelgesang as an independent municipality to the Pirna district in the Dresden district. The rural life in the place was now based on the principle of agriculture in the GDR . The communal independence of Obervogelgesangs, which was achieved in 1838, ended on April 1, 1974 when it was incorporated into Pirna. The neighboring village of Niedervogelgesang had been part of the city since 1923. By the time it was incorporated, the number of inhabitants had declined significantly; in 1964, 169 people still lived in the village.

After the German reunification , Obervogelgesang came to the re-established Free State of Saxony. The following regional reforms in the state assigned Pirna to the Saxon Switzerland district in 1994 and the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district in 2008 . At the end of 2011, 80 people lived in Obervogelgesang.

Attractions

The Gasthof Obervogelgesang

Six objects in the Obervogelgesang are listed and are therefore on the list of Pirna cultural monuments . In addition to the train station and the inn in the village, several residential buildings have also been placed under this special protection. The Elbe Cycle Path, leading through Obervogelgesang, is one of the most popular long-distance cycle paths in Germany. The Elbe Cycle Path is over 1200 kilometers long and connects the Czech Republic with the North Sea.

Web links

Commons : Obervogelgesang  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Obervogelgesang in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the city of Pirna 2011 - subdivision into city districts and age groups. ( PDF ; 21 kB) In: Statistical yearbook of the city of Pirna. Pirna city administration, accessed on May 22, 2013 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Obervogelgesang in the digital historical place directory of Saxony
3. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Pirna. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
4. ↑ With the incorporation of Obervogelgesangs into Pirna in 1974, only official population figures were collected for the entire city.
5. ^ Rolf Jehke: Remaining communities. In: Territorial changes in Germany and German administered areas 1874 - 1945. Retrieved on May 22, 2013 . 
6. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
7. ↑ List of cultural monuments for the urban area of ​​Pirna according to streets and house numbers - as of 08/14/2008. (PDF; 41 kB) (No longer available online.) In: pirna.de. City administration of Pirna, archived from the original on January 25, 2016 ; Retrieved May 22, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.