Otterschütz

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Otterschütz ( Sorbian Wotružnica ? / I ) is a scattered settlement in the northwest of the Bautzen district in the Free State of Saxony . It belongs proportionally to the community of Oßling and the city of Bernsdorf . Audio file / audio sample

geography

location

Otterschütz is located east of Bernsdorf in the Otterschütz forest of the same name. The settlement is located in the southwest of the Zeißholz plateau and is part of the largely flat and wooded Königsbrück heathland , in the south there is an insignificant elevation with the tail ( 175  m ). The road from Lieske to Bernsdorf runs south of Otterschütz . The Schmelzteichgraben rises north of Otterschütz and the Liesker Bach in the southern part of the settlement. To the west of the Saxonia trench is the great painting pond.

Neighboring places

Bernsdorf Family house, Saxonia Zeißholz
Bernsdorf Neighboring communities Checkthal
Straßgräbchen , Grünberg Whitish Oßling , Lieske

Place name

The name is of Sorbian origin and has nothing to do with the otter . According to Eichler, there are two plausible theories about the meaning : Either the derivation ostrož (n) ica from Old Sorbian ostrog = "fortification" (cf. Ostritz , Ostro ) or a basic form ostruž (n) ica from Old Sorbian ostruga, ostruž = "blackberry bush".

history

Saxon-Prussian boundary stone No. 130
Saxon-Prussian boundary stone No. 132

Otterschütz is probably a medieval deserted area whose forest-covered corridors are now part of the Bernsdorf , Weißig , Lieske and Zeißholz districts .

The carp ponds were first mentioned in the Otterschütz in 1506, and the ponds were owned by the Hoyerswerda estate . Whether there was a Vorwerk of the Weißig estate in Otterschütz at that time cannot be proven.

As a result of the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Otterschütz drew the Saxon-Prussian border between Bernsdorf, Zeißholz, Lieske and Weißig; Bernsdorf and Zeißholz as well as the northern property of Otterschütz became Prussian.

After a lignite and clay deposit was discovered in the heath north of Weißig, a lignite mine was established near Weißig in the middle of the 19th century - probably in the Otterschütz. However, at that time the coal between Otterschütz, Zeißholz and Johannisthal could not be obtained profitably either in opencast mining or in civil engineering because of the depravity of the seams and the ingress of water. On September 13, 1859, part of the route driven into the coal at the Weißig lignite works collapsed due to a water ingress, killing a miner. Clay mining was also difficult due to the geological conditions. The Saxon part of Otterschütz at the end of the 19th century consisted of a forester's house, two brick factories and a steam cutting mill; the forests were divided into the Biehlaische and Räckelwitzer Otterschütz.

In 1905 the Saxon Otterschütz became an independent village. To repay the loans for the construction of the Weißiger Schloss , Oskar Horst von Zehmen sought to sell the almost 97 hectare Otterschütz in 1913 for the extraction of lignite for 350,000 Reichsmarks to the city of Dresden . Von Zehmen also feared that after Eintracht Braunkohlenwerke und Brikettfabriken AG had bought the coal fields on the Prussian side, he would be obliged to expand the 4.4 km of public roads leading through Otterschütz. However, the test drilling carried out on behalf of the city showed that the heavily discarded seam in the Otterschütz, consisting of nests only, was not worth mining. After the city of Dresden withdrew from the purchase offer in 1918, von Zehmen sold the forest area for forestry use to the owner of the Bernsdorf estate, Hugo Stinnes .

The Otterschütz settlement today consists of six houses scattered in the forest, five of which belong to the Weißig district of the municipality of Oßling and one to the city of Bernsdorf .

Monuments

  • Half-timbered house Otterschütz 1 in Bernsdorf, built around 1800
  • Saxon-Prussian boundary stone Pilar No. 130 and 13 runner stones, in the forest between Otterschütz and Saxonia
  • Saxon-Prussian boundary stone Pilar No. 131 and 18 runner stones, in the forest between Otterschütz and Bernsdorf
  • Saxon-Prussian boundary stone Pilar No. 132 and 5 runner stones, in the forest between Otterschütz and Bernsdorf
  • Saxon-Prussian boundary stone Pilar No. 133 and 19 runner stones, in the forest between Otterschütz and Grünberg
  • Long walls between Otterschütz and Zeißholz, the medieval land defense facilities, also known as "Schanzen" or "Schwedenschanzen" on old maps, are part of the Liesker long wall , which stretched to Oßling and Dubring . Below the walls there are natural bodies of water with the Lange Jesor and the Schwarzen Jesor ( Gieser ).

natural reserve

Part of the Otterschütz has been protected as a FFH area Otterschütz since 2011 on an area of ​​210 hectares . In the area there are oligo- to mesotrophic small bodies of water, near-natural eutrophic ponds with silting zones, intermoor and swamp areas as well as wet grassland and dystrophic bodies of water.

tourism

The frog cycle path leads through Otterschütz from Bernsdorf to Zeißholz, where it crosses with the Krabat cycle path .

Web links

  • Otterschütz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jurij Kral : Serbsko-němski słownik hornjołužiskeje rěče. Maćica Serbska, Budyšin 1927.
  2. ↑ Ernst Eichler: Slavic place names between Spree and Neisse. Volume 3, Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1993, p. 47.
  3. ↑ http://www.weissig-sachsen.de/cms/website.php?id=/de/sehen/teiche/teiche1.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.weissig-sachsen.de/cms/website.php?id=/de/dorf/zahlen/steinbruch/erschliessung.htm
  5. ↑ http://www.weissig-sachsen.de/cms/website.php?id=/de/sehen/teiche/teiche1.htm
  6. ↑ http://www.weissig-sachsen.de/cms/website.php?id=/de/dorf/zahlen/steinbruch/niedergang.htm
  7. ↑ Brown coal plan as a renovation framework plan for the disused opencast mines in the Zeißholz area

Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′  N , 14 ° 6 ′  E