Poertritz
Pötritz is a desert in the south of the Magdeburg district of Westerhüsen .
location
The place was located approximately south of today's Pfingstwiesengraben , east of the main road from Magdeburg to Schönebeck (Elbe) .
history
The village of Pötritz existed in the Middle Ages as a settlement of Wenden near the Elbe, not far from the Heerstraße that runs along the western Elbe . It is assumed that it was laid out as a circular structure and secured with a ditch filled with water. Access was via a lockable gate. The inhabitants lived from hunting, fishing, cattle breeding, agriculture, beekeeping and shipbuilding.
In a document from 1363 the place is mentioned as Poteritz . At that time, however, the village was very small and only had two men to defend the country.
The place and the election meadow to the south served as a transshipment point for the salt arriving from Staßfurt , Sohlen and Sülldorf and loaded here on Elbe barges . In a sales contract between Magdeburg merchants and Staßfurt Pfännern dated July 1, 1372, it is stipulated that part of the goods will be loaded at Walwitz near Potheritz .
The reasons for the downfall of the village are unclear. Presumably it became desolate around 1500. In the 17th century, the place was no longer inhabited.
The Westerhüsener pastor Martin Friedrich Curio received on March 23, 1664, at his request, permission to build an inn and inn at this location with his family. As the owner of the land, the cathedral chapter of Magdeburg assigned him a property of 211 cubits free of charge. The inn must not become a hostel for incorrect and suspicious people. The inn was built on Heerstrasse to the west. Due to the continued salt traffic here, the inn initially developed positively. On March 3, 1670 Curio leased the inn to Christian Richter . The beer and wood transports were not leased, however. Friedrich Martin Curio junior , a son of Curio, later ran the tavern until his brother Salomon August Friedrich Curio took over the business in 1690 .
There were plans to conduct the brine from Sülldorf and Sohlen by means of underground pipes to Pötritz and to process it there in a boiler house to be built. The farmers of Westerhüsens wrote a protest on March 28, 1693 against the project, fearing a deterioration in the quality of the meadows. In 1693 the Salzkotten was discontinued in Sülldorf and Sohlen. A member of the Reichhelm Chamber of Commerce tried again in 1695 to obtain a permit for the construction of a salt mine. He even had 60,000 stones brought in. However, the cathedral chapter refused permission. The Brandenburg government feared that competition would arise for the state saltworks in Schönebeck.
The inn experienced a protracted decline and sank into a notorious dive bar. Criminals are said to have stayed here and shared their booty. There are also reports of illegal gambling. The cantor of the Westerhüser Church , Christoph Hainhöft , is said to have come here at night with boatmen for such games. New landlords took over the inn in close succession. 1696 Jakob Banse , 1697 Hans Herwig , 1700 Hans Christoph Ziegeler , 1705 Hans Goedecke , 1709 Hans Francke and finally in 1714 Martin Franke . On a spring night in 1730 the inn burned down. The landlord built a new inn in Westerhüsen, which was operated for a long time under the name Goldener Ring on the property at Alt Westerhüsen 158 . The Pötritzer inn was not rebuilt. From the archway of the Pötritz inn, a stone with the carved date 1664, which was described in 1931, has been preserved. His whereabouts today are unknown.
Pötritz today
Today nothing can be seen of the village or the later inn itself. In the land maps, however, there is a small parcel with the name Der Pötritz directly south of the confluence of the Pfingstwiesengraben in the Elbe . Further to the west are larger parcels with the designations Der Pöteritzer Grund and Der Pötritzer Sumpf . In the latter is the small wetland Pötritzer swamp .
Individual evidence
- ^ Siegmund Wilhelm Wohlbrück, Geschichtliche Nachrichten von dem Geschlechte Alvensleben , Third Part, Berlin 1829, page 169
- ↑ All sorts of things from eleven centuries in Westerhüser Gemeindeblätter, probably 1942
- ↑ From the country inn "Poetritz" near Westerhüsen in the Evangelisches Gemeindeblatt Magdeburg-Westerhüsen, between 1924 and 1942
- ↑ OD, Das Westerhüser Gehölz in Evangelisches Gemeindeblatt Magdeburg-Westerhüsen, between 1924 and 1942
- ↑ Friedrich Curio, Martin Friedrich Curio (~ 1615/20 - 1686), clergyman and innkeeper zu Westerhüsen in Familienforschung Today, issue 19, messages from the Working Group Genealogie Magdeburg 2005, page 39
Coordinates: 52 ° 3 ′ 8.4 " N , 11 ° 41 ′ 11.5" E