Poetzscha
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Poetzscha
City Wehlen
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 18 ″ N , 14 ° 2 ′ 10 ″ E
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| Height : | 120 m above sea level NN | |
| Residents : | 213 (December 31, 2012) | |
| Incorporation : | April 1, 1939 | |
| Postal code : | 01829 | |
| Area code : | 035020 | |
Location of Pötzscha in Saxony |
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 View from Wilke's view into the Elbe valley to the city of Wehlen (left) and Pötzscha (right), the Bastei in the background
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Pötzscha is a district of the town Stadt Wehlen in the district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains in Saxony .
geography
Pötzscha is located in the narrow valley of the river Elbe through Saxon Switzerland . It is located on the opposite bank of the central district of Stadt Wehlen and is the only part of the city on the left side of the river. The corridor of the village extends for around three kilometers in length and an average of 250 meters in width along the Elbe. The district adjoins those located on the other side of the river districts Wehlen and characters , to the Pirna district Obervogelgesang the west and to the Struppener district Naundorf in the south. To the east are the corridors of the district of Weißig , which also belongs to Struppen, and of the district of Oberrathen, which belongs to the health resort Rathen .
Immediately south of the village, the terrain rises in a step of up to 100 meters to the level of the nearby Struppener flatness , whereby the partly built-up, but otherwise wooded steep slope still belongs to the Pötzscha Flur. In Pötzscha, three arid valleys reach the Elbe valley: the westernmost from the direction of Naundorf is the Damengrund and bears the historical field name “forder Grund”, the middle one has its origin between the Great Bear Stone and Ankle and was called “Hinter Grund”; In both cases the names were given from a Naundorf or Elbe downstream perspective. The easternmost and by far the longest of the three valleys comes from the direction of Weißig and in its upper part contains the Schafbornbächel, which drains the Kleiner Bärenstein and soon seeps away. The valley separates the Bärensteine from the Rauenstein as well as their upstream rocks or mountain ranges ankle and goose; the stream that runs through the valley, which only carries a lot of water periodically, but then often is called Saugel. The bastion rises barely three kilometers east of the village, within sight of the Elbe .
The district road 8733 (Robert-Sterl-Straße) from Pötzscha to Struppen is the only connection to the public road network. It is named after the painter Robert Sterl , who lived immediately south of the Pötzscha corridor boundary in his Naundorf house, which is also where the Malerweg leads past. Another long-distance hiking trail, the Lausitzer Schlange , leads through the village. The Děčín – Dresden-Neustadt railway runs through Pötzscha . The S 1 line of the Dresden S-Bahn stops at the Stadt Wehlen (Sachs) stop, which is located on Bahnhofstrasse in Pötzscha. From Bahnhofstrasse, Fährstrasse and Dampfschiffstrasse branch off down to Treidlerweg, where a parking lot and the pier for the RVSOE- operated ferry to Wehlen are located. The Elberadweg leads on the mountain side of the railway line along the Rathener and Obervogelgesanger Weg through the village. At the western end of Saarstrasse in Pötzscha is the Stadt Wehlen adventure pool.
history
The place name is of Slavic origin, but when it was first mentioned as "Betzscha" in the Reimann map from 1501, it was handed down comparatively late. Therefore, according to Eichler and Walther, the exact origin cannot be determined. On the one hand, the old Sorbian form * Bečov- comes into question - this can be a derivation of the locator names * Beč or * Bek or refer to * beč, which translates as 'barrel' or in the topographical sense as 'deepening, hollow' leaves. On the other hand, the reconstructed original form * Pečov- is possible, based on the first names * Peč or * Pek or the Old Sorbian word * pec for 'oven'. In the further course of the 16th century the place was u. a. mentioned as "Betzschaw", "Betschau" and "Pezscha". In the 17th century the locations "Pezschka" and "zur Petzsche" appear in the documents. In the 18th century the current form prevailed, but in 1875 “Pötzschau” was still in use.
As eight gardeners and seven residents were already resident in 1548 and jointly cultivated two Hufen land, historians assume that the place that emerged as a row of houses was already settled in the 15th century. For a long time Pötzscha was mainly a bombing and fishing settlement. From the middle of the 17th to the 19th century, the up to twelve stone quarries in the corridors of the village also played an important role in its economy. Since June 17, 1771 the official right to operate the ferry between the city of Wehlen and Pötzscha exists; The Wehlen-Bastei ferry was used there in the 20th century . The place was already parish in 1539 in nearby Struppen, only around 1940 did Pötzscha move to the parish town of Wehlen.
From 1548 until the 19th century, Pötzscha had the status of an official village and was therefore directly subordinate to the Pirna Office and the temporarily existing offices of Pirna-Rathen and Pirna left of the Elbe in terms of manorial, hereditary court and administrative matters . On the basis of the rural community code of 1838 , Pötzscha gained its independence as a rural community . In 1856 it belonged to the Pirna court office and then came to the Pirna District Administration (renamed the Pirna district in 1939 ). On April 1, 1939, Pötzscha, whose parcel area was around 77 hectares in 1900, was incorporated into the city of Wehlen , as part of which it belonged to the Pirna district during the GDR and to the Saxon Switzerland district from 1994 .
Pötzscha remained in its original extent until the 19th century. Only in 1832/33 was another built-up plot of land added with the construction of a mill. Pötzscha received a railway connection in 1851; since the incorporation in 1939, the breakpoint only bears the name of the city of Wehlen. From the 19th century onwards, the better accessibility also favored the development of tourism in the town, which with its surroundings became a destination especially for residents of the nearby royal seat of Dresden . The former station building, built around 1930, is one of the seven cultural monuments in Pötzscha .
The S-Bahn stop is the starting point for the mountain test at Wehlen , which has been held annually since 1980 ; The Upper Elbe Marathon also runs through the town every year. Until 1944 there was also a landing stage for the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company in Pötzscha . Due to its location, the place is repeatedly affected by the Elbe floods, including in 1845 , 2002 and 2013 . The most famous inhabitant of the place was the geographer, ethnologist and statistician Richard Mucke (1846–1925), who came from Pirna and who spent his old age in Pötzscha. At Rathener Weg 3, he bought a piece of land in 1887 and had the now listed Villa Dorpat built on it, named after his long-term place of activity, Dorpat in what is now Estonia.
Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 1548/51 | 8 gardeners , 7 residents |
| 1764 | 7 possessed man |
| 1834 | 50 |
| 1871 | 97 |
| 1890 | 108 |
| 1925 | 257 |
| 2003 | 260 |
| 2004 | 266 |
| 2005 | 264 |
| 2006 | 252 |
| 2007 | 247 |
| 2008 | 238 |
| 2009 | 221 |
| 2010 | 211 |
| 2011 | 216 |
| 2012 | 213 |
| 2013 | 199 |
| 2014 | 202 |
| 2015 | 198 |
| 2016 | 206 |
Web links
- Pötzscha in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Website of Pötzscha
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Eichler / Hans Walther : Historical book of place names of Saxony. Vol. 2, Berlin 2001. p. 210.
- ↑ Klaus Stein: Ferry Pötzscha - Stadt Wehlen Km 26.0. In: Ferries and shipping on the Upper Elbe in Saxony and Bohemia. faehren-der-oberelbe.de , accessed on November 18, 2013.
- ^ The history of Villa Dorpat ( memento from December 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 18, 2013.
- ↑ 1548–1925: Pötzscha in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- ↑ Since 2003: As of December 31, data source: State Statistical Office of Saxony
