Pennrich

This article describes the place. For the member of the state parliament see Jakob Pennrich

Pennrich District of the state capital Dresden Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 35 ″  N , 13 ° 37 ′ 31 ″  E
Height :	286 m
Area :	2 km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 1950
Incorporated into:	Gompitz
Postal code :	01156
Area code :	0351
Location of the Pennrich suburb in Dresden

Pennrich village center

Pennrich is an urban village on the western outskirts of Dresden . Today it belongs to the village of Gompitz .

geography

The district Pennrich belongs to the statistical district Gompitz / Altfranken , within which it forms the statistical district 993 Pennrich.

Pennrich can be reached via the federal highway 17 (exit Dresden-Gorbitz), the federal highway 173 . The Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG serve the district with the tram line 7. The city bus line 91 from Satra Eberhardt connects Pennrich with Unkersdorf, Brabschütz, Merbitz and Cotta.

The following streets belong to Pennrich:

• Pennricher Feldrain ( renamed 2008; formerly: Am Feldrain )
• At the Zschonergrund
• Altnossener Straße ( serves as a thoroughfare )
• Gärtnerweg
• Gompitzer Höhe
• Kohlsdorfer Weg
• Zum Jammertal ( named after the fallen and wounded, probably during the Hussite Wars )
• Mühlwiesenweg
• Oskar-Maune-Straße ( connection to the B173 )
• Pennricher height
• Pennricher ring
• Podemuser Street
• Forest view
• To the Schmiedeberg

Pennrich located in the eastern part of the Meissner highlands designated Lösshügelgebietes . The protected Zschonergrund extends near Pennrich .

history

Plan of the battle near Kesselsdorf , in the course of which Pennrich suffered destruction

Like the neighboring villages, Pennrich emerged as a round hamlet in the Middle Ages . In 1378 the place is mentioned for the first time in a directory of the Dresden office . Around 1496 the place was still called Penerik - Ranczwicz , which suggests an older Slavic settlement. The name Pennrich could come from the Old Sorbian name for a horse mackerel ( pnar , to "pen" for "stick", "tree stump") and thus mean "settlement where cleared". A connection with the Meissen bishop Benno is unlikely , since Pennrich was only under the Meissen cathedral chapter and the Seusslitz monastery in the 15th century .

Agriculture shaped the place for centuries.

The Hussite Wars (1429), the Thirty Years War (1632), the Battle of Kesselsdorf (1745) and the Battle of Dresden (1813) affected the town. A mass grave on the Schindanger near the school still reminds of these events.

The electoral Vorwerk zu Pennrich was built in the 17th century .

Pennrich was still a farming village in the 19th century. In 1839 a rural community was formed from the seven estates , while the now royal Saxon Vorwerk remained an independent manor district . Together with the neighboring village of Gompitz, Pennrich formed a "home district", which u. a. the common poor relief as well as the formation of a common fire brigade included.

The Gompitz local authority , which also administers the neighboring village of Altfranken , is based in Pennrich . ⊙

In 1870 the place received a new poor house, in 1879 a new school, which was also responsible for the neighboring villages of Gompitz and Zöllmen . In addition, a number of smaller businesses and a brick factory were built on Wilsdruffer Strasse. Nevertheless, agriculture remained the dominant industry. After the First World War , the place developed more and more into a suburban community. On July 1, 1950, Pennrich was incorporated into the community of Gompitz with around 500 residents.

Due to the suburbanization of the residential areas, a large number of single-family houses were built in Pennrich after the German reunification in 1990, so that the population grew considerably. A construction and furniture wholesale market, a hotel and an American fast food restaurant were built on the B 173 in the Gompitz industrial park.

In 1999 the Gompitz community, which had grown together with Dresden, moved from the Meißen district to the state capital Dresden.

Personalities

• Felix Graf von Luckner (1881–1966), German naval officer and writer

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Pennrich

literature

• Friedrich August Leßke : Contributions to the history and description of the villages Ober- and Niedergorbitz, Wölfnitz, Pennrich, Naußlitz and Neunimptsch. Self-published, Deuben 1896 ( digitized version ).

supporting documents

1. ↑ Altnossener Str. 46A - Google Maps. In: google.at. Retrieved August 6, 2017 . 

Web links

Commons : Pennrich  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description of the Pennrich district
• Pennrich in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony