Ploschwitz

Ploschwitz community Müglitztal Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 30 ″  N , 13 ° 51 ′ 5 ″  E
Height :	230 m above sea level NN
Incorporation :	April 1, 1994
Postal code :	01809
Area code :	035027

Ploschwitz is a district of the municipality of Müglitztal in the district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains , Saxony .

geography

Ploschwitz is located in the far north of the municipality of Müglitztal. It is located on a plateau on the orographic left and 80 meters above the valley of the Müglitz, southeast of Dresden . In the east the boundary extends to the beginning of the steep drop into the Müglitztal, in the north-west the land border runs along the Spargrundbach. There is also a steep wooded slope, which is protected as a nature reserve "Spargrund bei Dohna". Ploschwitz is a farmer's hamlet . The block corridor around the place had an area of ​​about 89 hectares in 1842.

The only neighboring district of Müglitztal is Falkenhain in the south. In the west, north and east its corridors border on the urban area of Dohna . The dohna castle is an abundant kilometers north. The Dohna districts of Sürßen and Köttewitz are the closest places to the north-west and east.

The road runs through Ploschwitz from Dohna via Falkenhain, Crotta and Schmorsdorf to Maxen . In the nearby Falkenhain there is a bus stop of the bus line 202 of the Dreßler travel service . It is the only public transport connection in the area and provides the connection to Heidenau and Mühlbach .

history

Ploschwitz on a map from the 19th century

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1347/49 as "Ploskewicz". After that, several different spellings were in use, including "Pluschkewicz", "Ploschkewitz", "Plieschwiczs", "Pulßwicz" and "Ploschennitz". The current form of the place name is documented among others in 1555 and 1791. There are two approaches to its origin. According to the first theory, the place name is derived from the Old Sorbian * Płoskovica to * płosky (dt .: flat) and could thus be translated as "settlement on the plain". According to the other theory, the place name was originally * Płosch (k) ovici and thus goes back to a personal name. This Slavic locator could have been called Płosch, Płoch or Płoschk, the translation of the place name Ploschwitz is "settlement of the people of a Płosch (or Płoch or Płoschk)".

In the middle of the 16th century, Ploschwitz was an official village, the interest of which went to the Pirna office. A share was subject to Christoph von Carlowitz, as the owner of the Zusendorf manor . The Ploschwitz farmers cultivated about 5¼ Hufen of land in 1548/51 , then in 1764 four Hufen of 26 bushels each. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the owners of the manor were practicing Zehista the basic rule out in the town. The administration of Ploschwitz was initially incumbent on the Pirna Office and in 1856 then the Pirna Court Office.

Ploschwitz was never an independent municipality, but was part of Falkenhain when it became a rural municipality on the basis of the rural municipality order of 1838 . Falkenhain and Ploschwitz belonged to the Pirna administration in 1875 , and then to the Pirna district during the GDR . In 1974 Ploschwitz came as part of Falkenhain through incorporation into Maxen, which in 1994 merged with other municipalities to form Müglitztal. The place has been parish for centuries after Dohna in the Marienkirche .

Population development

year	Residents
1551	4 possessed men , 13 residents
1764	4 possessed men , 1 gardener, 3 cottagers
1834	55
1871	83
1890	75
1910	see Falkenhain

Web links

• Ploschwitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

References and footnotes

1. ^ Friedemann Klenke: Nature Reserves in Saxony State Ministry for Environment and Agriculture, Dresden 2008, p. 348f.
2. ^ Ernst Eichler / Hans Walther : Historical book of place names of Saxony. Vol. 2, Berlin 2001. p. 187.