Postelwitz

Postelwitz Bad Schandau municipality Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 45 " N , 14 ° 10 ′ 33" E
Height :	230 m above sea level NN
Residents :	269 (May 9, 2011)
Incorporation :	April 1, 1934
Postal code :	01814
Area code :	035022
Location of Postelwitz in Saxony

Postelwitz is a district of the city of Bad Schandau in the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district .

geography

Postelwitz is located southeast of the Saxon state capital Dresden in Saxon Switzerland . It is located in the east of the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district in the Saxon Switzerland National Park . Postelwitz lies, pressed close to the rocky slope, in the narrow breakthrough valley of the Elbe through the Elbe Sandstone Mountains . Immediately north of the village, which essentially consists of a single row of houses, there is a more than 100 meter high terrain step from the Elbe valley up to the Ostrauer Scheibe , a flat area , and to the rock group of the Schrammsteine , whose peaks are around 300 meters above the village. The Postelwitz parcel corridor covers 78 hectares; with a width of often only a little more than 100 meters, it extends over a length of more than 4.5 kilometers and extends from the right bank of the Elbe below the Rauschenstein to the area opposite the confluence of the Krippenbach .

Postelwitz is the only district of Bad Schandau that does not directly border on districts of other communities. Neighboring to the west is Bad Schandau, to the north its district Ostrau and southeast Schmilka . To the southwest on the opposite, orographically left bank of the Elbe, lies cribs . Nearby places are also Mittelndorf , a district of Sebnitz separated from Postelwitz by Ostrauer Flur as the next place north of the Schrammsteine, and south of Reinhardtsdorf , municipality of Reinhardtsdorf-Schöna , on the flatness of the left Elbe.

The most important road on Postelwitzer Flur is the federal highway 172 from Pirna to the Czech border on its section between Bad Schandau and Schmilka. It opens up a large part of the place. From here the road branches off through the Zahnsgrund, which, as district road 8740, establishes the connection to Ostrau. Postelwitz is connected to the regional bus network of Saxon Switzerland and Eastern Ore Mountains (RVSOE) .

East of the Zahnsgrund are the roughly two-kilometer-long Postelwitz quarries, in which fine to medium-grain Elbe sandstone from the Middle Turons was extracted and which were among the most important sandstone quarries in the region. The strata resulted in sandstone blocks with differentiated physical and geochemical properties that correspond to the Posta and Cotta types. The most sought-after quality for sculpting purposes comes from the lowest excavated layer, a 4.5 m thick layer with good weather resistance. The layers above were sold for building purposes. The oldest evidence of the dismantling in the Zahnsgrund near Postelwitz is dated 1638 and refers to the construction of the church tower in Bad Schandau. The raw blocks were extracted by the dangerous "wall falling". The local quarry had to be closed in 1907 in the course of the construction of the valley road.

The material broken there was used, among other things, in the construction of the Church of St. Nikolai in Potsdam and the Schwerin Palace , but also in the Zwinger , Frauenkirche and other well-known Dresden buildings. The preserved half-timbered houses No. 55-67, the so-called "Seven Brothers Houses" go back to a legend in which a boatman is said to have built a house for his sons. But his own building would have towered over them all. High water marks of the Elbe are attached to houses nos. 43 and 69 as well as to the ferryman's house .

literature

Between Sebnitz, Hinterhermsdorf and the Zschirnsteinen (= values of the German homeland . Volume 2). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1959, p. 70 ff.

Arthur Glootz: The Schandauer Chronicle. Bad Schandau 1917

Web links

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

Postelwitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Districts of Bad Schandau on the city's website

Individual evidence

^ Population, households, families as well as buildings and apartments on May 9, 2011 according to parts of the municipality. (PDF; 770 kB) In: Kleinräumiges Gemeindeblatt Census 2011. State Statistical Office Saxony , accessed on October 4, 2016 .
↑ Angela Ehling, Heiner Siedel and others: Building sand stones in Germany. Volume 2: Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Silesia (Poland) . Federal Institute for Geosciences and Raw Materials , Hanover 2011, ISBN 978-3-510-95985-3 , pp. 215, 241–243, 246.

[EWZ-1] Population, households, families as well as buildings and apartments on May 9, 2011 according to parts of the municipality. (PDF; 770 kB) In: Kleinräumiges Gemeindeblatt Census 2011. State Statistical Office Saxony , accessed on October 4, 2016 .

[2] Angela Ehling, Heiner Siedel and others: Building sand stones in Germany. Volume 2: Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Silesia (Poland) . Federal Institute for Geosciences and Raw Materials , Hanover 2011, ISBN 978-3-510-95985-3 , pp. 215, 241–243, 246.