Potschappel

This article describes the village of Potschappel . For places with a similar name, see Potschapl .

Potschappel Large district town of Freital Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 48 ″  N , 13 ° 39 ′ 42 ″  E
Area :	2.23 km²
Residents :	5468  (December 31, 2017)
Population density :	2,452 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	October 1, 1921
Postal code :	01705
Area code :	0351
Location of Potschappel in Freital
The Weißeritz in Potschappel

Potschappel ( Sorbian Počaplicy ) is one of the 15 districts of the Saxon large district town of Freital in the district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains . It has been part of the city since its foundation in 1921 and, along with Deuben and Döhlen, is part of the center of Freital.

geography

The place arose around where the Döhlen Basin narrows to the Plauen reason in the north . The Plauensche Grund is a valley of the Weißeritz , which originated in Hainsberg from the confluence of the Roter and Wilder Weißeritz and flows into the Elbe at Cotta . The Weißeritz flows through the district over a length of about one and a half kilometers and has the Wiederitz as a left tributary , which rises near Kesselsdorf and flows through the northern Freitaler districts to Potschappel. The place is about seven kilometers southwest of Dresden city center and borders directly on districts of the state capital.

Potschappel is located in the northeast of the Freital city area and extends mainly from northwest to southeast over an area of ​​around 2.3 square kilometers. The north-western end of the district is roughly marked by the confluence of the Hammerbach and the Wiederitz. The district boundary then runs along the Wiederitz down into the Döhlen basin, the northern boundary is formed by Burgwartsberg and the slope up to Pesterwitz . In the southeast, the Osterberg forms the end of the district.

In the north Potschappel borders on (Ober-) Pesterwitz. The Dresden districts of Roßthal , Dölzschen and Coschütz join to the northeast . Back in Freital, Birkigt is neighboring in the east, in the southeast, Burgk joins Potschappel. Other neighboring districts are Döhlen and Zauckerode , which border Potschappel to the west.

The Potschappel district consists of the Potschappel district (2.01 km²) and the Niederpesterwitz district (0.25 km²). Niederpesterwitz is located in the northeast of the district between Burgwartsberg, Jochhöh and the Sauberg . The center of Potschappels extends on both sides along the Weißeritz, the manor and some water mills as well as the Freital town hall, the train station and representative residential and commercial buildings were located here.

Farther to the right of the Weißeritz are two settlements in the Potschappler area, which do not form their own districts, but are to be separated from the core part of Potschappels by their history of origin. The Neucoschütz workers' settlement is located on the Potschappel – Coschütz connection, on Coschützer Straße . The village of Leisnitz is a lot older and stretches along the street of the same name from Potschappel to Zschiedge .

history

Population development until the city was founded

year Residents 1834 0672 1840 0757 1846 0951 1849 1013 1852 1155 1855 1406 1858 1918 1861 2202

year Residents 1864 2672 1867 2770 1871 3154 1875 3453 1880 3520 1885 3726 1890 4450 1910 8992

Official of the Friedrich-August-Schacht around 1830

Map from 1821 with Potschappel in the center

In 1206 Potschappel was first mentioned in a document together with Dresden and Wurgwitz . The name "Tidericus de Potshapel" appeared in the document. At the time, Potschappel was a line village with blocks of land and lots.

Potschappel belonged to the Dresden Castrum until 1547, then to the Dresden Office . The manorial rule lay with the local manor. Potschappel was parish off to Pesterwitz in 1555, and from 1877 the place had its own church.

The village of Leisnitz was integrated into the rural community of Potschappel in 1838 , which was given its independence on May 1, 1839 by the Saxon rural community order of 1838 . Since 1856 the place belonged to the judicial office Döhlen, from 1875 to the administrative authority Dresden . Neucoschütz was incorporated into the municipality in 1896, and Niederpesterwitz in 1915. Due to the occurrence of hard coal , industrial buildings could be built. Like many other communities in the Döhlen basin, Potschappel developed into an industrial village. After there were already deliberations in advance about merging these populous places into one city, on October 1, 1921, the three largest municipalities, Deuben , Döhlen and Potschappel, merged to form the city of Freital. Parts of the city administration are now located in the former town hall.

After the Second World War , the young city became part of the Soviet occupation zone and later the GDR . With the district reform in 1952 was county Freital formed with Freital as the county seat. In the 1960s, a housing estate in prefabricated construction was built on the Weißeritz . After the reunification and reunification , Potschappel belonged to the re-established state of Saxony. In 1994, Freital became part of the Weißeritzkreis, formed from the Freital and Dippoldiswalde districts, as part of the first Saxon district reform .

During the “flood of the century” in August 2002 , many buildings, roads, bridges and the rail network in Potschappel were badly damaged. The resulting demolitions increasingly shape the image of Potschappel. With the second Saxon district reform , Freital and thus Potschappel became part of the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district. In autumn 2008, the craft square was inaugurated as the new district center of Freital.

traffic

Freital-Potschappel train station

See also : List of streets in Potschappel

Potschappel is located directly on the road from Tharandt to Dresden. The Freital-Potschappel train station is located at Platz des Handwerks . It is connected to the rail network of Deutsche Bahn via the Dresden S-Bahn line S3 and the regional express trains . Potschappel is connected to the local public transport by the Freital city bus lines A, C and E of the regional traffic Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains (RVSOE) .

Until 1972, Potschappel was the starting point for the Freital-Potschappel-Nossen narrow-gauge railway , which transported both people and goods. As a result, the district was connected to the Wilsdruffer network . The former railway embankments have become hiking and cycling routes. The route of the Windbergbahn also runs through Potschappel.

Through the construction of a bypass road (north-west tangent) from the entrance to Deuben, the town center was partially relieved of through traffic. By dismantling the main road to two instead of four lanes and planting trees, Potschappel is to be further calmed traffic-wise.

Culture and sights

Emmaus Church

See also : List of cultural monuments in Potschappel

In Potschappel there is the Gotthold-Ephraim-Lessing primary school and a secondary school of the same name. The Emmauskirche Potschappel is located in the immediate vicinity of the school . Squares and larger open spaces in Potschappel are the market square with the " Freitaler Nose ", the craft square with the Rotkopf-Görg fountain and the youth square with a memorial for fallen Soviet soldiers.

In the Potschappel town hall there is a memorial plaque from 1963 for the Freital victims of the Nazi regime : Georg Anders, Fred Drescher, Paul Ehrlich, Willi Göschik, Kurt Heilbut, Kurt Koch, Otto Kuttler, Hermann Lindner, Erhard Liebscher, Johannes May, Otto Ryssel, Willi Schneider and Karl Unger. From 1990 to 2002 the board was in the storage room and was then installed in the town hall.

Sons and daughters

• Rudolph August von Lüttichau (1678–1746), electoral Saxon chamber and mountain ridge and bailiff of Großenhain
• Oskar Böhme (1870–1938), Russian-German trumpeter and composer

literature

• Rudolf Hundhausen: Friedrich Müller Maschinenfabrik Potschappel-Dresden In: The German Industry (1888-1913), Berlin 1913 p. X106.
• Rudolf Julius Maerker: History of the Church in Potschappel . Self-published by the author, Potschappel 1878 ( digitized version )
• Cornelius Gurlitt : Potschappel. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 24. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Dresden-Altstadt (Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1904, p. 109.
• Christian Neef: The Trumpeter of Saint Petersburg, Munich 2019

Web links

Commons : Potschappel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The manor in Potschappel around 1850, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
• The manor in Potschappel by Carl Ehrenfried Held, 1812, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
• Potschappel in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Potschappel on freital.de
• History of the Potschappel manor

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Update of the Integrated Urban Development Concept (INSEK). (PDF; 120 MB) Urban development Freital 2030plus. Stadtverwaltung Freital, STEG Stadtentwicklung GmbH, January 2020, p. 92 , accessed on July 13, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Heinz Fiedler: Potschappels roots . In: Sächsische Zeitung , March 23, 2012