Priesen (Meineweh)
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Praising
community Meineweh
Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 53 ″ N , 12 ° 0 ′ 27 ″ E
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| Height : | 242 m |
| Postal code : | 06721 |
| Area code : | 034422 |
 Farm on Dorfstrasse
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Priesen is a district of Meineweh , a municipality in the Burgenland district ( Saxony-Anhalt ).
geography
Priesen is located in the valley of the Maibach at an altitude of 242 m , about one kilometer east of Meineweh and 16 km southeast of Naumburg (Saale) .
history
The earliest mention of Priesen can be found in a deed of donation from August 1, 976. It confirms that Emperor Otto II. To Bishop Hugo von Zeitz, among others, in the Gau Ducharin ( Teuchern ) the church with church property and the villages Weidau, Streckau, Lagnitz and Bresnizani (Priesen) given away. This document is now in the Naumburg cathedral capital archive.
The first mention of the place Priesen was controversial in historical research for a long time. The deed of donation, written in Latin, gave rise to different interpretations, at least with regard to the section “Bresnizani, in utroque litore ripäe”. For example, Carl Peter Lepsius wrote in his history of the bishops of the Naumburg bishopric before the Reformation that Priesen would probably be in the Weißenfeldser Kreis, also near Teuchern, although the term in "utroque littore ripe" aroused some concerns, since the Rippach, the at Küstritz does not arise far from Priesen, does not touch this place, but flows more to the opposite side.
Felix Rosenfeld doubted this interpretation in his editing of the document book of the Naumburg Monastery. He wrote: "Lepsius is thinking of Priesen, Weißenfels district, but it is not very likely because of the mention of the two banks of the Rippach." Obviously, the problem lay in the translation of the word "ripa". Even Ernst Eichler and Hans Walther could in their studies on toponymy and language and settlement history of the area between the middle Saale and White Elster not clearly assign the quote from the Ottonian document the place Priesen: "Praised - 976 Bresnizani in utroque litore ripe ... . Probably this or another place on the upper Maibach, which the lower case ripa in the original certainly does not mean the Rippach. "
Teacher Karl Henniger from Meineweh, who published his chronicle of the parish of Meineweh, Priesen and Quesnitz in 1902 , clearly interpreted the relevant section from the document as “Priesen on both sides of the stream”. He also connects the name of the place Priesen with the word "birch" and translates it as "birch slope".
Local history researcher Anton Röska interprets the Priesen place names similarly. In his opinion, the word "Bresnizani", today Priesen, is originally the Wendish / Slavic word for "briza" (Czech: birch) and could be translated as Birkendorf. Although, based on possible interpretations and translations, it could never be proven with absolute certainty that Otto II really gave away prizes in 976, it is now accepted as a fact.
Church to Priesen
Nothing is known precisely about the time when the church was built. It probably dates from the 14th to 15th centuries and would therefore be of late Gothic origin. Over the centuries the church in Priesen underwent several structural changes. The last major renovation took place at the beginning of the 18th century to a hall church in the baroque style. In addition, in 1781 the original door and some smaller windows are said to have been bricked up and a new door and five new windows broken out. The two linden trees at the entrance were planted in 1817.
The carved altar of the church in Priesen was probably built at the beginning of the 16th century, which was probably moved away from the altar to the north wall after the Reformation . Since then there has been a simple Luther pulpit above the altar table. In the main part of the shrine, the side wings are painted, there are three large, gilded, carved figures of saints. The middle one depicts a bishop, the left a female saint. Both are without attributes and therefore cannot be specified. The right figure shows St. Christopher with the baby Jesus on his shoulder, which he carries through the river. It can be assumed that the church was once under the patronage of this saint.
At the beginning of the 1970s, the church was in such a poor structural condition that the altar was removed. It was restored in the church's art workshops in Erfurt and has been on loan from the parish Meineweh in the Monstab church in Thuringia since 1976 .
The Priesen church formerly had an octagonal roof tower with a slate dome. This housed two bells 65 cm and 52 cm in diameter. They were cast by RF Ulrich in Apolda in 1849. Both were melted down for military purposes in 1917, during the First World War . Three men from the village were killed in the First World War. In their honor a memorial plaque was consecrated in the church on March 1, 1931, bearing the names of the fallen.
On the same day a new church bell was consecrated, which was cast by the company Schilling & Sons in Apolda. The tower fell into disrepair since the early 1970s. In order to save the bell, it was removed from the belfry, which was in danger of collapsing, and moved into its new home in the church in Meineweh. The playable organ built under the tower, which was put together from an old work in 1858 and renewed in 1931, was in danger of being damaged.
In August 1997 the church tower collapsed, and the following year the nave collapsed. Today the Priesen church is only a ruin.
