Red secretscham

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Community Vierkirchen
Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 11 "  N , 14 ° 41 ′ 34"  E
Postal code : 02894
Area code : 035827
Aerial view
Post mile column from 1722 in Altenberg with entry of the Roth-Kretzscham post station between Budissin and Görlitz
"Roth Kretschmar" on a map from 1809 (roughly in the middle of the road from Bautzen to Görlitz)

Rotkretscham , in Upper Sorbian Čerwjena korčma , is a village in Saxony that today belongs to the municipality of Vierkirchen in the district of Görlitz . For a long time Rotkretscham was part of Tetta , from 1974 to 1994 it belonged to Buchholz .

geography

Rotkretscham is located in Upper Lusatia , about 10 kilometers north of Löbau and 20 kilometers east of the city of Bautzen . Surrounding villages are Buchholz in the north, Tetta in the northeast, Alt- and Neucunnewitz in the south, Maltitz in the southwest and Wasserkretscham in the west.

The Buchholz water flows through Rotkretscham . The place is on Alte Poststrasse (today State Road 111). The federal highway 4 with the junction Weißenberg lies to the northwest.

history

The part of the name kretscham is derived from the Slavic word k (o) rčma for tavern . On the eastern part of the Via Regia Lusatiae Superioris between Leipzig and Breslau, a postal route was opened in 1694 . In the Rothkretscham tavern on this street, there had been a post office of the same name at least since then. In 1719 the postman Wolfgang Kühn was employed by the Bautzen Oberpostamt as a post holder in Rothkretscham. In 1732 he opened a separate post office opposite the tavern on the north side of the street, which he had built at his own expense. It was a large, massive building with several rooms, stables for twelve horses, and a wagon shed. After the grandson of the postmaster's builder, Postmaster Christian Traugott Kühn, died in 1802, the post of Rothkretschamer Postmaster went to Friedrich August Löbel from Kamenz. Under certain conditions, he moved the post office to his Neue Schänke in neighboring Neucunnewitz , but was completely looted there in the course of the Napoleonic Wars . After the new border was drawn as a result of the Congress of Vienna and the changeover to a new postal rate via Löbau in 1822, the Rothkretscham postal station increasingly lost its importance. The post office was initially on Prussian territory, but was moved to Saxon territory through a subsequent change in the border demarcation, while the inn remained on Prussian territory. The complicated border relocation can still be seen today on the border between the districts of Bautzen and Görlitz. As early as 1824, Rothkretscham no longer appears as a post office on the relevant cards.

Rotkretscham was a state border control station between Saxony and Prussia until the German Customs Union came into force in 1834. The foundations of the stables of the former post office were found around 1990 when cables were laid.

Trivia

In the legend , the Postillion and the treasure of the country's crown is reported by a Postillion Matthes from Rothkretscham said to have lived in Krischa (now Buchholz). Matthes is said to have lived in 1826.

Other places with the same name

Rothkretscham was also the name of an inn belonging to Klein Tschansch. The place was incorporated into the city of Breslau in 1928 . Today it is called Księże Małe and is located in the Wrocław-Krzyki district . Matthias Corvinus is said to have stayed in that Rothkretscham before moving to Breslau in 1469.

Web links

Commons : Rotkretscham  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rotkretscham in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  2. ↑ a b Hildegard Gritschker (1934): Traffic geography of Upper Lusatia. Supplements to the announcements of the Saxon-Thuringian Association for Geography in Halle an der Saale 3: Pages 1–109.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Gerd Menzel (2006): The Upper Lusatian Poststation Rothkretscham. Oberlausitzer Heimatblätter 11: Pages 50–53.
  4. ^ Gottlieb Friedrich Otto: Lexicon of the Upper Lusatian writers and artists who died in the fifteenth century and who are now alive. Volume 2, Section 1 (H – Layritz). Burghart: Görlitz 1802. Page 359. (Entry about his son Johann Gottfried Kühn)
  5. ↑ Joachim Hennig: The route between Königsbrück an der Pulsnitz and Lauban / Lubań am Queis / Kwisa. pdf on www.via-regia.org (accessed on October 23, 2018)
  6. ↑ The history of our area at www.vierkirchen.com (accessed on October 21, 2018)
  7. ↑ Sage on Visit Görlitz (accessed on October 20, 2018)
  8. ↑ Johann Georg Theodor Grasse : Book of sagas of the Prussian State 1–2, Volume 2, Glogau 1868/71, pages 383–387. Text on Zeno
  9. ^ Anonymus (1846): Railway trip to Upper Silesia. Morning paper for educated readers 40 (272): Page 1088.