Sand community

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The cabinet map (1762) by Isaak Jacob von Petri gives an overview of Eilenburg and its suburbs:
(1) Sand community
(2) Leipziger Steinweg
(3) Zscheppelende
(4) Valley community
(5) Hainichen
(6) Hinterstadt
(7 ) Alley community
(8) Torgauer Steinweg

Sand (also Sand-Gemeinde or Auf dem Sande ) was a municipality in the Eilenburg office and from 1815 in the Delitzsch district . The place was not as an official village schriftsässig and was one of the eight suburbs of Eilenburg . It was located to the west of Eilenburg's core city area at the foot of Eilenburg Castle . Today the former village area represents the eastern area of ​​Bergstrasse directly in front of the Leipziger Brücke.

history

The community was first mentioned in 1394 as uf dem Sande . It lay in the course of the Via Regia , over which the trade between the exhibition center Leipzig and Silesia took place. On November 4th and 5th, 1518, Martin Luther stayed in the community to meet the electoral court preacher Georg Spalatin at the inn "Zum Bären" , but he did not appear. In 1550 the community already had urban development and was characterized by craftsmen . In 1583 30 houses were destroyed in a fire, in 1690 four houses were destroyed in another village fire. In 1792 the evangelical theologian and poet Daniel Vörckel was born in the Sand community. With the settlement of the Danneberg & Sohn calico printing company in 1812, a new economic age began. A year later, Napoleon Bonaparte inspected his allied Saxon troops from the nearby staircase to the castle ( Fürstenweg ) before the Battle of Leipzig . On April 9, 1856, the industrial suburb was incorporated into Eilenburg.

In 1551 there were 26 possessed men and 25 residents in the village, in 1747 there were 4 gardeners and 45 cottagers with 2¼ hooves.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sand community in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony (accessed on November 20, 2015)
  2. ↑ a b History of the city of Eilenburg chronologically in excerpts, taken, revised and compiled from chronicles, non-fiction books and treatises by Siegfried Buchhold ( digitized version )

Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '  N , 12 ° 38'  E