Somsdorf

Somsdorf Large district town of Freital Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 33 ″  N , 13 ° 36 ′ 15 ″  E
Height :	312  (250-370)  m
Area :	6.35 km²
Residents :	638  (December 31, 2017)
Population density :	100 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1974
Postal code :	01705
Area code :	0351
Location of Somsdorf in Freital

Somsdorf is a district of the Saxon large district town Freital in the district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains .

geography

Aerial view of Somsdorf

Somsdorf is located in the extreme southwest of the Freital city area on a plateau between the valleys of Roter Weißeritz and Wilder Weißeritz . Somsdorf is mainly located on an agriculturally used plateau surrounded by the wooded slopes of the Weißeritztal. To the east of the village is the Kerbtal “ Rabenauer Grund ”, south of the Somsdorfer Höhe ( 371  m ).

Neighboring towns are the town of Tharandt in the northwest , the Freital district of Hainsberg in the northeast , Edle Krone (part of the municipality of Klingenberg ) in the southwest and Lübau (Rabenau) and Borlas (Klingenberg) in the south . The town of Rabenau joins in the southeast .

The Somsdorf district is the largest in Freital in terms of area, but only a small part is populated. Coßmannsdorf belonged to Somsdorf until 1907 , after which the place became (temporarily) an independent municipality.

See also : List of streets in Somsdorf

history

Map from 1821 with Somsdorf

Georgenkirche Somsdorf

Georgenkirche in Somsdorf is said to have been consecrated as early as 1238 . Somsdorf itself is first mentioned in a document around 1350. The place belonged to the castrum Dresden in the margraviate of Meißen . In 1432 a Vorwerk in Somsdorf is mentioned. From 1550 the place belonged to the office Grillenburg . Between 1856 and 1875, Somsdorf was administered by the Tharandt court office, after which the municipality with its Coßmannsdorf district, located in the south-western Döhlen basin , belonged to the Dresden administration .

In 1900 the local boundary had a size of 716 hectares . In 1907 the district of Coßmannsdorf became an independent municipality and thus separated from Somsdorf. Of 1,212 inhabitants in 1925, 1,076 people were Evangelical Lutheran , 14 Catholic and 122 were non-denominational . After the Second World War , Somsdorf became part of the Soviet occupation zone and later the GDR . After the district reform in 1952 , Somsdorf was in the Freital district . Somsdorf lost its independence when it was incorporated into Freital on January 1, 1974. The Freital district continued to exist after reunification until 1994 as the Freital district and then merged with the Weißeritz district . On August 1, 2008, the second district reform in Saxony came into force, which united the Weißeritz district with the neighboring district of Saxon Switzerland to form the district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains.

Development of the population

year population 1834 0653 1871 1184 1890 1670 1910 1160 1925 1212 1939 1192 1946 1344

year population 1950 1309 1964 1057 1990 0660 2000 0664 2010 0646 2015 0634 2017 0638

Personalities

• Georg Bellmann (1891–1946), politician, born in Somsdorf
• Johann Jakob Gottschaldt (1688–1759), theologian and hymn poet, pastor in Somsdorf 1716–1721
• Carl Gottlob Just (1771–1826), educator and textbook author, died in Somsdorf
• Justus Christian Thorschmidt (1688–1750), local historian and Protestant pastor, born in Somsdorf
• Karl Richter (1837–1904), educator, born in Somsdorf.

literature

• Cornelius Gurlitt : Somsdorf. 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. 116.

Web links

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

• Somsdorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Information about the place
• History of Somsdorf on freital.de

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. ↑ City Chronicle. In: freital.de. City of Freital, accessed on February 9, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .