Syringe house Pohrsdorf
The Spritzenhaus Pohrsdorf is located in the center of Pohrsdorf am Tharandter Wald in the district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains . It is a rare testimony to the village fire-fighting and funeral system in Saxony .
description
The syringe house was built in 1835 with the house number 43 for the fire extinguishers of the place. With the addition of a hearse to the syringe house in Pohrsdorf, the already existing hearse was placed there from 1869. The syringe house, which traditionally also served as a local prison, has been preserved to this day as a solid, single-storey plastered building made of local sandstone with a gable roof and half-timbered gable. The State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony therefore lists this building as a cultural monument .
Information boards at the i. d. Usually doors open on Sundays about the village fire extinguishing and funeral services as an explanation of the original objects exhibited there.
Fire extinguishing
In the 18th century the first hand pressure syringe was purchased in Pohrsdorf , which, according to an undated list, included 6 fire ladders, 26 pokers, 29 leather water and fire buckets and 20 hand syringes.
The first mention of the fire brigade with a large hand pressure syringe and accessories is known from the year 1783, as every property buyer in the village also had to pay a payment to the fire equipment cash register and every adult man was obliged to extinguish the fire.
The first evidence of chargeable operations by the fire brigade in the neighboring communities of Herzogswalde , Oberhermsdorf and Hintergersdorf (today the health resort of Hartha ) is known from 1861 .
The hand pressure syringe from the Royal Saxon fire syringe factory GH Handel from Dresden was purchased in 1885 with the serial number 2469. It was pulled by two horses.
With the reorganization of fire fighting through the establishment of the compulsory fire brigade in 1890, it consisted of 2 syringe masters, 2 syringe attendants and 16 fire fighting teams - formed by the residents who were the last to acquire a piece of land in the village, including six women in 1905, as well as identification with fire extinguishing signs - red tin signs with white lettering No. 1–16 for the fire fighting teams on leather straps that were worn on the right arm.
The volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1940 with the following equipment: hand pressure sprayer from 1885, 6 fire hooks, 3 fire ladders and 10 fire buckets. In 1942 the manual pressure syringe was replaced by a motorized syringe. In 1943, an active women's fire brigade group was founded in World War II , which was in action until 1945.
The last fire use of the hand pressure syringe was in the winter of 1946 on the Pohrsdorfer Rand (in Fördergersdorf ) because of the failure of the motorized syringe. The hand pressure syringe with accessories from 1885 is still functional today and is maintained by the comrades of the Pohrsdorf volunteer fire brigade and shown true to the original at events.
Funeral services
In 1349, when Pohrsdorf was first mentioned in a document, the place belonged to the parish Grumbach . The deceased were carried there on the church path that still exists today. The Pohrsdorfer Chronik reports: “If someone died, at least one person from every house had to go with them. The neighbors shoveled the grave and also carried the corpse. ”In 1780 a bearer exchange stone ( stone of calm ) was placed on the Kirchweg between Hintergersdorf (today Kurort Hartha ) and Fördergersdorf 18th century the deceased in this region were still carried to the cemetery.
The hearse on display was made by Tanneberg in 1890 (permanent loan from the Guntram Lucius family), and it was pulled by two horses.
In 1908 the following items belonged to a Christian burial:
- Request from the corpse washer or home borrower
- Laying out the deceased for 3 days in the death house
- Report a death to the parish office and the church school with the civil death certificate and details of the surviving dependents to set the burial hour
- Communication of the coffin dimensions to the deathbed master
- Manufacture of the coffin by the local carpenter
- Ring out the deceased the day before the funeral
- Transport of the deceased to the cemetery by hearse
- Bells ringing for the funeral, which usually took place no later than the 4th day after death with the proclamation of words, prayer and blessing
- public funerals were usually around 3 p.m.
- Attending the funeral in dignified clothing and with a serious demeanor
The bell to accompany the funeral procession had been attached to the Pohrsdorf schoolhouse since 1911 and was rung by the community servant as long as the hearse had not yet reached the local border to Grumbach . Since 1959 Pohrsdorf changed the parish and then used the cemetery in Fördergersdorf. In 1966 the last known journey of the Pohrsdorf hearse to a funeral in Fördergersdorf took place.
The former small steel bell from 1956 from the chime of the Fördergersdorf church , which rings with bronze bells , has stood as a memorial behind the syringe house since autumn 2008 .
literature
- Artur Schirmer: Pohrsdorfer Chronik. Part 1, Pohrsdorf 1967
- André Kaiser: The exhibition in the Pohrsdorfer Spritzenhaus. Around the Tharandt Forest, Tharandt City Gazette, October 2007
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.tharandt.eu/dieswelc.htm Accessed February 13, 2009
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 50.4 " N , 13 ° 31 ′ 43" E