Stöntzsch

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Memory of Stöntzsch on a recultivated area

Stöntzsch was a municipality in what is now the Leipzig district about two kilometers west of the center of the city of Pegau . It was devastated in the 1960s because of the Profen opencast mine approaching from the south and then dredged over. At that time Stöntzsch belonged to the Borna district . Today the area is largely recultivated .

history

In 1096 Stöntzsch was first mentioned as Stonse in the annals of the Pegau monastery . Stöntzsch was for centuries a village with changing manors from outside, so no manor in their own place. The fertile soil of the Elsteraue ensured productive agriculture.

  • Stöntzsch Church around 1840

  • Stöntzsch on a map from 1909

  • Greeting card Stöntzsch 1910

Already in 1361 Stöntzsch owned a parish church , to which from 1500 that of the neighboring village Werben belonged as a branch church . The later village church emerged from a small Romanesque chapel through several additions and modifications. In 1506 the choir was enlarged, above which an octagonal half-timbered choir tower rose, which was later replaced by a stone with a baroque dome. In 1720 the nave was rebuilt.

In 1731 and 1732 Johann Sebastian Bach stayed in the church in Stöntzsch to check the organ after an extension. Before the site was devastated, the Stöntz organ was moved to the Hohnstein town church in Saxon Switzerland .

The village has suffered numerous hardships over the centuries. In addition to the plague in the 16th and 17th centuries, it was the marauding war troops who caused great damage after battles in the area, for example in 1632 after the Battle of Lützen , in 1706/07 in the Great Northern War and in 1813 after the Battle of Großgörschen .

The worst was not to follow until the 20th century, when the whole village had to give way to open-cast lignite mining. Between 1962 and 1965 the more than 700 residents had to leave the place, which was then demolished and dredged over. Most of the Stöntschers found shelter in Pegau-Nord. Since 2005 they have had a home meeting every two years. The Stöntzscher Flur was incorporated into Pegau in 1965.

Todays situation

After 1990 the northeastern parts of the Profen-Nord opencast mine were recultivated. At the site of the former village, a small hill rises up with a step pyramid set in planks as a lookout point. An excavator shovel and a memorial stone nearby provide information.

A section of the Elsterfloßgraben , which formerly ran west of the town, has now been re-established. The small raft ditch, which formerly branched off from it at Stöntzsch and which enabled wood rafting via Elstermühlgraben, Weiße Elster and Batschke to Leipzig, has been carrying water again since 1996.

literature

  • Tylo Peter et al. a .: memories of Stöntzsch . Association for local history in Pegau, 2014
  • Karl Kühnast: Chronicle of Stöntzsch near Pegau, Borna district, Leipzig district . VEB lignite works Profen, 1967
  • Saxony's church gallery. The inspections: Borna and Pegau. Dresden 1841, p. 76 (digitized version)
  • Stönzsch . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 11th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1824, p. 399.

Web links

Commons : Stöntzsch  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Memory of Stöntzsch. In: Website of the city of Pegau. Retrieved August 10, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Stöntzsch in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  3. ↑ Richard Steche : Stönzsch. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 15. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Borna . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1891, p. 123.
  4. ↑ Stöntzsch. In: Guide to Bach Tour (Engl.). Retrieved August 19, 2019 .
  5. ^ The parishes of Stöntzsch and Werben. In: New Saxon Church Gallery. Die Ephorie Borna, column 1079 ff. Retrieved on August 11, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Former residents of Stöntzsch celebrate a big reunion in September. In: LVZ of March 6, 2018. Retrieved on August 11, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Profen opencast mine. In: Website Mibrag. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 15.4 ″  N , 12 ° 13 ′ 31.9 ″  E