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Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains
Height :	274 m above sea level NHN
Area :	60.89 km 2
Residents:	5579 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	92 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	01833
Area code :	035973
License plate :	PIR, DW, FTL, SEB
Community key :	14 6 28 380
City structure:	6 districts
; City administration address :	Markt 1 ; 01833 Stolpen
Website :	www.stolpen.de
Mayor :	Uwe Steglich ( FDP )
Location of the town of Stolpen in the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district

Stolpen is a small town in Saxony . The city is located about 25 kilometers east of Dresden and belongs to the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district . The landmark and tourist attraction of Stolpen is the ruins of Stolpen Castle , located on a basalt rock .

Districts

The community is divided into the main town of Stolpen and the other districts of Heeselicht , Helmsdorf , Langenwolmsdorf , Lauterbach and Rennersdorf-Neudörfel .

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360 ° panorama, taken from the seven-pointed tower of the castle

history

Stolpen, city view from the south

The Stolpen Castle was first mentioned in records in the year 1222nd The fortress was owned by the bishops of Meissen . At the beginning of the 15th century the castle settlement to the north was built. After the Meissen bishops had moved their residence from Meissen to Stolpen Castle in the 15th century , the place developed into a city and became the center of the most important Meissen monastery territory. Bishop Dietrich III. von Schönberg had the city wall built around 1470 , and Bishop Johann VI. von Saalhausen gave the city its own statutes in 1503. In 1559, Elector August forced the last Meißner bishop to leave him the office of Stolpen . Since then, the town and castle have been part of the Electorate of Saxony .

The early 14th century founded city was first called as the older settlement (now Old Town ) Jochgrim (attested since 1297). After the destruction in 1429, the city was rebuilt at its present location closer to the palace area. The name of the castle gradually passed on to the city.

From 1716 to 1765 the former mistress of Augustus the Strong (Elector of Saxony 1694–1733), Countess Anna Constantia of Cosel , was held captive in the castle complex, especially in the Cosel Tower named after her .

Look at the market

Due to the difficult water supply and dense development, the city burned down several times. The great city fire occurred on February 20, 1795. Then it was decided to demolish the castle wall and, after 1800, also to dismantle the city wall, of which only the Niedertor (Dresden Gate) remains today.

In 1813 Napoléon Bonaparte had defenses built around the fortress, but largely destroyed the castle when he left.

From 1877 with the opening of the Dürrröhrsdorf – Neustadt railway line , Stolpen became an attractive tourist destination.

Surname

The name Stolpen is based on the Old Sorbian word stolp , which refers to the appearance of the basalt columns in the meaning of post or wall (cf. Upper Sorbian stołp , "column"; stołpowc , "basalt"). Over the centuries, however, the spelling changed several times. There are some a. the forms Stolp (1227), Stolpen (1233), Ztolp (1252), Stulpin (1378) and Stolppen (1478).

Incorporations

1950, July 1st: Old Town , today a district of Stolpen (Stolpen-Altstadt)
1994: Heeselicht , Helmsdorf , Langenwolmsdorf , Lauterbach and Rennersdorf-Neudörfel

Development of the population

around 1330 - 500
around 1550 - 725
1559 - 122 possessed man
1748--146 possessed man
1799-706 (over 10 years old)
1834-1220

1871-1383
1890-1401
1910-1741
1925-1833
1950-2913
1964-2705

1970-2549
1990-5890
1998 - 6217
2004 - 6196
2007 - 5988

2010 - 5793
2012 - 5677
2013 - 5648
2014 - 5691
2015 - 5679

politics

City council election 2014

Turnout: 58.3% (2009: 57.8%)

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50

40

30th

20th

10

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55.5%

21.2%

16.2%

n. k.

7.1%

WVS

Gains and losses

compared to 2009

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18th

16

14th

12

10

8th

6th

4th

2

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-2

-4

-6

-8th

-10

+ 18.8 % p.p.

-9.8 % p

+1.5 % p

-7.9 % p

-7.7 % p

+ 5.2 % p

WVS

Allocation of seats in the
city council of Stolpen 2014

A total of 18 seats

SPD : 1
WVS : 3
FDP : 4
CDU : 10

City coat of arms on the town hall

City Councilor and Mayor

Since the municipal council election on May 25, 2014 , the 18 seats of the city council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

CDU : 10 seats
FDP : 4 seats
Stolpen voters' association (WVS): 3 seats
SPD : 1 seat

City of Stolpen with castle

Mayor is Uwe Steglich.

coat of arms

The city coat of arms shows a blue castle with a gate and two towers against a gold background. The red-clad torso of a bishop is shown above the gate. The coat of arms thus refers to the rule of the city by the Meissen bishops.

Partnerships

The city of Stolpen and the district of Langenwolmsdorf maintain friendly relationships with the following cities and communities:

Germany Hilzingen in Germany / Baden-Württemberg
Germany Amöneburg in Germany / Hesse
Germany Garching an der Alz in Germany / Bavaria
Germany Jockgrim in Germany / Rhineland-Palatinate
Germany Sipplingen in Germany / Baden-Württemberg
Czechoslovakia Sloup v Čechách in the Czech Republic

Replica of the Saxon postal mileage column

traffic

Stolpen is connected to Dresden and Bautzen via state roads via connection to the federal highway 6 , Radeberg , Pirna with connection to the A 17 , Neustadt in Sachsen and Bischofswerda with connection to the A 4 . The train station on the Neustadt – Dürrröhrsdorf railway is outside the city, about 1.5 km south of the city center. The regional train, which is operated by the Central German Regiobahn , runs every hour to Pirna and Neustadt, and every two hours to Sebnitz. In Stolpen there is a replica of the Saxon post office column, which is interesting in terms of traffic history .

Culture and sights

see also: List of cultural monuments in Stolpen

Evangelical Lutheran town church

The Stolpen castle ruins : The castle has been open to visitors since 1877. It is a great tourist attraction.

The Stolpner Markt : is under special protection as a cultural monument. The town hall (Markt 1) received a small ridge tower after the great fire of 1723. The Löwenapotheke (Market 2) is one of the oldest in the district (over 200 years old screw press and mortar on display in the castle). The old and the new electoral office buildings are worth seeing. The city museum is located in the latter. Remains of the city wall from the 15th century with the lower gate. Imposing basalt vaulted cellars.

Evangelical Lutheran town church : stone sculpture: late Gothic crucifixion, 1470; Baroque wooden pulpit and wooden baptism, 1727; Baroque evang. Confessional; Wooden lectern (Theodor Quentin); Organ by Hermann Eule , Bautzen (1898) in the baroque case of the previous organ by Johann Christian Pfennig (1766) from Kröbeln; Ceiling and wall paintings (glue paint), 1898.

St. Lorenz Church in Stolpen-Altstadt and Wilhelm-Leberecht-Herbrig-Organ : The Old Town Church was once a fortified church, built between 1495 and 1498. The one-manual mechanical slider-chute organ by Wilhelm Leberecht Herbrig from 1856 is 2006 in the sense of monument preservation has been restored. The old town is the "nucleus" of the "Herbrig-Orgelstrasse" project.

Evangelical Lutheran Church in Langenwolmsdorf : This church also has an organ by WL Herbrig (1843/44). The two-manual instrument with 20 voices is the largest of those still preserved from the Herbrig workshop in the region, but in great need of renovation. A restoration is not possible without the appropriate funding.

Ev. Parish church in Stolpen, Christmas picture in the choir room

nature and landscape

Burgberg : The basalt chimney of the Stolpener Burgberg was rated in May 2006 by the Academy of Geosciences in Hanover as one of the 77 most important national geotopes in Germany.
Märzenbecherwiesen in Polenztal : Part of the Stolpen area is one of the largest natural occurrences of the Märzenbecher in Germany.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Anton Lauterbach (1502–1569), Lutheran theologian and reformer
Clemens Timpler (1563–1624), theologian and philosopher
Carl Samuel Senff (1666–1729), pastor and chronicler
Christian August Freyberg (1684–1743), Rector of the St. Anne's School in Dresden
Christian Friedrich Henrici (called Picander ; 1700–1764), lyricist for Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Andreas Boden (1703–1764) pedagogue, historian and Lutheran theologian
Carl Christian Gercken (1731–1795), pastor and chronicler
Karl Heinrich Heydenreich (1764–1801), writer and philosopher
Moritz Ferdinand Schmaltz (1785–1860), Lutheran theologian
Friedrich Traugott Friedemann (1793–1853), educator and writer
Gustav Spitzner (1803–1870), director of the royal Saxon general commission for replacements and common divisions
Friedrich John (1835–1899), teacher and musician
Hellmut Kretzschmar (1893–1965), archivist and historian
Harry Earles (1901 / 02–1985), German-American actor ( The Doll Family )
Daisy Earles (1907–1980), German-American actress (The Doll Family)
Hellmuth Fuchs (1913–2002), painter and photographer, since 1993 honorary citizen of the city of Stolpen

People who worked on site

Johann von Breitenbach († 1507 or 1509), legal scholar and university professor, was bailiff von Stolpe
Albert Sixtus (1892–1960), author of books for children and young people ("The Bunny School"), spent his childhood here

literature

To Stolpen and Neustadt (= values of our homeland . Volume 17). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1970.
Regional community tourism Stolpen, Neustadt, Hochwald: The castle town of Stolpen. Portrait of a town on the outskirts of Saxon Switzerland. Geiger Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1996, ISBN 3-89570-165-3
Carl Christian Gercken: History of the city and mountain fortress Stolpen. Dresden / Leipzig 1764. ( digitized from google books )
Hans-Günther Hartmann: A slosh us stetlein between Pirna and Bischofswerda. Amsterdam / Dresden 1996, ISBN 978-3-86530-020-1 .
Siegfried Körner: About the town of Jochgrim near Stolpen Castle. Self-published, Stolpen 2002.
Alfred Meiche: Historical-topographical description of the Pirna administration. Dresden 1927. ( digitized version )
Redaktions- und Verlagsgesellschaft Pirna-Freital mbH: Stolpen 800. Burgstadt mit Geist. Pirna 2018, ISBN 978-3-936642-24-7
City administration Stolpen (Hrsg.): Chronicle of castle and city of Stolpen. Leipzig 1994.
Olaf Tietz, Jürgen Büchner, Thomas Scholle, Manuel Lapp: The castle hill of Stolpen - mapping and reconstruction of an extinct volcano in Eastern Saxony. Stolpen 2017, ( online , pp. 2–28)
Thomas Scholle, Siegfried Körner: The situation of the city of Stolpen - a discussion. Stolpen 2017, ( online , pp. 28–32)

Series of Stolpner Hefte , u. a .:
- Marianne and Werner Stams: Office, Castle and City of Stolpen in old maps and plans. An outline of the history of Saxon cartography from its beginnings to the present. Stolpener Hefte No. 4, Stolpen 1998.
- Rudolf Hajny: Stolpner story (s) . Stolpner Hefte No. 7, Stolpen 2000
Richard Steche : Stumbling. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 1. Booklet: Official Authority Pirna . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1882, p. 82.