Stolzenhain (desert)

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Stolzenhain is a submerged settlement ( desert ) near the place Cunnersdorf near Königstein (Saxon Switzerland) .

history

Little is known about the history of the "particularly beautiful village" according to legend. Stolzenhain was probably built as a hammer mill settlement , as the names "Am Stoltzen hamer" or " Stoltzen hamer Born" are mentioned in old maps (1592/93). The location was near a rich spring northeast of the Lehmhübels, which is called the Stolzenhainer Born. In 1551 the name "Stolzenhayn Born" and in 1591 the name "Stoltzenhain" can be traced. As early as 1548, however, the earlier settlement is only mentioned as a forest district. This stretched "fahet ahn ahn der Kunersdorffer guttere and Krippenbach and walk around to the Lindenhorn - is about a four-way long and wide" (so it was near the farms of Cunnersdorf and was bordered by the Krippenbach and the Lindenhorn parcel) . In 1561 a “brethmuhl in dem Stoltzenhain” in the Krippenbachtal is mentioned. When and for what reasons the place went down is unknown. The remote traffic situation and economic reasons probably played a role.

legend

According to the legend, which probably originated during the Thirty Years' War, one day the ferryman from Schmilka is said to have crossed a completely emaciated stranger in French costume late in the evening . The man, wrapped in a black robe with thin bony fingers and a sunken face, gave the ferryman a gold piece as a reward after reaching the other bank of the Elbe and disappeared.

The next day the plague broke out in the villages of the Zschirnstein region . The worst hit was Stolzenhain, where a little later only the teacher and a few school children survived. But even these eventually died of the plague and the place fell desolate. Only every hundred years can you hear the singing of the children and their teacher at this point in the forest at night.

Chilly morning

Not far from the deserted Stolzenhain there is another deserted village on the "Baked Birnstrasse" in the direction of Lehmhübel. The desert of Kühlmorgen (also Kühlemorgen) is shown there on various maps . Nothing is known about the foundation, history and decline of the place. The oldest written mention comes from the atlas Augusteus created by Adam Friedrich Zürner around 1730 , in which the field name "Kahler Morgen" is entered. Since Morgen is the name of an old square measure, recent research assumes that it has always been just a piece of forest and the existence of a place Kühlmorgen belongs to the realm of legend.

literature

  • Alfred Meiche : Historical-topographical description of the Pirna Office , Dresden 1927, page 343 pdf
  • Alfred Meiche: Book of legends of Saxon Switzerland and its peripheral areas , Dresden 1929
  • The plague of Stolzenhain - a legend from the upper Elbe valley and its origin , in: Sächsische Zeitung, December 21, 1984

Web links

  • Stolzenhain in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony