Torgauer Steinweg

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The cabinet map (1762) by Isaak Jacob von Petri gives an overview of Eilenburg and its suburbs:
(1) Sand community
(2) Leipziger Steinweg
(3) Zscheppelende
(4) Valley community
(5) Hainichen
(6) Hinterstadt
(7 ) Alley community
(8) Torgauer Steinweg

Torgauer Steinweg (also Torgischer Steinweg or Torgauer Vorstadt ) was a municipality in the Eilenburg district and from 1815 in the Delitzsch district . The place, which essentially consisted of a street with buildings on both sides, was one of the eight suburbs of Eilenburg . It was east of Eilenburg between the Torgauer Tor and the Mulde bridge . Today this area between Dr.-Külz-Ring and Samuelisdamm is part of the densely built-up Torgauer Straße.

history

When the construction of the first city fortifications began in 1150, there should have been no settlement in the named area. In 1400 the Eilenburger Chronik mentions a Torgau suburb with 102 "souls". The St. Jürgen Hospital (later St. Georgi), located at the gates of Eilenburg near Torgauer Steinweg, was donated to the Sitzenroda Monastery by Frederick I in 1424 . In 1543 the Torgauer Steinweg was raised. In 1632 a fire destroyed three houses in the community, in 1661 a flood caused great damage. By sovereign decree in 1724, as everywhere in the country, a post mile column was erected in front of the Torgauer Tor. During the Seven Years' War there was cannon fire from the Prussian troops in 1758, to which part of the community fell victim.

In 1819 Gustav Prentzel set up a hosiery factory in the suburbs, three years later the level measurement of the Mulde began at the Torgau Bridge. When the city walls were torn down in 1820 and the city gates in 1835, the Torgauer Steinweg quickly grew together with the old city area. The nearby alley community was counted as part of the Torgauer Steinweg as early as 1747. On April 9, 1856, it was incorporated into Eilenburg. Due to the Allied shelling at the end of the Second World War , the street was badly hit, but in GDR times it was restored to a largely closed development through the addition of new buildings. The location of the "Zum Weissen Roß" inn, which was demolished in 1987, is an exception. The vacant lot on the corner of Buttergasse has not been closed to this day.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eilenburg in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  2. ↑ a b History of the city of Eilenburg chronologically in excerpts, taken, revised and compiled from chronicles, non-fiction books and treatises by Siegfried Buchhold ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Geßlinge in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony (accessed on December 2, 2015)

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 '  N , 12 ° 38'  E