Suburbs of Eilenburg
(1) Sand community
(2) Leipziger Steinweg
(3) Zscheppelende
(4) Valley community
(5) Hainichen
(6) Hinterstadt
(7 ) Alley community
(8) Torgauer Steinweg
The suburbs of Eilenburg are those settlement areas in today's urban area of the Saxon city of Eilenburg that existed as independent communities until the middle of the 19th century, although their development has always been closely linked to the development of Eilenburg. In this context one speaks of the eight suburbs of Eilenburg . These were the municipalities of Sand , Leipziger Steinweg , Zscheppelende , Tal , Hainichen , Hinterstadt , Geßlinge (Gassen municipality) and Torgauer Steinweg, starting clockwise in the west . In a broader sense, the places Kültzschau and Wedelwitz as well as the settlements in the Gut Berg manor district can also be counted as Eilenburg suburbs. However, these do not fall under the concept of the eight suburbs .
The historical urban area of Eilenburg only comprised the oval within today's Nordring as well as Wallstraße and Dr.-Külz-Ring. In their course there was a city fortification consisting of a water-filled moat and the city wall . Access to the city was only possible via the four city gates Leipziger Tor (west), Badertor (north), Torgauer Tor (east) and Kuhtor (south). Around 2000 people lived within this fortification at the end of the 18th century. The communities in front of the gates each had up to 200 inhabitants.
Due to the narrow spatial limits that the city fortifications set for the further development of Eilenburg, the impetus for the growth caused by industrialization came solely from the suburbs. In 1803, the textile manufacturer Johann Jacob Bodemer set up a calico factory in the valley community. He was followed by Danneberg & Sohn with a calico printing company in the Sand municipality in 1812. In 1815, the Eilenburger Land came to Prussia in accordance with the provisions of the Congress of Vienna , which further boosted economic development. The abolition of internal tariffs within Prussia in 1818 by Friedrich Wilhelm III. also had a positive effect. This was followed by other settlements in the suburbs, such as Gustav Pretzel's hosiery factory (1819) in Torgauer Steinweg, Dellmann & Mitscherlich's pique factory (1825) in the back town and Ehrenberg & Richter (1828) calico printing plant in the back town. The factories in the suburbs already employed around 1700 workers in the 1830s, some of whom were employed as homeworkers.
The city walls were torn down and the trenches filled in as early as 1820. This made it possible for the suburbs to merge with the old core urban area. In 1835 the city gates had to give way to the traffic requirements of the growing industrial city. As a consequence, all suburban communities were incorporated by 1859. Hainichen is an exception, which was only incorporated in 1974 and has retained its rural character to this day.
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Ernst Fabri : Geography for All Stands First Part, third volume , Leipzig im Schwickertschen Verlage , 1791, page 522 ( digitized version )
- ↑ a b Wolfgang Beuche: Die Eilenburger Industriegeschichte, Part I 1803-1950 , Books on Demand , Norderstedt 2008, ISBN 9783837058437 , page 3 ff.
- ^ Rolf Vettermann: History of the city of Eilenburg, chapters 4 to 6 , Eilenburg 1989, page 36