Waltersdorf (Bad Schandau)

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Waltersdorf
City of Bad Schandau
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  N , 14 ° 6 ′ 23 ″  E
Residents : 338  (2009)
Incorporation : April 1, 1974
Incorporated into: Porschdorf
Postal code : 01814
Area code : 035022
Waltersdorf (Saxony)
Waltersdorf

Location of Waltersdorf in Saxony

Waltersdorf seen from Basteiweg

Waltersdorf (also Waltersdorf / Sächs. Switzerland ) is a district of the Saxon city Bad Schandau in the district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains .

geography

Lilienstein

Waltersdorf is located in Saxon Switzerland , around 17 km east of Pirna . The corridor of the place also includes the well-known 415 m high Lilienstein with the rest of the Lilienstein Castle . The Lilienstein and some of the areas surrounding it are under special protection as part of the Saxon Switzerland National Park . The place itself is located at around 200  m above sea level. NN . Waltersdorf is mainly surrounded by the forests of Saxon Switzerland and some arable land. About 1.4 km west of the center of Waltersdorf as the crow flies, the Elbe flows towards Dresden . The place is mainly characterized by smaller farmhouses, in which holiday apartments are often rented out today. In Waltersdorf, the district road 8735 branches off the Saxon state road 163 and connects the place with the health resort Rathen (district Niederrathen). The S 163 connects Waltersdorf to Hohnstein as well as Porschdorf and Bad Schandau.

Waltersdorf forms its own district , which corresponds to the expansion of the independent municipality before 1974. The district borders in the northwest on the district Niederrathen and in the north and northeast on Hohnstein. In the east is the district of Porschdorf with the Neuporschdorf settlement . Neuporschdorf is on the road to Porschdorf and is directly connected to Waltersdorf. In the southeast, Waltersdorf borders the Prossen district . The boundary of the Waltersdorfer district in the south, southwest and west forms the district of the city of Königstein . The towns of Ebenheit and Halbestadt are located in this area, southwest of the Lilienstein. Evenness can only be achieved on roads via Waltersdorf.

The Sellnitz desert , also known as Seltnitz or Seltensatt, is suspected to be on Waltersdorfer Flur . Today it is the location of a single property at the foot of the Lilienstein, in which a farm yard and the youth education center of the Saxon Switzerland National Park are housed.

history

Waltersdorf and surroundings in the Oberreit'schen Atlas from 1821/1822
Population
development
year Residents
1834 240
1871 327
1890 365
1910 408
1925 439
1939 449
1946 509
1950 502
1964 417
1999 398
2009 338

Waltersdorf is one of the younger settlements in Saxon Switzerland. The Waldhufendorf originally comprised 13 farms and was first mentioned in 1501 as Waltirstorff . In 1530 the place was called Walttersdorff , in 1548 Waldtersdorff was common. The village belonged at that time the Office Pirna-Rathen and at the end of the 17th century the office Pirna on. Between 1856 and 1875 the judicial administration of Waltersdorf was in Schandau, afterwards the village belonged to the Pirna administration . Before Waltersdorf was given independence as a rural community through the Saxon rural community order in 1838, the place was characterized by the feudal system . The manor ruled the Prossen estate in the 17th and 18th centuries . In the year 1764 13 possessed men and 10 cottagers were liable to pay taxes, they cultivated 9 12 Hufen land. Before that, Waltersdorf was owned by the sovereign as an official village, in 1548 14 possessed men and 10 residents lived in Waltersdorf on 8 12 Hufen. The place had a hereditary court , from which an inn emerged.

A 489 hectare forest hoof field extended around the forest hoof village in 1900 . The residents of Waltersdorf, originally Franconian and Lower Saxon farmers, were predominantly active in agriculture and forestry for centuries or hired themselves as Elbe boatmen and in sandstone crushing. In church terms, Waltersdorf was parish first to Königstein and later to Porschdorf. Today the village belongs to the parish of Bad Schandau-Porschdorf. After the Reformation, the population of the place was predominantly Evangelical Lutheran , so in 1925 there were only four of 439 inhabitants who did not belong to this denomination. Tourism gained in importance since the beginning of the 19th century, with the Waltersdorfer Mühle in Polenztal , a grinding and cutting mill with the Swiss- style inn built in 1897 , being a popular excursion destination. In connection with tourism, the villa colony Neuporschdorf was created as a summer retreat, which is directly adjacent to Waltersdorf, but is already on Porschdorfer Flur.

After the Second World War , Saxony came into the Soviet occupation zone and later to the GDR . The historically grown affiliation to Pirna was retained even after the territorial reform in 1952 , which Waltersdorf assigned to the Pirna district in the Dresden district. Rural life in Waltersdorf was now based on agriculture in the GDR . The town lost its communal independence on April 1, 1974 when it was incorporated into Porschdorf.

After German reunification , Porschdorf and Waltersdorf came to the re-established Free State of Saxony. The following regional reforms in Saxony assigned Porschdorf to the Saxon Switzerland district in 1994 and to the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district in 2008. Waltersdorf has belonged to the city of Bad Schandau since January 1, 2012 , as Porschdorf was incorporated there.

The population of the place has risen continuously since 1834 up to the determined high of 509 in the year 1946. In the GDR the population then decreased, in 1964 417 people lived in Waltersdorf. In 2009 the place had 338 inhabitants.

Web links

Commons : Waltersdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Lars Kühl: The population of Bad Schandau is falling. In: Sächsische Zeitung , January 26, 2010
  2. a b c Waltersdorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  3. Waltersdorf in the Repertory Saxonicum
  4. Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .