Waltersdorf (Liebstadt)

Waltersdorf City of Liebstadt Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 10 ″  N , 13 ° 50 ′ 15 ″  E
Height :	501 m
Area :	4.51 km²
Residents :	150  (Dec 31, 1993)
Population density :	33 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	March 1, 1994
Postal code :	01825
Area code :	035025

Waltersdorf (until the incorporation officially Waltersdorf b. Liebstadt ) is a district of the Saxon town of Liebstadt in the district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains .

geography

Waltersdorf is in the form of a row village "in the midst of a charming meadow landscape" in the very south of the municipality. The place is at an altitude of 501  m above sea level. NN , hills occasionally reach up to 583 meters.

Surrounding villages are Döbra in the north, Börnersdorf in the northeast with the junction Bad Gottleuba of the federal motorway 17 , Breitenau in the southeast, Liebenau in the south, Bärenstein in the southwest and Börnchen and Dittersdorf in the west.

The city center of Liebstadt is about five kilometers north-northeast, that of Glashütte just under ten kilometers northwest.

history

Farm in Waltersdorf

The first documentary mention of Waltersdorf dates back to 1340 as "Walthersdorf". The place name and the type of settlement as Waldhufendorf suggest that the village was divided up for settlement by a locator named Walther.

The owner of the Bärenstein estate , Walzig von Bernstein, acquired the electoral share of the same in 1462. The place name "Waltersdorff" was written in the document.

"Walltersdorff" was mentioned in the confirmation of the market rights of Liebstadt by the Saxon Duke George the Bearded in 1505.

At least since the Reformation , Waltersdorf was parish in Liebenau .

The village, which originally belonged to the electoral office of Pirna , was assigned to the Dippoldiswalde office in 1875 and became part of the Pirna district during the administrative reform of 1952 . On March 1, 1994, the municipality, which had only about 150 inhabitants, was incorporated into the town of Liebstadt. During the first Saxon district reform that took place in the same year, the district of Pirna was merged into the district of Saxon Switzerland , which in turn was merged into the district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains 14 years later .

Population development

year	Residents
1834	218
1871	248
1890	214
1910	213
1925	232
1939	209
1946	270
1950	240
1964	194
1990	161
1993	150

In 1551 Waltersdorf had 24 possessed men and 14 residents .

Around 200 years later, 22 possessed men, 4 gardeners and 2 cottagers ran the village. A year after the Seven Years' War (1756–1763), five other economies were in desolation. With 11½ Hufen land, the village was smallholders with 22 holdings.

In the first census after the Kingdom of Saxony joined the German Customs Union , Waltersdorf was found to have 218 inhabitants in 1834. By the time the empire was founded, the number rose to around 250, but then fell to around 210 inhabitants at the turn of the century. Raised again to 232 in 1925, the number fell back to the previous level until shortly before the start of the Second World War.

After the end of the war, refugees and resettlers were also accommodated in Waltersdorf and the population rose briefly to 270 in 1946. Four years later it was 240 and in 1964 it was even below 200.

At the end of 1990 the community still had 161 inhabitants, three years later there were 150.

literature

• Günter Groß , Rikarda Groß : Waltersdorf, Döbra, Berthelsdorf. Three villages in the Eastern Ore Mountains. Dippoldiswalde 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Information for 14 0 44 720 community Waltersdorf b. Liebstadt. In: Regional Register Saxony. Retrieved June 20, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Our districts. In: Website of the city of Liebstadt. Retrieved June 20, 2012 . 
3. ^ ^{A b} Waltersdorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony