Warnsdorf (desert)
Warnsdorf is a deserted area in the Tharandt Forest in the Tharandt district in the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district in Saxony .
Legends report that the village of Warnsdorf was near Grillenburg in the Tharandt forest. It is said to have sunk into the earth in 1007 because of the godless life of its inhabitants. Furthermore, the legends report that on the Warnsdorf meadows , where the place once sank, a bell was dug up by wild boars, which was then transferred to the Fördergersdorf church and later to the bell cage in the health resort Hartha .
During excavations by the State Archaeological Office of Saxony in 1981/83 and 2017, the remains of a well, a church and house parts that can be assigned to the 12th century were found on the Warnsdorf wing . Dendrochronological examinations of the found wooden components showed the years 1162–63 as the cutting date of the trees used. Remains of historical bridges and a rock carving with gallows had already been found near the excavation site. In addition, the scientific evidence of settlement was carried out through the pollen analysis by Martin Schretzenmayr ( Technical University of Dresden , Tharandt Forestry Department).
The residents are likely to have provided the guards for the outposts of Markgrafenstein and Burgstadl ( Borschelberg ) , which belong to the Markmeißnischen border castle Tharandt and the Romanesque predecessor building of Schloss Grillenburg , which, like the neighboring castle Pohrsdorf , protect pilgrimage and trade routes (e.g. Heiliger Weg ) and the border with Burggrafentum Dohna , with border castles in Rabenau and Ruppendorf .
A no longer verifiable document, which is mentioned in the local chronicle of Fördergersdorf , even said that Warnsdorf was parish together with Pohrsdorf , Granaten ( Tharandt ) and Hintergersdorf in 1307 in the church of Fördergersdorf .
The abandonment of the settlement area in the 14th century can be seen in connection with the general setback in settlement activity in the late Middle Ages , the causes of which can be very diverse in detail and are difficult to reconstruct for the specific case. At Warnsdorf u. a. the unfavorable climatic conditions at the settlement site are mentioned. It is believed that the Warnsdorf residents founded the neighboring village grove in the 14th century or moved there.
The Warnsdorfer Quelle (369 m), the Warnsdorfer Bach (tributary of the Triebisch ), the Warnsdorfer wing and the Warnsdorfer Weg as well as the Warnsdorfer meadows in the Tharandt forest remind of the settlement . The Warnsdorfer Quelle is a popular destination for hikers and day trippers in the Tharandt Forest recreational area. It is located at the intersection of Dorfhainer Weg and C-wing. There is a rest area and a refuge there. As the strongest spring in the Tharandt forest, it gives up to four liters of water per second. Because of the withdrawal of some of the sources of the Todteichbach , the Hintergersdorfer and Tharandt mill owners received the sovereign concession to drain water from the Warnsdorfer spring and the Eulenborn via a ditch to strengthen the Todteichbach. From 1906 to 1991 the Warnsdorf spring was used to supply drinking water to Tharandt and partly from the health resort of Hartha . Today it supplies the process water for the Tharandt Forest Park and feeds the Warnsdorfer Bach in the Triebisch catchment area via the spring pond and a biotope pond . According to current studies, the spring water has no drinking water quality.
literature
- Kulturbund der DDR , Ortsgruppe Tharandt (Ed.): Der Tharandter Wald , Forststadt Tharandt, Contributions to Heimatgeschichte, Issue 7, Tharandt 1982
- André Kaiser: The Harthaer Glocke, its curriculum vitae and the legends about Warnsdorf in: Harthaer Gemeindeblätt'l , Official Journal of Kurort Hartha, December 1992
- André Kaiser: "What the forester told in the evening by the fireplace" - legends from the Tharandt forest , Sächsische Zeitung (ed.), Regionalverlag Freital (brochure, 32 pages, no year, approx. 1996)
- Reinhard Spehr: The warning village in the Tharandt forest in: Messages of the Freiberger Altertumsverein (MFA), issue 91 (2002), pp. 5-62
- Heinrich Magirius , Norbert Oelsner , Reinhard Spehr : Grillenburg , State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, Workbook 10, Dresden 2006, ISBN 978-3-937602-85-1
- Benedikt Gerhards, Gustav Schumann, Martin Schubach: Wüstung in Warnsdorf , documentary work module forest history in the bachelor's degree in forest sciences, TU Dresden, field of forest sciences, Tharandt 2011 (manuscript)
- André Kaiser: 850 years of Warnsdorf - The origin of Dorfhain was probably in the Tharandt forest in: Around the Tharandt Forest , Official Journal of the City of Tharandt, 14th year, issue 12, 15th December 2012, p. 10
- Johann Friedrich Tolksdorf: Medieval mining and the environment in the Ore Mountains. An interdisciplinary study. ArchaeoMontan Volume 4. Publications of the State Office for Archeology in Saxony. Volume 67. Dresden 2018. ISBN 978-3-943770-37-7
- Verena Schulenburg: Warning, unclean spring water , Sächsische Zeitung Freital, February 28, 2019.
Web links
- Tharandter Heimatgeschichte ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 33.6 ″ N , 13 ° 32 ′ 18 ″ E