Wilder Mann (Dresden)
Wilder Mann is a district in the north-west of Dresden . It is located directly on the slope of the Dresden Elbe valley in the Pieschen district . It is correct to say “am Wilden Mann”, wrong is “in Wilder Mann”. The fact that the name has survived to this day is thanks to an estate district that was independent until 1897 and an excursion restaurant of the same name that was known until 1945.
location
The Wilder Mann district cannot be precisely delimited geographically. It extends over the west of Trachenberg and the northeast of Trachau (the border between the two districts runs along the Großenhainer and Döbelner Straße). Therefore, in contrast to the similarly developed district of Weißer Hirsch , the Wilde Mann has no official information on the number of inhabitants and no clearly defined area. Its approximate boundaries, however, are in the east on Bolivarstrasse, in the south around Platanenstrasse, in the west at Stephanstrasse and in the north on Kalkreuther Strasse. The Junge Heide and the Heidefriedhof are located directly north of the Wilder Mann .
history
A first time in 1895 in Dresden Gazette bandied forecast according to a small area at today Döbelner road to the end of the Thirty Years' War (1648) by the Elector Johann Georg have been given away († 1656) to a hermit, after this the rulers living in a robbery had saved. The legend "seems to be nothing more than the business tactics of the owner of the former Gasthof Wilder Mann Gustav Emil Weber (1852–1932), who hoped that this would make his inn business more attractive".
The first proven owner was the later mayor of Dresden, Philipp Strobel (1643–1702). In 1680 he founded a winery east of the steep ascent of today's Großenhainer Straße, on which arable and livestock farming was also carried out. It was located in the middle of the then newly laid out, elongated vineyard between Geblerstrasse and Radeburger Strasse, known as "the Trachenberge". Strobel was the owner of the liquor license and served wine, cider and, since 1690, also beer. Strobel's son-in-law Lüder Hildebrand, adjutant general of Augustus the Strong , expanded the property considerably by adding a few extensions and corridors, so that the estate extended to the present-day properties at Döbelner Straße 108 to 116. In addition to serving, he received the concessions for baking, slaughtering and distilling spirits and chose the figure of the Wild Man as the innkeeper , which was mentioned in a document issued on May 7, 1710. "Since Hildebrand came from Lower Saxony, it is quite possible that he was modeled on the heraldic figure of the Wildermann Taler ".
After Hildebrand's death in 1732, the owners of the winery , which was named Vorwerk Wildermann one year later , changed in quick succession. There were a remarkable number of women among them, for example Henriette von Benckendorff and Frau Obrist-Leutnantin von Leipziger. Johanna Rosine Starcke, von Zittwitz married from 1764, acquired the estate and the liquor license in 1762. Against much resistance, she pushed ahead with the relocation of the bar to a small wooden vineyard house further west (today Döbelner Strasse 130), which was finally carried out on July 19, 1773 by the Saxon Elector Friedrich August III. was approved. She argued with a likely increase in lease income if the bar moved from the somewhat remote property to the busy road from Dresden via Moritzburg to Grossenhain. In the following years she had a stone inn built in place of the wooden building. The figure of the Wild Man with a full beard, an apron and club, which was burned in the Seven Years' War , had it renewed in sandstone in 1775 and sold the winery again a year later, whereupon there were several changes of ownership. In 1791 the estate is mentioned as Wildemann .
From August 1835 the winery and inn had separate owners. In 1883 phylloxera forced the abandonment of vine cultures and, as in many other parts of the Dresden Elbe Valley , the end of viticulture . Agriculture was still practiced on the estate until 1898. The winery building, which had been used as a residential building until the end, was demolished in 1934 due to its dilapidation. On the facade of the successor building, Döbelner Straße 110, a plaque commemorates the estate.
The inn remained even after the farm was closed. From 1893 the innkeeper Gustav Weber had the building rebuilt for 97,000 marks and expanded to include a hall with a garden terrace. The inauguration took place on December 25, 1894. Music bands from the Dresden garrison played regularly in the garden . In the guest room Gustav Weber had an oil painting by the painter Schmiegelow with a battle scene in the forest near Trachenberge. The owners made the Wilder Mann a popular destination on the north-western outskirts of the city. It was easily accessible for the people of Dresden thanks to the tram that had been in front of the building from 1881 (a horse-drawn bus connection had been in place since 1858 ). The restaurant business was only interrupted during World War I when the rooms became a reserve accommodation for the Royal Saxon Army . The Gasthof buildings preserved to this day was to use as a military hospital of the armed forces towards the end of World War II, first the circle and then - to move to the Maternistraße 17 - the provincial Party School of the SED and housed since 1969 the studio Dresden the GDR television , according the turn of the MDR . After 2000 it was initially empty. From 2007 to the beginning of 2008 the building was converted into a residential and commercial building. In November 2007, a discounter opened on the site at the site of the five television recording studios that had previously been demolished .
Towards the end of the 19th century, the name of the restaurant was also transferred to the surrounding area. The settlement activity in neighboring Trachenberge, which had been increasing since around 1800, did not stop at the Wilder Mann. In the place known as the summer resort, mainly villas were built , many of which have been preserved to this day. The flatter part of the district that belongs to Trachau is quite densely built up today, the slope that belongs to Trachenberge is rather loose. There is a small panel building area on the hillside of the Elbe .
The area immediately west of Großenhainer Straße, which is also part of the Wilder Mann, is also steeped in history. This is where the Augustinian monks from Altendresden, first mentioned in 1446 as a vineyard on the old Trachenberge, were located . At the upper end of the steep ascent of the Großenhainer Straße, the so-called Wilder-Mann-Berg, the mountain inn has stood since 1880. It was an excursion restaurant popularly known as a mountain goat, from whose terrace, the so-called balcony of the Neustadt, one had a wide view of Dresden. This restaurant operated until 1991, after which it fell into disrepair and was demolished in 2005. The newly built Hotel Bergwirtschaft Wilder Mann has stood here since 2007. Immediately next to it is the listed Villa Trinkl .
Population development of the manor district
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Administrative affiliation
From June 18, 1722, the winery, together with the far north of today's Leipzig suburb, which was then known as Jeßnitz, formed the common estate district of Wilder Mann and was thus de facto independent. This was subordinate to the sovereign and possessed the higher and inheritance jurisdiction . The entire manor district was incorporated into Dresden in 1897 together with Trachenberge , Pieschen and Hellerberge . At first it was completely assigned to the Trachenberge district; Since the mid-1950s, the eastern part of the former manor district, on which the Oberer Hecht settlement had emerged in the meantime , has belonged to the Leipzig suburb and thus to the Neustadt district . Since 1957, both parts of the former manor district belonged to the Dresden-Nord district ; Since 1991, the western part, i.e. today's Wilder Mann district, has been in the Pieschen district.
traffic
Despite its noticeable peripheral location, the district is well connected to the urban transport network. The final stop of tram line 3 is called Wilder Mann and is located directly at the former inn. Bus 80 and intercity buses also stop in the district. The junction of Autobahn 4 built in 1941 immediately north of the district also bears the name Wilder Mann. The old cattle drive from the village center of Alttrachau is now called Wilder-Mann-Straße right into the area of the city quarter.
Trivia
- The Schwingenheuer brewery, located in Dresden's Neustadt district, brews a six percent dark bock beer named after the district.
- Although the Wilde Mann is at a fairly large distance from the Elbe (distance to the Pieschener river loop approx. 2 kilometers), the lower areas of the district, including the courtyard of the winery, were under water during the Saxon Flood on March 31, 1845. This was caused by backwater in an old Elbarm running parallel to the mountain slope, along Schützenhofstrasse, to Kaditz . A renewed flooding of the area during the flood of the century in 2002 was prevented by the dam on the Leipzig – Dresden railway line and the sandbag wall built to bridge Leipziger Strasse.
- Today a restaurant on the other side of Grossenhainer Strasse bears the name "Wilder Mann". The successful track and field athlete Rudolf Harbig lived in the back of this building in the 1920s .
Individual evidence
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↑ How the “Wilde Mann” got his name Website of the Dresdner district newspaper , Pieschener Zeitung of May 25, 2013: “Obviously there is also a connection between Weber's“ advertising strategy ”and a“ legend ”published for the first time in the 1895“ Dresdner Anzeiger ” of the Wild Man ”. It deals with the Thirty Years' War and reports on the liberation of the Saxon Elector Johann Georg (1585–1656) from the hands of Croatian mercenaries through the "bearded figure" of a wild man. The setting is the forest on the Trachenberge. The legend concludes:
- Then the prince gave orders to build homesteads and houses,
- In the same place where the giant cut him out,
- It should be part of the thanks for what he did,
- And should the house be called »Zum wilden Mann«. "(Accessed on June 5, 2017)
- ↑ How the “Wild Man” got his name Website of the Dresden district newspapers , Pieschener Zeitung of May 25, 2013: “The coin, which was widespread in Braunschweig and other cities in what is now Lower Saxony, showed a wild man. "(Accessed on June 5, 2017)
- ↑ How the »Wilde Mann« got its name Website of the Dresden district newspapers , Pieschener Zeitung of May 25, 2013: “A knightly gentleman who is attacked by highwaymen is freed by the bearded figure of a wild man.” (Accessed on May 5, 2013) June 2017)
- ↑ Wilder Mann in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- ↑ Our beers. obergaerig.de, accessed on July 29, 2015 .
literature
- Klaus Brendler / Horst R. Rein: Trachau - Of people, houses and streets. Articles on local history, issue 4, Verlag Horst R. Rein, Dresden 2005.
Web links
- Wilder Mann winery
- Trachenberge and Wilder Mann ( Memento from November 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Trachenberge district ( Memento from October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Mountain economy
- Building of the DFF studio in Dresden
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ' N , 13 ° 43' E