Wirnotine
The Sorbian settlement Wirnotine was located in the area of today's western Friedrichstadt in Dresden, roughly between today's Flügelwegbrücke and today's Alberthafen . It was probably named "Vernota" after a Slavic locator and local founder. There are no remains of the village, which fell desolate between 1350 and 1470.
Wirnotine was mentioned in a papal document from Innocent II of February 27, 1140. At the request of the cathedral monastery of Meissen, the Pope allegedly confirmed the possession of Wirnotine (the Wernten desert) in Burcwardo Bresnice and a number of other possessions at the end of 1139 .
The papal charter of 1140 is not undisputed. While some historians see the mention of the village Hermanni villa as evidence of a German state expansion before 1139/1140, other historians assess the mention of this place in the diploma of 1140 as ahistorical and thus more as proof that this papal document was from the Meissner Bishops (at least decades later) was forged. A forgery complex with border documents of the diocese of Meißen produced for the 10th century was created in 1250, around 1140 a forgery complex was created for the years 1071 and 1091 probably only because of the dispute with the Margrave of Meißen about property, rights and influence in 1142 Gau Nisan that had become German to gain advantages. This dispute had to be settled with a royal charter from 1144, whereby the decision went very much in favor of the bishopric .
Since there is neither agreement on whether this papal document is a forgery nor to which forgery complex it would then be assigned, a historical classification is difficult. No other information about Nisan from the 12th century is available; a more reliable chain of documents does not start again until the beginning of the 13th century.
Including the forgery complex from the 1140s to the years 1071 and 1091, it can be assumed that at this point in time the Elbe Sorbian settlement, which had been under Bohemian rule, came under the control of the diocese of Meissen . The transition to the Diocese of Meißen can also have happened decades later, possibly even in the 13th century. The next document was not mentioned again until 1241 as villa Werentin .
In 1350 the settlement was mentioned as Werntyn for the last time as an existing allodium , (around) 1470 it was already desolate: Werntyn, is wuste .
A presumption that the then Werntyn “probably in the 14./15. Century fell victim to a flood ” and was “ not rebuilt ” is less likely. On the one hand, the Sorbian foundations were flood-proof, and on the other hand, after Nisan became German from 1142, an intensified process of concentration of old Slavic settlements with the abandonment of old hamlets and smaller villages took place in order to create clearly shaped farming villages. A feature of this process was the transition of the land to new owners. The corridor of what was then Werntyn was initially (partially) transferred to Ockerwitz and later completely to the Ostravorwerk and the municipality of Friedrichstadt.
In 1529 the corridor, then known as Wernten , was a divided outwork, which can be proven in 1559 in the manorial rule of the cathedral chapter of Meissen.
The Wernten corridor was last mentioned in 1564 and 1568 in the form of Wermttem .