Zschertnitz

Zschertnitz District of the state capital Dresden Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 22 "  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 33"  E
Height :	135–190 m above sea level NN
Incorporation :	July 1, 1902
Postal code :	01217
Area code :	0351
Location of the Zschertnitz district in Dresden

Zschertnitz is a district in the south of Dresden and is located in the Plauen district . It is part of the statistical district Räcknitz / Zschertnitz .

Zschertnitz borders the districts of Räcknitz , Kleinpestitz , Mockritz , Strehlen and Südvorstadt .

history

Zschertnitz and its neighboring villages on a map from the 19th century

Moreau monument on an old postcard

Zschertnitz in the winter of 1985

In 1308 Zschertnitz was first mentioned in a document as Scherschiecz. There are different views on the meaning of the name. One opinion is that Zschertnitz means something like “devil's village ” or “devil's place” ( Czech: Čert = devil, vesnice = village). Others say the name means People of the Srsa . There is no doubt about the Slavic origin of the name.

In 1418 the Münzmeister family acquired the Zschertnitz Vorwerk, two family members were mayors of Dresden.

In 1813 Zschertnitz was almost destroyed in the battle for Dresden . General Jean-Victor Moreau was seriously injured in this battle in Zschertnitz and died a few days later as a result of the injury. Since then, a memorial near the Räcknitzhöhe commemorates this battle and Moreau's death.

Until 1880 Zschertnitz was mainly used for agriculture. After that, several brickworks and clay pits were established. One of these clay pits was used as a rubble dump after the Second World War . Today there is an allotment garden on this dump . One of the brick buildings still exists today and is used as an upholstered furniture factory.

From 1886 until the end of the Second World War, one of the most famous ballrooms in Dresden stood in Zschertnitz , the "Paradise Garden". The events ran under the motto “Z remains Z” and were very popular among the people of Dresden. In 1945 the paradise garden fell victim to the air raids and could only be used as a warehouse afterwards. In 1977 it burned down completely.

Copy of the Saxon distance column

1967 was Motel Münzmeisterstraße the first of its kind in the GDR built, of which today only as architectural art set up there replica of the Saxon Postmeilensäule by former Wilsdruffer Tor stands in Dresden.

Zschertnitz was incorporated into Dresden on July 1, 1902. Since 2002, a memorial in the form of the Saxon quarter milestone No. 1 on the Obergebirgische Poststrasse Dresden - Dippoldiswalde at the exit of Paradiesstrasse has been commemorating this .

Cultural monuments

→ Main article : List of cultural monuments in Zschertnitz

In Zschertnitz, some of the preserved buildings from the original village and suburban development, including a three-sided courtyard , were placed under monument protection.

New development area

Zschertnitz residential complex, 17-storey high-rise group

Today's Zschertnitz is essentially a new building area, which was laid out from 1971 to 1976 under the urban planning direction of the architects Kurt Röthig and Jörg Bösche. The complex architect was Sybille Kriesche. The village center of Zschertnitz with its historic farmhouses and a total of 20 apartments was sacrificed for this new development in 1973/74.

The constructed buildings comprise 3048 apartments of the types IW 65 , WBS 70 , IW 66 P2 and WHH 17 and are five, eight, eleven and 17 storeys high. A 17-storey high-rise group of the type WHH 17 is located on the Südhöhe. In addition, two high schools and four day-care centers, a department store and an old people's home were built.

To this day, the district has been continuously expanded. After 1990 the remnants of the Paradise Garden (now a shopping center) and the motel on Münzmeisterstraße were demolished, and there are also residential buildings there. Since 1994 the school buildings erected at that time on Paradiesstrasse have been known as the Vitzthum-Gymnasium Dresden . After these structures were demolished in 2007, the new building project was commissioned in August 2010.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Municipal directory Germany 1900: Amtshauptmannschaft Dresden-Altstadt
2. ^ ^{A b} Walter May, Werner Pampel and Hans Konrad: Architectural Guide GDR, Dresden District . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1979, No. 85 (Zschertnitz residential complex).
3. ↑ Räcknitz / Zschertnitz with Strehlen-Südwest on dresden.de , accessed on April 9, 2018.

Web links

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

• Zschertnitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Zschertnitz on dresdner-stadtteile.de
• Photo of the new development from 1979