Zehista

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Zehista
Large district town of Pirna
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 25 ″  N , 13 ° 55 ′ 35 ″  E
Height : 141 m
Residents : 646  (December 31, 2011)
Incorporation : February 1, 1930
Postal code : 01796
Area code : 03501

Zehista has been a district of Pirna in the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district since 1930 .

history

Zehista on the Oberreitschen map from 1821
Zehista around 1860
Look at Zehista (2006)

The place in the valley of the Seidewitz was first mentioned in 1355 as a Zceyst . This name is derived from the Czech cesta , which means something like way or road. This probably meant a route from Dohna to Königstein or a route leading to Pirna itself. In the course of history the spellings Zceyst, Ciest, Zyhist and Zehist also appeared.

The origin of the place is probably Slavic ( Sorbian ), which is also indicated by the original form of the place as a farming hamlet . It was only later that a large estate and a few cottages were added along the road to Pirna. The estate was a Vorwerk in 1458 and a manor in 1551 . The manor was later converted into a castle. Zehista has been part of Pirna since February 1, 1930. At the time of incorporation, the place had about 750 inhabitants (as of 1925). Since 1990 the place has been significantly expanded structurally by the construction of a residential park (over 90 pieces of land). In 2002 some houses in Zehista were damaged by the great flood .

Zehista Castle

Zehista Castle, as it was before the renovation work began (2009)
Zehista Castle, view during the renovation work (December 2012)

Before the Thirty Years' War , the Zehista manor was converted into a castle. During the siege of Pirna in this war, the castle temporarily housed the headquarters of the Swedish Field Marshal Johan Banér in 1639 . In 1651 it came into the possession of Banér's former opponent, the Pirna fortress commander Johann Siegmund von Liebenau . In 1735 Johann Adolph von Brühl , a brother of Heinrich Graf von Brühl , bought the property. The building of the house church from 1742, which is worth seeing, also fell during his time. The last owners of the castle were the noble von Rex family , who owned it from 1820 until it was expropriated as part of the land reform in the Soviet occupation zone in 1945. After the expropriation, resettlers' apartments were set up in the castle, some parts of the building and the original character of the castle fell victim to the renovation work. The castle has been empty since 1995. In 2011, a private investor began renovating the main building. This was essentially completed in December 2014. The castle is now used for residential purposes (9 apartments).

Castle owner

  • Christoph Heinrich Friedrich zu Solms , Saxon Privy Councilor and Chamberlain
  • Count Carl Alexander von Rex (1780–1849), Saxon chamberlain
  • Count Alexander Caspar von Rex (1827–1870), officer
  • Egon-Ferdinand Graf von Rex (1914–1945)
  • Christian Wildmoser

traffic

Gasthof “Zur Post”, between 1693 and 1827 the first post office on the way from Dresden to Prague

In terms of traffic, Zehista is located on the road that leads over Berggießhübel and the Nollendorfer Pass to Northern Bohemia (today the state road S 173). The road branches off from it in front of the castle, which leads to Liebstadt via Beimendorf through the Seidewitztal valley . At this fork there is an inn that still exists today and was first mentioned in 1686. The first post office on the Neue Dresden-Teplitzer Poststrasse was located here between 1693 and 1827 , coming from Dresden . From 1894, Zehista also had two stops on the railway line leading from Pirna to Cotta . However, passenger traffic was stopped in 1957 and the line was dismantled after 1990.

A bridge over the Seidewitztal is to be built north of Zehista for the planned southern bypass of Pirnas through the federal highway 172b . A valley bridge is also planned at this point in the plans for the construction of a new high-speed railway line between Dresden and Prague .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Territorial changes in Germany and German administered areas 1874 - 1945
  2. ↑ Mareike Huisinga: Castle Zehista is small apartment house . Sächsische Zeitung (local edition Pirna) of March 17, 2011
  3. ↑ Mareike Huisinga: Castle Zehista rehabilitated almost finished . Sächsische Zeitung (local edition Pirna) from August 15, 2013
  4. ^ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses, Volume 47, 1874, pp. 697–698, online

literature

  • Alfred Meiche: Historical-topographical description of the Pirna administration. Dresden 1927. ( digitized version )
  • Richard Steche : Zehista. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 1. Booklet: Official Authority Pirna . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1882, p. 97.

Web links

Commons : Zehista  - album with pictures, videos and audio files