Armory (Saxon Switzerland)
As armory an old hunting lodge in the valley of is Great Zschand in the rear Saxon Switzerland called. It stands in the hallway of Ottendorf and therefore belongs to Sebnitz .
history
Upper Saxon Switzerland has always been a hunting area for the lords of Hohnstein and the Saxon electors. Elector August von Sachsen (1526–1586) used the Großer Zschand and the areas to the west of it around the Kleiner and Großer Winterberg as hunting grounds. The necessary hunting equipment (u. A. Snares, leghold traps, gill nets , Saufedern , Wolf skewers , crates, rabbit yarn , traps and wild rags , nets, cages) were probably in a small wooden house in the 16th century little Winterberg kept. From 1670 the forester's house in Lichtenhain also served as a storage place.
In order to reduce the cost of transport during the electoral hunts, the first wooden armory was built under Elector Augustus the Strong in 1728 at the current location in Großer Zschand. The year "1642" affixed to today's house was not affixed until the 19th century. The house also served as the residence of a track and equipment servant. His tasks also included tracking the game during the hunt and maintaining and creating new paths in the hunting area.
The dilapidated wooden armory was replaced in 1820 by a massive stone building and some outbuildings. The new armory increasingly served as temporary accommodation for forest workers, carters and raftsmen and so quickly reached its capacity limits. In 1871 an additional floor was added. This corresponds to the condition that still exists today. Around 1905, the royal forest administration had another hunting lodge built in the ambience style in the vicinity of the arsenal , which was later used as a forester's lodge.
Even in the early phase of the tourist development of Saxon Switzerland, the first "Swiss travelers" reached the armory at the beginning of the 19th century. Even Götzinger described the arsenal in 1812 as a place ... where travelers will find a friendly reception, a refreshing Swiss food and a guide ... can. The tourist frequency increased in the following decades and was further promoted by the construction of the Kirnitzschtalstraße (1872–74) and the opening of the Kirnitzschtalbahn (1898). In 1908, the then forest warden in the armory received official permission to operate his official apartment as a pub.
In 1938 the building stock was expanded to include a customs house. after a border and customs post already existed at the armory during the First World War . After 1945 the customs house was used as a barracks for the border police. Between autumn 1948 and autumn 1949, the border police also used the actual arsenal as an office, after which it was again used as a restaurant and company holiday home. The restaurant had to be closed in 1974 for hygienic and building regulations reasons, serving and catering took place in a newly built low-rise building next to the armory as a self-service restaurant, and consumption took place in a beer garden-like open-air facility under roofed tables.
In addition to the customs house from 1938, two extension buildings were built, all three houses served as a holiday home for employees of the Ministry of State Security . With the turnaround and German reunification, the catering business came to a standstill. The use of the vacation home of the former state security ended in 1996. The Free State of Saxony tried to put the site out to tender and in May 2000 the run-down area was sold. The content of the contract included the renovation of the armory and the demolition of the GDR buildings. The buildings of the holiday home have now been completely torn down, and in their place there is again a meadow. The pond below the armory has existed again since autumn 2012, which historically had existed since at least the 15th century, but was redesigned into a meadow before the First World War.
In the former forest ranger's office immediately north of the arsenal, the national park administration operates a publicly accessible information point that provides information on historical hunting in the region.
In 2018 the Zeughaus was the location for the first two episodes of the series Der Ranger - Paradies Heimat . The former hunting lodge to the east of the armory functioned as a fictitious ranger station.
In 2018 the snack bar at the armory closed. A new operator has been found since April 2019 and food and drinks are offered again.
View from the armory (left) and the old forest district (right, today the information point of the national park administration)
View of the former royal hunting lodge
Hiking sign at the armory
the re-created pond below the pond stone
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reachability
The armory can only be reached on foot or by bike. The shortest access leads from the parking lot at the Neumannmühle over a distance of approx. 2 kilometers through the Großer Zschand to the armory. Several hiking trails cross at the armory itself, including the Malerweg as the main hiking trail in Saxon Switzerland.
literature
- Ferdinand Bellmann: The armory in the Great Zschand in Saxon Switzerland. Heimatbuchverlag, Dresden 2018, ISBN 978-3-937537-35-1
- Ferdinand Bellman, Michael Bellmann: The Armory in Literature until 1915. in: Working Group Saxon Switzerland in the Saxon Homeland Protection Association (ed.): Bulletin 16. Pirna 2019, pp. 48–64
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ferdinand Bellmann: The armory in the Great Zschand in Saxon Switzerland. Heimatbuchverlag, Dresden 2018, pp. 10/11
- ^ Wilhelm Leberecht Götzinger: Schandau and its surroundings or description of the so-called Saxon Switzerland. von Bergersche Buch- und Kunsthandlung, Dresden 1812 (Reprint Verlag der Kunst Dresden, 2nd edition Husum 2008), p. 240
- ↑ Zeughaus information point
Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 37.3 ″ N , 14 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ E