Priestewitz
Priestewitz is a municipality in the district of Meißen in Saxony.
Geography and transport
The municipality is situated on the southern edge of the Großenhainer care. The neighboring towns are great grove (5 km), the county town of Meissen (10 km) and Riesa ( 17 km). The B101 runs through the community. The Priestewitz station connects the town with the railroad tracks Leipzig- Dresden, Berlin -Dresden and Großenhain Priestewitz.
Local structure
The quarters are:
- Altleis,
- Baselitz,
- Baßlitz,
- Blatter life,
- Böhla,
- Böhla Bhf,
- Dallwitz,
- Döbritzschen,
- Döschütz,
- Gavernitz,
- Geißlitz,
- Kmehlen,
- Kotte joke
- Laubach,
- Lenz,
- Medessen,
- Nauleis,
- Piskowitz,
- Porschütz,
- Priestewitz,
- Stauda,
- Striessen,
- Wantewitz,
- Zottewitz.
History
Interpretation and development of the place name
Priestewitz is first documented in 1350 mentioned as Pristanewicz. The name is probably from the altsorbischen Pristańovica, " jetty ", so to interpret pristane "settlement with a jetty ." It could also be the derivative of a personal name. Then the interpretation of the basic form Pri / Prestanovici as "settlement of the Pri / Prestan " would understand. Other forms of the name were Pristanewicz 1350, 1378 Prystinwicz and Prystenewicz, 1406 Brostelwicz 1418 Brestenewicz, 1420 Prüstewicz 1535 Pruschtewitz, 1547/1551 and 1648 Brostewicz Pristewiz and Bristytz. From 1791 on, the name Priestewitz was used.
History
Priestewitz 1378 belonged to the administrative district of the castle Great grove. 1511 manor is called. In the northern part of the corridor there is the deserted village of the town Kunnershain. Another deserted village is Breßnitz. Until the Reformation, the monastery possessed Seußlitz parts of the village. Then the Prokuraturamt Meissen, Meissen, the Office of Education and the Office Hayn shares in the village Priestewitz shared. 1547 includes seven hooves of the school and a further seven hooves to the city council Großenhain. Priestewitz had to deliver three bushels annually waxy wheat to the district office Meissen, ship for Christmas Office cereal to the Elbe, provide construction services and provide a Corporal for Helgeland. 1821 a windmill is mentioned.
With the construction of the first long-distance railway line Leipzig -Dresden 1839 Priestewitz got its own railway station. Its geographical proximity to Meissen and Großenhain brought rapid economic development for the city, which gained some importance as an important transportation hub.
In the autumn of 1843, the Royal Saxon army led large maneuvers in the area around Priestewitz by, while the occupation and conquest came to the railway station of strategic importance.