Priestewitz is a municipality in the district of
Meißen, in
Saxony
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,
Germany
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History
Priestewitz is first documented in 1350 as Pristanewicz. The name is probably from the altsorbischen Pristańovica, "dock", so to interpret PRISTAN "settlement with a jetty." It could also be the derivative of a personal name. Then the interpretation of the basic form of private / Prestanovici as a "settlement of the primary / Prestan" would understand. Other forms of the name were Pristanewicz 1350, 1378 and Prystinwicz Prystenewicz, 1406 Brostelwicz 1418 Brestenewicz, 1420 Prüstewicz, Pruschtewitz 1535, 1547/1551 and 1648 Brostewicz Pristewiz and Bristytz. From 1791, the name was used Priestewitz.
In 1378, Priestewitz belonged to the administrative castle district (castellany) of
Großenhain. In 1511, mentioned as a
manor
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Land ownership
*Manorialism or "manor system", the method of land ownership (or "tenure") in parts of medieval Europe, notably England
*Lord of the manor, the owner of an agreed area of land (or "manor") under manorialism
*Man ...
. 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
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had Seusslitz parts of the village. Then the Prokuraturamt Meissen, Meissen, the Office of Education and the Office Hayn Priestewitz shared interests in the village. 1547 includes seven hooves of the school and a further seven hoofs the Council of the Great City grove. Priestewitz had to provide three bushels of waxy wheat annually to the district office Meissen, freight for Christmas Office cereal to the Elbe, provide construction services and provide a Corporal for Helgeland. 1821 a windmill is mentioned.
The construction of
the first German long-distance railway line Leipzig–Dresden 1839 Priestewitz got
its own railway station. Its geographical proximity to
Meissen
Meissen (in German orthography: ''Meißen'', ) is a town of approximately 30,000 about northwest of Dresden on both banks of the Elbe river in the Free State of Saxony, in eastern Germany. Meissen is the home of Meissen porcelain, the Albrecht ...
and
Großenhain brought rapid economic development for the town, which gained some importance as an important transportation hub.
In the fall of 1843, the
Royal Saxon army led large maneuvers in the area around Priestewitz through, while the occupation and conquest was of strategic importance to the railway station.
Municipality subdivisions
Priestewitz includes the following subdivisions:
*Altleis
*Baselitz
*Baßlitz
*Blattersleben
*Böhla
*Döschütz
*Gävernitz
*Geißlitz
*Kmehlen
*Kottewitz
*Laubach
*Lenz
*Medessen
*Nauleis
*Piskowitz
*Porschütz
*Stauda
*Strießen
*Wantewitz
*Zottewitz
References
Meissen (district)
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