Historical Monuments of Saxony

People and Places

24 August 2001

Background

Historical monuments are useful in reminding us of life of other days, and Saxony has many of which to be proud. There are churches, castles, markets, town halls, monastries, chapels, parks, schools, theatres, museums, houses, windmills and follies. There are even whole streets and villages, and even a couple of orangeries. There were the people who commissioned these places, and who designed, built, maintained, studied and restored them. It is to these people and places that this page is dedicated.

One important source for details is the book, Denkmale in Sachsen: Ihre Erhaltung und Pflege in den Bezirken Dresden, Karl-Marx-Stadt Leipzig und Cottbus edited by Hans Müller & Heinrich Magirius, Hermann Böhlaus Nachfolger, Weimar 1979. It is its Personenregister and Ortsregister that have been adapted, solely at my discretion, and listed below. Consequently any errors arising therefrom are my responsiblity and not the original authors or publishers.

You will need to consult this book for references in its text. If you cannot buy or borrow it, try to get an inter-library loan from your national or state library through your local library. Perhaps it may be borrowed in microfilm format from your local Mormon Family History Centre. In any event, do not ask me as I will not do "look-ups" for you.

When you do look through these indices or the book itself, be careful.

The county (ie. Kreis) organisation used is the old style as described in one of my other pages. However some of the counties mentioned don't appear there and are unknown to me. Sometimes the names of towns and villages have changed. Where the indices cross-reference these changes, they have been included. Even so, there are many which do not appear on any of my most detailed maps, and if they are of importance to you, you will have to use an appropriate historical map and/or gazetteer to locate them. Some of the larger towns and cities have grown to incorporate old villages or grow new suburbs. Where these could be identified, they are included in brackets after the town or city of which they are now a part.

There are also references to non-Saxon places (eg. Paris, Prag, Berlin, Kraków, Rom, Leningrad, Versaille, and perhaps even Sohland). If you can identify any more, I am most interested to hear from you.

Personenregister (People Index)

Ortsregister (Place Index)

Finally

If you do visit Saxony and can read German, this book is a good general guide to the historically minded informed traveller. I can recommend it.

Saxon Genealogy
Copyright: ©2001 Jon Kehrer, Canberra