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Pirna
Pirna is a Saxon (German) city GeographyGeographical Location Pirna is located near the Elbsandsteingebirge in the Elbe valley, where the nearby rivers Wesenitz, in the north, and river Gottleuba, to the south, flow into the Elbe. Pirna is also called Tor zur Sächsischen Schweiz (gate to the Sächsische Schweiz). see also: (in German) general map and City map of Pirna Neighbouring Municipalities Pirna is located in the south of Dresden. Neighbouring municipalities HistoryStone Age Tools made of flint from the late paleolithic (about 12,000-8,000 BC), at the end of the latest ice age, are evidence for earliest human settlement in the area. Later on people belonging to the culture of Pirna in the Middle Ages With the conquest of the Slavic communities and the founding of the Mark by the Germans (Heinrich I founded the castle of Meißen in 929), settlement in the The streets are aligned from east to west and from north to south forming a chessboard-like Modern Times In 1502 the construction of the new church under Meister Peter Ulrich von Pirna is begun. On April 23, 1639, the city was invaded by Swedish troops under the commander in chief of the Swedish army Johan Banér. While the futile five-month siege of the fortress Prussian Pirna On August 29, 1756, the small Saxonian army fled without the declaration of war and fell to Prussia on the parallelism between Festung Königstein and Schloss Sonnenstein and remained until October 16, two days after Schloss Sonnenstein surrendered. In 1758, Austrian troops and Reichsarmee sieged the forterss. Napoleonic PirnaManufactured plants opened in 1774 in Pirna. In 1811 in Sonnenstein, the physician Ernst Gottlob Pienitz opened a mental hospital. But on September 14, 1813, French troops occupied Sonnenstein and forced evacuation of 275 patients, seized supplies and cleared away the roof framings due to a threatening fire risk. In September of 1813, emperor Napoleon temporarily went into Marienhaus at the market. Dresden surrendered Pirna on November 11 and defend the Frenchmen at the fortress. Only in February, its hospital for mentally ill reopened. See also: Schloss Sonnenstein, Markgrafschaft Meißen, Kings of Saxony, History of Bohemia, History of Saxony, History of Germany The industrial revolution, the Kaiser period and the Weimar Republic In 1837, a kind of steam ship flowed the upper Elbe. A few years later, a railway line connecting Dresden and Pirna opened. It became an industrial city in 1862 with the building of factories. Mechanical engineering, glass, cellulose and celanese production also expanded. In 1875, the sand-stone Elbbruecke was completed. During the First World War Pirna became a garrison and the engineer battalions 12 and 5 was aligned at Rottwerndorfer Straße. The Royal Saxonian field artillery regiment No. 64. In 1922/23 the city incorporated several municipalities including Posta, Niedervogelgesang, Obervogelgesang, Copitz, Hinterjessen, Neundorf, Zuschendorf, Rottwerndorf and Zehista. The population was totaled 30,000 inhabitants. IncorporationsThe cities that were incorporated into Pirna.
1 Oktober 29 2 August 31 Dialect Its main dialect spoken in Pirna is of the Saxonian dialect group called : Südostmeißnische, which is one of the five Meißnischen group of dialects. City Partnership
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