Dresden is an
abandoned village in
Brazeau Township in
Perry County Perry County may refer to:
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,
Missouri, United States.
Etymology
Dresden was named after
Dresden in
Saxony,
Germany, the city where Pastor
Martin Stephan's church was located and where his movement had originated.
[State Historical Society of Missouri: Perry County Place Names http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_perry.html]
History
Dresden was a short-lived town near
Altenburg
Altenburg () is a city in Thuringia, Germany, located south of Leipzig, west of Dresden and east of Erfurt. It is the capital of the Altenburger Land district and part of a polycentric old-industrial textile and metal production region betw ...
, one of the seven colonies established in 1839 in
the Saxon Migration.
Pastor
Carl Frederick Wilhelm Walter ministered to the village of Dresden.
A log-cabin Lutheran seminary “college” was founded in 1839 at Dresden by J. F. Bürger, T. Brohm, O. Fuerbringer, and Walther; classes, however, soon moved to Altenburg.
Most of Dresden's inhabitants came from Dresden, Germany. After Stephan's downfall, it was assigned for a time to the care of Walther, but most of the other pastors lived there because it contained most of the habitable dwellings of the first Saxon settlers. It must have immediately adjoined Altenburg, probably on the south, because the "special partition" between them for a while was unfixed, and in 1841, when Walther left to take over his brother's church in
St. Louis, it was made a subsidiary parish or branch of
Altenburg
Altenburg () is a city in Thuringia, Germany, located south of Leipzig, west of Dresden and east of Erfurt. It is the capital of the Altenburger Land district and part of a polycentric old-industrial textile and metal production region betw ...
. This probably marked its end as an independent settlement. The famous log cabin erected for the college in 1839 is originally said to have been located within the territory of Dresden, but is subsequently always spoken of as Altenburg, where it is proudly exhibited today.
References
Abandoned villages in Perry County, Missouri
German-American culture in Missouri
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