Dresden, Perry County, Missouri

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Dresden, Perry County, Missouri
Abandoned village
Map of Missouri highlighting Perry County.svg
Location of Perry County, Missouri
Coordinates: 37°38′N89°35′W / 37.633°N 89.583°W / 37.633; -89.583
Country United States
State Missouri
County Perry
Township Brazeau
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)

Dresden is an abandoned village in Brazeau Township in Perry County, Missouri, United States. [1] It was an early German Lutheran settlement in Missouri. [2]

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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. [3]

History

Dresden was a short-lived town near Altenburg, one of the seven colonies established in 1839 in the Saxon Migration. [3] Pastor Carl Frederick Wilhelm Walter ministered to the village of Dresden. It was one of the prominenet settlements originally but was last denoted on a map in the 1870s. [4] Dresden remained small and never received a post office. [5]

Log-cabin seminary

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. [6] [7] [2] 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 also 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. This probably marked its end as an independent settlement. The log cabin erected for the college in 1839 is originally said to have been located within the territory of Dresden, but subsequently has always been spoken of as Altenburg, where it is exhibited today. [3]

Geography

Dresden was located in southeastern Perry County, a few miles southwest of Wittenburg west of the Mississippi River. [4] Altenburg and Grand Tower flanked Dresden to the west and southeast, respectively. [8]

References

  1. ↑ "Perry County, Missouri Political Entities". Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Place Names. Retrieved June 17, 2025.
  2. 1 2 Douglas, Robert Sidney (1912). History of Southeast Missouri: A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People and Its Principal Interests. Vol. I. Chicago and New York: The Lewis Publishing Company. pp. 479–481. Retrieved January 12, 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 State Historical Society of Missouri: Perry County Place Names http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_perry.html Archived 2016-03-31 at the Wayback Machine
  4. 1 2 Campbell, R.A. (1870). "Randolph, Perry, Jackson counties". S.A. Mitchell, Jr. Retrieved June 17, 2025.
  5. ↑ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved June 17, 2025.
  6. ↑ The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod http://cyclopedia.lcms.org/display.asp?t1=l&word=LUTHERANCHURCH-MISSOURISYNOD.THE
  7. ↑ Margot Ford McMillen (1994). Paris, Tightwad, and Peculiar: Missouri Place Names. ISBN   9780826209726.
  8. ↑ "Perry County Map, 2022" (PDF). MoDOT. Retrieved June 17, 2025.
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