Historic village green Serkowitz

The Platzgass village was probably founded in the 12th century in the course of Frankish colonisation at the height of an old Elbe crossing at the lower reaches of the Lößnitzbach stream and was mentioned as Cerakuicz in 1315.

The outlying estate initially belonged to the Seußlitz nunnery and then to the Dresden council.

It was dissolved in the middle of the 15th century. The village itself originally comprised 12 farmsteads. From the 16th century onwards, individual house plots without significant land ownership were created through division, whose owners were often craftsmen or winegrowers.

Until the dissolution of the village in 1843, the parish green and the parish land were owned by the old parish of the "Fünfzehner", which was made up of 14 farms and the Brauschenkgut.

The fields belonging to Serkowitz with fertile farmland lay below Meißner Straße. Meadows and pastures were located in the Elbe floodplain.

Viticulture had been practised since the 14th century at the latest. The municipal seal, first documented in 1737, shows a hanging bunch of grapes.

Like the village of Radebeul, Serkowitz also belonged to Kaditz in terms of school and church. Serkowitz has been connected to the railway network since 1838 with the Weintraube stop. At the end of the 19th century, the first industrial plant was established - the later Otto Baer paint factory. On 1 January 1905, the village with its 2800 inhabitants was incorporated into Radebeul.