Gabler Street
The Gabler Straße , simply called Gabler or Gebler, is one of the oldest connections from Upper Lusatia to Bohemia via the Zittau Mountains .
course
The trade route led from Zittau via Zittau , Lückendorf and Petersdorf to Deutsch Gabel . Between the Mühlsteinberg and Heideberg the road reaches the mountain ridge, west of the Straßberg it crosses the mountains on the Lückendorfer Pass. Further connections led through the Weißbachtal and along the old Leipaer Straße .
history
Since around the year 1000, war troops in particular have used the route over the Lückendorfer Pass to cross the mountains. As early as 1361, only four years after the construction of the fortified Karlsfried Castle customs station at the foot of the Straßberg , its use as a trade pass road was ordered in a document issued in Prague with the threat of fines. To this road coercion to enforce and safeguard customs revenue, moat and ramparts were applied to the costs incurred by avoiding the road ravines make impassable.
An old stone cross on Seufzerallee south of Eichgraben ( ⊙ ) is said to be connected to a document from 1392. It reads that Hansel Gläntzel, a citizen on the mountains of Kuttenberg in Bohemia, and his wife Margaretha from the city of Zittau, in their will, demand the erection of a stone cross for the 70 shock groschen paid annually to mend the road. The stone cross was excavated around 1930 and set up again. However, it is also possible that one of the three stone crosses on the joint could be the Gläntzel cross.
Often the wagons had to drive new tracks due to the steep terrain and the poor road conditions. In 1581 the Zittau Council decided to create a new “path through the Stein-Felß” next to the former path, which was partly paved. This was led over the slope of the Heideberg. At the junction between the Heideberg and Mühlsteinberg, both streets met again.
Since 1789 a regular post office has been set up between Zittau and Deutsch Gabel. From 1800 the construction of a new road around the Heideberg began, which was completed in 1815 up to the border. In order to cover the high construction costs, Zittau received the right from the Saxon government to collect road money in Lückendorf and Eichgraben from 1810 . The Lückendorfer forester's house on the street was formerly used as a relaxation area . In the vicinity of him there are up to 150 m long jumps, which are called Napoleon jumps. On August 19, 1813, around 18,000 French and Polish soldiers moved along Gabler Strasse to Deutsch Gabel, Napoleon's overnight stay. The steep section from Brückborn to the saddle between Heideberg and Mühlsteinberg was thrown off in 1848 by the serpentine hairpin bend.
Lückendorfer hill climb
As early as 1848, Gabler Strasse near Lückendorf gained distinctive features thanks to the new hairpin curve on Mühlsteinberg and greater width (209 m gradient over 4 km in length), which later made it well suited for car and motorcycle races , the Lückendorfer mountain course. On June 3, 1923, the engines sounded for the first time in a sporting "fuel consumption test" competition. On August 31, 1924, the first hill climb between Eichgraben and Lückendorf took place. The start was at the Kurhaus "Waldfrieden" in Eichgraben and the goal was at the "Forsthaus" in Lückendorf. Both motorcycles in the then common solo and sidecar classes from 175 to 1000 cm³ as well as sports and racing cars took part.
The number of visitors increased quickly:
- 2nd Lückendorf hill climb on June 6, 1926: 10,000 spectators
- 4th hill climb 1928: 30,000 spectators
- 5th hill climb 1929: 40,000 spectators
The last hill climb for the time being took place on August 12, 1934, after the 5th Lückendorf hill climb on May 26, 1929 as a result of a technical defect in his Grad Prix Bugatti Ernst Mahla raced into the crowd at around 160 km / h, with two of them People died and others were seriously injured.
After the Second World War, only motorcycles drove the Lückendorf mountain course for the time being. In the Formula 3 races in the second half of the sixties, Heinz Melkus from Dresden scored a few victories. Well-known racing drivers such as Hans Stuck , Manfred von Brauchitsch and Rudolf Caracciola were among the guest drivers on the racetrack.
Hill climbs have taken place every year since 2000. Since 2007 the Lückendorf hill climb has been marketed together with the Jonsdorfer Oldtimertage and the Zittau Narrow Gauge Railway Festival as “Historik Mobil”.
source
- The south-eastern Upper Lusatia with Zittau and the Zittau Mountains (= values of the German homeland . Volume 16). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 224–225.
Individual evidence
- ^ Thomas Kühtreiber : Street and Castle. Notes on a complex relationship , p. 286ff. In: Kornelia Holzner-Tobisch, Thomas Kühtreiber, Gertrud Blaschitz (eds.): The complexity of the street. Continuity and change in the Middle Ages and early modern times , publications by the Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times 22, Vienna 2012, pp. 263–301.
- ↑ http://www.suehnekreuz.de/sachsen/hartau.htm
- ↑ Stone Cross Zittau IX
- ↑ Information board at the Lückendorf border crossing
- ^ History of the Lückendorfer hill climb. (No longer available online.) MC Robur Zittau e. V., archived from the original on October 15, 2013 ; Retrieved August 1, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Historik Mobil. (No longer available online.) MC Robur Zittau e. V., archived from the original on June 17, 2013 ; Retrieved August 1, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
