Leuba (Ostritz)

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Leuba
City of Ostritz
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 34 ″  N , 14 ° 56 ′ 49 ″  E
Height : 210 m above sea level NN
Area : 7.09 km²
Residents : 441  (1990)
Population density : 62 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1994
Postal code : 02899
Area code : 035823
Nikolaikirche Leuba
view from the southwest

Leuba is a district of Ostritz in the district of Görlitz . The formerly independent rural community of Leuba with its district of Feldleuba was incorporated into the city of Ostritz in 1994.

location

The core of the village of Leuba extends from south to north over a length of about 1.3 kilometers on both sides of the former Zittau-Görlitzer Heerstraße and today's Bundesstraße 99 and parallel to the Lausitzer Neisse , which borders Leuba in the east to Poland. The Neisse has been part of the German-Polish border since 1945 and also separates Saxony from Lower Silesia (Polish: Dolny Śląsk). Neighboring towns of Leuba are Hagenwerder in the north, Schönau-Berzdorf auf dem Eigen in the northwest , Kiesdorf auf dem Eigen in the west, Dittersbach auf dem Eigen in the southwest and the city of Ostritz in the south.

history

Leuba was first mentioned in 1326 in a deed of donation to the St. Marienthal monastery as Lubil . The name suggests a Slavic settlement and could have meant something like "Liebdorf". Other forms of the name are Lubin , Lewbe and Leube . Since the beginning of the 16th century, the developing village was divided into the southern Upper Leuba and the northern Lower Leuba, which also followed the ownership structure at that time. While the southern part gradually came into the possession of the St. Marienthal monastery, the northern part was owned by the Lords of Gersdorff auf Tauchritz from the middle of the 15th century . In 1759 Nieder-Leuba also came into the possession of the monastery, and it was not until 1839 that the first joint municipal council for Upper and Lower Leuba was elected. Finally, in 1875, the two districts were subordinated to the Zittau administration under the common name of Leuba.

Personalities

  • Gottfried Tollmann (1680–1766), Protestant pastor and hymn poet
  • Richard Doehler (1865–1935), pastor of Leuba 1895–1903, author of the history of the village of Leuba

Attractions

  • Nikolaikirche inside

  • Kellbrunnen

  • Castle in October 2006

  • Atonement Cross

Nikolaikirche

The church was built under Pastor Wilhelm Götz (pastor in Leuba from 1821 to 1863) in the years 1854–1856 and consecrated on October 13, 1856. The old church, which was completed in 1512, went up in flames on July 19, 1853, along with the neighboring farm. The new church built in the Gothic style from sandstone blocks contains an organ by Friedrich Jahn from Dresden. Pastor Emil Hermann Richard Doehler, who became famous for his book “Geschichte des Dorfes Leuba”, also worked here from 1895 to 1903. Of the three bells cast by Johann Gotthelf Große in Dresden in 1856 , only the smallest still exists, the confessional bell. The two large bells - melted down twice during the World Wars - were last replaced in 2002 and 2003 by bells from the Lauchhammer art and bell foundry . In October 2006 the church celebrated its 150th anniversary. The church belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Ostritz-Leuba.

Kellbrunnen

In 1664, the then owner of Nieder-Leuba, Wigand von Uechtritz auf Steinkirch, had the spring at the north end of the village, which flows directly on the road, bordered and built over with a hall. A drinking ladle was also placed there, with which passing travelers could draw water and feast on it. The fountain got its name from this trowel.

lock

The castle was built by Hans Christoph von Schweinitz (1645–1722) as the manor of the Nieder-Leuba manor from 1695 to 1698 and was inaugurated on August 22, 1698 “with great festivity”. The simple baroque building presents itself with a seven-axis front and three-axis central projection . Johanna Sophia von Schweinitz sold the manor in 1759 to the St. Marienthal monastery. In addition to its initial use by the monastery, the property and castle were later leased to various users several times. After a long period of vacancy, the castle is now privately owned. It is a listed building.

Atonement Cross

In the center of Leuba, east of the church, one of the allegedly two atonement crosses can be found directly on the main street, which are supposed to remember the manslaughter of the town clerk Baltzer Wolfen von Ostritz. “The inscription is more recent” and reads: “1591 d. May 8th / waited here by Caspar v. Gersdorf / in a quarrel at bowling / killed Balthasar Wolf / town clerk in Ostritz " Kaspar von Gersdorff was one of the local lords of Nieder-Leuba from 1582 to 1606 and was considered a" very tough and irascible gentleman ".

literature

  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Leuba. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 29. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Zittau (Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1906, p. 101.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Area changes from January 1, 1994 to December 31, 1994 (PDF, 63 KB) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , p. 6 , accessed on May 1, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b c d R. Doehler: History of the village of Leuba in the Royal Saxon Upper Lusatia . Commission publishing house at Arthur Graun, Zittau 1907.
  3. ↑ G. Kittelmann: Festschrift 2006 . 150 years of the Nikolaikirche Leuba. Ed .: Heimatverein Leuba e. V. 300th edition. Druckerei Ritter Ostritz, Ostritz 2006, p. 9-10 .
  4. ↑ Leuba Castle, former monastery property. (No longer available online.) German Foundation for Monument Protection , formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 12, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / tag-des-offenen-denkmals.de
  5. ↑ Atonement Crosses and Murder Stones, Leuba. www.suehnekreuz.de, accessed on May 1, 2013 .

Web links

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