Neugersdorf

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Neugersdorf
Coat of arms of Neugersdorf
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 44 ″  N , 14 ° 36 ′ 39 ″  E
Height : 413 m
Area : 5.53 km²
Residents : 5854  (Dec. 31, 2010)
Population density : 1,059 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 2011
Postal code : 02727
Area code : 03586
Neugersdorf (Saxony)
Neugersdorf

Location of Neugersdorf in Saxony

Neugersdorf [ ˌnɔʏˈɡɛrsˌdɔrf ] ( Upper Lusatian : Gierschdurf ) is a district of the town of Ebersbach-Neugersdorf in the district of Görlitz . The district is located in the southeast of Saxony on the border with the Czech Republic .

geography

Neugersdorf is located on the northern slope of Hutungsberg in the headwaters of the Spree on the German-Czech border in the Lausitzer Bergland and occupies the southern part of the town of Ebersbach-Neugersdorf. With a railway station located on the Neugersdorf in relation Dresden - Bischofswerda -Zittau- Liberec busy railway line of South Lausitz track .

Surrounding places are Ebersbach / Sa. in the northwest, Walddorf in the northeast, Eibau and Neueibau in the east, Leutersdorf in the southeast, Seifhennersdorf in the south, Rumburk in the southwest and Filipov in the west.

history

Altgersdorf was first mentioned in a document in May 1306. In a document from the Margraves Otto and Woldemar of Brandenburg, Lausitz and Landsberg, it was referred to as Gherardesdorpp . The place was given nicknames such as Bösengerhardsdorff (1408), Gerhartstorff malum (1419), Bösengerisdorff (1419), these suggest that the economic situation was unfavorable. Another variant may have sprung from the alleged robbery of the feudal court owners.

On June 10, 1429, the place was completely destroyed by the Hussites . For centuries the village remained desolate and overgrown. A checkered history followed. The owner kept changing. In 1657 the village of Neu-Gersdorf was founded on the Gersdorfer Wald parcel. Its first residents were refugees who built 26 houses. A few years later there was another foundation, this time by Bohemian refugees who founded Alt-Gersdorf with eight houses.

Since agriculture did not offer sufficient conditions for a livelihood, the new residents used the knowledge of weaving they had brought with them and thus established a long tradition of textile industry in this area.

The Saxon rulers enfeoffed the owners of the Bohemian Fideikommissherrschaft Rumburg with the Gut Neu-Gersdorf until the middle of the 19th century . Although both villages were independent and belonged to different manors, they gradually grew together and increasingly merged through personal connections, joint associations and public institutions such as church, volunteer fire brigade , registry office, savings bank, train station and post office.

The industrial boom of the 19th century also brought economic upswing to Neugersdorf. Villas, commercial buildings and factories were built and new building and industrial areas were settled.

The textile industry laid the economic foundation, which was supported by the introduction of steam power (February 3, 1855) and the railway connection (November 1, 1874). The development of the textile industry and textile machine construction led to companies with a worldwide reputation.

On January 1, 1899, the two villages of Alt-Gersdorf and Neu-Gersdorf, which had grown together, merged to form the new community "Alt- und Neugersdorf". In September of the same year the name was changed to Neugersdorf. Twenty-five years later, on December 15, 1924, Neugersdorf was made a town.

Place name forms

1732: Gerßdorff, 1759: Neu Giersdorff, 1791: Gersdorf, 1834: Neu-Gersdorf, 1875: Neugersdorf b. Ebersbach

Incorporation

On January 1, 2011, Neugersdorf with the city of Ebersbach / Sa. merged to form the new town "Ebersbach-Neugersdorf".

Administrative affiliation

1777: Bautzen district, 1843: Bautzen district court, 1856: Ebersbach court office , 1875: Löbau district administration , 1952: Löbau district , 1994: Löbau-Zittau district , 2008: Görlitz district

Population development

year Residents
1777 4 possessed men , 32 gardeners,
207 cottagers, 11 deserted areas
1834 02,325
1871 03,562
1890 04,972
1910 11,595
1925 11,165
1939 11,026
1946 12,526
1950 13,313
1964 11,970
1990 07,725
2000 06,660
2007 06.163
2010 05,854

politics

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the former town of Neugersdorf

The city had borrowed its heraldic animal, the crane, from the crane puddle at the southern foot of the Beerberg , an old cattle trough. As early as 1740, her name gave the occasion to use a crane in the court seal. In 1931, seven years after the city was elevated to the status of town, the town's coat of arms, the crane with the horseshoe in the right claw, was awarded. The city colors were black and yellow.

Town twinning

Transport and infrastructure

Neugersdorf stop

Neugersdorf has three border crossings for cars to the Czech Republic:

  • Neugersdorf bypass S 148 - Rumburk (Rumburg)
  • Neugersdorf main street - Jiříkov (Georgswalde)
  • Neugersdorf Rudolf-Breitscheid-Strasse - Jiříkov (Georgswalde)

The KVG Dreiländereck bus station is located on the central market square in the city center (Karl-Marx-Platz) . The KVG serves the city of Neugersdorf with the following bus lines:

  • Line 3 (Olbersdorf-Neugersdorf-Oppach and back)
  • Line 48 (Seifhennersdorf-Eibau-Neugersdorf and back)
  • Line 49 (Eibau-Seifhennersdorf-Neugersdorf-Ebersbach and back)
  • Line 50 (Löbau-Oppach-Neugersdorf and back)
  • Line 55 (Löbau-Kottmarsdorf-Neugersdorf and back)
  • Line 56 (Löbau-Obercunnersdorf-Neugersdorf and back)

Neugersdorf also has a stop on the Oberoderwitz – Wilthen railway line , which is served by TLX2 and TL61 trains in the direction of Dresden and Zittau .

Culture and sights

Source of the Spree

Buildings

  • Bismarck Tower , erected in 1904
  • Evangelical Lutheran Church: Baroque church building, built from 1735 to 1738; After renovation and renovation work in 1872, the 64 meter high church tower was built (current shape)
  • Water towers, Neugersdorf landmarks visible from afar
  • Neugersdorfer Spreequelle , the most productive of the three Spree springs
  • typical Upper Lusatian half-timbered houses

  • Bismarck Tower

  • Evangelical Lutheran Baroque Church

  • Water tower

  • Lautex water tower and fire station

Memorials

In the cemetery there is a memorial for the fallen warriors of the German Wars of Unification in 1866, 1870 and 1871

In a green area in front of the former town hall, a memorial commemorates the victims of fascism .

  • Memorial to those who fell in the German Wars of Unification (1866)

  • Memorial to those who fell in the German Wars of Unification (1870/71)

Sports

The most important sports club in Neugersdorf is FC Oberlausitz Neugersdorf . Between 2006 and 2013 he played in the sixth-class soccer Saxon League . From the rise in 2013, the first men's team played in the fifth-class NOFV Oberliga Süd . The most successful sporting period was from 2001 to 2006, when the club played in the south season of the then fourth-class football league Northeast . In 2014, FC Oberlausitz Neugersdorf moved into the Saxon Cup final . In 2015, the club rose to the fourth-class Regionalliga Nordost for the first time , from which it withdrew to the Oberliga in 2019 for financial reasons.

Regular events

The annual Jacobimarkt (Gierschdurfer Schiss'n) is the largest folk festival in Upper Lusatia. The year 1728 is considered to be the year of birth of the Jacobimarkt, when the Privileged Shooting Society received its “confirmed shooting registers” from the Prince von und zu Liechtenstein.

Neugersdorf is a carnival stronghold with a long tradition:

  • in GDR times NKC (Neugersdorfer Carnival Club)
  • since 1991 Oberlausitzer Karnevalsgesellschaft Neugersdorf eV - OKG

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

People related to Neugersdorf

  • Carl Melzer (1849–1928) pastor of Neugersdorf from 1880 to 1916. In 1903 he published the Chronicle of Neugersdorf .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Upper Lusatian dictionary: Letter G. Accessed on March 22, 2013 .
  2. ^ New formation of the community Ebersbach-Neugersdorf, city. Retrieved May 25, 2013 .
  3. ^ Neugersdorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

literature

  • The south-eastern Upper Lusatia with Zittau and the Zittau Mountains (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 16). 2nd Edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1971.
  • Karl August Fritsche: Chronicle of the city of Neugersdorf. Local history of the parish Gersdorf. Publishing house Ostsachsen Druckerei. Löbau 1929. (Reprint of the original edition from 1857) ( digitized version )
  • Carl Melzer: Chronicle of Neugersdorf. Verlag Teller & Rossberg. Neugersdorf 1903. ( digitized version )
  • City of Neugersdorf (Ed.): Neugersdorf. City on Hutungsberg. Lusatia Publishing House. Bautzen 2007.
  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Neugersdorf. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 34. Issue: Official Authority Löbau . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1910, p. 407.

Web links

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