Łagów (Zgorzelec)

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Łagów (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lower Silesia
Powiat : Zgorzelec
Gmina : Zgorzelec
Geographic location : 51 ° 9 '  N , 15 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 9 '29 "  N , 15 ° 2' 34"  E
Height : 200 m npm
Residents : 1305 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 59-900
Telephone code : (+48) 75
License plate : DZG
Economy and Transport
Street : Landstrasse 30
Autobahn 4
Next international airport : Dresden Airport
Wroclaw Nicolaus Copernicus Airport



Łagów (German: Leopoldshain) is a village in the Polish Upper Lusatia in the powiat Zgorzelecki in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship . It is located about one and a half kilometers east of the city of Zgorzelec , to whose municipality of the same name it also belongs.

location

The village of Leopoldshain adjoins the industrial area of ​​the city of Zgorzelec to the east. Landstrasse 30 runs through it in an east-west direction . Leopoldshain, however, has the greatest extent in a north-south direction. The village of Jerzmanki (formerly Hermsdorf ) joins in the south . In the north the village is bounded by the Autobahn 4 .

history

St. Anthony Church in Łagów

Leopoldshain was probably founded around 1200. The village name probably goes back to the founder of the place called Leopold (then: Leuther, Lewter, Luther). He probably belonged to the von Penzig family who owned a large part of the land between the Lausitz Neisse and Tschirne . They are also among the oldest known owners of the forest or grove on today's Leopoldshainer Flur. In the centuries that followed, the upper and lower villages changed hands several times. The lords of Salza are among the most famous owners . From 1481 the sole owner was the Görlitz mayor and businessman Georg Emmerich .

Depending on the source, Leopoldshain mentions a chapel on Heerstraße in 1346 or around 1400, which was named a parish church in 1416 . It was not until 1575 that the Reformation was introduced in the village under Antonius Diepe .

Besides the church, the castle is one of the sights of Leopoldshain. The former lord of the castle Carl Ender von Sercha was one of the friends and patrons of Jakob Boehme . In 1620, the Margrave Johann Georg von Brandenburg set up his headquarters in the local castle. During the Thirty Years War , the Imperial Commander-in-Chief Wallenstein stayed at the castle between October 30 and November 4, 1633. The later Saxon Elector Johann Georg III. was one of the castle's guests in 1680.

Since 1938 a bus line has connected the village with the nearby town of Görlitz. It led across the front-line combatant settlement, Görlitzer Ostvorstadt, past the train station, to the hospital and on to the airfield . After the end of the Second World War , the Upper Lusatian areas east of the Neisse fell to Poland . The place was first renamed Leopoldów and later Łagów. The former castle now serves as a hotel and restaurant.

Web links

Commons : Łagów (Zgorzelec)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on July 6, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c Hans Schulz: Beyond the Neisse . Out and about in the former Görlitz district. 1st edition. StadtBILD-Verlag Görlitz, 2007, ISBN 978-3-939655-38-1 , p. 67 .
  3. ^ Andreas Riedel: The chronicle of the Görlitzer tram . Schweers + Wall, 1997, ISBN 3-89494-106-5 , pp. 81 .
  4. ↑ Hans Schulz: Beyond the Neisse . Out and about in the former Görlitz district. 1st edition. StadtBILD-Verlag Görlitz, 2007, ISBN 978-3-939655-38-1 , p. 69 .