Döbra (Liebstadt)

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Dobra
City of Liebstadt
Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 8 ″  N , 13 ° 50 ′ 24 ″  E
Height : 430  (420-485)  m
Incorporation : March 1, 1994
Postal code : 01825
Area code : 035025

Döbra is a district of the Saxon town of Liebstadt in the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district .

geography

Döbra is located in the valley of the Döbra brook approx. Three kilometers southwest of Liebstadt. The size of the district is 585 hectares.

Neighboring places

Back grove Berthelsdorf
Neighboring communities Bornersdorf
Dittersdorf Waltersdorf Hennersbach

history

Döbra on the Oberreitschen map from 1821
View of the place

The place has been part of Liebstadt since 1994. It was first mentioned as Dobrano in 1376 . Other name spellings include: a. Dobreye (1406), Dobraw (1495), Dobre (1507), Deebraw (1530), Döber (1551) and Deeber (1570). All of these variants are derived from the Slavic and are supposed to mean good water (dobře = good, voda = water). This originally referred to the Döbraer Bach, whose name was transferred to the village. For the development of the elongated row village with forest hooves , agriculture was decisive until the recent past . Structurally, the mountain farming village is characterized by numerous four- and three-sided farms that are well worth seeing . These were supplemented, especially in the 20th century, by craftsmen, workers' and single-family houses on the Bachaue. A modest economic diversification only began after 1939 and 1954 with the settlement of two small precision mechanical businesses and the establishment of a base for the Weesenstein shoe factory (1972). Precision Feinmechanik GmbH, which still exists today, emerged from one of these companies. A small number of other jobs are available in agriculture and with smaller craft and service providers . A large part of the approximately 200 inhabitants today commute to work in the surrounding area.

Development of the population

The following previous population figures have been handed down for Döbra:

  • 1551: 34 possessed men and 23 residents
  • 1764: 24 possessed men and 3 gardeners
  • 1834: 290 inhabitants in 47 houses
  • 1871: 359 inhabitants
  • 1890: 308 inhabitants
  • 1910: 295 inhabitants
  • 1939: 306 inhabitants
  • 1946: 410 inhabitants
  • 1957: 352 inhabitants
  • 1964: 279 inhabitants
  • 1990: 236 inhabitants
  • 1999: 229 inhabitants and 74 houses

Attractions

Village church

The village church is the biggest attraction of the small town. During renovation work in 1981, frescoes with images from the life of Jesus Christ were discovered in the church , which date from the 13th century. The parish of the place is mentioned for the first time in 1376. The oldest bell dates back to 1415. end of the 16th century was rebuilt, in which the sides galleries built and the old altarpiece expanded and a baroque pulpit altar was installed. It was last stored in Dresden and burned there in the air raid on 13/14. February 1945 . The pewter baptismal font dates from 1618. The first organ in the church was installed in 1671. The current organ dates from 1925.

literature

  • Günter Groß , Rikarda Groß : Waltersdorf, Döbra, Berthelsdorf. Three villages in the Eastern Ore Mountains. Dippoldiswalde 2019
  • Alfred Meiche: Historical-topographical description of the Pirna administration. Dresden 1927.
  • Eva Maria Simon (ed.): Döbra and his church . Maxen 2008. ISBN 978-3-9810717-2-6
  • Richard Steche : Döbra. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 2. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Dippoldiswalde . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1883, p. 25.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Döbra in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Web links

Commons : Döbra  - collection of images, videos and audio files