Glosses (Löbau)

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Glosses
City of Löbau
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 24 ″  N , 14 ° 41 ′ 38 ″  E
Area : 3.24 km²
Residents : 274  (1964)
Population density : 85 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : April 1, 1974
Incorporated into: Lautitz
Postal code : 02708
Area code : 03585
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Location of glosses in the area of ​​the city of Löbau

Glossen ( Upper Sorbian Hłušina ) is a district of the Saxon town of Löbau in the district of Görlitz in Upper Lusatia . The place is northeast of the Löbauer city center on Löbauer Wasser . Surrounding districts are Lautitz in the north, Kleinradmeritz in the southeast and Opole in the south. To the west, Glossen borders the town of Nostitz, which belongs to Weißenberg .

history

Manor Glossen in the 19th century
Schloss Glossen 2015
Stately watermill (later the town's power station)

Glossen was first mentioned in 1241 as Glussina , the place name probably being derived from the Old Sorbian glu'sína = forest thicket. Around 1440 there was already a manor house, which became a manor in 1584. Most of the village corridor, but also the town of Goßwitz , which belongs to Reichenbach , the settlement Hasenberg and the eastern part of Mauschwitz, was subordinate to this . In the 18th century there were also three other farms in Glossen, as well as some small farmers and cottagers. Ecclesiastically, the place was assigned to the church in neighboring Kittlitz , although there should once have been a small chapel in Glossen.

In 1688, after a fire, the still preserved Glossen Castle was built , which was owned by the von Gersdorff family for many years . On September 1, 1879, the CG Hoffmann company from Neugersdorfer acquired the estate. It was not until August 14, 1882 that the company's co-owner, textile manufacturer Reinhold Hoffmann , became the sole owner of the estate. His daughter Martha was married to Bernd Freiherr von Lüdinghausen, so that after the death of Reinhold Hoffmann in 1912, the castle and manor remained in the possession of the von Lüdinghausen family until 1945.

The village, which mainly relies on agriculture and the business operations of the manor, to which a mill and a distillery was first mentioned in 1467, was connected to the Löbau – Weißenberg railway in 1895 . Passenger and freight traffic on this line was stopped on May 27, 1972.

In the course of the land reform , the Glossen manor was expropriated in 1946 and its land was divided among farmers. In the former castle, accommodation for resettlers from the former German eastern areas was built, later a training center of the FDGB . Since 1957 it has served as a children's spa and is part of a rehabilitation clinic for psychosomatics and psychomotor skills.

On April 1, 1974 Glossen was incorporated into Lautitz and together with this came on March 1, 1994 to the municipality of Kittlitz. On January 1, 2003, it was incorporated into the town of Löbau, in which Glossen is one of 23 districts.

Population development

year Residents
1777 3 possessed men, 3 gardeners, 10 cottagers
1834 242
1871 289
1890 215
1910 281
1925 289
1939 226
1946 289
1950 331
1964 274

language

Sorbian was also spoken in glosses up until the early 20th century . Arnošt Muka determined a population of 240 in 1884/1885, including 219 Germans and 21 Sorbs (9%). These spoke the now extinct Löbauer dialect . In 1956 Ernst Tschernik only had seven active speakers, including one young person.

District Hasenberg

The small settlement was established around 1600 and is first mentioned in 1608 as Gütlein Hasenberg , it always belonged to Kleinradmeritz. The adjacent Glossener settlement "Hasenberg" originally consisted of only three individual houses, which were not approved for construction until 1831–1833 by the Glossener landowner Schmaltz. In 1875 31 residents lived here (probably Klein Radmeritzer's share). Together with Glossen, Hasenberg came to Lautitz in 1974 and became part of Löbau, but is not officially designated as a separate district.

Personalities

  • Karl von Gersdorff (born February 16, 1765 in Glossen, † September 15, 1829 in Dresden), Saxon lieutenant general and military writer.
  • Reinhold Hoffmann (born September 5, 1847 in Neugersdorf; † September 25, 1912), owner of the Glossen manor and co-owner of the Neugersdorf textile company CG Hoffmann, board member of the Saxon textile trade association and member of the German Reichstag .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on Glossener local history at www.loebaufoto.de
  2. ↑ a b Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1st, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
  3. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003
  4. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
  5. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 253 .
  6. ↑ Hasenberg ; Digital historical directory of Saxony
  7. ↑ Reinhold Hoffmann in the database of the German Reichstag members

Web links

Wikisource: Manors and castles in the kingdom of Saxony: glosses  - sources and full texts
  • Glossaries on the official homepage of the city of Löbau
  • Glossaries in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony