Halbau (Cunewalde)

Half building Cunewalde parish Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 20 ″  N , 14 ° 34 ′ 20 ″  E
Height :	365 m above sea level NN
Residents :	90  (May 9, 2011)
Postal code :	02733
Area code :	035877

Halbau ( Upper Sorbian Jiłow ) is a district of the municipality of Cunewalde in Saxony with about 80 inhabitants.

geography

The semi-circular scale settlement lies at the southern foot of high stone on a watershed to the source due to the meadows litte and Cunewalder water. From Halbau there is a good view of the Kötzschauer Berg and the Eichbusch to the south .

history

Halbau was built around 1550 as the founding of the Obercunewalde manor in a forest cut two kilometers northeast of Obercunewalde. This resulted in ten large garden foodstuffs, which were planned in two groups and each received about ten bushels of land (approx. 2.5 hectares). During the winter months, the residents were obliged to do lumberjack work in the manor forests. A farmer looked after the forests as a forester. The forester's house was built around 1800 as the twelfth place. In 1567 the settlement was first mentioned in writing as "Halbe". This name is derived from the lateral location opposite Obercunewalde and is still in use today as a popular name for the place. In 1608 the tavern was created as the eleventh property. Due to the boulder clay soils and the location on a saddle with little swelling (365 meters above sea level), arable farming in semi-detached houses was not very productive. The Upper Sorbian place name refers to it and is derived from the Sorbian word jiła for "clay". The "large meadow" in the eastern corridor was not used for farming.

The population remained relatively constant. In 1834 there were 73 people, in 1871 76 people and in 1890 74 people.

With the opening of the Großpostwitz – Löbau railway line in 1928, a stop with loading ramps was built in Halbau am Hochstein. The railway connection gave the residents the opportunity to work in the factories of Löbau and Cunewalde. At the same time it paved the way for the tourist development of the place. Subsequently, a garden settlement with single-family houses and weekend houses was built between the road from Cunewalde to Kleindehsa and the railway. The northernmost property of the Eichbusch settlement also belongs to the Halbau cadastre . Until 1939, Halbau was an outlying settlement for the municipality of Obercunewalde. After their incorporation, Halbau is part of Cunewalde.

The Phrygian knapweed ( Centaurea phrygia ), which is characteristic of the Czorneboh region, blooms on the “Great Meadow” in late summer .

The house Halbau No. 8 is worth seeing, a half-timbered house built in 1853. On the road to Cunewalde there are two cross stones, each 0.70 m high, at the edge of the forest. One of the two stands in an oval shaped like a loaf of bread. Their origin is not clear. The incisions on it indicate a dagger or a crossbow, so that it could be atonement stones for murders. On the other hand, an origin as a boundary sign cannot be ruled out.

literature

• Between Strohmberg, Czorneboh and Kottmar (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 24). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1974, p. 90.

Web links

• Halbau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Small-scale municipality sheet for Cunewalde. (PDF; 0.23 MB) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , September 2014, accessed on February 2, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Cunewalde in figures, data, facts
3. ↑ Study (1968 and 1969) by Erich von Polenz
4. ^ Halbau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony