Hohburg

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Hohburg
community Lossatal
Coat of arms of Hohburg
Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 36 ″  N , 12 ° 48 ′ 13 ″  E
Height : 120 m
Area : 37.56 km²
Residents : 2810  (Dec. 31, 2010)
Population density : 75 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 2012
Postal code : 04808
Area code : 034263

Hohburg is part of the municipality of Lossatal in the north of the Saxon district of Leipzig .

geography

Quarry near Böhlitz

Hohburg is about eight kilometers northeast of Wurzen and about fifteen kilometers southeast of Eilenburg . Around the place Hohburg are the Hohburg mountains , also called Hohburg Switzerland . These quartz porphyry elevations protrude strikingly up to 120 meters from the surrounding plain of the Leipzig lowland bay . The highest point is the Löbenberg at 240 meters above sea level. NN. followed by Gaudlitzberg (219 m above sea level), Burzelberg (217 m above sea level) and Galgenberg (213 m above sea level). South of Hohburg is the "Small Mountain" with an elevation of 206 meters above sea level. NN. In the valley lying between the Hohburger mountains, the Lossabach flows through the Losstaler districts Müglenz, Hohburg, Klein- and Großzschepa to the Mulde near Thallwitz . The kaolin lake is located southwest of the village .

The Zschepa-Hohburg station was on the Wurzen – Eilenburg railway line .

Baroque tower of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Müglenz

history

Former manor of Hohburg

The settlement history of the area can be proven to go back to the Paleolithic Age . The La Téne- era castle on the Burzelberg was one of the oldest stone architectures in Saxony . The districts of Hohburg and Lüptitz are first mentioned in 1185 together with a Tidericus de Hoberch . From 1198 to 1495, von Hoberg, Hoberc, Hobergk can be read, 1539 Hoburgk, from 1791 the current spelling can be found.

The Saxon geologists Carl Friedrich Naumann and Bernhard von Cotta developed their theory of Pleistocene inland glaciation around 1844 from the glacier surfaces discovered on the Kleiner Berg .

Hohburg was a manor or manor until 1875, which was also responsible for the manor.

From 1590 the former rural community was subordinate to the office of Wurzen , in 1875 Hohburg and the district of Kapsdorf came to the administrative authority of Grimma . On July 1, 1950, Watzschwitz is incorporated. From 1952 to 1994 Hohburg was part of the Wurzen district . Kleinzschepa was incorporated in 1961 and Müglenz in 1972. The villages of the three communities Hohburg, Großzschepa and Lüptitz merged in 1993 to form the community of Hohburg. From 1994 to 2008 Hohburg was part of the Muldental District .

On January 1, 2012, the previously independent municipality of Hohburg was incorporated into the municipality of Lossatal . The community of Hohburg had a partnership with Bodelshausen in the Tübingen district.

Culture and sights

Church and stone worker's house Hohburg
  • former kaolin open pit (bathing lake with sunbathing lawns and hiking trails)
  • Hohburg mountains
  • Wind and glacier grinding in the small mountain
  • Museum stone workers house

economy

From 1901 to 1965 kaolin was mined near Hohburg . In 1966 the VEB Mineralstoffgemische Hohburg was installed in the former factory building, which was taken over by Bergophor after the fall of the Berlin Wall . Feed for agriculture is still produced today. Quartz porphyry is also mined in the Hohburg mountains .

education

Hohburg has a primary school.

Sports

In Hohburg there is the Hohburger Sportverein 1990 eV, which offers football, winter sports, walking and bowling. In addition, the former quarries in the Hohburg mountains have been used as climbing areas since the 1920s. There are currently over 250 routes on the walls up to 40 meters high. It is also possible to dive in a lake north of Hohburg that was created by quartz porphyry mining.

literature

  • Municipal Office Hohburg (publisher): Guide through Hohburg Switzerland - with a route map . A5 format, 16 pages + cover pages, two-tone folding card in A3 format. Printing and publishing: Buchdruckerei Gustav Jacob, 2nd edition, Wurzen 1928
  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Hohburg. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 19. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Grimma (1st half) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1897, p. 135.

Web links

Commons : Hohburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Hohburg in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  2. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 1st to December 31st, 2012