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Honey Fountain (2009)
Honey Fountain (1900)
Honey Fountain (1917)
Location of the honey fountain on the western slope of the Löbauer mountain, on the upper right edge of the König-Friedrich-August-Turm (postcard from 1931)
View of the city of Löbau from the outside terrace of the honey fountain (postcard from 1925)

The Honigbrunnen is a listed mountain inn on the western slope of the Löbauer mountain .

description

The structure is a “large, multi-part clinker brick building with wooden components” and is considered to be “of importance in terms of architectural, local and regional history”. The honey fountain owes its name to a legend: near the mountain inn there is said to have been a spring whose water is said to have been as sweet as honey. Because of its location on the western slope of the Löbauer mountain and the view of the city at the foot of the mountain from the outdoor terrace of the mountain inn, the honey fountain is also known as "the balcony of Löbau ".

history

The honey fountain was first mentioned in 1681. The first buildings were built between 1841 and 1844, the later restoration followed in 1854.

  • Lusatian song festival at the honey fountain in Löbau (1852)

  • Honey fountain before the renovation (1854)

  • Honey fountain after the renovation (1854)

In 1890, the Löbau municipal council decided to convert and rebuild the restoration building. Three years later, a competition among German and Austrian architects was announced. The design “Dir mein Löbau, zur Zier” by the architects Rudert and Müller prevailed and was then implemented. The topping-out ceremony was celebrated in August 1896 and the restaurant opened on June 1, 1897. As a result, the mountain inn was managed by several tenants. The longest tenant was Emil Miethang, who ran the inn from 1904 to the early 1930s. During this time, the toboggan run was built near the inn (1909).

  • Honey fountain before the renovation and new building (around 1890)

  • Honey fountain before the renovation and new building (around 1890)

  • Honey fountain, advert in the Löbauer address book (1902)

  • Honey well after the renovation and new building (postcard from 1904)

After the end of the Second World War , the trade organization (HO) took over the restaurant and hotel in 1952 and converted the building into a holiday home for the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1957 and 1958 . As a result, the honey fountain was a popular destination in Upper Lusatia .

At the beginning of 1989 there was an accident in the boiler system and the mountain inn had to be closed on February 1st, 1989. As a result, the building increasingly fell into disrepair due to the lack of investors. The city of Löbau built an asphalt driveway to the property. After a fire broke out in the honey fountain on New Year's Eve 1999/2000, which turned the mountain inn into ruins, various new operating concepts failed in the early 2000s and the property lay fallow until it was sold in 2003.

After MBE Maschinenbau Eibau GmbH had acquired the dilapidated mountain inn for the symbolic price of 1 euro from the city and Honigbrunnen GmbH and the Verein Kulturlichtung Honigbrunnen e. V. were founded, the conceptualization phase for the reconstruction of the building began in 2004, and the maintenance and restoration began. First of all, the building was secured and the outdoor facilities and open space with the so-called "concert shell", a concert and event pavilion, repaired. In order to receive the necessary money for the renovation, various free events were organized and held. After this money could be collected, the gutting and subsequent reconstruction began. The cost of the reconstruction was put at 3.5 million euros.

The reopening of the mountain inn and hotel after the renovation took place on December 1st, 2006. The official inauguration took place on the 110th anniversary of the opening of the honey fountain from July 6th to 8th, 2007. For concept, renovation and operation of the hotel & restaurant "Honigbrunnen" Löbau received the MBE Maschinenbau Eibau GmbH and the culture clearing Honigbrunnen e. V. the trinational innovation award INNOVATION 2006 of the Euroregion Neisse-Nisa-Nysa .

  • Exterior view (2017)

  • Exterior view, view from the northwest (2017)

  • Exterior view, view from the south (2017)

  • Interior of the honey fountain (2017)

  • Interior of the honey fountain (2017)

Sources and further reading

literature

Web links

Commons : Honey Fountain  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Saxony: List of monuments database DIVIS , excerpt: Cultural monuments of the Free State of Saxony, district of Görlitz, as of April 15, 2014
  2. ↑ INNOVATION 2006. (No longer available online.) Euroregion Neisse-Nisa-Nysa, archived from the original on January 12, 2017 ; accessed on January 12, 2016 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 44.8 "  N , 14 ° 41 ′ 34.2"  E