Hutzelberg
| Hutzelberg | ||
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| height | 343.5 m above sea level NN | |
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Germany , Saxony ( Görlitz district ) |
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| Mountains | Upper Lusatian highlands | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 2 '6 " N , 14 ° 32' 14" E | |
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| rock | granite | |
The Hutzelberg , also known as Hatzelberg, is located in the eastern part of Neusalza-Spremberg in the Görlitz district in Saxony . With a height of 343.5 m above sea level, the mountain is one of the smaller elevations in the small Saxon town.
Location and name
The granite mountain lies on the left side of the Spree . The meadow-like foothills of the northern slope ends at Zittauer Straße, the southern foothills of the mountain, on the other hand, are bordered by the "Schießberg" hill and the allotment gardens there. To the east, the mountain is flat in the direction of the “ Spreepark ”. The foothills of the steeper western slope ends at the street "Am Hutzelberg". The strange name is derived from “Hutzel”, which can mean something like “withered fruit”, especially pears, or simply “wrinkled” or “small”.
geology
The Hutzelberg, which consists largely of granite, is covered with a loess clay cover , just like the other urban elevations such as Hänscheberg , Spremberger Kirchberg , Lindenberg or Stadtberg . However, it has a special geological feature: the presence of a lamprophyre duct . The remains of a quarry on the north slope show that rock was also quarried here at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
history
According to recent research, the so-called Bohemian-Upper Lusatian “ Kaiserstraße ”, which began in the Middle Ages, ran along the “Viehweg” at the “Pfarrwiedemut”, the church property for the maintenance of the Spremberg pastors, below the western slope of the Hutzelberg . During the Napoleonic Wars Spremberg and Neusalza were badly affected in the course of 1813 by troop marches and deliveries of all kinds. On September 4th of this year a French army corps of 6,000 men camped in the corridors of Neusalza-Spremberg between the Lindenberg and Hutzelberg, which marched off to Löbau a day later .
With the growing population of Spremberg in the second half of the 19th century, the cemetery at the Spremberg village church was no longer sufficient for burial, so on August 4, 1862, a new and larger area on the northern slope of the Hutzelberg was opened as a churchyard. It should last about a hundred years. Two decades later, in the autumn of 1884, the quarry manager opened Docks on the Hutzelberg a quarry . The granite broken there was mostly processed into grave monuments by Spremberg stonemasons.
On November 8, 1886, the well-known Spremberger merchant Hermann Brendler entered the business, and under the company name “Spremberger Syenitbrüche , Hermann Brendler & Co.” the business was relocated from Hutzelberg to the newly built factory west of the train station. A track was laid there to the freight station for the transport of the "stone company" by rail. The required stones were still broken on the Hutzelberg. After Neusalza and Spremberg merged to form the city of Neusalza-Spremberg in 1920, enormous building activity began in the enlarged city, and so the "Hutzelberg-Siedlung" was built on the mountain during the Weimar Republic from 1926, initially intended for post office workers .
literature
- Walter Heinich : Attempt to a local history of the parish village Spremberg in the Saxon Upper Lusatia . Spremberg and Schirgiswalde 1918.
- Gunther Leupolt , Dankmar Kaden, Siegfried Seifert u. a .: Development of the city of Neusalza-Spremberg. Historical timetable . Neusalza-Spremberg: Michael Voigt 1992.
- Lutz Mohr : On the trail of a missing Oberlausitzer Landstrasse . In: Bautzen culture show. Vol. 41, issue 1/1991, pp. 22-26.
- Gustav Hermann Schulze : From Neusalza's past and the second secular celebration . Ebersbach: RO Gnauck 1917. Photomechanical reprint: Neusalza-Spremberg: Michael Voigt 1998.
- Theodor Schütze (ed.): Between Strohmberg, Czorneboh and Kottmar (= values of our homeland . Volume 24). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1974.