Jasna Góra (Bogatynia)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lower Silesia | ||
| Powiat : | Zgorzelec | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 52 ' N , 14 ° 58' E | ||
| Residents : | 250 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 75 | ||
| License plate : | DZG | ||
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| Next international airport : | Wroclaw | ||
Jasna Góra (German Lichtenberg ) is a place with 250 inhabitants in the municipality Bogatynia ( Powiat Zgorzelecki , Lower Silesian Voivodeship ) in Poland . The village is four kilometers south of Bogatynia on the northern slope of the 569 m high Gickelsberg ( Polish Guślarz , Czech Výhledy ) on the westernmost foothills of the Jizera Mountains near the border with the Czech Republic . The steeply sloping village, which extends to the north and has a height difference of 120 m, is characterized by a large number of typical Upper Lusatian half timbered houses .
history
Lichtenberg was first mentioned in 1383 when the owner of the village, Nicol von Lußdorff, sold the place to the city of Zittau . The fact that a Herman von Lichtenbergk was councilor in Zittau as early as 1339 serves as a clue that the place is already older.
Since this purchase, Lichtenberg has belonged to the Zittau council villages . Even after the loss of their possessions as a result of the Upper Lusatian Pönfall in 1547, the city acquired the village back in 1555.
The first school was built in 1666 and in 1768 the people of Lichtenberg commissioned Zittau's city architect Andreas Hünigen to build a church. The reason for this was disputes with the Reichenau parish about participation in their planned renewal of the organ in 1759. After 1770, however, the money collected lost its value so that the idea of a separate church could not be realized. In 1793, the Lichtenbergers were so angry with the new Reichenau pastor that the project was taken up again, but ultimately failed due to internal differences.
When the school house burned down in 1793, it was rebuilt. As early as 1820, a new building was built at the same location, which at the end of the 19th century was no longer sufficient for the increased number of students. Therefore, in 1891, the community built a new school elsewhere.
At this time Lichtenberg became a popular summer resort and also benefited from the flourishing health resort Bad Oppelsdorf to the west . In addition to the Gickelsberg , the Kahleberg (Polish Łysa Góra, also Graniczny Wierch, Czech. Lysý vrch , 643 m) was a popular destination. An inn was built in the old forester's house on Oppelsdorfer Straße.
Because of its location, no industry settled in Lichtenberg, but this also meant that the number of residents had declined significantly since the beginning of the 20th century because many residents had to secure their income abroad.
In 1847 , 765 people lived in the community that belonged to the Zittau district administration in Saxony . In 1910 there were 731 and in 1943 only 589.
After the end of the Second World War , Lichtenberg belonged to the villages in Saxony east of the Lusatian Neisse , which became Polish and all residents were expelled between 1945/46.
The village in the extreme southwest of Poland was forgotten, the spa business in neighboring Opolno Zdrój was no longer started and a few kilometers to the north, the Turów open-cast mine destroyed the landscape. Since there is no coal under Jasna Góra , the place is not threatened by open-cast mining and is one of the few villages near Bogatynia that has been preserved in its original form.
Development of the population
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Web links
- Lichtenberg in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. Lichtenberg in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony