Josephsdorf (Leutersdorf)

Josephsdorf Leutersdorf municipality Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 13 ″  N , 14 ° 39 ′ 43 ″  E
Height :	380 m
Area :	44 ha
Incorporation :	1907
Incorporated into:	Leutersdorf
Postal code :	02794
Area code :	03586, 035842
Location of Josephsdorf in Saxony

Josephsdorf is part of the municipality of Leutersdorf in the district of Görlitz.

geography

location

Josephsdorf is located in the southern part of the district in the Neugersdorfer loess ridge area in eastern Upper Lusatia . The location extends in the valley of the Josephsdorf Water, a small tributary to the Leutersdorfer Water .

To the north rises the Windmühlenberg (401.2 m above sea level), in the northeast the Richterberg (407.3 m above sea level) and the Oderwitzer Spitzberg (510.1 m above sea level), to the east the Hofeberg (413 m above sea level). NN) and south of the Große Stein (471 m above sea level). The oak pond is at the southwest exit of the village. To the southwest extends a wide depression through which the Leutersdorf water flows and in which the soap pond was previously dammed .

The state road S 142 leads through the local situation from Leutersdorf to Spitzkunnersdorf. The Mittelherwigsdorf – Varnsdorf – Eibau railway runs to the west .

Streets

The district is crossed by the streets Spitzkunnersdorfer Straße, Oststraße, Steinbruchstraße, Obere Straße, Seitenweg, Gärtnerweg, An derlinie and Sorgeweg.

Neighboring places

Concern, Mittelleutersdorf	Eibau	Neumittelleutersdorf
Niederleutersdorf		Mitteloderwitz
episode	Spitzkunnersdorf	Neuspitzkunnersdorf

history

At the end of the 17th century, the Rumburger rulers settled the less fertile Hutung of the Niederleutersdorf Meierhof southeast of the old Waldhufendorf village . At Spitzkunnersdorfer Weg, the row of houses Sorge ⊙ was built and later the Neudorf above it. In 1706, the landlord Anton Florian von Liechtenstein gave the scattered settlement consisting of 26 settlers, probably after his son Josef , the name "Josephidorf" and combined them into a political municipality. Josephidorf was the third municipality after Niederleutersdorf and Neuwalde on the territory of the Bohemian exclave Leutersdorf. The new community received its own court book and after a short time also a Kretscham. Because of its favorable location directly on the Saxon border, the settlement grew rapidly.

In 1830 Josephidorf consisted of 46 houses. Its residents were Evangelical Lutheran and performed their services in Oberleutersdorf, Saxony . Due to the main border and territorial recess between the Kingdom of Saxony and the Austrian Empire on March 5, 1848, the Bohemian exclave Leutersdorf came to Saxony on March 12, 1849. The place name Josephsdorf has been in use since the middle of the 19th century. The community of Sorge was part of the community of Josephsdorf and is not identical to the current district of Sorge - the former Neue Sorge or Neumittelleutersdorf. In 1907 the communities of Josephsdorf, Niederleutersdorf, Oberleutersdorf and Hetzwalde were merged to form the rural community of Leutersdorf.

Administrative affiliation

1706: Leitmeritzer Kreis , 1849: Regional Court District Löbau, 1856: Court Office Großschönau, 1875: Amtshauptmannschaft Zittau , 1952: District Zittau , 1994: District Löbau-Zittau , 2008: District Görlitz

Population development

year	Residents
1785	37 cottagers
1830	269
1849	267
1871	354
1890	528

Townscape

Josephsdorf is a scattered settlement with rows of houses. Several half-timbered houses have been preserved in the locality .

literature

• Johann Gottfried Sommer : From the library of my great-grandfather Carl Ritter von Taschenk. The Kingdom of Bohemia. Statistically and topographically represented, vol. 1 Leitmeritzer Kreis , JG Calve'sche Buchhandlung, Prague, 1833

Web links

• Josephsdorf (Leutersdorf) in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ^ Josephsdorf (Leutersdorf) in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony , for 1830: Sommer, p. 283