Königshain

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Königshain (disambiguation) .

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 11 '  N , 14 ° 53'  E
Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Goerlitz
Management Community :	Reichenbach / OL
Height :	233 m above sea level NHN
Area :	19.58 km 2
Residents:	1179 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	60 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	02829
Area code :	035826
License plate :	GR, LÖB, NOL, NY, WSW, ZI
Community key :	14 6 26 240
Association administration address:	Görlitzer Str. 4 02894 Reichenbach / OL
Website :	www.koenigshain.com
Mayor :	Siegfried Lange
Location of the municipality of Königshain in the district of Görlitz

Königshain ( Upper Sorbian Kralowski haj ) is a municipality in the district of Görlitz in eastern Saxony . The community belongs to the administrative community Reichenbach / OL .

Königshain, seen from the Hochstein .
In the background the state crown

geography

The municipality of Königshain is located in the central part of the district about 9 km west of Görlitz between the Königshain Mountains . The place is a forest hoof village with numerous well-preserved four-sided farms .

history

Map with Königshain from around 1905

The place Königshain was first mentioned in 1298. The wife of a Bohemian king is said to have set up a hunting lodge here in the woods (this is probably where the name comes from). Königshain was destroyed during the Hussite Wars in 1429.

A stone building has been preserved, the stone stock , which is considered the oldest secular building in Upper Lusatia , the masonry dates from the 13th or 14th century. In the Middle Ages, the residential tower was surrounded by a moat and served as a knight's seat. On the stone plinth there was probably an upper floor made of wood or half-timbered, as is often the case with pond houses .

In 1504 the wealthy Görlitz merchant Hans Frenzel acquired the Königshain manor . His son Joachim Frenzel von Königshain built a moated castle in the Renaissance style on it . This was badly damaged in the Thirty Years War . In 1660 it became the property of the Breslau merchant Ernst Moritz von Schachmann, in whose family it remained. He had the Renaissance building, which was burned down by lightning in 1668, rebuilt; the entrance side of the single-storey rectangular building is flanked by two square tower porches. A colored wooden beam ceiling has been preserved in the north-eastern main room.

The best-known representative of the von Schachmann family, the numismatist and natural scientist Carl Adolph Gottlob von Schachmann , built a baroque castle in the simple French style near the old castle in 1764–66 , presumably by master builders of the Dresden Rococo . Two side wings encompass a wide courtyard, the side pavilions have curved hipped roofs. In front of it, transversely positioned head structures form the entrance. On the park side, the central projection emerges on three sides. The garden room on the ground floor has a stucco ceiling with rocaille motifs, the oval ballroom on the upper floor has a classicist painting.

After his and his wife's death, the property passed to his nephew Carl Heinrich Ludwig von Heynitz . The Heynitz family owned the estate until they were expelled in 1945. At the end of the Second World War , a main dressing station was set up in Königshain Castle . Two cemeteries in the park still remember this today. During the GDR era, Königshain Palace and Estate were the center of an agricultural operation.

An important line of business in Königshain has been working in the granite quarries in the Königshain Mountains since the 18th century. The removal of the stones was significantly improved with the railway connection through the Görlitzer Kreisbahn from Görlitz to Weißenberg in 1905. The last of the quarries closed in 1975.

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  Königshain stone stick

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  Renaissance castle

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  Baroque palace (park side)

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  View of the disused Thadenbruch

Attractions

Baroque Königshain Palace around 1860 Duncker collection		Königshain Palace, courtyard of honor

• Steinstock (oldest secular building in Upper Lusatia), in the 13th / 14th centuries Built in the 18th century as a medieval residential tower
• Renaissance castle (former moated castle)
• Baroque palace with park (rhododendron complex)
• Village church with park
• numerous well-preserved four-sided courtyards
• Granite mining museum with nature and quarry educational trail through the disused quarries
• Hochstein 406  m above sea level NN , with an observation tower over 22 meters high
• Kuckuckstein 340  m above sea level NN , with viewing hole at the winter solstice

The cultural monuments are recorded in the list of cultural monuments in Königshain .

The castle park is a member of the garden culture trail on both sides of the Neisse . This improves the possibilities of care ( park seminars ) and the prospects for funding and tourist development.

politics

City council election 2019

Turnout: 60.2%

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30th

20th

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62.7%

20.9%

16.4%

WVK

CDU

AfD

Since the local elections in Saxony in 2019 , the 11 seats of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

• Voters' association Vereinsring Königshain (WVVK): 8 seats
• CDU : 2 seats
• AfD : 1 seat

mayor

Siegfried Lange was re-elected on June 7, 2015.

Sports

Königshain has a sports club with football, table tennis and gymnastics departments. The first men's soccer team of SV Königshain played in the regional league (7th league) of the Saxon Football Association until it withdrew from gaming after the 2012/13 season .

Economy and Infrastructure

Transport connections
The federal highway 6 runs south and the federal highway 4 north of the community. The Königshainer Berge motorway tunnel located here is the second longest in Germany. The railway line from Görlitz to Königshain has been closed since 1993 and was redesigned as a cycle path in 2009.

Personalities

• Carl Adolph Gottlob von Schachmann (1725–1789), antiquity collector, naturalist, numismatist and painter, landowner in Königshain
• Tobias Müller (* 1993), soccer player, grew up in Königshain

literature

• Görlitz and its surroundings (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 54). 1st edition. Verlag Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1994, ISBN 3-7400-0932-2 . (P. 58 ff.)
• Friends of home care in the Lower Silesian Oberlausitzkreis eV (ed.): From Muskauer Heide to Rotstein. Home book of the Lower Silesian Upper Lusatia District . Lusatia Verlag, Bautzen 2006.
• Christian Samuel Schmidt: Description of Königshain . Hermsdorf and Anton, Görlitz 1797.
• Thomas Thränert: The rulership as a space for knowledge and design - Carl Adolph Gottlob von Schachmann and his Gut Königshain. In: The garden art. Vol. 30, Issue 1, 2018, pp. 63–74.

Web links

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

• Königshain in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Literature about Königshain in the Saxon Bibliography
• Castle park on the website of the garden culture path on both sides of the Neisse

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
2. ^ Christian Speer: "Vita mercatoris". The autobiography of the long-distance trader Hans Frenzel (1463–1526) from Görlitz. Edition and commentary. In: Dietrich Scholze (Ed.): Places and stations of religious activity. Studies on the church history of the bilingual Upper Lusatia (= writings of the Sorbian Institute. Volume 48). Bautzen 2009, pp. 150–179.
3. ↑ Königshain Granite Extraction Museum. Retrieved August 21, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Castles on the town's website
5. ↑ Homepage garden culture path on both sides of the Neisse, members and cooperation partners. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
6. ↑ Local elections 2019, election result for Königshain
7. ↑ statistik.sachsen.de .
8. ↑ http://www.koenigshain.com/vereine.html