Löhsten

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Löhsten
Coordinates: 51 ° 36 ′ 53 ″  N , 13 ° 8 ′ 41 ″  E
Height : 82 m above sea level NHN
Incorporation : December 31, 2001
Postal code : 04916
Area code : 035363
Church in Löhsten

Löhsten is a district of the city of Herzberg (Elster) in the district of Elbe-Elster in Brandenburg . The place is on the federal highway 87 between Torgau and Herzberg (Elster) not far from the state border.

geography

history

Earlier spelling of the place was Loeßen (1550) and Löhsen (1659).

Until 1659 the place belonged to the Saxon office Annaburg , until 1815 to the office Schweinitz .

1550 lived here 15 possessed men, 13 of them were responsible for the Office Lochau (Lochau was later renamed Annaburg).

The town hall bordered with the Annaburger Heide and the villages Döbrichau , Züllsdorf and Gernewitz.

Löhsten was a branch of Döbrichau in the 16th century. The village church was built of wood in 1500 and in 1775 had become so dilapidated that it had to be replaced by a new building.

During the Thirty Years' War , like the neighboring Döbrichau as a street village in the Annaburger Heide, Löhsten suffered numerous looting, which resulted in the place being abandoned by almost all residents. Of 15 possessed men, only six lived there in 1659. It was therefore referred to as the desert village of Löhsen . Elector Johann Georg II of Saxony ceded his share in this village on February 12, 1659 due to his services to the Electoral Saxon chamberlain, colonel and captain of the offices of Meißen , Oschatz and Mutzschen , Hanß Abraham von Gersdorf zu Kreischau , who had previously transferred his Gut Gernewitz owned a share in the village of Löhsten. This assignment resulted in the change to the Saxon office of Schweinitz, to which the Kreischau manor belonged at that time.

Culture and sights

The former inn of the place.

Village church

The village church, which is now a listed building, can be found in the center of Löhsten. The local church is a half-timbered building that was built in 1777. Inside there is a wooden baptismal font and a pulpit altar from the 18th century as well as an organ from around 1800.

More monuments

Immediately in front of the church is a memorial to the victims of the villagers who died in the First and Second World Wars .

Other architectural monuments recorded in the local list of monuments are an inn adjacent to the church, which was built as a half-timbered building in the middle of the 18th century and the former village school, the construction of which is dated to the year 1852.

literature

  • Lars Jage: The trace of the old days . Horb 1994, p. 73 to 84 (paperback).
  • Karl Pallas: The registries of the church visits in the former Saxon spa district. Part 3, Halle 1908, pp. 557ff.
  • Sybille Gramlich / Irmelin Küttner: Elbe-Elster district part 1: The city of Herzberg / Elster and the offices of Falkenberg / Uebigau, Herzberg, Schlieben and Schönewalde , ISBN 978-3884621523 .

Web links

Commons : Löhsten  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Löhsten in the genealogical directory
  • Löhsten on the pages of Herzberg (Elster)

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ City of Herzberg (Elster) - districts according to § 45 municipal constitution - inhabited districts - living spaces. In: service.brandenburg.de. Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs of the State of Brandenburg, accessed on November 6, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Sybille Gramlich / Irmelin Küttner: Elbe-Elster district, part 1: The town of Herzberg / Elster and the offices of Falkenberg / Uebigau, Herzberg, Schlieben and Schönewalde , p. 244, ISBN 978-3884621523
  3. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 638 .
  4. ↑ a b Database of the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and the State Archaeological Museum ( Memento from December 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 26, 2016.
  5. ↑ Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster district, Bad Liebenwerda district museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (ed.): Orgellandschaft Elbe-Elster . Herzberg / Elster 2005, p. 62 .
  6. ↑ Online project Memorials to Fallen , accessed on November 26, 2017