Lion grove
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Lion grove
City of Altenberg
Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 37 ″ N , 13 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ E
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| Height : | 631 m above sea level NHN | |
| Residents : | 178 (December 31, 2018) | |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 1974 | |
| Incorporated into: | Geising | |
| Postal code : | 01778 | |
Location of Löwenhain in Saxony |
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 Jägerhaus, before 1958
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Löwenhain is a district of Altenberg in the Eastern Ore Mountains in the south of Saxony .
geography
Geographical location
Löwenhain is located about 43 km south of Dresden in the upper Eastern Ore Mountains . The place borders on Fürstenau and Fürstenwalde . Furthermore, Löwenhain borders Geising and Lauenstein .
history
founding
Mining begins on the Mückentürmchen in 1149, and Fürstenau and Löwenhain were probably founded at this time . The high colonization for the Ore Mountains took place until 1200 . It is assumed that Löwenhain was founded at the latest during this time or at least immediately afterwards. The place was founded around the middle of the 13th century in the first clearing time of the Ore Mountains, under the reign of Henry the Illustrious, perhaps even at the instigation of this margrave .
Location and corridor form, architectural style
The spacious and clear layout of this row village and its forest hoofed meadows suggest that it was German settlers of Franconian tribe who laid out Löwenhain as a rural settlement, as the Slavs laid out their places differently around 1200. The older buildings bring the character of the mountain village clearly expressed: Ground floor house with strong stone walls , small windows fogged shingle gable , Vorhäuschen outside the front door. There are mainly two side courtyards in the village, the houses of which were built opposite one another or at right angles to one another. On the street side, a courtyard wall usually closes the homestead, which is usually about 80 m from the village street. The typical half-timbering has mostly been plastered over time, and the thatched roofs that used to be the norm have been replaced by slate. Löwenhain stretches for 2.8 kilometers along its Dorfbach (Löwenbach), with 128 meters of altitude being overcome. Behind the homesteads there is an elongated forest area that has survived the clearing time at that time.
Development of the village
Löwenhain was first mentioned in 1340 as Lewenhayn .
In 1378 the "lower" Löwenhainers and Fürstenauer had to take the tin ore from the Kahler Berge to the laundry in Lauenstein as a slave labor . In the 16th century there were three mines and a punch mill in the village. At the beginning of the 20th century there was still a building in the younger Segen-Gottes-Schacht in the valley of the stream coming from Fürstenau. The village was always part of the Lauenstein rule . The Löwenhainer Hirschberg owes its name to the former harsh hunting laws . A farmer had killed a deer in his forest and thus violated the hunting law of the Lords of Bünau . To avoid the death penalty, he transferred his forest property to the Bünaus.
A folklore specialty is the Löwenhainer Christ and King Play , which the farmers perform in their hometown and in localities from around 1825. On January 1, 1974, Löwenhain was incorporated into Geising. The two restaurants Erbgerichtsgasthof Jäpel and the Jägerhaus , the latter a disco stronghold in GDR times, were left to decay, the city of Geising has almost completely stopped funding the community since the incorporation. The former training center of the Chamber of Crafts has passed into private ownership. The place also had a kindergarten, which later became a classroom of what is now Geising High School . In the hunter's house there was a consumption , the LPG kitchen and the hall.
Löwenhain was incorporated into Geising. Geising was incorporated into Altenberg on January 1, 2011.
Development of the population
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(1): from 1997: population at the beginning of the year (data from the cities of Geising and Altenberg)
(2): Unterlöwenhain belonged to Lauenstein from 1875 to 1950
Culture and sights
- Löwenhain is part of the major nature conservation project, protected mountain meadows in the Eastern Ore Mountains with its unique stone ridge landscape
Regular events
- Summer and winter solstice celebrations
societies
- Löwenhain volunteer fire department
- Youth, home and fire brigade association Löwenhain
literature
- Around Altenberg, Geising and Lauenstein (= values of the German homeland . Volume 7). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1964.
- Günter Groß , Rikarda Groß : Löwenhain and Fürstenwalde. Two villages on the Osterzgebirgskamm . Dippoldiswalde 2012
- Martin Hammermüller: Our little hiking booklet (27)
Web links
- Löwenhain in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Löwenhain on altenberg.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Numbers and facts on the website of the city of Altenberg
Altenberg | Bear Castle | Bear Rock | Bear Stone | Falkenhain | Fürstenau | Fürstenwalde | Geising | Faithful to God | Deer jump | Kipsdorf | Lauenstein | Liebenau | Lion's Grove | Müglitz | Neu-Rehefeld | Neuhermsdorf | Rehefeld fence house | Rudolphsdorf | Schellerhau | Forest idyll | Zinnwald-Georgenfeld