Lückersdorf

Lückersdorf City of Kamenz Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 50 ″  N , 14 ° 4 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	210 m above sea level NN
Area :	4.07 km²
Residents :	404  (May 9, 2011)
Population density :	99 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1957
Incorporated into:	Lückersdorf-Gelenau
Postal code :	01917
Area code :	03578
Location of Lückersdorf in Saxony

Lückersdorf from the air (behind the Kamenz-Arnsdorf railway line) seen from Gelenau (in the foreground in front of the railway line some houses in Gelenau)

Lückersdorf ( Upper Sorbian Lěpkarjecy ) is a village with about 400 inhabitants in the district of Bautzen . Together with the neighboring towns of Gelenau and Hennersdorf , it forms the Lückersdorf-Gelenau district of the Saxon city of Kamenz .

Geography and transport links

Lückersdorf on the Oberreitschen map around 1845

Lückersdorf is located west-south-west of Kamenz in the form of a roadside village between Brauna in the north-west and Gelenau in the south. In the northeast rises the Hutberg , the 294 meter high mountain of the city of Kamenz. The western Lusatian hills and mountains characterize the surroundings of Lückersdorf, to the north of the village there are Vogelberg ( 263  m ) and Schloßberg ( 268  m ), in the west a chain of hills with Rinnberg ( 303  m ), Walberg ( 360  m ), Desertberg ( 352  m ) and Hofeberg ( 322  m ). The Langes Wasser brook flows on the southern outskirts of the village .

The railway line coming from Arnsdorf leads west around Gelenau, separates the place in the north from Lückersdorf and shortly afterwards reaches Kamenz train station .

The S 95 runs east and the S 100 north.

history

The district was already settled in prehistoric times, as evidenced by traces of settlement of the Lusatian culture uncovered in 1957 . The finds include a half-preserved and a fully preserved post house with a floor area of ​​around three by four meters, hearths and vessels with leftover food and clear footpaths. Younger, probably East Germanic traces of settlement from the Roman Empire (around 3rd to 5th centuries) were uncovered in 1974 as part of an emergency excavation. Among other things, the remains of 30 vessels were recovered.

Lückersdorf was first mentioned in a document in 1225, a Vorwerk is documented for the year 1426. In the first half of the 15th century, the town of Kamenz gradually acquired the various Lückersdorf fiefdoms . In the Upper Lusatian Pönfall Kamenz lost Lückersdorf and other possessions in 1547, whereupon Landvoigt Christoph von Dohna on Königsbrück acquired Lückersdorf. In October 1561, one year after Christoph's death, the Kamenz council was able to repurchase Lückersdorf.

A small mineral bath had existed in Lückersdorf since 1817. The spring was described by Eduard Röber in 1845 as a weak and little-used cold, earthy-saline sulfur spring . The owner at the time, Dickoff, offered 200 to 300 bathtubs a year. The bath became the basis for the later Moritzbad restaurant . In 1864 the community built a new school building, which was extensively renovated in 1937/1938.

As part of the administrative reform of 1952 Lückersdorf was from the former Amtshauptmannschaft Kamenz in the district Kamenz transferred. Five years later Lückersdorf was merged with Gelenau to Lückersdorf-Gelenau. From the Agricultural Production Cooperative (LPG) of Type I "Unity" founded in 1956 , the eponymous LPG Lückersdorf-Gelenau of Type III emerged, whose animal production was connected to LPG (T) Brauna in 1980. During this time, Lückersdorf mainly had dairy cows.

On January 1, 1957, Lückersdorf merged with the neighboring village of Gelenau to form the new municipality of Lückersdorf-Gelenau. On January 1, 1979, this community was enlarged to include Hennersdorf. On December 1, 1993, the municipal council passed a resolution to incorporate it into Kamenz. Due to a referendum, this decision was repealed. On January 1, 1999, it was incorporated into Kamenz.

Since 1996, citizens' initiatives have been formed against a planned quarry to mine Grauwacke on Wal- und Desertberg.

Population development

year	Residents
1834	326
1856	364
1871	384
1890	463
1910	464
1925	422
1939	422
1946	461
1950	483
1959	496
1971	414
1983	357
1985	382
1997	423
2001	464
2011	404

In 1560, 23 possessed men ran in Lückersdorf . In the following 200 years the number of inhabitants increased with a simultaneous decline in purely rural economies, so that in the Saxon state recession in 1777 there were still 8 possessed men, but also 12 gardeners and 26 cottagers . An economy was in desolation that year.

In the 19th century, the population rose from 326 in the first Saxon population census in 1834 to 463 in 1890, which corresponds to an increase of 40% in this period. After a decline in the interwar period, this level was reached again after the Second World War. By the end of the 1950s, the population grew to around 500 residents. Then there was a sharp decline in the following 25 years, so that in 1983 there were still 357 inhabitants. This was followed by another increase, so that in 2001 a population of around 460 was reached again.

The believing population is predominantly Evangelical Lutheran, in the 1925 census this applied to all residents.

Place name

Documented records of the place name are Liepgersdorf and Lipgersdorf (1225 and 1263), Luckirsdorf (1364), Lickirstorf (1420) and Lückersdorff (1491). Later forms still vary in the spelling, for example Lickersdorff (1492), Luckkerschdorff (1512) and Lückherßdorff (1547), but there were also occasional distances from this form, for example 1547 with Luckendorff . The Sorbian name is a Sorabization of the German name and is reproduced as Ljepkarezy in 1848 and as Lěpkarjecy from 1866 .

The place name can be traced back to a personal name, Lückersdorf is accordingly the village of Liebgēr .

Personalities

• The philologist and lecturer Johannes Minckwitz (1812–1885) was born in Lückersdorf. Minckwitz, who worked both as a poet and as a translator of classical literature, received an extraordinary professorship at the University of Leipzig in 1861.
• Heinrich Minckwitz (1819–1886) was also born in Lückersdorf. He was a politician for the Progress Party in the Saxon state parliament and in the Reichstag of the North German Confederation and the German Empire.
• Moritz Oskar Sauppe (1844 / 1847–1928), son of a teacher and organist in Lückersdorf, was pastor in Lückendorf and Oybin from 1872 to 1910 . He published works on the history of Zittau and Oybins, and made copies of over 8000 documents.

literature

• Western Upper Lusatia between Kamenz and Königswartha (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 51). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-05-000708-7 .

Web links

Wikisource: Lückersdorf  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

1. ^ Albert Schiffner: Description of Saxony and the Ernestine, Russian and Schwarzburg lands . J Scheible, Stuttgart 1840. Page 517.
2. ↑ Eduard Röber: The healing springs of Germany for doctors and educated non-doctors, together with an introduction about the effects of pure, cold and warm water and a complete register . Verlags-Comptoir, Grimma 1845. Page 348.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1st, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
4. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1999
5. ↑ Lückersdorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
6. ↑ Lückersdorfer Chronik: History. Retrieved on August 1, 2010 (In the event of deviating information, the historical place directory of Saxony was preferred.).  
7. ↑ Ernst Eichler , Hans Walther : Oberlausitz toponymy - studies on the toponymy of the districts of Bautzen, Bischofswerda, Görlitz, Hoyerswerda, Kamenz, Löbau, Niesky, Senftenberg, Weißwasser and Zittau. I name book (=  German-Slavic research on naming and settlement history . Volume  28 ). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1975, p. 176 .