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This article describes the Laubegast district of Dresden. For the ship of the same name, see Krippen (Schiff, 1912) .

Laubegast with Alttolkewitz district and statistical district No. 62 of Dresden
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Coordinates	51 ° 1 '29 "  N , 13 ° 49' 59"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 1 '29 "  N , 13 ° 49' 59"  E.
height	116  m above sea level NN
surface	2.41 km²
Residents	12,015 (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density	4985 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation	Apr 1, 1921
Post Code	01279
prefix	0351
Website	www.dresden.de
Borough	Leuben
Transport links
tram	4, 6
bus	86

View from the Agneshöhe to Laubegast

Laubegast is a district of Dresden in the Leuben district . The place, mentioned for the first time in 1408 , is located on the left bank of the Elbe and was a fishing village at the time. At the end of the 19th century, the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company built the Laubegast shipyard . As in many other parts of Dresden along the Elbe, the village and small town character was retained after the incorporation into Laubegast in 1921. Laubegast is located in the cultural landscape of Dresden Elbe Valley and is connected  to public transport with lines 4 and 6 of the city tram and bus line 86; Dresden city center can be reached in half an hour.

history

Herrenhaus Österreicher Strasse 39. On the left the former town hall Österreicher Strasse 37

Caroline Neuber memorial

“I know a little village, small and fine, right on the Elbe beach, full of birdsong and sunshine, a true land of flowers ...” This is how the song “Mein Laubegast” begins, the text of which was written by Max Bewer around 1900 and set to music by Otto Schmidt. Only recently rediscovered for the public, the song is celebrated at song recitals and at the Laubegaster Island Festival.

Laubegast - at that time Lubegast - is first mentioned in a document in 1408. One ferry, the ferryman, appears in a document in 1501, although it can be assumed that the ferry had existed for a longer time. A yaw ferry replaced the barge ferry in 1856 and maintained the connection between the banks until 1969. Then the free-moving motor ferry Laubegast took over this task until 1992, despite protests from residents.

The inhabitants of the small village earned their bread primarily as farmers, craftsmen, fishermen, ship pullers, straw weavers and twists. Laubegaster Zwirn enjoyed a good reputation throughout Saxony and was also offered at the Leipzig trade fair .

However, the scenic location on the Elbe also attracted many city dwellers who used their wealth to build an estate. The Catholic Bishop Ignaz Bernhard Mauermann had his country estate here from 1824 to 1841. Later, the Chemnitz “King of Locomotives” Richard Hartmann built his residence on the property. The Hartmannsche Villa is now a sight. The paintings in the house are attributed to the workshop of Wilhelm Andreas Schaberschul , who also carried out room decorations in the Semperoper . Before the opera was rebuilt, restorers studied motifs and color compositions in the Laubegaster Villa.

Large nurseries settled in Laubegast at the end of the 19th century. The most famous companies were the Seidel nursery and the Poscharsky tree nursery. During the GDR era, there were a few smaller nurseries in addition to the VEG Seed Ornamental Plants Dresden . After the fall of the Wall, most of the nurseries were closed and their areas were built on.

The first school to be established in 1836 was the building that is still preserved today and used as a Forsthaus restaurant . The second school was built in 1863 and the third in 1883. Today the 64th high school is housed there. The best-known student was Melli Beese , the first female motorized pilot in Germany. The fourth school building was the 95th  POS , which was named Vladimir Ilyich Lenin from 1985 and is now the 95th Caroline Neuber primary school .

At the urging of the community of Blasewitz , which had grown into a residential suburb of Dresden , the shipyard , which had been in existence since 1855, was relocated in 1897/98 after their company found a suitable property in Laubegast in 1895. Nationalized during GDR times, it came into fiduciary and then private ownership after 1989. However, due to declining orders, the company had financial difficulties, so that in early 2000 the bankruptcy petition was the last resort. In the mid-2000s, investors from Dresden founded the shipyard Laubegast  AG, which specializes in the repair of inland ships and the construction of new ferries.

The innkeeper Otto Engau had a Bismarck honor garden laid out in Laubegast in 1908, which gained national fame.

If you read reports about Laubegast, you can't get past Neuberin, "the mother of German acting". Caroline Neuber stood out “because of the special grace and naturalness of her game”. She attached importance to an "orderly way of life" and determination and thus helped the guild of actors, which was mostly despised, to gain more respect. Together with Johann Christoph Gottsched, the Neuberin tried to create a “moral German stage” that was not only intended to be used for entertainment but also for education. At the end of her life she lived in Dresden, but had to leave the city after being destroyed in the Seven Years War . She fled to Laubegast and thus became Laubegaster for almost five months until her death in 1760. In 1776, admirers of their art donated a memorial. The memorial stone, renewed in 1852, has been preserved to this day.

On April 1, 1921, it was incorporated into Dresden and Laubegast increasingly developed into a place of residence for workers and employees.

Between 1971 and 1973, a small residential area with a total of 750 residential units was built in the western section, which filled the existing gaps. Next to the 12 apartment blocks (Reichenhaller Strasse, Donathstrasse, Hallstätter Strasse, Salzburger Strasse, Steirische Strasse, Burgenlandstrasse, Brünner Strasse and Berchtesgadener Strasse), five-storey type IW 65, a school (95th POS, type Dresden Atrium ), one Children's combination (both on Donathstrasse), a consumer store (Brünner Strasse) and a boiler house (Donathstrasse). The boiler house was only used to heat the public buildings; the apartment blocks were heated by furnace until around 1995. From 1992, the Solitude residential park was built between Salzburger Strasse and Tauernstrasse on the site of the former VEG Saatzucht Zier Pflanzen Dresden . In 1994, construction of the Lindenpark residential park began on the newly created Melli-Beese-Strasse .

The establishment of its own parish took place in the 1990s, until then it was part of the Ascension Church in Leuben .

present

When the Elbe floods in August 2002 , large parts of the district were flooded. Since the Elbe flooded an old river arm, Laubegast was completely cut off from the rest of Dresden and could only be reached by boat. Since then they have been working on plans for flood protection in the district. In memory of the flood and the helpers, Laubegast celebrates the island festival every summer in August .

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View of Laubegast from the opposite side of the Elbe

Personalities

• Melli Beese (1886–1925), first German female pilot
• Gisela von Collande (1915–1960), theater and film actress
• Otto Engau (1848–1925), creator of the Bismarck Honor Garden (Ehrenhain)
• Wieland Förster (* 1930), writer and visual artist
• Marie Hankel (1844–1929), first Esperanto poet
• Gustav Hartmann (1842–1910), director of Dresdner Bank since 1896, son of Richard Hartmann
• Richard Hartmann (1809–1878), locomotive manufacturer
• Alfred Hesse (1904–1988), painter, graphic artist and wall designer
• Hermann Krone (1827–1916), photographer
• Friedrich von Luxburg (1829–1905), District President of Lower Franconia
• Caroline Neuber (1697–1760), mother of the art of acting
• Rudolf Zwintscher (1871–1946), composer, pianist and music teacher

Others

In a representative district survey in 2008, in which 11,129 Dresden residents took part, Laubegast came off best in terms of “perceived quality of life”. 61 percent of the residents of the district rated the quality of their residential area with a grade of 1, more than in any other district of Dresden.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Laubegast

Web links

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

• Leaf guest in the digital historical directory of Saxony
• Laubegast-online
• LaubegastNET
• District history Laubegast
• Entry to Laubegast on dresdner-stadtteile.de
• DIE LAUBE - An alternative magazine from Laubegast
• dresden.de: Statistics (PDF; 349 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Living with the River - Laubegast Participation Process , State Capital Dresden.
2. ↑ Peter Hilbert: These are Dresden's best districts , in: Sächsische Zeitung , October 11, 2008.
3. ↑ Peter Hilbert: Laubegaster love their gem on the Elbe , in: Sächsische Zeitung , October 11, 2008.