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Love guest community Oßling Coordinates: 51 ° 21 '44 " N , 14 ° 11' 51" E
Height :	145 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.04 km²
Residents :	145 (Aug 1, 2019)
Population density :	48 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 1950
Incorporated into:	Target sweat
Postal code :	01920
Area code :	035792
	Aerial view of Liebegast

Liebegast ( Upper Sorbian Lubhozdź ^?^/^I ) is a village in the Bautzen district in Saxony . It belongs to Upper Lusatia and has been part of the municipality of Oßling since January 1st, 1994 .

location

The Upper Lusatian village of Liebegast is located within the Upper Lusatian heath and pond area south of the Dubringer Moor . The nearest larger cities Hoyerswerda and Kamenz are nine and twelve kilometers from Liebegast, respectively. Neighboring towns are Dubring in the north, Saalau in the east, Sollschwitz and Trado in the south, Skaska in the south-west, Oßling in the west and Scheckthal in the north-west.

Liebegast is on the district road 9223 to Ralbitz-Rosenthal and one kilometer south of the state road 95 between Bernsdorf and Wittichenau . The place is connected to the local public transport by the bus routes 153 and 184.

history

Liebegast, then a farming village, was first mentioned in a document in 1419 as Lubegast . The place name is derived from the personal name Lubogost, the name of the supposed founder of the place. The residents of Liebegast had to pay taxes to the local landlords. As early as 1625, Liebegast was first mentioned by the name in today's spelling. In 1777 the place is referred to as the Vorwerk of the Skaska manor.

On July 1, 1950, Liebegast was incorporated into Sollschwitz . The community of Sollschwitz was dissolved on January 1, 1994 in the course of a municipal reform, while Sollschwitz was incorporated into Wittichenau and Liebegast moved to the community of Oßling .

Population and language

In 1777 the population of Liebegast consisted of two possessed men as well as seven gardener families and one family of cottagers. A homestead lay desolate. In 1825 the place had 91 inhabitants, this number rose to 119 inhabitants by 1885. In the following years the number of inhabitants fell again to 105 in 1905, but by 1925 the number rose again to 129 inhabitants. After the end of the Second World War , the population rose to 165 as a result of refugees from eastern Germany, and the number has been falling continuously since then. Most of the residents of Liebegast are of the Evangelical Lutheran denomination.

Originally, Liebegast belonged to the Upper Sorbian language area . In the statistics on the Sorbian population in Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 99 in 1884, of which 92 were Sorbs (92%). The use of Sorbian in everyday language has almost completely disappeared to this day.

Web links

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

Love guest on the side of the community of Oßling

Individual evidence

^ Statistics of the community of Oßling. Oßling community, accessed on October 1, 2019.
↑ Liebegast district. In: ossling.de. Oßling community, accessed April 20, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b Liebegast in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony . Retrieved April 20, 2019.
↑ Arnost Muka: Statistika łužiskich Serbow. Wobličenje a wopisanje. Budyšin 1884-1886. (on-line)

[1] Statistics of the community of Oßling. Oßling community, accessed on October 1, 2019.

[2] Liebegast district. In: ossling.de. Oßling community, accessed April 20, 2019 .

[HOV-3] Liebegast in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony . Retrieved April 20, 2019.

[Sorben1884-4] Arnost Muka: Statistika łužiskich Serbow. Wobličenje a wopisanje. Budyšin 1884-1886. (on-line)