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Love sweat City of Gera Coordinates: 50 ° 49 '36 " N , 12 ° 5' 43" E
Height :	219 m above sea level NN
Area :	3.27 km²
Residents :	1590 (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density :	486 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 1950
Postal code :	07551
Area code :	0365
Location of Liebschwitz in Thuringia
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Liebschwitz is a district of Gera and was an independent municipality until July 1, 1950.

geography

The district is located in the southeast of the city of Gera in the Wipsetal at the foot of the Zoitzberg and on the east bank of the White Elster .

geology

Attempts begun in 1779 to develop coal deposits in the vicinity of the Zoitzberg were discontinued in 1790; the anthracite deposits found turned out to be unsuitable for combustion purposes.

Old village center

history

The place is mentioned for the first time in 1209 as Lubschwitz in a document of the diocese of Naumburg and in the same year in another of the bailiffs of Weida ; a ministerial named Gerhardus de Lubiswicz is listed among the witnesses . The original settlement of the current area is likely to be in the Sorbian period (8th to 9th century AD). Well-known early settlement sites are a castle Ziegenberg (Bühl) , southwest of the place; Nothing is left of her today. A medieval hill fort called Der Hayn is also suspected on the mountain behind the church , here hints of moats and ramparts can still be seen. Parts of a Neolithic, flat rampart on the Zoitzberg are still preserved today; access excavations were carried out here in 1935. Archaeological finds from Zoitzberg indicate that people lived on the mountain as early as the Paleolithic . Ceramic finds indicate a further occupancy of the hill up to the Neolithic Age . The section wall was leveled over time, traces of remains confirm that the earth-wood fortification was destroyed by fire.

Former forest school, closed in 2009

A school building in the village was first mentioned in 1639, and in 1832 a new two-story school building was built in the upper village. In 1905 the inauguration of the Liebschwitz school takes place. This long tradition ended with the 2008/09 school year.

In 1554 the Liebschwitzer Rittergut with the associated villages Grobsdorf , Lietzsch , Loitzsch , Niebra , Pösneck and Taubenpreskel , as well as the Saxon parts of the villages Hilbersdorf , Lengefeld and Rückersdorf , became a Saxon enclave through a securitization of the Diocese of Naumburg . The manor with all the outbuildings and ancillary goods is later u. a. Property of the barons of Meusebach. In 1745, the Royal Prussian War and Domain Councilor Johann Georg von Ziegenhierd , who came from Braunschweig, acquired the Liebschwitz estate. In the Napoleonic Wars in 1806, marauding French soldiers were slain at the Liebschwitz manor, with the result that the French plundered the manor and burned the parsonage and forge. After the Peace of Vienna in 1815 (> Congress of Vienna ), the von Ziegenhierd family successfully intervened against the transfer of their Liebschwitz, Lietzsch and Taubenpreskel estate to Prussia, they remained with the Kingdom of Saxony - henceforth called the Ziegenhierdsche Ländchen . In 1834 there were 880 inhabitants in 54 houses for this little Ziegenhierdsche country.

In the lower place

Through the exchange of land between the states of Thuringia and Saxony, which had been founded in 1920, the previously Saxon exclave of Liebschwitz and the surrounding villages came to Thuringia in 1928. The corresponding state treaty was concluded on April 1, 1928 in the Liebschwitzer restaurant Apfelweinschänke (at that time "Zum golden Apfel"); This traditional restaurant has not found a new tenant since the beginning of the 1990s and is falling into disrepair. Until it was incorporated into Gera in 1950, Liebschwitz was part of the former district of Gera .

In addition to a small village mill, the village also includes the Zoitzmühle on the banks of the Elster; it is documented as early as 1314. In 1834 a worsted spinning mill was built near the Zoitzmühle on the Mühlgraben, the Liebschwitzer Zoitzmühle itself, including the associated house, was completely destroyed by fire in 1884 and was later rebuilt. In 1965 the large silo facility was built. From 1812 there was a brewery in the village (manor brewery). In 1892 the owner at the time, Spengler, had a new brewery built in the center of the village (at the height of today's bus turning loop). This building was demolished after bankruptcy in 1921, the administration buildings and a warehouse were preserved. The building of the manor brewery was demolished in 2003.

In 1654, a devastating flood of the Wipse severely damaged large parts of the village, the manor, the rectory and the church, and the cemetery was simply washed away. A new one is no longer being laid out, and since then the burials have taken place in the nearby pigeon preskel that belongs to the parish . The roofed wooden bridge over the White Elster, mentioned in 1701, was irreparably damaged by a heavy flood in 1924; a new concrete arch bridge parallel to it was inaugurated in 1926. Its usability was short-lived, on April 13, 1945 it was blown up by troops of the German Wehrmacht . In 1951/52 the new Friedensbrücke was built in its place , it was replaced by a new bridge in 2000. On April 13, 1945, after the Zoitz Bridge, the Liebschwitz Railway Bridge was blown up. The uphill part of the construction fell into the Elster, the other part was excavated and slightly damaged. Initially, the Liebschwitzer family used the bridge torso to cross the river, until a makeshift footbridge was later placed on the rubble of the road bridge.

In 1912 a river bathing establishment with rowing boat rental was inaugurated on the Elster, and in 1936, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Liebschwitz gymnastics community (later Liebschwitzer Turnverein ), the site received a gym. Electrification began in 1919, and the volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1921.

The first bombs that fell over Gera in 1940 hit the Scherperstrasse in Neu-Taubenpreskel; three people were killed. In 1941, on its centenary, the Moritz Jahr machine factory moved into its new factory in Liebschwitz. It was converted into a state-owned company in 1948 .

In a broader sense, the Elsterwehr fell victim to the whims of nature in 1947: When trying to blow up the ice masses that had built up due to the extremely cold winter, the Elsterwehr was also completely destroyed. The substitute weir made of wooden sheet pile walls was the victim of a devastating flood in the summer of 1953.

1959 Construction of the concrete bypass road "Zwickauer Straße" through the Wismut. In 1964, after several attempts at silting, the mill pond is filled. Many new single-family houses have been built in Untitzer Strasse and Niebraer Weg since 1973. The new blocks in Untitzer Strasse and Gartenstrasse were built in 1982 and 1988. In June 1997 a new kindergarten was built next to the block on Gartenstrasse. 2009 Liebschwitz celebrates the 800th year of its first mention with a festive service in the Liebschwitz church and a pageant through the town. On the gable side of the Salzstr. 74 at the roundabout, the self-designed coat of arms was attached to the roundabout in April 2009 and still announces the event today.

In 2014/2015, a so-called cross bar, an east-west crossing from Zwickauer Strasse to Bundesstrasse 92, was built. A 317 m long prestressed concrete bridge, the "Liebschwitzer Bridge", is the main structure of this crossbar. It spans the White Elster, two railway lines and the Elster Cycle Path and was opened to traffic on August 18, 2015.

Gera-Liebschwitz had an initial reception center for asylum seekers since September 21, 2015 . It was located on the site of the former vocational school on Zwickauer Strasse.

The section of the Elstertalbahn through Liebschwitz was shut down on October 24, 2016 together with the Liebschwitz station on this route (on Taubenpreskelner Flur), the trains are now routed via Zwötzen and rejoin the Elstertalbahn at a newly built junction south of Liebschwitz .

Liebschwitzer church with round choir

Attractions

Liebschwitz village church from 1677, built near a previous building that was destroyed by floods in 1654. In 1995/96 the building was re-covered.

Arboretum at the former Liebschwitz vocational school, the largest school arboretum in Thuringia.

Former parish homestead with home parlor .

Old half-timbered house with home parlor

politics

Liebschwitz has had a local constitution and a local council since 1995 ( local council until II / 2009). The district mayor has been Michael Schleicher (independent) since 2004.

Development of the population

year	1843	1939	2009	2011
Residents	315	1293	1587	1517

traffic

Liebschwitz is branched off from the federal road 92 with the local road L 2321 (Zwickauer Straße) or the RVG line 219.
The Gera-Liebschwitz cross brace was opened in August 2015. The construction work included the new construction of the L 1082 state road between the B 92 and the southern entrance of Gera to the junction of the L 2330 at Gera-Liebschwitz. The building project and the link with the federal highway 92 were funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
The public transport connection is made by the GVB bus line 16 to Zwötzen , from there by tram line 1 towards the city center.
The closest train stations are Gera-Zwötzen and Wünschendorf (Elster) Nord.

Culture

Heimatstube Liebschwitz, since 2001 (open once a month on Saturdays)

Personalities

Rudolf Behr (1899–1966) was a teacher in Liebschwitz from 1924 to 1943 and from 1953 to 1966. From 1929 he wrote articles on local history in the Gera local press and from 1939 to 1943 monthly home letters to former students in the military service.
Hans Koch (1927–1986), cultural scientist and a cultural functionary of the SED in the GDR

Sports

SV 1861 Liebschwitz eV with sports field and sports center on Zwickauer Strasse, sports offered: soccer, gymnastics, chess

education

The nearest primary school is in since the school year 2009/10 Zwötzen the

Elementary School 9 Zwötzen School .

The Montessori elementary school Waldschule Liebschwitz moved in 2009 to the Neulandschule, which is now called the Pfortener Schule Gera. The closest regular school is the

State School 4 in Lusan .

In 1982 a vocational school with boarding school was handed over to the district enterprise for agricultural engineering, the later vocational school center Liebschwitz closed in 2010 with boarding school for professions in the fields of horticulture, floristry, metal, textiles, leather.

Individual evidence

↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 280.

↑ "Rail bypass at Gera put into operation" DB press release. October 24, 2016 ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Gera City Archives
↑ Gera city administration, FD 1200
↑ Gera-Liebschwitz crossbar opens: new road construction relieves traffic junction
↑ Querspange Gera-Liebschwitz project overview
^ City archive: Rudolf Behr's estate with insights into the local and school history of Liebschwitz and neighboring towns

literature

Stefan Bauch: Liebschwitz - a chronicle 1209 - 2009. Gera-Liebschwitz 2009.
Klaus Brodale, Heidrun Friedemann: That was Gera in the 20th century. Gudensberg 2002.
Johann Günther Friedrich Cannabich: Latest customer from Baden, Nassau, Hohenzollern, Lippe, Waldeck, Anhalt and the Reussian countries. Weimar 1827.
Ferdinand Hahn: History of Gera and its immediate surroundings. Gera 1855.
Johann Christoph Klotz: Description of the rule and city of Gera. Schleiz 1816.
Siegfried Mues: Gera. A historical walk. Horb 1993.
Heinz Rosenkranz: place names of the Gera district. Greiz 1982.
Carl Winderlich: Germany. Handbook for the customer of the fatherland. Leipzig 1852.
oA: Court and State Calendar for the Principality of Reuss j. L. Gera 1864.
Announcements of the history and antiquity research association. Altenburg, div.

Web links

Commons : Liebschwitz - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

[1] Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 280.