List of cultural monuments in Weißwasser / Oberlausitz

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The list of cultural monuments in Weißwasser includes the cultural monuments of the Saxon city of Weißwasser , which were recorded by the State Office for Monument Preservation of Saxony until April 2019 (excluding archaeological cultural monuments). The notes are to be observed.

This list is a subset of the list of cultural monuments in the district of Görlitz .

List of cultural monuments in Weißwasser

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image	designation	location	Dating	description	ID
More pictures	Forest Railway Muskau (aggregate)	(Map)	From 1895, commissioning around 1900	Objective forest railway Muskau, with the following individual monuments: historical track structure including accessories (if available) as well as a number of movable cultural monuments (vehicles such as locomotives, coal wagons and other wagons), see individual monument 09303053, furthermore railway line with historical route as an aggregate part and the following additional aggregate components: Trebendorf , District Trebendorf (09303051), Bad Muskau, district Bad Muskau (09303052), Gablenz, district Gablenz (09303187) and district Kromlau (09303139) and Krauschwitz, district Krauschwitz (09303188); of importance in terms of railway history and local history	08975856
More pictures	Historical track body including accessories (if available) as well as a number of movable cultural monuments (individual monuments for ID no. 08975856)	(Map)	From 1895, commissioning around 1900; 1938 (Hilax steam locomotive)	Individual features of the entity forest railway Muskau; of importance in terms of railway history and local history	09303053
	Residential building in closed development	Alexanderstraße 1 (map)	Around 1910	Sophisticated architecture in the style of the homeland security movement, important in terms of building history	08975830
More pictures	Residential house, to the left in closed development	Alexanderstraße 2, 2a (map)	Around 1906	Stately house with urban charisma, of architectural significance	08975831
	Residential house in closed development and corner location	Alexanderstraße 3 (map)	Marked 1911	Striking building, corner tower with half-timbering, of importance in terms of building history and the appearance of the street	08975048
More pictures	Residential house in closed development and corner location	Alexanderstraße 4 (map)	Around 1910	Sophisticated, functional design with gables and balconies, important in terms of building history and the street scene	08975138
	House of a homestead	At the Philippine 38A (map)	Around 1800	Rarity, building and social history of importance	08975005
	School building (Pestalozzi School, former Evangelical Community School)	August-Bebel-Strasse 2 (map)	Marked 1912	Consisting of several stately structures, historicizing design in the style of the German neo-renaissance, central building with clock tower, of architectural and local significance	08975006
	Residential house in open development	August-Bebel-Strasse 18 (map)	Around 1912	With historicizing echoes, of architectural significance	08975007
	Forest house in open development	August-Bebel-Strasse 49 (map)	Around 1908	Historicizing design, of importance in terms of building history and local history	08975008
	Sales pavilion	Bahnhofstrasse 1 (map)	1920s	Architecturally important	08975179
	Residential house in semi-open development	Bahnhofstrasse 5 (map)	1930s	With a store, important in terms of building history	08975009
	Residential house with extension, in open development	Bahnhofstrasse 8 (map)	Around 1890	Architecturally important	08975178
	Sparkasse building in semi-open development	Bahnhofstrasse 12 (map)	1930s	Sophisticated architecture from the 1930s, of importance in terms of building history and urban development	08975177
	Residential house, intended for closed development	Bahnhofstrasse 14 (map)	Around 1905	Significant in terms of building history and urban development	08975176
More pictures	Station with reception building (as well as the former freight shed on the other side of the tracks with ramp and granite pavement, signal systems (still with cable), two water cranes, two signal boxes and a roundhouse with associated track systems, upstream turntable, remains of a coaling system, a water crane and a purification system)	Bahnhofstrasse 19 (map)	1869 (passenger station); last third of the 19th century (engine shed); around 1905 (signal box); 1914 (turntable); in the 1920s (signal box)	Railway line Berlin – Görlitz (route number 6142), of architectural, urban and industrial history as well as railway and technical history of importance; all monuments except for the reception building torn down	08975010
More pictures	Post office building in open development	Bahnhofstrasse 26 (map)	Around 1890	Sophisticated design, together with the train station and water tower, it has a significant impact on the townscape	08975011
	Residential house in open development	Bahnhofstrasse 28 (map)	Around 1900	Yellow brick, typical regional architecture, of architectural significance	08975854
More pictures	Water tower	Bahnhofstrasse 30 (map)	Around 1875	The water tower, which is now used as a café, was originally built to supply water to the steam locomotives in Weißwasser station on the Berlin-Görlitz railway line, which opened in 1867. The edges of the octagonal, two-storey clinker building are emphasized by buttresses that taper each storey, while simple segmented arched windows illuminate the interior of the tower. At the transition zone between tower shaft and tower head, staggered strip cornices accentuate the otherwise very simple functional structure. During the construction period, the tank floor was designed as a half-timbered construction, with the conversion, the steel water tank (loft tank) was removed and the upper floor was massively supplemented with yellow clinker brickwork. A flat tent roof completes the tower. The water level indicator has been preserved on the street side. As a former part of the Weißwasser train station, the water tower is important both in terms of railway history and technology. In addition, the architecturally well-proportioned functional building characterizes the townscape of Weißwasser.	08975012
	Two multi-family houses in open development	Bärenstrasse 1, 2 (map)	Around 1930	Social housing, of architectural and socio-historical importance, two-storey with a mansard roof	08975126
More pictures	Water tower	Bautzener Strasse (map)	1908-1910	Together with a waterworks, Weißwasser's first water tower was built between 1908 and 1910 to supply the city with drinking and service water. Its 200 m³ steel water tank could already 20 years later no longer meet the increasing demand for water in the growing city, so that from 1930 a larger water tower had to be built. Instead of tearing down the old, round brick tower and replacing it, the larger tower was added around it as a ten-cornered reinforced concrete framework. The riveted water tank was also preserved and was surrounded by a cylindrical, flat reinforced concrete tank (capacity 1000 m³). The 36 m high tower impresses with its clear design language in the style of New Objectivity. Narrow vertical ribbon windows divide the ten sides of the brick-clad reinforced concrete frame building, the upper end is marked by a continuous ribbon window. The flat tent roof only has a constructive function, but does not appear visually. The water tower has not been in operation since 1995, but it plays an important role as the city's landmark. By integrating the old building into the new water tower, this technical monument illustrates the development of the water supply in Weißwasser. The water tower is therefore of technical and urban historical importance. At the same time, due to its high-quality, time-typical design in a location that shapes the cityscape, it is of architectural significance.	08975024
	Schillerbank	Bautzener Strasse (map)	1905	Artistically designed (creator Fink) to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of Friedrich Schiller , donated by liberal forces in the city and erected on May 9, 1905 on the main street of the city at the confluence of Schillerstrasse , historically significant. Renovated in 2005 by the Chemnitz sculptor Beier. For the design of the square and the bank, € 7,000 was spent from subsidies.	08975833
	villa	Bautzener Strasse 35 (map)	According to verbal advice around 1925	Wooden house in the local style, possibly Christoph & Unmack from Niesky, of architectural significance	08975013
	villa	Bautzener Strasse 38 (map)	Around 1900	Architecturally important	08975850
	Catholic Church of the Holy Cross and rectory	Bautzener Strasse 40 (map)	1901 (church); around 1905 (rectory)	Both buildings are clinker brick with neo-Gothic shapes, in terms of material and style typical for the building project at this time, of importance in terms of both building history and local history	08975014
	school	Bautzener Strasse 44 (map)	1898	Adoption of typical regional design in terms of material and form, of importance in terms of building history and local history	08975016
	villa	Bautzener Strasse 46 (map)	Around 1905	Elaborate historicism facade, of importance in terms of building history and urban planning	08975017
	Residential house in open development	Bautzener Strasse 48 (map)	Marked 1904	Significance in building history	08975018
	Residential and commercial building in closed development and corner location	Bautzener Strasse 52 (map)	Around 1905	Elaborate urban architecture in terms of design, important in terms of building history and urban planning	08975019
	Residential and commercial building in closed development and corner location	Bautzener Strasse 54 (map)	Around 1900	Striking corner building, upper floors clinker brick, originally preserved architecture with historicist formal vocabulary, of importance in terms of building history and urban planning	08975020
	Residential house in half-open development and corner location	Bautzener Strasse 56 (map)	1920s	Striking corner building, elaborate, rare Art Deco design, especially in the entrance area, in Puschkinstraße two original window grilles, of significance in terms of building history and urban planning	08975160
	Residential building in closed development	Bautzener Strasse 58 (map)	1920s	With shops, sophisticated urban architecture, important in terms of building history and urban planning	08975188
	Residential and commercial building in open development	Bautzener Strasse 62 (map)	Around 1910	With arched curtain windows, design requirements, of importance in terms of building history	08975021
	Residential house in open development	Bautzener Strasse 63 (map)	Around 1895	With a store, decoratively designed in yellow and red clinker brick, incorporating typical regional design elements, of importance in terms of building history and urban planning	08975022
	Residential and commercial building designed in closed development	Bautzener Strasse 66 (map)	Marked 1913	Architecturally important	08975023
	Residential house in open development	Bautzener Strasse 67 (map)	Around 1910	With shops, neo-classical design with central projections with triangular gables, important in terms of building history and urban development	08975153
	School complex with all structures: Main building as a head building with main viewing side, angled wings and connecting passage, the villa behind it, the long single-storey structure above the villa, the transformer house in the lower part of the property, the concrete sculpture "Colleagues at the Glass Melt", the wall that surrounds it and the park-like area	Berliner Strasse 1 (Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse 29) (map)	1890s (factory owner's villa); 1950s (college); 1955 concrete sculpture (group of figures)	Engineering school for glass technology, of importance in terms of building history and local history	08975149
More pictures	Residential and commercial building in open development and corner location	Berliner Strasse 33 (map)	Marked 1906	Art Nouveau influences, significant in terms of building history	08975025
More pictures	Lindenkrug inn in open development	Berliner Strasse 39 (map)	Around 1900	In historicizing Heimatstil with Prussian half-timbering, of architectural and local importance	08975026
More pictures	Residential house in open development	Berliner Strasse 61 (map)	Around 1908	With a shop, neo-classical design with a central projectile and triangular gable, important in terms of building history	08975156
More pictures	Community house in open development, staircase and enclosure	Berliner Strasse 89 (map)	Marked 1929	The expressionistic clinker porch is remarkable, historically important, today a kindergarten	08975027
More pictures	Residential house in open development and two outbuildings	Berliner Strasse 112 (map)	Around 1895	The buildings in red and yellow brick, historically significant	08975029
	Apartment house in a corner	Braunsteichweg 12 (map)	Around 1900	With Art Nouveau elements, of importance in terms of urban planning	08975172
	townhouse	Brunnenstrasse 5, 7, 9 (map)	Around 1930	Architecturally important	08975137
More pictures	Residential house in open development	Bruno-Bürgel-Strasse 7 (map)	Around 1900	Architecturally important	08975033
More pictures	Residential house in open development	Bruno-Bürgel-Strasse 8 (map)	1930s	Still with influences of the New Objectivity, of importance in terms of building history	08975034
	Homestead with house and barn	Damaschkestrasse 19 (map)	Around 1850	House scrap wood, plastered, typical regional rural construction, of architectural and socio-historical importance	08975036
	Neufert-Bau: warehouse for the glass industry as well as a single-storey warehouse at right angles in the southwest	Dr.-Altmann-Strasse, formerly Schmiedestrasse (map)	1935-1937	Main house in skeleton construction (possibly prefabricated construction method) built by Gropius student Ernst Neufert , important in terms of architecture and industrial history as a functional building for the nationally important glass industry in Weißwasser	08975147
More pictures	Railway house and outbuilding	Eisenbahnstrasse 1 (map)	Late 19th century	In Prussian half-timbered houses, of architectural and local importance	08975834
	Railway house	Eisenbahnstrasse 2 (map)	Late 19th century	Structurally and locally of importance	08975835
	Railway house	Eisenbahnstrasse 3, 5 (map)	Around 1910	Structurally and locally of importance	08975836
	Transformer tower	Forster Strasse (map)	Around 1910	The transformer tower is located in the northern part of the site of the former "Gelsdorfhütte" (cf. 08975136). The building, characterized by the reform style, with a multifaceted plastered facade and the final crooked hip roof, is possibly a type building around 1910 and thus an early testimony to the electrification of the place. Apart from various (passage) insulators inside and on the facade of the tower, no technical equipment has been preserved, but the functionality remains legible through wall openings and room division inside. The monument value of the transformer tower results from its importance for the supply history of Weißwasser and the “Gelsdorfhütte” as well as its technical and architectural value.	09304472
	Gelsdorfhütte: Production hall of the first Weißwasser glass factory, gas production building (Siemens step grate generator system), chimney and two outbuildings	Forster Strasse (map)	1872–1875 (hut building, low-rise); around 1880 (gas generation plant, chimney); 1919 (extension of the warehouse)	As the oldest Weißwasser glassworks and nucleus of urban development of high industrial, urban and regional historical importance, gas generator system of technical historical importance and of rarity, still significant in terms of building history and urban planning, and of high experience and memorable value	08975136
	villa	Forster Strasse 12 (map)	Around 1905	Structurally and historically important	08975037
More pictures	Gelsdorf Villa	Forster Strasse 16 (map)	Around 1905	Architecturally and historically important, today the glass museum	08975038
More pictures	Railway house	Forster Strasse 26 (map)	Around 1900	Structurally and locally of importance	08975837
	Apartment building in open development	Forster Strasse 52 (map)	Around 1900	Architecturally important	08975039
More pictures	Weißwasser Cemetery (aggregate)	Forstweg 43 (map)	1920s	Material entirety of the Weißwasser cemetery with the following individual monuments: Expressionist cemetery chapel, Friedrich Froboeß tomb, memorial for the victims of fascism and the Second World War as well as the construction of the Soviet memorial (see also individual monuments 08975040 under the same address), the garden design (garden monument) and the cemetery as a material part ; Significant in terms of building history, local history and landscape design	09301342
	Expressionist cemetery chapel, Friedrich Froboess tomb, memorial for the victims of fascism and the Second World War, as well as the construction of the Soviet memorial (individual memorials for ID No. 09301342)	Forstweg 43 (map)	1928 (tomb); marked 1930 (cemetery chapel); 1974 (Memorial and Memorial to Soviet Citizens); 1979 (VdN / OdF)	Individual features of the collective cemetery Weißwasser; of importance in terms of building history and local history	08975040
	Residential and commercial building in closed development and corner location	Friedrich-Bodelschwingh-Strasse 1 (map)	Around 1905	Significant in terms of building history and urban development	09300102
	Apartment building in half-open development	Friedrich-Bodelschwingh-Strasse 8 (map)	Around 1900	Architecturally important	08975135
	Apartment building in half-open development	Friedrich-Bodelschwingh-Strasse 10 (map)	Around 1910	With shops that are important in terms of building history	08975841
More pictures	Department store in half-open development and corner location	Friedrich-Bodelschwingh-Strasse 14 (map)	1925	Reinforced concrete skeleton construction, historically important	08975111
	Residential house in semi-open development	Friedrich-Bodelschwingh-Strasse 17 (map)	Around 1908	Some of the original interior furnishings have been preserved, which is of architectural importance	08975840
	Kindergarten and crèche (Ulja-Kinderkombination) consisting of: three connected wings of the building, the outbuilding behind, fence and fountain ring with seal, plus the park-like area	Friedrich-Froebel-Strasse 1 (map)	1953	Of importance in terms of local and architectural history	08975842
	Small Gelsdorf villa	Friedrich-Froebel-Strasse 4 (map)	1908	Architectural and urban historical significance	08975041
	Scrap wood house	Gablenzer Weg 16 (map)	Around 1850	Architecturally important	08975043
	Forester's house	Gablenzer Weg 64 (map)	1930s	Significant in local history	08975181
	Residential building in closed development	Gartenstrasse 18 (map)	1911	Architecturally important	08975046
	Residential building in closed development	Gartenstrasse 20 (map)	Around 1910	Architecturally important	08975047
	Residential house in closed development and corner location	Gartenstrasse 22 (map)	Marked 1911	Striking building, corner tower with half-timbering, of importance in terms of building history and the appearance of the street	08975048
	Residential house in closed development and corner location	Gartenstrasse 24 (map)	Around 1910	Sophisticated, functional design with gables and balconies, important in terms of building history and the street scene	08975138
	Two apartment buildings in a residential complex	Gartenstrasse 25, 27 (map)	Around 1910	With company apartments for the Osram officials, building and local historical significance	08975171
	Residential building in closed development	Gartenstrasse 26 (map)	Around 1910	Significance in building history	08975139
	Residential building in closed development	Gartenstrasse 28 (map)	Around 1910	Reform style, important in terms of building history	08975049
	Residential building in closed development	Gartenstrasse 30 (map)	Around 1910	Reform style, important in terms of building history	08975050
	Residential house in half-open development and corner location	Gartenstrasse 32 (map)	Around 1910	Architecturally important	08975051
	Residential house in open development	Görlitzer Strasse 2 (map)	2nd half of the 19th century	Typical of the region, historical importance	09299795
	Residential house in semi-open development	Görlitzer Strasse 4 (map)	Around 1890	With store, architectural significance	08975052
	Volkshaus	Görlitzer Strasse 8 (map)	1928	The "Volkshaus" from 1928, the architect is the Poelzig student and Bauhaus syndic Emil Lange (1884–1968), consists of a five-story main building (residential and administrative building with a floor area of ​​approx. 12 × 22 m) and a hall extension with a three-story facade (approx . 18 × 35 m) and is one of the few regional examples of contemporary New Objectivity , sometimes also called "Red Modern" in the versions with dark clinker. The two-storey connecting building (approx. 5 × 22 m) was only built around 1960, but was adapted to the circumstances and is therefore part of post-war modernism. It follows the hall structure two-thirds deep. The floors of the main building - the upper one with a flat roof jumps back - are visually separated by plaster strips. The lying windows are divided into three parts above the ground floor and are flush with the wall according to the conception of the wall as a surface. In addition, a staircase risalit forms the facade in the golden ratio as a vertical element. The façade of the hall construction was probably changed together with the creation of the connecting structure; the enlarged middle row of windows with the characteristic 1960s sprouting has since marked the hall behind it. This hall is also kept in the style of that time, in the connecting building there is a staircase and a wall sculpture. In addition to its exemplary architectural and historical significance, the Volkshaus complex as a public focal point also has relevance to local and social history.	08975053
	villa	Görlitzer Strasse 18 (map)	Around 1920	In the reform style, architectural significance	08975054
	Residential house in open development and outbuildings	Görlitzer Strasse 36 (map)	Around 1905	Significance in building history	08975055
	Residential house in open development	Görlitzer Strasse 44 (map)	Around 1910	Architecturally important	08975189
More pictures	Residential house in open development	Görlitzer Strasse 48 (map)	Marked 1905	Significance in building history	08975129
	Residential house in open development	Gutenbergstrasse 1 (map)	Around 1900	Brick construction typical of the region, significance in terms of building history	08975155
	Residential house in open development	Gutenbergstrasse 2 (map)	Around 1905	Architecturally important	08975058
	Villa and Remise	Gutenbergstrasse 8 (map)	Around 1908	Significance in building history	08975059
More pictures	Railway house and outbuilding	Güterstrasse 1 (map)	Around 1890	Significance in terms of building history, local history and urban development	08975056
More pictures	Railway house	Güterstrasse 2 (map)	Around 1890	Significance in terms of building history and local history	08975150
More pictures	Railway house and stable and workshop building	Güterstrasse 3 (map)	Around 1890	Significance in terms of building history and local history	08975057
More pictures	Railway maintenance office with two outbuildings	Güterstrasse 4 (map)	Around 1900	The former railway maintenance facility 2 (inscription) is a brick building typical of the time (around 1900) and the type. The yellow bricks of the 1½-storey building were adorned with red ornaments, visible on the crowning of the segment-arched windows, on the pilaster strips marking the central axis of the facade, on the delimitation of the jamb floor with a kind of double German band, on the base of the building and on the Arched frieze under its very flat gable roof with overhang (so-called Swiss style). This ornamentation, which is comparatively elaborate for the "prosaic" purpose of the house, is characteristic of many railway and industrial buildings of that time and, although these are type buildings, illustrates the importance attached to them. Details such as the old window rungs and the wooden front door have been preserved. The two small outbuildings (probably laundry room and stable / shed) are also kept in the same style. Together with the four other main buildings on Güterstraße, the railway maintenance office shapes the core area of ​​the town created by the railway and is therefore one of its historical and visual “key buildings”.	08975151
More pictures	Railway house with adjoining outbuildings and residential buildings	Güterstrasse 5 (map)	Around 1890	The railway house has two floors and a jam zone and is characterized by the same (yellow) brick construction and the flat roof in the so-called Swiss style as the neighboring railway maintenance office, although this building is designed overall more simply. A lower annex for residential purposes with two further entrances is located perpendicular to the main building. The segmental arched windows with mostly original muntins, the stairwell outside the structure, authentic despite changes (some with blinds, front door), the building, along with the four other main buildings on Güterstraße, shapes the core area of ​​the town created by the railway and is therefore one of its historical and optical "key structures".	08975152
	Schrothholzwohnstallhaus	Halbendorfer Weg 17 (map)	After verbal advice from the owner around 1864	Structurally and socially important	08975060
	villa	Hegelpromenade 11 (map)	Around 1920	Villa with sophisticated neo-historical architecture in a development area from the early 20th century. Two-storey solid plastered building with a hipped roof and risalits on three sides, an extension with a terrace at the rear. The defining décor is the structure of pilasters and gable crowns. The language of form testifies to the dissolution or stylization of previously established historical elements that were often encountered after 1900: the "colossal orders" of the corner blocks, especially the "temple front" of the entrance, can be described as neoclassical, the arched central projection of the street facade as neo-baroque . The ornamentation of the building with stucco is comparatively complex, both outside and inside: it can be found on the central balcony, as a frame for the entrance and as a ceiling design in almost every room on the ground floor. Some ceiling stucco shapes already show the influence of Expressionism, which is why the dating of the building to around 1920 seems plausible. The “showpiece” of the interior is the staircase, which bends at right angles to the entrance axis, with a beautiful wooden staircase (the handrail pattern is repeated in the door to the arbor and demonstrates the quality of contemporary handicrafts) that literally “leads to the light”, ie to a large window and the room is covered by a “stucco sky”. This “staging” can also be called neo-baroque. The sequence of rooms from the (still originally tiled) vestibule via the central corridor (with staircase) to the largest (and most richly stuccoed) room, which culminates and ends in the balcony, is coherent and quite typical for a villa of the time. Structural history and architectural significance, high documentation value.	08975062
	Residential house in open development	Hegelpromenade 14 (map)	Around 1925	Demanding expressionist architecture in clinker brick and plaster, of importance in terms of building history	08975063
More pictures	Residential house in open development	Hermannsdorfer Strasse 1 (map)	Around 1880	Architecturally important	08975127
More pictures	Residential building	Hermannstrasse 52 (map)	Around 1905	Brick, historically important	08975166
More pictures	Residential building	Hermannstrasse 68 (map)	Around 1890	Brick, historically important	08975064
	Residential house in open development	Hermannstrasse 72 (map)	Around 1905	Brick, historically important	08975140
	Sculpture "Die Kesse"	Humboldtstrasse (map)	1962	Standing girl with arms braced in her sides, bronze sculpture by Dorothea von Philipsborn , possibly also called “Die Pfiffige”, artistically significant	08975132
More pictures	Semi-detached house in open development	Jahnstrasse 10, 12 (map)	Around 1912	Mansard roof and corner blocks, of architectural significance	08975067
More pictures	"Father Jahn" excursion restaurant	Jahnstrasse 50 (map)	Around 1900	Significance in terms of building history and local history	08975068
	Sculpture "apprentice glassblower", in the relevant vocational school behind a glass window with an engraving of a glassblower	Jahnstrasse 55b (map)	1952/53	Both works of art based on designs by Konrad Tag (1904–54), local historical and artistic significance	09301513
More pictures	Apartment building in open development	Jahnstrasse 69 (map)	Around 1905	Architecturally important	08975069
	Residential house in open development	Jahnstrasse 78 (map)	Around 1900	Typical of the region in terms of material and shape, significant in terms of building history	08975070
	Apartment building in open development	Jahnstrasse 79 (map)	1905/1910	Architecturally important	08975125
More pictures	Apartment building in open development	Jahnstrasse 92 (map)	Around 1905	With plaster and clinker design, relevance to building history	08975071
	Gate of the former cemetery of Weißwasser	Jahnstraße 92 (to) (map)	Around 1880	Technically important	08975072
	Apartment building in open development	Jahnstrasse 94 (map)	Around 1905	Building history relevance	08975073
	Memorial to Friedrich Ludwig Jahn	Jahnteich (map)	08/14/1906	Historically significant	08975074
	Villa with outbuildings and park with artificial ruins, plus marble stele	Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 1 (map)	Around 1900 (manufacturer's villa); around 1970 (building sculpture)	Belonged to the glass manufacturer Joseph Schweig, today a hospital, of architectural and local importance	08975076
More pictures	villa	Karl-Marx-Strasse 15 (map)	Around 1900	Elaborate Heimatstil, importance in terms of building history	08975077
More pictures	Residential house in semi-open development	Karl-Marx-Strasse 19 (map)	Around 1905	With shops that are important in terms of building history	08975078
More pictures	Hotel and restaurant in a closed building	Karl-Marx-Strasse 21 (map)	Around 1905	Representative, of importance in terms of building history and local history	08975079
More pictures	Residential house in open development	Karl-Marx-Strasse 22 (map)	Around 1890	With shops, architectural significance	08975148
More pictures	Residential house in open development	Karl-Marx-Strasse 26 (map)	2nd half of the 19th century	Brick, historically important	08975159
More pictures	Residential house in semi-open development	Karl-Marx-Strasse 27 (map)	Around 1905	With a store, important in terms of building history	08975080
More pictures	Gasthof Zur Friedenseiche with hall extension and shed	Käthe-Kollwitz-Strasse 3 (map)	Around 1850 (inn); Hall extension around 1920	Structurally and locally of importance	08975075
More pictures	Evangelical Cross Church and Luther Monument	Kirchstrasse (map)	1893 (church); 1917 (memorial stone)	Structurally and historically important	08975081
	Scrap wood side building	Kromlauer Weg 45 (map)	Before 1850	Partly brick, historically important	08975082
	Residential house in open development	Kromlauer Weg 54 (map)	Around 1900	Architecturally important	08975163
	Apartment building in half-open development	Krumme Strasse 35 (map)	1905/1910	Architecturally important	08975083
	House, side building and barn of a homestead	Lausitzer Strasse 14 (map)	According to information from 1902	Significant in terms of building history and economic history	08975084
More pictures	villa	Lessingstrasse 2 (map)	Marked 1905	Significant in terms of building history and the appearance of the street	08975085
More pictures	Residential house in open development	Luisenstrasse 4 (map)	1920s	Influence of the New Objectivity, significant in terms of building history	09299796
More pictures	Residential house in open development	Luisenstrasse 6 (map)	1920s	Influence of the New Objectivity, significant in terms of building history	08975032
More pictures	Residential house in open development	Luisenstrasse 7 (map)	Around 1900	Typical for the region in clinker brick, of architectural significance	08975086
	Residential house in open development	Luisenstrasse 8 (map)	Around 1910	Significance in building history	08975851
More pictures	Residential house in open development	Luisenstrasse 10 (map)	Around 1910	Without a rear annex, clinker brick with sandstone architectural elements, historically important	08975852
	"Sport" screen	Lutherstrasse (map)	1970s	By Herbert Burschik, artistically important	08975845
More pictures	Monument "Pillar of Friendship"	Lutherstrasse 22 (formerly Brunnenstrasse 6) (map)	1969	Sandstone, by Jürgen von Woyski , artistically significant	08975142
More pictures	Animal sculpture "goats"	Lutherstrasse 22 (map)	1960s	By Dorothea von Philipsborn , bronze on a stone base, artistically important, a double is in Hoyerswerda	08975844
More pictures	Memorial stone	Marketplace (map)	1893	Remnants of a former figure monument, of local significance	09301717
More pictures	Town hall and district court, courtyard surrounding building complex with all parts of the building	Marketplace 1 (map)	Inscribed 1911–1912	Structurally and locally of importance	08975131
	House in a corner	Mittelstrasse 1 (map)	Around 1905	Architecturally important	08975089
	Residential house in open development	Mittelstrasse 5 (map)	Around 1910	Villa-like building, historically important	08975090
	Apartment building in open development	Mittelstrasse 8 (map)	Around 1910	Architecturally important	08975091
	Residential house in open development	Mühlenstrasse 27 (map)	Around 1920	Significance in building history	08975165
More pictures	Residential house in open development	Mühlenstrasse 31 (map)	Marked 1911	Significance in building history	08975133
More pictures	Former inn "Zum Grünen Wald" in open development	Mühlenstrasse 32 (map)	Around 1908	In the Heimatstil, architectural and local history of importance	08975164
More pictures	Memorial to the dead in the concentration camp	Muskauer Strasse (map)	After 1945	Concrete casting, motif of a Pieta, by Gustav Seitz , artistically and historically important	08975161
	Residential and commercial building in closed development and corner location	Muskauer Strasse 73 (map)	Around 1905	Significant in terms of building history and urban development	08975092
	Residential and commercial building in closed development	Muskauer Strasse 77 (map)	After 1900	Architecturally important	08975624
	movie theater	Muskauer Strasse 79 (map)	Around 1900	Erected as the ballroom of the “Zur Krone” inn around 1900 with arched windows and curved gables in the newly created station district, the building was converted into a movie theater very early, probably after the First World War. The building thus housed one of the first theaters of this type in Saxony. A redesign of the building took place around 1930 (this is suggested by the design language, but possibly only after the Second World War). The arched windows were added, the structure was provided with a pilaster structure and the gable was designed as an expressionist umbrella facade. In 1948 the movie theater was called "Gloria", later "Kristall". The stage inside has been preserved. There was also a porch facing Muskauer Strasse, which housed the projectionist's room, the cinema entrance was redesigned in the area of ​​the hotel with a "flying roof" but supported by two round pillars (now lost). The building as a former cinema is one of the last of its kind in Saxony. In addition to the rarity, there is the fact that it is still present in the general consciousness in its former function and is increasingly known among experts (e.g. as the subject of a dissertation).	08975771
	Residential house in half-open development and corner location	Muskauer Strasse 83 (map)	Around 1920	Representative building of the reform style, historical and urban value	08975093
	villa	Muskauer Strasse 100, 102 (map)	Around 1910	Historicizing in the Heimat style, wooden porch at the entrance, of architectural significance	08975094
	villa	Muskauer Strasse 113 (map)	Around 1910	Historicizing in the Heimat style, architectural significance	08975095
	Turnerheim, ticket booth and wall to the sports field	Muskauer Strasse 120 (map)	Marked 1927	Significant in terms of building history, social history and local history	08975096
	Side building	Muskauer Strasse 122 (map)	Probably 1930s	Upper floor half-timbered, presumably a testimony to the Heimatstil concept of the 1930s, of architectural significance	08975097
	Two apartment buildings	Neuteichweg 3, 5, 7 (map)	Around 1930	Social housing, of importance in terms of building history and social history	08975099
	Residential house in open development	Neuteichweg 12 (map)	Around 1910	Brick architecture typical of the region, of architectural significance	08975100
	Residential house in open development	Neuteichweg 16 (map)	Around 1900	Architecturally important	08975167
	Residential house in open development	Oststrasse 1 (map)	Around 1908	Clinker brick construction, of architectural significance	08975192
	Mural made of painted tiles	Prof. Wagenfeld Ring 44 (map)	Around 1970	Sorbs are shown in their work and their customs (craftsmen in front of the Boxberg power station and a farmer in front of an LPG ). Monumental art played a major role in places like Weißwasser and Hoyerswerda, which were defined by large industries (Weißwasser with Boxberg power station and glass industry), and in the design of public buildings (here: department store). The mural is less important for artistic reasons than as a testimony to the specific everyday culture of that time; it is already a rarity, as a large part of such GDR relics has now disappeared. The picture was created on ceramic panels that Dressler had made in Meißen . One of the ceramic plates bears his signature. The mural was painted over in December 1993 when a discount drugstore moved into the building. After protests against this “art theft” , the ceramics were cleaned again.	08975144
	Residential house in semi-open development	Pushkinstrasse 4 (map)	Around 1905	Demanding brick architecture, significant in terms of building history	08975101
	Schrothholzhaus and side building	Qualisch 26 (card)	Around 1870 (residential building); after 1900 (side building)	Significant in terms of building history and economic history	08975003
	Scrap wood house and side building	Qualisch 38 (card)	Before 1850 (house); around 1900 (side building)	Significant in terms of building history and economic history	08975174
	Schrothholzwohnstallhaus	Qualisch Nord 26 (map)	Around 1850	Significant in terms of building history and economic history	08975004
	Scrap wood house	Qualisch Ost 10 (map)	Around 1850	Significant in terms of building history and economic history	08975002
	Residential house in open development and fencing	Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse 10 (map)	1936	Clinker brick building of the New Objectivity, architect Ernst Neufert , of significance in terms of architectural history	08975102
	villa	Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse 11 (map)	Around 1920	Architecturally important	08975103
More pictures	School complex with all structures: main building as a front building with main viewing side, angled wings and connecting passage, the villa behind it, the long single-storey structure above the villa, the transformer house in the lower part of the property, the concrete sculpture "Colleagues at the Glass Melt", the enclosing wall and the park-like designed terrain	Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse 29 (Berliner Strasse 1) (map)	1890s (factory owner's villa); 1950s (college); 1955 concrete sculpture (group of figures)	Engineering school for glass technology, of importance in terms of building history and local history	08975149
More pictures	Residential house in open development and corner location	Schillerstrasse 1 (map)	1935	Former official residence. The red brick building is historically significant due to the influence of the New Objectivity. The corners rounded on two sides (popular “ship metaphor”) turn the house into a kind of sculpture, while the ribbon windows, which are almost flush with the wall, transform the walls into a surface. The beautiful abstract reliefs that are formed in the brick wall also show the high level of design effort. Only the "conventional" sloping hipped roof does not fit properly and is probably due to the premises of the 1930s. Only the stairs inside have been preserved during the construction period.	08975847
More pictures	villa	Schillerstraße 4 (map)	Around 1910	Architecturally important	08975104
More pictures	Inn in open development and corner location	Schulze-Delitzsch-Strasse 1 (map)	Marked 1914	Significance in terms of building history and local history	08975134
More pictures	Residential house in open development	Unit 1 Street (Map)	Around 1900	Accentuated by the corner tower, of architectural significance	08975158
	Special glass factory with all street-side, brick-facing or plastered buildings up to the confluence of the street An der Hopfenblüte, in the inner courtyard area of ​​the factory the two buildings of the piston tank 2 and the front chimney with a decorated base as well as the research tank	Unit 2 Street (Map)	Buildings accompanying the road from 1900, piston pan around 1923, sharp corner in the 1920s	Piston tub 2 functional, sophisticated industrial architecture from the 1920s made of brick, research tub with reinforced concrete skeleton, significance in terms of local and industrial history	08975105
	Four factory workers' houses	Unit street 5, 7, 11, 13 (map)	Around 1890	Built for the workers of Osram , of local and social historical importance as well as urban planning	08975143
	Tenement house for Osram employees	Unit Street 17, 19 (map)	Around 1905	Sophisticated decor, architectural and urban significance	08975106
	Apartment house in open development and corner location	Unit 21 Street (Map)	Around 1905	Architecturally important	08975107
	Residential house in open development	Street of the Glassmakers 1 (Map)	Around 1910	With a neo-classical facade, architectural significance	08975108
	Residential building in closed development	Street of Glassmakers 18 (map)	Around 1910	Architecturally important	08975109
	Apartment building in half-open development	Street of Glassmakers 20 (map)	Around 1910	Image-defining, architectural significance	08975110
	Mural	Strasse der Jugend 37 (formerly) (map)	627075	The 6 m × 12 m, monumental mural from 1986 by the artist Giorgios Wlachopoulos (born 1939), made of colored ceramic plates, attached to the front of the school auditorium (the school itself is not a cultural monument), is of historical and artistic value and one of the rarer examples of art in the public space of the GDR. "Joie de vivre", as a desired topic related to the school location, consists of the representation of bands of swinging dancers, the central figure does this in front of an orange-red sun ball. The “swing path” is also shown and divides the head end of the auditorium dynamically, also by means of light-dark gradations of the small slabs. The movement is “materialized” in this way, a request that has its roots in Italian futurism and Russian cubo-futurism of the 1910s. As is often the case with the genre, the later Spanish and Mexican monumental art as well as Picasso were the godfathers. “Joie de vivre” has a very high level of abstraction, which, apart from the title, sets it apart from the series of comparable examples, the subject of which is often kitsch. The mural made of ceramic panels was formerly on the front wall of the school auditorium. After their demolition, the concrete slabs were sawed up and improperly stored outdoors. In 2018 it was supposed to be installed at the back of a car dealership.	08975146
	Residential building in closed development	Road of Peace 9 (map)	Marked 1910	Stately three-storey building in reform style, of architectural significance	08975112
	Residential building in closed development	Road of Peace 10 (map)	Around 1905	Late historical significance in terms of building history	08975113
	Residential house in half-open development and corner location	Road of Peace 12 (map)	Around 1905	Architecturally important	08975114
More pictures	Administration building of the public utility company, transformer house and the remainder of a factory hall at the back	Street of Peace 13, 15, 16, 17, 19 (map)	Around 1890 (factory hall); around 1920 (administration building)	Of local and architectural significance	08975145
	school-building	Road of Peace 14 (map)	1903-1904	Clinker brick, very representative in neo-Gothic forms, of architectural and local importance. After renovation in 2003, the building was converted into the city library.	08975115
More pictures	Residential house in semi-open development	Teichstrasse 14 (map)	Around 1900	Clinker brick with plaster structure, of importance in terms of building history	08975185
More pictures	Residential house in open development	Teichstrasse 48 (map)	Around 1890	Built in the Swiss style, architectural significance	08975117
	Relief "fox and raven in the tree"	Teichstrasse 49 (near) (map)	Probably 1970s	Relief on the entrance building to the zoo, artistically important	09301514
	Animal sculpture "team"	Teichstrasse 56 (map)	1985	From Jürgen von Woyski , artistically important	08975849
More pictures	barn	Teichstrasse 94 (map)	Mid 19th century	With scrap wood base and half-timbered structure, significance in terms of architectural history in the context of folk architecture	08975118
	Scrap wood house	Tiergartenstrasse 1 (map)	Around 1840	Relic of rural architecture in a changed environment, of architectural significance	08975030
	Cottage property	Tiergartenstrasse 4 (map)	After 1850	Partly scrap wood, part half-timbered, of architectural significance	08975119
	Cottage property	Tiergartenstrasse 8 (map)	Around 1850	Partly scrap wood, historically important	08975120
	Residential house (so-called gatehouse) of the Weißwasser zoo and outbuildings	Tiergartenstrasse 52 (map)	Around 1850	Significant in terms of building history and economic history	08975182
	Woodhouse	Weißkeißeler Weg (map)	1943-1945	So-called makeshift home, Reich unit type of the German Housing Relief Agency (DWH), moved here approx. 1965, the only surviving testimony to the housing emergency program towards the end of the Second World War in Weißwasser, significance in terms of contemporary and architectural history and rarity	09306565
	Scrap wood barn and side building of a farm	Weißkeißeler Weg 31 (map)	Around 1850	Significant in terms of building history and economic history	08975173
More pictures	Residential house in open development	Wendensteg 9 (map)	Around 1890	Simple brick construction typical of the region, of architectural significance	08975180
More pictures	Residential house in open development	Wolfgangstrasse 9 (map)	Around 1905	Simple brick architecture typical of the region, significant in terms of building history	08975123
More pictures	Residential house in open development	Wolfgangstrasse 13 (map)	Around 1905	Simple brick architecture typical of the region, significant in terms of building history	08975124

Deletions from the list of monuments

 Map with all coordinates of the section deletions from the list of monuments : OSM

image	designation	location	Dating	description	ID
	Residential house in open development	Berliner Strasse 35 (map)	Probably before 1900	Structurally important; demolished around 2013	08975187
More pictures	Weidmannsruh Inn	Görlitzer Strasse 27 (map)	Around 1910	Removed from the list of monuments after 2014	08975853
	Bear hut	Neuteichweg 4, 6, 8 (map)	Marked 1928	Demolished at the end of 2008	08975169
	Residential building	Neuteichweg 18 (map)	Around 1910	Removed from the list of monuments	08975168
More pictures	Residential house with outbuildings	Schulstrasse 18 (map)	Around 1910	Removed from the list of monuments	08975848
More pictures	Tiergarten with path system and avenue	Teichstrasse 56 (map)	Created in 1780	Central part as an English park with deciduous trees, plus pathways in the entire zoo including the partly one-sided avenue An der Rennbahn, which leads to the park significant; Removed from the list of monuments after 2014	08975001
More pictures	villa	Uhlandstrasse 7 (map)	Around 1910	Removed from the list of monuments	08975121

Remarks

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• The official list of cultural monuments is never closed. It is permanently changed through clarifications, new additions or deletions. A transfer of such changes to this list is not guaranteed at the moment.
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Detailed memorial texts

1. ↑ The Weißwasser station is located on the Berlin-Görlitz railway line built between 1866 and 1867 by the Berlin-Görlitzer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft and was opened at the end of 1867. For the economic upturn in the region, which is rich in clay, quartz sand, wood and coal, but relatively remote, this traffic development was the key. It was only through the railway connection that Weißwasser was able to develop into a center of the glassmaking industry. Therefore, the station can be assigned a significance in terms of urban and industrial history. In spite of structural changes to the entrance situation, the reception building also has a great design similarity to the reception buildings of the train stations in Spremberg and Königs Wusterhausen (Brandenburg), which are also located on the Berlin-Görlitz route. Since all the buildings were built by the same company, it can be assumed that the design specifications for the larger stations on this route will be uniform. This is why the reception building in Weißwasser is not only important in terms of architectural history, but also as an expression of an early “corporate identity”. Since the reception building in Königs Wusterhausen was only built in this form in 1893 and replaced a previous half-timbered building from 1865/1866, the conclusion that the present reception building also dates from the 1890s and replaced a smaller station building from 1869.
   
   Finally, Weißwasser station is of importance in terms of the history of railways and technology as a relatively small but easily legible operating facility for passenger and freight rail traffic. The various structural and technical functional units that were necessary for the operational processes in a train station with a locomotive station in the 19th and early 20th centuries have been preserved here. Since steam locomotives had a specific home location at that time and, in contrast to the wagons, mostly only drove on narrowly limited routes, smaller maintenance stations were required away from the larger railway depots. The roundhouse, the track feed to the locomotive stands there, including the well-preserved turntable, and the remains of the coaling system, the water crane and the purification systems document the most basic operating units for the maintenance and supply of consumables for steam locomotives.
   
   The dimensions of the turntable and locomotive shed also allow conclusions to be drawn about the size of the locomotives that were still in use around Weißwasser after 1914. From 1906 turntable diameters of 20 meters were technically possible, but the turntable built in 1914 was only designed with a diameter of approx. 18 meters. Even after at least one expansion, the 24-meter-deep locomotive shed could house a maximum of 20-meter-long locomotives due to the required distance of 2 meters from each end wall. The wheelbase of the (tender) locomotives had to remain under 18 meters due to the turntable dimensions.
   
   The two completely preserved water cranes from the Schafstädt ironworks, on the other hand, are evidence of the need to refill steam locomotives during their temporary stay at the station. They are functionally related to the water tower, also preserved at the station (individual monument 08975012). Even if several of these technical facilities have been preserved in Saxon train stations to this day, they are sometimes the last and most conspicuous, in their current inoperability, almost sculptural testimonies of the era of steam locomotives. Finally, the two signal boxes at Weißwasser train station are not only the final testimonies to the setting of the points and signals that were once carried out on site, but also represent the further architectural development of a building project based on the function. If the interlocking 1 still shows design ideas of the homeland security, the interlocking 3 is a simple but high quality functional building from the era of objectivity.
   
   There is a great deal of public interest in maintaining the above-mentioned facilities at Weißwasser station due to their high scientific and documentary value, but also because of their value as an experience and reminder during the period of railway traffic with steam locomotives.
2. ↑ Neufert-Bau :
   The six-storey functional building is a design by the architect Ernst Neufert, who trained at the Bauhaus in Weimar and worked in close collaboration with Walter Gropius , who was the house architect of the United Lusatian Glass Works from 1934 to 1944 . Neufert's search for rationalization options in the building industry, which in addition to the design of a serial single-family house for himself at the beginning of his career, above all led to the standard work “Bauentwurfslehre”, which is still valid today, also shapes the facade of the warehouse in Weißwasser. The functionality of the load-bearing steel skeleton is not only made visible in the facade, but also serves as a basic system of organization. The appearance of the building is shaped by a row of similar brick fields that can be extended upwards and to the side. Each field has a light opening in the same place, only the field size varies in a few places, presumably due to internal necessities. The little overhanging roof obviously only had a weather protection function. A continuous strip of light with glass blocks on the north gable and, in a modified form, also on the south gable shows the approach of a creative accentuation. At the rear, the storage building uses the fabric of an older factory, the yellow clinker bricks of which have been incorporated into the new building up to the upper edge of the ground floor. The interior is characterized by a closely spaced grid of steel columns on which the joists with system ceilings in reinforced concrete construction with underlying brickwork rest. The warehouse was built between 1935 and 1937 on a site that had previously been a disused and subsequently demolished glass furnace building belonging to the United Lusatian Glass Works. After the Second World War, offices were created in the former warehouse, which initially housed the main office of the trade organization of the Weißwasser district. From 1952 the office of the Association of Mutual Farmers Aid / Farmers' Trade Cooperative used the premises. The wholesale administration of the consumer association and the police station of the city of Weißwasser moved in later, and the building has been empty since 1990. When it was built in the later 1930s, it represents an important example of factory construction during the Nazi era. According to the architectural theory propagated at the time, the functional buildings for production were the only area in which the objective architectural language of the Bauhaus and its successors was justified. The building is also closely interwoven with the development of the local glass industry and, with its prominent location in the city, indicates this historical importance.
3. ↑ Gelsdorfhütte :
   The ruinous hut building made of brick masonry and partly preserved gable roof as well as remnants of the former technical equipment inside has a structural peculiarity on the gable sides. Here, the food necessary for the ovens inside the building was integrated into the gable walls as pilaster strips and, in addition to various cornices and toothed friezes, thus structuring the large facade surfaces in a visually appealing way. This is reinforced by the two-tone nature of the bricks used, the pilaster strips are made of yellow bricks and the recessed façade surfaces are made of red bricks. The food heads also form a kind of stepped gable. The central glass furnace inside was only partially removed, and the wagon train and tempering furnaces on both gable sides and the associated tracks are essentially still there.
   
   At the northern gable is an extension with a pent roof, designed analogously to the hut building, which originally housed a batch chamber and integration room. An extension made of yellow bricks, originally fitted with a flat gable roof, was added to the west in 1919 and served as a warehouse.
   
   On the south side of the warehouse there is a round brick chimney with a square base, the crown of which has been removed in the course of security measures in the recent past. In terms of design, it is characterized by a band of dark bricks running around the shaft of yellow bricks in a spiral shape.
   
   The remains of the gas generation plant are located to the west of the hut building. Its building shell has fallen into disrepair in the above-ground area except for the surrounding walls and the ground floor ceiling, but the technical systems are still in a legible condition, such as the charging funnel in the ground floor ceiling or the five step grate generators on the system level below. The masonry gas ducts, hidden under a fill, lead from the gas generation plant to the hut building.
   
   As the oldest glassworks in Weißwasser, the so-called "Gelsdorfhütte" was the starting point for the development of Weißwasser into a globally important center of industrial glass production and thus has a high industrial, urban and regional historical significance. The Siemens stair grating system is also of technical historical importance and is a rarity in Germany. Due to its building shell, which was designed in a manner typical of the time, but provided with functional refinements, the production hall continues to be relevant to the history of the building. Overall, despite its ruinous condition, which in no way restricts the urban dominance of the complex, the “Gelsdorfhütte” has a high level of experience and memorable value, and its continued preservation is in the public interest.
   
   History of the Gelsdorfhütte:
   The first Weißwasser glassworks - hence later popularly called the "oldest" - was founded in 1872 by Görlitz merchants under the name "Zwahr, Neubauer & Co.", but had to file for bankruptcy again in 1876. In 1877 Wilhelm Gelsdorf, a glassworks master and entrepreneur from Silesia, joined the works as a partner, which now operated under the name “Gelsdorf, Neubauer & Co.”. He transformed the company into a modern glass manufacturing company and was one of the first to introduce regenerative gas firing with lignite in the form of a Siemens step grate generator to fire the existing glass furnaces.
   
   After sheet glass for windows, Parisian lampshades and various hollow glass products were initially manufactured in the glassworks, the range of the company now known as “Gelsdorfhütte” also included lighting fixtures and cylinders for petroleum and gas lighting systems. The first sales market was Berlin, with the marriage of the Hamburg glass wholesaler Adolf Ladiges into the Gelsdorf family in 1885, other markets were opened up. In 1892 Gelsdorf took over the growing company completely and changed the company name to "Glaswerke Wilhelm Gelsdorf & Co.". Gelsdorf's son Edmund joined the company in 1905 as commercial and technical manager. At that time, the glassworks mass-produced (cylinder) glass items for petroleum, gas or electric lighting, but also manufactured more special glassware, such as chalice sets, mug sets, beer mugs, jugs and carafes, flacons or ink glasses, and offered various types of glass finishing such as B. gold and silver prints, sandblasting decorations, cuts, engravings, painting or etching.
   
   With the death of Wilhelm Gelsdorf in 1908, his widow Emilie initially took over the management, before her son Edmund, who died in 1916, became the managing partner of the company, which had been operating as "Glaswerke Gelsdorf GmbH Weißwasser O / L" since 1911. The "Gelsdorfhütte" was able to overcome the operational restrictions of the First World War quickly and in 1922 it was the third largest glassworks in Weißwasser. During the Second World War, Edmund Gelsdorf's critical attitude towards the NSDAP had a negative effect on the company. In contrast to other glassworks, it hardly received any production orders for war-relevant glass products, such as B. Glass body for land mines. In 1943, a fully automatic machine for glass production that had previously been acquired was confiscated and added to another glassworks. Together with the breakdown of international sales, this ultimately led to the closure of the “Gelsdorfhütte” in 1944.
   
   After the end of the war, the largely intact glassworks was transferred to public ownership and incorporated into the “VEB Oberlausitzer Glashüttenwerke”. After a short period of use as a teaching facility, the kilns were finally shut down and the kiln buildings 2 and 3 were demolished in 1966. The area is today due to the long period of non-use and recapture by vegetation and the damage caused by Hurricane Kyrill in 2007 mainly caused by the roofing.
4. ↑ Holzhaus Weißkeißeler Weg :
   So-called makeshift home, moved here around 1965, the only surviving testimony to the housing emergency program of the Second World War in Weißwasser, significance in terms of contemporary and architectural history and rarity. Wood panel construction (wood wool-gypsum lightweight panels) with a floor area of ​​around 20 m² (5.10 × 4.10 m), interior division into two rooms in a ratio of 60:40, central entrance, flanked by a window opening with shutters, lengthways boarded outer walls, Flat pitched monopitch roof protruding far to the front. Original inventory around 90 percent, the wall-opening ratio differs slightly from the project structure. Principle of the Doecker barracks, similar to the series house “Der kleine Christoph” from the Niesky company Christoph & Unmack . This makeshift home embodies the Reich unit type 001 (of the German Housing Relief Agency of Reich Housing Commissioner Robert Ley ), which was intended to remedy the housing shortage by bombing it and was designed from 1943 by Paul Spiegel from the German Academy for Housing, a competitor of Ernst Neufert. The planned construction of one million of these makeshift homes across Germany got stuck at around 77,000. They should stand together in groups of around 20 and include intensive garden use. One such settlement stood in Weißwasser on the Neue Heide, where this house was also erected, probably in the summer of 1944.

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• List of listed monuments of the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony, as of April 15, 2014
• Monument map of Saxony , accessed on April 16, 2019
• Technical concept for urban development and monument preservation. (PDF; 8.9 MB) In: Integrated Urban Development Concept (InSEK 2011) with partial update 2015, point 4.1. Large district town Weißwasser & Planungsgruppe Petrick GmbH, June 15, 2015, pp. 36–58 , accessed on April 17, 2019 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Görlitz district geoportal. In: gis-lkgr.de. District Office Görlitz, accessed on April 18, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Werner Schubert: For 100 years in Weißwasser. In: Lausitzer Rundschau. May 5, 2005, accessed on February 1, 2012 (Die Geschichte der Schillerbank). 
3. ↑ Angelika Brinkop: Weißwasser renovates Schillerbank. In: Lausitzer Rundschau. November 11, 2005, accessed February 1, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Ingolf sealed Ätsch: ERDF - a boon for white water. In: Lausitzer Rundschau. December 8, 2006, accessed February 1, 2012 . 
5. ↑ The mural “Minute” is by Dieter Dressler. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . January 21, 2010, accessed February 1, 2012 . 
6. ^ Daniel Preikschat: Monument continues to rot. In: Lausitzer Rundschau. July 22, 2015, accessed November 10, 2015 . 
7. ↑ Weißwasser gets rid of eyesore. In: Lausitzer Rundschau. November 17, 2017, accessed April 17, 2019 . 
8. ^ History of the city library on the website of the city of Weißwasser
9. ↑ Görlitz district geoportal. In: gis-lkgr.de. District Office Görlitz, accessed on April 18, 2019 . 

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