Altcunnewitz

Altcunnewitz City of Löbau Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 35 "  N , 14 ° 41 ′ 52"  E
Postal code :	02708
Area code :	03585
Location of Altcunnewitz in the area of ​​the city of Löbau

Altcunnewitz ( Upper Sorbian Stara Chójnica ) is a district of the Saxon town of Löbau in the district of Görlitz in Upper Lusatia . The place is in the north of the Löbauer urban area and belonged to the Lautitz community until 1994 .

year	Residents
1777	7 gardeners, 6 cottagers
1834	107
1870	112
1890	120

history

Altcunnewitz originated as a dead end village and was first mentioned in 1486 as Kunewicz . The founding time of the place is not determined. In 1538 the name changed to Konewitz , in 1791 a distinction is made between the villages of Alt- and Neu-Cunnewitz. The manor was incumbent on the Lautitz manor, ecclesiastically Altcunnewitz is subordinate to the Kittlitz Church . In the 18th century there were seven small farmers and 4 cottagers who lived on agriculture and cattle breeding. It was not until 1864 that some residents were able to replace their official duties in return for cash payments and acquire their own land.

Already before the Second World War, Altcunnewitz was administratively part of Lautitz. On March 1, 1994 Lautitz and its districts Alt- and Neucunnewitz and Mauschwitz were incorporated into Kittlitz. With the incorporation of Kittlitz into the city of Löbau on January 1, 2003, Altcunnewitz also came to Löbau and since the reorganization of the Löbau urban area on July 7, 2011, it has been one of 23 Löbau districts.

Neucunnewitz district

Neucunnewitz is located about 1 kilometer east of Altcunnewitz on the important Hohe Landstrasse , which already connected southern and central Germany with Wroclaw in the Middle Ages. From 1815 this old post road was the border between Saxony and Prussia , whereby a large part of the goods traffic to the southern Upper Lusatia was handled via the border and post station Neucunnewitz located on Saxon territory. In addition, there was a Vorwerk in the village , whose former owner, the von Gersdorff family, is remembered by a coat of arms on the building. Gottlob Rudolph von Gersdorff had acquired the Cunnewitz estate in 1727.

Neucunnewitz later belonged to Lautitz like Altcunnewitz and was incorporated into Kittlitz in 1994. In 2003 the place became part of Löbau and has also officially been part of the large district town since 2011.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
2. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003
3. ↑ ^{a b} Overview map of the reorganization of the Löbau urban area ( memento of the original from September 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Altcunnewitz on the official homepage of the city of Löbau
• Neucunnewitz on the official homepage of the city of Löbau
• Altcunnewitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Neucunnewitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony