Löberitz
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Löberitz
City of Zörbig
Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 14 ″ N , 12 ° 9 ′ 9 ″ E
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| Residents : | 1003 (June 30, 2017) | |
| Incorporation : | March 1, 2004 | |
| Postal code : | 06780 | |
| Area code : | 034956 | |
Location of Löberitz in Saxony-Anhalt |
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Löberitz is a village in the town of Zörbig in the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district ( Saxony-Anhalt ).
Löberitz is one of the 18 places that together make up the city of Zörbig. It is located in the south of Saxony-Anhalt between Bitterfeld and Köthen .
geography
The source of the Fuhne is located near Löberitz . This tributary of the Saale and Mulde divides north of Zörbig and flows in two directions ( bifurcation ).
Löberitz has (2006) 1107 inhabitants. In 1989 there were still 1220. The village is 3.5 km northeast of the center of Zörbig. The districts of Löberitz, Rodigkau and Grötz belong to it.
politics
Since March 1, 2004 the local council has been the local council.
According to the area change agreement, Rolf Sonnenberger will be the mayor of the new town of Zörbig from March 1, 2004. In the mayoral election of April 24, 2005, he was confirmed in his office. Local mayor is Ms. Heidemarie Funke.
history
Löberitz, Rodigkau and Grötz belonged to the Zörbig Electoral Office until 1815 . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna they came to Prussia and were in 1816 the district Bitterfeld in the administrative district of Merseburg of Saxony Province allocated to which they belonged to the 1944th
On March 1, 2004, the former municipality of Löberitz was incorporated into the new unified municipality of Zörbig, together with the former municipalities of Spören , Göttnitz, Salzfurtkapelle, Schrenz and Stumsdorf.
Infrastructure
traffic
Löberitz is far from the main traffic. The place is 3 km west of the federal highway 9 ( Dessau - Weißenfels ) and 3.5 km north of the federal road 183 (Bitterfeld - Köthen).
Attractions
- see also the list of cultural monuments in Löberitz
church
The Löberitz Church, consecrated to St. Martin , was built in 1432. It is a single nave Gothic quarry stone building . The late Gothic font from 1576 is the oldest witness of this early construction period. It was not until 1599 that the completion of the broken stone and brick tower began. This transverse tower, completed in a westerly direction, was given its tented roof, which is typical to this day, in 1602 . In 1601 a two-storey gallery was built into the church interior to the west .
In 1963 and around the turn of the millennium (2000) renovations were carried out and in 1989 the interior of the church was rebuilt. Have been preserved in the presbytery the checkerboard arranged floor tiles.
museum
In Löberitz there is the Schachmuseum Löberitz , which is run by an association, the Schachgemeinschaft Löberitz from 1871 . It was opened on June 1, 2007 after several years of preparatory work.
memorial
The grave of an unknown concentration camp prisoner who was the victim of a death march in April 1945 is located in the local cemetery .
Other sights
Not far from Löberitz, but still on Zörbiger Flur and near the old trade route that leads from Zörbig to the northwest, lies the legendary Flinz or Teufelsstein . It is a block of granite from the Ice Age , which was used as a place of worship for the Sorbs , but also earlier for the Teutons . After Christianization , it is said to have served as a place of pilgrimage to Mary .
Events
Löberitz Chess Days. It is the largest regional chess event with a folk festival character and on the last weekend in June of each year it commemorates the founding of the oldest chess club in Saxony-Anhalt in 1871 by Friedrich Franz Ohme.
chess
The Löberitzer Schachclub , founded in 1871 and dissolved in 1914, was the oldest chess club in the state of Saxony-Anhalt. In 1874 Constantin Schwede, the publisher of the German Chess Newspaper , referred to Löberitz for the first time as a "chess village". In 1877 the Löberitzer Chess Club in Leipzig was one of the founding clubs of the German Chess Federation. Furthermore, the then Löberitz chess club founded the Saale Chess Federation on October 8, 1882 together with the chess clubs from Halle / Saale and Zörbig in Bettmanns Hotel / Zörbig as the predecessor of the State Chess Federation of Saxony-Anhalt.
Today's club Schachgemeinschaft 1871 Löberitz was founded in 1983 and was awarded the plaque of the Federal President ( Roman Herzog ) in 1996.
literature
- Konrad Reiß : Löberitz - a little retrospective on the occasion of the 800th anniversary. 2007
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The village of Löberitz on the website of the city of Zörbig
- ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 56 f.
- ^ The district of Bitterfeld in the municipality register 1900
- ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2004
- ↑ An overview of the Löberitz chess history , accessed on January 9, 2017.
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