Schönbach (Saxony)

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Schönbach (Saxony)
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Schönbach highlighted

Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′  N , 14 ° 34 ′  E

Basic data
State : Saxony
County : Goerlitz
Management Community : Neusalza-Spremberg
Height : 378 m above sea level NHN
Area : 9.1 km 2
Residents: 1090 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 120 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 02708
Area code : 035872
License plate : GR, LÖB, NOL, NY, WSW, ZI
Community key : 14 6 26 510
Address of the
municipal administration:
Löbauer Str. 4
02708 Schönbach
Website : www.gemeinde-schoenbach.de
Mayor : Uwe Petruttis
Location of the community Schönbach in the district of Görlitz
Bärwalder See Berzdorfer See Talsperre Quitzdorf Talsperre Quitzdorf Polen Tschechien Landkreis Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge Bad Muskau Beiersdorf Bernstadt a. d. Eigen Herrnhut Bertsdorf-Hörnitz Boxberg/O.L. Boxberg/O.L. Dürrhennersdorf Ebersbach-Neugersdorf Kottmar (Gemeinde) Gablenz (Oberlausitz) Görlitz Görlitz Groß Düben Groß Düben Großschönau (Sachsen) Großschweidnitz Hähnichen Hainewalde Herrnhut Hohendubrau Horka Jonsdorf Kodersdorf Königshain Krauschwitz (Sachsen) Kreba-Neudorf Lawalde Leutersdorf (Oberlausitz) Löbau Markersdorf (Sachsen) Markersdorf (Sachsen) Mittelherwigsdorf Mücka Mücka Neißeaue Neusalza-Spremberg Kottmar (Gemeinde) Niesky Kottmar (Gemeinde) Oderwitz Olbersdorf Oppach Ostritz Oybin Quitzdorf am See Reichenbach/O.L. Rietschen Rosenbach Rothenburg/Oberlausitz Schleife (Ort) Schönau-Berzdorf auf dem Eigen Schönbach (Sachsen) Schöpstal Seifhennersdorf Reichenbach/O.L. Trebendorf Trebendorf Vierkirchen (Oberlausitz) Waldhufen Weißkeißel Weißwasser/Oberlausitz Zittau Zittau Landkreis Bautzen Brandenburgmap
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Schönbach ( Upper Lusatian : Schimmch , Upper Sorbian Šumbach ) is a Saxon municipality in the district of Görlitz , in south-east Saxony near the border with northern Bohemia ( Czech Republic ).

Geography and traffic

Schönbach village center from the direction of Beiersdorf
View from Lochberg to Schönbach

The community of Schönbach is located in the southwestern part of the district, just under 10 kilometers southwest of Löbau in the Lusatian mountains . The federal highway 96 and the railway line (Dresden) –Bischofswerda – Zittau run south of the community.

The 12-kilometer-long Taubenheim – Dürrhennersdorf narrow-gauge railway ran through Schönbach from 1892 to 1945 . It led from Taubenheim / Spree via Oppach to Dürrhennersdorf .

history

On May 1, 1306, Schönbach was first mentioned in a document as the "Sconenbuch". The name means something like "beautiful beeches by the stream". The place itself is likely to be at least 100 years older, because Franconian immigrants settled the Upper Lusatia area around 1200. As of 1419, the place was subordinate to the town of Löbau as a council village. Since 1600 there were two manors (Oberbach and Niederschönbach). Around 1860 the regular mail service began with the stagecoach on the Löbau – Schönbach – Neusalza-Spremberg route .

Place name forms

1306: Sconenbuch, 1336/59: Schon (en) buch, 1419: Schonenbuch, 1495: Schonebach, 1499: Schonbach, 1502: Schonbuch, 1519: Schonenbuch, 1547: Schumbach, 1657: Schönbach, 1791: Ober-, Nieder-Schönbach , 1875: Schönbach b. Neusalza

Administrative affiliation

1777: Bautzen district, 1843: Löbau district court, 1856: Neusalza court office , 1875: Löbau district administration , 1952: Löbau district , 1994: Löbau-Zittau district, 2008: Görlitz district

Population development

year Residents
1547 49 possessed man
1777 27 possessed men,
25 gardeners, 80 cottagers
1834 1,365
1871 1,632
1890 1,656
1910 1,899
1925 1,803
1939 1,684
1946 2,050
1950 2,166
1964 1,958
1990 1,570
2000 1,418
2007 1,322
2009 1,276
2012 1,167
2013 1,172
2014 1,152
2015 1,133

politics

City council election 2019
Turnout: 70.4%
 %
60
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
23.5%
53.5%
n. k.
18.5%
4.5%
FdF
RuK
Gains and losses
compared to 2009
 % p
 12
 10
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-10
-12
-11.7  % p
+ 10.8  % p
-2.6  % p
-1.0  % p
+ 4.5  % p
FdF
RuK

Since the municipal council election on May 26, 2019 , the 12 seats of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

  • Friends of the Fire Brigade (FdF): 7 seats
  • CDU : 3 seats
  • Region and Culture (RuK): 2 seats

Mayor Uwe Petruttis was re-elected in June 2015.

Culture and sights

Half-timbered house in Neudorf
Schönbach Manor

The cultural monuments are recorded in the list of cultural monuments in Schönbach (Saxony) .

The church with its bronze bells, the thatched timber-framed house in Niederdorf, the disused quarry and the historic stone saw in Neudorf deserve special mention .

The Schönbach Flower Festival

In the years 1955 to 1958 four “flower festivals” were organized. After 70,000 guests in 1956 and around 100,000 guests in 1957, in 1958 over 130,000 guests enjoyed the floats decorated with a multitude of colorful flowers , each of which embodied a theme. The event was soon too big and apolitical for the authorities. In October 1958, the end of the event was heralded at the culture conference in Magdeburg . In 2006, a flower festival was held again on the occasion of the 700th anniversary.

Economy and Infrastructure

Various companies are based in Schönbach; ALSA GmbH produced insoles until 2009, while Temedia specializes in medical bandages and compresses. The headquarters of Möbel Starke and a production facility of Gebr. Frindt GmbH are also worth mentioning.

Personalities

literature

  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Schönbach. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 34. Issue: Official Authority Löbau . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1910, p. 533.

Web links

Commons : Schönbach (Sachsen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
  2. www.oberlausitzer-woerterbuch.de
  3. Schönbach in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  4. Results of the 2019 municipal council elections
  5. https://www.statistik.sachsen.de/wpr_alt/pkg_s10_bmlr.prc_erg_bm_a?p_bz_bzid=BM151&p_ebene=GE&p_ort=14626510