Neusalza-Spremberg

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Neusalza-Spremberg
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Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′  N , 14 ° 32 ′  E

Basic data
State : Saxony
County : Goerlitz
Management Community : Neusalza-Spremberg
Height : 325 m above sea level NHN
Area : 22.91 km 2
Residents: 3300 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 144 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 02742
Area code : 035872
License plate : GR, LÖB, NOL, NY, WSW, ZI
Community key : 14 6 26 350
City structure: 4 districts

City administration address :
Kirchstrasse 17
02742 Neusalza-Spremberg
Website : www.neusalza-spremberg.de
Mayor : Matthias Lehmann ( CDU )
Location of the city of Neusalza-Spremberg in the district of Görlitz
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Neusalza-Spremberg ( Upper Lusatian : Neusaalz (-Spraamerch) or Sprembsch ) is a Saxon country town in the district of Görlitz , 20 km south of Bautzen and 26 km northwest of Zittau, right on the border with the Czech Republic ( Bohemia ).

geography

Geographical location

The city is located in the southeastern part of the Oberlausitzer Bergland . The urban area extends over an area of ​​around 23 km² at an average altitude of 325 m above sea level. On the east side, the city is bordered by the Spreepark , where the Spree has formed a kerbsohlental valley around the 340 m high Sternberg over millions of years . To the south and west of the city, extensive forest areas extend to the Czech border, which here forms the so-called Fugau tip .

Neusalza-Spremberg is surrounded by numerous granite / granodiorite hills, e.g. B .:

Elevation Height in m above sea level
Hahneberg 410.3
Fuchsberg 422.3
Sonneberg 401.0
Hänscheberg 393.1
Lindenberg 370.5
Wrought stones 359.5
Stadtberg 367.5
Güttlerbüschl 365.2
Hutzelberg 343.5
Kirchberg 341

The abundant occurrence of Lusatian granodiorite in the corridors of Neusalza-Spremberg resulted in the construction of quarries and the industrial extraction and processing of the rock in the 19th and 20th centuries. There are still relics of quarries on the Hutzel-, Hahne-, Hänsche-, Buch-, Stern- and Fuchsberg as well as two disused stone cutting shops of the former owners Lasco, Talstraße, Abzw. Lammweg and Knobloch, Sonnebergstraße. Both companies were affiliated to VEB Lausitzer Granit in Demitz-Thumitz in 1972 and became obsolete after the fall of the GDR in 1989/90.

Waters

The main waterway of the municipality is the Spree , which flows through Neusalza-Spremberg for a length of approx. 5 km and the district Friedersdorf for approx. 4 km. Your right tributaries of the Spree on Neusalza-Spremberger Flur are from east to west: Kothe (3.6 km) with Flössel (0.5 km) and Amselmühlgraben (1.25 km). Your left tributaries are from east to west: Forellenflössel (2.1 km), Sonnebergwasser or Neuspremberger Flössel (1.9 km) and Niederspremberger Feldbach (0.75 km).

Between the districts of Neuspremberg and Sonneberg, near the border with the Czech Republic , there is a real chain of ponds, whose ponds are referred to as follows from east to west: factory pond or flat pond , island pond and forest and adventure pool in the city, its predecessors from 1928 to 1934 was built, renovated several times during the GDR era and after the fall of the Wall, and reopened in 1995. Behind it lies the legendary Black Pond . (In the immediate vicinity on the Czech side there is also a black pond - Černý rybník). This is followed by Scheibner's pond or pharmacist's pond , which was the old Neusalza-Spremberger bathing establishment until 1930 , then Wendler's pond , Döring's or Zipfel pond , water lily pond or wish pond , two unnamed fish farming ponds belonging to the Pietsch family, Waldestal pond and finally the spring pond , which has silted up today. The family names at the ponds indicate the mostly rural owners.

City structure

The municipal parts of Neusalza-Spremberg, Friedersdorf with Neufriedersdorf , Neuspremberg and Sonneberg belong to the city .

history

Map of Oberreit with Neusalza-Spremberg from 1821/22

The local history is divided into three areas, the history of the village of Spremberg, the history of the city of Neusalza and finally from 1920 the history of the city of Neusalza-Spremberg.

Spremberg village

In a deed from 1242 about the pilgrimage site Jauernick, signed by the Bohemian King Wenzel I and the St. Marienthal monastery , two brothers were named as witnesses. One of them, Hartwicus de Sprewemberch , is said to have been the owner of the land. The place name Sprewemberch ( Spremberg ) was first mentioned on January 21, 1272. According to more recent research, Spremberg on the Upper Spree, created by German settlers from Franconia and Thuringia as a forest hoof village , existed for a long time before the extensive area surveys that took place in Upper Lusatia between 1213 and 1228. However, these were only ratified thirteen years later in an important document, later called the Upper Lusatian border document, by the then sovereign, King Wenceslaus I of Bohemia, on May 7, 1241. Already at this time there were disputes over competence between the Bohemian crown and the bishops of Meissen, which continued as new sovereigns under the margraves of Brandenburg since 1253. As a result, the place was briefly denied the right to hold church services in 1272. In 1392, Wenzel IV enfeoffed the brothers Hans and Heinrich von Raußendorf with the area to which Spremberg (Friedersdorf, Taubenheim and Sohland) also belonged. The place remained in the sole possession of the von Raußendorf until 1564.

In 1347, the later Emperor Karl IV undertook a trip to Bautzen to pay homage to the Lusatian estates, using the so-called " Kaiserstraße " on the way and also passing through Spremberg. Around 1430 the Hussites also visited Spremberg and plundered the then important church , which was rebuilt in 1432.

After the decline of the Hussite movement in Bohemia, which was finally sealed in the battles of Brüx and Lipany (1434), about 25 years later, powerful battles broke out between the Bohemian King George of Podebrady , once the leader of the Hussite Kalixtines , and the Catholic Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus for the crown of Bohemia. In the course of the conflict, the Hungarian king was able to conquer the neighboring Bohemian countries , including Upper Lusatia, which was contractually awarded to him in the Peace of Olomouc (1479). Thus Spremberg also came under Hungarian rule for eleven years. After the death of King Matthias I (1490), Upper Lusatia fell back to Bohemia.

In 1555 Spremberg was reformed as one of the last places in the area due to its membership of the Catholic diocese of Meißen . The first Protestant pastor of the place was David Styrius until 1559. From that year the Stolpen office, to which Spremberg belonged, was transferred to Kursachsen , and Spremberg came under the rule of August I.

In 1663 it was considered unusual to be granted the right to hold three annual markets. With the establishment of the city of Neusalza, the development of the village of Spremberg took a back seat. In 1696, in the course of the Counter Reformation, the parish of Fugau was parished out of Spremberg and became Catholic again. In 1735, the then owner of the manor in Oberspremberg founded the district of Neuspremberg.

Corridor division

Spremberg floor plan 1918

The Spremberg senior postal assistant and local chronicle, Walter Heinich (* 1876, † 1940) created the adjacent corridor division of Spremberg after the end of the First World War on a scale of 1: 25,000. Since the dimensions on the map are given in royal rods (virga regalis) each 4.7 m in length, it can be concluded that the land division of Spremberg, including the city of Neusalza since 1670, was already under the probable locator Hertwicus at the time the town was founded in the Middle Ages de Sprewemberch (around 1200 - around 1260). According to the research of W. Heinich, Spremberg was measured with 24 king hooves (mansus regalis, 1 king hoof = 47.736 ha or 21,600 king rods), twelve each north and south of the Spree, which resulted in a total area of ​​1,146 ha. Since the king's hooves were used here as a medieval measure of area, it is conceivable that Hertwicus, as the village head, used geometers (surveyors) of the Bohemian King Wenceslaus I, who ruled from 1230 to 1243, or his predecessor Otakar I (1197-1230) to divide the land of the forest hoof Spremberg. Each settler was assigned a forest or Hagen hoof, the size of which fluctuated between 1/4 and 3/4 king hooves, so that the village corridor was initially divided into 48 places: 46 interest farmers, 1 judge estate (Kretscham) and 1 church estate. The Hufner were located south of the Spree, and to the north of the Spree, half-Hufner had become resident in later times due to partitions. If all Hufen were occupied by farmers when the village was founded, Spremberg could have counted around 250 villagers at that time - a number that hardly increased until the Reformation (1555), since most of the farmer's sons only married the heir. Further field measurements, around 1840, showed that the medieval surveyors did not choose the straight distance between the endpoints, but always measured them along the paths. That is why Spremberg's floor plan appears in the form of a shifted square.

Explanations for the floor plan:

  • The parcel “Kirchbauer”: Former Stosch farm, now land used by the agricultural cooperative.
  • Spreeaue: Formerly flooded area during high water situations, not colonizable, only agricultural pasture area.
  • Viehweg parcel (no. 11): The upper pasture path through "Schindlers Büschl" is on the left above Beiersdorfer Weg. In the meantime, the current Beiersdorfer Weg has been expanded, and the upper Weideweg has become a hiking trail and pasture area.
  • The parcel "Pfarrwiedemuth" (No. 43): The land, which was probably already assigned to the Spremberg pastors for maintenance when the village was founded, stretched around 50 meters from today's Rosenstrasse, on both sides along the Bergstrasse south to the Bohemian Limit. In this corridor you will find the Neusalza cemetery, the forest and adventure pool and probably the “Black Pond”.
  • The parcel "The exchanged field", which protruded west into the Oppacher Flur at Taubenheimer Weg and bordered south on the Bohemian Fugau, today Wüstung Fukov , was probably to be assessed as excess (beunde), which was not taken into account in the medieval land survey of Spremberg and thus as common land (common land). The curious name is probably due to the fact that in the late Middle Ages, in the 16th century, the Spremberger and Oppach manors exchanged parcels of land, including the Koppritzwald (" Great Forest "), which is part of the Oppach district today.
  • The "Rote Lehde" used to be a farm road for the Spremberger and Neusalzaer and is today's Lindenstrasse, which runs over the Lindenberg to the city's forest and adventure pool.
  • The former overland route to Löbau, which began at Kretscham , is today's Lammweg and leads to the forged stones at the height of the Kretschamberges, a foothill of the Fuchsberg.
  • The former country road to Bautzen, which led over the Spremberger Heidelberg to Oppach and is considered part of the historic Kaiserstraße , was reduced in importance by the construction of the F-96, now the B 96 , in 1935/36 and has been paved throughout for a few years Land or farm road.
  • The former country road into the Bohemian Schluckenau (Šluknov) is today's Sonnebergstraße up to the district Sonneberg at the Czech state border and also led past the former Bohemian "Quarkschänke" as a bike and hiking trail.
  • The former Niedere Rittergut was incorporated into the corridors of Neu-Salza in 1670 after the city was founded and no longer exists today. The area drawing indicates the residential buildings at Bautzener Strasse 3 and Bautzener Strasse 4 (formerly “Die Scharfe Ecke”, a bakery).
  • The former Upper Manor was the manor house until 1945. His land of 226 hectares was expropriated and reallocated as part of the land reform in the Soviet occupation zone in 1945/46. In GDR times, the manor house was the city's cultural center until 1972, then a kindergarten and is now a day-care center.

City of Neusalza

The village of Spremberg was bought around 1668 by the state elder of the "Görlitzischen Creyses" Christoph Friedrich von Salza , a probable descendant of the family of the 4th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order , Hermann von Salza . On January 12, 1670, the Elector Johann Georg II signed the document for the foundation of a city (city privilege) in the area of ​​Lower Premberg with the name Neu-Salza , later Neusalza for short . At that time, the urban population was initially made up of villagers from Spremberg and neighboring towns, and a short time later also from Protestant religious refugees - exiles - from Bohemia , Moravia , Hungary and Silesia . The exiles had fled their home countries as a result of the effects of the Counter-Reformation and found refuge in the Protestant Electorate of Saxony in particular . The city's first Lutheran pastor was the Slovak preacher and philosopher Stephan Pilarick .

A recess between the elector and the city in 1673, documented as the Political Receipt of the city of Neu-Salza on June 12, 1673 , established the rights of the citizens of Neusalza. The most important rights were the exemption from inheritance , free trade and free wine and brandy bar.

The cloth makers 'guild was founded in 1674 and the shoemakers' guild in 1686. The church recession of October 14, 1674 gave the city the right to its own parish . As a result, from 1675 onwards the Church of the Exiles "To the Holy Trinity" Neusalza , which was consecrated on February 4, 1679, was built. As an independent parish of Neusalza, the parish of Spremberg has now cleared it. From 1674 to 1800 a total of seven pastors worked in the cross-border parish of Neusalza, who preached in German and Czech.

Historical view of Spremberg

The publishing industry developed in the second half of the 18th century, benefiting from the flourishing flax cultivation and linen weaving since the 17th century . In 1777 Neusalza had 470 inhabitants. In 1833 Friedrich Wilhelm Wex was freely elected as the city's first mayor, and in 1841 the royal court in Neusalza began its service.

Neusalza-Spremberg

On February 15, 1920 the city of Neusalza ( Sorbian : Nowosólc ) and the rural community of Spremberg merged to form the city of "Neusalza-Spremberg". Neusalza had around 1,100 inhabitants, Spremberg around 2,200. However, there have been attempts in the past to unite both places. As early as 1700, the local manor owner Ludwig von Hoym was striving for ecclesiastical unification; in 1875, at least the school merger was demanded by the Löbau district school inspector due to a planned joint school building. The greatest obstacle to the unification negotiations turned out to be the different fortunes of the two towns. Spremberg was a lot richer than the city of Neusalza. Compare the following table:

Spremberg Neusalza
capital 635,400 marks 610,466 marks
Debt 281,833 marks
(through the construction of the water pipe
with a value of 200,000 marks)
84,163 marks
(completely outdated water pipe)
Land 36.22 hectares 13.64 hectares
Roads / paths 14 km 5 km
School assets 98,700 marks
(2 schools, eight class)
21,743 marks
(four-class school)
Tax target 108,000 marks 37,800 marks

There were big discussions about the new name. A curious suggestion was “Spreesalza”. However, since the station and the post office were called "Neusalza-Spremberg", the name was kept.

The school unification of both places followed on April 1, 1920, the church only in 1937 after Niederfriedersdorf left the Spremberg parish.

After the Second World War had left its mark on Neusalza-Spremberg , the first local elections since 1933 took place in September 1946, which the SED narrowly won. The fate of the city were henceforth to turn from the socialist planned economy dominated, followed by the nationalization of farms and the land reform . Neusalza-Spremberg became, along with Ebersbach and other cities, an essential part of the Upper Lusatian textile industry.

During the GDR times, a company holiday camp was built and maintained in a former inn , which was abandoned to decay after 1990.

The visit of the then Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl on July 3, 1991 is to be noted as an important part of the history of the city .

On January 1st, 2008 the community Friedersdorf was incorporated.

Place name forms

  • Neu-Salza (1670, 1673, 1674), Neusalza: 1675: Neusalza, 1791: Neu Salza, 1875: Neusalza
  • Spremberg: 1242: Hertwicus de Sprewemberch (assignment uncertain), 1272: Sprewenberc, 1397: Spremberk, 1408: Spremberg
    • OT Neuspremberg: 1875: Neuspremberg
    • OT Sonneberg: 1875: Sonnenberg (Sonneberg)

It should be noted here that the small Upper Lusatian Spree town Neusalza-Spremberg in the district of Görlitz was and is often confused with the larger Spree town in southern Brandenburg in Lower Lusatia. But the larger commune is documented younger (1301) than the mother commune Spremberg of today's Saxon town Neusalza-Spremberg (1242, 1272), see Spremberg .

Administrative affiliation

  • Spremberg: 1590: Amt Stolpen, 1764: Amt Stolpen, 1816: Amt Stolpen, 1843: Amt Stolpen, 1856: Judicial Office Neusalza, 1875:  Amtshauptmannschaft Löbau
  • Neusalza: 1696: Stolpen office, 1764: Stolpen office, 1816: Stolpen office, 1843: Bautzen regional court district, 1856: Neusalza court office, 1875: Löbau official authority
  • as Neusalza-Spremberg: 1952: district of Löbau , 1994: district of Löbau-Zittau, 2008:  district of Görlitz

Population development

year Residents
Neusalza Spremberg Neuspremberg
(Häuslerzeile, OT
von Spremberg)
Sonneberg
(Häuslerzeile, OT
von Spremberg)
1562 45 possessed men,
12 gardeners, 9 cottagers
1587 16½ hooves
1764 33 possessed men,
36 gardeners, 54
cottagers , 3 desolations, 32½ hooves
1808 115 houses
1834 927 1,344
1852 51 41
1871 1,119 1,560 64 54
1890 1,190 1,971 85 60
1910 1,212 2,584
1920 Neusalza united with Spremberg to form Neusalza-Spremberg
1925 3,675
1939 3,701
1946 4,436
1950 4,723
1964 4,204
1990 2,862
2000 2,567
2005 (December 31) 2,488
2006 (December 31) 2,442
2007 (December 31) 3,812 (after incorporation of Friedersdorf)
2009 3,691
2012 3,453
2013 3,420
2015 3,356

politics

Neusalza-Spremberg is the administrative center of the administrative community Neusalza-Spremberg , to which, in addition to the city of Neusalza-Spremberg with its district Friedersdorf (since January 1, 2008), the rural communities Schönbach and Dürrhennersdorf belong. The outward sign of the municipal administration and the administrative community has been the New Town Hall, a former vocational school, on Kirchstrasse since 1993. The construction of the building was built in 1888 in the neo-renaissance style. Furthermore, the city is a member of the cross-border (German-Czech) communal association Fünfgemeinde , also written "5-Gemeinde", whose declaration of intent is the mayor of the cities and communities Šluknov (Schluckenau), Milan Kořínek; Neusalza-Spremberg, Günter Paulik; Jiříkov (Georgswalde), Michal Maják; Friedersdorf , at that time still an independent community, Günter Hamisch and Oppach , Karl-Heinz David signed on May 18, 2002 on the Czech Jüttelberg near the border . In 2008 the municipality of Sohland (Spree) under Mayor Matthias Pilz and in 2011 the Spree spring town Ebersbach-Neugersdorf under Mayor Verena Hergenröder joined the municipal association of the Fünfgemeinde.

Turnout: 66.2% (+ 13.3)
 %
60
50
40
30th
20th
10
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41.0%
(-14.2  % p )
10.8%
(-0.4  % p )
25.5%
(-8.1  % p )
22.7%
( n.k. )
Cow
2014

2019


City council

Since the municipal council election on May 26, 2019 , the 13 seats of the city council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

Party / list Seats +/-
Christian Democratic Union (CDU) 7th - 2nd
Free voter community (FW) 4th - 1
Alternative for Germany (AfD) 1 + 1
Friends of culture and homeland Neusalza-Spremberg e. V. (KuH) 1 - 1

mayor

Matthias Lehmann was re-elected in June 2015. His predecessors in office have appeared in the list of personalities of the city of Neusalza-Spremberg , point 2, without gaps since the city was founded in 1670 .

coat of arms

The city's coat of arms bears the silver lily of those of Salza on a red background.

Town twinning

The twin town has been Donzdorf in Baden-Württemberg since 1990 ; the French town of Riorges, on the other hand, is not, as has been mentioned, a twin town of Neusalza-Spremberg, but of Donzdorf.

Culture and sights

Obermarkt
"Thor's anvil - the stone sky disc of Neusalza-Spremberg" Summer solstice sunset 2009
Today's town hall was built in 1888 as a district court.
The Spreepark in winter with the Hercules stones.
The Spreepark in winter with the Hercules stones.
The Niedermarkt seen from the direction of Zittauer Straße.
The Niedermarkt seen from the direction of Zittauer Straße.
View from the Hutzelberg to the ev.-luth.  Church of the mother parish Spremberg
View from the Hutzelberg to the ev.-luth. Church of the mother parish Spremberg
The ev.-luth.  Church of the exile town of Neusalza
The ev.-luth. Church of the exile town of Neusalza
The ev.-luth.  Church in OT Friedersdorf
The ev.-luth. Church in OT Friedersdorf

The cultural life of the Neusalza-Spremberg community and its Friedersdorf (Spree) district is a. shaped by:

  • 25 associations that take into account the needs of culture, education, sport, nature and customs
  • Two city libraries (New Town Hall, Friedersdorf Municipal Office)
  • Two choirs (“Kommando Ohrwurm” school choir of the Pestalozzi Oberschule , since 2002, 60 members (2016/17); male choir “Die Spreesänger”, since 1996, 18 members (2016/17). 20th anniversary: ​​October 22, 2016)
  • Concert series "Hour of Music", annually in the ballroom of the town hall, since 1994
  • Friedersdorfer Carnival Club (FKK) e. V., since 1991 (newly founded)
  • Laienspiel ensemble "Karaseck-Truppe", since 1991, founded by the teacher couple and honorary citizens Hartmut (1927-2014) and Renate Hofmann (1923-2013)
  • Two shooting clubs, such as the Schützengesellschaft 1714/1865 e. V. Neusalza-Spremberg, founded: March 7, 1999, 19 members (2018), chairman: Christian Kümpfel; Schützengesellschaft e. V. Friedersdorf (from 1830), founded: June 6, 1996, 32 members, dar. 3 women (2018), chairman: Rene` Güttler
  • Changing art exhibitions in the monument and museum " Reiterhaus " and "Small Town Hall Gallery" in the New Town Hall
  • Preparation and implementation of the traditional Mittellausitzer Berglandtour hiking event with the involvement of Czech hikers and the Schluckenauer Zipfel . The 18th mountain country tour took place on June 18, 2017
  • Participation in shaping and participating in the German-Czech friendship meeting, which has been taking place every year since 2002 at Pentecost, on the Jüttelsberg near the border as part of the Five Church . The 17th Jüttelsberg friendship meeting is already planned for June 2018 and, in the context of this, the 11th Volkswandertag in September with residents from villages on this side and across the border

Noteworthy cultural and historical sights and objects of nature are:

  • Ober- and Niedermarkt with charming small town architecture (the Obermarkt fell victim to flames several times, for example in 1856 when most of the houses on the west side and in 1889 part of the south buildings burned down). After reunification in 1990, the city's existing infrastructure was gradually optimized on the basis of high investments and subsidies. A complete reconstruction and redesign of the city center with its listed marketplaces took place in the period from 1992 to 1996. In addition to the two marketplaces, the Zittauerstraße and Kirchstraße were included in the reconstruction measures, and until 1998 the adjacent streets such as Bautzener-, Rosen-, Berg- and Schützenstraße completely renovated (see L. Mohr 2017, p. 51).
  • Three churches:
    • The large village church of Spremberg , which was built on an elevation above the Spree, was rebuilt in 1901/02 after the former nave was torn down, including the old tower and the former apse . The gate surrounds are impressive. One of them dates from the 14th century and has Gothic-Romanesque elements. Two other gate frames date from the Renaissance at the end of the 16th century.
    • The smaller Trinity Church Neusalza in the city of Neusalza on Spremberger Flur was inaugurated in 1679. The Hungarian priest and philosopher Stephan Pilarick was the first pastor to work here in the former exiles' church. Until 1800 the preaching in the church was in the Czech language.
    • The Friedersdorfer Church , formerly Oberfriedersdorf Church, is the youngest church in the city of Neusalza-Spremberg. It was built from 1798 to 1801 in what was then the municipality of Oberfriedersdorf, after its residents saw themselves at a disadvantage in the Spremberg parish despite the brisk donation activity. Mittelfriedersdorf, which belongs to the municipality of Oberfriedersdorf, changed to the parish that was created in 1801 in 1868, and Niederfriedersdorf only followed in the 20th century.
  • Forged stones (legendary group of stones from a multi-part granite rock massif), vantage point over the place
  • Spreepark in the Kerbsohlental of the Spree around the Sternberg
  • "Thor's anvil - the stone sky disc of Neusalza-Spremberg" (calendar solar phenomenon)

Museums

Memorials and memorials

  • Memorial for those who fell in the German Wars of Unification in front of the town hall in Neusalza-Spremberg.
    Memorial for the residents of Neusalza-Spremberg who fell in the German Wars of Unification at the town hall, Kirchstr. 17th
    Newly designed memorial stone at the Schützenheim
    Newly designed memorial stone at the Schützenheim
    A memorial stone made of red polished granite from 1946 stood in front of the old town hall at Bahnhofstrasse 2 until 1998. It commemorates two Polish concentration camp prisoners (officers?) Who were evacuated by
    SS men towards the end of the Second World War during an evacuation transport through the city were shot. The prisoner numbers 86679 and 85696 were recorded on the stone . In the course of the privatization of the building after reunification, a detection excavation was carried out between April 29 and May 5, 1998. At a depth of 2 m under the rubble layer, the two dead were found, tied together in an oak coffin. The memorial stone of the former VVN memorial was recovered and the almost completely preserved bones of the two murdered prisoners were kept. Since there are no corresponding grave sites in Neusalza-Spremberg, they were transferred to Löbau , where they were solemnly buried on July 28, 1998 at the Memorial for War Victims and Violence in the Catholic Cemetery.
  • “Memorial to the residents of Neusalza-Spremberg who fell in the German Wars of Unification ” at the town hall, Kirchstr. 17. It is an architecturally rare monument of local historical importance that has only recently been positioned in its current location. The slender war memorial, partly built according to the antique model, was created by the sculptor Gustav Richard Happach (1847–?) From Löbau in 1881. This was intended to reflect those in the Austro-Prussian War (1866) and the Franco-German War (1870/71) - also referred to as the German Wars of Unification - as soldiers who died in Neusalza, Spremberg and Niederfriedersdorf are remembered. The approximately seven meter high and ornate sandstone formation with four marble tablets was inaugurated on July 3, 1881 on the Obermarkt. In 1940 an elementary renovation took place and the memorial was relocated near the Neusalza church. The ravages of time and the weather continued to affect the sandstone, so that in 2014 fundamental measures were taken to save it and another change of location. Local stonemasons and construction companies were responsible for the reconstruction, rebuilding and transport. The monument, which history of style in the era of historicism heard was a new look and the new location for Memorial inaugurated on November 16, 2014. The tattered inscriptions on the base also had to be replaced with new ones. The four new tablets of black syenite contain (clockwise) the following inscriptions:

The comrades who fell from Neusalza-Spremberg and Niederfriedersdorf on the Fields of Honor - Dedicated by the Neusalza-Spremberg Warrior Association supported by patriotically minded residents of these places (west side, also front view)

1870–1871 in France - Richard Alexander Flohr - Res. The 8th Comp. of the Rifle Regiment No. 108 - killed on December 2, 1870 in the Battle of Villiers (north side)

Erected in 1881 on the Obermarkt - renewed in 1940 and erected at the Neusalza Church - restored in 2014 and erected here (east side)

1866 in Austria in battle near Gitschin , June 29th - Reinhard Schmidt from Neusalza, soldier of the 3rd Comp. 2. Inftr. Bat. - Oswald Bochmann, Johann Dutschke from Spremberg - Hermann Roitsch from Niederfriedersdorf, soldiers of the 1st Company, 2nd Inftr. Battalion (south side).

The oldest and most imposing monument of its kind in Neusalza-Spremberg experienced its renaissance in the 21st century after 133 years.

  • “Memorial stone for the fallen of all wars” at Schützenheim Neusalza-Spremberg, Rumburger Straße 16. The newly built memorial was inaugurated on March 7, 2015 and consists of a rectangular base (base) measuring 0.80 m long, 0.70 m m wide and 1.40 m high and a stone helmet with an oak wreath on top. This results in a total height of the monument of 2.10 m. The helmet itself was made in 1934 by the Neusalza-Spremberg stone sculptor Gerhard Lange, not A. Lange, and was once part of a larger war memorial at the secondary school that no longer exists today and was dismantled in the 1960s. The helmet and the inscription on the former memorial were removed immediately after the end of the war by order of SMAD in 1945 and have been lost since 1945. However, the helmet was rediscovered in 2003 during earthworks at the old location. After 70 years it now adorns the new memorial stone with a different symbolic meaning. The substructure carries a marble slab (dimensions: 40 × 60 cm) with the inscription: In memory of the fallen of all wars. A warning to the living (cf. L. Mohr 2018, p. 20f).
  • Other local monuments and plaques that remind especially the fallen inhabitants of the First World War from 1914 to 1918, see the list of cultural monuments in Spremberg consideration

Leisure and sports facilities

  • Fitness facility on Niedermarkt, corner of Schützenstrasse
    The forest and adventure pool
    The forest and adventure pool
    Gym and festival hall with school sports facility
    Gym and festival hall with school sports facility
    Forest and adventure pool, Lindenstrasse, not far from the Czech border, built between 1928 and 1935, extensive renovation measures during GDR times and after the fall of the Wall, reopening in 1995, total area: 30,000 m², of which sunbathing area: 5,000 m², three water basins with a total area of ​​2,400 m² , including a sports pool with 25 m lanes, diving tower, large water slide, a variety of play and sports facilities for children, a spacious social wing, dining facilities and opportunities for tents and camping
  • Sports and soccer field (with lawn) on Sonnebergstrasse, southeast of the Hänscheberg
  • Gym and festival hall (with school sports ground), between Schulstrasse and Turnerstrasse, inaugurated in 1928, after redesign and extension of a functional wing, it has been used as a multi-purpose hall since 2005
  • Ski slope with drag lift on the Hänschberg (for more details, see there)
  • Soccer field, near town hall, at the train station
  • Play and leisure facility at the Friedersdorf primary school
  • Play area, rest and hiking car park at Friedersdorf Castle (ASB care home) on the B 96
  • Adventure playground in the city center between Obermarkt and Poststrasse

Economy and Infrastructure

Resident companies and business parks

  • Playground at the castle in OT Friedersdorf
    Playground at the castle in OT Friedersdorf
    ALL-INKL.COM - New Media Münnich, OT Friedersdorf (Spree)
  • plastic concept GmbH, supplier for system components and assemblies made of plastic, OT Neuspremberg. The company, with 300 employees today, produces especially for the automotive industry (MAN, Skoda, VW-Polo) and emerged in 1991 from the Elektro-Schaltgerätewerk (ESGO) Oppach as Boeder Parts. The company was renamed to its current name in 1997. On March 1, 2018, the plastics producer took over Autoplast GmbH in Wolfsburg , which in turn has a location in Saratov , Russia . The dynamic and expanding Neusalza-Spremberg company produces u. a. Assemblies for the instrument panels of the MAN truck type - more than 100,000 pieces annually - with a turnover of around nine million euros. In 2017, a total company turnover of around 35 million euros was achieved, which is expected to grow to 40 million in 2018.
  • Steglich & Beutlich GmbH, joinery and joinery
  • Spreetextil GmbH, production and sales of house textiles
  • SSB Schmidt Road Construction GmbH
  • Steinmetzbetrieb PeDag GbR

There are two industrial areas in the municipality: OT Neuspremberg, Rumburgerstraße; Upper Quiere, OT Friedersdorf

Transport links

The Dresden – Zittau railway line (see Süd-Lausitzer Bahn ) and the B 96 run through the city. The station building (with ticket issuance, baggage handling, restaurant and living space) that was used until the fall of the GDR in 1989/90 is no longer open today. Several tracks of the train station as well as the nearby signal box at the level crossing to Sonnebergstrasse were dismantled, the goods floor is no longer in use. Today the station only serves as a demand stop for the Trilex trains . Due to the increasing car traffic, the city's road and path network was expanded. Neusalza-Spremberg is served by several bus routes operated by the Dreiländereck motor transport company .

Education and care

Building of the Pestalozzi School in Neusalza-Spremberg
The "Spreezwerge" daycare center was inaugurated in June 2018.
  • Pestalozzi High School south side
    Pestalozzi High School south side
    Pestalozzi-Oberschule, inauguration of the educational institution on October 12, 1928 as the most modern elementary school of the time in the Löbau district, project planning: architect Richard Schiffner (1881–1953), Zittau ; 1945 used as a field hospital, in 1959 declared a general education polytechnic high school (POS), pupil of the 9th and 4th grade. In addition to Neusalza-Spremberg, 10th grade came from the neighboring towns of Oppach, Taubenheim and Friedersdorf; 2018: 90th school anniversary, festival week: October 1st to 5th, 2018. Extensive reconstruction of the building and design of contemporary classrooms, for example for computer science , since 1991. In the 2016/17 school year, z. B. 30 teachers and a trainee teacher 340 students from 19 locations.

The following school principals and directors have been in office since 1928: Alwin Klix (10/1928 - 5/1945); Willy Pfahl (5/1945 - 11/1945); Miss Irene Schott (12/1945 - 7/1946); Alfred Kranke (8/1946 - 10/1946); Adalbert Polzer (11/1946 - 8/1950); Gunther Leupolt (9/1950 - 7/1970), school director with the longest term of office - 20 years; Wenzel Seidlich (8/1970 - 7/1971), come. Director; Peter Woschnik (8/1971 - 7/1975); Siegfried Zawal (8/1975 - 7/1976), on. Director; Hans-Jürgen Hornig (8/1976 - 9/1984); Siegfried Zawal (10/1984 - 7/1986), acting; Roland Häbler (8/1986 - 7/1990); Uwe Knappe (8/1990 - 8/2003); Ms. Astrid Seibt (8/2003 - 7/2017); Ms. Katrin Bollwig (8 / 2017-)

  • School after-school care center, House 2 of the Pestalozzi School, Bautzener Strasse, opposite the Marschner bakery. In the building - previously a kindergarten, previously a vocational school - the primary school for grades 1 to 4 was housed after the fall of the Wall between 1992 and 2002. There were around ten teachers teaching around 120 primary school students per school year. From the 1992/93 school year until the educational institution was closed in the summer of 2002, Ms. Monika Denk, Neusalza-Spremberg, was the only headmistress.
  • Day care center (Kita) "Zwergenburg" Neusalza-Spremberg, mansion of the former manor on Spreepark , in GDR times a cultural center, later a day care center, used as a day care center for kindergarten and after-school children after renovation since 1991
  • “Spatzennest” day care center in the Friedersdorf district, next to the municipal office, new building in 1985, facility for day care children from 1 to 4 grade
  • New day care center (under construction), opposite Neusalza-Spremberg train station, laying of the foundation stone: September 27, 2016, topping-out ceremony: May 19, 2017, planned handover as a day care center, kindergarten and after-school care center for 180 children: June 29, 2018

health and safety

In the municipality, including OT Friedersdorf, are currently (February 2018):

  • 1 general practitioner, 3 dentists, 1 pharmacy, 3 physiotherapies, 2 nursing homes, 1 “senior citizens' residence” (assisted living) and 1 home care service.

There are two local fire brigades of the volunteer fire brigade (FF) for fire and disaster protection :

  • FF Neusalza-Spremberg, founded: 1867 (Neusalza), 1874 (Spremberg), merger: 1920, current workforce (2017/18): 39 forces, representing 7 women; 1 youth fire brigade : 22 children and teenagers, 10 girls; Technology: 1 fire engine LF 8/6, (MAN), Year: 2000, 1 fire engine LF 16/12, (Mercedes), vehicle of the disaster control, built: 2001, 1 crew transport vehicle (MTF), (Volkswagen), built in 2008; Local Armed Forces Chief: Hendrik Schütze

The military chiefs of the FF or local defense of the city of Neusalza-Spremberg since the unification year 1920: Eberhard Hünlich (1920–1945), commander; Erich Schramm (1945–1949), Helmut Düring (1949–1957), Manfred Seifert (1957–1958), Christian Wünsche (1958–1974), Gottfried Pache (1975–1978), Günter Schönbach (1978–1987), Günter Uhlemann (1987–1992), Christian Kümpfel (1992–2002), Volkmar Wellschmidt (2002–2008), Dirk Becker (2011–2016), Hendrik Schütze (2016-)

  • FF OT Friedersdorf, founded: 1881 (Ober-Friedersdorf), 1883 (Nieder-Friedersdorf), merger: 1938, current workforce: 38 emergency services, dar. 9 women, 1 youth fire brigade: 2 boys, 2 girls; Technology: 1 fire engine LF 8/6, (MAN), year of construction: 2002; 1 team transport vehicle (MTF), (Volkswagen), year of construction: 2005; Local Defense Manager: Daniel Mainz; Superordinate authority of both local brigades: Stadtwehr chief Mirko Oschütz, Neusalza-Spremberg

The fire chiefs of the FF or local army, OT Friedersdorf / Spree, since the unification of Ober- and Niederfriedersdorf in 1938: Willy Pohlisch (1938–1952), Oswald Strietzel (1952–1958), Manfred Hauptmann (1958–1961), Heinz Lucke ( 1961–1964), Manfred Lauermann (1964–1971), Friedemar Schneider (1971–1984), Uwe Knappe (1984–1991), Rolf Zieger (1991–1994), Volker Preusker (1994–2001), Klaus-Dieter Thomas ( 2001–2006), Rolf Mainz (2006–2016), Daniel Mainz (2016-)

Personalities

See also

literature

  • Roland Ander: A structural consideration of the weaving place Neusalza-Spremberg. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter . Issue 5/1966, pp. 447-453.
  • Walter Heinich : Spremberg. Attempt on a local history of the parish village Spremberg in the Saxon Upper Lusatia. Spremberg 1918.
  • Günter Hensel (arrangement): History and stories from Neusalza-Spremberg's past and present, 4th volume. Publisher: Kultur- und Heimatfreunde Neusalza-Spremberg e. V., Local History Interest Group (IGO), Neusalza-Spremberg 2011.
  • Hohlfeld, Carl Gottlob: Historical report ... on the 100th anniversary of the small town Neusalza in 1768 with additions to 1777 , in short "Hohlfeld Chronicle", transferred and edited by Siegfried Seifert, Lawalde. Neusalza-Spremberg: Michael Voigt 2002.
  • Gunther Leupolt (arr.): History and stories from Neusalza-Spremberg . Volumes 1-3. Michael Voigt, Neusalza-Spremberg 1999.
  • Lutz Mohr: Historical outline of the city of Neusalza-Spremberg in Upper Lusatia. From the beginning to the beginning of the 20th century. Greifswald / Neusalza-Spremberg 1976/77.
  • Lutz Mohr: Johann George Schreiber (1676–1750) - an important son of the city of Neusalza-Spremberg. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter Dresden. Vol. 24, issue 3/1978.
  • Lutz Mohr: The historical secrets of the city of Neusalza-Spremberg. In: Official journal of the administrative association for the city of Neusalza-Spremberg with the district Friedersdorf and the communities Dürrhennersdorf and Schönbach. Volume 16, No. 5, May 2011, pp. 6-7.
  • Lutz Mohr: Neusalza-Spremberg - a small town in Upper Lusatia - highlights from history and legend. (= History and stories from Neusalza-Spremberg. Special edition No. 1/2012). Self-published, Neusalza-Spremberg / Greifswald 2012.
  • Lutz Mohr with the collaboration of Siegfried Seifert: The churches of the city of Neusalza-Spremberg in the district of Görlitz. Self-published, Greifswald / Neusalza-Spremberg / Lawalde 2014.
  • Lutz Mohr: CITY ANNIVERSARY 775 years (Neusalza-) Spremberg (1242–2017) - chronology . In: Oberlausitzer Familien-Kalenderbuch 2017. Edited by Frank Nürnberger (Oberlausitzer Verlag), Spitzkunnersdorf 2016, pp. 82–85, ISBN 978-3-941908-84-0
  • Lutz Mohr : Neusalza-Spremberg. A journey through time 1242–2017 . Author and publishing service Frank Nürnberger ( Oberlausitzer Verlag ), Spitzkunnersdorf 2017, 84 p., Numerous. Fig., Tables, etc. Literature in the appendix ISBN 978-3-9818434-0-8
  • Lutz Mohr: Neusalza-Sprembergs monuments - stone witnesses of local history. In: Oberlausitzer Familien-Kalenderbuch 2018. Edited by Frank Nürnberger (Oberlausitzer Verlag), Spitzkunnersdorf 2018, pp. 20-21, ISBN 978-3-941908-96-3
  • Friedrich Bartels and Lutz Mohr: The 'Neusaltzer Kirchenreceß' from 1674 and 340 years of the 'Dreifaltigkeitskirche' in Neusalza-Spremberg (1678-2018) , in: Oberlausitzer Familien-Kalenderbuch 2018. Edited by Frank Nürnberger (Oberlausitzer Verlag), Spitzkunnersdorf 2017, Pp. 38-41, ISBN 978-3-941908-96-3
  • Gustav Hermann Schulze : From Neusalza's past and the second secular celebration Fotomechan. Reprint [d. Ed.] Ebersbach 1917. Michael Voigt, Neusalza-Spremberg 1998.
  • Constance Simonovska; Friederike Wittwer u. a .: The former Neusalza church for exiles. History of a church and its people. Text in German and Czech. Illustrations: Barbora Vesela. Ed .: Evangelical Lutheran Church Community Neusalza-Spremberg - Friedersdorf. Neusalza-Spremberg / Löbau 2018. Part of the project "Window to the Neighbors - okna k sousedovi". Funding within the framework of the EU small project fund of the Euroregion neisse - nisa - nysa, 58 pp., More. Fig. (The text also briefly introduces the churches in Spremberg and Friedersdorf).
  • Special committee 750 years Spremberg (ed.): Development of the city of Neusalza-Spremberg. Historical timetable . Author collective: Gunther Leupolt , Dankmar Kaden, Lothar Neumann, Siegfried Seifert and Horst Wagner. Printed by Michael Voigt, Neusalza-Spremberg 1992.
  • City administration Neusalza-Spremberg (Ed.): Neusalza-Spremberg. (City-guide). 6th edition. OWS, Neusalza-Spremberg 2009.
  • City administration Neusalza-Spremberg: City within the village - surprisingly different. Riding house, forest pool and hiking routes attract guests to Neusalza-Spremberg . In: Upper Lusatia. The holiday magazine, Bautzen 2017, p. 58
  • Theodor Schütze (Ed.): Between Strohmberg, Czorneboh and Kottmar (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 24). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1974.
  • August Adolph Tuchatsch (ed.): Historical news about the city of Neu-Salza on the basis of historical documents and traditions. Festschrift for the 200th anniversary of Neusalza in 1870 . Photomechanical reprint. Michael Voigt, Neusalza-Spremberg 2000.
  • Karin Wirsing, Angelika Hansel (text); Lothar Neumann (photos): Neusalza-Spremberg. Portrait of a small town in Upper Lusatia. Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1999, ISBN 3-89570-586-1 .

Web links

Commons : Neusalza-Spremberg  - 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. wacholderdrossel.de
  4. Gunther Leupolt: The Neusalza recession of 1673. In: History and stories from Neusalza-Spremberg. Volume I, ed. Kultur- und Heimatfreunde Neusalza-Spremberg e. V. Michael Voigt, Neusalza-Spremberg 1999, pp. 15-18.
  5. Since the original is no longer available, the reprint in the following publication was used: August Adolph Tuchatsch (Ed.): Historical news about the city of Neu-Salza on the basis of historical documents and traditions. Ceremony for the 200th anniversary of the city of Neusalza in 1870/72. Photomechanical reprint. Michael Voigt, Neusalza-Spremberg 2000, p. 4f.
  6. ^ Special committee 750 years Spremberg (ed.): Development of the city of Neusalza-Spremberg. Neusalza-Spremberg 1992, p. 30f.
  7. The school association took place on April 1, 1920.
  8. Assets are assets and liabilities are debts
  9. Bookkeeping, budget
  10. The ecclesiastical unification of the two parishes was only completed after Niederfriedersdorf from Neusalza-Spremberg was cleared and Pastor Wolfgang Arnold from Frankfurt am Main took office in 1937, i.e. 17 years after the political unification of 1920
  11. The salary information relates to annual salaries
  12. The official confirmation by the state government of the Free State of Saxony to unite the two municipalities to form the city of Neusalza-Spremberg took place on February 15, 1920.
  13. Facebook entry
  14. StBA Area: changes from 01.01. until December 31, 2008
  15. ^ Neusalza in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  16. ^ Spremberg in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  17. ^ Neuspremberg in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  18. ^ Sonneberg in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  19. statistik.sachsen.de
  20. statistik.sachsen.de
  21. Provisional population of the Free State of Saxony on December 31, 2008 by municipalities. ( Memento from June 8, 2009 in the web archive archive.today ) statistik.sachsen.de
  22. statistik.sachsen.de: City council election results 2019
  23. https://www.statistik.sachsen.de/wpr_alt/pkg_s10_bmlr.prc_ergli_lr?p_bz_bzid=BM151&p_ebene=LK&p_ort=14626
  24. ^ Neusalza-Spremberg: Sights
  25. (Cf. Official Gazette of the City of Neusalza-Spremberg, No. 6, June 1998, p. 12f. And ibid., No. 9, September 1998, p. 15).