Walddorf (Kottmar)

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Forest village
Kottmar municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 45 ″  N , 14 ° 38 ′ 15 ″  E
Height : 394  (385-460)  m above sea level NHN
Residents : 685  (March 31, 2019)
Incorporation : January 1, 1999
Incorporated into: Eibau
Postal code : 02739
Area code : 03586

Walddorf ( Upper Sorbian Lěsowa ) is a village in the south of the East Saxon district of Görlitz at the foot of the Kottmar . It is part of the municipality of Kottmar .

geography

View of forest village with Kottmar and church before the renovation

Walddorf is located at the southern foot of the Kottmarwald and its source of the Spree south of Löbau on the federal highway 96 between Zittau and Bautzen . The altitude ranges from 385  m above sea level. NHN (near the Landwasser ) up to 460 m (in the northeast).

After the settlement, Walddorf is a regular housing estate with a plot of land.

Neighboring places are Kottmarhäuser in the northeast, Eibau in the southeast, Neugersdorf in the southwest, Löbauer Wiese in the west and Ebersbach / Sa. in the north-west.

history

Walddorf on the Upper Lusatia map, Schenk, 1759
Walddorf on the Oberreit map, Sect. Zittau, 1844/46

The establishment of the village - inspired by the example of the city of Zittau and operated by the Löbauer council since 1676 - was only approved by the elector in 1691, when 11 houses were already standing. In the same year the name Walddörfel appeared for the first time. In 1791 the place was mentioned in connection with its neighbors as "Walddorf, borders with Eybau and Ebersbach" and in 1875 as "Walddorf b. Ebersbach ".

There has been talk of a schoolmaster in the village since 1695.

The Kottmarschenke and Kottmarbleiche, built in 1732, including some residential buildings that were referred to as the Kottmarhäuser district, are located on the Walddorf local corridor on the eastern slope of the Kottmar. The newcomers came on the one hand from villages in the area and on the other hand as exiles from Bohemia and Moravia.

In 1961, Walddorf received the official status of a state-recognized resort .

Until January 1, 1999, Walddorf was an independent rural community, then it was incorporated into Eibau. With the dissolution of the municipality of Eibau, Walddorf came to the municipality of Kottmar on January 1, 2013.

population

Population development

year Residents
1777 98 cottagers,
4 devastation
1834 1208
1871 1331
1890 1269
1910 1321
1925 1314
1939 1304
1946 1496
1950 1548
1964 1415
1990 1059
2008 (March 31) 840
2018 (May 31) 704

The place was parish to Kottmarsdorf until 1708 . Since then he has had his own parish church, as well as the parish of Walddorf from 1940–2001.

Culture and sights

The residential houses in Walddorf are mainly built in a timber frame construction with log rooms and mostly date from the first half of the 19th century. In the middle of the 20th century there were around 155 half-timbered houses in Walddorf.

The Walddorf village church , the current construction of which dates from 1909, won 500,000 euros in the MDR's “A village will win” competition in 2007 from the Foundation for the Preservation of Church Monuments in Germany for Fundamental Restoration, which was carried out from 2008 to 2010.

Others

The postal code was 8719 until the fall of the Wall and O-8719 until 1993.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Numbers and facts - population figures. Kottmar municipality, accessed on July 31, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Walddorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  3. ↑ Area changes from January 1, 1999 to December 31, 1999 (PDF 40 KB) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony, accessed on March 19, 2011 .

Web links

Commons : Walddorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files