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The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Waldhufen (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
Help on coat of arms	Coordinates: 51 ° 14 '  N , 14 ° 47'  E
Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Goerlitz
Administrative association:	Diehsa
Height :	169 m above sea level NHN
Area :	58.76 km 2
Residents:	2370 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	40 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	02906
Primaries :	035827, 03588 (Jänkendorf)
License plate :	GR, LÖB, NOL, NY, WSW, ZI
Community key :	14 6 26 580
Community structure:	9 parts of the community
Address of the municipal administration:	Ullersdorfer Strasse 1 02906 Waldhufen
Website :	www.waldhufen.de
Mayor :	Horst Brückner
Location of the community of Waldhufen in the district of Görlitz

Waldhufen is a Saxon municipality in the district of Görlitz , which belongs to the Diehsa administrative association . The municipality is located in the district of Jänkendorf , the association headquarters in the eponymous district of Diehsa .

geography

The community of Waldhufen is located in the central part of the district. It is located about 8 km south of the city of Niesky and 12 km west of the district town of Görlitz . It is located between the Königshain Mountains in the south and the forest and pond-rich Upper Lusatian heath and pond landscape in the north. The landscape is mainly characterized by rolling hills. The community borders the localities of Jänkendorf and Diehsa on the Quitzdorf reservoir , where the Schwarze Schöps is dammed.

The following places belong to the municipality:

large districts	further districts
Diehsa , Jänkendorf , Lower Seifersdorf , Thiemendorf ,	Attendorf (belongs to Nieder-Seifersdorf), Baarsdorf (belongs to Nieder-Seifersdorf), Ullersdorf (belongs to Jänkendorf), Wilhelminenthal (belongs to Jänkendorf), Sheep farm (belongs to Jänkendorf).

history

The community of Waldhufen is a new formation that emerged on March 1, 1994 when the independent communities of Diehsa, Jänkendorf, Nieder Seifersdorf and Thiemendorf merged. The name alludes to the existing form of settlement in the villages, which are laid out as Waldhufendörfer .

The place Jänkendorf was first mentioned as Jenikendorff in 1346, Thiemendorf was first mentioned a short time later in 1389. Diehsa was also mentioned for the first time in the 14th century and received market rights in 1670.

politics

City council election 2019

Turnout: 73.3%

 %

80

70

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

70.3%

29.7%

WVW

CDU

Gains / losses

compared to 2014

 % p

 10

   8th

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

  -8th

-10

+ 8.5  % p

-8.5  % p

WVW

CDU

Since the municipal council election on May 26, 2019 , the 14 seats of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

• Waldhufen voters' association (WVW): 10 seats
• CDU : 4 seats

Mayor Horst Brückner was re-elected in June 2015.

Memorials

A plaque on his former home in Thiemendorf commemorates the trade unionist and Hitlerite opponent Fritz Preuser , who was murdered in Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1942 .

Attractions

Diehsa Church

Market stalls in Diehsa

• Quitzdorf reservoir
• Koenigshain Mountains
• Jänkendorf town center with municipal administration, church and rectory
• Church in Ullersdorf from the years 1629/1630
• Park of the former Ullersdorf Castle
• Ullersdorfer ponds
• Diehsaer church from the 15th / 16th centuries century
• Rectory in Diehsa, built between 1730 and 1735
• Diehsa Gewandhaus from 1841
• Market square in Diehsa with the market gazebos that are unique in Europe
• Fortified church from 1225 in Nieder Seifersdorf
• Heimatstube in Nieder Seifersdorf

The cultural monuments are recorded in the list of cultural monuments in Waldhufen .

Economy and Infrastructure

Transport links

The federal highway 115 runs north of the municipality, the federal highway 6 runs south . The federal motorway 4 runs through the municipality and can be reached via the Nieder Seifersdorf connection . The Königshainer Berge tunnel , with 3.3 kilometers one of the longest motorway tunnels in Germany, leads through the Königshainer Berge near Waldhufen .

Footnotes

1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Area changes from January 1, 1994 to December 31, 1994. (PDF; 64 kB) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , p. 25 , accessed on December 25, 2012 . 
3. ↑ Results of the 2019 municipal council elections
4. ↑ https://www.statistik.sachsen.de/wpr_alt/pkg_s10_bmlr.prc_erg_bm_a?p_bz_bzid=BM151&p_ebene=GE&p_ort=14626580

Web links

Commons : Waldhufen  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Interesting facts about the fortified church from 1225 in Nieder Seifersdorf
• Waldhufen in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony