Weinhübel

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Weinhübel
City of Goerlitz
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 23 "  N , 14 ° 58 ′ 50"  E
Height : 189 m
Area : 4.6 km²
Residents : 5483  (December 31, 2011)
Population density : 1,192 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1949
Postal code : 02827
Area code : 03581
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Location Weinhübels in Görlitz
View from the Weinbergturm to the Weinhübel district
View from the Weinbergturm to the Weinhübel district

Weinhübel (until 1936: Posottendorf-Leschwitz ) has been a district of the district town of Görlitz since January 1, 1949 .

Surname

Weinhübel was called Posottendorf-Leschwitz until 1936 and was renamed Weinhübel as part of the Germanization in the Third Reich . The name Weinhübel is linked to the name of the vineyard and the wine pool in the southern core city. The vineyard was first mentioned in the 14th century and in the Middle Ages wine was grown on the southern slope.

location

Posottendorf-Leschwitz on a measuring table sheet from 1886

The Weinhübel district is located south of the Görlitz core city on federal highway 99 , which connects Görlitz with Zittau to the south . Weinhübel is 189  m above sea level. NN . To the east the Lusatian Neisse borders the district and at the same time forms the state border with Poland . The community Posottendorf-Leschwitz consisted of two localities. Leschwitz was west of the Neisse and Posottendorf east of the river. The corridor of the former part of the municipality Posottendorf is now on Polish territory. Posottendorf no longer exists in its former form. The area is now called Lasowice and belongs to the Koźlice Schulzenamt .

The historic center of Leschwitz is located on a loop of the Neisse. The Leschwitz village church rises at the highest point - the Protestant Church of the Resurrection. About 100 meters south of the church was the Neißebrücke, which connected Leschwitz and Posottendorf. To the northeast of the old town center are the extensive Neisse meadows. There are also some garden and weekend properties here. A large part of the Neisse meadows is a drinking water protection area . To the north of Weinhübel, the former Volksbad am Weinberg and the Weinlache, a dead tributary of the Neisse, join.

In the north the Südstadt and in the northwest the district of Biesnitz borders on Weinhübel. To the south is the former village of Deutsch Ossig . Today's desert lies on Lake Berzdorf .

history

The settlement of the area goes back to the Younger Stone Age . This is evidenced by a knob hammer ax and a wide field hoe that were excavated in the 1930s. During further excavations in a flat grave field between today's Friedrich-Engels-Strasse and Leschwitzer Strasse in the same period, exhibits from the Bronze and Early Bronze Age were recovered. Germanic and Slavic tribes lived in the area as early as 1300.

The villages were first mentioned in a Görlitz town book from 1305. The name Leschwitz goes back to a Slavic nobleman named Les . The name Posottendorf is derived from the Slavic Boc , which is the name for a god. In 1337 the church was mentioned for the first time in an interest letter from King John of Bohemia , but it probably dates back to around 1300 and is therefore one of the oldest churches in Upper Lusatia. The Neisse bridge between Posottendorf and Leschwitz first appears in the chronicles in 1367. Evangelical preaching has been taking place in the Leschwitz village church since 1525.

During the Hussite War of 1429 in Upper Lusatia, the places, like the other Görlitz suburbs, were severely destroyed. The Thirty Years' War and the Wars of Liberation in 1813 also devastated the two villages. After the Peace of Prague in 1635, Bohemia had to cede Upper Lusatia and thus also the villages of Leschwitz and Posottendorf to the Electorate of Saxony. According to the Congress of Vienna , eastern Upper Lusatia changed from the Kingdom of Saxony to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 . Leschwitz and Posottendorf belonged to the district of Görlitz .

Illustration of the cloth factory, the church and the bridge (left) from the Görlitzer Anzeiger

In the early 19th century, the Leschwitz manor was divided and from 1830 a distinction was made between the upper and the Niederdorf, each with a farm. The Dreiseithof Seidenberger Straße 20, built in 1814, commemorates this time. In 1883 the new Neißebrücke between Posottendorf and Leschwitz was opened. The western part of the bridge was designed as a steel truss bridge and spanned the Neisse between the western bridgehead and the central river pillar. The adjoining eastern part was supported without framework on two further pillars and the eastern bridgehead. The former Posottendorfer manor rose on the eastern bridgehead. In 1874 Leschwitz and Posottendorf united to form the common rural community Posottendorf-Leschwitz. Since 1908, the Leschwitz district comprised the rural community Posottendorf-Leschwitz and the manor districts Leschwitz and Posottendorf. The manor districts were finally incorporated into the rural community in 1928.

At the end of the 19th century, the Görlitzer Magistrate claimed parts of the Leschwitzer Flur for the construction of a waterworks that was supposed to secure the city's water supply. The waterworks was put into operation in 1878.

On June 1, 1875, the Görlitz – Seidenberg railway opened and passed the center of Leschwitz about a kilometer to the west. The Görlitz Vorstadt freight yard with a 2½-storey service building was built on the Leschwitzer Flur . The freight yard had two freight tracks and a 270 meter long connecting track to the Holzimprägnieranstalt Silbermann & Knothe. After the construction of the second main line in 1910, the freight yard was given up in favor of the Posottendorf-Leschwitz passenger station . On October 2, 1910, the Posottendorf-Leschwitz station was opened about 200 meters further south. At the level of the Reichshof, Bahnhofstrasse led from Zittauer Strasse to the passenger stop.

On August 7, 1930, the western district of Leschwitz was finally connected to the Görlitz tram network. The terminus was at the former Swiss house. From there the route ran along Zittauer Straße past the Zeltgarten restaurant to the Schützenhaus, where it connected to the existing tram network. Line 1 ran between Leschwitz and the clinic .

In 1933 the National Socialists set up a so-called protective custody camp in the former factory building on the Neisse , in which up to 1,300 political prisoners were imprisoned. The camp, often referred to as the Leschwitz concentration camp , was disbanded in autumn 1933. At the cultural center on the corner of Seidenberger Strasse and Am Sande, a memorial plaque commemorates the victims.

The bridge piers of the Neißebrücke, which was blown up in 1945

In 1936, as part of the Germanization of place names, the National Socialists renamed the community Posottendorf-Leschwitz to Weinhübel. On the evening of May 7, 1945 - the last day of the Second World War - all the Neisse bridges in Görlitz and the surrounding area were blown up. The Neißebrücke in Weinhübel also fell victim to the Wehrmacht's demolition squads .

As a result of the Second World War, the areas east of the Neisse were added to the Polish state at the Potsdam Conference . The former district of Posottendorf was also on Polish territory. The area of ​​the former village Posottendorf is now called Lasowice and belongs to the Schulzenamt Koźlice . There are only three courtyards left from the former location. The Posottendorfer manor, which was located on the eastern bridgehead, no longer exists today. The bridge was also not rebuilt, but the overall traffic concept of the city of Görlitz suggested that the reconstruction for tourist bicycle and pedestrian traffic should be investigated.

Several memorials in the cemetery of the Church of the Resurrection commemorate the victims of the two world wars . The volunteer fire brigade and the Posottendorf-Leschwitz military association each erected a monument in 1923 to those who fell in World War I. A wooden cross with the inscription: “Christ speaks I am the resurrection and the life” commemorates the victims in World War II. The Victims of the War 1939–1945 ”.

Prefabricated buildings on Fritz-Heckert-Straße around 1970

The renaming in Leschwitz did not take place after the war. In 1949 Weinhübel was incorporated into the city of Görlitz. With the incorporation of Weinhübel, the city had extensive building areas. In 1956 the construction of row rental houses began on the area between the vineyard in the north and the old town in the south. In 1973 the new district was completed. Three new school complexes were also built in the district. On May 23, 1982, tram traffic between the Goethestrasse stop (formerly: Schützenhaus) and Weinhübel was discontinued and the district was connected to the city bus network. It was not until December 7, 1991 that the new line was opened down the vineyard and through the new district to the new turning loop on Leschwitzer Strasse, thus reconnecting the district to the tram network.

In the post-reunification period, some prefabricated buildings were dismantled in the course of the urban redevelopment east . Most of the apartment blocks could be restored and refurbished according to current criteria. Weinhübel has transformed itself into a rural garden city over the last few decades .

traffic

Tram at the final stop Weinhübel

Weinhübel is located on federal road 99 , which connects Görlitz with the southeastern tip of Upper Lusatia and the city of Zittau .

The Weinhübler railway stop in the west of the district offers a connection to the regional trains of the RB65 line in the direction of Zittau via Hagenwerder and to Cottbus via the Görlitz station . The trains are operated by the East German Railway (ODEG).

The district is also connected to local public transport. Weinhübel has also been integrated into the city's tram network since August 7, 1930 . There are also several bus routes operated by Görlitzer Verkehrsbetriebe (GVB) and Kraftverkehrsgesellschaft Dreiländereck (KVG).

Tram line:

  • Line 1: Weinhübel - Königshufen, NeißePark

City bus routes:

  • Line E: Weinhübel - Hagenwerder - Tauchritz
  • Line F: Weinhübel - Kunnerwitz - Biesnitz

Intercity bus routes:

  • Line 21: Görlitz - Ostritz - Zittau
  • Line 42: Görlitz - Bernstadt - Löbau

literature

  • Horst Wenzel: Weinhübel then and now . Posottendorf - Leschwitz. Ed .: Parish Council of the Evangelical Reconciliation Church Community of Görlitz. Chichinebs Verlag, Görlitz 2007, ISBN 978-3-939177-05-0 ( regenbogenkinderhaus.de [PDF; 1.5 MB ; accessed on June 19, 2012]).

Web links

Commons : Weinhübel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Weinhübel in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ goerlitz.de: Statistical monthly figures for the city of Görlitz, December 2011 . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 18, 2012 ; Retrieved June 11, 2012 .
  2. ^ Ernst-Heinz Lemper : Görlitz. A historical topography . 2nd Edition. Oettel-Verlag, Görlitz 2009, ISBN 3-932693-63-9 , p. 249 .
  3. ↑ Horst Wenzel: Weinhübel then and now . Posottendorf - Leschwitz. Ed .: Parish Council of the Evangelical Reconciliation Church Community of Görlitz. Chichinebs Verlag, Görlitz 2007, ISBN 978-3-939177-05-0 , pp. 1 .
  4. ↑ Horst Wenzel: Weinhübel then and now . Posottendorf - Leschwitz. Ed .: Parish Council of the Evangelical Reconciliation Church Community of Görlitz. Chichinebs Verlag, Görlitz 2007, ISBN 978-3-939177-05-0 , pp. 1, 33 .
  5. ↑ a b c d Ernst Heinz Lemper: Görlitz. A historical topography . 2nd Edition. Oettel-Verlag, Görlitz 2009, ISBN 3-932693-63-9 , p. 251 .
  6. ↑ a b Horst Wenzel: Weinhübel then and now . Posottendorf - Leschwitz. Ed .: Parish Council of the Evangelical Reconciliation Church Community of Görlitz. Chichinebs Verlag, Görlitz 2007, ISBN 978-3-939177-05-0 , pp. 33 .
  7. ^ Territorial.de: District Weinhübel . Retrieved June 22, 2012 .
  8. ^ Ernst-Heinz Lemper: Görlitz. A historical topography . 2nd Edition. Oettel-Verlag, Görlitz 2009, ISBN 3-932693-63-9 , p. 250 f .
  9. ^ Wilfried Rettig: Railway in the three-country corner. East Saxony (D) / Lower Silesia / (PL) / North Bohemia (CZ). Part 1: History of the main lines, operating points, electrification and route descriptions . EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2010, ISBN 978-3-88255-732-9 , p. 133 f .
  10. ^ Andreas Riedel: The chronicle of the Görlitzer tram . Schweers + Wall, 1997, ISBN 3-89494-106-5 , pp. 33 .
  11. ↑ Engineering office for traffic facilities and systems (ed.): Overall traffic concept for the city of Görlitz . Stage III and IV Report - Concepts and Strategies. March 2011, p. 6 ( online ). online ( Memento from September 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ Erich Feuerriegel: Stones are reminiscent of fratricide and the horror of war . In: Saxon newspaper . August 26, 2009 ( online [accessed June 22, 2012]).
  13. ↑ vgg-goerlitz.de: history . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 16, 2011 ; Retrieved June 22, 2012 .