Zobigker

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Zöbigker is a district of Markkleeberg in the Leipzig district with over 2000 inhabitants. Until its incorporation in 1937, the place was an independent municipality.

At the port of Zöbigker

location

Zöbigker is located south of Markkleeberg-West Gautzsch on the former road from Markkleeberg to Zwenkau (Koburger Strasse), which used to be a trunk road from Leipzig to Nuremberg , but now ends in Zöbigker because of the former lignite mining . The old town center lies west of this street on the former right high bank of the floodplain of the Weisse Elster , where the Cospudener See now extends. Zöbigker thus represents one of the entrances to this lake. The much larger, newer part of Zöbigker is east of Koburger Strasse.

Zöbigker is bordered in the south by the Neue Harth , in the west by the Cospudener See, in the north by the Seenallee, and in the east it borders on the development of the Markkleeberg district of Großstädteln. The former district of Prödel was excavated by the Zwenkau opencast mine in 1976 .

history

Zöbigker on a map from 1907

As an estate and a village

Zöbigker was first mentioned in 1378 as Czebeker / Czebekor . The name changed via Czobeker (1427), Zebicker (1476), Zibiger (1540) and Zcewicker (1551) to Zöbigker around 1750.

The first verifiable lords of Zöbigker were members of the Pflugk family in the middle of the 14th century , which also included Großzschocher , Knauthain and Gautzsch . Under their rule, Zöbigker became a manor at the end of the 14th century , after it had previously been Vorwerk von Prödel . It was inherited from the Pflugks in 1543 to the von Gehofen family, from whom it was sold to Otto von Dieskau in 1612. In 1687 Friedrich Wilhelm bought Marschall Zöbigker and had the manor house rebuilt.

The manor house around 1860
The Zöbigker Church around 1840

He took over financially for this construction, and so in 1714 the Leipzig postmaster Johann Jakob Kees the Younger bought the Zöbigker estate with the money he had received as compensation for the nationalization of the Saxon post office. Kees had the manor house and the park designed by David Schatz in the Leipzig Baroque style until 1724. In the village he had the mill and the church (altar, pulpit and tower) renovated, as well as a gardening shop, a relaxation area and a new brewery and malt house. The Kees family remained owners of Gut Zöbigker until 1945, although in 1926 they sold the field corridor belonging to the estate to the Sächsische Werke (ASW) as part of the preparation of the open-cast lignite mine .

While the Zöbigker church was initially an independent parish church, from 1752 it belonged to the neighboring Gautzsch as a branch church . The population of the village Zöbigker remained almost constant from the 16th to the 18th century, but then increased steadily from 226 (1834) to 371 (1871), 466 (1910), 466 (1910) up to 834 in 1925. Although Zöbigker was never burned down by wars, it nevertheless suffered from armies passing through both in the Thirty Years' War and in the Battle of Leipzig and beyond. In 1680 the plague was brought in from Leipzig, which killed over 100 people in Zöbigker and the neighboring Prödel. In the chronicles it is still considered remarkable that the church suffered severe damage from a lightning strike in 1733 and that 1000 thalers were lost in 1808 through a burglary. Until 1856, Zöbigker was part of the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon District Office in Leipzig . From 1856 the place belonged to the court office Zwenkau and from 1875 to the administrative authority of Leipzig .

In 1926 the neighboring town of Prödel was incorporated. In 1926, the development of the area east of Koburger Strasse began with the "Landhaussiedlung Zöbigker" project. In 1930 the population had risen to around 1,300 and there were only two farms left in the village.

As a district

On April 1, 1937, Zöbigker was incorporated together with Großstädteln in the town of Markkleeberg, founded in 1934, which grew by around 3,000 inhabitants.

The fire in the Zöbigker church in 1942

On May 16, 1942, an overheating of the organ engine caused a fire in the church of Zöbigker, which left the church in ruins. Due to the war, the attitude to the church in the following years of GDR rule and the approaching lignite mining, the church was not rebuilt. It is currently being transformed into a bicycle church.

Lot at the former Zöbigker mill - lost to mining

Zöbigker was in the run-up to the Zwenkau open- cast lignite mine, which was advancing north and west . From the mid-1970s, it was then located directly on the northern edge of the Zwenkau opencast mine and accordingly suffered from dust and noise pollution. When the Cospuden opencast mine was opened in 1980 , which ran directly on the western edge of Zöbigker, Zöbigker was again right next to the opencast mine. The entire castle park, the adjoining meadow landscape around the Floßgraben, the mill, the excursion restaurant “Damhirsch” and the farm buildings fell victim to the Zwenkau opencast mine. The castle stood deserted on the edge of the opencast mine. Although no houses were demolished in the actual town, the quality of living sank considerably.

That changed fundamentally with the cessation of mining in 1992 and the subsequent flooding of the Cospudener See. Now the location on the outskirts, i.e. on the lake, was very popular. New villas and houses were built on the banks of the river. The castle was reconstructed and apartments were set up in it. A 9-hole golf course was built between the lake and Koburger Strasse . But also to the east of Koburger Strasse on Eulenberg and on Freiburger Allee, housing estates with single and multi-family houses emerged.

Zöbigker Castle 2008
Church ruins and future bicycle church

Attractions

Zöbigker has a sailing and leisure port with a parking lot, shops, cafes and tourist information. The surfing beach, the lido east and the golf course invite you to exercise, the lake sauna is more health-promoting. The sculpture park around the waterfront is particularly noteworthy. Excursion boats leave from the harbor for sightseeing tours. From here, hikes around the lake and into the Neue Harth forest area are possible.

In the village itself, the restored, listed castle shines in new splendor. In the area of ​​the old village center there are still few historical buildings, including the church ruins, the future bicycle church. A visit is also recommended without a bike.

traffic

Zöbigker is connected to surrounding places via the S 46 . The B 2 , which leads from the Leipzig-Süd junction near Gaschwitz to the center of Leipzig, is about 3 km away . The next train stations are in Großstädteln ( S-Bahn Central Germany ) and in Markkleeberg . Line 9 of the Leipzig tram ends just north of Zöbigker in Gautzsch . From there, the Markkleeberg train station can be reached in a short drive. The connection by bus is guaranteed by the line 107 Leipzig-Markkleeberg- Zwenkau . Line 108, which connects Großstädteln with Wachau via Markkleeberg , touches Zöbigker on the edge.

Personalities

literature

  • Zobigker . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 13th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1826, p. 656 f.
  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Zöbigker. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 16. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Leipzig (Leipzig Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1894, p. 142.

Web links

Commons : Zöbigker  - collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c Zöbigker in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  2. ↑ a b Poenicke, GA (ed.): Album of the manors and castles in the kingdom of Saxony I. Section: Leipziger Kreis . Leipzig around 1860
  3. ↑ a b In the Pleisse and Göselland between Markkleeberg, Rötha and Kitzscher - published by PRO LEIPZIG eV, Leipzig 1999
  4. ↑ David Schatz is sometimes only ascribed the design of the park.
  5. ↑ 1551: 24 possessed men, 19 residents, 1764: 22 possessed men, 5 cottagers, 11 1/3 hooves per 12 acres
  6. ^ Sachsens Kirchengalerie , volume: Inspectionen Leipzig and Grimma, Dresden 1837-1845.
  7. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 60 f.
  8. ↑ The Amtshauptmannschaft Leipzig in the municipal register 1900
  9. ↑ Zöbigker on gov.genealogy.net

Coordinates: 51 ° 16 '  N , 12 ° 21'  E