Großschönau, Saxony

Grossschönau ( Upper Lusatian dialect: Greeting rail ) is a municipality in the district Görlitz, Saxony, near the German- Czech border. It is the administrative seat of the administrative community Grossschönau - Hainewalde. The name derives from the foundation of the town. The town was founded on a floodplain; therefore, did the name of " Big Beautiful Aue ".

• 3.1 City Council and Mayor
• 3.2 partner communities
• 3.3 Local Structure
• 3.4 Coat of Arms

• 4.1 Structures
• 4.2 Museums
• 4.3 Other Attractions
• 4.4 Regular events
• 4.5 traffic 4.5.1 Road Traffic
• 4.5.2 bus
• 4.5.3 Railway

Geography

The municipality is located in the Valley of Mandau, opens the Lausur here in the. House Mountain is 371.5 meters high Hutberg.

History

Grossschönau was probably founded by Frankish settlers as Waldhufendorf in the 12th century. The district consists of individual Neuschönau Häusler lines. The first mention of Grossschönau as " Magnum Sonow " dates from the year 1352. 1430 had Grossschönau a knight's seat and in 1564 a manor.

Grossschönau under stood from 1587 to more than 250 years the Zittau Council as landlord. 1666 posted this Friedrich and Christoph Lange brothers, two weavers of the town, to Holland to learn the art of damask weaving. A few decades later the linen damask from Grossschönau was known far beyond the country's borders. European mansions therefore their table linen preferably obtained from Grossschönau. 1834 sparked the Jaquardtechnik the elaborate damask weaving. As early as 1856 noted the Großschönauer manufacturer Carl Heinrich Schiffner at first Frottierwebstuhl in Germany. Since then Grossschönau developed into an industrial town with powerful Frottierwebereien how Lieske & Häbler, Richter & Goldberg and CG Hänsch. Today the company Frottana -Textil GmbH and Damino lead the long-standing textile industry in Grossschönau continued successfully. That's why this place has for some time now the marketing name " textile village Grossschönau ".

On August 7, 2010, there was also in Grossschönau to a flood disaster. Due to heavy rainfall (about 130 liters / m²) were filling the place flowing through the creeks and Mandau Lausur within a few hours and occurred in the afternoon on the shore. Many people had to be rescued from the floods and some have their homes and belongings lost.

Place-name forms

• Grossschönau: 1352: Magnum Sonow, 1358: Magna Sonaw, 1360: Maior Schonow, 1384: Schonow magnum, 1430: Grozen Schone, 1430: Gross Schonaw, 1515: Great Schone, 1576: Groschinaw, 1791: Large -Schönau
• Neuschönau: 1875: Neuschönauer village

Management affiliation

• Grossschönau: 1777: Görlitz district, 1843 district court of the district of Lobau, 1856: Court District Grossschönau, 1875: Amtshauptmannschaft Zittau, 1952: Circle Zittau, 1994: County Lobau -Zittau, 2008: district of Görlitz

Incorporations

1867 Neuschönau was integrated into the community Grossschönau. On 1 January 2003 Walter village was incorporated into Grossschönau.

Population Development

Policy

City Council and Mayor

In the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, the 18 seats of the council were distributed to the individual parties and lists as follows:

Additional member of the council and its chairman is the mayor. This is in the second term Frank Peuker, which was confirmed for another seven years in office since 1 August 2008.

Partner communities

• Huefingen, Baden- Württemberg
• Olszyna, Poland

Local structure

• Grossschönau with the 1867 eingemeindeten Neuschönau
• Walter village with Herrenwalde and village hall

On 1 January 2003 the municipality Grossschönau and the former municipality Walter village formed a unified community.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms shows two crossed shuttles on a crenellated wall, which is the coat of arms of Upper Lusatia borrowed and accessories symbolizes the Upper Lusatia. The mountain in the background symbolizes the Listen, which rises above the village of Walter village.

Culture, attractions and infrastructure

Structures

• Along the Mandau you will find many of the regionally typical half-timbered houses. Here you will find the largest intact ensemble of half-timbered houses in Upper Lusatia. The entire townscape of the municipality is characterized by over 650 half-timbered houses.

• Villa, now the seat of the municipal administration

• In 1807 to 1809 of the Christian Damastfabrikanten David Waentig " copper house" built, a residential and commercial building, now home to the German damask and Frottiermuseum.

• Also worth seeing is the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Great Schönau. It was built in 1703-1705. With three galleries to accommodate 2,000 churchgoers. This makes it the second largest village church in Saxony. The lower gallery is adorned with ornate Grisaillenmalereien of Großschönauer pattern illustrator David Christian Berndt. The greatest treasure is that of Johann Eleazar Zeissig ( called Schenau ) 1787 painted altarpiece " Resurrection of Christ".

Museums

• German damask and Frottiermuseum Grossschönau
• Motorcycle veterans and Technology Museum Grossschönau
• Folklore and Walter Mill Museum Village

Other destinations

• Listen to Walter in the district village with 793 meters above sea level the highest peak of the Lusatian Mountains
• Trixi Park with historic forest bathing and new swimming pool, wellness center, Holiday village and camping site
• Hutberg ( 371.5 ) with stunning views of the Zittau Mountains ( Listen ). In the spring of 2010, a new panorama plate was inaugurated.
• Adventure climbing park with 7 courses

Regular events

The annual greeting Schinner Schiss'n is a Jacobi market in Neugersdorf comparable festival. The tradition of " once the second largest festival after Gierschdurfer Schiss'n " goes back to the year 1844.

Traffic

Road

Grossschönau located southwest of the B 96 and B 178 as well as to the state roads 135, 136, 137 and 138 adjacent to Varnsdorf in the Czech Republic, there is a border crossing for cars and buses. In the district Herrenwalde there is a continuous paved road to Dolni Podluzi (low base ). This transition is touristy available for cyclists, walkers. The tourist village transition Walter - Dolni Svetla (low light forest ) is also not already provided on the basis of the situation in LSG Zittau Mountains / PLA Lusatian Mountains and on Lauschemoor to open for cars.

Bus

By Grossschönau take several regional bus lines of the haulage company triangle. The districts Walter village and village hall are connected to the network of public transport.

Railway

Grossschönau has a station on the railway line Zittau - Varnsdorf - inclusive, which leads between Grossschönau and Seifhennersdorf by the Czech Varnsdorf. By December 2010, the line was operated in passenger with through trains from Liberec over Zittau to Seifhennersdorf by the Mandaubahn. The original cross-border to Eibau further connection, however, was discontinued in December 2006. Since December 2010, the Vogtlandbahn has several times the national border between Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland adopted under the brand name Trilex the traffic on these intersecting bond. On the stretch of Liberec -Zittau - Grossschönau - Varnsdorf trains run every hour. Here railcars Desiro series are used, which are staffed with bilingual board staff.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Johann Eleazar Zeissig (called " Schenau ", 1737-1806 ), painter
• Ernst Friedrich Richter (1808-1879), cantor and professor in Leipzig
• Gustav ferryman (1835-1913), the Reichstag and Landtag
• Hermann Wenzel (1863-1944), composer
• Alwin Brandes (1866-1949), SPD politician, member of the Reichstag
• Käthe Dorn (1866 - ), writer
• Peter Herrmann ( born 1937 ), painter
• Helga Böhnisch (* 1945), politician (The Left )
• Werner Müller ( * 1949 ), mathematician
• Monika Schulz- Hoepfner (* 1955), CDU politician