Neugersdorf
50.97888888888914.610833333333413Koordinaten: 50 ° 58 ' 44 " N, 14 ° 36' 39" E
Location of Neugersdorf in Saxony
Neugersdorf [ ˌ ˌ nɔʏɡɛrs dɔrf ] ( Upper Lusatian dialect: Gierschdurf ) is a district of the town of Ebersbach- Neugersdorf in the district of Görlitz. The district is located in the south-east of Saxony to the Czech border.
- 3.1 Coat of Arms
- 3.2 Town twinning
- 4.1 traffic
- 5.1 Structures
- 5.2 memorials
- 5.3 Sport
- 5.4 Regular events
- 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
- 6.2 persons related to Neugersdorf
Geography
Neugersdorf is located in the headwaters of the River Spree on the German- Czech border in the Lusatian mountains and occupies the southern part of the city Ebersbach- Neugersdorf one. With a railway station located on the busy Neugersdorf in relation Dresden Bischofswerda -Zittau - Liberec railway line of the South - Lausitz track.
Surrounding places are Ebersbach / Sa. in the Northwest, forest village in the northeast, and Eibau Neueibau in the east, in the southeast Leutersdorf, Seifhennersdorf in the south, Rumburk in the southwest and Filipov in the West.
History
Neugersdorf was first mentioned in May 1306. In a document of Margrave Otto and Woldemar of Brandenburg, Lusatia and Landsberg, she was referred to as Gherardesdorpp. The place was nicknamed as evil Gerhard Dorff ( 1408), Gerhartstorff malum (1419), Bösengerisdorff (1419), this suggest that unfavorable economic conditions prevailed. Another variant may have sprung from the alleged brigandage of feudal farm owner.
On June 10, 1429, the town was completely destroyed by the Hussites. The village instead stayed for centuries without form, and überwaldete. A checkered history followed. The owner kept changing. In 1657, the village of New Gersdorf was founded on the parcel Gersdorfer forest. Its first inhabitants were refugees who built 26 houses. A few years later there was another creation, this time from the Czech refugees who started with eight houses Alt- Gersdorf.
As agriculture did not provide sufficient conditions for the livelihood, the new residents used their brought knowledge of weaving, thus establishing a long tradition of textile industry in this area.
Although both villages were self-employed and various manors belonged, they gradually grew together and fused increasingly through personal connections, shared associations and public institutions, such as church, volunteer fire department, registrar's office, bank, railway station, post office.
The industrial flowering of the 19th century also brought economic boom after Neugersdorf. Villas, commercial buildings, factories were built and inhabited new zoning and industrial areas.
The textile industry laid the economic foundation, this was supported by the introduction of steam power (3 February 1855) and the railway connection (1 November 1874). The development of the textile industry and the textile engineering has led to companies with international reputation.
On January 1, 1899, the two villages have grown together Old and New Gersdorf Gersdorf united to the new community " Old and Neugersdorf ". In September of the same year the name was changed to Neugersdorf. Twenty-five years later, on 15 December 1924 Neugersdorf became a town.
Place-name forms
1732: Gerßdorff, 1759: New greed Dorff, 1791: Gersdorf, 1834: New Gersdorf, 1875: Neugersdorf b. Ebersbach
On January 1, 2011, with the city Ebersbach / Sa. a fusion community under the name " Ebersbach- Neugersdorf " performed.
Management affiliation
1777: Bautzen district, 1843 district court district of Bautzen, 1856: Court District Ebersbach, 1875: Amtshauptmannschaft Lobau, 1952: Circle Lobau, 1994: County Lobau -Zittau, 2008: district of Görlitz
Population Development
Policy
Coat of arms
The city had its heraldic animal, the crane, located at the southern foot of the mountain of Beer Crane puddle, an old cattle trough borrowed. So already in 1740 its name has given rise to use a crane in court seal. In 1931, seven years after the collection to the city, the city arms, the crane was with the Horseshoe in the right claw, awarded. The city colors were black and yellow.
Twinning
- Hessian community Gruendau
- Polish city Krapkowice ( Krappitz )
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
Neugersdorf has three border crossings for cars to the Czech Republic. These are:
- Neugersdorf bypass S 148 - Rumburk ( Rumburg )
- Neugersdorf main street - Jiříkov (Georg Walde )
- Neugersdorf Rudolf -Breitscheid Street - Jiříkov (Georg Walde )
At the central market square in the city center (Karl -Marx -Platz) is a KVG triangle bus station. The CCG operates the following bus routes, the city Neugersdorf:
- Line 3 ( Olbersdorf - Neugersdorf - OppachEquipment and back)
- Line 48 ( Seifhennersdorf - Eibau - Neugersdorf and back)
- Line 49 ( Eibau - Seifhennersdorf - Neugersdorf - Ebersbach and back)
- Line 50 ( Lobau - OppachEquipment - Neugersdorf and back)
- Line 55 ( Lobau - Kottmarsdorf - Neugersdorf and back)
- Line 56 ( Lobau - Obercunnersdorf - Neugersdorf and back)
Neugersdorf also has a break point on the railway line Oberoderwitz - Wilthen, which trains the lines RE2 and is operated RB61 towards Dresden and Zittau.
Culture and sights
- Neugersdorf Spree source, the most abundant of the three Spree sources.
- Municipality Büttner Born - typical Oberlausitzer Umgebindehäuser
Structures
- Bismarck Tower, built in 1904
- Evangelical Lutheran Church Baroque church, built from 1735 to 1738; after reconstruction and rehabilitation work in 1872, 64 meters high tower was built ( present form )
- Water tower from 1929, widely visible landmark Neugersdorfs
Memorials
In a green area in front of the town hall, a memorial commemorates the victims of fascism.
Sports
The most important sports club of Neugersdorf is FC Upper Lusatia Neugersdorf. He played 2006-2013 in the sechstklassigen Football League Saxony. Since the rise of 2013, the first men's team plays in the fünftklassigen NOFV- Oberliga Süd. The sporty and successful period was from 2001 to 2006, when the club played in the south of the season then fourth division football league northeast.
Regular events
The annual Jacobi Market ( Gierschdurfer Schiss'n ) is the largest festival in the Upper Lusatia. As a birth year of the Jacobi market is the year 1728, when the company received its privileged Protect " confirmierten Schützenmatrikel " by the Prince of Liechtenstein.
- GDR times NKC ( Neugersdorf Carnival Club )
- Since 1991 Oberlausitzer Karnevalsgesellschaft Neugersdorf eV - OKG
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Johann Gottlob Schneider Jr. (1789-1864), organist and composer
- Ernst Moritz Ludwig Ettmüller (1802-1877) professor of Old German language and literature at the upper secondary school in Zurich and later at the University. He was a close friend of Richard Wagner, Gottfried Keller and Ludwig Uhland.
- Hermann Herzog (1844-1904), a textile manufacturer and member of the Reichstag
- Reinhold Hoffmann (1847-1912), a textile manufacturer and member of the Reichstag
- Bruno Büchner (1871-1943), cycling and car racing, aviation pioneer
- Georg Bierbaum (1889-1953), archaeologist
- Hermann Ullrich (1900-1986), botanist, professor in Bonn and Stuttgart
Persons with respect to Neugersdorf
- Carl Melzer (1849-1928) from 1880 to 1916 pastor of Neugersdorf. In 1903 he published the chronicle of Neugersdorf.