Leutersdorf

Leutersdorf ( Upper Lusatian dialect: Leckerschdurf ) is a municipality in the district Görlitz, Saxony, with the same capital.

Geography

Leutersdorf is located south of Upper Lusatia, close to the Czech border. Neighboring municipalities are Seifhennersdorf, Grossschönau and Varnsdorf in the south, Ebersbach- Neugersdorf the northwest, Kottmar in the north and in the east or joke.

The area contains several smaller mountains:

Upper Oderwitz Spitzberg (510 m)
Spitzkunnersdorfer Spitzberg (471 m)
Varnsdorfer Spitzberg ( 544 m)
Guard Mountain (452 m)

Local structure

The municipality is divided into the following districts Leutersdorf:

Consequence,
Hetzwalde,
Leutersdorf,

Neuwalde,
Concern,
Spitzkunnersdorf

History

Leutersdorf 1347 First mentioned in records under the name Lutgersdorf or Luitgersdorf. Spitzkunnersdorf was first mentioned in the same year as Kirchdorf Cunarsdorf and 1384 as Connersdorf. The villages were divided in the 15th and 16th centuries several times under different local aristocratic gentlemen.

Central and Oberleutersdorf and Cunnersdorf came in 1635 with the Upper Lusatia under the rule of the Elector of Saxony. Large parts of the current municipal area with Dutch udder village, belonging to the reign Rumburg remained part of the Kingdom of Bohemia. The Lords of Rumburg, since 1681 members of the House of Liechtenstein were the largest part of this area initially manage through a noble Grange. In the 18th century there arose the towns of Joseph Village, Neuwalde and Neuleutersdorf. 1784 a village judge was appointed to Dutch udder village, so the place was a separate municipality. Ecclesiastical included the Catholic residents but Rumburg.

In 1848 the Bohemian enclave of Saxony and 1849 Neuwalde was incorporated into Dutch udder village. 1870 Central and Oberleutersdorf were combined to form a community and in 1907 was made of low-, high - and Mittelleutersdorf and Joseph Hetzwalde village and the municipality of Leutersdorf formed in 1922 and the Catholic Neuleutersdorf joined. Since 1 January 1998 Spitzkunnersdorf belongs to the municipality Leutersdorf.

Leutersdorf was also known by the robber captain John Karasek in the vicinity up to mischief with his gang of robbers end of the 18th century and had his hideout in the enclave.

Church building

Due to the special history of the village in the district consist Leutersdorf two larger church buildings: The Catholic Parish of the Assumption was built in 1862 to designs by the architect Carl August Schramm Zittau, a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel. A special feature of the neo-Gothic building is the nation's unique roof covering with colored beaver tails.
The Evangelical Lutheran Christ Church is a sister church of the Holy Cross Church Seifhennersdorf. The neo-Gothic building from 1865 is also easy to see that it was also designed by Carl August Schramm. It replaced a nearby church building of 1690th After an extensive renovation since 2004 due to disrepair locked church could again be opened to the public in 2006.

Regular events

Pentecostal singing in the district Spitzkunnersdorf; Whit-Monday at Hofeberg
Large Soapbox Race in the district Spitzkunnersdorf; annually on the last Saturday in June
Summer Festival of the clubs in the district Spitzkunnersdorf; annually on the first weekend in August, on the sports field
UNICEF Party at the Forest Hills- in the district Spitzkunnersdorf; annually in September
Euro Regional Chess Week ( includes a total of three tournaments for different target groups)

Personalities

John Heart (1877-1960), Lutheran theologian and pastor
Aloys Scholze (* 1893 in Dresden, † 1942 in the Dachau concentration camp), Catholic priest in Leutersdorf
Joachim Gocht (* 1935, † 2008), jazz musician and entertainment
Günter Gocht ( born 1938 ), jazz musician and entertainment
Konrad Beyreuther ( b. 1941 ), professor of molecular biology at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg as well as volunteer State Council for Life and Health in the state government of Baden- Württemberg
Siegfried fungus (1925-2011), art cyclists

Freeman

2011 Erika Rother

Traffic

The breakpoint Leutersdorf was on the railway line Mittelherwigsdorf - Varnsdorf - Eibau; However, here hold no more passenger trains. By KVG triangle bus links to all-inclusive, Neugersdorf, Zittau and Olbersdorf.

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