Loschwitz

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Location of the district Loschwitz in Dresden

Loschwitz is a neighborhood in the same local exchange area of Dresden.

Loschwitz is one of Dresden's villa districts. It is located northeast of the Elbe River and was formerly a spa town. The documentary was first mentioned by Losch joke is dated in the recent research on the year 1227. Since 1571, the city takes its present name. It was incorporated on January 21, 1921, despite heavy resistance among the population to Dresden. Adjacent neighborhoods are the Radeberger suburb of White Deer, Bühlau, Rochwitz, Wachwitz and the Dresdner Heide. On the opposite side of the river is blowing joke, with the Loschwitz by the " Blue Wonder" ( Loschwitzer bridge ) is connected.

An attraction in Loschwitz, a district on two steep slopes, among other things, the viewpoint Luisenhof, named after the Saxon Crown Princess Louise of Austria - Tuscany.

In Loschwitz are the Dresdner mountain railways, still serve as transport: a funicular and a cable railway, the oldest suspension railway in the world. Famous inhabitants of Loschwitz was Manfred von Ardenne, whose institute is still here today. In Loschwitz the opera singer Theo Adam and Peter Schreier live.

Since the 18th century the Loschwitzer vineyards subjected to increasingly wealthy nobles, Dresden City Celebrities and artists who built their wineries and summer homes here. The long-established wineries sold their property and worked increasingly as wage winemakers. 1805 bought by the wealthy English Earl James Ogilvy of his lords Johann Georg Christian Fischer several vineyard plots on the banks of the Elbe on the site of present-day Elbe castles ( Castle Albrecht Berg, Lingner Castle, Schloss Eckberg ).

Structure

The largest part of the district Loschwitz forms, together with Wachwitz the statistical district Losch / Wachwitz in the local exchange area Loschwitz. The westernmost Loschwitzer district between water Saloppe and Heath Park Road is today, although still located in the district Loschwitz counted for statistical district Radeberger suburb. The district Oberloschwitz which extends north of the road from the base Luisenhof to the White eagle at the Bautzen highway, is now under the name " Loschwitz Northeast" for statistical district Bühlau / Weisser Hirsch. It is divided into the statistical districts " 422 Loschwitz -northeast ( Rißweg )" and " 423 Loschwitz -northeast ( At the White Eagle )"; the border between the two runs along the valley cut at the Steglichstrasse. The term " Oberloschwitz " has come to be south of the basic road to 1945 for the district " Beautiful view " and thus became the name of the statistical district " 413 Oberloschwitz " in the area Loschwitzhöhe / Sierksplatz. Further statistical districts in Losch / Wachwitz are " 411 Loschwitz ( Schevenstr. )" and " 412 Loschwitz ( Körnerplatz ) ".

Museums

By Josef Hegenbarth archive, Leonhardiberg Museum and the Schillerhäuschen are three of the Dresden museums in the district.

Personalities

Aristocratic and bourgeois families of the Dresden intellectual life had here vineyards and summer houses, so among other things, the composer Heinrich Schütz of the early Baroque, Johann Melchior Dinglinger, the writer Theodor Körner, Friedrich Justus Güntz and the lawyer Gerhard von Kügelgen. The actress, architectural and art historian Sibyl Moholy -Nagy (1903-1971) was born in Loschwitz.

Wine

On a steep slope, the edge of the West Lusatian hill and mountain country that covers up to Meissen and Radebeul is accompanied by the course of the river Elbe, wine was produced in the days of Bishop Benno of Meissen in the 11th century. The Saxon Elector Johann Georg II had since 1660 a number of vineyards in Create Loschwitzer slope area and manage to quit-rent. From 1850 we can speak of a decline of viticulture on Loschwitzer Elbhang. The reasons were manifold: lower income as a result of centuries of monoculture, lack of young people in the wine industry or wine imports from southern Europe. The vineyards were transformed partially over a large area in fruit and berry plantations, which promised a higher profit. Especially apricots, peaches and plums but also asparagus and strawberries were grown on the sunny and warm sandy soils of the south-facing slopes. The sudden spread of phylloxera, introduced from America in 1885 was the wine for the next one hundred years completely come to a halt and turned the winery land in sought-after land. Nobility and moneyed aristocracy discovered the charming landscape in Loschwitz soon for itself and could be build on these slopes castles and villas. At her feet in place Loschwitz lived the ministering people in half-timbered houses, some of which still adorn the place.

Half-timbered house on the Elbe

King Albert Bridge in 1900 ( " Blue Wonder " )

The Schillerhäuschen in Loschwitz on the granulation Rischen vineyard. Here dwelt Schiller from autumn 1785 to summer 1787. ( Lage51.05769166666713.8131 )

Schiller grains monument in the Schiller Street, opposite the Schillerhäuschen