Waldhufen
Waldhufen is a municipality in the district Görlitz, Saxony, which belongs to the administrative organization Diehsa. The parish seat is located in the district Jänkendorf, the association's headquarters in the eponymous district Diehsa.
Geography
The community forest homestead located in the central part of the district. It is located about 8 km south of the city Niesky and 12 km west of the county town of Görlitz. It lies between the Königshainer mountains in the south and the forest and pond rich Upper Lusatian Heath and Pond Landscape in the north. The country is mainly through rolling hills. The municipality borders with the municipalities Jänkendorf and Diehsa to the reservoir Quitzdorf in which the Black Schoeps is dammed.
The municipality includes the villages:
- Diehsa,
- Jänkendorf,
- Lower Seifersdorf,
- Thiemendorf,
- Attendorf,
- Baarsdorf,
- Ullersdorf,
- Wilhelminenthal,
- Sheep.
History
The community Waldhufen is a new formation, created on 1 March 1994, when the independent villages Diehsa, Jänkendorf, Lower Seifersdorf and Thiemendorf merged. The name alludes to the existing settlement form of the villages that are created as Waldhufen villages.
The town was first mentioned as Jänkendorf Jenikendorff in 1346 in a document, Thieme village was first mentioned in a short time later in the year 1389th Diehsa was first documented in the 14th century and also received in 1670 the market rights.
Memorials
A plaque on his former home in Thiemendorf reminiscent of the trade unionists and opponents of Hitler Preuser Fritz, who was murdered in 1942 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
Attractions
- Reservoir Quitzdorf
- Königshainer mountains
- Center of Jänkendorf with local government, church and rectory
- Church in Ullersdorf from the years 1629/1630
- Park of the former castle Ullersdorf
- Ullersdorfer ponds
- Diehsaer church from 15-16. century
- Rectory in Diehsa, built by 1730-1735
- The Gewandhaus of Diehsa of 1841
- Marketplace in Diehsa with the unique European market bowers
- Fortified church of 1225 in Lower Seifersdorf
- Home exchange at low Seifersdorf
Economy and infrastructure
Transport links
North of the village runs the federal highway 115, south of State Road 6 The Federal Highway 4 runs through the municipality and can be reached via the low Seifersdorf connection. The tunnel Königshainer mountains, with 3.3 kilometers of one of the longest highway tunnel in Germany, resulting in Waldhufen by the Königshainer mountains.