Editing Loschwitz

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|City = Dresden
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|plantext     = Location of Loschwitz in Dresden 
|state        =Sachsen
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|area         = 68.83
|population   = 20696
|population_as_of = 2020-12-31
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'''Loschwitz''' is a borough (''[[Geography and urban development of Dresden#City structuring|Stadtbezirk]]'') of [[Dresden]], [[Germany]], incorporated in 1921. It consists of ten quarters (''Stadtteile''):
[[Image:Loschwitz.jpg|thumb|left|Funicular]]
[[Image:050628-elbtal-vom-luisenhof.jpg|thumb|left|View from Luisenhof]]
{|
| valign="top" |
*Loschwitz
*Wachwitz
*Bühlau
*Weißer Hirsch
*Rochwitz
| valign="top" |
*Hosterwitz
*[[Pillnitz]]
*Niederpoyritz
*Oberpoyritz
*Söbrigen
|}
Loschwitz is a villa quarter located at the slopes north of the [[Elbe]] river. At the top of the hillside is the quarter of Weißer Hirsch, named after a former inn erected in 1685 by the Saxon ''kapellmeister'' [[Christoph Bernhard]], where in 1888 the [[Naturopathic medicine|naturopathic]] physician [[Heinrich Lahmann]] opened a sanatorium. The quarters of Wachwitz and [[Pillnitz]] are adjacent in the east and the ''Rosengarten'' park in the west. Loschwitz is connected with the borough of [[Blasewitz]] south of the Elbe by the [[Blue Wonder]] (''Blaues Wunder'') bridge. Furthermore, the borough encompasses large parts of the [[Dresden Heath]], the city's forest.

The old village of Loschwitz, a [[wine]]-growing area since the 11th century, was first mentioned in a 1227 deed. About 1660 [[John George II, Elector of Saxony|Elector John George II of Saxony]] had several [[vineyard]]s laid out at the hillside, that soon became a fashionable recreational and residential area for the Dresden nobility and wealthy bourgeois like the composer [[Heinrich Schütz]] or the goldsmith [[Johann Melchior Dinglinger]]. The author [[Christian Gottfried Körner]] had a cottage within the vineyards, where his guest [[Friedrich Schiller]] wrote the ''[[Ode to Joy]]'' in 1785. About 1800 [[James Ogilvy, 7th Earl of Findlater]] acquired large estates, where from 1850 the ''Elbschlösser'' (Elbe Castles) were erected: [[Schloss Albrechtsberg (Dresden)|Albrechtsberg Palace]] and Villa Stockhausen (''Lingnerschloss'') of [[Prince Albert of Prussia (1809-1872)|Prince Albert of Prussia]] as well as Eckberg Castle, finished in 1861.

The [[Loschwitz Church|church]] is of especial architectural and historical interest, as is the churchyard, for the many burials of notable people. It was full by about 1800 and was replaced by [[Loschwitz Cemetery]].

A popular place is the restaurant ''Luisenhof'', built in 1895 and named after [[Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany|Crown Princess Luise of Saxony]]. The "Dresden balcony" offers a panoramic view of the city and the Elbe valley. Nearby is the [[Standseilbahn Dresden]] funicular railway as well as the [[Schwebebahn Dresden]], the oldest suspension railway of the world, which both are still in use.

Nobility and rich citizens of Dresden used to live in Loschwitz such as [[Theodor Körner (author)|Theodor Körner]], [[Carl Maria von Weber]] and [[Gerhard von Kügelgen]]. A famous inhabitant of Weißer Hirsch was the inventor [[Manfred von Ardenne]] with his institute for scientific research. One of his neighbours was the retired officer [[Friedrich Paulus]], commander in the [[Battle of Stalingrad]], who died here in 1957. Also a number of famous people stayed in Loschwitz for a short time: [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]], [[Heinrich von Kleist]], [[Ernst Moritz Arndt]], [[Novalis]], [[Ludwig Tieck]], [[Alexander von Humboldt|Alexander]] and [[Wilhelm von Humboldt]], [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]], [[Leopold Auer]] and [[Anton Graff]]. Between the 1920s and 1930s Loschwitz used to be the most expensive living area of all Europe.

This is evidenced in the surviving funicular railway, originally placed as an aid purely to residents in ascending the steep slopes of the river valley, and only recently having acquired novelty as a minor tourist attraction.  Recently restored and operated by the local public transportation agency.

==See also==
* [[Elbhangfest]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.dresdner-stadtteile.de Dresdner-Stadtteile.de] (About 100 Dresden city quarters, a private website in German)


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