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Ludwigsdorf (Görlitz)

human settlement in Germany

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ1875407 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ludwigsdorf is a village and a former municipality in Saxony, Germany. It has been part of Görlitz since 1 January 1999. It has 757 inhabitants (July 2021). Together with the village Ober-Neundorf it is the northernmost part of the city.

There is a customs office Ludwigsdorf at the motorway border crossing.

Literature

Noky/Oelsner/Frenchkowsky: Dachwerke des 12. Jahrhundert in der OL. Ein Zwischenbericht zu den Untersuchungen an der Kirche zu Ludwigsdorf bei Görlitz. In: Denkmalpflege in Görlitz. 14.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ludwigsdorf (Görlitz)” is human settlement in Germany. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Ludwigsdorf, Görlitz and human, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Ludwigsdorf, Görlitz and human is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1875407. VIAF identifies the subject as 236594206. Authority coordinates are 51.197, 15.000. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1999 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ludwigsdorf (Görlitz)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.