Teicha Manor

The oldest known documented mention of Teicha dates back to 1366, when a Nickil von dem Tiche was recorded in the oldest Görlitz city book. Until the beginning of the 16th century, the village still belonged to the manorial lordship of Daubitz; from 1532 at the latest, this was then exercised by the manor in Teicha. In the course of the Peace of Prague in 1635, Teicha, along with Upper and Lower Lusatia, passed from the Kingdom of Bohemia to the Electorate of Saxony. Saxony, elevated to a kingdom in 1806, had to accept large territorial cessions to Prussia at the Congress of Vienna, so that Teicha also became Prussian from 1815 for the next 130 years. As part of an administrative reform, Teicha came in 1816 to the newly founded district of Rothenburg (Ob. Laus.) in the Prussian province of Silesia. Its first district administrator was Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von Roeder, who owned the Teicha estate until 1813. The Görlitz cloth manufacturer Lehmann bought the manor in 1945, where he set up a restaurant with weekly dance and cinema events. From 1948, the manor house was leased to the district, which housed a tuberculosis sanatorium there. The building became public property in 1957 and served from 1966 to 1990 as an outpatient clinic of the Weißwasser hospital for the care of up to 40 chronically ill patients.