Zschorna (Hochkirch)

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Community Hochkirch
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 30 ″  N , 14 ° 37 ′ 15 ″  E
Height : 225-248 m
Residents : 110  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation : April 1, 1977
Incorporated into: Kotitz
Postal code : 02627
Area code : 035939
Aerial view

Zschorna , in Sorbian Čornjow ? / i , is a village in the east of the Saxon district of Bautzen , which belongs to the municipality of Hochkirch . It belongs to Upper Lusatia and belongs to the official Sorbian settlement area . Audio file / audio sample

geography

Zschorna and Kleinzschorna on a historical measuring table

The place is located 4 kilometers northwest of the community center Hochkirch at an altitude of 240 meters above sea level. The neighboring towns are Lauske in the north, Spittel in the southeast, Breitendorf in the south and Kohlwesa in the west. The nearest cities are Weißenberg, five kilometers to the north, and Löbau , eight kilometers to the south-east.

After the settlement, Zschorna is a relaxed square village.

history

In the north of the village there is a large burial ground from the Billendorfer culture from the beginning of the Iron Age (700 to 500 BC) with numerous ceramics as well as needles made of bronze and bone - they were recovered in a sand pit between 1895 and 1929. Shortly before Lauske of rises on the right bank Kotitzer water the Zschornaer Schanze , a semicircular Wallburg .

In 1381 the place is mentioned as Czornaw, later names are Czornum (1419), Zcorn (1448), Tzschorna (1618) and finally Zschorna (1730).

Until 1977, Zschorna and the Klein-Zschorna district were an independent rural community. Then it was incorporated into Kotitz . In 1994 the place came to Hochkirch.

Zschorna fiddler mill

population

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 189 inhabitants for the place in the 1880s; 167 of them were Sorbs (88%) and 22 were Germans. When Ernst Tschernik was counted in 1956, Zschornau, which was still 62 percent Sorbian-speaking, formed a majority island, while German was already spoken by the majority in all neighboring towns. Since then, the proportion of Sorbian speakers has also decreased significantly here.

Until the beginning of the Second World War, the population fluctuated between around 140 and 200 and rose to 219 at times by 1950, partly due to the admission of refugees and displaced persons . Since then the population has been slowly decreasing. Around 130 residents were registered around 2000, and around 120 since 2006.

Most of the inhabitants are Evangelical Lutheran. The place is parish to Hochkirch.

Personalities

  • In 1828 the future pastor Karl August Jentsch , Korla Awgust Jenč in Upper Sorbian , was born in Zschorna . After school and studies, he took up the pastor's post in Pohla near Bischofswerda in 1855 . He is also important as a literary historian, especially through his bibliography of the Sorbian books published in Lusatia and his work on the Sorbian language. As a lecturer he worked on the eighth edition of the Sorbian Bible in 1860. Jentsch died in Pohla in 1895. His tombstone is still preserved in front of the entrance to the church.
  • Johann August Strauch , Jan Awgust Kerk in Upper Sorbian , was born in Zschorna in 1865. The later Pirna senior teacher and brother-in-law of the Sorbian folklorist Arnošt Muka (German Ernst Mucke) worked as a writer with memories after his retirement. He was also active in several Sorbian clubs. In 1938 he died in Pirna.

literature

  • Karl August Kubitz: Description of the parish Hochkirch , in: Neue Sächsische Kirchengalerie, 1903
  • Hochkirch before the Czorneboh . The beautiful Bautzener Land, issue 12, Bautzen 1965
  • Between Strohmberg, Czorneboh and Kottmar (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 24). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1974.

Web links

Commons : Zschorna / Čornjow  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Zschorna in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
  2. ^ Sorbian Institute: Biographies on Sorbian Folklore