Old brick barn

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Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 17 ″  N , 14 ° 13 ′ 12 ″  E
Height : 175 m above sea level NN
Residents : 50  (Dec. 31, 2016)
Incorporation : 1879
Incorporated into: Cuckoo
Postal code : 01920
Area code : 035796
Aerial view (facing east)
Aerial view (facing east)

Alte Ziegelscheune , Stara Cyhelnica in Upper Sorbian , is a village in the center of the Bautzen district in Upper Lusatia and has been part of the Panschwitz-Kuckau community since 1957 . Old brick barn is located in the Sorbian core settlement area halfway from Kuckau to Crostwitz on the Trjebinka stream . Most of the population speaks Sorbian .

The neighboring towns are Caseritz in the north, Crostwitz in the east and Kuckau in the west.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1718 as brick slips . The manorial power lay with the St. Marienstern Monastery , which led to the Alte Ziegelscheune remaining Catholic after the Reformation .

Alte Ziegelscheune was an independent rural community until 1879, when it was incorporated into Kuckau .

population

According to Arnošt Muka's statistics , in 1884 all 58 inhabitants were Sorbs. In 1956, Ernst Tschernik determined a Sorbian-speaking population of 84.8% in the municipality of Kuckau.

The Catholic population is parish to Crostwitz .

Individual evidence

  1. Old brick barn in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  2. Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
  3. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995

Web links

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