Baruth near Bautzen
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Baruth
Beard Community Malschwitz
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 29 ″ N , 14 ° 35 ′ 32 ″ E
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| Height : | 149–158 m above sea level NN |
| Residents : | 409 (December 31, 2016) |
| Incorporation : | March 1, 1994 |
| Postal code : | 02694 |
| Area code : | 035932 |
 Restaurant "Sonne" with rectory and church in the background
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Baruth , in Upper Sorbian Bart , is a medium-sized village in the east of the Saxon district of Bautzen . It belongs to Upper Lusatia and has belonged to the Malschwitz municipality since the municipal reform in 1994 . The place is officially part of the Sorbian settlement area , but de facto the language has almost disappeared from everyday life in Baruth.
geography
The place is 15 km northeast of Bautzen in a hilly landscape in the valley of the Löbauer water at 152 m above sea level. NN. The western area is flat and is crossed by Albrechtsbach , Kotitzer Wasser and several smaller rivers, while in the east a ridge rises to about 200 m. Its highest point is the 207 m high Schafberg north of the village. To the northeast of Baruth (towards Groß Saubernitz ) there are extensive forest areas.
Baruth is an extended manor village; the settlement structure arises from the block corridor . The manor house (also called "castle"), which was demolished in 1949/50, was located at the south-western end of the village. The market square of Baruth is located in the southern district. About 1 km east of the actual village is the Baruther Vorwerk "Neuer Hof".
A hidden Tertiary maar was discovered near the site . Since 1998 several research wells have been carried out, one of which is a. Hoped for insights into the climate history of the region. A nature trail was also set up.
history
The place is first mentioned in a document in 1234, even then as the manor of Henricus de Baruth . In 1268 the Baruth reign was mentioned in a document. Remains of Slavic and German fortifications are known from earlier times.
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In the Battle of Bautzen in May 1813, the fiercest fighting took place in Preititz , a little to the west , the Baruther Schafberg as a height overlooking the battlefield represented a strategically favorable position, which was mainly used by the Russian General Barclay de Tolly . From 1815 to 1945 the border between the kingdoms of Saxony and Prussia ran 3 km east of Baruth.
Until 1994 Baruth was an independent rural community with the districts Dubrauke (since 1950), Buchwalde with Gleina and Rackel with Brießnitz and Cannewitz (all since 1974).
population
The last population data for the municipality of Baruth give 1493 inhabitants for 1990. Without the districts of Buchwalde and Rackel, a population of around 500 can therefore be assumed for the place Baruth. In 1890 the place had 465 inhabitants. The number of inhabitants has decreased since reunification and is now around 410.
For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined 523 inhabitants in Baruth in the 1880s, 425 of them Sorbs (81%) and 98 Germans. In 1956, the Sorbian-speaking population in the municipality was still 54.6%. Since then it has continued to decline sharply.
religion
Baruth has a Protestant parish church. The last information on religious affiliation comes from 1925. At that time 523 of 533 inhabitants were Evangelical Lutheran (98%). The parish of Gröditz with the parishes of Baruth, Weißenberg / Kittlitz and Gröditz has its seat in Baruth.
Economy and Infrastructure
In Basaltwerk on Sheep Mountain near Baruth end of 2000 stone was broken by the 1930th Today the factory premises serve as a technical museum. The Baruth basalt quarry is the northernmost of its kind in Germany. The partly still functional machines of the plant are maintained by a local development association and in 2010 they were the first location for a historical film by the Rackel eV youth club
education
Baruth has a primary school with 105 students. Almost half of them also learn the Sorbian language here . It is the only elementary school in the Malschwitz community. The Baruth Middle School is closed.
traffic
Baruth is a few kilometers north of Autobahn 4 . The next connection points are Weißenberg (direction Görlitz , 8 km) and Bautzen-Ost (direction Dresden , 13 km). Local roads connect the place with Malschwitz (7 km), Kleinsaubernitz (5 km) and Weißenberg (9 km). A concrete slab road leads to Preititz .
Baruth had a train station on the Löbau – Radibor railway line, which opened in 1906 . From 1972 this was only used for goods traffic from the Baruth basalt works in a westerly direction and finally shut down in 1995. The line to Löbau had already been dismantled beforehand.
Attractions
- Baruth Castle Park
- Technical monument Basaltwerk Baruth
- Baruther Maar, nature trail
Personalities
- Jan von Baruth, founder of the town of Rattimau ( Vratimov ) in Moravia
- Gottfried Ludovici (1670–1724), Protestant theologian, hymn poet and hymnologist
literature
- Cornelius Gurlitt : Baruth. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 31. Booklet: Bautzen Official Authority (Part I) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1908, p. 2.
- Margarete Hamer-Princess of Lippe-Weißenfeld: 275 years of Lippe-Weißenfeld. Volume 1: Hike from the Lippe region to Lusatia. Based on family history sources. Sollermann, Leer / Ostfriesland 2009, ISBN 978-3-938897-30-0 .
- Margarete Hamer-Princess of Lippe-Weißenfeld: 275 years of Lippe-Weißenfeld. Volume 2: Hike from Lipper Land via Niederlausitz to Oberlausitz. Based on family history sources. Oberlausitzer Verlag Nürnberger, Spitzkunnersdorf 2017, ISBN 978-3-936867-68-8 .
- Margarete Hamer-Princess to Lippe-Weißenfeld: Baruth in Saxony 1945–1950. A time study. Oberlausitzer Verlag Nürnberger, Spitzkunnersdorf 2004.
- Margarete Hamer-Princess zur Lippe-Weißenfeld: Escape of a twelve-year-old. In: Adam von Watzdorf, Agnes von Kopp-Colomb, Henning von Kopp-Colomb (eds.): Book of fate 2 of the Saxon-Thuringian nobility: 1945 to 1989 and from the turn of the century to 2005. CA Starke, Limburg an der Lahn 2005, ISBN 3-7980-0606-7 , pp. 333–347 (From the German Aristocratic Archives NF 6).
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- ↑ C. v. W. (ie: Friedrich Carl Ferdinand von Müffling, called Carl von Weiß): The Prussian-Russian campaign in 1813. From the opening to the armistice of June 5, 1813. With the plan of the battle of Groß-Görschen, the Battle of Bautzen and the Battle of Haynau. Kayser, Breslau 1813.
- ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 50 .
- ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 244 .
- ^ Parish Gröditz
- ^ Baruth basalt works
- ↑ Hartsteinwerke Ostsachsen
- ^ Baruth elementary school , school year 2007/08
Web links
- Baruth in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
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Baruth (beard) | Briesing (Brězynka) | Brießnitz (Brězecy) | Brösa (Brězyna) | Buchwalde (Bukojna) | Cannewitz (Skanecy) | Doberschütz (Dobrošecy) | Dubrauke (Dubrawka) | Gleina (Hlina) | Guttau (Hućina) | Halbendorf / Spree (Połpica) | Small buildings (Budyšink) | Kleinsaubernitz (Zubornička) | Lieske (Lěskej) | Lömischau (Lemišow) | Malschwitz (Malešecy) | Neudorf / Spree (Nowa Wjes / Sprjewja) | Niedergurig (Delnja Hórka) | Pliesskowitz (Plusnikecy) | Preititz (Přiwćicy) | Rackel (Rakojdy) | Ruhethal (Wotpočink) | Wartha (Stróža)