Bergen (Elsterheide)

Bergen ; Hory Community Elsterheide Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 1 ″ N , 14 ° 13 ′ 35 ″ E
Height :	115 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.36 km²
Residents :	639 (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	87 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	April 1, 1938
Incorporated into:	Neuwiese
Postal code :	02979
Area code :	03571
	House in mountains

Aerial view

Bergen , Hory in Upper Sorbian ^?^/ⁱ , is a village in the municipality of Elsterheide in the Bautzen district in Saxony , which together with the neighboring Neuwiese forms the district of Neuwiese / Bergen . The place belongs to the official Sorbian settlement area . The municipality of Elsterheide is located in Bergen.

geography

Bergen is located in Upper Lusatia on the border with Lower Lusatia and in the center of the Lusatian Lake District . Surrounding towns are Bluno in the north, Seidewinkel with the residential area Klein Seidewinkel in the east, the western part of the city of Hoyerswerda in the south, Neuwiese in the south-west and Geierswalde and Klein Partwitz in the north-west.

The county road 9213 runs through Bergen, and the Saxon state road 234 from Hoyerswerda to Senftenberg runs south past Bergen. Bergen is located in the Lusatian Lakeland and in the former Lusatian coal mining area and in the north by Neuwieser lake , from Blunoer South Seas and from Sabrodter lake surrounded.

history

Bergen was first mentioned in a document in 1744 and was then called Ober-Neuwiese . The name of the place means place on the mountains , as the place is higher than the neighboring Neuwiese.

At the time of its first mention, Bergen belonged to the Kingdom of Prussia . Bergen was an independent municipality until April 1, 1936, after which the place was incorporated into the Neuwiese municipality. On July 25, 1952, the place was assigned to the district of Hoyerswerda and was after the fall in the district of Hoyerswerda in Saxony . On July 1, 1995, Neuwiese / Bergen was merged with the previously independent municipalities of Bluno , Geierswalde , Klein Partwitz , Nardt , Sabrodt , Seidewinkel and Tätzschwitz to form the new municipality of Elsterheide . This was from January 1, 1996 to July 31, 2008 in the district of Kamenz , since the Saxon district reform on August 1, 2008 , the municipality has been in the district of Bautzen .

Population and language

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 285 in 1884, of which 284 were Sorbs (99.6%) and only one was German.

Web links

Commons : Bergen / Hory - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Neuwiese and Bergen on the website of the municipality of Elsterheide

Individual evidence

↑ Bergen in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony.Retrieved on May 15, 2017
↑ Neuwiese / Bergen - Nowa Łuka / Hory. elsterheide.de, accessed on May 15, 2017 .
^ Bergen in the database of the Verein für Computergenealogie. Retrieved May 15, 2017 .
↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 89 .

[1] Bergen in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony.Retrieved on May 15, 2017

[2] Neuwiese / Bergen - Nowa Łuka / Hory. elsterheide.de, accessed on May 15, 2017 .

[3] Bergen in the database of the Verein für Computergenealogie. Retrieved May 15, 2017 .

[4] Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 89 .