Breitendorf

Breitendorf Community Hochkirch Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 28 "  N , 14 ° 37 ′ 26"  E
Height :	253  (252–346)  m above sea level NHN
Residents :	166  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1994
Postal code :	02627
Area code :	03585

Aerial panorama

Breitendorf ( Sorbian Wujezd ^{? / I} ) is a village and part of the municipality of Hochkirch on the eastern edge of the Bautzen district in Saxony .

geography

Breitendorf and the surrounding area

Zschorna and Spittel in the north, Wohla in the east and Eiserode and Lehn in the south border the Breitendorfer Flur, which covers 3.74 square kilometers . The highest elevation is the Wohlaer Berg ( Upper Sorbian Byčin ) northeast of the village, which became known as the “General Hill of Upper Lusatia” during the Seven Years' War . From the upstream elevation, which is 346 meters above sea level, in good weather there is a view of up to 50 km to the heather and pond landscape in the north.

history

Ober- or Lowkemühle in Breitendorf

For a long time, the community belonged to the Löbau administration (until 1952) and later to the Löbau district (1979–1994), membership changed several times between Bautzen and Löbau. In the course of the district reform in 1994 , the residents could choose between joining Kittlitz or Hochkirch in a referendum. The place came back to the district of Bautzen.

In the village, two mills powered by buttermilk water - the upper reaches of the Kotitz water - were operated, each with its own mill ponds, called Ober- or Lowkemühle and Niedermühle. The Obermühle pond is still partially preserved today and is maintained as a fire fighting pond .

population

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 281 in the 1880s, including 261 Sorbs (93%) and 20 Germans. At the end of the Second World War in 1945, the population rose to 327 at times , partly due to the reception of refugees and displaced persons. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking share of only 20% of the population in the Breitendorf community. Since then, the use of Sorbian has continued to decline in the village.

Around 1990 the population was around 190. Until 1997 the number rose temporarily to around 230, but has since declined again and has been around 180 since 2005.

religion

The majority of the population is Evangelical Lutheran. In addition to Jauernick , Breitendorf is part of the Hochkirch commune and does not belong to the local parish, but is parish to Kittlitz.

Personalities

• Johann Hortzschansky (* 1722 in Breitendorf; † 1799 in Görlitz) was a Sorbian educator, historian and philologist.

Economy and Infrastructure

The village had its own school, which was operated from 1838 to 1973. The first schoolhouse, built in 1837, was supplemented in 1878 by a larger new building on a neighboring property, as it no longer met the requirements of the Primary School Act of 1873. Above the door of the new building was the saying “Pas moje jehnjata” (“Hatch my lambs!”) In Sorbian. The population of the school district at that time was 465, the number of pupils 80 to 90. The school was a two-class, simple Sorbian-German elementary school . With the affiliation to the Hochkirch Central School in 1956, only the first four classes were taught in Breitendorf.

The first school building is now used as a residential building, the second was demolished in 2015 and replaced by a more modern building with an adjoining fire station by summer 2016 .

The volunteer fire brigade has existed in the village since 1874. The original hand pressure syringe that was purchased and built by Gustav Adolf Hänel in Dresden has been preserved in working order. Today the Breitendorfer fire brigade is one of four fire brigades in the community of Hochkirch due to its remote location. The Plotzen and Zschorna locations are subordinate as extinguishing units.

A "restaurant at the train station" was operated in the village, the rooms of which were used as a sales room for consumption until 1990 . The building is now a residential building. Even after that there was still a small shop in the village, in "Klunker", which has been closed since 2012.

The largest employer is Papuso GmbH & Co. KG from Solingen in North Rhine-Westphalia, a manufacturer of packaging materials that has been operating a production facility in Breitendorf since 2005.

Flood

On June 9, 2013 at around 1 p.m., it rained up to 70 liters per m² in Breitendorf and the surrounding area for 45 minutes. As a result, like many other rivers and streams in Saxony , the buttermilk water overflowed its banks; the water from the surrounding fields shot towards the railway bridge and flooded many houses and the fire station.

traffic

The Federal Highway 6 adjacent to the south of the width Dorfer corridor. The Görlitz – Dresden railway has been running through the town since 1846, and its own train station has existed since 1906. The station building with signal box, ticket office and waiting room was completely demolished in 1994. Since then, the station has been a stop for local trains, it is served by the Länderbahn (Trilex) and the East German Railway .

Web links

Commons : Breitendorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Breitendorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Breitendorf - unofficial website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
2. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag , Bautzen 1995, p. 244 .
3. ↑ Madeleine Siegl-Mickisch: End of school. In: Saxon newspaper. Regional edition Bautzen, June 19, 2015.