Brießnitz (Malschwitz)

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Community Malschwitz
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 47 ″  N , 14 ° 36 ′ 22 ″  E
Height : 164–186 m above sea level NN
Residents : 58  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation : April 1, 1936
Incorporated into: Rackel
Postal code : 02694
Area code : 035932
Brießnitz, aerial photo (2017)

Brießnitz , Brězecy in Upper Sorbian ? / i , is a village in the East Saxon district of Bautzen and has been part of the Malschwitz community since 1994 . It is located in Upper Lusatia and is in the Sorbian settlement area . Audio file / audio sample

geography

Brießnitz on the measuring table sheet from 1906

Brießnitz is a typical Rundweiler village about 14 km east of Bautzen and 4 km northwest of Weißenberg . It is located directly on the northern slope of the Upper Lusatian hilly landscape at the transition to the lowlands. There are differences in altitude of more than 20 meters in the village itself. To the northwest, west and south, the terrain slopes down to the floodplain of Löbauer Water , while it rises to over 200 m in an easterly and northeastern direction. The area is used for agriculture.

The next neighboring town is Cortnitz , which already belongs to the town of Weißenberg, only 500 meters to the east. The church village of Gröditz is in the southeast, Nechern in the south, Rackel in the west and Baruth in the northwest .

Brießnitz is the most southeastern part of the municipality of Malschwitz.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1413 as Bresewicz . Briessnitz never owned his own manor; the manor was at the neighboring Gut Baruth. The majority of the building stock - mostly four-sided courtyards - comes from the last third of the 19th century. Around 1900 there was also a windmill a little west of Brießnitz.

The elevation of the terrain near Brießnitz was in the battle of Bautzen in May 1813, due to its favorable position, the reason that fierce battles occurred between Baruth, Rackel and Gröditz.

Until April 1, 1936 Brießnitz was an independent rural community; then it was first incorporated into Rackel and with this on February 1, 1974 to Baruth. On January 1, 1994, the community of Baruth came to the new large community Malschwitz.

In the village you can still find examples of the typical Upper Lusatian half- timbered houses , which were widespread throughout the region until the 19th century.

Place name

The place name is of Sorbian origin and is derived from brěza ("birch"); Brězecy means something like " birch village ". Historical forms of names include a. Bresitz (1498, 1615), Prießnitz (1653), Brößnitz (1711) and Bresnitz (1732).

population

Brießnitz was in 1834 with 107 inhabitants significantly larger than today; in the 19th century the population fell by a quarter. In 1884/85 Arnošt Muka had 75 inhabitants, 72 of whom were Sorbs . Only since the middle of the 20th century has the use of Sorbian in the village declined due to assimilation and the influx of German speakers. To date, the population has continued to decrease slightly.

The population has been almost exclusively Evangelical-Lutheran since the Reformation and has been parish to Gröditz since the 16th century .

swell

  • Olaf Bastian, Henriette Joseph, Haik Thomas Porada: Oberlausitzer Heide- und Teichlandschaft - a regional study , Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2005, p. 338
  1. ^ Walter Wenzel: Oberlausitzer Ortnamesbuch. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 2008, p. 41
  2. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.

Web links

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