Briesing

Briesing Brězynka Community Malschwitz Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 10 ″  N , 14 ° 29 ′ 15 ″  E
Height :	150 m above sea level NN
Residents :	111  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation :	April 1, 1936
Incorporated into:	Low
Postal code :	02694
Area code :	03591

Briesing , Brězynka 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 .

geography

Briesing on the measuring table sheet from 1906

Briesing is an extended round hamlet in the south of the Upper Lusatian pond landscape about seven kilometers northeast of Bautzen and 2 km west of Malschwitz. The place is in the floodplain of the Spree , directly on its left bank. To the west, the terrain rises up to 200 m in the direction of Großdubrau ; the flat Spreeaue, which is used for pond farming, extends to the east and north. The Wauretz pond connects directly to Briesing to the north . Originally there was also a pond ( Hatschanske's pond ) on the southern edge of the village , but it was drained after the Second World War.

The original Rundweiler is that part of the village near the Spree; the houses in the direction of the country road are more recent extensions. The former mill is also located directly on the Spree.

The neighboring towns are Zschillichau (municipality Großdubrau) in the north, Malschwitz in the east, Pließkowitz in the southeast, Niedergurig in the south and Kleindubrau in the west.

history

The place was mentioned for the first time in 1237 in an episcopal document as Bresin and thus belongs to the older known settlements of today's Bautzen district. However, Briesing did not have his own manor; In the 18th century, the manor in the village was predominantly at the Niedergurig manor; a part belonged to the Doberschützer Gut.

In the Battle of Bautzen in May 1813, the Allies initially held Briesing as a bridgehead against the French advancing from the northwest, but were defeated here and in Niedergurig. This made it possible for the French troops to cross the Spree and relocated the main battle site to the area between Wurschen , Preititz and Niederkaina .

Briesing was an independent rural community until 1936; then it was incorporated into Niedergurig and came together with this in 1994 to the new large community of 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 Old Sorbian origin and means something like "small birch forest" (cf. Upper Sorbian brěza , "birch"). The following forms of name have been recorded over the centuries: Breßen magnum ("Groß-Briesing", 1519), Bresinka (1534), Brising (1598), Brysincka (1658), Bresinke, Briesink (1818).

population

In 1834 the population was 200, significantly larger than it is today. The scientist Arnošt Muka had a total of 183 inhabitants in 1884/85, 176 of them 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.

Briesing has been almost exclusively Evangelical-Lutheran since the Reformation and was probably originally parish in Kleinbautzen . However, since 1600 the place belongs to the parish of Malschwitz.

Infrastructure

Briesing is only a few meters away from the federal highway 156 (Bautzen - Weißwasser ). The Bautzen-Ost junction of the A 4 ( Dresden - Breslau ) is five kilometers south of the town.

Personalities

• Arnošt Bart-Brězynčanski (1870–1956), Sorbian politician and national activist, long-time resident and mayor of Briesing, who was nicknamed Brězynčanski ("Briesinger").

swell

Briesing in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

• Olaf Bastian, Henriette Joseph, Haik Thomas Porada: Oberlausitzer Heide- und Teichlandschaft - a regional study , Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2005

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

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