Brischko

Brischko ; Brěžki City of Wittichenau Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 56 " N , 14 ° 15 ′ 47" E
Height :	126 m above sea level NHN
Area :	1.55 km²
Residents :	166 (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	107 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1957
Postal code :	02997
Area code :	035725
Location of Brischko in Saxony
	Prayer column in Brischko

Aerial view

Brischko , Upper Sorbian Brěžki ^?^/ⁱ , is a district of the city of Wittichenau in the Bautzen district in Saxony .

location

Brischko is located in Upper Lusatia, east of the core town of Wittichenau and is part of the recognized Sorbian settlement area . Surrounding villages are Spohla in the north, Maukendorf in the Northeast, which the municipality Lohsa belonging Great Särchen the southeast, Hoske in the south, the city of Wittichenau in the west and Keula in the northwest.

The Saxon state road 285 runs through Brischko from Wittichenau to the federal road 96 and the district road 9219 to Maukendorf. South of Brischko the Wudra flows into the Black Elster .

history

Brischko was first mentioned in 1374 as Bresken . The place name changed in the wake of Brzezen (1516) on Prießke (1585) and Brißka (1658) to Brischko in 1791. In 1936 the place was used by the Nazis as part of the Germanization in the German Reich in Birkenheim renamed. This designation was reversed in 1947.

After the Congress of Vienna , Brischko came to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 . There the place was until July 8, 1945 in the administrative district of Liegnitz . On July 25, 1952, Briscko was assigned to the newly formed Hoyerswerda district and incorporated into Wittichenau on January 1, 1957. As part of the city of Wittichenau, Brischko was in the district of Hoyerswerda in Saxony after the fall of the Wall . From January 1, 1996 to July 31, 2008 Brischko was in the district of Kamenz , since the Saxon district reform on August 1, 2008 , the place has been in the district of Bautzen.

population

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 74 inhabitants in the 1880s, all of whom were Sorbs . In 1956 Ernst Tschernik still counted a Sorbian-speaking population of 80.7%.

Web links

Commons : Brischko / Brěžki - collection of images, videos and audio files

proof

^ Brischko in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony.Retrieved on May 8, 2017
^ Brischko in the database of the Verein für Computergenealogie. Retrieved May 8, 2017 .
↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 89 .
^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995.

[1] Brischko in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony.Retrieved on May 8, 2017

[2] Brischko in the database of the Verein für Computergenealogie. Retrieved May 8, 2017 .

[Muka-3] Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 89 .

[4] Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995.