Brohna
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Brohna
Bronjo Radibor municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 11 " N , 14 ° 23 ′ 51" E
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| Height : | 156 m above sea level NN |
| Residents : | 79 (December 31, 2016) |
| Incorporation : | April 1, 1936 |
| Postal code : | 02627 |
| Area code : | 035935 |
 The Brohna village square
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Brohna , Upper Sorbian , is a village in the municipality of Radibor in the north of the Bautzen district in Upper Lusatia, 11 km north of Bautzen . It has 80 inhabitants and is part of the Catholic core of the Sorbian settlement area .
geography
The Rundplatzdorf is located one kilometer north of the center of Radibor, a little off the road to Luppa in the loess-covered and undulating landscape of the Upper Lusatian region . The place is at an altitude of 156 meters above sea level and is therefore assigned to the colline altitude level .
Surrounding villages are Luppa in the north, Neu-Brohna in the northeast, Camina in the east, Luttowitz in the southeast, Radibor in the south and Quoos in the southwest.
The outskirts are formed by woody plantations that are appropriate to the landscape. The open landscape around the small settlement area is used intensively for agriculture. In the northwest there is an extensive, structurally rich pond landscape. In the watershed between Lomschanke and Schwarzwasser lies the Litzenteich, which has been a designated nature reserve since 1974 .
history
Surname
The village was named after the ramparts ( Brohnaer Schanze ) located here (altsorb. Broń , "fortification", cf. obersorb. Brónidło , "armor").
German names were 1517 Brohn , Brone , 1519 Bronaw , 1522 Brone , 1658 Bronau , 1746 Bron , 1791 Brana , Bröna , 1866 Brane and since 1908 Brohna .
Sorbian names are 1712 Bron , 1800 Bronj , 1835 (1866) Broń and from 1886 Bronjo .
The first documentary mention was in 1290 as a manor ( Nicolaus de Bronowe ). Further mention around 1414 (1427) Nickel vom Bron, von Brone . The village belonged to the manor from 1522 to the Radibor manor and from 1777 to the Malsitz manor . On April 1, 1936, the place was incorporated into Radibor.
Jump
The Schanze, Hrodźiščo ( castle wall ) in Sorbian, is located about 300 m north of Brohna in the now drained swamp area . Only about a sixth of this old hill is still preserved today, as large parts of the formerly round Niederungsburg castle have been removed for better use of the marshy meadows.
The access to the land was in the direction of today's Brohna on the shortest route through the swamp. The wall was surrounded by a 6 meter wide and more than 1 meter deep pre-moat, which had an inner diameter of 48 meters. The usable inner surface of the ski jump had a diameter of 25 meters. The ski jump is one of the smallest Slavic high medieval ramparts in Saxony.
During excavations, mainly ceramics from the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century were found in the ski jump and are characterized by axial impressions from the hand potter's wheel and decorated with wavy bands, straps, comb stamps and plastic straps. Iron knives, millstones made from Lusatian granodiorite , whetstones and pierced whetstones and sled bones were added to this ceramic . Weapons could not be found during the excavations.
Residents
- 1777: 9 possessed (= resident) men, 1 gardener, 10 cottagers
- 1834: 94 Ew
- 1871: 95 Ew
- 1890: 120 Ew
- 1910: 124 Ew
- 1925: 149 Ew
Sorbs:
- 1885: 103 Ew
- 1900: 129 Ew
For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 114 inhabitants in the 1880s; 111 of them were Sorbs (97%) and 3 were Germans. Brohna is still a Sorbian place today.
Traditions and Customs
In Brohna the Sorbian-Catholic custom of Easter riding is cultivated.
The Nikolaussingen takes place every year on December 6th and has survived to this day.
Trivia
2010 will be the 50th anniversary of the return of a pair of storks to Brohna. The nest, which had been on the ridge of a barn for many years, was moved a few years ago to a mast behind the building due to the renovation of this building by the Neschwitz bird protection station . Despite this change, the storks came back.
Personalities
- Jan Meškank (1905–1972), Sorbian teacher
literature
- Werner Coblenz: The marsh hill of Brohna near Bautzen , in: Archaeological field research in Saxony. Work and research reports on the preservation of monuments in Saxony, supplement 18, VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin, 1988.
- Walter Von Boetticher: History of the Upper Lusatian Nobility and its Goods , 3 volumes, 1912/1913/1919.
Web links
- Brohna in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Individual evidence
- ↑ Municipality of Radibor ( Memento of the original dated November 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Retrieved February 23, 2014
- ↑ a b Olaf Bastian, Haik Thomas Porada, Matthias Röder and Ralf-Uwe Syrbe: Landscapes in Germany - Values of the German homeland: Upper Lusatian heath and pond landscape . Ed .: Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig and Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. tape 67 . Böhlau Verlag Cologne Weimar Vienna, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-412-08903-6 , pp. 221 f .
- ↑ Ernst Eichler and Hans Walther : Ortnamesbuch der Oberlausitz. Volume 1, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 1975.
- ^ Ernst Eichler and Hans Walther (eds.): Historical book of place names of Saxony. Volume 1, Akademie Verlag, 2001.
- ↑ Werner Coblenz: The Brohna swamp hill near Bautzen. In: Archaeological field research in Saxony. Work and research reports on the preservation of monuments in Saxony. Supplement 18, VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1988.
- ^ Karlheinz Blaschke : Historical place directory of Saxony. Part 4: Oberlausitz- VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1957.
- ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 51 .
- ↑ Storch flew into Brohna ( memento from April 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
