Burk (Bautzen)

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City of Bautzen
Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 57 "  N , 14 ° 27 ′ 58"  E
Height : 185 m above sea level NN
Area : 7.49 km²
Residents : 323  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 43 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st August 1973
Postal code : 02625
Area code : 03591
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Burk , Upper Sorbian Bórk ? / i , is a place in Upper Lusatia and has been part of Bautzen since 1973 . The district extends on the east bank of the Bautzen dam along federal highway 156 and is part of the official Sorbian settlement area in east Saxony . Burk has about 330 inhabitants. Audio file / audio sample

In 1936 the villages of Malsitz , Nimschütz and Oehna were incorporated into Burk. The ruins of the first two settlements are now on the bottom of the dam. In 1973 Burk and Oehna came to Bautzen.

history

In addition to Niederkaina , Burk is the second archaeological site in the city of Bautzen that is important on a European scale and very well known in prehistoric research. Both sites in the neighboring districts can also be viewed as a unit. Finds from all settlement periods in Upper Lusatia were secured here. The necropolis has been nicknamed "Burk, the city of the dead". On the Basankwitz field hill there is a Bronze Age bowl stone in which fertility sacrifices were presumably made. In addition, 60,000 flint fragments were found.

The place was first mentioned in 1225 as the Borc manor . The place name comes from the Old Slavic word bor for "pine" or "coniferous forest". In 1283 Thietmar de Bork is a bailiff of Bautzen .

On the second day of the Battle of Bautzen , the Burker Höhe was Napoleon's observation point .

Population and language

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 138 inhabitants in the 1880s; 119 of them were Sorbs (86%) and 19 Germans. The language change to German took place mainly in the first half of the 20th century. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking population of only 28.9% in the municipality of Burk with Malsitz, Nimschütz and Oehna.

As a result of the establishment of asylum seekers' accommodation in the local Spree hotel in 2014, the population of the town temporarily rose from 330 to over 600, while the average age fell noticeably.

Economy and Infrastructure

The Bautzen school camp is located in the former school building in the villages of Burk and Malsitz.

There is a rubble recycling plant in Bautzen-Burk.

See also

literature

  • Walter Frenzel : The dead city of Burk near Bautzen: prehistory of an East German village mark. Kabitzsch-Verlag, Leipzig 1929
  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Burk. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 31. Booklet: Bautzen Official Authority (Part I) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1908, p. 42.

Web links

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

supporting documents

  1. ^ Friedrich Lehmann: Hiking trails through Upper Lusatia. VEB Domowina Verlag Bautzen, 1st edition, 1981, pp. 193-195
  2. ↑ Ernst Eichler / Hans Walther : Ortnamesbuch der Oberlausitz. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1975.
  3. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 50 .
  4. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 244 .