Burkersdorf (Zittau)
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Burkersdorf
City of Zittau
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 13 ″ N , 14 ° 51 ′ 39 ″ E
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| Incorporation : | July 1, 1950 |
| Incorporated into: | Schlegel |
| Postal code : | 02788 |
| Area code : | 035843 |
 Location of Burkersdorf in the area of the city of Zittau
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Burkersdorf is a village in the Saxon Upper Lusatia and a district of the city of Zittau in the district of Görlitz near the border with Poland . Until it was incorporated into Schlegel in 1950, Burkersdorf was an independent municipality.
Position and extent
The place is located in the south-eastern part of the district in the valley of the Kemmlitzbach and extends over a length of almost one and a half kilometers. Historically, Burkersdorf is a Waldhufendorf . While on one side of the village street there are mainly former farms, on the other side of the street there are mainly cottages and gardeners' properties . In the east and northeast is the monastery forest , in the southwest the Oberwald . Burkersdorf borders Schlegel in the southeast .
geology
The area around the village is completely covered by a layer of loess clay , which means that the soil has good properties and is very fertile. However, extensive measures to improve the soil were necessary in the western part of Burkersdorf in order to create productive meadows and arable land. For example, the outflow of a large pond had to be expanded to prevent swamping and overgrowth. In 1927 the pond was completely converted into cultivated land .
history
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It is believed that Burkersdorf was created in the 14th century by the immigration of Franconian and Swabian settlers. From the beginning, the place was a knight's seat and predominantly agricultural. The village was first mentioned in a document under the name Burkhardsdorff in 1324 when the Johanniterkommende von Hirschfelde had a daughter church built here. The Johanniter had a great influence here until the 16th century . In 1570, however , the Coming sold all the justice and goods to Zittau, this can be seen as the beginning of the beginning Reformation in Burkersdorf.
With the introduction of a subordinate order in the whole of Upper Lusatia in 1651, there was also an increasing number of buyouts in Burkersdorf, where farms could be transferred from one landlord to another against the will of their residents. As a result, the villagers were almost helpless at the hands of the landowners.
The oldest known owners of the manor in Burkersdorf are the members of the von Gersdorff family , before they sold the estate to Ferdinand von Löben in 1690. The most prominent owner of the manor was probably Count Moritz von Sachsen , who received the estate in 1713 through his marriage to von Löben's daughter Johanna Victoria Tugendreich von Löben . Later it came into the possession of General Field Marshal Jacob Heinrich von Flemming and in 1734 it went to Hofrat Thomas August von Fletscher . The manor was inhabited until the end of the Second World War, the last lord of the manor was Joachim von Sandersleben . In May 1945, the associated castle burned down completely.
After the old church became too small for the growing population, the new building was completed in 1846. Burkersdorf and Schlegel have always formed a unified school and church community. Therefore, it was incorporated into Schlegel on July 1, 1950. After its incorporation in Zittau in 2007, the village also belongs to this city.
Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 1777 | 300 |
| 1834 | 550 |
| 1855 | 610 |
| 1871 | 579 |
| 1890 | 524 |
| 1910 | 501 |
| 1925 | 573 |
| 1939 | 504 |
| 1946 | 731 |
In 1777, eight possessed men , 37 gardeners and 14 cottagers ran in Burkersdorf .
The first population survey in Saxony, in which not the ownership structure, but each individual inhabitant was counted equally, took place in 1834, at that time 550 people lived in the village. The population increased over the next few decades to 610 residents in 1855, but fell to 524 by 1890. Until the end of World War II , the population remained roughly constant at 500 residents. After the end of the war, many refugees found a new home in Burkersdorf, so that the population grew to almost 750 inhabitants.
Place name forms
Forms of place names for Burkersdorf include Burkhardsdorff (1324), Burkhardsdorf (1396), Borkersdorff (1416), Burckersdorff (1456), Burkerdorf (1558) and Burkersdorf b. Ostritz (1875). It is believed that the place got its name from a locator named Burkhard, who built the village. Today the form Burkersdorf is common.
Personalities
The following people were born in Burkersdorf or worked here:
- Hermann Knothe (1821–1903), regional historian of Upper Lusatia
- Julius Pfeiffer (1824–1910), lawyer and politician (NLP), Member of the State Parliament, Member of the State of Saxony
- Willy Mirtschin (1912–1979), German politician
literature
- The south-eastern Upper Lusatia with Zittau and the Zittau Mountains (= values of the German homeland . Volume 16). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1970, p. 54.
- Cornelius Gurlitt : Burkersdorf. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 29. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Zittau (Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1906, p. 9.
- Hermann Knothe : History of the villages Burkersdorf and Schlegel in the royal Saxon Upper Lusatia. Pahl, Zittau 1862 ( digitized version )
Web links
- Private website about Schlegel and Burkersdorf
- Burkersdorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Individual evidence
- ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
- ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2007
- ↑ CFT Rudowsky: directory of whole villages of the Kingdom of Saxony ... after counting on 3 December 1855. Ramming, Dresden 1857 S. 22nd