Cölln (Radibor)
Cölln
Chelno Radibor municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 31 ″ N , 14 ° 23 ′ 13 ″ E
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Height : | 195 m above sea level NN |
Residents : | 326 (December 31, 2016) |
Incorporation : | 1st January 1973 |
Incorporated into: | Kleinwelka |
Postal code : | 02627 |
Area code : | 035935 |
Cölln , Upper Sorbian , is a village in the Saxon district of Bautzen . It belongs to Upper Lusatia and has belonged to the Radibor municipality since 1998 . The place is officially part of the Sorbian settlement area and has 364 inhabitants.
The German place name is derived from the Sorbian name, which probably comes from the Old Sorbian word for "hill" and thus describes the location of Cölln. Ernst Eichler and Hans Walther rejected this derivation and instead concluded the origin kólnja for "shed, stable". The place is also called Cölln am Sande in colloquial language .
geography
Cölln is about seven kilometers north of Bautzen between 190 and 200 meters above sea level. NN. The surroundings are wavy and for the most part lower than the village itself. To the west is the valley of a stream that flows in the direction of Milkwitz .
Today the place consists of two settlement parts, which are arranged in the form of a V open to the southeast. The old street perch village is located in the northern part, while the southwest part along the federal highway 96 was mostly built in the 20th century.
history
The first documented mention of Cologne as Cöln comes from the year 1519. Older mentions, around 1459 as Colen in files of the archive in Luckau, refer to Cölln on the Spree. The current form of the name first appears in 1658. The place name was later given the addition of Bautzen .
Until the end of 1972, Cölln was an independent rural community. Then the place came to the municipality of Kleinwelka , which was dissolved on October 1, 1998 when Kleinwelka was annexed to Bautzen . Cölln was reclassified to Radibor.
population
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The last population data for the municipality of Cölln indicate 427 inhabitants for 1964. In 1890 the place had only 300 inhabitants. Since reunification, the population has decreased slightly; the municipality of Radibor states that in 2008 there were 356 residents.
For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 272 in the 1880s; 264 of them were Sorbs (97%) and 8 were Germans. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik still counted a Sorbian-speaking proportion of 68.2% of the population in the municipality of Cölln. Since then, the use of Sorbian in the village has continued to decline.
Population development in Cölln
date | Residents |
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1834 | 245 |
1871 | 298 |
1890 | 300 |
1910 | 273 |
1925 | 302 |
1939 | 359 |
1946 | 365 |
1950 | 411 |
1964 | 427 |
2010 | 364 |
religion
The place is both Catholic and Protestant to Bautzen. The last information on religious affiliation comes from 1925. At that time 165 out of 302 inhabitants were Evangelical Lutheran (54%) and 137 Catholic (45%).
traffic
Cölln is located directly on the federal highway 96 (Bautzen– Hoyerswerda ), which crosses the younger western part of the village. The next junction of Autobahn 4 (Salzenforst) is about five kilometers away in a southerly direction and can be reached via a motorway slip road that branches off the B 96 north of Cölln.
The Bautzen – Hoyerswerda railway runs immediately east of the town. However, the train service stopped in 2001. The former Radibor train station is about two kilometers away. Cölln had a stop with a bus shelter.
Personalities
- Karl Jannack (1891–1968), KPD parliamentary group leader in the Bremen Senate, politician, Domowina functionary, born and died in Cölln
- Jan Krawc (1902–1986), founder and director of the Sorbian Folk Theater, born in Cölln
swell
- ↑ As of December 31, 2009; Details of the Radibor municipal administration.
- ↑ Ernst Eichler and Hans Walther : Ortnamesbuch der Oberlausitz. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1975.
- ^ Ernst Eichler , Hans Walther : Ortnamesbuch der Oberlausitz. I, Berlin 1975, p. 134
- ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
- ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
- ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 244 .
Web links
- The Kugelhaus in Cölln at fachwerk.de
- Cölln in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony