Casslau

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commune Neschwitz
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 55 "  N , 14 ° 16 ′ 35"  E
Height : 149 m above sea level NN
Residents : 102  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation : April 1, 1936
Incorporated into: Doberschütz
Postal code : 02699
Area code : 035933
Aerial view
At the village pond in Caßlau

Caßlau , Koslow in Upper Sorbian ? / i , is a place in the center of the Bautzen district in East Saxony and has been part of the Neschwitz community since 1974 . The place is part of the core settlement area of the Sorbs in Upper Lusatia ; a large part of the population speaks Sorbian as their mother tongue. Audio file / audio sample

geography

Caßlau is located about 16 kilometers northwest of the large district town of Bautzen and 12 kilometers south of Wittichenau on the road from Neschwitz to Ralbitz . The Doberschützer water , which also feeds the Caßlauer village pond, flows through the village . Of the seven ponds that were once in the vicinity, two are still left. In the northeast is the nature reserve Caßlauer Wiesenteiche .

The area around the village is flat and slopes slightly to the north. Forest areas extend to the north, east and south, while the landscape is open to the west. The closed forest north of Caßlau extends over eight kilometers to Kotten . The neighboring towns are Eutrich in the north, Zescha and Neschwitz in the east, Lissahora and Doberschütz in the south and Naußlitz in the west.

history

The place is mentioned for the first time in 1374/82 as Kosslow and from 1635 at the latest it was the seat of a manor that held the manor. In the forest in the direction of Lissahora there is a large Bronze Age barrow, which suggests an earlier settlement. Furthermore, grave fields from this time were found to the northeast and at the former Steindammteich.

Until 1936, Caßlau was an independent rural community. Then it was incorporated into Doberschütz.

Towards the end of the Second World War , Caßlau was almost completely destroyed in April 1945 in fierce fighting between the Red Army and the Wehrmacht, such as Piskowitz and Naußlitz. The reconstruction of the three villages started in the summer of 1946 as part of the “Aktion Caßlau”, which was carried out by the Sorbian youth movement ( Serbska młodźina ) and completed in 1948.

On April 1, 1936, Caßlau was incorporated into Doberschütz. After the district reform in 1952, the place belonged to the Kamenz district for five years before it was reintegrated into the Bautzen district. Since February 1, 1974, Caßlau belongs to the municipality of Neschwitz as a district.

population

Sorbian inscription on a listed wayside cross in Caßlau

In 1925 Caßlau had 102 inhabitants; 83 of them were Catholic (81%).

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 97 inhabitants in the 1880s; 96 of them were Sorbs (98%) and one German.

After 1990 the population decreased slightly. The majority of the inhabitants are Sorbs .

Personalities

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  1. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.

Web links

  • Caßlau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony