Caminau

Caminau ; Kamjenej Königswartha parish Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 46 ″ N , 14 ° 20 ′ 30 ″ E
Height :	136 m
Residents :	101 (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation :	April 1, 1936
Postal code :	02699
Area code :	035931

Village pond in Caminau

Aerial view

Caminau , Upper Sorbian Kamjenej ^?^/ⁱ , is a village in the Saxon district of Bautzen . Since 1936 it has been part of the Königswartha community . Caminau is part of the Sorbian settlement area in Upper Lusatia .

Caminau is located directly on the federal highway 96 north of Königswartha and is surrounded by numerous fish ponds.

history

Caminau was first mentioned in 1532 as Camen . The place name means something like "stony place", corresponding to the Sorbian word kamjeń for stone . In 1773 there were five " possessed men ", three gardeners and five cottagers living in the village .

Around 1900 a rich kaolin deposit was discovered while drilling a well , which has been mined in open-cast mining since 1904 . The resulting kaolin factory in Caminau is now one of the largest industrial employers in the region.

Since April 1, 1936, Caminau has belonged to the Königswartha community.

Caminau is known among archaeologists for its prehistoric burial ground, which was discovered in 1904 when the kaolin pit was opened up. It extends over an area of 500 × 200 meters and is one of the most important in Lusatia. The oldest documented graves date from the time of the corded ceramics , the youngest around 500 BC. Chr.

Population and language

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 174 in the 1880s, including 164 Sorbs (94%) and ten Germans. The language change to German mostly took place until the middle of the 20th century.

literature

Oberlausitzer Heide- und Teichlandschaft , Series Landscapes in Germany - Values of the German Homeland Volume 67; Böhlau Verlag Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-412-08903-6 ; P. 121f.

Web links

Commons : Caminau / Kamjenej - collection of images, videos and audio files

Caminau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

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

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