Coblenz (Göda)

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Municipality of Göda
Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 48 ″  N , 14 ° 16 ′ 54 ″  E
Height : 193 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 51  (Dec 31, 2016)
Incorporation : March 1, 1994
Postal code : 02633
Area code : 035937
Coblenz from the air

Coblenz , Upper Sorbian Koblicy ? / i , is a village in the center of the Bautzen district in East Saxony and has been part of the Göda community since 1994 . It is part of the official Sorbian settlement area in Upper Lusatia . Audio file / audio sample

geography

The place is located about eleven kilometers west of the large district town of Bautzen and three and a half kilometers northwest of the community center Göda on the western slope of the Schwarzwasser valley. The difference in height between the western entrance to the village and the eastern end of the village at the river is about 35 meters. In terms of settlement history, it is a typical Slavic round hamlet consisting of the three historical courtyards in the western part of the village that have been recorded for centuries and individual houses that have been added in modern times.

The neighboring towns are Zischkowitz on the other side of the motorway in the north, Pietzschwitz in the east, Nedaschütz in the south and Dobranitz in the west. Motorway 4 ( Dresden - Wrocław ) runs directly north of the town .

history

The Fehrmann mill on the Schwarzwasser. Fehrmann is still one of the largest bakeries in Upper Lusatia.
The Fehrmann mill from the air

Coblenz was first mentioned in a document as Cobuliz in 1222 . Like neighboring Dobranitz, it belonged to Burgward Göda, which was donated to the diocese of Meißen in 1006 . The large Coblenzer Schanze, a double rampart southwest of the place between Schwarzwasser in the east and Großhänchener Wasser in the west, shows, however, that the place was already used as a settlement at the time of the Billendorfer culture . In the spring of 1868 a large bronze weapon was found on the hill between Coblenz and Zischkowitz. A prehistoric burial ground was found not far from the town, the “Coblenzer Dying Hill”.

The place name is derived from the Old Sorbian koblica (Stutenhof, Stuterei ); Koblenc still means mare stable in modern Sorbian.

With the secularization of the diocese territories in 1559, the administrative village of Coblenz came together with the rest of the oboedentia slavonica (Slavic obedience ) of the Stolpen office to the Electorate of Saxony , so that from now until 1635 the Saxon-Bohemian state border ran directly north of the place. The northern neighboring town of Zischkowitz was already part of the Bohemian Upper Lusatia.

Coblenz had been an independent rural community with a school since the 19th century (since 1871), and from 1936 on with the districts Dobranitz, Kleinpraga, Nedaschütz, Pietzschwitz and Zischkowitz. During the municipal reform in 1994, the municipality of Coblenz was merged with Prischwitz and Göda to form the new municipality of Göda.

population

The population of Coblenz fluctuated in the 19th and 20th centuries between 70 and 90. After the municipal reform, the municipality of Coblenz with its five districts had 588 residents in 1939. After the Second World War , numerous German-speaking repatriates came to the community, so that the number of inhabitants rose to 782 by 1950, only to drop below the pre-war level in the following decades (1990: 477 inhabitants). After 1990 the population decline continued - as in general in Upper Lusatia - accelerated.

The population has been predominantly Protestant since the 16th century and parish to Göda.

For his statistics on the Sorbian population of Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 83 inhabitants in the 1880s. Of these, 77 were Sorbs (93%) and six were Germans. Then as now, Coblenz is on the edge of the Sorbian core settlement area in Upper Lusatia. The proportion of the Sorbian population has since declined - also due to the war-related changes in the population structure. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking population of only 35.2% in the municipality of Coblenz (with Dobranitz and Nedaschütz).

Web links

Commons : Coblenz / Koblicy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the municipality of Göda
  2. ^ Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences: New Lusatian Magazine . Volume 45, 1869 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
  4. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 244 .