Commerau (Königswartha)
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Commerau
Komorov Königswartha parish
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 8 ″ N , 14 ° 18 ′ 2 ″ E
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| Height : | 133 m above sea level NN |
| Residents : | 259 (December 31, 2016) |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1957 |
| Postal code : | 02699 |
| Area code : | 035931 |
Commerau , Upper Sorbian , is a place in the East Saxon district of Bautzen and has been part of the Königswartha community since 1957 . The place is located in Upper Lusatia and is part of the Sorbian settlement area .
geography
The place is located about 20 kilometers northwest of the large district town of Bautzen and eleven kilometers south of Hoyerswerda in the Upper Lusatian heath and pond landscape . The city of Wittichenau is seven kilometers away. To the south and west of the town there are extensive pond areas; the black water runs in the east .
Commerau is a typical local street Angersdorf with the street facing houses gables. The neighboring towns are Wartha in the northeast, Caminau in the east, Entenschenke in the south, troops in the southwest and Rachlau (city of Wittichenau) in the northwest.
history
The place was first mentioned in 1374 as Comerow . Other forms of name recorded are Kommeraw (1441), Comoraw (1570) and Commeraw (1658). The manor changed several times over the centuries and was in the 16th century at the manor Neschwitz , in the 17th century at the Königswarthaer Gut and in the 18th century finally at the Commerau estate.
With the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Prussian-Saxon border was relocated and from now on ran about one and a half kilometers north or east of the town. While Wartha and Rachlau came to Prussia, Commerau remained Saxon. To this day, the name of the border ponds reminds of this time. The former state border corresponds to the current municipal boundary between Königswartha and Wittichenau.
Up to January 1, 1957, Commerau was an independent rural community with the district troops (since 1936) and duck inn ; then it was incorporated into Königswartha.
population
For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 388 inhabitants in the 1880s; without exception all of them were Sorbs . In 1956 Ernst Tschernik still counted a Sorbian-speaking population of 67 percent. Since then, the use of the Sorbian language in the village has continued to decline.
The believing residents are almost exclusively of the Evangelical Lutheran denomination and parish to Königswartha. Until 1872 Commerau was part of the Neschwitz parish.
Infrastructure
Commerau had a stop on the Bautzen – Hoyerswerda railway line , but its operation was discontinued in 2001.
Personalities
- Hanka Faßke ( Hanka Fascyna , 1935–2002), Sorbian folklorist and Slavist
literature
- Cornelius Gurlitt : Commerau near Königswartha . In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 31. Booklet: Bautzen Official Authority (Part I) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1908, p. 48.
swell
- Commerau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Individual evidence
- ↑ Commerau (Königswartha) in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony.Retrieved on May 13, 2017
- ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
