Cunnewitz

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Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 23 ″  N , 14 ° 14 ′ 6 ″  E
Height : 136 m above sea level NN
Residents : 277  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation : 1st January 1974
Incorporated into: Ralbitz
Postal code : 01920
Area code : 035792
Aerial view
The old Cunnewitz mill

Cunnewitz , in Sorbian Konjecy ? / i , is a place in the center of the Bautzen district in East Saxony and has been part of the Ralbitz-Rosenthal community since 1994 . The place is located in Upper Lusatia and is part of the core settlement area of the Sorbs . The majority of the inhabitants speak Sorbian as their mother tongue. Audio file / audio sample

The place name is derived from the Sorbian word kóń (Old Sorbian konj ) and means something like “horse place” or “place of the horse keeper”. The German form of the name is based on the Sorbian.

geography

The street village is located about eleven kilometers northeast of the large district town of Kamenz and 21 km northeast of Bautzen in the floodplain of the monastery water that separates Cunnewitz from the western neighboring town of Schönau and flows through the Sorbian Delany ("Netherlands") of the former monastery care St. Marienstern . The neighboring towns are Kotten in the north, Ralbitz in the south and Schönau in the west.

In the east, the village corridor is bordered by extensive forests, to the north and south the area is open and used for agriculture. South of Cunnewitz, the Lasker Auenwald is the last natural section of the Klosterwasseraue.

history

Wayside shrine in Cunnewitz

The settlement is first mentioned in 1264 as Kvnewiz . At that time, half of the village was already part of the manor of the St. Marienstern monastery. In 1290 Bernhard von Kamenz bought the second part and donated it to the monastery. The town was ravaged by the plague in 1349, which is still remembered by a plague cross .

In connection with the parcel Mortwa holca ("Dead Girl") between Kotten and Cunnewitz, the first mention of a Sorbian Catholic costume is in 1660. The daughter of the Cunnewitz inheritance court owner was on the way to a baptism in Wittichenau at this point because of her precious neck jewelry ambushed and murdered by a robber.

Until 1822, Cunnewitz was ecclesiastically divided. The southern part was parish until 1716 in Crostwitz , ten kilometers away , and then came to the parish of Ralbitz. The northern part, however, belonged to Wittichenau. After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the village became a border town. Until 1945, the border between Saxony and Prussia ran just one and a half kilometers north of Cunnewitz; the place remained with Saxony, Wittichenau belonged to the Prussian province of Lower Silesia . Seven years later it was agreed to parish the north from Cunnewitz to Ralbitz.

Until January 1, 1974, Cunnewitz was an independent rural community, then it was incorporated into Ralbitz. Since January 1, 1994, both places belong to the municipality of Ralbitz-Rosenthal.

population

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 211 inhabitants for the place in the 1880s; all of them were Sorbs. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking population of 78.6% in the community of Cunnewitz.

The population has remained largely the same over the past century, apart from a small increase after World War II . Today Cunnewitz is the second largest district of the Ralbitz-Rosenthal community.

religion

The majority of the inhabitants are of the Roman Catholic denomination and parish according to Ralbitz . There has been a chapel in the village since 1750, which was generously renovated in the neo-Gothic style in 1894 . After renovation and re-painting in the late 1960s, the Sacred Heart Chapel was consecrated on July 12, 1970. It is made of red and yellow bricks and is only 15 square meters, but it appears spacious.

swell

  • Cunnewitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
  2. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 251 .

Web link

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