Czaple (Trzebiel)

Czaple
Help on coat of arms	Czaple
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Lebus
Powiat :	Żary
Gmina :	Trzebiel
Geographic location :	51 ° 33 '  N , 14 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 33 '30 "  N , 14 ° 48' 30"  E
Height :	161 m npm
Residents :	181 (March 31, 2011)
Telephone code :	(+48) 68
License plate :	FZA
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Poznan-Ławica
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Czaple (German Tschöpeln , 1936–1945 Töpferstedt , Sorbian Třeplin ) is a village in the Polish rural community of Trzebiel in the district of Żary ( Lebus Voivodeship ).

geography

Czaple lies on the eastern foothills of the Muskauer folds to the west of the cat's back . Nowe Czaple (Neu Tschöpeln) lies to the west-southwest , and to the north-west is the eponymous place Stare Czaple (Alt Tschöpeln) .

From a historical point of view, the village is a Silesian one on the border with Lusatia. The places Żarki Małe (Small Särchen) and Żarki Wielkie (Large Särchen) in the northwest, which also belong to the municipality of Trzebiel, are already in Lower Lusatia , Bronowice (Braunsdorf) in the west in Upper Lusatia .

history

Local history

Like Nowe Czaple, Czaple is a relatively young place. In the second half of the 18th century, pottery families settled at a hunter's house, later an inn, southeast of the Tschöpeln estate on Niederen Landesstrasse (also known as Salzstrasse ), who recovered and processed the local deposits of white and light gray clay.

The Protestant residents were parish to Groß Särchen , the Catholic to Muskau . Until the construction of their own school house in 1888, the children attended the school in Wendisch Hermsdorf to the south .

With the construction of the Sommerfeld – Muskau railway line, the Tschöpeln-Quolsdorf train station was built roughly in the middle between Tschöpeln in the south and Quolsdorf in the north .

To commemorate the victims of the First World War , a simple statue made of Thuringian shell limestone in the form of a grieving woman was placed on a granite plinth at the southern entrance to the town .

When the Sagan district was dissolved , its western part, including Tschöpeln, came to the Rothenburg district in 1932 . In the course of the Germanization of place names of Slavic origin, the village was given the name Töpferstedt in 1936 . At that time there were nine potteries in the village, which were operated by long-established pottery families. In them was brown and glazed stoneware manufactured and sold mainly in the Prussian provinces.

After the Second World War , the village was on the Polish side of the Oder-Neisse line as a result of Poland's shift to the west . Together with most of the other communities in the eastern part of the Rothenburg district, the community now called Czaple came to the powiat Żarski , which emerged from the Polish part of the Sorauer district . Czaple was defeated in 1946 to the municipality of Niwica and with the dissolution of the same came in 1976 to the municipality of Trzebiel .

Passenger traffic on the Lubsko – Bad Muskau railway was discontinued in 1996, and the line was closed a few years later. After the route was dismantled in the mid-2000s, a cross-border bike path was built on the route around a decade later.

Population development

year	Residents
1933	325
1939	334

With around 330 inhabitants in the 1930s, Tschöpeln was around two to three times the size of the original town of Alt Tschöpeln, but Neu Tschöpeln, with around 750 inhabitants, was almost two and a half times the size of Tschöpeln.

Place name

The settlement on the edge of the Tschöpelner Gutsforst, originally only referred to as a pottery house, was soon given the name of Colony Tschöpeln , with which the place is also recorded on older Prussian measurement table sheets .

The Germanized place name Töpferstedt , introduced in 1936 , was based on the main occupation at the time, which led to the establishment of the place in the first place.

After the place fell to Poland, the renaming was based on the scheme valid until 1936, but the original Old Sorbian name was Polonized.

literature

• Robert Pohl (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch des Kreis Rothenburg O.-L. for school and home. Volume 2 = supplement and register: Priebus and the villages of the former Sagan western part . Buchdruckerei Emil Hampel, Weißwasser O.-L. 1934, p. 33 f .

Individual evidence

1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on May 28, 2017
2. ^ Arnošt Muka: Serbsko-němski a němsko-serbski přiručny słownik . Budyšin 1920, p. 250 .
3. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Rothenburg district (Upper Lusatia). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).