Döbra (Oßling)

Dobra community Oßling Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 1 ″ N , 14 ° 10 ′ 3 ″ E
Height :	137 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.84 km²
Residents :	187 (Aug 1, 2019)
Population density :	49 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1969
Incorporated into:	Skaska-Dobra
Postal code :	01920
Area code :	035792
	Aerial view of Döbra

Döbra ( Upper Sorbian Debricy ^?^/^I ) is a village in the Bautzen district in Saxony . It belongs to Upper Lusatia and has been part of the municipality of Oßling since January 1st, 1994 .

location

The Upper Lusatian village of Döbra is located on the Black Elster near the Biehla-Weißig pond area . The nearest larger cities Kamenz and Hoyerswerda are nine and twelve kilometers away, respectively. Neighboring towns are Skaska in the north, Trado in the east and Milstrich in the southwest.

Döbra is located on State Road 92 between Bernsdorf and Rosenthal . The connection to local public transport is via bus line 182.

history

Döbra was first mentioned in 1374 as Dobyr . The history of Dobra's settlement can, however, be traced back to the Neolithic Age through the remains of settlement and grave remains. The place name can be derived from the Sorbian dobry 'valley' or debr 'gut' and goes back to the location of the village in a valley on the Black Elster. The street perch village was a knight seat in the Middle Ages . In 1777 the place is referred to as the Vorwerk of the Skaska manor, in 1834 the place is again called as an independent manor. In 1875 the place was first called Döbra bei Kamenz under its current name.

On January 1, 1969, the municipality Döbra merged with Skaska and Trado to form the new municipality Skaska-Döbra . This was dissolved in the course of a municipal reform on January 1, 1994, and Döbra has been part of the municipality of Oßling since then .

Population and language

The population of Dobra in 1777 consisted of four possessed men as well as five gardener and ten housekeeping families. A homestead lay desolate. In 1834 the place had 157 inhabitants, this number rose to 214 inhabitants by 1910. In the following years the population remained largely constant. After the end of the Second World War , the population rose to 281 as a result of refugees from the German eastern regions, and the number has been falling continuously since then. Most of the residents of Döbra are of the Evangelical Lutheran denomination.

Döbra originally belonged to the Upper Sorbian language area . In the statistics on the Sorbian population in Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 162 in 1884, of which 133 were Sorbs (82%). In 1956 Ernst Tschernik counted only 44 Sorbs (21%) out of 271 inhabitants, meanwhile Sorbian has disappeared from everyday language use.

Web links

Commons : Döbra - collection of images, videos and audio files

Döbra on the side of the community of Oßling

Individual evidence

^ Statistics of the community of Oßling. Oßling community, accessed on September 30, 2019.
↑ Döbra district. In: ossling.de. Oßling community, accessed on April 19, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b Döbra near Kamenz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony . Retrieved April 19, 2019.
↑ Arnost Muka: Statistika łužiskich Serbow. Wobličenje a wopisanje. Budyšin 1884-1886. (on-line)

[1] Statistics of the community of Oßling. Oßling community, accessed on September 30, 2019.

[2] Döbra district. In: ossling.de. Oßling community, accessed on April 19, 2019 .

[HOV-3] Döbra near Kamenz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony . Retrieved April 19, 2019.

[Sorben1884-4] Arnost Muka: Statistika łužiskich Serbow. Wobličenje a wopisanje. Budyšin 1884-1886. (on-line)