Döbschütz

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Döbschütz
Community Vierkirchen
Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 20 ″  N , 14 ° 45 ′ 30 ″  E
Height : 185 m above sea level NN
Area : 2.26 km²
Residents : 156  (2008)
Population density : 69 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : April 1, 1959
Incorporated into: Melaune
Postal code : 02894
Area code : 035827

Döbschütz ( Upper Sorbian Dobšicy ) is a district of the East Saxon municipality of Vierkirchen in the district of Görlitz . The moated castle Döbschütz, one of the oldest castles in Upper Lusatia , is the ancestral home of the von Debschitz family .

geography

Döbschütz is located in the central part of the district between Niesky , Görlitz and Löbau . The federal motorway 4 (A4) runs north of the town , and its Nieder Seifersdorf junction is about one kilometer away. State road 124, leading to Reichenbach / OL, runs through the village and joins State road 122 (Löbau – A 4 – Niesky) north of the village. Döbschütz is crossed by the Black Schöps . To the east of the actual place is the Heideberg belonging to Döbschütz with the settlement of the same name.

Surrounding places are Nieder Seifersdorf in the north, Arnsdorf and Hilbersdorf in the east, Dittmannsdorf , Krobnitz and Meuselwitz in the south, and Melaune and Prachenau in the west.

history

Moated Castle Döbschütz

The type of settlement as an extended round hamlet indicates that an existing Slavic settlement was taken over and expanded during the German expansion to the east in the 12th century. Archaeological finds suggest that the settlement could have been established as early as the end of the 9th century. The place is mentioned in a document when a Hugo de Dobswicz from the Debschitz family is mentioned in 1280 . Döbschütz has been parish in Melaune since the Reformation at the latest .

When the moated castle was built on the right bank of the Schwarzen Schöps cannot be clearly determined. According to some (unsecured) theories, it was a place of refuge for Vladislav II as early as 1174 . Its existence can be proven for the 10th century, where drawings on the house wall are based, and an old kitchen from around 1000 was uncovered in the cellar. In 1874 part of the castle burned down, which was followed by extensive renovations.

With the construction of the Görlitz district railway , Döbschütz received a train station in 1905. The granite quarried in Döbschütz - at times up to 400 stonemasons were working in the granite quarry - was also driven over this railway line until 1939. Since 1913, the line led across the Prussian-Saxon border to the nearby Saxon town of Weißenberg , where a connection to the Löbau – Radibor railway was possible. The western section of the circular path, on which Döbschütz is also located, was closed in 1972.

After the Second World War , Döbschütz and the other Lower Silesian towns west of the Lusatian Neisse came back to the state of Saxony, to which the municipality belonged between 1635 and 1815. Due to the administrative reform of 1952 Döbschütz was assigned to the Görlitz district ( Dresden district ). On April 1, 1959, it was incorporated into Melaune , with which Döbschütz came to the newly founded community of Vierkirchen in 1994 .

The castle was sold to the Rößler family in 2001, who completely renovated it and opened a museum in 2003. There are also guest rooms in the castle.

Population development

year Residents
1825 186
1871 265
1885 292
1905 292
1925 237
1939 245
1946 333
1950 369
1999 170
2002 203
2008 156

In 1777, ten gardeners and eight cottagers are recorded for Döbschütz , two farms are in desolation. The lack of farmers can be explained by the fact that around two thirds (148 of the 226 hectares) of the town hall belonged to the manor .

The population increased from 186 in 1825 to 292 in 1885. After stagnating, it dropped to 237 in 1925 and recovered little until 1939. After the Second World War, apartments in the moated castle were given to refugees and displaced persons from the formerly German eastern areas, so that the number of residents rose by 50% to around 370 by 1950 compared to the value in 1939.

Today Döbschütz has about 150 inhabitants.

Place name

The place name developed from Dobswicz (1280), Dobeshicz (around 1330), Dobitschwicz and Dobitswicz (1334) via Debeschicz (1394), Dobeschiz (1413) and Dobischitz (15th century) to Dobschiz (1548), Dobeschitz (1578) and finally Döbschütz (1768). Only a few names in the written Sorbian language have been handed down, which suggests that the population was Germanized at an early stage.

The name is probably derived from the Old Sorbian Dobešici or the personal name Dobeš. This can be traced back to dob- “good, cheap”.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Digital historical place directory of Saxony. Retrieved January 8, 2008 .
  2. ↑ Von der Muskauer Heide zum Rotstein , p. 349.
  3. ^ Vierkirchen.com: The village of Döbschütz. Retrieved April 27, 2009 .
  4. ↑ Ernst Eichler and Hans Walther : Oberlausitz toponymy - studies on the toponymy of the districts of Bautzen, Bischofswerda, Görlitz, Hoyerswerda, Kamenz, Löbau, Niesky, Senftenberg, Weißwasser and Zittau. I name book . In: German-Slavic research on naming and settlement history . tape 28 . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1975, p. 56 .

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