Delany (Upper Lusatia)

Rosenthal with pilgrimage church

Delany ( Sorbian for "Netherlands") is the common name for the lower, larger part of the former monastery care of St. Marienstern in Panschwitz-Kuckau . The area is located in the center of the Bautzen district along the monastery water in Upper Lusatia . It extends between the places Räckelwitz ( Worklecy ) in the south and Wittichenau ( Kulow ) in the north and is part of today's Sorbian core language area.

In contrast to the uplands around Crostwitz and Panschwitz, the Netherlands has sandy, less productive soils and a larger proportion of forest areas.

Other places in the Netherlands are Ralbitz , Rosenthal , Schönau and Sollschwitz . Between the 16th and 19th centuries, all of the places mentioned were subject to the lordship of the Marienstern Monastery for a long time and are therefore still Catholic today.

See also

• List of places owned by the St. Marienstern Monastery

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Walde, Martin: Catholic versus Protestant milieu among the Sorbs in: Lětopis 53 (2006) 2, p. 15 ff., Ludowe nakładnistwo Domowina, Budyšin / Bautzen 2006

Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′  N , 14 ° 14 ′  E