Deschka
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Deschka
community Neißeaue
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 34 " N , 15 ° 1 ′ 31" E
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| Height : | 175 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 6.43 km² | |
| Residents : | 273 (Jun. 30, 2018) | |
| Population density : | 42 inhabitants / km² | |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1999 | |
| Postal code : | 02829 | |
| Area code : | 035820 | |
Location of Deschka in Saxony |
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.jpg) Postcard from Deschka, around 1900
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Deschka (from 1936 to 1949 Auenblick ; Upper Sorbian Deško ) is a district of the municipality of Neißeaue in the district of Görlitz in Saxony . The place belongs to the administrative association Weißer Schöps / Neisse and was an independent municipality until January 1st, 1999. Deschka is one of the easternmost places in Germany and, after the incorporation of Zentendorf on July 1, 1950, was the easternmost municipality in the GDR and later in the Federal Republic of Germany until it was dissolved.
location
Deschka is located in Upper Lusatia , right on the border with Poland and the Lusatian Neisse . The place is located ten kilometers south-southeast of Rothenburg and around 15 kilometers as the crow flies east of Niesky and north of Görlitz . Surrounding towns are Zentendorf in the north, Stojanów in the northeast, the city Pieńsk in the east, Lasów in the south, Zodel and Groß Krauscha in the southwest and Kaltwasser in the west.
Deschka is on the state road 127, the local access road is classified as district road 8431. There is a border crossing point in the place in the form of a pedestrian bridge over the Neisse. In addition to Zentendorf and Zodel, Deschka is one of only three places in Germany that are east of the 15th degree of longitude .
history
According to its original form of settlement, Deschka was laid out as a round square village. For the year 1387 the place is recorded as Teskow , over time the name changed from Teschkaw in 1407 to Desschkaw in 1427 to Deschko in 1449. In 1732 the place name was Deschke and since 1791 the place is under the known today.
After the Congress of Vienna , Deschka came from the then Saxon Upper Lusatia to the Kingdom of Prussia and belonged to the administrative district of Liegnitz in the province of Silesia . In the following year the place was assigned to the newly formed district of Görlitz . 1874, the rural community Deschka closed to the bulk Krauscha rural communities, village and centering Zodel and the corresponding agricultural estates District together Zodel. In 1936 the place was renamed Auenblick in the course of the Germanization in the German Empire . In 1919 the Province of Silesia was divided and Deschka came to the Province of Lower Silesia . In 1938 this was reunited with Upper Silesia to form a province of Silesia, which was again dissolved three years later. Since the end of the Second World War and the establishment of the Oder-Neisse border , Deschka has been located directly on the border with Poland.
On January 16, 1947, the Auenblick community in the Görlitz district moved to the Niesky district . The renaming of the place was reversed in 1949, since then the place has been called Deschka again. On July 1, 1950, the neighboring municipality of Zentendorf to the north was incorporated into Deschka, making Deschka the easternmost municipality in the GDR . During the district reform on July 25, 1952, Deschka was assigned to the Görlitz-Land district in the Dresden district . After reunification , the community was initially in the Görlitz district in the Free State of Saxony. This was dissolved as part of the regional reform in Saxony in 1994 and Deschka was assigned to the newly founded Lower Silesian Upper Lusatia District. In 1996 the community joined the administrative association Weißer Schöps / Neisse .
On January 1, 1999, Deschka was incorporated into the municipality of Neißeaue , which had been formed three and a half years earlier , while the district of Zentendorf was detached from Deschka as an independent district of Neißeaue. Since the district reform of 2008, Deschka has belonged to the district of Görlitz.
population
In 1547 there were eleven possessed men in Deschka; in 1777 there were ten possessed men, four gardeners and three cottagers. In 1825 the place had a total of 138 inhabitants, after which the population of Deschka rose continuously, initially to 226 in 1905, to 367 in 1925 and to 411 in 1939. For 1946, Deschka had 550 inhabitants. Four years later, Deschka received more inhabitants through the incorporation of Zentendorf and now had 746 inhabitants, since then the number has been falling again. After the reunification , the community of Deschka had 488 inhabitants. In 2015, the Deschka district had 259 inhabitants.
Cultural monuments
According to the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony, three monuments have been identified for Deschka . These are the residential building of a former four-sided courtyard from the 1850s, a historic farmer's barn and a road stone on the so-called "Bare Mile" that is significant in terms of traffic history .
Web links
- Deschka in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interesting facts about the community. Municipality of Neißeaue, accessed on July 10, 2020.
- ↑ Arnost Muka : Serbski zemjepisny słowničk. Nakł. Maćica Serbska, Budyšin 1927, p. 6 ( online ).
- ↑ Deschka in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony.Retrieved on July 10, 2020.