Doberschütz (Malschwitz)

Doberschütz Dobrošecy Community Malschwitz Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 14 "  N , 14 ° 29 ′ 52"  E
Height :	151–163 m above sea level NN
Residents :	168  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation :	April 1, 1936
Incorporated into:	Low
Postal code :	02694
Area code :	03591
Aerial photo of Doberschütz (2017)

Doberschütz , Upper Sorbian Dobrošecy ^{? / i} , is a village in the East Saxon district of Bautzen and has been part of the Malschwitz community since 1994 . It is located in Upper Lusatia and is in the Sorbian settlement area .

geography

Doberschütz is an extended round hamlet between the Landstrasse and the Kleine Spree about six kilometers northeast of Bautzen and 2.5 km southwest of Malschwitz. The place is located on the south-eastern edge of the Spreeaue and the Upper Lusatian pond landscape , directly where it merges into the hilly landscape of the Upper Lusatian area . The Schafberg rises to 181 m directly on the eastern edge of the village ; in the south are the Kreckwitzer heights (up to 196 m), the Weinberg (184 m) and the Koppatsche (189 m). The flat meadow landscape of the Spree, which is used for pond management, extends to the north. The ponds begin directly at the northern end of the village.

The Doberschützer Gutshof is located at the northwest end of the village.

The neighboring towns are Pließkowitz in the north, Kreckwitz in the south and Niedergurig behind the ponds in the west.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1280 as the manor of Hugo de Doberswicze . Until the 20th century, a manor had its seat in Doberschütz, which also exercised the manorial rule in the village, whereby a part of the place belonged to the city council of Bautzen. The estate also owned parts of the surrounding villages, e.g. B. from Briesing .

In May 1813, during the Battle of Bautzen , there was heavy fighting in the immediate vicinity of Doberschütz, as the nearby Kreckwitzer Heights were a key position due to their exposed location.

In the middle of the 19th century the Doberschützer Gut belonged to Lippe-Biesterfeld-Weißenfeld together with Niedergurig, Teichnitz, Groß- and Kleindubrau Christian Graf.

Doberschütz was an independent rural community until 1936; then it was incorporated into Niedergurig and came together with this in 1994 to the new large community of Malschwitz.

Place name

The place name is of Old Sorbian origin and is derived from the personal name Dobruš ("the good", dobry = "good"). The Slavic ending -itz is typical for the region. Older forms of name are u. a. Dobitswitz (1334) and Doberschitz (1534).

population

In 1834 the place had 161 inhabitants. This number decreased to 130 by the turn of the century and then slowly increased again, with another slight decrease after 1990.

In 1884/85 Arnošt Muka had 153 inhabitants, all of whom were Sorbs without exception . This made Doberschütz one of the last purely Sorbian villages northeast of Bautzen. Only since the middle of the 20th century has the use of Sorbian in the village declined due to assimilation and the influx of German speakers.

Since the Reformation, the inhabitants have been almost exclusively Evangelical-Lutheran and have parish to Malschwitz since the 16th century.

Economy and Infrastructure

The well-developed state road 109 (Bautzen - Niesky ) runs through Doberschütz ; only two kilometers from the village also the B 156 to Weißwasser . The Bautzen-Ost junction of the A 4 ( Dresden - Breslau ) is only 3.5 km away.

To the east of Doberschütz, granodiorite is mined in the quarry , which was previously used as a bathing facility.

Personalities

• Nicolaus von Gersdorf (1629–1702), lawyer and diplomat; born on the Doberschützer Gut

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Doberschütz (Malschwitz) in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

• Olaf Bastian, Henriette Joseph, Haik Thomas Porada: Oberlausitzer Heide- und Teichlandschaft - a regional study , Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2005

1. ^ Walter Wenzel: Oberlausitzer Ortnamesbuch. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 2008, p. 54
2. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.