Dobranitz

Dobranitz Dobranecy Municipality of Göda Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 35 "  N , 14 ° 15 ′ 45"  E
Height :	223 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	20  (Dec. 31, 2016)
Incorporation :	April 1, 1936
Incorporated into:	Coblenz
Postal code :	02633
Area code :	035937

Dobranitz from the air (view in west direction)

Dobranitz , in Sorbian Dobranecy ^{? / i} , is a village in the center of the Bautzen district in East Saxony and has been part of the Göda community since 1994 . It is part of the official Sorbian settlement area in Upper Lusatia .

geography

The relaxed alley village Dobranitz is located about 13 kilometers west of the large district town of Bautzen and five kilometers northwest of the community center Göda on the north-eastern slope of Sandberg (also Dobranitzer Berg ( 250  m above sea level )) and Großhöchener Berg ( 261  m above sea level ). The terrain slopes down from the village in an easterly direction towards the Schwarzwasser . On the ridge in the west there are four wind turbines in addition to a sand pit.

The neighboring towns are Coblenz in the east, Nedaschütz in the south-east, Großaner in the south-west and Pannewitz in the north-west.

history

Dobranitz was first mentioned in 1222 as Dobranewicz - five years later again as the manor of a Harthungus . At that time the place belonged to the Burgward Göda, which was donated to the diocese of Meißen in 1006 , and thus not to the actual Upper Lusatia. Their border, however, ran directly northwest of Dobranitz. However, the area was inhabited long before, as the remains of the Coblenzer Schanze, a large Slavic rampart east of the village, and those of the significantly smaller Dobranitzer Schanze in the southeast show. Both are dated to the Early or High Middle Ages. Up until the 19th century there were also several barrows near the place, which, however, were sacrificed for road construction.

When the territories of the diocese were secularized in 1559 and became part of the Electorate of Saxony , the border became the Saxon-Bohemian state border. In 1635 Upper Lusatia also became part of Saxony and the border was omitted. Dobranitz remained, as before, an official village of the Stolpen office , with Coblenz and Cannewitz belonging to the oboedientia slavonica (Slavic obedience ), with a portion of the manor Dahren . So direct fees had to be paid to the Procuratorate in Stolpen. Another obligation concerned deliveries of grain to the pastor of Wilschdorf near Stolpen.

Until 1936 Dobranitz was an independent rural community; then it was incorporated into neighboring Coblenz. In 1994 the communities of Coblenz, Prischwitz and Göda were merged to form the new community of Göda.

Place name

The German place name is a takeover of the Sorbian name. This is derived from dobry , "good", and refers either to the geographical location or to a personal name from the settlement period.

population

In the last two centuries the population of Dobranitz has always fluctuated between 50 and 70. It was only after 1990 that the population began to decline sharply. Since the Reformation, the population has been predominantly Evangelical-Lutheran and parish to Göda.

For his statistics on the Sorbian population of Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 73 inhabitants in the 1880s. Without exception, all of them were Sorbs . At that time Dobranitz was on the south-western edge of the closed settlement area. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking population of only 35.2% in the municipality of Coblenz, to which Dobranitz now belonged. Since then, Germanization has advanced and the proportion of the Sorbian-speaking population has continued to decline.

Web links

• Dobranitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Friedrich Gottlob Leonhardi: Description of the Earth of the Electoral and Ducal Saxon Lands , 1803
2. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
3. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 244 .