Drehna

This article describes the place Drehna near Uhyst. From 1950 to 1990 Fürstlich Drehna near Luckau also bore this name.

Drehna Tranje Municipality Boxberg / OL Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 45 "  N , 14 ° 28 ′ 45"  E
Height :	133 m above sea level NN
Area :	2.94 km²
Residents :	98  (December 31, 2008)
Population density :	33 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	May 1st 1974
Incorporated into:	Uhyst
Postal code :	02943
Area code :	035728

Drehna (1936–1947 Grünhain ), Upper Sorbian Tranje ^{? / i} , is the westernmost part of the Saxon community Boxberg / OL in the district of Görlitz . It is part of the official Sorbian settlement area in Upper Lusatia .

geography

Drehna lies in the form of a street village south of the Hoyerswerda – Horka railway line and west of Uhyst . North of the village, the state road 108 , which leads to Lohsa , branches off from the federal road 156 , which leads from Boxberg around the north-east lying Bärwalder See to Uhyst.

Surrounding places are Uhyst in the east, Mönau in the southeast, Rauden in the south, Driewitz in the west and Lips in the northwest. The Drehna pond area connects to the south of the village.

history

The documentary tradition for Drehna starts late. Drehna is first mentioned in 1501 as Drene . The village was part of the Uhyst manor as early as the 16th century .

Drehna is parish after Milkel (documented for the year 1554). The move to Uhyst did not take place until 1823, caused by the changed political situation after the Congress of Vienna , which moved the Saxon-Prussian border south of the Uhyst area. While Milkel remains with the Kingdom of Saxony , Drehna is added to the Kingdom of Prussia . The community belongs to the Brandenburg district of Spremberg , until the district of Hoyerswerda was detached from it in 1825 and assigned to the province of Silesia .

After several major fires, including 1878 and 1928, the Drehna volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1934 . The fire station has been in the village since 1902.

Towards the end of the Second World War, all but two families left the village in April 1945. At least 19 German soldiers die in fighting.

After the end of the war, the western part of Lower Silesia was added to the state of Saxony again. Due to the administrative reform of 1952 , Drehna is located in the southern part of the now smaller district of Hoyerswerda .

The cycling club "Frischauf Drehna", founded in 1929, was able to achieve successes in the fifties across the county borders in art and round riding . Difficulties with the procurement of spare parts lead to the dissolution of the association towards the end of the decade.

The former Uhyster Pertinenz Drehna is incorporated into Uhyst on May 1st, 1974 together with Lips .

In a survey carried out in 1995 in the community of Uhyst on the desired district membership after the dissolution of the district of Hoyerswerda, the citizens of Drehna expressed their opinion that they would switch to the Lower Silesian Upper Lusatia district , which the community joined without the district of lip on January 1, 1996. Almost 12 years later, on October 1, 2007, Uhyst joins the community of Boxberg / OL.

Population development

year	Residents
1825	109
1871	185
1885	145
1905	132
1925	164
1939	145
1946	145
1950	142
1964	148
1971	133
1999	117
2007	101
2008	98

In 1777 there were 4 possessed men , 3 gardeners and 14 cottagers in Drehna .

Between 1825 and 1871 the population increased from 109 inhabitants by around two thirds to 185 inhabitants. It then fell by the turn of the century, only to rise again to 164 inhabitants in 1925.

From 1939 to 1964 the population figures remained fairly constant between 140 and 150 inhabitants, after which a clear decrease was recorded, the provisional end of which was reached in 2008 with only 98 inhabitants.

As late as 1880, Muka determined an entirely Sorbian population in the remote heath village. Even in 1956, the Sorbian-speaking population in the municipality was still 81.9%. Since then, the use of the language in the village has decreased significantly.

Place name

Forms of name are Drene (1501), Drähna (1560) and Drehna (1686). Around 1815, Thräna and Threne also appear as place names. Dranje and Tranje , among others, have been handed down as Sorbian name variants .

The origin of the name can no longer be clearly identified due to the documentary tradition that began late. Ernst Eichler sees “dogwood, cornel cherry” in Old Sorbian dren as a possible origin. So Drehna would be a place where dogwood bushes grow.

Against the background of the Slavic origin of the name, the place name was changed to Grünhain in 1936 as part of the National Socialist Germanization of Sorbian place names . The formal renaming takes place in 1947.

Attractions

Stone cross at the entrance to Drehna

In the vicinity of the village there are three memorial stones in scattered places, including a stone cross with a chiseled sword.

Others

With 40 members, almost half of the village's residents belong to the Drehna volunteer fire brigade. Due to her strength, she is sometimes called to support the Uhyst volunteer fire brigade during operations.

literature

• From the Muskauer Heide to the Rotstein. Home book of the Lower Silesian Upper Lusatia District . Lusatia Verlag, Bautzen 2006, ISBN 978-3-929091-96-0 , p. 270 f .
• Upper Lusatian heather and pond landscape. A regional survey in the Lohsa, Klitten, Großdubrau and Baruth area . In: Values ​​of the German homeland . tape 67 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-412-08903-6 , p. 120 f .
• Lothar Simon: Uhyst on the Spree . 1991, p. 30 f .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
2. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1996
3. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2007
4. ↑ Drehna in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
5. ↑ Von der Muskauer Heide zum Rotstein , p. 270.
6. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian rural population . In: German Academy of Sciences in Berlin - Publications of the Institute for Slavic Studies . tape 4 . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 90 .
7. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 249 .
8. ↑ Ernst Eichler , 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. 60 f .
9. ^ André Kurtas: Modern technology for the Drehna fire brigade. In: Lausitzer Rundschau , Lokal-Rundschau for Weißwasser and Niesky. November 1st, 2008. ( Online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )  

Web links

Commons : Drehna / Tranje  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Municipality of Boxberg / OL - Drehna district