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Gebelzig
Hbjelsk Hohendubrau municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 25 ″ N , 14 ° 40 ′ 10 ″ E
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| Height : | 187 m above sea level NN |
| Residents : | 492 (Jun 30, 2014) |
| Incorporation : | July 1, 1995 |
| Postal code : | 02906 |
| Area code : | 035876 |
Gebelzig , Upper Sorbian , is a district of the Saxon community of Hohendubrau in the district of Görlitz on the edge of the Oberlausitzer Bergland . The church village on the eastern edge of the official Sorbian settlement area is the largest of the Hohendubrauer districts with around 550 inhabitants.
geography
Gebelzig lies in a depression in the plateau that extends from the Hohe Dubrau to the south . Groß Radisch in the northeast and Weißenberg in the southwest are each three kilometers away .
From the east comes the Schwarzwasser brook , which after a bend west of the village flows in a north-westerly direction to Groß Saubernitz .
history
Gebelzig was first mentioned as Gebelszig in 1390 in a Görlitz council bill . A church was mentioned as early as 1346 in the register of the diocese of Meißen .
The construction of the Gebelziger Castle dates back to the 14th century and served as a gathering point and refuge for the robber knights of Upper Lusatia until the early 16th century . As a result, Gebelzig was mentioned more often in Görlitz documents during this period. In 1540 the Reformation took place and the church became Protestant.
Since there were two knightly seats in Gebelzig , the Waldhufendorf was for centuries divided into two parts: Ober Gebelzig and Nieder Gebelzig. In the course of the Congress of Vienna , Ober and Nieder Gebelzig came under Prussian administration in 1815 after Saxony fought on the French side in the Napoleonic Wars and had to cede the northeastern part of Upper Lusatia to Prussia as reparation. As rural communities , the two suburbs were assigned to the district of Rothenburg ( province of Silesia ). The Prussian-Saxon border was to run between them and the southwestern town of Weißenberg for the next 130 years.
On September 30, 1928, Nieder Gebelzig merged with the district of Groß Saubernitz and Ober Gebelzig with the district of Sandförstgen to form the rural community of Gebelzig.
Sorbian church services were held regularly in Gebelzig until 1933. The parish at that time included Gebelzig, Sandförstgen, Groß Saubernitz, Jerchwitz and Ober Prauske .
In the administrative reform of 1952 , Gebelzig, again Saxon since 1945, was assigned to the Niesky district in the Dresden district .
On July 1, 1995, the community of Gebelzig merged with the communities of Groß Radisch and Weigersdorf to form the community of Hohendubrau, whose namesake is the Hohe Dubrau .
Population development
| year | Residents | ||
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| Ober Gebelzig (with Sandförstgen) |
Nieder Gebelzig (with Groß Saubernitz) |
Gebelzig (overall) |
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| 1825 | 231 | 72 | 303 |
| 1871 | 349 | 335 | 684 |
| 1885 | 539 | 330 | 869 |
| 1905 | 481 | 276 | 757 |
| 1925 | 749 | ||
| 1939 | 670 | ||
| 1946 | 1015 | ||
| 1950 | 1012 | ||
| 1964 | 785 | ||
| 1971 | 779 | ||
| 1990 | 705 | ||
| 1994 | 702 | ||
| 1999 | 725 | ||
| 2003 | 754 | ||
| 2008 | 537 | ||
| 2010 | 522 | ||
Ober Gebelzig usually had more inhabitants than Nieder Gebelzig, which was partly due to the larger area of 715 hectares (as of 1895) compared to 547 hectares in Nieder Gebelzig. From the year 1777, the consequences of the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) had not yet been completely overcome, 7 possessed men , 13 gardeners , 13 cottagers and 2 desolate inns have been handed down for Ober Gebelzig . At that time Nieder Gebelzig had 6 gardeners and 3 cottagers.
This discrepancy was still noticeable in 1825, when Ober Gebelzig had about three times as many inhabitants as Nieder Gebelzig. By 1871 the population did not only increase in general, it was almost the same for both parts of the village. In the following 14 years the number in Ober Gebelzig rose by almost 200 inhabitants, while in Nieder Gebelzig it remained almost constant. From then on, the number of inhabitants in Gebelzig fell again by almost 200 until 1939, so that it only deviated from the number from 1871 by around two percent.
After the Second World War, many refugees and displaced persons from the former German eastern areas found shelter in Gebelzig for a long time, so that the number was still over 1000 even five years after the end of the war. By 1964, the number of inhabitants in the municipality fell again to below 800. In the following 30 years, the population decline was relatively moderate at around 10 percent.
For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined these population figures in the 1880s:
| place | Sorbs | German | Total population |
Sorbian population |
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| Ober Gebelzig | 312 | 160 | 472 | 66.1% |
| Sandförstgen | 81 | 23 | 104 | 77.9% |
| Nieder Gebelzig | 93 | 34 | 127 | 73.2% |
| Gross Saubernitz | 149 | 32 | 181 | 82.3% |
| total | 635 | 249 | 884 | 71.8% |
In 1956 Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking population of only 11.3% in the municipality of Gebelzig. Today the language has largely disappeared from everyday local life.
Place name
The German name is derived directly from the Sorbian. The meaning cannot be clearly explained, but Paul Kühnel (1891), Jan Meschgang (1973) and Ernst Eichler (1975) consistently derive it from the Old Slavic word for “bend”.
Culture and sights
The Gebelzig Castle, which was built in the 14th century, was given its present-day appearance during renovations in 1911 and 1912, based on the castles in Milkel and Moritzburg . During the GDR it was used as the Karl Liebknecht High School and after 1993 as the “Hohendubrau Primary School”. The Hohendubrau elementary school was later expanded to include all-day offers.
The evangelical village church of Gebelzigs is a single nave, late Gothic building. It is adorned with murals showing the battle of St. George with the dragons.
Personalities
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Matthäus Jockisch ( Matej Jokuš ; * 1668 in Schwarznaußlitz ) was a pastor in Gebelzig from 1698 until his death in 1735. Together with Pastor Johann Wauer (Jan Wawer) from Hochkirch, he contributed to the translation of the first complete Sorbian Bible from 1728. His grave slab has been restored in the entrance area of the church since 2005.
literature
- From the Muskauer Heide to the Rotstein. Home book of the Lower Silesian Upper Lusatia District . Lusatia Verlag, Bautzen 2006, ISBN 3-929091-96-8 , p. 279 f .
Web links
- Gebelzig in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Pictures from Gebelzig in the Deutsche Fotothek
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Robert Pohl: Heimatbuch des Kreis Rothenburg O.-L. for school and home . 1st edition. Buchdruckerei Emil Hampel, Weißwasser O.-L. 1924, p. 244-247 .
- ↑ Richard Jecht (Ed.): Codex diplomaticus Lusatiae superioris III . Self-published by the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences, Görlitz 1910, p. 160 .
- ↑ a b Digital Historical Directory of Saxony: Gebelzig, Nieder-. Retrieved May 17, 2008 .
- ^ A b Digital Historical Directory of Saxony: Gebelzig, Ober-. Retrieved May 17, 2008 .
- ^ Territorial changes in Germany and German administered areas 1874–1945: Gebelzig district. Retrieved May 17, 2008 .
- ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities of Germany, see 1995
- ^ Digital historical place directory of Saxony: Gebelzig. Retrieved May 17, 2008 .
- ↑ Von der Muskauer Heide zum Rotstein , page 279
- ↑ Saxony regional register: Gebelzig municipality. Retrieved May 17, 2008 .
- ↑ 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. 117-120 .
- ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 254 .
- ^ Paul Kühnel: The Slavic place and field names of Upper Lusatia . Central antiquariat of the German Democratic Republic, Leipzig 1982, p. 28 (photomechanical reprint of the original edition (1891–1899)).
- ^ Jan Meschgang: The place names of Upper Lusatia . 2nd Edition. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1979, p. 43 (edited by Ernst Eichler ).
- ^ 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. 76 .