Georgewitz

Georgewitz City of Löbau Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 10 "  N , 14 ° 41 ′ 44"  E
Height :	229 m
Area :	2.9 km²
Incorporation :	March 22, 1970
Incorporated into:	Georgewitz-Bellwitz
Postal code :	02708
Area code :	03585
Location of Georgewitz in the area of ​​the city of Löbau

Georgewitz ( Upper Sorbian Korecy ) is a district of the Saxon town of Löbau in the district of Görlitz in Upper Lusatia .

geography

Georgewitz is located about four kilometers north of the city center of Löbau near the Georgewitz scale . Surrounding places are Bellwitz in the north, Rosenhain in the northeast, Wendisch-Cunnersdorf in the east, Wendisch-Paulsdorf in the southeast, Löbau in the southwest, Laucha and Nechen in the west and Kittlitz in the northwest.

history

Map of Oberreit with Georgewitz around 1845

Local history

Finds in the Georgewitzer gravel pit prove that the Georgewitzer Flur was already settled in the Paleolithic . It is also believed that this area was also populated in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. With the colonization of Upper Lusatia by the Slavs around 600 AD, settlements also emerged in the Georgewitzer area. For example, the two walls in the Georgewitzer Skala , Bielplatz and Schwedenschanze , were built by Sorbs . The village of Georgewitz as a Rundling also indicates a Slavic settlement.

The first documentary mention comes from 1305 as the manor house of Apeze von Gorguwitz. On May 1, 1306, the Margraves Otto IV and Waldemar von Brandenburg ordered Georgewitz to submit to the jurisdiction of the city of Löbau. This order is confirmed on December 13, 1397 by Governor Benisch von der Dube to the city of Löbau. It is also known that Georgewitz was owned by the gentlemen zu Nostitz that year .

Until 1502 parts of Georgewitz passed into the possession of Merten von Belbitz , before the city repurchased the place that year. In 1505 the Löbauer council sold the village to the Bautzen mayor Anders Proxsch . Ulrich von Nostitz bought a mill in Georgewitz on July 14, 1531. When the city of Löbau lost all of its goods after the Upper Lusatian Pönfall , the latter bought the entire village on March 5, 1549. Since then, Georgewitz has belonged to the manor Unworthiness . It remained in the possession of the Nostitz family until 1605 and then, together with unworthiness, changed to the Hundt family . In 1769 Carl Gotthelf von Hundt sold the two estates to the Salmour family .

The last Herr von Georgewitz was Heinrich Adolph von Gablenz , who acquired the estate together with Unworthiness in 1819. By a law which was serfdom in Saxony in 1832 abolished, hence the George Witzer farmers had become free citizens.

On March 22, 1970 the place united with Bellwitz to Georgewitz-Bellwitz . On March 1, 1994, this community was incorporated into Kittlitz . With the incorporation of Kittlitz, in turn, Georgewitz finally came to the city of Löbau on January 1, 2003.

Population development

year	Residents
1777	172
1834	174
1871	251
1890	257
1910	264
1925	298
1939	264
1946	353
1950	363
1964	304

In 1777, nine possessed men , five gardeners and eleven cottagers ran in Georgewitz .

The first population survey in Saxony, in which not the property situation, but each individual inhabitant was counted equally, took place in 1834. The population increased within half a century from 174 inhabitants to 257 in 1890. After the end of the war, many refugees found in Georgewitz Shelter, so that the population grew to just over 350 inhabitants.

language

Sorbian was also spoken in Georgewitz until the early 20th century . Arnošt Muka determined a population of 250 in 1884/85, of which 186 were Germans and 64 Sorbs (26%). These spoke the now extinct Löbauer dialect . Seventy years later, in 1956 , Ernst Tschernik only had three speakers, not a single young person.

Place name

Although Georgewitz is an originally Slavic settlement, it is assumed that the place was redesigned by a locator named Georg German and therefore bears his name.

Place name forms of Georgewitz include Chorecy , Gorguwitz (1305), Gorghewicz (1306), Gorgewicz (1397), Gorbitcz (1475), Gorgewiz (1531) and Gorbitz (1791). The Georgewitz form is also documented for the year 1791.

Personalities

Personalities who have worked on site

• Ulrich von Nostitz (1500–1552), landlord of Georgewitz

literature

• Between Löbau and Herrnhut (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 56). 1st edition. Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Successor, Weimar 1996, ISBN 3-7400-0935-7 , pp. 93-94.

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b} From the history of the village of Georgewitz. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 15, 2014 ; Retrieved April 7, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Municipalities in 1994 and their changes since January 1st, 1948 in the new federal states. Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office.
3. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003
4. ↑ ^{a b} Georgewitz in the digital historical place directory of Saxony
5. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
6. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 253 .

Web links

• Website about Georgewitz at www.kittlitz-oberlausitz.de
• Information about Georgewitz on the website of the city of Löbau
• Pictures by Georgewitz
• Georgewitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony