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Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 28 ″  N , 14 ° 14 ′ 19 ″  E
Height : 149 m above sea level NN
Residents : 49  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation : January 1, 1957
Incorporated into: Zerna
Postal code : 01920
Area code : 035796
Wayside cross in limit
Wayside cross in limit
Aerial view

Frontier , Upper Sorbian Hrańca ? / i , is a place in the center of the Bautzen district in East Saxony and has belonged to the Ralbitz-Rosenthal community since 1994 , the second smallest district of which it is. The place is located in Upper Lusatia and is part of the core settlement area of ​​the Sorbs . The majority of the inhabitants speak Sorbian as their mother tongue. Audio file / audio sample

Both the German and the Sorbian place names are derived from the Slavic granica / hranica for "border".

geography

The place is about ten kilometers east of Kamenz and 17 kilometers northwest of Bautzen in the agriculturally used floodplain of the monastery water on its right side. The formerly meandering river, on the right side of which there were still fish ponds in the 19th century, was straightened here in GDR times.

Historically settlement boundary is a line village , which consists of several individual farms. The neighboring towns are Zerna in the north, Horka in the south-east, as well as Teichhäuser and Neudörfel in the south-west.

history

The settlement is first mentioned in 1352 as a manor by the Grenicz . An alternative name recorded later is Rainsdorf , based on the Sorbian name. In 1486, Gränze counts as a knight's seat, but from 1617 at the latest, the manor in the village lies with the Räckelwitz manor.

Until January 1, 1957, Gränze was an independent rural community; then it was incorporated first to Zerna, on January 1, 1974 to Rosenthal and finally on January 1, 1994 to Ralbitz-Rosenthal .

Population and language

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 49, all of them Sorbs, in the 1880s . In 1956 Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking population of 96% of 50 inhabitants, i.e. only two Germans. To this day, Sorbian is the predominant everyday language in the town.

The population remained largely stable over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, fluctuating between 40 and 50. Contrary to the East Saxon trend, it rose from 42 (1993) to 54 (2014) after 1990.

Wayside shrine

Most of the devout residents are Roman Catholic and have always parish to Crostwitz ; the small Protestant part belongs to the Schmeckwitz parish .

Economy and Infrastructure

The well-developed state road  101, which connects the Uhyst am Taucher junction of the A 4 with the B 96 near Königswartha , runs not far from the village .

Is located directly on the S 101, the dairy farm of Sorabia agricultural AG .

literature

  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Limits. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 35. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Kamenz (Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1912, p. 44.

swell

  • Limits in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
  2. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 251 .

Web link

Commons : Gränze / Hrańca  - collection of images, videos and audio files