Big Düben

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 34 '  N , 14 ° 34'  E
Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Goerlitz
Management Community :	loop
Height :	132 m above sea level NHN
Area :	15.06 km 2
Residents:	1069 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	71 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	02959, 02953 (Halbendorf)
Area code :	035773
License plate :	GR, LÖB, NOL, NY, WSW, ZI
Community key :	14 6 26 120
Community structure:	2 parts of the community
Association administration address:	Friedensstrasse 83 02959 loop
Website :	www.grossdueben-online.de
Mayor :	Helmut Krautz (Voters' Association Groß Düben)
Location of the community of Groß Düben in the district of Görlitz

Aerial view

Groß Düben , Upper Sorbian Dźěwin ^{? / i} , is a municipality in the district of Görlitz in the Free State of Saxony . It belongs to the administrative community and has been made up of the two places Groß Düben and Halbendorf (Brězowka) since 1999 . The community is part of the official Sorbian settlement area in Upper Lusatia .

geography

The municipality of Groß Düben is located in the northern part of the district in a wooded area on the northwestern edge of the Muskauer Heide . It is located seven kilometers northwest of Weißwasser and 14 kilometers east of Spremberg . The federal highway 156 , which connects these two cities, runs along the northern municipal boundary. The now disused railway line Weißwasser – Forst runs through the community .

The place Groß Düben protrudes, similar to a headland, into the Brandenburg district of Spree-Neisse (SPN). 3.5 kilometers east of Groß Düben is Klein Düben , three kilometers west is Lieskau . The border between Upper Lusatia and Lower Lusatia also runs along this municipal, district and state border .

Surrounding communities

In the north, the community of Felixsee borders on Groß Düben. This is followed in a clockwise direction: Tschernitz (NE), Jämlitz-Klein Düben (O), Gablenz (O), Weißwasser (S), Trebendorf (SW), Runde (W) and Spremberg (NW).

history

→ For the history of Halbendorf see Halbendorf # history .

The area was settled as early as the Bronze Age , as archaeological finds show. The repopulation falls in the time of the second German settlement in the east . The oldest written mention of Groß Dübens so far was in 1464 in the land registry of the Muskau district .

The name "Düben" is derived directly from the Upper Sorbian name Dźěwin , the name addition serves to distinguish it from the neighboring Klein Düben ( Lower Sorbian Źěwink with the suffix -k). Name researchers are not sure about the origin of the name. The name can be derived from a personal name ("place of a Děva") or from 'děva' (virgin) or 'dźowka' (daughter).

During the Thirty Years' War , the manor palace in Groß Düben was destroyed. In 1836 Groß Düben received a school.

In 1995, Groß Düben was a founding member of the Loop Administrative Community and merged with the Halbendorf community on January 1, 1999.

In March 2009 the local council of Halbendorf presented a letter in a local council meeting, in which the will is expressed to be umgemeindet from Groß Düben to the neighboring loop. For Groß Düben, this step would most likely mean the loss of independence, as the town with around 650 inhabitants is only slightly larger than Saxony's smallest community Kurort Rathen and the number of independent communities with less than 1000 inhabitants in Saxony has fallen to below 10 since the reunification of Germany . In a referendum on March 25, 2012, the majority voted for the earliest possible incorporation after loop.

Population and language

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 302 in the 1880s, including 292 Sorbs (97%) and ten Germans. In 1956, Ernst Tschernik still had a Sorbian-speaking population of 56.7%. Since then, the number of Sorbian speakers has continued to decline significantly.

politics

City council election 2019

Turnout: 78.5%

 %

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

51.8%

48.2%

n. k.

WVGD

WVH

CDU

Gains and losses

compared to 2014

 % p

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

  -8th

-10

+ 2.3  % p

+ 5.8  % p

-8.1  % p

WVGD

WVH

CDU

Since the municipal council election on May 26, 2019 , the 12 seats of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

• Voters' association Groß Düben (WVGD): 7 seats
• Voting Association Halbendorf (WVH): 5 seats.

Personalities

The Margitta family of musicians and their daughters come from Groß Düben.

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 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Saxon Sorbs Act , Annex to Section 3 (2)
3. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1999
4. ↑ Ingolf Tschätsch: Halbendorfer is pushing for loop. In: Lausitzer Rundschau , Lokal-Rundschau for Weißwasser and Niesky. March 7, 2009. ( Online article  ( 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. )  
5. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 117 .
6. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 255 .
7. ↑ Results of the 2014 municipal council elections

Web links

Commons : Groß Düben  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

See also : List of cultural monuments in Groß Düben

• Community website
• Groß Düben in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony