Great Neida
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Great Neida
Wulka Nydej Large district town of Hoyerswerda
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 12 ″ N , 14 ° 14 ′ 6 ″ E
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| Height : | 119 m above sea level NHN |
| Area : | 4.22 km² |
| Residents : | 140 (Feb. 2019) |
| Population density : | 33 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1960 |
| Postal code : | 02977 |
| Area code : | 03571 |
 Historic homestead in Groß Neida
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Groß Neida (officially Groß Weidau between 1936 and 1947 ), Wulka Nydej in Upper Sorbian , is a village in the Bautzen district in Saxony . The place has belonged to the city of Hoyerswerda since January 1, 1960 , but has no district status and belongs to the "Old Town" area.
location
Groß Neida is located in Upper Lusatia at the mouth of the Wudra in the Hoyerswerdaer Schwarzwasser , which in turn flows north of Groß Neida into the Black Elster . Surrounding towns are the settlement of Klein Neida in the north, which has grown together with Hoyerswerda , Zeißig in the east, the Wittichenau districts of Spohla in the southwest and Keula in the south and Dörgenhausen in the west.
The location is about 500 meters south of the federal road 97 between Bernsdorf and Cottbus in Brandenburg and just under one kilometer west of the state road 95 between Wittichenau and Hoyerswerda.
history
The town of Groß Neida was first mentioned as a street village in 1401 with the name Neyt . The place name, which comes from Upper Sorbian , means "village on a cattle pasture". In 1548 the place, then called Guth zur Neyda , was a Vorwerk owned by the Hoyerswerda class . Other forms of place names were Neyda in 1568 and Neüda in 1758, in 1831 the place was first referred to as Groß-Neida . On November 30, 1936, the place name was changed by the National Socialists as part of the Germanization of Sorbian place names to Groß Weidau . In 1947, the city regained its original name, at the same time the community name was Klein Neida changed, Small Neida was previously a district of large Neida.
From 1952 the community belonged to the district of Hoyerswerda in the GDR district of Cottbus . On January 1, 1960, the municipality of Klein Neida was incorporated into the city of Hoyerswerda. After reunification , the Hoyerswerda district came to the Free State of Saxony . Groß Neida has been part of the Bautzen district since 2008 .
Population and language
The population of Groß Neida consisted of 16 possessed men and four gardeners in 1568 . In 1777, eleven possessed men as well as seven gardener and 13 housekeeper families lived in the village, and six farmsteads were desolate . In 1825 the place had 116 inhabitants, after that the number of inhabitants rose to 249 in 1871 and 556 in 1905, whereby the population numbers have since been collected from young and old Neida together. After the end of the Second World War , the community had 893 inhabitants. Most of the residents of Groß Neida are predominantly Evangelical-Lutheran , the place belongs to the Johannes parish in Hoyerswerda.
Groß Neida belongs to the Upper Sorbian language area . According to the statistics on the Sorbian population in Lusatia by Arnošt Muka , Neuwiese had 258 inhabitants in 1884, of which 255 were Sorbs (99%) and only three were Germans. In 1956, Ernst Tschernik had a Sorbian-speaking population of 39.5 percent in the entire municipality. Groß Neida is now part of the official Sorbian settlement area .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Arnost Muka: Serbski zemjepisny słowničk. Budyšin, 1927, p. 49 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ a b Groß Neida in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony . Retrieved April 24, 2019.
- ↑ Arnost Muka: Statistika łužiskich Serbow. Wobličenje a wopisanje. Budyšin 1884-1886. (on-line)