Gross Partwitz

Flooding of Lake Partwitz , former Scado opencast mine and former location of Groß Partwitz.

Groß Partwitz , in Sorbian Parcow , was a village with about 400 inhabitants in the Lausitz glacial valley in northern Upper Lusatia in the area of ​​today's municipality of Elsterheide . Groß Partwitz was east of the city of Senftenberg and northwest of Hoyerswerda , only a few kilometers northwest of Klein Partwitz .

At the beginning of the 20th century, Groß Partwitz came under the coal field acquisition of Ilse Bergbau AG , which later became the Scado opencast mine . The final devastation took place between 1969 and 1970.

The Madonna of the Groß Partwitz half-timbered church is now in the neighboring town of Bluno , the altar was moved to the church of St. Severinus and Jacobus in Minsen on the North Sea coast after a restoration in the 1990s .

Population and language

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 535 in the 1880s, including 522 Sorbs (98%) and only 13 Germans. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking population of only 33.1% in the community of Groß Partwitz.

Personalities

• Christian Friedrich Stempel ( Kito Fryco Stempel ; 1787–1867) - Sorbian pastor and poet, born in Groß Partwitz

See also

• List of abandoned locations in the Lausitz coal area
• Archive of disappeared places

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Former Groß Partwitz residents meet on June 6th in the Reithalle Klein Partwitz. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . May 13, 2009, accessed April 25, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
3. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 249 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 32 '  N , 14 ° 9'  E