Major dehsa

Major dehsa City of Löbau Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 32 "  N , 14 ° 37 ′ 4"  E
Height :	316 m
Incorporation :	March 1, 1994
Postal code :	02708
Area code :	03585
Location of Großdehsa in the area of ​​the city of Löbau

Großdehsa ( Upper Sorbian Dažin ^{? / I} ; Dehsa (deza, dize) = Muldenort) is a district of the Saxon town of Löbau in the district of Görlitz in Upper Lusatia .

geography

The Waldhufendorf with 456 hectares (1900) is located on the S 115, which leads from Löbau in a westerly direction to Kleindehsa and Cunewalde . Großdehsa is located on the Großpostwitz – Löbau railway line, which opened in 1928 but is now closed . Great dehsa rises forty meters from east to west. The lower eastern part of the village runs wide into the Löbauer Kessel. The upper western part extends between the Schafberg in the northwest and the Kleiner Landeskrone in the south, the neighboring summit of the Bubenik .

history

Map of Oberreit with Großdehsa around 1845

Town center of Großdehsa

Großdehsa was first mentioned in a document in 1242. From 1350 the cathedral chapter of Bautzen gradually bought up parts of the place, so that the majority of the village paid interest there. Feudal lords in the neighborhood, on the other hand, only owned small shares. Later the Landvogtei in Bautzen also exercised rights. The cathedral monastery at Bautzen had an outbuilding in the village. In 1397 a knight's seat and in 1564 a manor was occupied.

The field name "Kanonenwiese" in the center of the village still reminds us of the days before the Battle of Hochkirch on October 14, 1758, when Austrian guns were standing on them, which then advanced over the mountains towards the Prussian positions at night with straw-wrapped wheels.

The mostly small-scale farmsteads are located on both sides of the S 115 road and the trickle of the Großdehsaer water. After a major fire in 1841, only the older buildings in the north of the upper village were preserved, while the southern farms were massively rebuilt.

In 1827 a secondary school was built (next to Kittlitz ), half of which initially served as a poor house. It was visited by 122 children who were "very agile". A new school building was built in 1898. In 1955, however, the schoolchildren were assigned to the Polytechnic High School in Kleindehsa .

Half-timbered house , the wooden walls of the log room (right) have been replaced by masonry.

At the end of the 19th century, more than 70 percent of the Großdehsaer were Sorbs . It can be assumed that the Sorbian language in the form of its Löbauer dialect was in use by part of the population until the 1960s. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking population of 7.8% or a total of 46 speakers.

On March 1, 1994 Großdehsa was incorporated into Löbau.

Place name forms

1238: Herwicus de Dycin (assignment uncertain), 1242: Hertwicus de Dyzin, de Desen, 1306: ambae Theesyn, 1336: Henricus de Desen, 1346: Deysen, 1362: Desen, Desin, Dezen, Deze, Desin, Tesin, Teczin, 1419: Deßen magnum, 1426: Dese, 1491: large Desen, 1525: Deße, large Deße, 1657: Gros Dehsa

Field names for Großdehsa are: Pastivisca = the hats, Bubonik = the drummer, Wlosanckach = in the Dohnenstiegen, Dolki = the valleys and Litte = meadows. They are all of Sorbian origin.

Population development

year	Residents
1777	22 possessed men, 18 gardeners, 45 cottagers
1834	503
1871	507
1890	443
1910	515
1925	533
1939	476
1946	584
1950	610
1964	516
1990	389

Administrative affiliation

1777: Bautzen district , 1843: Löbau district court, 1856: Löbau court office , 1875: Löbau district administration , 1952: Löbau district , 1994: Löbau-Zittau district , 2008: Görlitz district

Sons and daughters of the church

• Gustav Niederlein (1858–1924), German-Argentine explorer and botanist
• Alwin Mittasch (1869–1953), chemist; born in Großdehsa

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literature

• Between Strohmberg, Czorneboh and Kottmar (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 24). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1974.

Footnotes

1. ↑ Upper Lusatia as a special division of Saxony's church gallery . Published by Hermann Schmidt, Dresden 1840.
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. 253 .
4. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
5. ↑ Großdehsa in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Web links

Commons : Großdehsa  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Information about large dehsa on the website of the city of Löbau
• Images of Großdehsa