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Big boy community Burkau Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 4 "  N , 14 ° 15 ′ 7"  E
Height :	230 m above sea level NN
Residents :	154  (Jun 30, 2010)
Incorporation :	May 1st 1973
Incorporated into:	Uhyst on the diver
Postal code :	01906
Area code :	035953
View from the southwest

Aerial view

Großhöchen ( Upper Sorbian Wulki Wosyk ) is a place in the southern center of the Bautzen district in eastern Saxony and has been part of the Burkau municipality since 1994 . The village lies in the Upper Lausitz , but one unlike neighboring villages not on the official settlement area of the Sorbs .

geography

The square village Großgehchen is located about 15 kilometers west of the large district town of Bautzen on a small stream that rises in the nearby diving forest and flows north-east towards the Black Water. The surrounding area is hilly and is used intensively for agriculture. The only larger forest area is the diving forest adjacent to the west. The “Großgehchener Berg” in the northeast rises to 261 m, the “Birkenberg” in the diving forest to 310 m.

The neighboring villages are Dobranitz in the northeast, Leutwitz in the southeast, Taschendorf and Uhyst am Taucher behind the Taucherwald in the west, and Pannewitz in the north.

Place name

The name of the place is derived from the German word "Hag" or "Hain" for a small forest. The Sorbian wosyk , on the other hand, describes clearing or a used forest. To distinguish them from the village of the same name further north, the two places were given the prefixes “uppercase” and “lowercase” from the beginning.

history

The borderline in and around Großhickenchen

The settlement is first mentioned in the second half of the 14th century as Maior Heynichin or Henichyn . The variant form Höngen has been handed down from 1733 . To the north-west of today's town, however, there is a relatively small fortification that was used by the Milzeners , but is probably older. A deposit from the Early Bronze Age was discovered near the village in 1883 , the so-called Großgehenchen depository .

From the beginning of its recorded history until 1923, the Großgehingchen, which had fewer than 200 inhabitants, consisted of two independent rural communities, which were referred to as "Großgehenchen, Meißner Seite" (northern part) and "Großgehenchen, Oberlausitzer Seite" (southern part). The village stream formed the border. This division went back to the 1006 donation of the Burgwardes Göda with the surrounding villages to the diocese of Meißen . With the secularization of its territories and the connection to the Electorate of Saxony, the Saxon-Bohemian state border ran through the place between 1559 and 1635. Only in the Thirty Years War did the rest of Upper Lusatia become part of Saxony. The administrative subdivision still existed for three centuries. On April 1, 1923, the Meissner and Upper Lusatian sides were united, according to the census of June 16, 1925, the new political municipality in the Bautzen district administration had 184 inhabitants.

Pannewitz was incorporated into the now unified community in 1936. In 1973 Großgehchen was incorporated into Uhyst, which in turn has been part of the municipality of Burkau since the district reform in 1994.

Between 1984 and 1988 , Soviet SS-12 missiles , which could also carry nuclear warheads, were stationed in the Taucherwald, in the Bischofswerda base about one kilometer from the town . During these four years the diving forest was a restricted military area and the surrounding areas were closely observed.

Meissen side

The estate, located in the northern part of the village, was mentioned as a manor as early as 1290. In the 16th century the manorial rule was with the town council of Bischofswerda, in the 17th with the Pottschapplitz manor and in 1748 with the Pietzschwitz manor . The Meissen side has been ruled from Stolpen since 1559 . In 1890 the community had 103, in 1910 only 92 inhabitants.

Upper Lusatian side

The southern side of the village belonged to the Bautzen City Council from the 16th to the 19th century. The place is thus divided between the two later district towns. In 1777 the manor Bolbritz also owns a share. In 1890 the Lusatian side had 105 inhabitants, in 1910 only 95 inhabitants.

population

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a total population of 222 inhabitants for both districts in his home village in the 1880s; 182 of them were Sorbs (82%) and 40 were Germans. In the past century, the Sorbian language, whose Bautzen dialect was spoken here, completely disappeared from everyday life in the village. Towards the end of the 19th century, the place on the edge of the Sorbian area played an active role for the small Slavic people. In addition to the most important Sorbian scientist Muka, an example of this is also the Nyča family of craftsmen, who played a decisive role in the organization of the Sorbian craftsmen in the Bischofswerda / Kamenz region.

From the beginning, Großhennchen was part of the Göda parish; even the Reformation did nothing to change this. Since 1830 the place is parish after Uhyst. In 1925, 180 of the 184 inhabitants were Protestant.

Infrastructure

Großhaenchen is connected to the neighboring towns via local roads. The next motorway connection to the A 4 ( Dresden - Görlitz ) is Uhyst am Taucher about three kilometers to the west.

The place is the seat of the riding club Taucherwald, which has set up an equestrian facility here. There are four wind turbines on the Großhöchener Berg.

Personalities

• Arnošt Muka ( Ernst Mucke , 1854–1932), Sorbian writer, folklorist and activist; born in Großhainchen

swell

• Big chicken in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

1. ↑ Collection of reports on the topic
2. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
3. ↑ Siegmund Musiat: Was there in the 19th century, a Sorbian middle class ; In: Hans Hennig Hahn, Peter Kunze (eds.): National minorities and state minority policy in Germany in the 19th century , Akademie Verlag Berlin 1999; P. 152

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