Großpostwitz

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 7 '  N , 14 ° 26'  E
Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Bautzen
Management Community :	Großpostwitz-Obergurig
Height :	241 m above sea level NHN
Area :	16.48 km 2
Residents:	2741 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	166 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	02692
Area code :	035938
License plate :	BZ, BIW, HY, KM
Community key :	14 6 25 190
Community structure:	10 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Gemeindeplatz 3 02692 Großpostwitz
Website :	www.grosspostwitz.de
Mayor :	Markus Michauk ( OLG )
Location of the community Großpostwitz in the district of Bautzen

Großpostwitz (also Großpostwitz / OL ), Sorbian Budestecy ^{? / i} , is a place and the community of the same name 6 km southeast of Bautzen in the Saxon Upper Lusatia . It is the seat of the Großpostwitz-Obergurig administrative association .

Geography and traffic

Aerial panorama of Großpostwitz

Großpostwitz is located in the southeast of the Bautzen district in a wooded area on the edge of the Oberlausitzer Bergland . The municipality, which is located on the Spree and the B 96 , has a station at Großpostwitz station on the Bautzen – Bad Schandau railway line , on which operations were discontinued in 2004. At the Großpostwitz junction, the also closed Großpostwitz – Löbau railway branched off , which can now be used as a cycle path to Löbau . The Spreeradweg from Bautzen to Neusalza-Spremberg also runs through Großpostwitz .

The community is bordered by Bautzen in the north, Kubschütz in the northeast, Cunewalde in the southeast, Schirgiswalde-Kirschau in the south and Obergurig in the west.

history

The Großpostwitz Church

Postwitz was first mentioned in 1331 as Bostewicz . The place probably originated like many others from a Slavic settlement. In 1807 the place name Postwitz became the current municipality name Großpostwitz . In the liberation war of 1813 fights took place over the place, which is affected by it.

The station was closed in 2004

In the second half of the 19th century, Großpostwitz was almost entirely Sorbian, despite its location on the southern border of the Sorbian language . Richard Andree wrote in 1874: “Where such good Slavs as in Postwitz worked as clergymen, the congregation has also kept itself in a rather purely versatile manner, despite the fact that it is on the language border. The Postwitz farmer resented his people if they brag too much about the German or prefer the same to the Wendish. ” For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 575 in the 1880s; 432 of them were Sorbs (75%) and 143 Germans. It was not until the 20th century that the use of Sorbian in Großpostwitz and the surrounding area fell sharply. In 1956 , Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking population of only 14.3% and a total of 433 speakers in the community of Großpostwitz with districts. The last Sorbian pastor in the parish was Bohuměr Rejsler, who worked here from 1947 until his death in 1968.

On July 1, 1950 Ebendörfel was incorporated into the community of Großpostwitz. On July 1, 1976 the community association Großpostwitz was formed from the communities Eulowitz, Rodewitz , Obergurig and Großpostwitz. Rodewitz is now a district of Schirgiswalde-Kirschau , Obergurig is an independent municipality that has entered into an administrative partnership with Großpostwitz. On January 1, 1999, Eulowitz was incorporated into the community of Großpostwitz / OL, but due to the judgment of the Saxon Constitutional Court of November 5, 1999, it was outsourced again with effect from January 1, 2000. Finally, the community was incorporated again on January 1, 2002, this time legally.

Local division

The following districts belong to the municipality of Großpostwitz:

Mountains (Sorbian Zahor ), 75 inhabitants Binnewitz ( Bónjecy ), 65 Ew. Cosul ( Kózły ), 135 Ew. Denkwitz ( Dźenikecy ), 47 Ew. Ebendörfel ( Bělšecy ), 224 Ew.

Eulowitz ( Jiłocy ), 328 Ew. Großpostwitz ( Budestecy ) with Hainitz ( Hajnicy ), 1.755 Ew. Klein Kunitz ( Chójnička ), 25 Ew. Mehltheuer ( Lubjenc ), 31 Ew. Rascha ( Rašow ), 75 Ew.

With the exception of Eulowitz, all districts belong to the official Sorbian settlement area .

politics

Municipal council

City council election 2019

Turnout: 75.3% (2014: 58.3%)

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40

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20th

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22.4%

18.0%

5.7%

53.9%

CDU

FWG

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OLG

Gains and losses

compared to 2014

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 55

 50

 45

 40

 35

 30th

 25th

 20th

 15th

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   5

   0

  -5

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-25

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-35

-34.2  % p

-8.8  % p

-8.8  % p

+ 53.9  % p

CDU

FWG

left

OLG

Since the municipal council election on May 26, 2019 , the 14 seats of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

• Großpostwitz (OLG) open list: 9 seats
• CDU : 3 seats
• Free voters (FWG): 2 seats

mayor

In the election on September 30, 2007, incumbent Frank Lehmann was re-elected with 99.2% of the vote. The turnout was 48.7%.

Since Lehmann resigned from his post early in 2019 due to his retirement, an early election took place. Markus Michauk (OLG) was elected as his successor in the second ballot on June 16, 2019 with 66.5% of the vote. The turnout was 57.3%.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows the tower of the Protestant church and the Spree , which meanders the town center with the church . The blazon reads: “Split by silver and green; in front a black church tower with two arched windows and a round window growing to the upper edge of the shield; behind a seven-arched silver wave bar. "

Attractions

→ Main article : List of cultural monuments in Großpostwitz

• Evangelical church (rebuilt in its current form in 1893) with a tower about 60 meters high

education

School festival "30 Years of Lessing School", 1959

Today's Lessing Elementary School opened in autumn 1929. The school had to be rebuilt because the school, which opened in May 1880, was no longer able to cope with the increasing number of students.

Partner municipality

• City of Grünsfeld , Main-Tauber district in Baden-Wuerttemberg

Personalities

• Michał Frencel (1628–1706), Sorbian pastor and Bible translator
• Michael Rostock (1821–1893), Sorbian botanist and entomologist, born in Ebendörfel
• Korla Awgust Kocor (1822–1904), Sorbian composer and cantor, born in Berge
• Theodor Schütze (1900–1986), local history researcher and folklorist
• Werner Hempel (1936–2012), botanist and university professor
• Götz Wienold (* 1938), linguist and semiotic, professor, writer
• Hanns Wienold (* 1944), sociology professor
• Ruprecht Polenz (* 1946), CDU politician, born in Denkwitz

literature

• Cornelius Gurlitt : Großpostwitz. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 31. Booklet: Bautzen Official Authority (Part I) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1908, p. 94.

Web links

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

• Großpostwitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
2. ^ Richard Andree : Wendish wandering studies. To the customer of the Lausitz and the Sorbs turn. Stuttgart, 1874, p. 46
3. ↑ Ernst Tschernik : The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 53 .
4. ^ Ludwig Elle : Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 244 .
5. ↑ Trudla Malinkowa : Spominamy. In: Pomhaj Bóh No. 1/2018, p. 8
6. ↑ 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
7. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1999
8. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2002
9. ^ Information from the Großpostwitz municipal administration; As of December 31, 2016. The population for Rascha only includes Old Rascha.
10. ↑ Saxon Sorbs Act , Annex to Section 3 (2)
11. ↑ Results of the 2019 municipal council elections
12. ↑ Thomas Drendel, Madeleine Siegl-Mickisch: Mayor election: Markus Michauk wins. In: Saxon newspaper . June 16, 2019, accessed June 7, 2020 . 
13. ↑ 70 years of Lessing School (1929–1999)