Hainitz

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Community Großpostwitz
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 20 ″  N , 14 ° 26 ′ 35 ″  E
Height : 240 m above sea level NN
Area : 91 ha
Incorporation : 1934
Incorporated into: Großpostwitz

Hainitz , Hajnicy in Upper Sorbian , is a settlement that belongs to the core of the Großpostwitz municipality in Saxony .

geography

Hainitz is located north of Großpostwitz on federal highway 96 in the Lausitzer Bergland. The place consists of two settlement parts separated by the Spree . The older farmer's hamlet Alt-Hainitz lies east of the main road at the foot of the 431.9 m high Thromberg on a ridge between the grounds of the Cosuler Water and Hainitz Water, which flow into the Spree here. To the west of Alt-Hainitz in the Spreeaue lies the flax spinning mill with the workers' settlements Spreetal and Fabrikstrasse.

history

"Haynicz" was first mentioned in 1404. The place on the old Kaiserstraße is a Slavic foundation, its name is probably derived from "haj" (grove). The Hainitzer mill located on the Spree can be traced back to 1473. Nickel von Grünberg ( von Grunenberg ) on the Bautzener Burglehn sold the village "Haynitz" together with the forest on the Thromberg in 1471 to the Bautzen council. In 1497 the Bautzen Liebfrauenkirche acquired the Hainitz fiefdom. As a result of the Pönfall, the council lost the village again in 1547, but bought it back in 1555. In 1777, Hainitz consisted of three possessed, three gardeners, seven cottagers and a desert place. In 1834 the village had 83 inhabitants. After the construction of the new Bautzener Chaussee , the hamlet grew from 1834 to the west to the street. The owner of the Neue Mühle built a store in 1843 and a doctor built his house across from him in 1862. Finally, a pilgrim's tavern was built on the Chaussee.

After the Bautzen merchant Emil Grützner and his Bohemian partner Johann Faltis could not find a suitable location for a flax spinning mill in Bautzen in 1865 , the entrepreneurs acquired the old Hainitzer mill and built a spinning mill with 7,000 spindles in its place. The Grützner & Faltis company started operations in May 1866 and was soon expanded. The company received a further boost from the Bautzen – Wilthen railway line, which was inaugurated in 1877 . In the 1890s, Falti's grandson Alfons Porak (1851–1910) had a modern housing estate built for the workers, mostly from the Bohemian Trautenau , which was enlarged between 1902 and 1908. For the mostly Catholic workers, the Catholic Joseph Chapel was built in Hainitz in 1882 and a Catholic school in 1901. In 1909 a new factory went into operation. In 1912, the new Protestant elementary school was built with Rascha on the corridor border. As a result of the global economic crisis, Grützner & Faltis went bankrupt in 1931. From the bankruptcy estate, Deutsche Bank founded the Mechanische Flachsgarnspinnerei Hainitz GmbH as the main creditor in 1932, which was renamed the Flax Spinning Mill Hainitz AG in 1943.

In 1934 Hainitz was incorporated into Großpostwitz. After the Second World War, the spinning mill was expropriated and nationalized as VEB Flax Spinning Mill Hainitz. The company later became VEB United Linen Industry Werk 1 Großpostwitz, the largest of the four linen mills in the GDR. The plant, which was taken over by the Belgian Ontex Group in 1991, now produces tampons and bears the name Ontex Hygieneartikel Deutschland GmbH. It is the largest textile company in Upper Lusatia. After 1990, Hainitz grew together with Großpostwitz.

Between 1889 and 1898, the paleobotanist Paul Menzel worked as a country doctor in Hainitz. His son, the silicate chemist Heinrich Menzel, was born here in 1895 .

population

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 342 in the 1880s; of these, 247 were Germans and 95 Sorbs (28%). In contrast, most of the neighboring towns were Sorbian populations. The use of Sorbian has continued to decline sharply in the 20th century.

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  1. ^ German Digital Library , Archive Association Bautzen, City Archives, 61000 - 0448, Old Sign .: No.9.Lit.Z. / Red sign .: E.No.11, name of the place of provenance: City of Bautzen: Nickel von Grünberg (von Grunenberg), who lives on the Burglehn in Bautzen, sells the village of Hainitz and the associated income with the approval of his brother Heinrich von Grünberg all bushes, meadows, fields etc. as well as the Thromberg forest to the mayor and the city council of Bautzen. , Bautzen, 1471
  2. ^ Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, Archivverbund Bautzen, Stadtarchiv, 61000-0466, red sign .: C.No.12a, name of the place of provenance: City of Bautzen: The brothers Nickel and Heinrich von Grünberg (von Grunenberg) hereby confirm that they are the mayor and have sold the village of Hainitz with the associated interest and all the bushes, meadows, fields, etc. as well as the Thromberg forest for 175 marks groschen to the city council of Bautzen and vowed to the governor Duke Friedrich von Liegnitz that he had left nothing out. , Bautzen 1472
  3. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.