Hohendubrau

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '  N , 14 ° 39'  E
Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Goerlitz
Administrative association:	Diehsa
Height :	132 m above sea level NHN
Area :	45.54 km 2
Residents:	1882 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	41 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	02906
Primaries :	035876 and 035932
License plate :	GR, LÖB, NOL, NY, WSW, ZI
Community key :	14 6 26 190
Community structure:	9 parts of the community
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 23 02906 Hohendubrau
Website :	www.hohendubrau.org
Mayor :	Denis Riese (independent)
Location of the community of Hohendubrau in the district of Görlitz

Hohendubrau , Wysoka Dubrawa in Upper Sorbian ^{? / i} , is a Saxon community in the district of Görlitz with its administrative headquarters in Weigersdorf and part of the Diehsa administrative association . The name of the community is derived from the Hohen Dubrau , but there is no actual place with this name.

geography

The municipality of Hohendubrau is located in the central west of the district in a wooded area southwest of the Quitzdorf dam in the Hohe Dubrau ridge from which it is named . It is located roughly in the middle between the two district towns of Görlitz and Bautzen , from which it is around 20 kilometers away.

Community structure

The districts of the municipality are:

Dauban ( Dubo ), Gebelzig ( Hbjelsk ), Great Radisch ( Radšow ), Groß Saubernitz ( Zubornica ), Jerchwitz ( Jerchecy ),

Ober Prauske ( Hornje Brusy ), Sandförstgen ( Borštka ), Thräna ( Drěnow ), Weigersdorf ( Wukrančicy ).

The official Sorbian settlement area includes all districts except Groß Radisch, Jerchwitz and Thräna.

history

The municipality of Hohendubrau came into being on July 1, 1995 when the municipalities of Gebelzig (with Groß Saubernitz and Sandförstgen), Groß Radisch (with Jerchwitz and Thräna) and Weigersdorf (with Dauban and Ober Prauske) merged.

Bilingual board at the Weigersdorfer Church

The place Groß Radisch was first mentioned in the year 1422 as Radisschaw . The name comes from the Sorbian “place des Radiš” and is likely to be traced back to the founder of the place or to the Slavic god of war Radegast .

Jerchwitz used to be called "Erbisdorff" or "Erichsdorf". The current Sorbian name is derived from the term Jarczowice , which means something like "Village of Jarosh" or "Village of Jarik".

The place name of Thräna is derived from the Sorbian Drěnow (from "cornel cherry") or from trawa ("meadow" or "grass").

All districts were originally Sorbian-speaking. In 1884, according to Arnošt Muka , the Sorbian population was between 55% in Jerchwitz and 92% in Dauban. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking population of only 11, 2 and 25% in the communities of Gebelzig, Groß Radisch and Weigersdorf. Today the language has disappeared from everyday local life.

politics

City council election 2019

Turnout: 71.7% (2014: 59.7%)

 %

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

45.1%

30.1%

24.8%

CDU

WVG

WVR

Gains and losses

compared to 2014

 % p

 12

 10

   8th

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

  -8th

-10

-2.6  % p

-8.9  % p

+ 11.5  % p

CDU

WVG

WVR

The local elections in recent years resulted in the following distribution of votes and seats:

Parties and constituencies	2004		2009		2014		2019
	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats
Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU)	62.0	9	50.4	7th	47.7	7th	45.1	7th
Gebelzig Free Electoral Association	29.2	4th	40.3	6th	39.0	5	30.1	4th
Voting Association for the Voluntary Fire Brigade Groß Radisch	8.8	1	9.3	1	13.3	2	24.8	3
total	100.0	14th	100.0	14th	100.0	14th	100.0	14th
voter turnout	51.2%		59.4%		59.7%		71.1%

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:

• CDU : 7 seats
• Gebelzig Free Electoral Association (WVG): 4 seats
• Voters' association Groß Radisch - Jerchwitz - Thräna (WVR): 3 seats

Culture and sights

see also: List of cultural monuments in Hohendubrau

The Hohendubrau elementary school in the former castle in the Gebelzig district

• Lookout tower at Groß Radisch on Monumentberg (293.4 m above sea level)
• Groß Radisch church from 1801
• Cherry festival in Groß Radisch
• Elk enclosure near the Dauban district
• Leisure & Camping Park Thräna with wildlife enclosure

Transport links

The federal highway 4 runs south of the community and can be reached via the connection Weißenberg .

Hohendubrau-Dauban. Map of Upper Lusatia, Schenk, 1759.

literature

• From the Muskauer Heide to the Rotstein. Home book of the Lower Silesian Upper Lusatia District . Lusatia Verlag , Bautzen 2006, ISBN 978-3-929091-96-0 , p. 278-283 .

Web links

Commons : Hohendubrau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Pictures from Hohendubrau in the Deutsche Fotothek
• Hohendubrau 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. ↑ Saxon Sorbs Act , Annex to Section 3 (2)
3. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities of Germany, see 1995
4. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
5. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 254 .
6. ↑ Results of the 2019 municipal council elections