Holschdubrau

Holschdubrau Holešowska Dubrawka commune Neschwitz Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 36 "  N , 14 ° 21 ′ 48"  E
Height :	158-170 m above sea level NN
Residents :	74  (December 31, 2016)
Postal code :	02699
Area code :	035933
Location of Holschdubrau in Saxony

Aerial view

Holschdubrau , Upper Sorbian Holešowska Dubrawka ^{? / i} , is a place in the East Saxon district of Bautzen and has belonged to the municipality of Neschwitz since 1936 . The place is located in Upper Lusatia and is part of the Sorbian settlement area .

geography

The place is located about eleven kilometers north of the large district town of Bautzen and two and a half kilometers east of Neschwitz on the northern edge of the Upper Lusatian region. The area is open to the south and is used for agriculture; there are also some fish ponds here. The extensive forests typical of northern Upper Lusatia begin in the north. The terrain rises in a north-easterly direction towards the 199-meter-high Hahnenberg , whose 15 km² forest is one of the largest contiguous forest areas in Upper Lusatia. The Hahnenberg is a terminal moraine from the last Ice Age and is therefore of interest for gravel extraction.

Holschdubrau is a typical street village with two three-sided courtyards in the southern part. The neighboring towns are Luppedubrau ( Radibor municipality ) in the east and Holscha in the southwest.

history

Iron was already being smelted near today's town during the Roman Empire . Time and again, old coins - including Roman ones - were found around Holscha and Holschdubrau.

The place itself was first mentioned in a document in 1419 as Dubraw claro ("Helle Dubrau"). Other forms of name recorded are Dubrau (1598), Hollsche Dubraucke (1759) and Dubra sub Holsche ("Dubrau bei Holscha"; 1792). The village had developed around the sheep farm of the Holscha estate. The manor was at the Holschaer Rittergut, which from 1735 belonged to the Neschwitzer rule.

Holschdubrau has always been a district of Holscha and was incorporated into Neschwitz on April 1, 1936 together with it.

Place name

The place name is derived from the Sorbian word dubrawa or dubrawka ("oak forest") and probably describes a place where oaks were unusual to be found. To distinguish it from other places with a similar name, the prefix Holsch- was added as a reference to the larger neighboring town, under whose manorial rule Holschdubrau was. The same procedure was followed for Luppedu Brewery to the east, which belongs to Luppa .

population

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka gave no separate data for Holschdubrau in the 1880s, as this belonged to Holscha. Of its 208 inhabitants, 194 were Sorbs and 14 Germans. In 1956, Ernst Tschernik still counted a Sorbian-speaking population of 32 percent in the municipality of Neschwitz. Since then, the use of the Sorbian language in the village has continued to decline.

The population has remained largely the same over the past 200 years. The devout residents are mostly of the Evangelical Lutheran denomination and parish to Neschwitz.

Economy and Infrastructure

To the north of Holschdubrau there is a concrete plant with an attached gravel pit. There is a stud in the village itself, which can be bypassed on a bypass road.

swell

• Olaf Bastian, Henriette Joseph, Haik Thomas Porada: Oberlausitzer Heide- und Teichlandschaft - a regional history inventory , Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2005, p. 203 f.
• Holschdubrau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.

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