Jeßnitz (Großweitzschen)

Jeßnitz Community Großweitzschen Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 13 ″  N , 13 ° 5 ′ 19 ″  E
Postal code :	04720
Area code :	03431
Location of Jeßnitz in Saxony

Jeßnitz is a district of the community Großweitzschen in the district of central Saxony in Saxony .

Geography and transport links

The place is east of the core town Großweitzschen on the county road K 7515 and on the Gärtitzer Bach . The A 14 runs on the southern outskirts and the B 169 to the east.

Place name

The oldest written mention as Gezemisz comes from the year 1276. Because of the m in the oldest documents, Eichler and Walther assume that the place name, unlike Jeßnitz bei Bautzen, is not derived from the Sorbian jaseń ("ash"), but rather from * jězva or * jazva (Polish jaźwa see. "roof cave", Lower Sorbian for "cave Brockhouse" jazw , "Badger"), with the unknown in the German sound sequence zv as -sm- or -sem- was acquired. The Old Sorbian form Jězvinica could then either refer to actual roof caves or to the location in the valley basin in the headwaters of the Jahnabach .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ernst Eichler, Hans Walther (ed.): Historical book of place names of Saxony. Volume I, Berlin 2001, p. 456

Web links

• Jeßnitz (Großweitzschen) in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Jeßnitz on the private website about Mockritz