Jeßnitz (Puschwitz)
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Jeßnitz
Jaseńca Community Puschwitz
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 2 ″ N , 14 ° 16 ′ 29 ″ E
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| Height : | 177 m above sea level NN |
| Residents : | 159 (December 31, 2016) |
| Incorporation : | April 1, 1936 |
| Postal code : | 02699 |
| Area code : | 035933 |
 Aerial view of Jeßnitz
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Jeßnitz , in Sorbian , is a village in the center of the Bautzen district in East Saxony and has been part of the Puschwitz community since 1936 . The place is part of the Sorbian settlement area in Upper Lusatia ; a large part of the population speaks Sorbian as their mother tongue.
geography
The place is located about 13 km northwest of the large district town of Bautzen between the places Crostwitz and Puschwitz at 177 m above sea level. NN . The Falkenberg (198 m) rises in the northwest, the Galgenberg (216 m) in the southwest. There is a relatively large village pond in the center of the village.
The neighboring towns are Doberschütz in the north, Puschwitz in the east, Guhra in the southeast, Lauske in the south, Crostwitz in the southwest and Horka in the northwest.
population
In 1925 Jeßnitz had 329 inhabitants; of these, 248 were of the Catholic faith (75%). The place has been part of the Neschwitz parish since the 16th century .
For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 288 inhabitants in the 1880s; 281 of them were Sorbs (98%) and 7 Germans.
Origin of name
The German place name is derived from the Old Sorbian name Jesenica or Jasenica . Jaseń is the ash , Jaseńca originally the name for an ash forest, or the stream that springs from it and flows through Jeßnitz. This interpretation supports the mention of 1541 ( "zur Jesnitz" ). The current Sorbian form of the name is first recorded in 1684 in the Radibor church registers as z Yaßencze ("from Jeßnitz").
history
Jeßnitz is first mentioned in a document in 1365 as Jesnicz . Until then it belonged to the large parish of Göda ; then it was parish to Neschwitz . When the Reformation reached the community of Neschwitz between 1545 and 1555, the Jeßnitz Catholics moved to the community of Crostwitz. From 1458 the manor located on the western edge of the village is recorded. The current baroque building was erected at the beginning of the 18th century.
The "Bjesada" (chat) association was founded in 1873 and played an important role in village life. In 1880 the Jeßnitz people founded the very first Sorbian village theater group.
Until April 1, 1936, Jeßnitz and the Neu-Jeßnitz district formed an independent rural community. During the Second World War, the place hardly suffered any damage; however, 15 to 20 refugee families came to the village immediately after the war.
monument
At the end of the village in the direction of Guhra there is a war memorial for the Jeßnitz soldiers who fell in the two world wars on the right-hand side of the road.
Personalities
- Karl August Räde (1864–1946), gardener, landscape architect and dendrologist in Budapest ; Born on the Jeßnitz manor, grew up in the Seidau
- Jurij Handrik (1897–1963), pastor, deputy chairman of Domowina ; born in Jeßnitz
Web links
- Jeßnitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 54 .
- ↑ Ernst Eichler / Hans Walther : Ortnamesbuch der Oberlausitz. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1975
- ↑ Ernst Eichler, Hans Walther (ed.): Historical book of place names of Saxony. Volume I, Berlin 2001, p. 456
- ↑ Jeßnitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony