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Kühnicht
Kinajcht Large district town of Hoyerswerda
Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 45 ″ N , 14 ° 16 ′ 43 ″ E
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| Height : | 118 m above sea level NHN |
| Area : | 75 ha |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1960 |
| Postal code : | 02977 |
| Area code : | 03571 |
 Historic four-sided courtyard in Kühnicht
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Kühn Maybe , Upper Sorbian , is a village in the northern district of Bautzen in Saxony . The place has belonged to the city of Hoyerswerda since January 1, 1960 , but has no district status and belongs to the city area "Neustadt". The Kühnichter Heide prefabricated housing estate (residential complexes VIII and IX) lies in front of Kühnicht .
location
Kühnicht is located in Upper Lusatia , in the north-eastern part of the Hoyerswerda urban area. The original town center can still be seen in the street Lindenweg . Kühnicht is located in the Lusatian lignite mining area , to the east of the town is the Scheibe Lake , which was created by the flooding of the lignite opencast mine .
One kilometer north-west or south-east of Kühnicht is the federal highway 96 between Senftenberg and Bautzen , and to the north the federal highway 97 to Cottbus .
history
The original Gassendorf with the spelling Kinicht was first mentioned in a document in 1556. The place name comes from Sorbian and means “place on a pine bush”. Historically, the place belonged to Hoyerswerda as a Vorwerk from the first mention . Called Künicht in 1744 , the place first appeared in its present form in 1791. However, the spelling Kühnaicht was also widespread until the early 20th century.
From 1952 the community belonged to the district of Hoyerswerda in the GDR district of Cottbus . Until the expansion of the Hoyerswerdaer Neustadt in the course of the development of the Lusatian lignite district, Kühnicht was a small Sorbian heath village, which was incorporated into the rapidly growing neighboring town of Hoyerswerda on January 1st, 1960. After reunification , the Hoyerswerda district came to the Free State of Saxony . Kühnicht has been part of the Bautzen district since 2008 .
Population and language
In 1777, the population of the village of Kühnicht consisted of just three families . In 1825 the place had 91 inhabitants, after which the number of inhabitants rose to 131 in 1871 and 141 in 1885. In the following years there was a decrease in the number of inhabitants to 127 in 1905 and then again to a population increase to 173 in 1925. After the end of the Second World War , the community had 195 inhabitants. The inhabitants of Groß Neida are predominantly of the Evangelical Lutheran denomination, the place belongs to the Johannes parish in Hoyerswerda.
Kühnicht belongs to the Upper Sorbian language area . According to the statistics on the Sorbian population in Lusatia by Arnošt Muka , the municipality had 140 inhabitants in 1884, of which 138 were Sorbs (99%) and only two Germans. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik still counted 89.4% of the population in the entire community with knowledge of Sorbian, which was one of the highest proportions in the entire Protestant part of the Sorbian area. Even today Kühnicht belongs to the official Sorbian settlement area .
