Kaana
Kaana ( Upper Sorbian Kanjow ), from 1936 Reichendorf , is a desert southwest of Niesky in Upper Lusatia ( Saxony ). The place was devastated in 1981 as a result of the expansion of the Quitzdorf dam .
geography
Kaana was located in the middle of the Upper Lusatian heath and pond landscape between Quitzdorf in the northwest, Diehsa in the southwest and Jänkendorf in the southeast "in a damp lowland at the foot of the 165-meter-high wooded Wacheberg".
history
Already in 1412 the place was recorded as Kana and in 1557 as Kaana , sometimes Cana or Caana was written differently . In Sorbian place name research, the place name is generally traced back to the Upper Sorbian word ' kanja ' for fork consecration . Ernst Eichler points out that a personal name Kan- to the root kaniti , old Czech kaniti sě “flatter” “cannot be ruled out”.
The place had been a parish in Diehsa since the Reformation at the latest and had belonged to the Jänkendorf rulership since 1651.
In the course of the Nazi-motivated Germanization of Sorbian place names , Kaana was renamed Reichendorf on November 30, 1936. After the Second World War, the village, which had been outside the Sorbian language borders in the 1880s, was no longer renamed.
Reichendorf was incorporated into Jänkendorf on July 1, 1950 and devastated in 1981.
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1825 | 78 |
| 1853 | 87 |
| 1885 | 94 |
| 1905 | 102 |
| 1919 | 86 |
| 1925 | 91 |
| 1939 | 97 |
| 1946 | 92 |
Population development
In 1777 there were 10 gardeners in Kaana , an eleventh economy was desolate. In the following period the place had a relatively constant number of inhabitants, which moved between 90 and 100 inhabitants since the middle of the 19th century. So it is not surprising that the officially registered number of resettlers was 90 when the site was demolished.
See also
literature
- Frank Förster : Disappeared Villages. The demolition of the Lusatian lignite mining area by 1993 . In: Series of publications by the Institute for Sorbian Folk Research in Bautzen . tape 8 . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, ISBN 3-7420-1623-7 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Pohl: Heimatbuch des Kreis Rothenburg O.-L. for school and home . 1st edition. Buchdruckerei Emil Hampel, Weißwasser O.-L. 1924.
- ↑ Ernst Eichler , Hans Walther : Oberlausitz toponymy - studies on the toponymy of the districts of Bautzen, Bischofswerda, Görlitz, Hoyerswerda, Kamenz, Löbau, Niesky, Senftenberg, Weißwasser and Zittau. I name book . In: German-Slavic research on naming and settlement history . tape 28 . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1975.
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ' N , 14 ° 47' E