Kaschwitz

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Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 19 ″  N , 14 ° 10 ′ 51 ″  E
Height : 245 m above sea level NN
Residents : 105  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation : January 1, 1957
Incorporated into: Kaschwitz-Glaubnitz
Postal code : 01920
Area code : 035796
Aerial view
Wayside cross with Sorbian inscription in the center of the village

Kaschwitz , in Upper Sorbian Kašecy , is a place in the center of the Bautzen district in Saxony and has been part of the Panschwitz-Kuckau community since 1994 . The place lies in the Upper Lusatia and on the edge of the settlement area of the Sorbs .

geography

Kaschwitz is located south of Ostro , about 19 kilometers west of Bautzen and ten kilometers southeast of Kamenz in the Upper Lusatian region . The good soils in the area are used intensively for agriculture. In the west is the wooded Leipsberg (311 m). A stream flows through the village from west to east, which flows into the monastery water below the village . The Jauer rises a little north of Kaschwitz and flows off towards Nebelschütz . The location of the village on the eastern foothills of the Elstraer Mountains enables a view that extends to Czorneboh, almost 30 kilometers away, and on good days to the Landeskrone near Görlitz . The lignite opencast mines and the Boxberg power station can be seen to the north .

The neighboring towns are Ostro in the north, Bocka (municipality of Burkau ) in the east, Glaubnitz in the southeast, Säuritz in the southwest and Gödlau (town of Elstra ) in the west.

history

The settlement, laid out as a loose round village , was first mentioned in a document in 1374 and 1382 as Cassicz . The current form of the name is recorded for the first time in 1559. In the village, however, a vessel with coins from the 12th century was discovered, which suggests an earlier settlement. Until the 19th century, the manor was at the Panschwitz Monastery of St. Marienstern , which led to the fact that the place, in contrast to its southern neighboring villages, remained partially Catholic to this day. In the north of the village, in the direction of Ostro, is the former Kaschwitz fiefdom.

Until January 1, 1957, Kaschwitz was an independent rural community; then it was first united with the neighboring Glaubnitz to form the municipality of Kaschwitz-Glaubnitz and in 1974 incorporated into Ostro. Together with this it came in 1994 to the new large community Panschwitz-Kuckau .

Population and language

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 112 in the 1880s; 68 of them were Sorbs (61%) and 44 were Germans. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking population in the Kaschwitz community of still 60.5%. Sorbian is also spoken in the village to this day.

The Kaschwitz population is divided into denominations. While the Protestant majority has been parish in Uhyst am Taucher since the 16th century , the Catholic residents belong to the parish of Ostro.

Since the end of the Second World War , the population has remained constant at over 100.

Economy and Infrastructure

The former facilities of the Kaschwitz LPG 1. Mai are located at the northern exit of the village and are still used by agriculture today.

particularities

In Kaschwitz several traditional half-timbered houses have been preserved in good condition.

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
  2. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 251 .

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