Keula (Wittichenau)

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City of Wittichenau
Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '26 "  N , 14 ° 14' 36"  E
Height : 122 m above sea level NHN
Area : 2.82 km²
Residents : 206  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 73 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1978
Postal code : 02997
Area code : 035725
Chapel in Keula
Chapel in Keula
Aerial view

Keula (from 1936 to 1947 officially Runddorf ), Upper Sorbian Kulowc ? / i , is a district of the city of Wittichenau in the Bautzen district in Saxony . The place is part of the official Sorbian settlement area in Upper Lusatia . Audio file / audio sample

location

Keula is located in Upper Lusatia, immediately north of the core town of Wittichenau and seven kilometers south of the town of Hoyerswerda . Surrounding localities are the district of Groß Neida in the north, which belongs to the city of Hoyerswerda , Spohla in the northeast, Maukendorf in the east, Brischko in the southeast, the city of Wittichenau in the south and Neudorf Klösterlich in the northwest. The Dubringer Moor lies west of Keula .

The Saxon state road 95 from Hoyerswerda to Kamenz and the district road 9207 which leads via Spohla to the federal road 96 runs through Keula . East of Keula flows Wudra .

history

Keula was first mentioned in 1286 as Chula sita juxta Witegenhaw . The place name changed from Kuele (1374) to Kewle (1486) and Keila (1732) to Keula in 1759. In 1936 the National Socialists renamed the place Runddorf for ideological reasons , which corresponds to the meaning of the originally Sorbian place name. This designation was reversed in 1947.

There has been a chapel in Keula since 1613 . In 1654, almost the entire place burned down, although the chapel was not damaged. Another major fire on January 25, 1863, the chapel also survived without damage. In 1872 the chapel was demolished and rebuilt in the same place. The chapel is built in the Gothic style and with internal dimensions of 2.80 meters by 2.20 meters it is the smallest chapel in the diocese of Görlitz .

After the First Silesian War , Keula came to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1742 . There the place was until July 8, 1945 in the administrative district of Liegnitz . On July 25, 1952, Keula was assigned to the Hoyerswerda district and incorporated into Wittichenau on January 1, 1978 . As part of the city of Wittichenau, Keula was in the Hoyerswerda district in Saxony after the fall of the Wall . From January 1, 1996 to July 31, 2008, Keula was in the district of Kamenz , since the Saxon district reform of August 1, 2008 , the place has been in the district of Bautzen .

population

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 203 inhabitants in the 1880s; 202 of them were Sorbs and only one German. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik still counted a Sorbian-speaking population of 62.5%.

proof

  1. ↑ Keula (Wittichenau) in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony.Retrieved on May 7, 2017
  2. ^ Catholic parish of St. Mariä Himmelfahrt Wittichenau: Keula. In: st-mariae-himmelfahrt-wittichenau.de. Retrieved May 7, 2017 .
  3. ^ Keula in the database of the Verein für Computergenealogie. Retrieved May 7, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 91 .
  5. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995.

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