Klein-Radisch

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Municipality Boxberg / OL
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 30 "  N , 14 ° 38 ′ 45"  E
Height : 137 m above sea level NN
Area : 2.42 km²
Residents : 39  (December 31, 2008)
Population density : 16 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : March 1, 1973
Incorporated into: Klitten
Postal code : 02943
Area code : 035895

Little Radish , Upper Sorbian Radšowk ? / i , with less than 50 inhabitants, is the smallest of the 18 districts of the East Saxon community of Boxberg / OL in the district of Görlitz . The name prefix (in Sorbian with -suffix) of the place located in the Sorbian settlement area of Upper Lusatia serves to distinguish it from the village of Groß Radisch ( Radšow ) about 10 kilometers away . Audio file / audio sample

geography

Klein-Radisch is located in the form of a street village east of Klitten , south of the road to Kreba . The Weigersdorfer Fließ runs east of the village . To the east and south of the village are the remains of a formerly extensive fens complex .

Surrounding villages are Reichwalde in the north, Kreba and Tschernske in the east, Neudorf and Mücka in the southeast, Förstgen in the south, Tauer and Zimpel in the southwest, Klitten with Jahmen and Klein-Oelsa in the west and Dürrbach in the northwest.

history

The village of Radisch was first mentioned in a document in 1519 in a deed of division of the Baruth rulership , to which it certainly belonged at the end of the 15th century. The Mücka manor later bought the village parish after Klitten.

At the beginning of the 20th century, lignite was discovered under the village. With the sale of the homesteads to the Eintracht Braunkohlenwerke und Brikettfabriken AG , where right of residence was granted until the demolition of the site, the village was electrified only in 1948 after a socio-political upheaval.

Towards the end of the Second World War , a satellite camp of the Groß-Rosen concentration camp was operated in Klein-Radisch until January 1945 , the prisoners of which had to do forced labor in agriculture.

Together with Zimpel-Tauer , Klein-Radisch was incorporated into Klitten on March 1, 1973.

Population development

year Residents
1825 78
1863 110
1871 103
1885 105
1905 102
1925 83
1939 67
1946 55
1971 55
1999 44
2003 42
2008 39

In 1777, five possessed men , two gardeners and four cottagers lived in Klein-Radisch in eleven farms .

The population of Klein-Radisch was never very large. Apart from a period from the middle of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, the population was always below 100. Since then it has been falling slowly but continuously. Whereas in 1925 with 83 inhabitants there were five more than was the case 100 years earlier, in 1946 there were only 55 and at the turn of the millennium there were 44 inhabitants living in 13 homesteads.

In the 19th century the population was predominantly Sorbian. In 1863 95 of the 110 inhabitants were Sorbs, about 20 years later Arnošt Muka found 85 Sorbs among the 102 inhabitants. This corresponds to an 86 percent share of the Sorbian population in 1863 and an 83 percent share in 1884. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking population of 52.2% in the municipality of Klein-Radisch. Since then, the use of Sorbian has continued to decline in the village.

Place name

As with Groß Radisch, the place name was certainly derived from a personal name. Today's Sorbian name Radšowk is a formation from the Sorbian name Groß Radischs, Radšow , with the diminutive suffix -k .

In earlier times, the formation was certainly made with -c, which is suggested by the German form of the name Ratzschholtz from 1658. The suffix -holz in Sorbian names is often formed by -owc, which is available in Radš owc . A name prefix can be traced back to Klein Radischholz in 1737 , and in 1791 Klein-Radisch also dropped the suffix -holz.

More recent occurrences of the Sorbian name are Maly Raczowczk (1800), Maly Radšow (1835), Mały Radšow (1843) and Radšowk (1969).

Attractions

Stone cross in small radish

On the road from Klitten to Klein-Radisch there is a late medieval atonement cross about one meter in size in the shape of a Maltese . Comparable to the Merzdorfer atonement cross in Bärwalde , the Klein-Radischer Kreuz is also deformed on one arm and also on the head.

literature

  • From the Muskauer Heide to the Rotstein. Home book of the Lower Silesian Upper Lusatia District . Lusatia Verlag, Bautzen 2006, ISBN 3-929091-96-8 , p. 276 f .
  • Upper Lusatian heather and pond landscape. A regional survey in the Lohsa, Klitten, Großdubrau and Baruth area . In: Values ​​of the German homeland . tape 67 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-412-08903-6 , p. 180 f .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
  2. ↑ Klein-Radisch in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  3. ↑ a b From Muskauer Heide to Rotstein , p. 277.
  4. ^ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian rural population (=  German Academy of Sciences in Berlin - publications of the Institute for Slavic Studies . Volume 4 ). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 117 .
  5. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 254 .
  6. ↑ 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 (=  German-Slavic research on naming and settlement history . Volume  28 ). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1975, p. 245 .

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