Klein Partwitz

Klein Partwitz ; Bjezdowy Community Elsterheide Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 59 ″ N , 14 ° 11 ′ 15 ″ E
Height :	112 m above sea level NN
Area :	16.55 km²
Residents :	333 (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	20 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 1995
Postal code :	02979
Area code :	035751
Location of Klein Partwitz in Saxony

Aerial view

Village street through Klein Partwitz

Klein Partwitz , Bjezdowy in Upper Sorbian ^?^/ⁱ , is part of the municipality of Elsterheide in the Saxon district of Bautzen . Klein Partwitz is located about 14 kilometers northwest of the city of Hoyerswerda on an artificially created isthmus in the middle of the opencast lakes of the Lusatian Lakeland and is an official Sorbian settlement area . The border between the federal states of Brandenburg and Saxony runs directly to the town .

Districts

The district of Klein Partwitz Siedlung (Bjezdowy sydlišćo) also belongs to the actual center around the Klein Partwitz village green .

Place name

It is assumed that the name Partwitz can be traced back to the Lower Sorbian word “para” for swamp , morass . The former neighboring Groß Partwitz was called Sorbian Parcow . Around 1744 the folk researchers Frenzel traced the Sorbian name Bjezdowy for Klein Partwitz back to “bez dowy”, in German without gifts , which could indicate the insignificance of the village, which was free of taxes.

Population and language

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 165 in the 1880s, including 162 Sorbs (98%) and only three Germans. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik still counted a Sorbian-speaking population of 83.2% in the municipality of Radibor, making Klein Partwitz one of those villages in the region with the highest proportion of Sorbian speakers. Since then, the use of Sorbian in the village has continued to decline.

Web links

Commons : Klein Partwitz / Bjezdowy - collection of images, videos and audio files

Homepage Elsterheide, OT Klein Partwitz

Individual evidence

↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 249 .

[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. 249 .