Koblenz (Lohsa)

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Koblenz
Koblicy
Lohsa municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 40 ″  N , 14 ° 19 ′ 45 ″  E
Height : 128 m above sea level NN
Area : 5.41 km²
Residents : 381  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 70 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : October 1, 1995
Incorporated into: Knappensee
Postal code : 02999
Area code : 035726
Aerial view

Koblenz , Upper Sorbian Koblicy ? / i , is a village in the north of the Saxon district of Bautzen , directly on Lake Knappensee . It belongs to the municipality of Lohsa and is part of the official Sorbian settlement area in Upper Lusatia . Audio file / audio sample

geography

Koblenz is two kilometers from Groß Särchen , and the Lohsa community center is seven kilometers away. It is two kilometers to federal highway 96 . The Knappensee is located northwest of the village, there are also many smaller and larger ponds that are used for fishing . In the west there is an extensive forest area with predominantly fir and pine trees .

history

War memorial in Koblenz
Restaurant in Koblenz

Local history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1419 as Cobelen . Koblenz was a small Sorbian village in the swampy heather and pond landscape in the 15th century. The people lived from agriculture and carp farming. Koblenz was pastured to Groß Särchen in 1540. It was owned by the Königswartha manor in 1777. With the end of the wars of liberation and the Congress of Vienna , Koblenz, which had been Saxon until then, came to Prussia . The border drawn at that time as well as the subsequent district, state and district borders were all based on the course decided in 1815. In the 20th century with the beginning of the industrial revolution and the beginning of mining, the place began to develop economically. The surrounding lignite deposits have shaped the region to this day. On the one hand, they brought many people into work who were previously mainly active in agriculture; on the other hand, the landscape was changed over a large area. Special mention should be made of the former Werminghoff open-cast lignite mine and the resulting Knappensee lake. Until September 30, 1995, the place was an independent municipality , then it came to the short-lived municipality of Knappensee and has belonged to the municipality of Lohsa since January 1, 2005.

Place name

The following place names have been passed down over the centuries: Cobelen (1419), Koblitz (1527), Coblentz (1732), Coblenz (1768). The exact time when the place got its current name cannot be determined today.

Population and language

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 222 in the 1880s, including all Sorbian-speaking residents. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking share of only 53.6% of the population in the Koblenz community. The language change to German took place largely after the Second World War.

year Residents
1825 155
1871 190
1885 211
1905 205
1925 246
1939 247
1946 324
1950 321
1964 398
1990 366
2009 401

economy

The nearby Knappensee is an important economic factor of the place. There is a campsite, bungalows, guest houses and apartments. As commercial operations there are two carpenters, a funeral home, a car workshop and a caretaker service as well as a hairdressing salon. There is also forestry and fishing, as well as the still active lignite opencast mines with their dependent branches of industry.

traffic

The Koblenz stop (Kr Hoyerswerda) was on the Königswartha – Weißkollm railway line , which is only used by freight trains.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities of Germany, see 1995
  2. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2005
  3. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
  4. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 249 .

Web links

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