Kohlwesa

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Community Hochkirch
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 14 ″  N , 14 ° 35 ′ 49 ″  E
Height : 230 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.37 km²
Residents : 120  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 36 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1957
Incorporated into: Plotting
Postal code : 02627
Area code : 035939
Aerial view

Kohlwesa , in Sorbian Kołwaz ? / i , is a village in the east of the Saxon district of Bautzen , which belongs to the municipality of Hochkirch . It is part of the official Sorbian settlement area in Upper Lusatia . Audio file / audio sample

geography

Topographic map from 1844

After the settlement, Kohlwesa is a round village, it borders the villages Kuppritz in the west, Niethen in the north, Zschorna in the east, Breitendorf in the southeast and Plotzen in the south.

history

In 1377 the place was mentioned as Colwaz, later Kolewachs (1399), Kolewass (1437) or Cohlwese or Kollwäse (1640). In the 18th century the current name prevails. Although the place was dependent on the manors of the neighboring villages, a relatively independent peasant class still prevailed. The location on the Kotitzer Wasser also enabled two mills to work.

population

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 233 in the 1880s, including 210 Sorbs (90%) and 23 Germans. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik still counted a Sorbian-speaking proportion of only 31.4% of the population in the municipality of Kohlwesa. Since then, the use of Sorbian has continued to decline in the village.

At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, the population was around 200. After the Second World War, the number rose temporarily to 254 due to the admission of refugees and displaced persons , but has since declined again and has been around 120 since 2000 and around 110 since 2009.

Most of the believing population is Evangelical Lutheran . The place is parish to Hochkirch.

Personalities

  • Johann or Jan Kmoch was born in Kohlwesa in 1812 and grew up in Zschorna. Between 1840 and 1870 he was probably the most important wedding bitter ( Upper Sorbian Braška ) around Bautzen and accompanied around 2000 weddings. He wrote down numerous wedding addresses that have been preserved. He died in Quatitz in 1881 .

literature

  • Karl August Kubitz: Description of the parish Hochkirch. In: New Saxon Church Gallery. 1903.
  • Hochkirch vor dem Czorneboh (= The beautiful Bautzener Land, issue 12) Bautzen 1965.
  • Between Strohmberg, Czorneboh and Kottmar (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 24). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1974.

swell

  • Kohlwesa in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

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. 245 .
  3. ↑ Biographies on Sorbian folklore on serbski-institut.de

Web link

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