Kopschin
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Kopschin
Kopšin community Crostwitz
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 35 ″ N , 14 ° 15 ′ 5 ″ E
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| Height : | 180 m above sea level NHN |
| Residents : | 21 (Dec. 31, 2016) |
| Postal code : | 01920 |
| Area code : | 035796 |
Kopschin , Upper Sorbian , is a small village in the center of the East Saxon district of Bautzen , which has been the smallest district of the Crostwitz community since 1974 . It has 20 inhabitants and is part of the core settlement area of the Sorbs . Most of the population speaks Sorbian as their mother tongue.
The place name was taken over from the name for the castle ramparts not far from the village, the Kopschin . It means something like "nettle hill" (Old Sorbian kopriva = "nettle"). Today the ski jump is used for events every now and then.
geography
The place is located 1.4 kilometers south of Crostwitz at 180 meters above sea level. NN. Kopschin is located in the "Oberland" ( Horjany ) of the former St. Marienstern monastery on the Satkula stream , which, coming from Lehndorf, borders the Kopschin castle on three sides and then flows to Crostwitz. The neighboring towns are Prautitz in the northeast, Nucknitz in the east, Lehndorf in the south and Crostwitz in the north.
The settlement consists of two courtyards and a few other buildings.
history
In the immediate vicinity of the village is the Kopschiner Schanze , an old Slavic castle complex , which today only appears as a wooded hill.
The settlement was first mentioned by name as Kopschivn in 1343 . The current form of the name is first recorded in 1617. In the 17th and 18th centuries, Kopschin and the neighboring town of Nucknitz belonged to the Räckelwitz manor . The village has always been a district of Nucknitz until it was incorporated into Crostwitz on January 1, 1974.
At the beginning of the 18th century there were a few smaller stone quarries on the slope of the Satkula between Kopschin and Nucknitz.
population
For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 34 inhabitants for the place in the 1880s; all of them were Sorbs.
In 1890 Kopschin had 29 inhabitants, the same number as 60 years earlier.
The inhabitants are traditionally almost exclusively of the Catholic denomination; the place is parish to Crostwitz.
Economy and Infrastructure
The district road from Bautzen to Kamenz runs northeast past Kopschin, while the state road 101 ( Königswartha - Autobahn 4 ) passes the town to the west. The settlement itself is connected to its neighboring towns by small local roads.
supporting documents
- Kopschin in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- ↑ Information for 2014 from am-klosterwasser.de
- ↑ Ernst Eichler / Hans Walther : Ortnamesbuch der Oberlausitz. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1975
- ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 98 .
