Krappe (Löbau)

Prong City of Löbau Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 58 ″  N , 14 ° 39 ′ 41 ″  E
Height :	240 m
Area :	1.54 km²
Incorporation :	April 1, 1974
Incorporated into:	Kittlitz
Postal code :	02708
Area code :	03585
Location of Krappe in the area of ​​the city of Löbau

Krappe ( Upper Sorbian Chrapow ) is a district of Löbau in Saxony .

geography

The Rundling is located northeast of the 346.4 meter high Wohlaer Berg on the country road from Löbau to Weißenberg. The neutrated federal highway 178 runs west of Krappe . The cadastre covers 154 hectares.

history

Krappe is a Slavic foundation. The place name is derived from the personal name "Chrapuš" or "Chrapuch".

The village was first mentioned in 1396 in King Wenceslas IV's deed of lending over the rule of Kittlitz to the four von Nostitz brothers under the name "Crapust". The place was at the intersection of the "Kleine Bautzener Straße" leading from Zschorna via Spittel to Grube into the valley of the Löbauer water with the "Weißenberger Weg" leading from Löbau to Weißenberg. Krappe has been a pertinence of the Kittlitz estate since the Middle Ages and also belonged to the local parish . In 1679 Joachim Ernst von Ziegler and Klipphausen on Nostitz bought the place and bought Krappe from the parish of Kittlitz. On June 24, 1679, a parish church was consecrated in Nostitz, the parish of which with pit, Krappe, Spittel and Trauschwitz belonged to all the places subject to the Nostitz manor. In 1777 Krappe consisted of five farms as well as nine small farms and nine farms.

Until the modern era, the place was mostly Sorbian settled. For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 84 inhabitants in the 1880s; 78 of them were Sorbs and six Germans. At that time Krappe was on the extreme eastern edge of the Sorbian majority area; the Löbauer dialect was spoken here. The language change to German took place in Krappe during the first half of the 20th century. In 1956 only 15 percent of the population were Sorbs; meanwhile the language has disappeared from the everyday life of the place.

At the beginning of the 1970s Krappe had 120 inhabitants. At this time 138 hectares of the district were used for agriculture. In the village there was an intensive chicken husbandry with 5,000 hens and a cattle stalls built around 1970 ("dairy farm") for 160 cows. From 1973 the LPG began to sprinkle the fields with treated wastewater from Löbau. On April 1, 1974, Krappe was incorporated into Kittlitz . On January 1, 2003, the company was incorporated into Löbau. In 2008, to the west of Krappe, the newly traversed federal road 178 with the Löbau – Kittlitz exit was opened to traffic.

Sorbian field names such as “Horken”, “Hajk”, “Rekawen”, “Dowk” and “Hatk” have been preserved in the district.

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. 253 .
3. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
4. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003

literature

• Between Strohmberg, Czorneboh and Kottmar (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 24). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1974, p. 75.

Web links

• Krappe in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Information about Krappe on the website of the city of Löbau