Kronförstchen

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Commune Großdubrau
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 28 "  N , 14 ° 25 ′ 36"  E
Height : 203 m
Residents : 80  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation : April 1, 1936
Incorporated into: Quatitz
Postal code : 02694
Area code : 035935
Kronförstchen from the view of the Kreckwitzer heights, in front of that the Bautzen dam.
Kronförstchen from the view of the Kreckwitzer heights , in
front of that the Bautzen dam .
Aerial view

Kronförstchen , Upper Sorbian Křiwa Boršć ? / i , is a village in the eastern Saxon district of Bautzen . Since 1994 it has been part of the community of Großdubrau . Kronförstchen is part of the Sorbian settlement area in Upper Lusatia . Audio file / audio sample

geography

The place is located about five kilometers north of the large district town of Bautzen and three kilometers southwest of the community center Großdubrau on the northern edge of the Upper Lusatian region. Kronförstchen lies on an elevation about 200 meters above sea level, west of the Spree lowlands , which has been flooded here by the Bautzen dam since 1974 . The terrain also slopes slightly to the north and west. While there are smaller forest areas to the south of the village, the rest of the area is used intensively for agriculture.

The neighboring towns are Quatitz and Dahlowitz in the east, Lubachau in the south-west and Neu-Bornitz in the north-west.

history

Development of the place name

  • 1334 Krummenforst
  • 1347 Crumminforst
  • 1381 Krumenfurste
  • 1455 Cromenforst
  • 1497 Krumenfurste
  • 1534 Krum Forest
  • 1618 Kromforst
  • 1663 Crumforst
  • 1746 Cron or Krumförstgen
  • 1786 Cromförstchen, Krum Förstchen

Local history

The place was first mentioned around 1334, around 1443 as a knight's seat . The name is derived from "crooked forest", whereby the addition crooked serves to distinguish it from other places called "forest" and refers to the layout of the place. It is a loose square village with a round hamlet core . In the 16th century, the manor was with the Bautzen council. A half-timbered house is still preserved. The pond, the Barbican and the sheep Hutung in Kronförstchen belonged from 1617 to 1661 with the Good Lubachau the property of the family of Zezschwitz . In 1773 the Malschwitz subsidiary property passed into the possession of the Lords of Gaussig .

Until April 1, 1936, Kronförstchen was an independent rural community; then it was incorporated into Quatitz. Since January 1, 1994, the entire Quatitz community has belonged to Großdubrau.

Archaeological finds and excavations

Archaeological finds from different epochs prove the early settlement of the area. A grave, a stone ax and a barrel-shaped ax made of lamprophyr , which were assigned to the Neolithic , were found around Kronförstchen . In addition, various vessels from a burial ground from the Bronze Age were discovered.

population

In 1925, Kronförstchen had 113 inhabitants; 111 of them were of Protestant denomination. The place has been parish to Quatitz since 1899 and previously belonged to the parish of Malschwitz .

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 128 inhabitants in the 1880s; 118 of them were Sorbs (92%) and 10 were Germans. Since then, the proportion of Sorbian speakers in town has fallen sharply.

After 1990 the population fell slightly and is now under a hundred.

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Kronförstchen / Křiwa Boršć  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quatitzer Hefte, 1/1995
  2. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.