Lauske (Weissenberg)
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Lauske
Łusk City of Weißenberg
Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 28 ″ N , 14 ° 36 ′ 54 ″ E
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| Height : | 185 m above sea level NN |
| Residents : | 139 (December 31, 2016) |
| Incorporation : | 1957 |
| Postal code : | 02627 |
| Area code : | 035876 |
Lauske , in Sorbian , is a district of the city of Weißenberg in the Saxon district of Bautzen . It is part of the official Sorbian settlement area in Upper Lusatia .
geography
Lauske is located 13 kilometers east of Bautzen in the Upper Lusatian region. The village lies on the Kotitzer water , which forms the 600 m long kerbsohlental " Lausker Enge " above the village . A part of the village extends along the road leading through the Grund, the larger part lies on the left side above the valley. To the east of Lauske rises the 220.4 m high Slontschen , in the west the 205.3 m high Nussberg.
history
The district was already settled in the early days, in 1776, when the Lausker Skala was redesigned, two Slavic ramparts were found opposite - the Lausker and the Zschornaer Schanze.
The first mention of the place "Lußk" took place in 1445. The initial settlement is assumed to be in the swampy bottom of the Kotitz water, the place name derives - like the name of Lusatia - from the Sorbian "łuh" (swamp). In 1455 a feudal man was called "Lausig" for the first time. In 1547 the place was called "Lawsk". The castle was built in the 17th century. Its owners were the von Gersdorff family and then the von Rodewitz family. On September 8, 1707, the Swedish King Charles XII struck. set up his quarters at Lauske Castle during a trip through Saxony. In 1770 Gottlieb Wilhelm von Bressler bought the Lauske estate. He made it his seat and made it a manor. Bressler had the castle redesigned and a park laid out in Lausker Skala in 1776. In 1777 Bressler inherited the manor Nostitz from his aunt . In addition to Lauske and Nostitz, the manor also included the Särka and Kotitz estates , the village of Kleinzschorna and part of Zschorna . After the death of his father in 1814 Gottlieb Wilhelm's son Hans Wilhelm Carl von Bressler inherited the property. In 1932 the von Bressler family had to sell their Lauske, Nostitz and Zschorna estates to the stock corporation Katz & Naismann from Görlitz. In 1952 the Lauske community was reclassified from the Löbau district to the Bautzen district. In 1957 Lauske was incorporated into Kotitz and also assigned to its parish. Before that, the place belonged to the parish of Hochkirch . Lauske has been a district of Weißenberg since 1994.
Population and language
In 1810 Lauske had 183 almost exclusively Sorbian residents. In 1860 it already consisted of 53 residential buildings with 310 inhabitants.
For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 322 inhabitants in the 1880s; of these, 277 were Sorbs (86%) and 45 were Germans. Lauske was then on the eastern edge of the Sorbian majority language area. The language change to German only took place here after the Second World War , when numerous German-speaking expellees came to Lusatia. In 1956, 43 percent of Lausker speakers were still Sorbian. Since then, the number of speakers has steadily decreased.
literature
- Between Strohmberg, Czorneboh and Kottmar (= values of our homeland . Volume 24). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1974, p. 40.
- Cornelius Gurlitt : Lauske. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 34. Issue: Official Authority Löbau . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1910, p. 288.
Web links
- Lauske in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
- ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 245 .
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