Lautitz

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Lautitz ( Upper Sorbian Łuwoćicy ? / I ) is a district of the large district town of Löbau in the Saxon Upper Lusatia . Audio file / audio sample

geography

Lautitz was the northernmost village in the old district of Löbau-Zittau . It is located on the Löbauer water and there below 200 m above sea level. NN in the lowlands. In addition to the estate settlement, there is a loose farming hamlet to the north. The village corridor covers an area of ​​608 hectares. Lautitz is located in the middle of the Slavic ramparts Strohmberg , Georgewitz and Melaune .

history

Map of Oberreit with Lautitz from 1840
The old mill at Löbauer Wasser

In an arbitration award announced in Dresden on March 31, 1206 in a dispute between the Bishop of Meißen and the Burgrave of Dohna , settled with the Margrave Dietrich von Meißen, Dresden and Lautitz and 17 other locations are mentioned for the first time in a document. In reality the settlements are much older, but nowhere is documented evidence. Henricus de Lutiz (Heinrich von Lautitz) is named as one of the witnesses in the certificate. 1318 a manor is mentioned.

In addition to the manor as the economic center, there were several farms. The von Gersdorff family owned the manor for centuries . They were also collators of the church in Kittlitz. One of the last owners was Ökonomierat Richter, who introduced sugar beet cultivation in Upper Lusatia in the 19th century. After 1945 the manor became a people's own estate with apprenticeship training. Hop growing has been a prominent feature in recent decades. Ultimately, VEG Lautitz came to LPG (P) Löbau-Nord, based in Kittlitz . Some rural resettlers operate fields or livestock and continue to cultivate hops. The Löbau-Weißenberg railway line ran through Lautitz (1895 to 1973).

Until it was incorporated into Kittlitz on March 1, 1994, Lautitz with its districts Altcunnewitz , Neucunnewitz and Mauschwitz (Lautitzer share) was an independent municipality with a mayor, municipal administration, local council, school (until 1977), kindergarten (until 2004), mill, BHG- Base, two grocery stores, restaurant and earlier also a bakery. Already on April 1, 1974 Glossen was incorporated with the Glossener portion from Mauschwitz to Lautitz. Since January 1st, 2003 Lautitz belongs to the big district town Löbau.

Today Lautitz, like many places in Eastern Germany, is badly affected by unemployment and emigration.

language

Sorbian was also spoken in Lautitz until the early 20th century . Arnošt Muka determined a population of 250 in 1884/85, including 181 Germans and 69 Sorbs (28%). These spoke the now extinct Löbauer dialect . In 1956 Ernst Tschernik only had two active speakers in the village.

Sports

Sport, especially soccer, has a long tradition in Lautitz. The local sports field is considered one of the best natural grass fields in the former Löbau-Zittau district. At the beginning of the 1990s, the previously existing football club was dissolved due to personnel and financial difficulties and re-established in 1996 under the name SV Lautitz 96 eV. The club consists of a men's team in the 1st district class and an E youth team in the district league A of the Upper Lusatian Football Association.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
  2. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003
  3. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
  4. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 253 .

literature

  • Leisering, Eckhart [arr.]: Acta sunt hec Dresdene. ..: the first mention of Dresden in the document dated March 31, 1206 / [ed. from the Saxon State Archives.] Ed. by Eckhart Leisering. - Halle (Saale): mdv Mitteldeutscher Verl., 2005. - 96
  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Lautitz. 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. 292.

Web links

Commons : Lautitz  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Manors and castles in the kingdom of Saxony: Lautitz  - sources and full texts

Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′  N , 14 ° 42 ′  E