Lehn (Hochkirch)

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Community Hochkirch
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 43 ″  N , 14 ° 36 ′ 1 ″  E
Residents : 93  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation : January 1, 1957
Incorporated into: Plotting
Postal code : 02627
Area code : 035939
Aerial view

Lehn , in Sorbian Lejno ? / i , is a village in the east of the Saxon district of Bautzen , which belongs to the municipality of Hochkirch . It is part of the official Sorbian settlement area in Upper Lusatia . Audio file / audio sample

geography

Topographic map from 1821/1822

After the settlement, Lehn is an estate. The mountain houses belong to Lehn .

history

Mill pond (1989)

In 1419 the place is called Leyn prope Lobaw , later Lehen (1438) or Lehngut zum Lehn (1560), and finally Lehn in 1657 . The place gained national fame through the Lehn stud, where horse breeding was carried out. Many successful sport horses from the GDR came from this breed. In 2010 the stud was sold to a new investor.

population

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 139 inhabitants in the 1880s; 108 of them were Sorbs (76%) and 31 were Germans. This means that the Lehn, which was then on the southern edge of the Sorbian majority area, had a relatively large German-speaking minority. Ernst Tschernik stated the proportion of Sorbs in 1956 as only 24 percent. Today, Sorbian has largely disappeared from everyday life.

Until the 1930s, the population of Lehn decreased, from 206 in 1834 to 126 in 1939. The number of refugees and displaced persons after the Second World War rose again briefly to 191 in 1946. In 1957 Lehn was incorporated into Plotzen and then counted together with it. Since it was incorporated into Hochkirch in 1993, Lehn has been counted separately again; the population has fluctuated slightly since then around 110.

Most of the believing population is Evangelical Lutheran . The place is parish to Hochkirch.

literature

  • Karl August Kubitz: Description of the parish Hochkirch , in: Neue Sächsische Kirchengalerie, 1903
  • Hochkirch before the Czorneboh . The beautiful Bautzener Land, issue 12, Bautzen 1965
  • Between Strohmberg, Czorneboh and Kottmar (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 24). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1974.
  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Lehn. 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. 305.

Web links

Commons : Lehn / Lejno  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Lehn in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sächsische Zeitung of November 11, 2010
  2. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.