Litschen

Litschen złyčin Lohsa municipality Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 6 "  N , 14 ° 24 ′ 35"  E
Height :	147 m above sea level NN
Residents :	275  (Dec. 31, 2016)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1994
Postal code :	02999
Area code :	035724

Stone cross in Litschen

Litschen , Upper Sorbian Złyčin ^{? / i} , is a village in the north of the Saxon district of Bautzen . The place is not far from the Silbersee. It is part of the official Sorbian settlement area in Upper Lusatia and belongs to the municipality of Lohsa .

geography

Litschen is located about one kilometer from Friedersdorf . In the east, Driewitz is the closest place. The Driewitz-Milkeler Heiden border the place, with about 20 km² one of the largest unpopulated forest areas in Lusatia .

history

Local history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1343 as Litzen. However, the place is probably much older, which is suspected by excavation finds near Lohsa. In the late Middle Ages, woodworkers settled here. The existence of the Litschen manor is documented for the year 1509.

Litscheners were also involved in the Lohsa peasant uprising in 1794, which was triggered by the omission of a public holiday.

As a result of the Congress of Vienna in 1815, part of Saxony had to be surrendered to Prussia, including the part of Upper Lusatia in which Litschen was located. By forming the district of Hoyerswerda , Litschen came from the province of Brandenburg to the province of Silesia in 1825.

After the war, Litschen came back to the state of Saxony, but was added to the Cottbus district during the administrative reform of 1952 with the reduced Hoyerswerda district. Litschen remained an independent municipality until 1994, and since then it has belonged to Lohsa.

Place name

Documented forms of the place name are Litzen (1343), Lytczschin (1516), Litschen (1533), Litzschen (1537), Litzschen (1551) and finally Litzschen (1791). Unfortunately, it is no longer possible to determine the exact point in time when the place got its current name.

Population and language

date	Residents
1825	262
1871	313
1885	268
1905	247
1905	237
1925	246
1939	271
1946	330
1950	636
1964	631
1990	784
2007	312
2009	294
2016	275

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 276 in the 1880s, including 268 Sorbs (97%) and only eight Germans. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking share of 65.5% of the population in the municipality of Litschen. Since then, the use of Sorbian has continued to decline in the village.

economy

Numerous small businesses are based in Litschen. There are many ponds that are used for fish farming , and a lot of forest that is used for forestry.

traffic

The railway line Węgliniec – Roßlau runs in the immediate vicinity of the place. The next stop is in Lohsa .

Personalities

The Sorbian composer and temporary chairman of the Domowina Jan Paul Nagel ( Jan Pawoł Nagel , 1934–97) lived in Litschen for a long time.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
3. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 244 .

swell

• Litschen in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Web links

Commons : Litschen / Złyčin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lohsa municipality