Luttowitz

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Luttowitz
Lutobč
Radibor municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 28 "  N , 14 ° 25 ′ 23"  E
Height : 174 m above sea level NN
Area : 2.96 km²
Residents : 160  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 54 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1994
Postal code : 02627
Area code : 035935
Luttowitz, aerial photo (2017)

Luttowitz , Upper Sorbian Lutobč ? / i , is a district of the municipality of Radibor in the Bautzen district in Saxony . The place is part of the recognized Sorbian settlement area . Audio file / audio sample

location

The extended Rundweiler Luttowitz is located in Upper Lusatia . Surrounding villages are Merka and Camina in the north, Großdubrau in the northeast, Quatitz in the east, Dahlowitz in the southeast, Kronförstchen in the south, Bornitz in the southwest, Radibor in the west and Brohna in the northwest.

The Saxon state road 106 from Großwelka to Milkel and the Saxon state road 107 from Göda to Niedergurig meet in the village .

history

Luttowitz was first mentioned in 1362 as Kirstanus de Lutevicz . In the following years, the place name of changed Lotewicz (1433) on Leuttowicz (1565) and Luttowiczsch (1608) to Luthobitz in 1658. The basic rule about the place was by no later than 1777 the manor Malsitz. From 1858 Luttowitz was the seat of its own manor .

It belonged initially from 1864 to parish Milkel and then from 1899 to the parish Quatitz.

After the expropriation in 1945 as part of the land reform, a popular cultural center was set up in the former manor house of the manor .

A 12-hectare Agricultural Production Cooperative (LPG) was formed in 1952, specializing in agricultural engineering in the 1970s.

Until January 1, 1994 Luttowitz was an independent municipality in what was then the Bautzen district , after which the place was incorporated into Radibor.

population

date Residents
1834 87
1871 106
1890 102
1910 97
1925 124
1939 315
1946 369
1950 396
1964 391
1990 341
2010 163

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 109 in the 1880s, including 100 Sorbs (92%) and nine Germans. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik still counted a Sorbian-speaking proportion of 67.4% of the population in the municipality of Radibor. Since then, the use of Sorbian in the village has continued to decline.

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Web links

Commons : Luttowitz / Lutobč  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Oberlausitzer Heide- und Teichlandschaft (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 67). 1st edition. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-412-08903-0 , p. 228.
  2. Luttowitz in historical digital gazetteer of Saxony
  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. 245 .