Mücka

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′  N , 14 ° 42 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Goerlitz
Administrative association:	Diehsa
Height :	142 m above sea level NHN
Area :	24.35 km 2
Residents:	959 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	39 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	02906
Area code :	035893
License plate :	GR, LÖB, NOL, NY, WSW, ZI
Community key :	14 6 26 320
Community structure:	4 parts of the community
Address of the municipal administration:	Am Markt 1 02906 Mücka
Mayor :	Uwe Blättner
Location of the community of Mücka in the district of Görlitz

Mücka , Mikow in Upper Sorbian ^{? / i} , is a Saxon municipality in the district of Görlitz . It is located in the Sorbian settlement area in Upper Lusatia and is a member of the Diehsa administrative association .

geography

The municipality of Mücka is located in the northern part of the district. It is located about 8 km northwest of the city of Niesky in the midst of the forest and pond-rich landscape of the Upper Lusatian Heath and Pond Landscape Biosphere Reserve , whose headquarters are in Mücka. The Schwarze Schöps is dammed from Mücka around 3 km upstream in the Quitzdorf reservoir.

Community structure

The districts are Mücka (with 722 inhabitants, as of December 31, 2008), Förstgen ( Dołha Boršć , 276 inhabitants), Förstgen-Ost ( Dołha Boršć-Wuchod , 110 inhabitants) and Leipgen ( Lipinki , 55 inhabitants).

history

Early history

After graves from the Bronze Age around 3000 years old were discovered in the forest near Mücka in 1951, another cemetery from the same time was found in 1955. Urns and remains of bones, other vessels and bronze needles were found in the graves.

A resident had come across a vessel and stone collections at the stöckeroden. A few days later, the local history researcher Bruno Friedland started the excavations, where he was able to uncover 8 graves from the time of 1200 BC. There were burnt bones and vessels in each grave.

Early modern age

The Sorbian place name Mikow (1408) and Micke , which was named in 1515, suggest a person named Mika was the founder of the settlement. In 1534 the village is called Mickau , 1548 zur Micke , 1570 Mieckau , 1746 Micke . Since 1614 the manor was owned by the von Gersdorf family. In 1638 the Mückasche farm and a farm burned down. Mrs. Esther Veronika von Gersdorf sold the feudal knight's estate Micko in 1648 to her "dear marriage junker" Hans Christoph von Nostiz on Quolsdorf.

Rudolf von Penzig was enfeoffed with it as early as 1657; his sons inherited it from him in 1662, who sold it to Hans Christoph von Nostitz in 1665. In 1672 it is owned by Eleuthers von Temritz. After his death in 1686 it was confirmed to his widow Victoria Tugendreich, born von Kyaw (meanwhile wife von Wehlen), in 1699 as Allodium and Erbe. When she died in 1717, she left the estates of Mücka, Radischolz and Neudorf to her brother Johann Adolph von Kyaw, who died in 1737 without an heir. It has been associated with Creba since 1737. The villages Neundorf and Ratscholz ( Klein-Radisch ) up to 1812 are named as belonging in all feudal letters .

Count Johann Georg von Einsiedel was the owner of the manor until 1913. In December 1913 it was sold to Baron von Schlotheim from Brandenburg an der Havel.

Under National Socialist rule, the place was renamed Stockteich in 1936 . Renaming of places was customary in Lusatia at that time in order to make the mainly Slavic place names disappear. In 1947 the decision was reversed.

Railway connection

On June 1, 1874, the Kohlfurt – Falkenberg railway was opened to public transport. The administration was given to the Oberlausitzer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , Mücka was given a train station.

According to the timetable (from May 15, 1877), trains from Mücka to Hoyerswerda left at 5:35 a.m., 2:37 p.m. and 6:16 p.m. They drove towards Kohlfurt at 7:00 a.m., 2:37 p.m. and 5:44 p.m.

By December 1895, a narrow-gauge railway to the Creba district and an industrial railway to the Sproitz quarry had been laid and put into operation.

Factories

The Mehling Mill 2015

Robert Mehling with his cutting mill and Ernst Mechelk with his artificial stone factory as well as building materials and fertilizer business contributed significantly to the development of the place. On May 13, 1896, the “People's Friend from Upper Lusatia” reported that Mr. Mehling's cutting mill burned down completely. Some of the buildings in the Ernst Mechelk factory are still used today by Raiffeisen GmbH.

Population and language

At the end of the 19th century, Mücka was still predominantly Sorbian . Arnošt Muka determined in 1884 a population of 432 inhabitants; 352 of them were Sorbs (81%) and 80 Germans. The language change to German mostly took place until the middle of the 20th century. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking population of 29.7% in the community of Mücka.

According to a census of October 8, 1919, Mücka had 461 residents and 47 workers employed in the manor district.

politics

City council election 2019

Turnout: 68.6% (2014: 56.8%)

 %

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

14.2%

42.9%

33.0%

9.8%

CDU

WV Mücka ^b

FDP

left

Gains and losses

compared to 2014

 % p

 15th

 10

   5

   0

  -5

-10

-15

-20

-25

-21.8  % p

+ 13.3  % p

+ 6.9  % p

+1.5  % p

CDU

WV Mücka ^b

FDP

left

Remarks:

^b Mücka voters' association

Mücka municipal office

mayor

Mayor elections were held on July 8, 2007 to determine a successor to Mayor Holger Theurich. The individual applicants Günter Holtschke and Markus Kiese achieved 38.4 and 36.8% respectively, so a by-election was necessary. On July 22, 2007, Kiese was able to prevail with 57.1% of the vote. The turnout was 59.6% in the first and 62.5% in the second ballot. In October 2015 Uwe Blättner was elected as the new mayor.

Municipal council

Since the municipal council election on May 26, 2019 , the 12 seats of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

• Mücka voters' association (WV Mücka): 5 seats
• FDP : 3 seats
• CDU : 1 seat
• LEFT : 1 seat

Attractions

→ see also: List of cultural monuments in Mücka

• Upper Lusatian Heath and Pond Landscape Biosphere Reserve
• Quitzdorf reservoir

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The federal highway 156 runs west and the federal highway 115 east of the municipality. The Niesky – Hoyerswerda railway runs through the municipality. At the Mücka stop, line OE 64 (Hoyerswerda – Görlitz) runs every two hours as a Seenland-Neisse shuttle . The federal highway 4 runs south of the community. It can be reached via the Weißenberg round connection (17 km).

education

The community maintains a secondary school (Hauptschule and Realschulbildungsgang).

Personalities

• Ruth Glowa-Burkhardt (1918–1971), opera singer
• Hartmut Biele (* 1951), district administrator, senior Saxon civil servant

Sources and further reading

literature

• From the Muskauer Heide to the Rotstein. Home book of the Lower Silesian Upper Lusatia District . Lusatia Verlag, Bautzen 2006, ISBN 978-3-929091-96-0 , p. 284 ff .
• Walter von Boetticher : History of the Upper Lusatian Nobility and its Goods Volume II Page 968.
• Heinrich Rudolph von Kyaw : Family chronicle of the noble and baronial family von Kyaw , Leipzig 1870, page 125.

Footnotes

1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
2. ^ Mücka in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
3. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 118 .
4. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 254 .
5. ↑ Results of the 2019 municipal council elections
6. ↑ https://www.statistik.sachsen.de/wpr_alt/pkg_s10_bmlr.prc_erg_bm_a?p_bz_bzid=BM151&p_ebene=GE&p_ort=14626320

Web links

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