Malschwitz

Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Bautzen
Height :	150 m above sea level NHN
Area :	93.27 km 2
Residents:	4643 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	50 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	02694
Primaries :	035932, 03591 (Briesing, Doberschütz, Niedergurig)
License plate :	BZ, BIW, HY, KM
Community key :	14 6 25 340
LOCODE :	DE MHC
Community structure:	23 districts
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Dorfplatz 26 ; 02694 Malschwitz
Website :	www.malschwitz.de
Mayor :	Matthias Seidel ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Malschwitz in the Bautzen district

Aerial view

Malschwitz , Upper Sorbian Malešecy ^?^/ⁱ , is a place and the associated municipality about six kilometers northeast of Bautzen in Saxony . It belongs to the official settlement area of the Sorbs .

Geography and traffic

The municipality of Malschwitz is located north of the Bautzen dam and in the south of the Upper Lusatian heath and pond landscape . The extensive valley of the rivers Spree , Kleine Spree , Kotitzer Wasser and Löbauer Wasser is characteristic of the landscape . There are several pond areas with reeds. At the Kleinbautzen district, the A 4 crosses the municipality. This can be reached via the Bautzen-Ost connection (approx. 5 km). The B 156 runs through the municipality . At the Lömischau district , the Löbauer water flows into the Spree on the right.

Community structure

The following 23 districts belong to the municipality of Malschwitz:

Baruth near Bautzen (Bart) , 409 inhabitants
Briesing (Brězynka) , 111 inhabitants
Brießnitz (Brězecy) , 58 inhabitants
Brösa (Brězyna) , 183 inhabitants
Buchwalde (Bukojna) , 142 inhabitants
Cannewitz (Skanecy) , 82 inhabitants
Doberschütz (Dobrošecy) , 168 inhabitants
Dubrauke (Dubrawka) , 159 inhabitants
Gleina (Hlina) , 148 inhabitants
Guttau (Hućina) , 286 inhabitants
Halbendorf / Spree (Połpica) , 185 inhabitants
Small buildings (Budyšink) , 377 inhabitants

Kleinsaubernitz (Zubornička) , 366 inhabitants
Lieske (Lěskej) , 36 inhabitants
Lömischau (Lemišow) with Neulömischau (Nowy Lemišow) , 113 inhabitants
Malschwitz (Malešecy) , 642 inhabitants
Neudorf / Spree (Nowa Wjes / Sprjewja) , 146 inhabitants
Niedergurig (Delnja Hórka) , 351 inhabitants
Pliesskowitz (Plusnikecy) , 211 inhabitants
Preititz (Přiwćicy) , 228 inhabitants
Rackel (Rakojdy) , 213 inhabitants
Ruhethal (Wotpočink) , 13 inhabitants
Wartha (Stróža) , 161 inhabitants

history

Evangelical Church in Malschwitz

The place name is of Sorbian origin and comes from a personal name Mališ or Małyš (Sorbian mały = "small"). Already before the year 1000 a Milzener Fürstengut and after 1000 a royal table good around Kleinbautzen and Preititz were mentioned. The first verifiable mention of the place as Malswiz comes from 1225. Around 1430 Malschwitz is mentioned as a knight's seat .

On April 12, 1715, a fire destroyed the half-timbered church, the school, the manor and 14 farms. The new church was built in 1716 in massive construction on the same site. The current tower was not added until 1913.

In the Battle of Bautzen on May 20 and 21, 1813, Malschwitz became a battlefield. The embattled village burned down.

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 582 for the place in the 1880s; 554 of them were Sorbs (95%) and 28 were Germans. According to Ernst Tschernik , a majority of 60.6% of the population was still Sorbian-speaking in 1956 . The language change to German took place largely in the second half of the 20th century.

During research drilling in 1998, the hidden Maar of Baruth , which is not visible on the earth's surface, was confirmed. The "Baruth volcanic group", consisting of the volcanoes near Baruth and Guttau and the hidden craters (maars) near Baruth and Kleinsaubernitz, is therefore a safe bet. These originated in the tertiary 22 to 27 million years ago.

Incorporations

In 1936 the community Pließkowitz was incorporated. In the course of the municipal reform of 1994, the municipalities of Baruth, Kleinbautzen , Malschwitz and Niedergurig were merged to form the new municipality of Malschwitz. On January 1, 2013, it merged with the neighboring community of Guttau (until 1995 communities of Neudorf / Halbendorf, Kleinsaubernitz and Guttau).

politics

City council election 2014

Turnout: 60.2% (2009: 54.3%)

%

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

50.4%

20.4%

5.8%

7.7%

3.4%

n. k.

1.7%

10.6%

CDU

FWMP

BSV 90

Gains and losses

compared to 2009

% p

12

10

8th

6th

4th

2

0

-2

-4

-6

-8th

-7.2 % p

-3.1 % p

-1.8 % p

+1.0 % p

+ 0.1 % p

-1.4 % p

+1.7 % p

+ 10.6 % p

CDU

FWMP

BSV 90

Municipal council

The local elections in recent years resulted in the following distribution of votes and seats:

Parties and constituencies	2009		2004
Parties and constituencies	%	Seats	%	Seats
Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU)	57.6	10	45.7	8th
Free electorate Malschwitz / Pließkowitz (FWMP)	23.5	4th	27.7	5
Baruther Sportverein 90 eV (BSV 90)	7.6	1	8.1	1
The Left (2004: PDS)	6.7	1	7.6	1
National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD)	3.3	0	-	0
Alliance 90 / The Greens (GREENS)	1.4	0	-	0
Free list of small buildings / Preititz (FLKP)	-	0	10.8	1
total	100.0	16	100.0	16
voter turnout	54.3%		52.7%

Since the municipal council election on May 25, 2014 , the 18 seats of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

CDU : 10 seats
Free electorate Malschwitz / Pließkowitz (FWMP): 4 seats
FDP : 2 seats
LEFT : 1 seat
Baruther Sportverein 90 eV (BSV 90): 1 seat

Partner communities

Malschwitz's partner communities are Desná in the Czech Republic, Gromadka in Poland and Sióagárd in Hungary. A close friendship has been between Guttau and Guttau in the community of Grömitz, East Holstein, since 1990.

Attractions

Water tower in Baruth (Malschwitz)

Bautzen dam, information center at the dam in Niedergurig

Manor houses in Preititz, Kleinbautzen and Guttau

Historical manor in Niedergurig

Arnost Barth House in Briesing

Landscape protection area Spree and Kleine Spree

Memorial for war victims in Halbendorf

Information center "House of a Thousand Ponds" in Wartha

Malschwitz Church

Giant oak from Niedergurig (adorns the municipal coat of arms )

Luther monument on the Gottlobsberg near Niedergurig

Technical monument "Altes Basaltwerk" in Baruth

Geological nature trail in Baruth, volcanism

Historic village green in Brösa

Mining museum "Olba", old bakery Kleinsaubernitz

Old distillery with a stork's nest in Guttau, now a fire brigade

Olbasee near the Kleinsaubernitz district

Elk enclosure in the Heidewald near Wartha

School museum KA Kocor in Wartha

Teufelsstein (Pliesskowitz) (presumed solar sanctuary)

Water tower in Baruth

The cultural monuments are listed in the list of cultural monuments in Malschwitz .

education

High school in the community of Malschwitz

The Malschwitz community has two primary schools (in Baruth and Guttau) and one high school .

Personalities

Kurt Krjeńc ( Kurt Krenz , 1907–1978), communist and SED functionary, long-time Domowina chairman

literature

Cornelius Gurlitt : Malschwitz. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 31. Booklet: Bautzen Official Authority (Part I) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1908, p. 147.
Trudla Malinkowa / Weldon Mersiovsky (eds.): Malschwitz. Malešecy. A Wendish Village in Lusatia. Serbin 2018, ISBN 978-1-944891-52-7

Web links

Commons : Malschwitz - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Manors and castles in the kingdom of Saxony: Malschwitz - sources and full texts

Technical monument basalt works in Baruth
Verdecktes Maar von Baruth (PDF file; 4.18 MB) ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Malschwitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019 ( help on this ).
↑ Saxon Sorbs Act , Annex to Section 3 (2)
↑ As of December 31, 2016; Information from the Malschwitz municipal administration
^ Walter Wenzel: Oberlausitzer Ortnamesbuch. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 2008, p. 110.
↑ Brief history of the Battle of Bautzen on May 20 and 21, 1813, edited from the best older and more recent sources. Reichel, Bautzen 1863, p. 12.
↑ Brief history of the Battle of Bautzen on May 20 and 21, 1813, edited from the best older and more recent sources. Reichel, Bautzen 1863, p. 19.
↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 56 .
^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 245 .
↑ Results of the 2014 municipal council elections

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-SN-1] Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019 ( help on this ).

[2] Saxon Sorbs Act , Annex to Section 3 (2)

[3] As of December 31, 2016; Information from the Malschwitz municipal administration

[4] Walter Wenzel: Oberlausitzer Ortnamesbuch. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 2008, p. 110.

[5] Brief history of the Battle of Bautzen on May 20 and 21, 1813, edited from the best older and more recent sources. Reichel, Bautzen 1863, p. 12.

[6] Brief history of the Battle of Bautzen on May 20 and 21, 1813, edited from the best older and more recent sources. Reichel, Bautzen 1863, p. 19.

[7] Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 56 .

[8] Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 245 .

[9] Results of the 2014 municipal council elections