Painting seat
Malsitz , in Upper Sorbian Małsecy , was a place on the Spree north of Bautzen , which was devastated in 1974 together with the neighboring town of Nimschütz for the construction of the Bautzen dam .
geography
Malsitz was located about 900 meters northeast of today's Oehna on the left bank of the Spree. The foundation walls of the village can be found in the immediate vicinity of the so-called "bird island" - the only island in the reservoir - below the surface of the water. After crossing the narrow, long Bautzen valley south of here, the Spree entered a relatively wide floodplain area , which rose more gently to the west and steeper to the south-east. The 191 meter high hill near Burk south of Malsitz overlooked the village square 35 meters below .
history
The place was first mentioned in documents as Malssicz in 1407 - and therefore relatively late - and was considered the seat of a manor from the 17th century at the latest. This was located directly on the Spree bridge to Burk in the northern part of the settlement and exercised the manorial rule in the village itself, but also in the villages of Brohna and Merka in the 18th and 19th centuries .
In the Battle of Bautzen on May 20, 1813, Napoléon's French troops attacked the Prussian troops on the heights around Burk and Niedergurig from the Spree Valley between Malsitz and Nimschütz. They used the small wooden bridge in Malsitz to cross the Spree.
Until 1936 Malsitz was an independent rural community; then it was incorporated into the neighboring Burk. As a result of the devastation of half of the municipal area of Burk - Nimschütz, Malsitz and parts of Oehna - in 1972/73, the place came to the city of Bautzen in 1973, to which the area of the reservoir belongs to this day.
population
In 1834, Malsitz was a medium-sized village with 130 inhabitants in the Spreeaue not far from the district town of Bautzen. There were 21 Catholics among the population. The population remained relatively constant until the 20th century. For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 136 inhabitants in the 1880s; 109 of them were Sorbs (80%) and 27 Germans. At that time, Malsitz already had a relatively high proportion of German residents.
Both the Protestant and the Catholic population have always been parish in Bautzen.
Infrastructure
Malsitz was connected to its neighboring towns by local roads and had a mill on the Spree. There was a quarry on the hill that now forms the bird island.
See also
literature
- Frank Förster : Disappeared Villages. The demolitions of the Lusatian lignite mining area until 1993 (= writings of the Sorbian Institute, vol. 8.) Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, ISBN 3-7420-1623-7 , p. 125 ff.
Web links
- Malsitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- malsitz.de - private website with numerous pictures
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ' N , 14 ° 27' E