Mauschwitz

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Mauschwitz
City of Löbau
Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 5 ″  N , 14 ° 42 ′ 35 ″  E
Height : 195 m above sea level NN
Postal code : 02708
Area code : 035876
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Location of Mauschwitz in the area of ​​the city of Löbau

Mauschwitz ( Upper Sorbian Mučnica ) is a district of the town of Löbau in the Saxon district of Görlitz in Upper Lusatia . The border between the Bautzen and Görlitzer districts ran through the town from the Middle Ages until the 19th century.

geography

Mauschwitz is located in the northeast of the urban area near the border with the neighboring town of Reichenbach / OL. The loose row village stretches for about a kilometer along a tributary of the Löbauer water in an east-west direction.

Surrounding villages are Alt- and Neucunnewitz in the north, Meuselwitz in the east, Kleinradmeritz in the south, Glossen in the southwest and Lautitz in the west.

history

In the 13th and 14th centuries there was a manor in the place , which was later converted into a Vorwerk . The western part of the village came to the Lautitz manor in the Bautzen district, while the eastern part came under the Glossen manor in the Görlitzer district. Ecclesiastically, the village has belonged to Kittlitz since its inception .

When Upper Lusatia was divided in the course of the Congress of Vienna, Mauschwitz remained with the Kingdom of Saxony , while the east-north-eastern neighboring towns of Melaune and Meuselwitz with the greater part of Upper Lusatia came to the Kingdom of Prussia .

After the Second World War , the Vorwerk - now used as a sheep farm - together with its lands, which made up a large part of the local area, were expropriated and given to displaced persons from the eastern regions and to poor farmers.

Since the incorporation of Glossen to Lautitz on April 1, 1974, Mauschwitz has been connected again. With Lautitz, Mauschwitz came to the municipality of Kittlitz on March 1, 1994, and in the course of the incorporation of this into the city of Löbau on January 1, 2003.

Population development

year Residents
1834 127
1871 100
1890 118

During the regional recession in 1777, nine garden food owners , nine cottagers and a desolate economy were counted in Mauschwitz .

In the 19th century the population was between 100 and 130. According to Muka's research, 18% of the population were Sorbs at the end of the 19th century . They spoke the Löbauer dialect of Upper Sorbian.

Place name

Written evidence of the place name is 1396 in connection with a Casparus de Muczenicz , 1419 Mussenicz , 1438 Mauschenitcz , 1485 Mautczschnicz , 1642 Mauschwicz and 1791 Mauschwitz .

The Sorbian name is recorded as Mucżinza in 1700 and 1835 . Mucžnica followed in 1848 and finally Mučnica in 1866 . The name is no longer in use.

The documentary tradition, which began relatively late, does not allow a reliable interpretation of the name.

literature

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
  2. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003
  3. ^ Mauschwitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  4. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 105 .
  5. ^ Ernst Eichler / Hans Walther : Oberlausitz toponymy - studies on the toponymy of the districts of Bautzen, Bischofswerda, Görlitz, Hoyerswerda, Kamenz, Löbau, Niesky, Senftenberg, Weißwasser and Zittau. I name book . In: German-Slavic research on naming and settlement history . tape 28 . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1975, p. 182 .

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