Merka (Radibor)
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Merka
Měrkow Radibor municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 43 " N , 14 ° 25 ′ 41" E
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| Height : | 170-182 m above sea level NN |
| Residents : | 120 (December 31, 2016) |
| Incorporation : | April 1, 1936 |
| Incorporated into: | Luttowitz |
| Postal code : | 02627 |
| Area code : | 035935 |
 View of the village from the west
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Merka , Upper Sorbian , is a place in the East Saxon district of Bautzen and has been part of the Radibor municipality since 1994 . The place is located in Upper Lusatia and is part of the Sorbian settlement area .
geography
The place is located about seven kilometers north of the large district town of Bautzen and two kilometers east of Radibor on the northern edge of the Upper Lusatian region . The area is open to the north, south and west and is used for agriculture; the eastern area is wooded. The terrain rises in a north-easterly direction towards Großdubrau .
Merka was originally a round hamlet , but the structure is no longer clearly recognizable due to the reconstruction and expansion of the settlement, especially to the east. The neighboring towns are Camina in the north, Kleindubrau in the east and Luttowitz in the south.
history
The place was first mentioned in 1524 as Merkhe or Merko . Other forms of name listed include a. Mergkaw (1658), Mörckau (1732) and Mercka (1768/91). In the 18th century, the manor was at the Malsitz manor .
There was a brick factory in Merka as early as the 17th century. In 1842 lignite was found near Merka near the ground, which was mined in small pits from 1844 onwards. Minable clay deposits were also found under the coal layers, which were mined in the Merka clay pit for the neighboring Großdubrauer Margarethenhütte . The sand, which was originally extracted as a by-product, was also used and, from 1906, was sent via the new railway line Löbau – Radibor , which ran directly north of the town.
Merka was an independent rural community until April 1, 1936; then it was first incorporated into Luttowitz and together with this on January 1, 1994 to Radibor.
Population development of Merka
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Population and language
For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 146 in the 1880s; including 137 Sorbs and nine Germans. Even today, Sorbian is still spoken in everyday life.
The population increased by half from 1834 (110 inhabitants) to 1925 (162). In the second half of the 20th century, especially since the 1990s, it decreased again slightly. The devout residents are partly Catholic according to Radibor, partly Evangelical-Lutheran according to Milkel .
Economy and Infrastructure
Merka had had its own stop on the Löbau-Radibor railway since 1906, but it was named after the larger neighboring town of Luttowitz. The route was mainly used by the industrial companies in the region; Until autumn 1972, however, passenger trains also ran, but their use was no longer worthwhile because of the considerably faster bus connections. In the following two and a half decades, the line was used for freight traffic, but was completely shut down in 1998.
Today the state road 106 ( Kleinwelka -Milkel), formerly known as the coal road , runs through the town. The next junction of the A 4 - Bautzen-West - is seven kilometers away.
Personalities
- Maria Schneider (* 1923), SED politician, member of the GDR State Council, born in Merka
- Achim Brankačk (1926–2013), Sorbian teacher, choir director and author, born in Merka
- Maria Michalk born Ziesch ( Marja Michałkowa ; * 1949), CDU politician, member of the German Bundestag, born in Merka
- Bernhard Ziesch ( Bjarnat Cyž ; * 1951), managing director of Domowina, born in Merka
swell
- Olaf Bastian, Henriette Joseph, Haik Thomas Porada: Oberlausitzer Heide- und Teichlandschaft - a regional study , Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2005, p. 228 f.
- Merka in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
