Meschwitz

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Community Hochkirch
Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 36 ″  N , 14 ° 32 ′ 10 ″  E
Height : 257 m above sea level NN
Residents : 160  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation : 1st January 1973
Postal code : 02627
Area code : 035939
Aerial view

Meschwitz , in Sorbian Mješicy ? / i , is a village in the east of the Saxon district of Bautzen , which belongs to the municipality of Hochkirch . It is part of the official Sorbian settlement area in Upper Lusatia . Audio file / audio sample

geography

After the settlement, Meschwitz is a square village .

history

The place Meshewicz is mentioned around 1315, later Messicz (around 1400), Messchwicz (1467) and finally Meschwitz in the 18th century.

population

Until the 1920s, Meschwitz had a relatively constant population of around 250. In the years 1884/1885 Arnošt Muka counted 267 inhabitants in Meschwitz, of whom 250 were Sorbs . As a result of the incorporation of Wuischke in 1936 and the admission of refugees and displaced persons after the Second World War, the number of inhabitants rose temporarily to 553, but has been decreasing again since then. Due to the population movements after the Second World War, Meschwitz, which was still predominantly Sorbian, and its neighboring towns of Wuischke and Rachlau had become a language island on the Czorneboh , as the majority of the surrounding areas had already become German. In Meschwitz, Ernst Tschernik determined a Sorbian-speaking population of 56 percent in 1956. Since then, the use of Sorbian has also decreased significantly here.

In the 1990s there was an average of 210 inhabitants, and at the end of the 2000s there were just under 180 inhabitants.

Most of the believing population is Evangelical Lutheran. The place is parish to Hochkirch.

Personalities

Grave slab of pastor Johann Wauer
  • In 1672, the later Hochkirch pastor and co-translator of the Bible into the Sorbian language Johann Wauer (Sorbian Jan Wawer ) was born in Meschwitz . Wauer also had today's Hochkirch church built and published a Sorbian hymn book. In 1728 he died in Hochkirch. His epitaph is now in the entrance area of ​​the Hochkirch church.

Web links

  • Meschwitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.