Milkel
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Milkel
Minakał Radibor municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 55 ″ N , 14 ° 27 ′ 29 ″ E
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| Height : | 136 m above sea level NN |
| Residents : | 338 (December 31, 2016) |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1999 |
| Postal code : | 02627 |
| Area code : | 035934 |
_Schlo%C3%9F.jpg) Baroque castle Milkel
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Milkel , Upper Sorbian , is a village in the northeast of the Saxon district of Bautzen . It belongs to Upper Lusatia and has belonged to Radibor since January 1st, 1999 . The place belongs to the official Sorbian settlement area and has 397 inhabitants.
geography
Milkel is located 15 kilometers north of Bautzen in the Upper Lusatian heath and pond landscape at 136 m above sea level. NN. The area is flat and is characterized by numerous watercourses and ponds. The Kleine Spree , an arm of the Spree, flows through the village . South and north of Milkel are several large ponds, which lies Großteich the south the place closest. Further north, the Driewitz-Milkeler Heiden, one of the largest forest areas in Upper Lusatia, extends .
Milkel is a conglomerate of a street green village, an extended manor settlement in the northeast and the district of Teicha in the north. Extensive forest areas extend to the northeast and southwest of the village. The next higher elevation is the western Hahnenberg near Droben ( 199 m ).
history
The place is first mentioned in 1322 as Milakal . The manor was first mentioned in 1430. In the years 1556 and 1752 the entire place burned down with the exception of the church.
After the Congress of Vienna , Milkel remained with the Kingdom of Saxony , while some northern villages of the parish came to Prussia . In 1884/85 Arnošt Muka still had 436 inhabitants in Milkel, of which 389 were Sorbs (89%). This made Milkel one of the largest Sorbian villages in the area. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik determined a Sorbian-speaking proportion of 57.1% of the population in the community of Milkel. Since then, the use of Sorbian has continued to decline in the village.
Until the end of 1998 Milkel was an independent rural community with the districts Teicha, Droben and Wessel (both since 1936) and Lippitsch (since September 8, 1977). This was then merged with the municipality of Radibor under this name.
population
The last population data for the independent municipality of Milkel indicate 1021 inhabitants for 1990. In 1890 the place had 358 inhabitants. Since reunification, the population has decreased slightly; the municipality of Radibor gives 404 residents for 2008.
religion
A parish church in Milkel is mentioned as early as 1322. The last information on religious affiliation comes from 1925. At that time 419 of 422 inhabitants were Evangelical Lutheran (99%). On June 23, 1960, a Sorbian-Evangelical Church Congress took place in Milkel.
Economy and Infrastructure
The numerous ponds in the area are used for fish farming.
education
After the Second World War , Milkel was both the location of a Sorbian elementary school and (from 1953) the Central Upper Sorbian Language School, where the mayors and other officials of Lusatia learned the Sorbian language. This was housed in the castle and was closed in 1993.
traffic
In Milkel, the state road 106 coming from Bautzen meets the S 101 ( Königswartha - Guttau ). Local roads connect the place with Uhyst (9 km) and Lippitsch (2 km).
Regiobus operates bus routes 104 from Bautzen via Großdubrau to Milkel and back and 190 from Bautzen via Milkel to Königswartha .
Attractions
The most famous sights of the place are the castle and the associated park. The building was rebuilt in the 18th century based on the model of Moritzburg Castle with two round towers and is not open to the public today. The parish church in the center of the village was given its present form in 1857.
Personalities
- August Ludwig Diemer (1774–1855), legal scholar, born in Milkel
- Kurt Heinrich Ernst von Einsiedel (1811–1887), horse breeder and author, landlord on Milkel
literature
- Cornelius Gurlitt : Milkel. 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. 153.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1999
- ↑ As of March 1, 2011; Details of the Radibor municipal administration.
- ↑ Album of the manors and castles in the kingdom of Saxony based on nature, newly recorded by F. Heise, Architect. III. Section: Margraviate Upper Lusatia. Leipzig, around 1860.
- ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
- ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 245 .
- ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states. Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
- ^ Georg Piltz: Art guide through the GDR. Urania 1975.