Milkwitz
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Milkwitz
Miłkecy Radibor municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 48 ″ N , 14 ° 21 ′ 29 ″ E
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| Height : | 167 m above sea level NN |
| Residents : | 98 (December 31, 2016) |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 1973 |
| Incorporated into: | Kleinwelka |
| Postal code : | 02627 |
| Area code : | 035935, 035937 |
 The Milkwitzer mill in the 1950s
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Milkwitz , in Upper Sorbian , is a village in the northeast of the Saxon district of Bautzen . It is part of the Sorbian settlement area in Upper Lusatia and belongs to the Radibor municipality .
history
Milkwitz was first mentioned in a document as Milkewicz in 1394 . In the following period the place name changed from Milkewitz in 1528 via Milckwicz (1562) to Milckwitz in 1791. At the time of its first mention and from 1580 the place was the seat of a manor that also held the manorial rule over the village.
On July 25, 1952, Milkwitz was assigned to the Bautzen district . Until January 1, 1973 Milkwitz was an independent rural community (from April 1, 1936 with the district of Strohschütz ), then it was assigned to the community of Kleinwelka and, after the reunification, was part of the community of Kleinwelka in the Bautzen district in Saxony . On January 1, 1994, Kleinwelka was incorporated into Bautzen and Milkwitz was reclassified to Radibor . Since the Saxon district reform on August 1, 2008 , the place has been in the Bautzen district .
Population development of Milkwitz
| date | Residents |
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| 1777 | 5 cottagers |
| 1834 | 54 |
| 1871 | 77 |
| 1890 | 90 |
| 1910 | 159 |
| 1925 | 156 |
| 1939 | 171 |
| 1946 | 205 |
| 1950 | 231 |
| 1964 | 206 |
| 2008 | 99 |
For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 154 in the 1880s, including 133 Sorbs (86%) and 21 Germans. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik still counted a Sorbian-speaking share of 47.2% of the population in the municipality of Radibor. Since then, the use of Sorbian in the village has continued to decline.
Web links
- Milkwitz - A homage to my home village
- Districts on radibor.de
- Homepage on radibor.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Milkwitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony. Retrieved on May 24, 2017
- ^ Milkwitz in the database of the Verein für Computergenealogie. Retrieved May 24, 2017 .
- ↑ 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 .