Mortka

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Mortka
Mortkow
Lohsa municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  N , 14 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 129 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 152  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation : May 1st 1974
Incorporated into: Litschen
Postal code : 02999
Area code : 035724
Aerial view

Mortka (officially the Ostfeld mine from 1937 to 1947 ), Upper Sorbian Mortkow ? / i , is a village in the north of the Saxon district of Bautzen . It is part of the municipality of Lohsa and is part of the official Sorbian settlement area in Upper Lusatia . Audio file / audio sample

geography

Mortka is located between Lohsa and Groß Särchen on the county road K2919. It is 5 km to Lohsa. Around the place there are many smaller and larger ponds that are used for fishing . In the west there is an extensive forest area with predominantly fir and pine trees .

history

Castle in Mortka, built from 2008 to 2012 and equipped with holiday apartments

One building from 1825 has been preserved, the rest of the buildings are more recent. The first documentary mention took place in 1359, but excavation finds from the neighboring village of Lohsa suggest that the place is much older. The place changed its name several times, the manor is documented for 1777. The place has belonged to the Lohsa parish since the 16th century. The Saxon Mortka came to Prussia through the Congress of Vienna. The state border ran not far from the town, which divided the historically grown settlement area. Even after the dissolution of the state of Prussia, the numerous state, district and district boundaries were based on the agreed course. The place was incorporated into the municipality of Litschen on January 1, 1974. He has been part of Lohsa since January 1st, 1994.

Place name

The following place names have been handed down over the centuries: Mortkaw (1359), Mortekaw (1400), Mortkow (1410), Mortkau (1546), Mortka (1548) and Mortka from 1791. In 1936 the place name was changed from ideological by the National Socialists Changed grounds in Ostfeld mine. Since 1947 the place has been called Mortka again.

Population and language

year Residents
1825 129
1871 163
1885 160
1905 148
1925 140
1939 168
1946 244
1950 251
1964 193
2009 189
2010 184

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 166, without exception, Sorbian-speaking inhabitants in the 1880s. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking share of only 51.2% of the population in the Mortka community. Since then, the use of Sorbian has continued to decline in the village.

economy

The place benefits from the nearby Knappenrode reservoir , which is an important economic factor. There is also assisted living and a few small businesses, such as a taxi company, a dentist, a roofer, a PC service, a guest house and a restaurant.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
  2. ^ Mortka in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  3. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
  4. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 249 .

Web links

Commons : Mortka / Mortkow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files