Nechen (Löbau)

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Nechen
City of Löbau
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 1 ″  N , 14 ° 38 ′ 40 ″  E
Area : 1.36 km²
Postal code : 02708
Area code : 03585
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Location of Nechen in the area of ​​the city of Löbau

Nechen ( Upper Sorbian Njechań ? / I ) is a district of Löbau in the Saxon Upper Lusatia . Audio file / audio sample

geography

The village is located southeast of the 335.8 meter high Pfaffenberg and southwest of the 320.8 meter high Schafberg on the right side above the valley of the buttermilk water . Federal road 6 leads through Nechen . The cadastre covers 136 hectares.

history

Nechen is probably a Slavic foundation. This is indicated by both the round shape and the place name derived from the Slavic personal name "Nechan" .

The village was first mentioned in 1306 when it was placed under the Löbauer higher judiciary by the Margraves of Brandenburg . Although it was close to Löbau, the Bautzen council later bought the village. Nechen thus became one of the Bautzen council villages. The village always belonged to the parish of Kittlitz.

After the founding of the Löbau estate as a special animal breeding company in 1953, a 42 hectare farm was attached to the estate in Nechen, which was expanded into a sheep farm . This was expanded into a breeding company for merino meat sheep . The central buck rearing station for the Dresden district was located in Nechen and exported mainly to the Soviet Union and Arabia. In 1969 it was recognized as an elite herd. In 1970 the herd comprised over 1,000 animals. A block of flats with twelve apartments was built for the sheep farming employees. In the second half of the 20th century, almost all of the town's historical buildings were lost. An old road house from the 19th century has been preserved on Bundesstrasse 6 .

As part of the municipality of Eiserode , Nechen was incorporated into Löbau on January 1, 1994.

The Sorbian folk writer Johann Traugott Mutschink was born in Nechen in 1821 .

Population and language

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 93 inhabitants in the 1880s; among them were 83 Sorbs and ten Germans. At that time Nechen was on the extreme south-eastern edge of the Sorbian majority area. Here the Löbauer dialect of Sorbian was spoken, which is now extinct. The language change to German took place in Nechen at the beginning of the 20th century and was almost complete after the Second World War. Today Sorbian has disappeared from everyday life in the town.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
  2. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.

literature

Web links

Commons : Nechen  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Nechen in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony