Nechers

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City of Weißenberg
Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 40 ″  N , 14 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 162 m above sea level NN
Area : 3.2 km²
Residents : 123  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 38 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : March 1, 1994
Postal code : 02627
Area code : 035876
Martin Nowak Neumann House in Nechern
Martin Nowak Neumann House in Nechern

Nechern , in Sorbian Njechorń ? / i , is a district of the Saxon town of Weißenberg in the east of the Bautzen district . The village in the Sorbian settlement area is best known for the writer Martin Nowak-Neumann, who made a reference to his hometown in his Sorbian name Měrćin Nowak-Njechorński . Audio file / audio sample

geography

The village has the shape of an extended Rundweiler, which is about five kilometers west of Weißenberg and two kilometers south of the federal highway 4 . The Necherner pond area extends east of the village.

North of Nechern, the Kotitzer water flows in a westerly direction. The Kuppritz water coming from the south flows into it in front of the neighboring village of Wurschen .

history

The Sorbian farming village was first mentioned in documents at the beginning of the 15th century, including as Necherin (1413 and 1415), Necheryn (1418) and Necherein (1421). Possibly the place name goes back to a German colonialist Necher , who took over the village during the German settlement in the east . There was evidence of a manor in the early 16th century, later it was merged with the neighboring Wurschen manor.

In the Great Northern War in 1706, the Swedish King Charles XII stayed. briefly in Nechern, whereupon a memorial stone, the Schwedenstein , has been commemorating since 1810 . According to statistics from Arnošt Muka, 187 of the 190 inhabitants of Nechern at that time were still Sorbs in 1884/85 , while the official statistics for 1925 show a Sorbian-speaking proportion of 82.4%. In 1956, according to Ernst Tschernik , a slim majority of 56% was Sorbian-speaking. Since then, the use of the language has continued to decline.

The somewhat larger neighboring village of Wurschen was incorporated into Nechern in 1936. The community was renamed Wurschen in 1957 and incorporated into Weißenberg on March 1, 1994.

literature

  • Between Strohmberg, Czorneboh and Kottmar (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 24). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1974.
  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Nechern. 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. 168.

Footnotes and individual references

  1. ^ Nechern in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  2. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
  3. ↑ Felix Burkhardt: The development of the turning point in the mirror of statistics . Julius Beltz, Langensalza 1932.
  4. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 245 .

Web links

Commons : Nechern / Njechorń  - collection of images, videos and audio files