Neschwitz
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Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ' N , 14 ° 20' E |
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Basic data | ||
State : | Saxony | |
County : | Bautzen | |
Management Community : | Neschwitz | |
Height : | 149 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 46.01 km 2 | |
Residents: | 2401 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 52 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 02699 | |
Primaries : | 035933, 035937 | |
License plate : | BZ, BIW, HY, KM | |
Community key : | 14 6 25 360 | |
LOCODE : | DE NI2 | |
Community structure: | 17 districts | |
Address of the municipal administration: |
Bahnhofstrasse 1 02699 Neschwitz |
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Mayor : | Gerd Schuster ( CDU ) | |
Location of the municipality of Neschwitz in the Bautzen district | ||
Neschwitz , Upper Sorbian , is a place and the associated municipality about 14 km northwest of Bautzen in the Saxon Upper Lusatia . Neschwitz is located in the Upper Lusatian Heath and Pond Landscape Biosphere Reserve . It is the seat of the administrative community Neschwitz and belongs to the official settlement area of the Sorbs .
Local division
Districts of the municipality:
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history
The oldest known mention of the settlement as Nyzwas comes from 1268. A knight's seat is mentioned here as early as the beginning of the 15th century. The Neschwitzer Church dates from the early 17th century and has been rebuilt several times since then. Sorbian was also preached here until 1979.
In 1936 the community was expanded to include the neighboring towns of Holscha, Neudorf and Lomske. Further regional reforms incorporated Doberschütz in 1974, Zescha in 1978, Saritsch in 1993 and Luga in 1994.
population
For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 531 inhabitants in the 1880s; 441 of them were Sorbs (83%) and 90 Germans. According to Ernst Tschernik , the Sorbian-speaking proportion of the population in the municipality of Neschwitz (with Holscha, Neudorf and Lomske) fell by 1956 BC. a. due to assimilation and immigration of German-speaking resettlers after the Second World War to 32.1%. Since then, the use of Sorbian in Neschwitz itself has continued to decline. In the predominantly Catholic districts of Lomske, Doberschütz and Caßlau in the west of the municipality, the language is still spoken today.
According to the 2011 census, 837 of 2,498 inhabitants were Protestant (33.5%), 474 were Roman Catholic (19%) and 1,187 belonged to another or no religious community (47.5%).
politics
The local elections in recent years resulted in the following distribution of votes and seats:
Parties and constituencies | 2014 | 2009 | 2004 | |||
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% | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | |
Craft and trade (HuG) | 52.2 | 8th | 46.6 | 7th | 30.7 | 4th |
Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) | 20.6 | 3 | 18.9 | 3 | 25.5 | 4th |
Community of clubs (GdV) | 17.9 | 2 | 16.2 | 2 | 15.7 | 2 |
The Left (2004: PDS) | 9.4 | 1 | 8.1 | 1 | 6.7 | 1 |
Kultur- und Heimatfreunde Neschwitz eV (KHN) | - | - | 10.2 | 1 | 13.4 | 2 |
Free electoral association FORUM | - | - | - | - | 7.9 | 1 |
total | 100.0 | 14th | 100.0 | 14th | 100.0 | 14th |
voter turnout | 57.5% | 55.4% | 53.0% |
Since the municipal council election on May 26, 2019 , the 14 seats of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:
- Craft and trade (HuG): 7 seats
- Community of Associations (GdV): 5 seats
- CDU : 2 seats
Culture and sights
Buildings
- Baroque Neschwitz Castle and the associated park
- Neschwitz church and old rectory
- Neschwitz cemetery with a count's hereditary burial
- Old zoo with hunting pavilion on the grounds of the Neschwitz Youth Hostel
- Weidlitz manor house
- Saritsch mansion
- Post mill Luga
- Voss mansion in Doberschütz
museum
- Local history museum Neschwitz
- Neschwitz bird protection pavilion
Regular events
- Witch burning
- Neschwitzer Schlagernacht
- Castle concerts
- Galleries in the castle
- Museum day and church tower festival
- Festival of lights
- Windmill Festival
- Galleries in the Saritsch mansion
education
The municipality of Neschwitz has a primary school. The local middle school was closed in 2005. The closest secondary school is now in Königswartha .
traffic
Until 1999, Neschwitz had a station on the Bautzen – Hoyerswerda line , which was shut down and dismantled in the following years. Public transport is now handled by the Oberlausitz regional bus in the same relation.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the church
- August Adolph von Haugwitz (1647–1706), poet and playwright
- Johann Larass (born August 5, 1820 in Neschwitz), German garden architect († 1893)
- Arnold Freiherr von Vietinghoff-Riesch (1895–1962), forest scientist , ornithologist and nature conservationist . Until the expropriation in 1945, he owned the baroque Neschwitz Castle along with the associated property with agriculture and forestry.
ground
The predominant soil type in and around Neschwitz is parabraunerde .
Sources and literature
- Municipal administration Neschwitz (ed.): Neschwitz and his villages. Illustrated chronicle of the first half of the 20th century. Lusatia-Verlag, Bautzen 2000, ISBN 3-929091-73-9 .
- Ernst Panse: Diamond of garden art. Neschwitz Castle Park. In: Ernst Panse (ed.): Park guide through Upper Lusatia. Lusatia Verlag, Bautzen 1999, ISBN 3-929091-56-9 , pp. 100-104.
- Arnold Freiherr von Vietinghoff-Riesch: Last gentleman on Neschwitz. A Junker with no regrets. (= From the German Aristocratic Archives. Volume 3.) Starke, Limburg 2002, ISBN 3-7980-0603-2 .
- Neschwitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Neschwitz . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 6th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1819, p. 817 f.
- Cornelia Müller, Kultur- und Heimatfreunde Neschwitz e. V. (Ed.): Community chronicle Neschwitz - Njeswačidło. Lausitzer Druck- und Verlagshaus, Bautzen 2009, ISBN 978-3-930625-50-5 .
- TERRA - Geography 10 / High School Saxony. Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-623-28460-6 , p. 178/179.
- Cornelius Gurlitt : Neschwitz. 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.
- Cornelius Gurlitt : Neschwitz. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 32nd issue: Bautzen Official Authority (Part II) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1908, p. 193.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019 ( help on this ).
- ↑ Saxon Sorbs Act , Annex to Section 3 (2)
- ^ Information from the municipal administration in Neschwitz; As of December 31, 2016
- ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 56 .
- ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 245 .
- ↑ census database on zensus2011.de
- ↑ Results of the 2019 municipal council elections