Neuwiese (Elsterheide)

Neuwiese ; Nowa Łuka Community Elsterheide Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 37 ″ N , 14 ° 12 ′ 35 ″ E
Height :	115 m above sea level NHN
Area :	14.08 km²
Residents :	181 (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	13 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 1995
Postal code :	02979
Area code :	03571
	Neuwiese war memorial

Neuwiese , Nowa Łuka in Upper Sorbian ^?^/ⁱ , is a village in the northern district of Bautzen in Saxony . The place is located in Upper Lusatia and has been part of the Neuwiese / Bergen district of the Elsterheide community since July 1, 1995 .

location

The Upper Lusatian village of Neuwiese is located in the Lusatian Lake District between the Black Elster in the south and the Black Elster Canal in the north. Neighboring towns are Bergen in the northeast, Seidewinkel in the east, the western part of the urban area of Hoyerswerda in the south, Nardt in the southwest and Laubusch in the west. The city center of Hoyerswerda is just under four kilometers southeast of Neuwiese, the Brandenburg cities of Senftenberg and Spremberg are each just under 16 kilometers away. The city of Cottbus is located about 32 kilometers north of Neuwiese.

Neuwiese is just under one kilometer north of the federal road 96 (Senftenberg – Bautzen) and also one kilometer south of the state road 234 (Bluno – Hoyerswerda). About three kilometers north of the village is the Neuwieser See , in a forest area west of Neuwiese is the Lugteich .

history

Memorial stone for the 600th anniversary of the village, at the top left is the coat of arms of Neuwiese / Bergen

Neuwiese was laid out as a street tangerine village and was first mentioned in a document in 1401 with the name Weze . The place name is the German translation of the Sorbian place name Nowa Łuka and describes a village on a meadow. The name addition New- was added in 1568. At that time Neuwiese belonged to the Hoyerswerda estate and was a preliminary work of the local manor . The townscape of Neuwiese is still characterized by historical four-sided courtyards made of brickwork . From 1768 the place was referred to under its current name.

On April 1, 1938, the northern neighboring municipality of Bergen was incorporated into Neuwiese. Between 1952 and 1990 the community belonged to the Hoyerswerda district in the GDR district of Cottbus . Thereafter the community belonged to the district of Hoyerswerda until 1996 . On July 1, 1995, Neuwiese merged with the communities of Bluno , Geierswalde , Klein Partwitz , Nardt, Sabrodt, Seidewinkel and Tätzschwitz to form the new community of Elsterheide . From 1996 to 2008 Neuwiese belonged to the district of Kamenz , since then the place has been in the district of Bautzen.

The Neuwiese district was renamed Neuwiese / Bergen in 1995 , which consists of the Neuwiese and Bergen districts. The head of the village is Antje Gasterstädt (as of 2019) .

Population and language

In 1777 the population of Neuwiese consisted of twelve possessed men as well as three gardener and 26 housekeeper families. In 1825 the place had 259 inhabitants, after that the number of inhabitants remained largely constant with 262 inhabitants in 1875 and 268 inhabitants in 1925. After the end of the Second World War , the population rose to 552 in 1946 and 572 in 1925 due to refugees from eastern Germany Year 1950. Shortly after reunification , Neuwiese had over 600 inhabitants at times, and the number of inhabitants has fallen sharply since then. Most of the inhabitants of Neuwiese are Evangelical-Lutheran denominations, the place belongs to the Johannes parish in Hoyerswerda.

Neuwiese belongs to the Upper Sorbian language area . According to the statistics on the Sorbian population in Lusatia by Arnošt Muka , Neuwiese had 251 inhabitants in 1884, 250 of whom were Sorbs and only one German. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking population of 78.5 percent (428 of 545, of which 332 were adults and 96 children). Neuwiese is now part of the official Sorbian settlement area .

Web links

Commons : Neuwiese / Nowa Łuka - collection of images, videos and audio files

Neuwiese on the side of the Elsterheide community

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Neuwiese bei Hoyerswerda in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony Retrieved on April 23, 2019.
↑ Neuwiese / Bergen - Nowa Łuka / Hory. In: Elsterheide municipality. From Elsterheide.de, accessed on October 25, 2019.
↑ Arnost Muka: Statistika łužiskich Serbow. Wobličenje a wopisanje. Budyšin 1884-1886. (on-line)

[HOV-1] Neuwiese bei Hoyerswerda in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony Retrieved on April 23, 2019.

[2] Neuwiese / Bergen - Nowa Łuka / Hory. In: Elsterheide municipality. From Elsterheide.de, accessed on October 25, 2019.

[Sorben1884-3] Arnost Muka: Statistika łužiskich Serbow. Wobličenje a wopisanje. Budyšin 1884-1886. (on-line)