Lower Seifersdorf
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Lower Seifersdorf
Community Waldhufen
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ N , 14 ° 46 ′ 30 ″ E
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| Height : | 175 m above sea level NN |
| Area : | 16.88 km² |
| Residents : | 757 (Jun 30, 2014) |
| Population density : | 45 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | March 1, 1994 |
| Postal code : | 02906 |
| Area code : | 035827 |
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Nieder Seifersdorf (regionally abbreviated to Seifersdorf ) is a district of the East Saxon community of Waldhufen in the district of Görlitz . The Oberlausitzer Kirchdorf is - based on the documentary mentions - the oldest of the four large villages in the municipality.
geography
Nieder Seifersdorf is an elongated forest hoof village on the upper reaches of the Schwarzen Schöps between the Quitzdorf reservoir in the north, the Königshain mountains in the southeast and the Hohen Dubrau in the west. The newly built Bautzen - Görlitz line of the federal motorway 4 runs south of the village and has a junction named after the village.
The villages Attendorf and Baarsdorf, which are connected with Nieder Seifersdorf, are located immediately northeast of the village. Surrounding places are Jänkendorf in the north, Ullersdorf in the northeast, Wiesa in the east, Thiemendorf in the southeast, Arnsdorf and Döbschütz in the south, Prachenau in the southwest and Diehsa in the northwest.
history
The Waldhufendörfer Nieder Seifersdorf and Attendorf were founded by Thuringian and Franconian farmers during the second phase of the German settlement in the east . Although Attendorf may originally have been an independent village, it was soon connected to Nieder Seifersdorf in terms of administration.
In a document dated February 22, 1238, the Bohemian King Wenzel I gave the Niederdörfer of the Görlitzer Weichbild to the monastery of St. Marienthal near Ostritz , but without naming the individual places. Exactly one year later to the day, the donation was confirmed at the instigation of his wife Kunigunde von Staufen and the villages were named: Siversdorf , Odreniz , Ottindor , Merowe , Muzlawiz , Gorhe , Porode , Prochinowe . This confirmation document from 1239 is the first documentary mention of some of these villages, including Nieder Seifersdorf and Attendorf. A document dated to 1234 with the name of the place Syfridistorph , which is sometimes assigned to Nieder Seifersdorf, is said to refer to a place north of the monastery that was devastated in favor of the monastery expansion .
The late Romanesque church from the 13th century possibly replaced a chapel that had existed since the village was founded and was looked after from Reichenbach / OL . It is consecrated to St. Gall and St. Ursula . The church is surrounded by a strong wall, which made it a fortified church for the residents in times of war .
In the Hussite Wars in 1427 Nieder Seifersdorf and Attendorf together had 68 men, 4 captains and 3 wagons to provide.
A teacher is mentioned for the first time in a message from 1536. It is possible that there had already been lessons in Nieder Seifersdorf beforehand, as a local clerk reported in 1507.
The Reformation began relatively late in Nieder Seifersdorf. While other parishes in the region were reformed between 1525 and 1540, Catholicism continued through the monastery into the sixties of that century. Abbess Ursula Laubig, who was inclined to the gospel, made sure that her brother Valentin Laubig was appointed pastor in Nieder Seifersdorf in 1564. Through him the parish - consisting of Attendorf, Baarsdorf, Nieder Seifersdorf and Ödernitz - was evangelized.
Through the Peace of Prague of 1635 , the Bohemian Crown Lands Upper and Lower Lusatia came to the Electorate of Saxony .
The church was extensively renovated in the late 17th century and received an organ in 1697. This was replaced by a new organ in 1841.
Nieder Seifersdorf remained under Saxon rule until the division of Upper Lusatia between the kingdoms of Saxony and Prussia in 1815, when the greater part of Upper Lusatia fell to Prussia as a result of the Congress of Vienna . With the founding of the Rothenburg district, the Nieder Seifersdorf community was under it from 1816.
In the low-Seifersdorfer Gerichtskretscham 1821 the cancellation was serfdom announced the residents, however, had to pay a few decades an annuity. In June 1850, the St. Marienthal Monastery in Nieder Seifersdorf no longer had any land, and in 1862 the monastery ceded the right of patronage over the church to the Prussian state.
From 1911 the first properties were connected to the power grid.
On April 1, 1938, Baarsdorf was incorporated into Nieder Seifersdorf, so that the community now consisted of the three places Attendorf, Baarsdorf and Nieder Seifersdorf.
The estate was expropriated as part of the land reform after the Second World War and its lands were distributed to several farmers.
As a result of the administrative reform of 1952 , the municipality, which had been in Saxony again since 1945, was attached to the Niesky district , with the border to the Görlitz district running immediately south of the village as before.
On March 1, 1994, the municipalities of Diehsa , Jänkendorf , Nieder Seifersdorf and Thiemendorf merged to form the new municipality of Waldhufen as part of the Saxon municipal area reform .
Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 1825 | 1009 |
| 1863 | 1186 |
| 1871 | 1285 |
| 1885 | 1107 |
| 1905 | 940 |
| 1925 | 901 |
| 1939 | 1062 |
| 1946 | 1286 |
| 1950 | 1328 |
| 1964 | 1088 |
| 1971 | 1073 |
| 1988 | 882 |
| 1990 | 857 |
| 1993 | 850 |
| 1999 | 842 |
| 2002 | 846 |
| 2008 | 809 |
| 2011 | 780 |
The number of men to fight against the Hussites suggests a population of around 300 in 1427.
In the middle of the 16th century there were 59 possessed men in Nieder Seifersdorf , and 5 possessed men ran in Attendorf. Their number sank in the following two centuries (partly due to the consequences of the Thirty Years' War and the three Silesian Wars ), so that only 19 possessed men were counted during the state examinations in 1777. In addition, there were now 40 gardeners and 84 cottagers living in the village, many of whom were doing manual work.
In the first same census in Prussia in 1825, Nieder Seifersdorf (with Attendorf) counted 1009 inhabitants. That number rose to 1,285 by 1871, but dropped to 901 by 1925. In 1939 the number of inhabitants was again over 1000 due to the incorporation of Baarsdorf (1925 with 115 inhabitants) and increased to over 1300 by 1950 after the end of the war due to the admission of some refugees and displaced persons.
When the survey was carried out in 1964, the population had fallen back below the level of 1100, but this was maintained until the population survey in 1971. After that, a decline gradually set in, so that in around 20 years the population fell by more than 200 to around 850 inhabitants.
Place name
Document mentions of the place name include Siverdesdorf (1239), Sigfridisdorf (1386), Seifirsdurff (1431), Seiferßdorff (1495), Nieder Seyfersdorff (1759), Nieder Seyfersdorf (1791) and Nieder Seifersdorf (1845). The name prefix, which was only added in the 18th century, serves to better distinguish it from Oberseifersdorf near Zittau.
The place name Sigfridisdorf (1386) suggests that it is the village of a Sigfrid or Sigifrid who was probably the locator through which the place was created.
Attractions
In the center of Nieder Seifersdorf is the Städt'l , an ensemble of church, rectory, several other buildings and the defensive wall. The Städt'l offers space for local clubs and is a venue for concerts, festivals and the annual Christmas market. Forty paintings in the church are also valuable, some of which depict motifs from the Schaeffer Bible .
In front of the churchyard wall is a medieval atonement cross with an incised sword from the time before murder was punishable by the death penalty. The Baarsdorf farmer Hans Friedrich had killed the farmer Peter Mollner, also from Baarsdorf, in a dispute in 1440. According to the judgment, he had to make a pilgrimage to Aachen within a year , he also had to forgive the relatives, pay military money and put a stone cross.
See also
literature
- Council of the community of Nieder Seifersdorf (ed.): 35 years of the GDR in the 750th year of the existence of the community of Nieder Seifersdorf . Nowa Doba, Bautzen 1984.
- From the Muskauer Heide to the Rotstein. Home book of the Lower Silesian Upper Lusatia District . Lusatia Verlag, Bautzen 2006, ISBN 978-3-929091-96-0 , p. 296 ff .
- Robert Pohl: Heimatbuch des Kreis Rothenburg O.-L. for school and home . Buchdruckerei Emil Hampel, Weißwasser O.-L. 1924, p. 252 f .
Web links
- Nieder Seifersdorf on the website of the community Waldhufen
Individual evidence
- ^ From Muskauer Heide to Rotstein , page 296.
- ↑ a b Nieder Seifersdorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- ↑ Saxony regional register. Retrieved August 5, 2009 .
- ↑ Small-scale municipality sheet for the 2011 census from the State Statistical Office of Saxony (Baarsdorf and Attendorf belong to Nieder Seifersdorf). Retrieved May 2, 2015 .
- ^ Pohl: Heimatbuch des Kreis Rothenburg O.-L. , Page 252.
- ↑ At the end of the 18th century, after 35 years in the GDR, the community of Nieder Seifersdorf lived in the 750th year of existence in Nieder Seifersdorf , page 12: 1 coopers , 3 blacksmiths , 2 bakers , 2 butchers , 2 brandy distillers , 1 brewer , 3 millers , 2 Linen weavers , oil beaters , drone makers , nuthatches , mole catchers , 8 tailors , 8 cobblers , 1 bricklayer , 1 watchmaker .
- ↑ Ernst Eichler / Hans Walther : Oberlausitz toponymy: studies on the toponymy of the districts of Bautzen, Bischofswerda, Görlitz, Hoyerswerda, Kamenz, Löbau, Niesky, Senftenberg, Weißwasser and Zittau. I name book . In: German-Slavic research on naming and settlement history . tape 28 . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1975, p. 285 f .
- ↑ Monuments: A fortified church defends itself . March 2005.
- ↑ Suehnekreuz.de: low Seifersdorf. Retrieved November 26, 2015 .