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Niedergurig ; Delnja Hórka Community Malschwitz Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 37 ″ N , 14 ° 28 ′ 44 ″ E
Height :	154 m above sea level NN
Residents :	351 (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1994
Postal code :	02694
Area code :	03591

Niedergurig, aerial photo (2017)

Niedergurig , Upper Sorbian Delnja Hórka ^?^/ⁱ , is a medium-sized village in the East Saxon district of Bautzen and has been part of the Malschwitz community since 1994 . It is located in Upper Lusatia and belongs to the Sorbian settlement area .

geography

Niedergurig is about 5 km north of Bautzen on the Spree at 154 m above sea level. NN. It is an alley village ; On the Spree island in the eastern part of the village there was a baroque castle building, which was destroyed in 1950.

The village, located directly below the Bautzen dam , is overlooked by the Gottlobsberg ( 180 m ). To the east of Niedergurig there are large fish ponds that are fed by the Malschwitzer Kleine Spree , which branches off from the main arm of the river here.

history

French or Napoleon Bridge in Niedergurig

The place was first mentioned as Gorg in 1349 . The place name is derived from the Old Sorbian górka ("hill", today Upper Sorbian hórka ). The current form of the name with the prefix Nieder appears for the first time in 1768 to distinguish the place from Obergurig .

In the battle of Bautzen on 20./21. May 1813, the Spree crossing and the Gottlobsberg near Niedergurig had great strategic importance and were therefore fiercely contested.

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 389 inhabitants in the 1880s; of these, 364 were Sorbs (94%) and 25 were Germans. In 1956, the Sorbian-speaking population in the municipality was still 48.7%.

In 1936 the nearby villages of Briesing and Doberschütz were incorporated. Until January 1, 1994 Niedergurig was an independent rural community, then it was incorporated into Malschwitz.

economy

To the southwest of the village is an industrial park with several production and sales facilities as well as a hotel.

traffic

The federal highway 156 crosses Niedergurig; the next junction of the Autobahn 4 ( Bautzen-Ost ) is only 4 km away. A local road connects Niedergurig with Quatitz (3 km).

Due to the limited space available in the village, a bypass is planned for the B 156 west of Niedergurig.

Attractions

At the Großer Ziegelteich, south of Niedergurig, there is the so-called giant oak , which is between 600 and 800 years old . The chest height is 8.79 m (2016). It also adorns the coat of arms of the Malschwitz community. On the Gottlobsberg at the dam there is a Luther monument with a Sorbian inscription. On the opposite bank of the Spree are the remains of the ring wall of the Lubasschanze , an old Slavic fortification.

The manor with a picturesque mill, whose house (similar to the one in Radibor ) was abandoned in 1950 for ideological reasons, goes back to an old water-fortified complex, of which a vaulted building, regarded as a chapel, is preserved today in the economic area. It still shows the baroque complex with the cour d'honneur , cavalier house and gatehouse, as well as wing buildings and corner pavilions on an island on the Spree. After Count Wallwitz was expropriated in 1945, the castle island is now owned by the Dahmen-Wassenberg family from the Lower Rhine region.

The ruins of the old Franzosenbrücke over the Spree can also be seen from the bridge on Bundesstraße 156 .

Niedergurig, town view from the direction of Gottlobsberg

literature

Cornelius Gurlitt : Niedergurig. 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. 203.

Web links

Commons : Niedergurig / Delnja Hórka - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Manors and castles in the kingdom of Saxony: Niedergurig - sources and full texts

Niedergurig in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

^ Walter Wenzel: Oberlausitzer Ortnamesbuch. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 2008, p. 72.
↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 57 .
^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 245 .
↑ Project plan for the bypass , accessed on July 18, 2016
^ Entry in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017

[1] Walter Wenzel: Oberlausitzer Ortnamesbuch. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 2008, p. 72.

[2] Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 57 .

[3] Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 245 .

[4] Project plan for the bypass , accessed on July 18, 2016

[5] Entry in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017