Niesendorf
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Niesendorf
Niža Wjes Königswartha parish
Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 54 ″ N , 14 ° 19 ′ 1 ″ E
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| Height : | 140 m above sea level NN |
| Residents : | 37 (Dec. 31, 2016) |
| Incorporation : | April 1, 1936 |
| Postal code : | 02699 |
| Area code : | 035931 |
Niesendorf , Niža Wjes in Upper Sorbian , is a place in the East Saxon district of Bautzen and has been part of the Königswartha municipality since 1936 . The place is located in Upper Lusatia and is part of the Sorbian settlement area .
The German place name is derived from the Sorbian, which denotes the lower or lower village .
geography
Niesendorf is located about 15 kilometers northwest of the large district town of Bautzen and two kilometers southwest of the Königswartha community center. The black water runs east of the village ; to the west is a former clay pit that is now used as a forest pool.
The small town consists of two parts that are separated from the former Bautzen – Hoyerswerda railway line , which was operated until 2001. The eastern part of the village is a dead end village in terms of settlement history , the western part, located on the through road, is considered a farming hamlet . The neighboring towns are Königswartha in the northeast, Zescha (municipality of Neschwitz ) in the south and Eutrich in the west.
history
The place was first mentioned in a document in 1600 as Niesendorf . No other name forms are known. Even after the Reformation, the manorial power remained with the Catholic monastery of St. Marienstern , even if the population was already Protestant.
Until April 1, 1936, Niesendorf was an independent rural community; then it was incorporated into Königswartha.
population
For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 68 inhabitants in the 1880s; 66 of them were Sorbs . Since the middle of the 20th century, German has predominated in the town.
Most of the devout residents are of the Evangelical Lutheran denomination and parish to Königswartha.
Economy and Infrastructure
Niesendorf is known in the region for its forest swimming pool with an attached campsite and is not far from the federal road 96 (Bautzen-Hoyerswerda).
swell
- Niesendorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
