Nieska

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Nieska
City of Gröditz
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 48 "  N , 13 ° 21 ′ 36"  E
Height : 93 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 255  (December 31, 2011)
Incorporation : January 1, 1994
Incorporated into: Nauwalde
Postal code : 01609
Area code : 035263

Nieska is a district of the Saxon town of Gröditz in the district of Meißen . It is located about three kilometers northwest of Nauwalde near the border with Brandenburg . State road 89 runs through the village .

history

Entrance to Nieska
Historical seal mark of the place

The street village on Gewannflur belonged to Grossenhain in 1406. The manorial rule was exercised by the Zabeltitz manor in 1552 , and Nieska was the district village in 1590. In 1764 the Zabeltitz manor was mentioned again as the owner of the manor. After 1764 the place belonged to the Grossenhain Office , before that the administration was in the meantime at the Zabeltitz Office . Between 1856 and 1875 Nieska belonged to the Grossenhain court office , and then to the head office of Großenhain . In 1900 the size of the town boundary was 412 hectares . In 1925, 215 Evangelical Lutheran citizens lived in Nieska. In 1952, Nieska became an independent municipality part of the Riesa district, which was formed from the administrative authorities . The independence of the place ended on January 1st, 1994, when Nieska, Spansberg and Nauwalde merged to form the new municipality of Nauwalde. In the same year, the district of Riesa became part of the newly formed district of Riesa-Großenhain , which on August 1, 2008 became part of the new district of Meißen formed by the district reform of Saxony in 2008 .

Since January 1st, 2013 Nieska belongs to the city of Gröditz.

Development of the population

year population
1552 15 possessed men , 17 residents
1764 15 possessed men, 8 cottagers , 11½ hooves
1834 186
1871 205
year population
1890 195
1910 227
1925 219
1939 225
year population
1946 309
1950 303
1964 288
1990 250

Place name forms

The spelling of the place Nieska was mentioned historically differently:

  • 1284: in Nizcowe
  • 1344: Nesekow
  • 1350: Neczk
  • 1406: Nyskov
  • 1474: Nyskaw
  • 1540: Nißke
  • 1552: Niskaw

Culture and sights

Village church

There are several architectural monuments in Nieska, which are on the list of monuments of the State of Saxony:

→ The building, built in the middle of the 18th century in the Baroque style based on the model of the Dresden Frauenkirche, can be found in the center of the village with an adjoining cemetery . In the immediate vicinity there is also a memorial to the fallen in honor of the villagers of Nieskas who fell and went missing in the First and Second World War, which is also a listed building.
  • Residential house at Riesaer Strasse 30, built in 1830
  • Historic stone from the second half of the 19th century
  • Saxon-Prussian boundary stone Pilar No. 195 on the northern municipality border, erected around the middle of the 19th century

literature

  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Nieska. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 37. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Grossenhain (Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1914, p. 196.

Web links

Commons : Nieska  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Nieska in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Müller's Large German Local Book 2012: Complete local dictionary. 33., revised. and exp. Ed. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-027420-2 , p. 991. Online at Google Books
  2. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
  3. ↑ a b c Nieska in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  4. ↑ List of monuments of the State of Saxony , accessed on October 12, 2017
  5. ↑ The Nieska Church on the homepage of the church district Meißen-Großenhain , accessed on October 9, 2017.