Niwica

Niwica
Help on coat of arms	Niwica
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Lebus
Powiat :	Żary
Gmina :	Trzebiel
Geographic location :	51 ° 35 '  N , 14 ° 51'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 34 '55 "  N , 14 ° 50' 30"  E
Residents :	375 (March 31, 2011)
Telephone code :	(+48) 68
License plate :	FZA
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Poznań
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Trinity Church in Niwica

Niwica (German Zibelle , Sorbian Cybalin ) is a village in the municipality of Trzebiel in the powiat Żarski in the Lubusz Voivodeship in Poland . It belongs to the Neisse Euroregion and in 2011 had 375 inhabitants.

Geographical location

Niwica is located east of the Lusatian Neisse on the border with Germany on the edge of the geologically remarkable range of hills Muskau folds . Neighboring cities are Bad Muskau and Trzebiel ( Triebel ).

The place belonged to the Silesian Upper Lusatia , 1.5 kilometers south of the border with Lower Lusatia .

The center has the shape of a street village .

Names

The place was called Czebelle (1216), Tzebelle , Zcebelle (1478) and Zibelle (1551). The name researcher Paul Kühnel concluded that it was derived from the Old Slavic word cebulja for onion . The ending -in indicates a person's name as the origin of the name ("Place of a Cybala").

history

Zibelle belonged to the Triebel rule in Niederlausitz in the 13th century . The first known owner was Hannos Bresyn zu Czebelle ( Hans von Briesen on Zibelle ). After 1478 the place came as an exclave to the rulership of Muskau in Upper Lusatia .

Originally the population of Zibelle was Slavic and Sorbian-speaking ; the gradual Germanization took place in the second half of the 18th century and was largely complete by the beginning of the 19th century. Sorbian was preached in the church until 1811.

1816 came Zibelle for county Rothenburg in district Liegnitz in the Prussian province of Silesia . In 1874 it became the seat of the newly formed Zibelle district .

In the 19th century the village consisted of the parts Nieder- and Ober-Zibelle , at the beginning of the 20th century Mittel-Zibelle was also built .

The manor Ober Zibelle was acquired in 1921 by the Nobel laureate in chemistry, Walther Nernst, with his prize money. He lived there mainly after his retirement until his death in 1941 and farmed carp in the surrounding fish ponds .

In 1945 the place came to Poland.

In 1992 a memorial plaque was placed on an inn in the center of Niwica in honor of Walter Nernst.

Personalities

• Heinrich Otto von Erdmannsdorf (1815–1888), manor owner and politician
• Walther Nernst (1864–1941), Nobel laureate in chemistry and owner of the manor since 1921

Attractions

• Trinity Church, built 13th / 14th Century, rebuilt in the 17th and early 20th centuries

Footnotes

1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on May 28, 2017
2. ^ Paul Kühnel: The Slavic place and field names of Upper Lusatia . Central antiquariat of the German Democratic Republic, Leipzig 1982, p. 98 (photomechanical reprint of the original edition (1891–1899)).
3. ↑ Lawrence M. Rheude : Archive for ordinary and heraldry. 1917, p. 7 ( digitized in the Google book search).
4. ↑ 1478 still mentioned as belonging to the Triebel rule, Fritz Hanschke: The Triebel rule . Sorau N.-L. 1891. p. 5
5. ^ Richard Andree : Wendish wandering studies. Stuttgart 1874, p. 171
6. ^ Richard Andree: The language area of ​​the Lausitzer Wends from the 16th century to the present. Prague 1873, p. 12
7. ^ Zibelle district

Web links

• History of the district of Zibelle
• Owner of Ober- , Mittel- and Nieder-Zibelle , Schlossarchiv.de