Nucknitz
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Nucknitz
Nuknica community Crostwitz
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 29 ″ N , 14 ° 15 ′ 54 ″ E
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| Height : | 195 m above sea level NHN |
| Residents : | 56 (December 31, 2016) |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 1974 |
| Postal code : | 01920 |
| Area code : | 035796 |
Nucknitz , Upper Sorbian , is a village in the center of the East Saxon district of Bautzen , which has been part of the Crostwitz community since 1974 . It has 57 inhabitants and is part of the core settlement area of the Sorbs . Most of the population speaks Sorbian as their mother tongue.
The Nukstock metal / rock festival has been taking place every year between Nucknitz and Kopschin since 1997 , to which Sorbian and other bands and up to 1000 spectators travel.
geography
The southernmost village of the municipality is located two kilometers southeast of Crostwitz at 195 meters above sea level. NN. Nucknitz is located in the "Oberland" ( Horjany ) of the former St. Marienstern monastery maintenance facility above the Satkula brook . The neighboring towns are Prautitz in the north, Paßditz in the southeast, Lehndorf in the southwest and Kopschin in the west.
After the settlement, Nucknitz is a loosely rounded hamlet . The settlement today consists of five courtyards and a few other residential and utility buildings.
history
In 1512 the place was first recorded as Nuckewitz . In the late 16th century, the place names Forberg or Farbrig are also mentioned. At that time there was a manor in the village, which around 1580 became a Vorwerk of the Luga estate . In the 17th and 18th centuries, Nucknitz and the neighboring village of Kopschin belonged to the Räckelwitz manor .
At the beginning of the 18th century there were a few smaller stone quarries on the slope of the Satkula between Kopschin and Nucknitz. One of the plans for the Saxon Northeast Railway called for a route from Kleinwelka to Kamenz, including via Nucknitz, and the construction of a train station near the settlement. However, due to financial difficulties, the project was abandoned.
Until the community reform on January 1, 1974, Nucknitz was an independent rural community with the districts Kopschin and Prautitz , then Nucknitz was incorporated into Crostwitz.
Place name
The place name can be derived from the modern Sorbian word nuknica for "Vorwerk". The old form of the name "Forberg" and the fact that Nucknitz was actually a Vorwerk of Luga, and at times also of the St. Marienstern monastery, fits this . A more specific interpretation allows the derivation of wnuk ("grandchildren"), thus wnuknica in the sense of "hereditary property".
population
In his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined 90 inhabitants, all of whom were Sorbs, for the place in the 1880s. Due to the influx of resettlers from the former eastern areas, Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking population of only 69.1% in the municipality of Nucknitz (with Kopschin and Prautitz) in 1956.
In 1890 Nucknitz had 77 inhabitants, not much more than 60 years earlier.
The inhabitants are traditionally almost exclusively of the Catholic denomination; the place is parish to Crostwitz.
Economy and Infrastructure
The district road from Bautzen to Kamenz passes Nucknitz just a few hundred meters north. The next entrance on Autobahn 4 (Dresden-Görlitz) is Uhyst am Taucher .
Personalities
- Matthäus Kutschank ( Matej Kućank , 1776–1844), cathedral dean in Bautzen, born in Nucknitz
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information for 2014 from am-klosterwasser.de
- ↑ Ernst Eichler / Hans Walther : Ortnamesbuch der Oberlausitz. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1975
- ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 99 .
- ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 251 .
