Ober Prauske

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Head Prauske Hornje Brusy
Hohendubrau municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 15 ″  N , 14 ° 39 ′ 45 ″  E
Area : 3.14 km²
Residents : 198  (Jun 30, 2014)
Population density : 63 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st August 1973
Incorporated into: Weigersdorf
Postal code : 02906
Area code : 035932
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Ober Prauske , Upper Sorbian Hornje Brusy ? / i , is a district of the Saxon community Hohendubrau in the district of Görlitz with about 200 inhabitants. It is part of the official Sorbian settlement area in Upper Lusatia . Audio file / audio sample

The name prefix Ober serves to distinguish it from the village of Nieder Prauske, located about 20 kilometers to the northeast .

geography

Upper Prauske located about five kilometers north of the motorway A 4 at the State Road S 55. Surrounding villages are belonging to the municipality Hohendubrau places Weigersdorf in the North, Grand Radisch the east, Thräna and Jerchwitz the southeast, Gebelzig in the South and Great Saubernitz and Sandförstgen in Southwest.

The fields around Weigersdorf and Ober Prauske are joined by larger forests in the east and from the south to the west. Ober Prauske is separated from the Hohen Dubrau to the northeast by a valley basin.

history

Ober Prauske was laid out as a lane village that had a relatively small corridor and manor block corridor . When Ober Prauske was created is unclear, especially since the similarity of names and geographical proximity to Nieder Prauske do not allow a clear allocation of earlier documents. For example, in the case of two documents in the Bautzen cathedral monastery archive from 1293, which name uilla Bruzk and villa Bruzch , it is unclear to which location they refer. A secure documentary mention took place in 1419 under the name Prawsig circa Gebelczik .

At the latest since the Reformation , Ober Prauske has been parish off to Gebelzig. In the 17th century the manor belonged to Gröditz in Saxony . It was branched off in 1771 and changed hands more frequently from then on.

The Kingdom of Saxony had to cede many parts of the country to Prussia in 1815 because it fought on the French side in the Napoleonic Wars . Among other things , Lower Lusatia, which had belonged to Saxony since the Peace of Prague , and the north-eastern part of Upper Lusatia came to Prussia. As a result, Ober Prauske was assigned to the newly founded district of Rothenburg ( province of Silesia ).

Around 1861 brown coal was mined in coal mines near the village.

With the introduction of the administrative districts in Prussia, the rural community and the manor district of Ober Prauske were assigned to the district of Groß Radisch together with the rural communities and manor districts of Groß Radisch and Thräna and the forest of Weichasche Heide. By 1928 the manor district was completely incorporated into the municipality of Ober Prauske. The district was merged with the Gebelzig district in 1933 and re-established in 1934, with Ober Prauske remaining in the Gebelzig district until 1945.

After the Second World War , the Silesian part of Upper Lusatia came back to Saxony. With the dissolution of the states in the GDR, Ober Prauske was assigned to the Niesky district ( Dresden district ) in 1952. In 1960 an agricultural production cooperative was founded.

Ober Prauske was incorporated into Weigersdorf on August 1, 1973 and joined the newly founded community of Hohendubrau on July 1, 1995.

Population development

year Residents
1825 102
1871 352
1885 297
1905 258
1925 266
1939 282
1946 349
1950 307
1964 256
1971 258
2002 219

In 1777, two possessed men , three gardeners and five cottagers ran in Ober Prauske . An economy lay desolate.

Between 1825 and 1871 the population rose from 102 to 352, but then fell back to 258 by 1905. By the beginning of the Second World War, the population grew slowly again to 282 inhabitants. After the war, refugees and displaced persons from the former German eastern areas were taken in, so that the population again reached the 350 mark. Within twenty years this number fell back to pre-war levels.

Ober Prauske originally had a strong Sorbian population . In 1863 there were 157 Sorbs among the 308 inhabitants, according to official data, in 1884 Arnošt Muka had counted 201 Sorbs out of 298 inhabitants for his statistics of Sorbs in Upper Lusatia. This corresponds to a Sorbian population of 50.1% (1863) or 67.4% (1884). The language change to German took place here mainly in the first half of the 20th century. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking population of only 10.9%.

Place name

Apart from the uncertain names Bruzk and Prusig, the place name developed from Prawsig (1419) via Brausk (1545), Praußcke (1658), Braußke (1791) to Prauske (1845). The prefix Ober was only added in the 19th century to better distinguish it from Nieder Prauske . In both places, the German as well as the Upper Sorbian name is derived from the Old Sorbian word brus " Wetzstein ".

literature

  • From the Muskauer Heide to the Rotstein. Home book of the Lower Silesian Upper Lusatia District. Lusatia Verlag, Bautzen 2006, ISBN 3-929091-96-8 , p. 281 .

Web links

Commons : Ober Prauske / Hornje Brusy  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Ober Prauske in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Footnotes

  1. ^ Robert Pohl: Heimatbuch des Kreis Rothenburg O.-L. for school and home . 1st edition. Buchdruckerei Emil Hampel, Weißwasser O.-L. 1924, p. 244 .
  2. ^ Territorial changes in Germany and German administered areas 1874–1945: Groß Radisch district. Retrieved July 14, 2008 .
  3. ^ Territorial changes in Germany and German administered areas 1874–1945: Gebelzig district. Retrieved July 14, 2008 .
  4. Digital historical place directory of Saxony. Retrieved July 14, 2008 .
  5. a b From Muskauer Heide to Rotstein , p. 281
  6. Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian rural population . In: German Academy of Sciences in Berlin - Publications of the Institute for Slavic Studies . tape 4 . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 119 .
  7. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 254 .
  8. ^ Ernst Eichler / Hans Walther : Oberlausitz toponymy - studies on the toponymy of the districts of Bautzen, Bischofswerda, Görlitz, Hoyerswerda, Kamenz, Löbau, Niesky, Senftenberg, Weißwasser and Zittau. I name book . In: German-Slavic research on naming and settlement history . tape 28 . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1975, p. 233 .