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Coat of arms of the municipality of Obergurig
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Coordinates: 51 ° 8 '  N , 14 ° 24'  E

Basic data
State : Saxony
County : Bautzen
Management Community : Großpostwitz-Obergurig
Height : 240 m above sea level NHN
Area : 9.82 km 2
Residents: 2070 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 211 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 02692
Area code : 035938
License plate : BZ, BIW, HY, KM
Community key : 14 6 25 390
Community structure: 7 districts
Address of the
municipal administration:
Hauptstrasse 24
02692 Obergurig
Website : www.obergurig.de
Mayor : Thomas Polpitz ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Obergurig in the Bautzen district
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Aerial view
The "Bohemian Bridge" over the Spree

Obergurig , Sorbian Hornja Hórka ? / i , is a place and the associated municipality in the Saxon district of Bautzen at the foot of the Mönchswalder Mountain (447 m). The community is part of the Großpostwitz-Obergurig administrative community and is part of the official Sorbian settlement area . Audio file / audio sample

geography

Obergurig is located about 4 km south of the large district town of Bautzen on the northern slope of the Lusatian mountains . The community is bordered by Bautzen and Großpostwitz in the east, Wilthen in the south and Doberschau-Gau says in the west.

Community structure

The municipality of Obergurig consists of seven districts:

and the location of Blumental .

history

Obergurig was first mentioned in 1272 under the name Goric or Goreke .

The place name comes from the Upper Sorbian word hórka (Old Sorbian gorka , in German "hill"), so that Obergurig stands for "Upper village on the hill".

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 380 inhabitants in the 1880s; 330 of them were Sorbs (87%) and 50 were Germans. Conditional u. a. Due to the industrialization of the Spree Valley, the Sorbian-speaking population sank to only 35.9% according to Ernst Tschernik by 1956. Today the language has largely disappeared from everyday local life.

On July 1, 1950, the community was re-formed through the merger of the previous communities Großdöbschütz, Mönchswalde and Singwitz.

politics

City council election 2014
Turnout: 63.5% (2009: 59.0%)
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
45.5%
25.6%
10.4%
1.7%
16.8%
UB
AfO
Gains and losses
compared to 2009
 % p
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 16
 14th
 12
 10
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-10
-8.4  % p
-4.6  % p
-1.8  % p
-2.0  % p
+ 16.8  % p.p.
UB
AfO

Municipal council

Since the municipal council election on May 25, 2014 , the 16 seats of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

  • Independent citizens' movement Obergurig (UB): 8 seats
  • CDU : 4 seats
  • Alternatively for Obergurig (AfO): 3 seats
  • LEFT : 1 seat

mayor

On June 3, 2007, the successor to Mayor Harald Bayn was elected. 96% of the voters chose the independent applicant Thomas Polpitz, who joined the CDU in 2012. The turnout was 39.3%.

Town twinning

Culture

Obergurig, manor house in the manor, Hauptstr. 2

In the Singwitz district, the KesselhausLager Singwitz is located in a former industrial building , a venue for live concerts and parties.

Economy and Infrastructure

education

The municipality of Obergurig has a primary school.

Resident companies (selection)

  • Hege Erntemaschinen Singwitz GmbH: Manufacture of harvesting machines, 120 employees (2005)
  • Porex Technologies GmbH: Manufacture of porous plastic components, 170 employees (2012)

Personalities

literature

  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Obergurig. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 32nd issue: Bautzen Official Authority (Part II) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1908, p. 206.

Individual evidence

  1. Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
  2. Saxon Sorbs Act , Annex to Section 3 (2)
  3. As of December 31, 2016; Information from the Großpostwitz municipal administration.
  4. ^ Jan Meschgang: The place names of Upper Lusatia ; Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1973; P. 103
  5. Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 57 .
  6. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 245 .
  7. Results of the 2014 municipal council elections

Web links

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