Oberseifersdorf
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Oberseifersdorf
Community Mittelherwigsdorf
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 45 ″ N , 14 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ E
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| Height : | 328 m above sea level NN | |
| Area : | 8.99 km² | |
| Residents : | 1061 (March 31, 2016) | |
| Population density : | 118 inhabitants / km² | |
| Incorporation : | March 1, 1994 | |
| Postal code : | 02763 | |
Location of Oberseifersdorf in Saxony |
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Oberseifersdorf is a district of the East Saxon community of Mittelherwigsdorf in the district of Görlitz in Upper Lusatia .
geography
Oberseifersdorf is located in the Lausitzer Bergland in the southern part of the district on the upper reaches of the Eckartsbach . The highest point in the immediate vicinity is the approximately 409 meter high Schanzberg , which was a station of the Saxon triangulation . The horse mountain rises to the west (406 m). The federal highway 178 runs along the village in a north-south direction from Löbau to Zittau .
The fertile loess loam soil allows intensive agriculture, which means that the area is almost forest-free.
Surrounding villages are Großhennersdorf in the north, Schlegel in the northeast, Wittgendorf in the east, Radgendorf and Eckartsberg in the southeast, Zittau in the south, Mittelherwigsdorf in the southwest and Oderwitz in the west.
history
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The discovery of a bronze knife and a bronze spiral during the reclamation of a fallow area indicates that the area was at least temporarily inhabited as early as the younger Bronze Age .
Oberseifersdorf is a town founded in the second phase of the German eastern settlement . The Waldhufendorf was probably established at the beginning of the 13th century. The place was mentioned in a document as Syfridisdorff prope Zittaw in a sales deed when it came to the St. Marienthal monastery near Ostritz in 1267 for 300 silver marks . The addition to the name served to distinguish it, as there was a Sifridis village in the immediate vicinity of the monastery ( desolated until 1396 in favor of the monastery expansion). There was also a parish of the same name near the Niederdörfern of the Görlitzer Weichbild, which had belonged to the monastery since 1238. Only in later centuries was a name prefix differentiated between Ober Seyfersdorff and Nieder Seyfersdorff .
Despite the close proximity to the Catholic monastery, the Reformation in Oberseifersdorf began much earlier than in other parishes that were dependent on the monastery.
As an additional source of income in addition to agriculture, linen and damask weaving was added around the middle of the 16th century . Part of the previously purely rural population thus formed a small-scale bourgeoisie.
In the Peace of Prague of 1635 the Bohemian Crown Lands Lower and Upper Lusatia came to the Electorate of Saxony . At the end of the Thirty Years War (1618–1648) nine peasant and smallholder farms were in desolation.
The late Gothic church had to be demolished at the beginning of the 18th century because it was dilapidated. A baroque church was built in its place in 1715 . The altar cloth made of linen damask from 1717 is one of the oldest preserved damask fabrics in Upper Lusatia.
The church got its present form in 1820 when the tower was given a baroque dome with a pointed lantern. A new school building was built near the church in 1826.
After the First World War , the old settlement stock was supplemented by the construction of workers 'apartments, which were built especially in the northeastern part of the village for the workers' families of the Zittau factories.
After the dissolution of the states through the administrative reform of 1952 , the municipality was assigned to the Zittau district ( Dresden district ). Two agricultural production cooperatives (LPG) were founded in Oberseifersdorf in 1955 and 1959.
On March 1, 1994, the municipalities of Oberseifersdorf and Mittelherwigsdorf merged as part of the Saxon municipal area reform . In the same year the districts of Löbau and Zittau and some communities in the Görlitz district were merged to form the Saxon Upper Lusatia district , later the Löbau-Zittau district.
Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 1834 | 1542 |
| 1871 | 1680 |
| 1890 | 1517 |
| 1910 | 1683 |
| 1925 | 1641 |
| 1939 | 1549 |
| 1946 | 1929 |
| 1950 | 1847 |
| 1964 | 1539 |
| 1990 | 1267 |
| 1993 | 1230 |
| 2009 | 1118 |
In the middle of the 16th century there were 32 possessed men in Oberseifersdorf . Their number sank in the following two centuries (partly also due to the consequences of the Thirty Years' War and the three Silesian Wars ), so that only 22 possessed men were counted during the state examinations in 1777. In addition, there were now 47 gardeners and 128 cottagers living in the village, many of whom were doing manual work.
The first same Saxon census in 1834 counted 1542 inhabitants for Oberseifersdorf. This number rose to 1680 by 1871 and was at this level in 1910 as well, but in the meantime it fell to around 1500, and it also fell to around 1550 between 1910 and 1939, but rose to over after the war as a result of the admission of refugees and displaced persons 1900 in 1946.
After almost 20 years, the pre-war level was reached again in 1964 with 1,539 inhabitants. In the following 30 years the population fell to 1230 until the incorporation. Between October 1946 and December 1993 this corresponds to a population decrease of 36.2%.
Place name
Document mentions of the place name include Syfridisdorff prope Zittaw (1267), Siffridisdorff prope Zittaviam (1346), Sifridi villa (1384), Szeyfferßdorff (1527), Ober Seyfersdorff (1759) and Ober-Seyfersdorf (1791). The name prefix, which was only added in the 18th century, serves to better distinguish it from Nieder Seifersdorf .
The place name suggests that it is the village of a Sigfrid or Sigifrid , who was probably the locator through which the place was created.
Personalities
The piano maker Friedrich August Förster (1829–1897) and the Klingenthal musical instrument maker Julius Berthold (1845–1934) were born in Oberseifersdorf .
See also
literature
- Harry Naumann: Our district of Oberseifersdorf . Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 2001, ISBN 3-89570-722-8 .
- The south-eastern Upper Lusatia with Zittau and the Zittau Mountains (= values of the German homeland . Volume 16). 2nd Edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1971, p. 86ff.
- Cornelius Gurlitt : Oberseifersdorf. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 29. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Zittau (Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1906, p. 134.
- Oberseifersdorf: monastery village - baroque church - community life. Published on behalf of the church council by Alexander Wieckowski with the collaboration of Eckehard Böhmer, Tilo Böhmer, Tino Fröde and Gottfried Eifler. Via Regia Verlag Bernstadt a. d. E. 2014. ISBN 978-3-944104-08-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Numbers and facts. Mittelherwigsdorf community, April 5, 2016, accessed on April 19, 2016 .
- ^ A b Digital Historical Directory of Saxony. Retrieved June 10, 2009 .
- ↑ Saxony regional register. Retrieved June 10, 2009 .
- ↑ 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. 285 f .
