Oberuhna

Oberuhna Horni Wunjow City of Bautzen Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 21 ″  N , 14 ° 21 ′ 9 ″  E
Height :	187–210 m above sea level NN
Area :	1.79 km²
Residents :	89  (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density :	50 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	April 1, 1936
Incorporated into:	Schmochtitz
Postal code :	02625
Area code :	03591
Location of Oberuhna in Bautzen
Farmhouse in Oberuhna

Aerial view (Niederuhna in the background)

Oberuhna , Horni Wunjow in Upper Sorbian ^{? / i} , is a village in the East Saxon district of Bautzen and has been part of the large district town of Bautzen since 1999 . Since 2007 it has officially counted as a district. In addition to Oberuhna, the district also includes the neighboring Niederuhna (Delni Wunjow) . Oberuhna is in Upper Lusatia and is in the Sorbian settlement area .

geography

The place is located about six kilometers northwest of Bautzen city center on the northern slope of the so-called Perleberg (215 m) near Bolbritz .

In terms of settlement history, Oberuhna is an extended Slavic round hamlet with an estate in the southern part of the village. Niederuhna, only a few dozen meters to the north, was also laid out as a round hamlet, but never had its own estate.

The neighboring towns are Schmochtitz in the northeast, Salzenforst in the southwest, Bloaschütz in the south and Bolbritz in the southwest.

history

Oberuhna was first mentioned in 1359 as Unaw . It is mentioned as a knight's seat as early as 1404; At the beginning of the 16th century, it was now part of the Milkwitz manor , before it existed again as a separate manor in 1580 and remained until the 19th century. The majority of the Protestant residents have been parish in Göda since the Reformation .

Niederuhna was first mentioned in 1500 separately from Oberuhna as Clein Vnaw . The manorial rule here lay with the Milkwitz manor beyond 1580 , although the Oberuhna manor owned local parts by the 18th century at the latest. From the middle of the 17th century to 1866, the two places were ecclesiastically separate, as Niederuhna was parish not to Göda but to Neschwitz during this time .

Until 1936 Oberuhna (with Löschau as a district) and Niederuhna were each independent rural communities and were incorporated as such on April 1 of the year after Schmochtitz and in 1948 together with this after Salzenforst . From 1969 to 1994 Oberuhna was part of the unified municipality Salzenforst-Bolbritz , between 1994 and 1999 part of the municipality Kleinwelka and finally part of the city of Bautzen since then.

population

In 1834 a total of 159 people lived in what is now the district, 81 in Ober- and 78 in Niederuhna. Arnošt Muka determined population numbers of 97 and 79 in 1884/85, of which 93 (96%) and 74 (94%) were Sorbs . The use of the Sorbian language declined sharply in the 20th century. The number of inhabitants reached its historical high at the beginning of the 20th century, when Oberuhna had 163 and Niederuhna 72 inhabitants (1910).

In 2000 Ober- and Niederuhna together had 111 inhabitants, in 2012 there were only 85; this corresponds to a decrease of almost a quarter in just twelve years.

In 2010, 54 of 78 inhabitants were Protestant (69.2%), nine were Catholic (11.5%) and 15 did not belong to any or another religious community (19.2%).

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• Oberuhna in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

1. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
2. ↑ City administration of Bautzen: Statistical report according to city districts. February 2011 (PDF; 2.0 MB)

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