Oppitz (Königswartha)
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Oppitz
Psovye Königswartha parish
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 9 ″ N , 14 ° 24 ′ 35 ″ E
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| Height : | 138 m above sea level NN |
| Residents : | 185 (December 31, 2016) |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1994 |
| Postal code : | 02699 |
| Area code : | 035931 |
Oppitz , in Upper Sorbian Psowje , is a place in the East Saxon district of Bautzen and has been part of the Königswartha municipality since 1994 . The place is located in Upper Lusatia and is part of the Sorbian settlement area .
geography
The easternmost district of Königswartha is located about 14 kilometers north of the large district town of Bautzen and six kilometers east of the community center in the Upper Lusatian heath and pond landscape . Oppitz is located on a tributary of the Kleine Spree and is surrounded in the south, west and north by forest areas and some fish ponds. Southwest of the town center, the 199 m high Hahnenberg (Kaponica) forms the only notable elevation in the area.
Oppitz is a so-called dead end village in a round shape. On the road to Königswartha is the district of Neuoppitz (Njeradk) and a few individual farms. The neighboring towns are Hermsdorf / Spree (municipality of Lohsa ) in the north, Lippitsch (municipality of Radibor ) in the northeast, Milkel in the east, Droben in the southeast and Johnsdorf in the west.
history
The place was probably founded in the 13th century by the Milkel landowners and first mentioned in 1353 as Obczow . Other forms of name recorded are Oppetz (around 1400) and Opitz (1612). In the 18th and 19th centuries, the manor was at the local manor.
With the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Prussian-Saxon border was relocated and ran from now on directly behind the western exit of Neu-Oppitz, whereby only the adjacent forest belonged to Prussia, the closest village of Johnsdorf, however, already belonged to Saxony again. In 1834 a school was built, which burned down in 1872 and was replaced by a new one. Before that, the Oppitz children were schooled in Milkel. The school stayed open until 1939 and again between 1946 and 1950.
In the autumn of 1844 Handrij Zejler , the founder of modern Sorbian poetry, and the composer Korla Awgust Kocor met for the first time in Oppitz . Decades of fruitful collaboration developed from the encounter in the Oppitzer Gasthaus.
Until January 1, 1994, Oppitz was an independent rural community with the district of Neu-Oppitz; then it was incorporated into Königswartha.
population
For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 280 inhabitants in the 1880s; among them were 251 Sorbs (90%) and 29 Germans. In 1956, Ernst Tschernik still had a Sorbian-speaking population of 75 percent. Since then, the use of Sorbian in Oppitz has continued to decline.
Throughout the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, the population increased slowly and steadily until it reached a peak of 385 in 1946 due to numerous resettlers. Since then it has fallen significantly again.
The faithful residents are predominantly of the Evangelical Lutheran denomination and have always parish according to Milkel .
swell
- Oppitz (Königswartha) in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Individual evidence
- ↑ Olaf Bastian, Henriette Joseph, Haik Thomas Porada: Oberlausitzer Heide- und Teichlandschaft - a regional history inventory , Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2005, p. 141
- ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
