Panschwitz-Kuckau
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Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ' N , 14 ° 12' E |
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State : | Saxony | |
County : | Bautzen | |
Administrative association: | At the monastery water | |
Height : | 190 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 23.35 km 2 | |
Residents: | 2090 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 90 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 01920 | |
Area code : | 035796 | |
License plate : | BZ, BIW, HY, KM | |
Community key : | 14 6 25 440 | |
LOCODE : | DE PKK | |
Community structure: | 13 districts | |
Address of the municipal administration: |
Elstraer Str. 3 01920 Panschwitz-Kuckau |
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Mayor : | Markus Kreuz ( CDU ) | |
Location of the Panschwitz-Kuckau community in the Bautzen district | ||
Panschwitz-Kuckau , Upper Sorbian , is a municipality in Upper Lusatia in the Saxon district of Bautzen . The municipality in the Sorbian settlement area is about 12 km from the city of Kamenz . It has 2200 inhabitants, about half of whom live in Panschwitz-Kuckau itself. In 2001, 50.7% of the population of Sorbian were powerful.
geography
The place is between 165 and 185 meters above sea level. NN in the so-called " Oberland " ( Horjany ) of the former monastery care St. Marienstern. The monastery water , a tributary of the Black Elster, flows through Panschwitz-Kuckau . It separates the historic districts of Panschwitz and Kuckau.
Local division
Panschwitz-Kuckau emerged in 1957 from the previously independent towns of Panschwitz and Kuckau. It has the following districts:
- Old brick barn ( Stara Cyhelnica ), 50 inhabitants
- Cannewitz ( Kanecy ), 59 inhabitants
- Glaubnitz ( Hłupońca ), 25 residents
- Jauer ( Jawora ), 130 inhabitants
- Kaschwitz ( Kašecy ), 105 inhabitants
- Lehndorf ( Lejno ), 107 inhabitants
- Neustädtel ( Nowe Městačko ), 10 residents
- Ostro ( Wotrow ), 278 inhabitants
- Panschwitz-Kuckau ( Pančicy-Kukow ), 1,102 inhabitants
- Säuritz ( Žuricy ), 101 inhabitants
- Pig earth ( Swinjarnja ), 72 inhabitants
- Siebitz ( Zejicy ), 34 residents
- Tschaschwitz ( Časecy ), 29 inhabitants
Population and language
According to the 2011 census, 1,662 out of 2,141 inhabitants were Roman Catholic (77.6%), 201 were Protestant (9.4%) and 278 belonged to another religious community or no religious community (13%).
For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 163 for Panschwitz and 345 for Kuckau in the 1880s. The Sorbian population was 82 and 97%, respectively. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking population of 85 in the municipality of Panschwitz and of 84.8% in Kuckau (with pork earth).
politics
The Panschwitz-Kuckau municipal council currently consists of twelve members. The 2019 local elections resulted in the following distribution of votes and seats:
Parties and constituencies | 2019 | 2014 | 2009 | |||
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% | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | |
Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) | 54.9 | 7th | 53.5 | 7th | 48.9 | 5 |
Free Sorbian Voter Association (FSWV) | 45.1 | 5 | 46.5 | 5 | 51.1 | 7th |
total | 100.0 | 12 | 100.0 | 12 | 100.0 | 12 |
voter turnout | 73.3% | 61.2% | 56.6% |
A community merger with neighboring Crostwitz , which was aimed for on July 1, 2011, failed due to differences of opinion among the community councils. a. Concerning the language of the Council.
Culture and sights
The place is characterized by the Cistercian convent St. Marienstern , which has existed in its original purpose since it was founded in 1248 . Every year at Easter, Panschwitz-Kuckau also attracts thousands of visitors when the traditional Easter riders ride around the monastery courtyard. Everywhere in the village and on the paths in the surrounding landscape, crosses and prayer columns testify to the deeply rooted Catholic faith in this part of the Sorbian Upper Lusatia.
In the district of Ostro there is a very well-preserved castle rampart (the "Ostroer Schanze"), which served as a refuge for the Slavic village population at the time of the German East Settlement . The district of Schweinerden, u. a. with a large former post office from the 18th century on the Via Regia , is completely under monument protection . The round , which was originally typical for this area , is particularly well preserved here.
The cycle path “In the footsteps of Krabat” runs through Panschwitz-Kuckau on the way from Nebelschütz to Crostwitz . The revived Ecumenical Pilgrimage Route also leads through the village on the route from Görlitz to Vacha . There is a pilgrims' hostel in the monastery .
The cultural monuments are listed in the list of cultural monuments in Panschwitz-Kuckau .
education
The municipality has the Sorbian primary school "Šula Ćišinskeho". The neighboring middle school was closed in 2007 as one of five remaining Sorbian middle schools despite violent protests. There is a small special needs school (G) on the monastery grounds.
Personalities
- Nikolaus Trutz (1839–1917), wagon builder and entrepreneur ( body factory N. Trutz ), born in Kuckau
- Jakub Bart-Ćišinski (1856–1909), Sorbian poet, born in Kuckau
- Mikławš Andricki (1871–1908), Sorbian writer, born in Panschwitz
- Alexander Reiner (1885–1960), dentist, SS leader, camp commandant of the Columbia and Sachsenburg concentration camps, born in Panschwitz
- Stanislaw Tillich (* 1959), politician (CDU), Saxon Prime Minister (2008–17), lived in Panschwitz-Kuckau for a long time
- Bogna Koreng (* 1965), Sorbian television journalist, lives in Panschwitz-Kuckau
Web links
- The community of Panschwitz-Kuckau ( picture gallery )
- Panschwitz-Kuckau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Panschwitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Kuckau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019 ( help on this ).
- ↑ Walde, Martin: Demographic-statistical considerations in the community association "Am Klosterwasser" in: Lětopis 51 (2004), issue 1
- ↑ As of December 31, 2016; Information from am-klosterwasser.de
- ↑ census database on zensus2011.de
- ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 99 .
- ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 251 .
- ↑ https://www.saechsische.de/wahlen/kommunalwahl-2019/panschwitz-kuckau-14625440
- ↑ Ecumenical pilgrimage