Papitz (Kolkwitz)

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community Kolkwitz
Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ′ 50 ″  N , 14 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 59 m above sea level NN
Area : 7.25 km²
Residents : 447
Population density : 62 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 6, 1993
Postal code : 03099
Area code : 035604

Papitz , Popojce in Lower Sorbian , is a church village in the Brandenburg municipality of Kolkwitz in the Sorbian settlement area of Lower Lusatia .

geography

Papitz is in the form of an anger village northwest of Kolkwitz in the southern Spreewald between the cities of Vetschau / Spreewald in the west and Cottbus in the east. Surrounding towns are Werben in the north, Ruben in the northeast, Gulben and Zahsow in the east, Dahlitz in the southeast, Kunersdorf in the south, and Milkersdorf and Babow in the west. The small end ( Mały kóńc ) and Rabenau ( Rabenow ) residential areas are located in the Papitz district or in the Papitz district .

The Berlin – Cottbus railway line with a train station in Kunersdorf and the 15 federal motorway run south of Papitz in an east-west direction.

Papitz, aerial photo (2015)

history

Papitzer Church

Papitz was first mentioned in 1350 as Popewitz . The current church was probably built in the middle of the 14th century . It was mentioned for the first time in the Meißner diocese register, which was completed in 1495 and dated to the year 1396. Papitz belonged to the Cottbus lordship, which came to the Brandenburg electors in 1445/55. From the two lordships of Cottbus and Peitz, the Cottbus District was formed in the course of the 16th century .

Adam von Schlieben built a windmill in 1587. A little later the whole village passed into the possession of the Lords of Schlieben . In 1806 Prussia had to cede the Cottbus district and thus also Papitz to the Kingdom of Saxony through the Peace of Tilsit . As early as 1814, the Cotbusische Kreis came back to Prussia.

Due to the fire in the rectory in 1823, parishes and church books were lost. Another fire in 1867 destroyed ten farm estates.

Between the founding of the empire and the First World War , a rifle club, a singing club and a sports club were established in Papitz. On October 3, 1920, the rifle club inaugurated a memorial for the seven Papitzers who died in the war.

On April 21, five days after the Red Army had crossed the Oder and Neisse rivers , they occupied the village. The balance after the Second World War was far more devastating than after the First: 30 Papitzers fell, there was a great housing shortage and around 500 refugees had to be accommodated.

On July 1, 1950, the village of Kunersdorf, south of Papitz, was incorporated. In the mid-fifties the village center was redesigned.

On December 6, 1993, Papitz and other communities merged to form the Kolkwitz community.

Population development

year Residents
1875 478
1890 576
1910 501
1925 508
1933 476
1939 469
1946 592
1950 1245
1964 1037
1971 975
1981 896
1985 859
1989 860
1990 850
1991 843
1992 831

In 1652, shortly after the end of the Thirty Years' War , 18 Huefners , ten gardeners and eight Büdner lived in Papitz .

At the beginning of the 19th century, Papitz had 360 inhabitants. In the middle of the 19th century, the Sorbs formed the majority of the population, 97% of the 456 inhabitants understood the language . During the founding period , the number of inhabitants rose from 478 to 576 between 1875 and 1890, but then fell back to around 500. In the interwar period there was a further decline, so that the place still had 469 inhabitants in 1939.

After the Second World War , the number of refugees and displaced persons from the former German eastern territories rose sharply, so that around 600 inhabitants were counted towards the end of October 1946. Due to the incorporation of Kunersdorf, the absolute number rose to over 1200 in 1950, but fell to 975 by 1975 and below 900 by 1981. Between 1986 and the incorporation in 1993 there was only a minimal decrease in population.

Place name

The place name is derived from the Lower Sorbian pop 'priest' and denotes a spiritual property. Documentary evidence for the name includes Popewitz (1350), Papicz (1464), Papitzenn (1493), Papitz (1588) and Popiz (1679).

The Sorbian name is written in 1654 as spopoitz (from z Popojc 'off / on Papitz'), 1761 as Popojze and 1843 Popojce verifiable.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the village
Connected to the village
  • David Traugott Kopf (1788–1865), teacher and writer, worked in Papitz
  • Hendrich Jordan (1841-1910), teacher and folklorist, worked in Papitz
  • Herbert Zerna (1905–1955), theologian and local history researcher, worked in Papitz
  • Mina Witkojc (1893–1975), Lower Sorbian poet and publicist, spent her retirement in Papitz

supporting documents

literature

  • Walter Bohg, Gerhard Zilz: 700 years of Kolkwitz - history of a large community . 1999

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Service portal of the state administration of the state of Brandenburg: Kolkwitz municipality
  2. ^ Changes in the municipalities of Germany, see 1993 StBA
  3. ↑ Historical municipality directory of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005 - Spree-Neisse district. (PDF, 0.3 MB) pp. 22-25 , accessed on April 28, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Papitz . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 8th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1821, p. 107.
  5. ^ Walter Wenzel : Niederlausitzer Place Name Book . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 2006, p. 89 .
  6. ↑ Ernst Eichler : The place names of Niederlausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1975, p. 85 .

Web links

Commons : Papitz / Popojce  - collection of images, videos and audio files