Piskowitz (Nebelschütz)

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Community Nebelschütz
Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 1 ″  N , 14 ° 11 ′ 20 ″  E
Height : 163 m above sea level NN
Residents : 223  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation : 1st January 1974
Incorporated into: Rosenthal
Postal code : 01920
Area code : 03578
Kamenzer Strasse in Piskowitz
Kamenzer Strasse in Piskowitz
Aerial view
Piskowitz on a map from 1884. There are numerous gravel pits south of the village.

Piskowitz , Upper Sorbian Pěskecy ? / i , is a place in the center of the Bautzen district in East Saxony and has been part of the Nebelschütz community since 1994 . The place is located in Upper Lusatia and is part of the core settlement area of ​​the Sorbs . The majority of the residents speak Sorbian as their mother tongue. Audio file / audio sample

The place name is derived from the Sorbian word pěsk for "sand" and indicates the location of the village on sandy soil.

geography

Piskowitz is located about seven kilometers east of the large district town of Kamenz on the road to Rosenthal . The northernmost part of the municipality of Nebelschütz is located on a narrow tributary of the monastery water in the so-called " Delany ", the Netherlands of the St. Marienstern monastery care , surrounded by extensive pine forests.

The southern area is gently hilly and rises in the Galgenberg towards Wendischbaselitz to a height of 200 meters. In contrast, the north is flat and slopes slightly. Piskowitz borders directly on extensive forest areas on three sides; only to the north is the area somewhat open. The neighboring towns are Schmerlitz in the northeast, the pilgrimage site Rosenthal in the east, Wendischbaselitz in the south and Deutschbaselitz in the west. In the north there is the town of Milstrich about five kilometers away .

history

The Piskowitz manor around 1860

To the north of Piskowitz, 17 barrows remind us that the surrounding area was already settled in the Bronze Age.

The place arose around a manor that was named as a vassal property of the Kamenz burgraves in 1222, where it belonged to the knight Hermann Sexta. The estate changed hands several times. The best known were the gentlemen from the Zezschwitz house . The existence of the estate ended with the land reform in 1946.

The place itself is first mentioned in 1280 as Pezkwicz . After the local system it is a square village .

On February 18, 1945, Victor Klemperer and his wife fled the burning Dresden to Piskowitz. They lived with their former domestic worker (1925–1929) Agnes Scholze. The Klemperers felt relatively safe there because of the “seclusion of the nest” and the “anti-Nazi population”.

Until 1974 Piskowitz was an independent rural community; then it was first incorporated into Rosenthal and reclassified to Nebelschütz on January 1, 1994 for the Saxon district reform .

population

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 197 inhabitants in the 1880s; including 187 Sorbs (95%) and ten Germans. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking population of 83.8% in the community.

In 1964 Piskowitz had 235 inhabitants. After 1990 the population decreased slightly. The majority of the inhabitants are Sorbs .

religion

Prayer column on Kamenzer Strasse

In 1925, 156 of the 186 residents were Catholic (84%). The place has been Roman Catholic parish to Nebelschütz since ancient times, with an interruption from 1716 to 1765, when Piskowitz was part of the Ralbitz parish . The village chapel is located near the former manor.

economy

Until well into the 20th century, peat was cut in the swampy areas north of the village and small gravel pits were operated south of Piskowitz. In 1947 an open-cast lignite mine in the forest between Wendischbaselitz and Piskowitz was opened, which was active until 1959. The remaining hole, which was later flooded, now serves as a water sports practice area and bathing water. The largest local employer is E. ZIEGLER Metallverarbeitung AG, which employs 200 people in administration and production.

Culture

Piskowitz has a forest sports field on the road to Wendischbaselitz, which is used by the Piskowitz sports club (Sportowe towarstwo Pěskecy) . The village's youth club ( Młodźinski klub Pěskecy ) is also located here. In addition, the local volunteer fire brigade ( wohnjowa wobora ) with its fire station is located in the center of the village . It is one of three fire departments in the Nebelschütz community. The other two fire brigades are located in the Nebelschütz and Miltitz districts.

Personalities

literature

  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Piskowitz. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 35. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Kamenz (Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1912, p. 272.

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  1. ↑ Poenicke, GA (ed.): Album of the manors and castles in the Kingdom of Saxony, Volume 3: Markgrafenthum Oberlausitz, p. 79
  2. ↑ Viktor Klemperer: LTI. Notebook of a philologist , Leipzig 1996, p. 344 f.
  3. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
  4. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 251 .

Web links

Commons : Piskowitz  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Manors and castles in the Kingdom of Saxony: Piskowitz  - sources and full texts

Piskowitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony