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Community Hochkirch
Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 15 "  N , 14 ° 35 ′ 45"  E
Height : 263 m
Residents : 92  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation : February 1, 1993
Postal code : 02627
Area code : 035939
Aerial view

Plot , Sorbian Błócany ? / i , is a part of the municipality of Hochkirch in the district of Bautzen . The village has about 110 inhabitants and is 7 km northwest of Löbau on the upper reaches of the Kuppritzer water. Federal road 6 runs through the place on the eastern edge of the official Sorbian settlement area . Audio file / audio sample

Map of Oberreit with Plotzen, around 1845

history

Plotzen was created on the corridor of the Mannlehngut, which was divided into block corridors in 1602 by Christoph von Gersdorff auf Nostitz . The slightly larger part of the resulting place was subject to a noble manor, the other to the Maria Marta Hospital in Bautzen . After the tenants belonging to the estate were ransomed, it lost all properties of a manor. From 1641 the owners were the Metzrad on Nieder Ottenhain , later that of Ingenhaeff , which was followed by von Metzsch in 1840 . Eventually the buildings of the estate fell into disrepair and were demolished.

In total, Plotzen, which had expanded into an alley village in the 18th century, comprised 18 cottagers, 10 gardeners and one half-hunter in 1777. The place was a Slavic settlement in a headwaters , the name of which is derived from błóto (swamp).

However, as archaeological finds north of the village show, the area was settled much earlier. The grave field located there dates from the Bronze and Iron Ages . The finds mainly include remains of grave ceramics and a bronze brooch from the Billendorf culture. The most important find was a Bronze Age double-edged sword, which was discovered in 1934.

In 1787 a mill was built on the Kuppritz water north of Plotzen. In 1910 a dairy started operations. At that time there were 142 people living in the village, most of whom lived from agriculture. The surrounding fields were quite productive because of the loess loam soil. There was an inn on the road from Löbau to Hochkirch. Until 1938 the community of Plotzen belonged to the Löbau administration . Plotzen has always been parish to Hochkirch.

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 165 inhabitants in the 1880s; 128 of them were Sorbs (78%) and 37 Germans. In 1956, only 37 percent of the population spoke Sorbian. Since then, the use of the language has continued to decline.

The wet meadows near Plotzen represent an intersection in the distribution of plant species. In addition to the sheath yellow star , which has its easternmost localities here , the westernmost populations of the brook thistle can also be found in this nature reserve .

On February 12, 1993 Plotzen was incorporated into Hochkirch. Since then, the population has remained relatively stable around 120, and around 110 since 2006.

Personalities

literature

  • Karl August Kubitz: Description of the parish Hochkirch , in: Neue Sächsische Kirchengalerie, 1903
  • Hochkirch before the Czorneboh . The beautiful Bautzener Land, issue 12, Bautzen 1965
  • Between Strohmberg, Czorneboh and Kottmar (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 24). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1974.

Web links

Commons : Plotzen / Błócany  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Manors and castles in the kingdom of Saxony: Plotzen  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.