Pommritz

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Community Hochkirch
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 40 ″  N , 14 ° 34 ′ 15 ″  E
Height : 230 m above sea level NN
Residents : 187  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation : February 1, 1993
Postal code : 02627
Area code : 035939
Pommritz windmill
Pommritz windmill
Aerial view

Pommritz , in Sorbian Pomorcy ? / i , is a village in the southeast of the Saxon district of Bautzen . It is part of the official Sorbian settlement area in Upper Lusatia and has been part of the Hochkirch municipality since 1993 . Audio file / audio sample

geography

Pommritz is ten kilometers east of Bautzen and eleven kilometers northwest of Löbau in the foothills of the Lusatian mountains between 230  m and 240  m above sea level. NN . The area is hilly and used for agriculture. The Horken southwest of the village rises to 267  m .

The place is an extended estate settlement. The estate is located in the west of Pommritz.

Pommritz has a temperate climate. The average annual temperature is 10.0 ° C. The coldest month is January (0.5 ° C), the warmest July (19.4 ° C). The average annual rainfall is 619 mm. Most of the precipitation falls in August with an average of 82 mm, the lowest in April with an average of 30 mm.

history

Pommritz was first mentioned in 1359 as Pomyrwicz . There has been evidence of a manor in the village since 1653; at times even two (Upper and Lower Pommritz). The current form of the name appeared for the first time in 1791.

In 1846 the Pommritz station was opened on the line from Bautzen to Görlitz. This also accelerated local development. In the 1860s, the agricultural experimental station in Upper Lusatia was relocated from Weidlitz to Pommritz ( Pommritz Manor ), whose directors in the following years included Eduard Heiden , Gustav Loges and Georg Derlitzki . It is still operated today by the Free State of Saxony.

Until 1993, the place formed an independent rural community with the districts of Wawitz (since 1936) and Rodewitz (since 1965). Then the communities of Plotzen and Pommritz were merged with the community of Hochkirch.

population

Until the 1920s, Pommritz recorded steadily increasing population numbers, from 141 inhabitants in 1834 to 179 inhabitants in 1890 to 253 inhabitants in 1925. Due to the incorporation and the acceptance of refugees and displaced persons after the Second World War, the number rose to 552 at times , but has since declined. The population data from 1990 indicate 548 inhabitants for Pommritz including the incorporated Rodewitz. Since 1993 Pommritz has been counted separately again. The number of inhabitants has since moved back to around 210 at the same level as 100 years earlier.

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 177 inhabitants in the 1880s; 145 of them were Sorbs (82%) and 32 Germans. By 1956, the proportion of Sorbian speakers had fallen to 21.3%, also due to the influx of German speakers. As everywhere in the Protestant part of the settlement area, the proportion of Sorbian speakers has continued to drop sharply since then.

religion

The last information on religious affiliation comes from 1925. At that time, 247 out of 253 residents were Evangelical Lutheran (98%). The place is parish to Hochkirch .

Economy and Infrastructure

From 1993 to 2014 the association "Neue Lebensformen" e. V. the LebensGut, which goes back to an idea by Rudolf Bahro .

traffic

The place is on the state road 110 (Hochkirch - Baruth ). Pommritz also has a stop on the Görlitz – Dresden railway line , which is served by regional trains of the Länderbahn (“ Trilex ”) and the East German Railway .

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 : Pommritz / Pomorcy  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Information for Pommritz on Landwirtschaft.sachsen.de@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.landwirtschaft.sachsen.de
  2. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
  3. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 246 .