Preititz

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Community Malschwitz
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 13 ″  N , 14 ° 32 ′ 42 ″  E
Height : 152 m above sea level NN
Residents : 228  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation : April 1, 1936
Incorporated into: Small buildings
Postal code : 02694
Area code : 035932
The Preititz Castle around 1859
The Preititz Castle around 1859
Preititz, aerial photo (2017)

Preititz , in Upper Sorbian Přiwćicy ? / i , is a village in the East Saxon district of Bautzen and has been part of the Malschwitz community since 1994 . It is located in Upper Lusatia and belongs to the Sorbian settlement area . Audio file / audio sample

geography

Preititz mansion (condition 2012)

Preititz is about 9 km northeast of Bautzen am Albrechtsbach at 152  m above sea level. NN . It is an enlarged estate ; the manor is located in the northern part of the village. To the west is the Teufelsstein (1.5 km) and to the south-west the Kreckwitzer Heights rise (3 km).

Preititz has a temperate climate. The average annual temperature is 9.9 ° C, which is relatively warm for Upper Lusatia . The coldest month is January (1.1 ° C), the warmest July (19.2 ° C). The average annual rainfall is 585 mm. Most of the precipitation falls in July with an average of 81 mm, the lowest in December with an average of 33 mm. The Preititz area is mentioned remarkably frequently in historical yearbooks in connection with violent summer thunderstorms.

history

Around 1000 the lands between Preititz and Niederkaina belonged to the estate attached to the Ortenburg , which supplied the respective rulers. The place is mentioned for the first time as Priwiticz as early as 1250 . The current spelling is first recorded in 1791. The place name, which comes from Sorbian, is derived from the personal name Priwit or Priwět (cf. Old Czech Přívět , Old Polish Przywit ) and means "settlement of the people of Priwět".

During the Hussite Wars , the manor settlement was destroyed several times because the Hussites had set up camp near Baruth . In 1655 the manor and the surrounding lands came into the possession of the von Nostitz family , who owned it until around 1700.

During the Seven Years War the village was plundered and damaged several times by Prussians and Austrians. On May 20 and 21, 1813, Preititz was in the center of the main battle area of ​​the Battle of Bautzen , when French troops fought against Prussians and Russians. The place was in a strategically crucial position and was completely destroyed in heavy fighting between the troops of Marshals Ney and Kleist . In 1838 King Friedrich August II of Saxony was a guest at a wedding in Preititz.

Until April 1, 1936, Preititz was an independent rural community, then it was incorporated into small buildings .

population

In the second half of the 19th century Preititz was still a village with a Sorbian majority. For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 272 in the 1880s; of these, 254 were Sorbs (93%) and 18 were Germans. Around 1900 it had about 400 inhabitants. Today Sorbian has practically disappeared as a colloquial language.

The majority of the faithful Preititz residents are traditionally Evangelical Lutheran. The place has been part of the Kleinbautzen parish since the 17th century .

economy

The area is predominantly agricultural; the soils are fertile. Budissa AG operates a large dairy cattle facility southwest of Preititz .

traffic

The Autobahn 4 passes the town about one kilometer south. The next junction (Bautzen-Ost) is about 9 km away. Local roads connect Preititz with Kleinbautzen (2 km), Malschwitz (3 km), Gleina (4 km) and Wurschen (4 km). A concrete slab road leads to Baruth.

Attractions

The baroque manor house in the north of the village was built in 1789 by order of Ferdinand Rudolf Ziegler and Klipphausen , who had owned the farm since 1759. The old manor house from the 17th century, built by the Nostitzers, was only demolished in 1853. Today the manor house serves as a residential building.

literature

  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Preititz. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 32nd issue: Bautzen Official Authority (Part II) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1908, p. 229.

swell

  1. ^ Agro-meteorological measuring network Saxony - weather data. State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology , accessed on February 9, 2014 (information for the Preititz weather station (L12)).
  2. ^ Heinz Schuster-Šewc : Bautzen / Budyšin and his Ortenburg. A brief history of the name in Von Budissin nach Bautzen , Lusatia Verlag, Bautzen 2002
  3. ^ A b Preititz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  4. ^ Walter Wenzel: Oberlausitzer Ortnamesbuch. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 2008, p. 137
  5. ^ Otto Moser: Preititz. In: Gustav Adolf Poenicke (Hrsg.): Album of the manors and castles in the kingdom of Saxony. III. Section: Markgrafenthum Oberlausitz, expedition of the album Sächsischer Rittergüter und Schlösser, Leipzig 1859 ( full text in Wikisource , digitized version of the SLUB Dresden )
  6. Ernst Tschernik : The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 58 .
  7. ^ Walter von Boetticher : History of the Upper Lusatian Aristocracy and its Goods 1635-1815 , Volume 3, 1919

Web links

Commons : Preititz / Přiwćicy  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Preititz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony