Purschwitz
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Purschwitz
Poršicy commune Kubschütz
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 14 ″ N , 14 ° 31 ′ 31 ″ E
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| Height : | 156–161 m above sea level NHN |
| Area : | 5.55 km² |
| Residents : | 263 (December 31, 2016) |
| Population density : | 47 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1994 |
| Postal code : | 02627 |
| Area code : | 03591 |
Purschwitz , in Sorbian , is a village with almost 300 inhabitants in the East Saxon district of Bautzen , which has belonged to the Kubschütz community since 1994 . It belongs to the Oberlausitz and is part of the official settlement area of the Sorbs .
geography
Purschwitz is the northernmost part of the municipality of Kubschütz and is located on the southern edge of the Albrechtsbach floodplain at 160 meters above sea level. The neighboring towns are Kleinbautzen in the north and Litten in the southwest. The Bautzen airfield is located directly south of the village . Purschwitz is about seven kilometers northeast of the district town of Bautzen and four kilometers north of the Kubschütz community center. The area is hilly; in the northwest the Kreckwitzer Heights rise up to 196 meters.
After the settlement, Purschwitz is a typical street perch village, which extends in a south-west-north-east direction. The former manor is located on the western outskirts.
history
The place was first mentioned in 1222 as Porsiz . The current form of the name is first recorded in 1565.
A manor at Purschwitz is mentioned as early as the 13th century; the manor also survived the following centuries. In the 15th century it belonged to the Silesian noble family Doberschütz ; from the 16th century it was owned by the city of Bautzen. The Purschwitz Church has also been a Protestant parish church since this time. The community includes the places Baschütz , Canitz-Christina , Litten , Kubschütz, Kumschütz and Kreckwitz . The church in Kleinbautzen is a branch church of Purschwitz.
The church town was badly affected by the battle of Hochkirch . Purschwitz was also badly affected by the Battle of Bautzen on May 20 and 21, 1813 due to the strategic importance of the nearby Kreckwitzer Heights. In 1849 one of the first Sorbian Protestant associations was founded here.
Until 1994 Purschwitz was an independent rural community with the districts Neupurschwitz (traditional), Litten (since 1934) and Kreckwitz (since 1979). During the municipal reform in 1994, the municipalities of Jenkwitz, Kubschütz and Purschwitz merged to form the new municipality of Kubschütz.
In 1999 a 777th anniversary celebration was celebrated.
population
With 414 inhabitants, Purschwitz was one of the largest villages in the Bautzen district in 1834. For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 498 in the 1880s; of these, 473 were Sorbs (95%) and 25 were Germans. As everywhere in the Protestant part of the settlement area, the proportion of Sorbian native speakers has fallen sharply since then.
In 1925 the place had 454 inhabitants, 451 of whom were Evangelical-Lutheran. Since then the number has fallen to 335 (with Neupurschwitz). This corresponds to a loss of more than a quarter, with the sharpest decline not being recorded until after 1990.
Economy and Infrastructure
The district road from Bautzen to Kleinbautzen crosses the town. In addition, the road branches off here towards Weißenberg . Although the Autobahn 4 ( Dresden - Görlitz ) only passes Purschwitz a few meters, the next junction ( Bautzen-Ost ) is about six kilometers away.
Purschwitz no longer has its own school.
Attractions
The Protestant church in the western part of the village was built in its current form in 1722. In 1813 the church burned down during the Battle of Bautzen and was re-inaugurated in 1816 as a classicist preaching church.
Personalities
- Gregor Martini , pastor in Purschwitz from 1620 to 1631, published the second printed book in Upper Sorbian - “The seven penitential psalms of the royal prophet David. Windisch and German ”.
- Heinz Schuster-Šewc , one of the most important German Sorabists , was born in Purschwitz in 1927.
- Ernst Theodor Stöckhardt , an important agricultural scientist, administrator of the Purschwitz manor from 1839 to 1842 and married to the daughter Cölestine of the pastor Wilhelm Mitschke.
literature
- Cornelius Gurlitt : Purschwitz. 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.
Web links
- Purschwitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Description of the Purschwitz parish in the statistics of the Lusatian Sorbs by Arnošt Muka (with family and field names)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 58 .