Quatitz

Quatitz Chwaćicy Commune Großdubrau Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 59 ″  N , 14 ° 26 ′ 54 ″  E
Height :	182 m above sea level NN
Residents :	251  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1994
Postal code :	02694
Area code :	035934
Aerial photo of Quatitz (2019)

Quatitz , in Upper Sorbian Chwaćicy ^{? / i} , is a village in the eastern Saxon district of Bautzen . It is located in Upper Lusatia on the northern edge of the Bautzen reservoir and is part of the Sorbian settlement area . Since 1994 it has been part of the community of Großdubrau .

history

The 1360 first mentioned court village Quatitz changed as a manor had several owners. In 1515 it belonged to a Bautzen citizen named Hans von Bischoffswerde, in 1515 to the Lords of Metzradt and in 1630 to an Adolph von Gersdorff on Malschwitz. The Saxon chamberlain Wigand von Lützelburg acquired the Niedergurig manors with Briesing , Kleindubrau , Quatitz and the Lubas suburb for 30,000 thalers in 1655 . In 1661 this landlord offered his Quatitz subjects the opportunity to buy the land they cultivated. Since the share of literacy among the rural population at the time was generally low, a Göda district judge took on legal support for the 18 farmers and gardeners from Quatitz. The purchase price negotiated for the later Freidorf was 4,000 thalers; for a further patronage , six thalers were to be paid to the former owner every year. When Wigand von Lützelburg died in 1678, the Bautzen cathedral dean Martin Ferdinand Brückner followed. It was not until 123 years later that the signed contract was approved in 1784 by the then Elector Friedrich August III. accepted. This change in the property rights of land in favor of the peasants, which was unusual in the era, even survived the later land reform in the Soviet occupation zone after 1945.

The place name changed the course of history only slightly: in the 1360s still Quaticz written in 1419 then already Quatitz , 1427 also Quatenitz , 1532 again Quatitz and around 1557 the spelling was Quattitz use.

year	Residents
1834	173
1871	351
1890	368
1910	397
1925	410
1939	697
1946	769
1950	880
1964	830
1990	587
1991	577
2009	267
2011	257

Incorporations

Since 1936, today's Quatitz area has also included Dahlowitz, which is directly adjacent to the south, the Kronförstchen further south-west, and Jeschütz to the east . From 1994 these villages, like Quatitz itself, came to the community of Großdubrau .

Population and culture

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 376 in the 1880s, including 346 Sorbs (92%) and 30 Germans. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik still counted 64.5% Sorbs in the community of Quatitz. Since then, the use of Sorbian in the village has continued to decline.

In 1893, several Sorbian activists started the "Wendish Association for Quatitz and the Surrounding Area". He also maintained a theater group that successfully performed their plays in the Sorbian language in Lusatia. The Saxon King Friedrich August III also got a costume show of the members . Seen in Bautzen in 1905. Under the anti-Slav policy of the National Socialists , the association's activities were suspended until 1936.

A new Heimatverein called “Klub der Natur- und Heimatfreunde Quatitz” has existed since 1970. It has repeatedly organized exhibitions on regional topics.

Monuments

A memorial was created in 1919 for those who died in the First World War , who came from the Parish Quatitz . The two nationally known Quatitzer sons Andreas Gärtner and Otto Lehmann were remembered with a memorial in 1977, which was later torn down. In 2007, the two red granite tablets that have been preserved and have since been restored were integrated into a reconstruction of the memorial.

Quatitz Church

Church in Quatitz

In Quatitz, a Protestant church was built in 1899, which later became the parish church for Bornitz , Dahlowitz, Großdubrau , Jeschütz , Kleindubrau, Kronförstchen , Luttowitz , Margarethenhütte , Merka and Neu-Bornitz . The church, built in the neo-Romanesque style, was designed by the building officer Ernst Giese .

Another sacred building, a neo-Gothic chapel built in 1858 , is located in the immediate vicinity of the church.

education

The first school opened in the village in 1842, where a single teacher taught the local children. In 1886 a new school building was completed, which around 1900 offered space for six classes with three teachers. All children to be taught from Parochie Quatitz, with the exception of those from Kleindubrau , attended this village school until 1906. Then another school was built in Großdubrau .

In the time of the GDR was in Quatitz with Niedergurig the first school Combine the circle Bautzen established.

Sons and daughters of the place

Monument to Andreas Gärtner and Otto Lehmann in Quatitz

• Andreas Gärtner ( Upper Sorbian Handrij Zahrodnik , 1654–1727), scientist, inventor and model maker
• Otto Lehmann ( Upper Sorbian Ota Wićaz , 1874–1952), literary and cultural historian, writer

Web links

Commons : Quatitz / Chwaćicy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Großdubrau community - districts - Quatitz with the towns of Dahlowitz, Jeschütz, Kronförstchen. Großdubrau municipal administration , accessed on June 9, 2011 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Oberlausitzer Heide- und Teichlandschaft - A regional survey in the area of ​​Lohsa, Klitten, Großdubrau and Baruth . In: Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig and Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig (Hrsg.): Landscapes in Germany - values ​​of the German homeland . tape 67 . Böhlau Verlag , Cologne, Weimar and Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-412-08903-6 , pp. 244-246 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Quatitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
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.
5. ↑ Klub der Natur- und Heimatfreunde Quatitz eV Official website. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 9, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.