Quitzdorf (Upper Lusatia)
Quitzdorf , Kwětanecy in Upper Sorbian , is a desert southwest of Niesky in Upper Lusatia ( Saxony ). The community was devastated from 1969 to make room for the Quitzdorf dam , in which the Schwarze Schöps is dammed. Since 1994 the community of Quitzdorf am See has been commemorating the place , which arose from the merger of the two western lakeside communities Kollm and Sproitz.
geography
Quitzdorf was in the middle of the Upper Lusatian heath and pond landscape on the southern (left) bank of the Schwarzen Schöps, "where it turns to the northwest". The place was surrounded by Sproitz in the north, See and Niesky in the northeast, Kaana (later Reichendorf) and Jänkendorf in the southeast, Diehsa in the south and Kollm in the west.
Upstream was the 'robbery castle', the remains of a medieval building, just outside the village. It probably once served as a refuge and hiding place in otherwise inaccessible swamp areas.
history
Quitzdorf's first documented mention was made in 1404 under the name Quittensdorff . Up to 1521 at least six other mentions with slightly different spelling are known, the last of them as Quitzdorf . The place name is a German-Sorbian mixed name which means 'village of a Kwětan'.
In 1540 the place belonged to the Saxon rule of Gröditz , which had court days held in Quitzdorf.
Between 1577 and 1717 - with interruptions - the estate and the village belonged to the Lords of Nostitz. After the funeral of Frau von Gerssdorf in Quitzdorf, there is said to have been a dispute between Kaspar von Nostitz and a Swedish Rittmeister. The agreed duel did not take place because the latter was fatally wounded from an ambush by a third party. His mourning flag was kept in the Jänkendorfer church until 1801.
Since 1783 Quitzdorf belonged to the Diehsa rule and had been parish in Diehsa since the Reformation at the latest.
The dam was built in 1965, and the road village was demolished in 1969.
Population development
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1853 | 199 |
| 1871 | 200 |
| 1885 | 171 |
| 1905 | 158 |
| 1925 | 153 |
| 1939 | 156 |
| 1946 | 167 |
| 1964 | 137 |
From the middle of the 19th century to 1871 Quitzdorf had around 200 inhabitants. When Arnošt Muka examined the places in Upper Lusatia a decade later, he hadn't paid much attention to Quitzdorf, as the village was already outside the Sorbian language borders at that time. The population fell to 158 by 1905. This value was held until the beginning of the Second World War. After the war there was a slight increase, which fell again to 137 inhabitants by 1964. The fact that 200 people were affected by the resettlement a few years later is probably due to the improved working situation in the surrounding opencast mines and the construction of the dam.
See also
literature
- Frank Förster : Disappeared Villages. The demolition of the Lusatian lignite mining area by 1993 . In: Series of publications by the Institute for Sorbian Folk Research in Bautzen . tape 8 . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, ISBN 3-7420-1623-7 , pp. 127-133 .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Robert Pohl: Heimatbuch des Kreis Rothenburg O.-L. for school and home . 1st edition. Buchdruckerei Emil Hampel, Weißwasser O.-L. 1924.
Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ' N , 14 ° 45' E