Räckelwitz

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '  N , 14 ° 13'  E
Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Bautzen
Administrative association:	At the monastery water
Height :	164 m above sea level NHN
Area :	11.51 km 2
Residents:	1131 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	98 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	01920
Area code :	035796
License plate :	BZ, BIW, HY, KM
Community key :	14 6 25 470
Community structure:	6 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 41 01920 Räckelwitz
Website :	www.raeckelwitz.de
Mayor :	Franz Brußk ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Räckelwitz in the Bautzen district

Räckelwitz, aerial photo (2017)

Räckelwitz , in Sorbian Worklecy ^{? / i} , is a municipality in the Saxon Upper Lusatia . She is a member of the administrative association Am Klosterwasser (Zarjadniski zwjazk "Při Klóšterskej wodźe") . The place Räckelwitz itself has 504 inhabitants and is located in the Sorbian core settlement area . In 2001, 63.2% of the inhabitants of the municipality were powerful in Sorbian .

Geography and traffic

The community is located in the center of the Bautzen district , approx. 8 km east of the city of Kamenz and approx. 15 km northwest of Bautzen in the south of the "Netherlands" ( Delany ) of the former St. Marienstern monastery . The A4 can be reached via the Uhyst junction (approx. 6 km). Räckelwitz is located in western Upper Lusatia on the edge of the West Lusatian hills and mountains, in the transition between the flat pond landscape in the north and the Lusatian mountains in the south. The monastery water , a tributary of the Black Elster , flows east of the town of Räckelwitz .

coat of arms

Description : On the twice divided coat of arms in blue, red and white with the red Maltese cross there are two little shields over the first division. On the right in white a red sloping six-diamond bar and on the left in gold a leaping black deer .

The use of the Sorbian tricolor shows the anchoring of the community in the Sorbian-Catholic heartland on the monastery water .

history

Räckelwitz was first mentioned in 1280 as Rokolewicz . There has been a manor here since 1304. The manor house of the Räckelwitz Castle that exists today was built around 1750 and came into the possession of the Counts of Stolberg in 1784 . The last owner of this estate, Countess Monika zu Stolberg, a nun in Belgium, had the castle chapel built between 1883 and 1885 and bequeathed the manor to the Order of Malta . In the period from 1903 to 2000 there was a Catholic hospital of this order in the former manor house. After the restoration of the building, there has been a large outpatient nursing service of the Maltese since 2008 and a convent of the Providence Sisters with a chapel until 2016 .

Population and language

According to the 2011 census, 921 out of 1,118 inhabitants were Roman Catholic (82.4%), 75 Protestant (6.7%) and 122 belonged to another or no religious community (10.9%).

As part of his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 539 for Räckelwitz mit Neudörfel in the 1880s, including 522 Sorbs (97%) and 17 Germans. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking population of 86.4% in the community.

Local division

The municipality of Räckelwitz has the following districts (population figures as of December 31, 2016):

• Three houses ( Horni Hajnk ), 11 inhabitants
• Höflein ( Wudwor ), 127 inhabitants
• Neudörfel ( Nowa Wjeska ), 169 inhabitants
• Räckelwitz ( Worklecy ), 502 inhabitants
• Schmeckwitz ( Smječkecy ), 260 inhabitants
• Pond houses ( Haty ), 25 inhabitants

politics

The local council of Räckelwitz currently consists of twelve members. The 2019 local elections resulted in the following distribution of votes and seats:

Parties and constituencies	2019		2014
	%	Seats	%	Seats
Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU)	60.9	8th	70.6	9
Free Sorbian Voter Association (FSW)	31.8	4th	29.4	3
PVR	7.4	-	-	-
total	100.0	12	100.0	12
voter turnout	69.8%		62.2%

Franz Brußk has been mayor since 1974. The longest serving mayor of the district was last confirmed in office on June 7, 2015 with 79.8% of the votes (2008: 94.7%).

Culture and sights

See also : List of cultural monuments in Räckelwitz

The Räckelwitz castle with the castle chapel

Räckelwitz Castle, aerial view (2017)

• Baroque mansion with nine axes and an outside staircase. The castle chapel in the style of the Beuron art school is remarkable . A hospital was set up in the manor house and several 10,000 people were born there. The 20th century additions were removed in 2009. The Sisters of Divine Providence lived in the garden shed and worked in the hospital until they retired. In the house itself there is a care station for the Maltese , day care and elderly-friendly living are planned. There are several coats of arms and monogram stones of the Counts of Stolberg-Stolberg on the house .

education

The municipality of Räckelwitz has a primary school and the "Michał Hórnik" high school, one of four remaining Sorbian high schools in Saxony.

Sons and daughters of the church

Hórnik monument in Räckelwitz

Preliminary remark: Due to the maternity ward of the Catholic hospital, the majority of the residents of the surrounding communities, including the former district town of Kamenz - whose hospital did not have a maternity ward in the second half of the 20th century - were born in Räckelwitz.

• Michał Hórnik (1833–1894), clergyman and one of the most important promoters of Sorbian literature in the 19th century
• Michael Kockel ( Michał Kokla , 1840–1922), landowner and member of the Saxon state parliament
• Jurij Brězan (1916–2006), writer
• Jan Brankatschk (1930–1990), historian
• Klaus-Dietmar Henke (* 1947), historian
• Benedikt Dyrlich (* 1950), writer, politician (SPD) and editor-in-chief
• Angela Hampel (* 1956), painter and graphic artist
• Stanislaw Tillich ( Stanisław Tilich , * 1959 in Neudörfel / Nowa Wjeska), politician (CDU), Prime Minister of Saxony from 2008 to 2017
• Jěwa-Marja Čornakec (* 1959), writer and editor-in-chief
• Mario Loch (* 1969), boxer and runner-up European champion
• Olaf Pollack (* 1973), professional cyclist
• Verena Hartmann (* 1974), politician (AfD), Member of the Bundestag
• Ronny Kockel (* 1975), soccer goalkeeper KFC Uerdingen 05
• Peggy Wagenführ (* 1976), biathlete
• Maximilian Krah (* 1977), politician (AfD), MEP
• Tino Semmer (* 1985), soccer player
• Lukas Rietzschel (* 1994), German writer

literature

• Cornelius Gurlitt : Räckelwitz. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 35. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Kamenz (Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1912, p. 289.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Information for 2012 from am-klosterwasser.de
3. ↑ Walde, Martin: Demographic-statistical considerations in the community association "Am Klosterwasser" in: Lětopis 51 (2004), issue 1
4. ↑ Räckelwitz Castle
5. ↑ Diocese of Dresden-Meißen (accessed April 17, 2020)
6. ↑ census database on zensus2011.de
7. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 100 .
8. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 251 .
9. ↑ Information on am-klosterwasser.de
10. ↑ Results of the municipal council elections on May 26, 2019 in Räckelwitz on wahlen.sachsen.de
11. ↑ Results of the mayoral election on statistik.sachsen.de

Web links

Commons : Räckelwitz / Worklecy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Räckelwitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony