Rachlau (Kubschütz)
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Rachlau
Rachlow commune Kubschütz
Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 15 ″ N , 14 ° 30 ′ 49 ″ E
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| Height : | 289–310 m above sea level NHN |
| Residents : | 158 (December 31, 2016) |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 1974 |
| Postal code : | 02627 |
| Area code : | 035939 |
Rachlau , in Sorbian , is a village with 167 inhabitants in the eastern Saxon district of Bautzen , which has belonged to the Kubschütz community since 1974 . It belongs to Upper Lusatia and belongs to the official Sorbian settlement area .
geography
Rachlau is located three kilometers south of the Kubschütz community center in a hollow at the foot of the Czorneboh on the Albrechtsbach. Neighboring towns are Soritz in the north, Meschwitz in the east, Döhlen in the west and Weißig in the north-west. The Czorneboh massif rises to the south. Between Rachlau and Döhlen is the Rachlau dam, which was built between 1974 and 1976 and, with 6.5 hectares of water, is the largest standing body of water in the municipality of Kubschütz. The dam has a height of 13 meters.
After the settlement, Rachlau is a relaxed square village .
history
The place was first mentioned as Rachlow in the 14th century . To distinguish it from Rachlau bei Wittichenau , the forms Rachla am Berge (1543) and Rachel im Gebirge (1748) appear in the meantime . In 1875 the alternative name Albertsrachlau is recorded.
In the first half of the 20th century, the majority of the residents of Rachlau were Sorbian-speaking. The scientist Arnošt Muka had 225 inhabitants in 1884/85, of whom 219 were Sorbs .
Until 1974, Rachlau was an independent rural community with the districts Döhlen, Pielitz and Großkunitz (since 1936) and Weißig (since 1950). Then it was incorporated into Kubschütz.
Personalities
From 1877 to 1920, the Sorbian naturalist Karl Traugott Schütze ( Upper Sorbian Korla Bohuwěr Šěca ; 1858–1938) worked in Rachlau . His "Biology of Small Butterflies" (1931) is still important today. His son, the local history researcher and monument conservator Theodor Schütze ( Božidar Šěca ) was born in Rachlau.
Web links
- Rachlau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information from the municipal administration Kubschütz; As of December 31, 2010
- ↑ Technical data see Information board at the dam
- ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
- ↑ Online edition of the "Biology of Small Butterflies"