Rachlau (Wittichenau)

Rachlau Rachlow City of Wittichenau Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 15 ″  N , 14 ° 16 ′ 50 ″  E
Height :	128 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.82 km²
Residents :	200  (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	52 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 1950
Incorporated into:	Hoske
Postal code :	02997
Area code :	035725
Chapel in Rachlau

Aerial view

Rachlau , in Sorbian Rachlow ^{? / i} , is a place in the north of the Bautzen district in East Saxony and has belonged to the city of Wittichenau since 1994 . The place is located in Upper Lusatia and is part of the Sorbian settlement area .

geography

The place is located 22 kilometers north of the large district town of Bautzen and ten kilometers south of Hoyerswerda on the northern edge of the Upper Lusatian heath and pond landscape . The city of Wittichenau is five kilometers away. Rachlau lies in the floodplain of the Doberschützer water coming from the south, which flows a few kilometers north near Brischko into the Schwarze Elster .

According to the settlement system, Rachlau is a street village . Another settlement developed on the road towards Hoske in the 20th century.

There are some fish ponds in the south; behind it begins an extensive forest area, which extends over seven kilometers to Caßlau . The neighboring towns are Groß Särchen (municipality of Lohsa ) in the northeast, Wartha in the east, Commerau in the southeast, Kotten in the west and Hoske in the northwest.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1374 as Rachelow . Since the 16th century, the manorial rule had been with the Hoyerswerda class . It has been Protestant since the Reformation; however, most of the Rachlauers remained Catholics. In 1777, Rachlau belonged to the Bautzen district. With the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Kingdom of Prussia came into being and became a border town. The Prussian-Saxon border ran from now on only about 700 meters south of the place. The place belonged to the district of Hoyerswerda formed in 1825 .

As part of the National Socialist Germanization of place names, Rachlau was renamed Wiesdorf in 1936 . The renaming was reversed in 1947. On July 1, 1950, Rachlau, which until then had been an independent rural community, was incorporated into Hoske.

population

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 147 inhabitants in the 1880s; without exception all of them were Sorbs . The Sorbian language is still spoken in the village today. By 1939 the population grew to 189; Due to the influx of displaced persons, it was already 226 in 1946. There have been no major changes in the population over the past 60 years.

The Catholic part of the population has been parish to Wittichenau since the 16th century; the Protestant part belongs to the community of Groß Särchen and thus to the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia .

swell

• Rachlau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.

Web links

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