Ralbitz

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Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 3 ″  N , 14 ° 14 ′ 54 ″  E
Height : 144 m above sea level NN
Residents : 319  (Dec. 31, 2016)
Incorporation : January 1, 1994
Postal code : 01920
Area code : 035796
The Ralbitzer Sankt-Katharinen-Kirche

Ralbitz , Upper Sorbian Ralbicy ? / i , is a village with about 300 inhabitants in the center of the East Saxon district of Bautzen . It is part of Upper Lusatia and has belonged to the Ralbitz-Rosenthal community since 1994 . The place is located in the Sorbian core settlement area ; the majority of the population speaks Sorbian as their mother tongue. Audio file / audio sample

geography

Ralbitz is located about 22 kilometers northwest of Bautzen and 13 kilometers east of Kamenz in the valley floodplain of the monastery water (the so-called "Netherlands" , Sorb. Delany ) at 140 meters above sea level. NN. The area is flat and slopes slightly to the north. To the east and northeast of Ralbitz, extensive forest areas extend towards Königswartha . To the west is the Lasker Auenwald nature reserve . The immediate vicinity of the place is used for agriculture.

Ralbitz is a street group village with the church in the center.

history

The place is first mentioned in the middle of the 13th century as Radelwiz . The current form of the place name has been recorded since 1791.

At the time it was first mentioned, half of the village belonged to the St. Marienstern monastery . Since 1290 it was completely in their possession, as were many other places along the monastery water. Because of this, the Catholic faith in this area survived the Reformation. The former monastery-owned places in the area now form the core area of ​​the Sorbs . When the Hussite Wars also seized Upper Lusatia around 1429, the church in Ralbitz was destroyed. The Trinity Column now stands on the site of the old altar.

Easter riding is mentioned for the first time in 1541 . The oldest mentioned route leads from Wittichenau to Ralbitz.

From 1840 on, Ralbitz was an independent rural community. 1957 Naußlitz , 1974 Cunnewitz and Schönau were incorporated.

Towards the end of the Second World War , the Ralbitzer church burned down again on April 27, 1945. It was reopened in 1948.

population

The last population data for the independent municipality of Ralbitz indicate 1026 inhabitants for 1990. In 1890 the place itself had 273 inhabitants. Contrary to the East Saxon trend, the population has increased by around ten percent over the past twenty years and is now around 330. Ralbitz is the largest district in the municipality.

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 260 inhabitants in the 1880s; among them were 259 Sorbs and one German. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking population of 88.5% in the municipality of Ralbitz.

religion

Most of the population is Catholic.

Until the 15th century Ralbitz was parish in Wittichenau , then in Crostwitz . In 1716, Sankt Katharina became a branch church in Crostwitz and finally in 1752 a parish church. The parish of Ralbitz today includes the church in Königswartha and the pilgrimage church in Rosenthal .

The last information on denomination dates from 1925. At that time, all but one of the residents were Catholic.

On September 10, 2019, the Apostolic Nuncio in Germany visited Nikola Eterović Ralbitz and celebrated a Holy Mass in the St. Katharinen Church. It was the first visit by a nuncio to the parish since 1929, when Eugenio Pacelli, later Pope Pius XII. who attended the community.

Attractions

Aerial view
The Ralbitzer cemetery

In the center of the village is the Sankt-Katharinen-Kirche , which was built in 1752 and restored after the Second World War , and the listed cemetery with its more than 300 uniform white wooden crosses, which is a nationally known specialty. The Trinity Column from the 18th century is located in the village square.

Every year on Easter Sunday, Ralbitz receives an Easter rider procession from Wittichenau.

On its way from the pilgrimage site of Rosenthal to Eutrich , where the legend says that the good Sorbian magician Krabat was born, the Krabat cycle path also crosses Ralbitz.

Infrastructure

A Sorbian elementary and high school is located in Ralbitz. Since the Sorbian Middle School in Crostwitz was closed in 2003, many children from more distant villages have also attended the Ralbitzer School, which is one of 190 UNESCO project schools in Germany. There is also a gym and a Witaj kindergarten and other infrastructural facilities in the Ralbitz-Rosenthal community.

The football club DJK "Sokoł" Ralbitz-Horka is based in Ralbitz.

traffic

The place is a little north of the state road 101, which leads from Königswartha via Ralbitz and Crostwitz to the junction Uhyst am Taucher of the Autobahn 4 (13 km from Ralbitz). Local roads connect Ralbitz with the neighboring villages of Cunnewitz (3 km), Eutrich (3 km) and Naußlitz (2 km).

Bus line 186 runs from Ralbitz to Crostwitz and Kamenz .

Personalities

  • Georg Gustav Kubasch (1845–1924), pastor, publicist and editor; temporarily active in Ralbitz
  • Georg Wuschanski (1839–1905), bishop and language reformer; temporarily active as chaplain in Ralbitz
  • Jakub Skala (1851–1925), Dean; 1876–1881 chaplain in Ralbitz

literature

  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Ralbitz. 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. 290.

Web links

Commons : Ralbitz / Ralbicy  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
  2. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 251 .
  3. ↑ Reception of the Honorary Consul Dr. Peter Neumann on the occasion of the Independence Day of the Republic of Croatia . In: Consulate of the Republic of Croatia in the Free State of Saxony . Retrieved November 4, 2019.