Rengersdorf (Upper Lusatia)

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Rengersdorf
community Kodersdorf
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 0 ″  N , 14 ° 53 ′ 45 ″  E
Area : 19 km²
Incorporation : 1938
Postal code : 02923
Area code : 035825
New Upper Rengersdorf Castle

Rengersdorf , consisting of the two suburbs Ober-Rengersdorf and Nieder-Rengersdorf , is a place in the East Saxon municipality of Kodersdorf in the district of Görlitz .

geography

Rengersdorf extends about 2.5 kilometers along the White Schöps . From west to east the place is crossed by the federal highway 4 , in the north-south direction the federal highway 115 crosses . Both streets are connected to one another via the Kodersdorf motorway junction .

Although the two suburbs merge and can no longer be clearly separated from each other, the greater part of Oberrengersdorf is south of the motorway, while the greater part of Niederrengersdorf is north of the motorway. To the north Niederrengersdorf merges seamlessly into Kodersdorf, in the south the former Gut Oberrengersdorf borders on Torga .

Other neighboring towns are Wiesa in the northwest, Emmerichswalde and Charlottenhof in the east, Kunnersdorf in the southeast and Liebstein in the south. The Königshain Mountains rise west-southwest of Rengersdorf .

history

Several finds in the Rengersdorf area prove a prehistoric settlement. A Neolithic ax and a rag ax from the Middle Bronze Age were found in Niederdorf . Several cremation burials were found southwest of the upper village, which are dated to the younger Bronze Age.

Rengersdorf Church

Rengersdorf is laid out as a Waldhufendorf , which points to a German establishment along the Schöpstal in the course of the second phase of the German eastern settlement . The place was first mentioned in a document around 1305 in a Görlitz town register. The Rengersdorf Church, into which Kodersdorf, Särichen and Wiesa were parish, also dates from this time .

Former Niederrengersdorf manor house, today the seat of the municipal administration of Kodersdorf
Former Gutsmühle Oberrengersdorf

A Vorwerk was laid out in 1517 by the Niederrengersdorfer Rittergut , which already had its own subjects in 1539 and is documented as the Oberrengersdorf Manor in 1592. The division that began with this should remain in place until the two places are incorporated.

In 1770, master miller Johann Richter bought the Niederrengersdorf estate for 62,000 thalers as a commissioner for 56 farmers, gardeners and cottagers . The village population farmed the estate together with its lands and only divided it up in 1842.

As a result of the Wars of Liberation , the Kingdom of Saxony had to cede a large part of its land area after the Congress of Vienna in 1815. As a result, Ober- and Niederrengersdorf came to the Prussian province of Silesia . The two communities were incorporated into the newly founded district of Rothenburg (Ob. Laus.) In 1816 .

From 1929 a kaolin plant was operated southwest of Oberrengersdorf for about thirty years .

The Oberrengersdorf estate, which had developed into a large agricultural operation by the beginning of the 20th century, was divided into several agricultural goods in the early 1930s.

In 1938 the communities Nieder-Rengersdorf and Ober-Rengersdorf were incorporated into Kodersdorf together with Torga .

As in Thiemendorf , a motorway bridge was built in Rengersdorf in the thirties, which was intended for the section of the Reichsautobahn (today's A4) between Bautzen and Lower Silesia. Due to the Second World War , the autobahn was no longer built, and the Bautzen – Görlitz section was not built in the GDR either, so that the bridge stood unused in the landscape for six decades.

1945, after the end of the war, the Kodersdorf community and its districts were again assigned to Saxony and in 1952 to the Niesky district . The first agricultural production cooperative (LPG) was founded in 1952, which was followed by six more by 1960. These were merged with other cooperatives until 1973 to form the LPG Kodersdorf-Horka.

In 1979 a school was built near the former border between Kodersdorf and Niederrengersdorf, which today is named after Adolf Traugott von Gersdorff as a secondary school . Grades 1–3 and a kindergarten remained in Oberrengersdorf Castle until 1993.

Population development

year Residents
Upper
renger village		 Lower
renger village		 Rengersdorf
(entire)
1825 364 404 0768
1871 352 666 1018
1885 357 686 1043
1905 390 641 1031
1925 342 610 0952

In 1777 there were 9 possessed men , 28 gardeners and 24 cottagers in Oberrengersdorf and the neighboring Torga , while in Niederrengersdorf with 9 owned men, 25 gardeners and 23 cottagers the population was almost the same size and structured.

In the first population census in 1825, in which every inhabitant was counted equally, 364 inhabitants were determined for Oberrengersdorf and 404 for Niederrengersdorf. While the number of inhabitants in Oberdorf fell slightly in the next half century, it rose by more than half in Niederdorf. The slight increase in both communities up to 1885 was followed by an increased increase in Oberrengersdorf to 390 inhabitants by 1905, while the number of inhabitants in Niederrengersdorf fell slightly. Up until the interwar period, a further decline was recorded in both communities, so that Oberrengersdorf only had 342 inhabitants in 1925 (−6% compared to 1825), and Niederrengersdorf only had 610 inhabitants (+ 50.1%). Overall, the population increased from 768 to 1043 from 1825 to 1885, but then fell back to 952 by 1925.

Place name

The oldest written records of the place name can be found in Görlitz town books. To 1305 was there Rengeresdorph to 1343 Renkertsdorf and 1375 Rengirstorf mentioned. Already around 1400 there was a documentary mention of an Urban von Rengirsdorf , which differs from today's name only by a vowel. This vowel change took place quickly, so that 1427 Rengersdorff and 1561 Renngerßdorff were used in a document.

The distinction between Oberdorf and Niederdorf has only recently appeared in documents. From 1592 Oberrengerßdorff and 1708 Nieder Rengersdorff are transmitted. In 1792, with the naming of Nieder-Rengersdorf and Ober-Rengersdorf, the development of the name is essentially complete. The type of spelling with prefix changed several times ( Niederrengersdorf, Nieder-Rengersdorf, Nieder Rengersdorf, same for Oberrengersdorf).

The place name as well as the type of settlement as Waldhufendorf allow the conclusion that it is the settlement of a Reinger who was probably the locator of the German settlers.

Personalities

The philologist Samuel Friedrich Bucher (1692–1765) was born in Rengersdorf as the son of pastor Christoph Friedrich Bucher (1651–1716). He died as vice principal in Zittau.

Born on Gut Niederrengersdorf, Adolf Traugott von Gersdorff (1744–1807) was in 1779 a co-founder of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences . The natural scientist's physical cabinet is now part of the cultural history museum in Görlitz.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Oberrengersdorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  2. ^ Niederrengersdorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  3. ↑ Ernst Eichler , Hans Walther : Oberlausitz toponymy - studies on the toponymy of the districts of Bautzen, Bischofswerda, Görlitz, Hoyerswerda, Kamenz, Löbau, Niesky, Senftenberg, Weißwasser and Zittau. I name book (=  German-Slavic research on naming and settlement history . Volume 28 ). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1975, p. 252 .

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