Wittgendorf (Zittau)
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Wittgendorf
City of Zittau
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 32 ″ N , 14 ° 50 ′ 19 ″ E
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| Height : | 279 m |
| Area : | 12.23 km² |
| Residents : | 714 (March 31, 2016) |
| Population density : | 58 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1999 |
| Incorporated into: | Hirschfelde |
| Postal code : | 02788 |
| Area code : | 035843 |
 Location of Wittgendorf in the area of the city of Zittau
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Wittgendorf is a village in the Saxon Upper Lusatia in the district of Görlitz on the border with Poland . Wittgendorf was an independent municipality until it merged with Hirschfelde in 1999. Since Hirschfelde was incorporated into Zittau in 2007, the village has been part of Zittau .
Position and extent
The place lies on the left side of the Lausitzer Neisse between Zittau and Hirschfelde and extends over a length of 3.5 kilometers. The development of the village largely follows the course of the Wittgendorfer water , the northern end of the village lies on the southwest slope of the Steinberg . In the north the place borders on the Oberwald . Furthermore, the village is surrounded by the places Oberseifersdorf in the west, Eckartsberg in the southwest, Radgendorf in the south, Drausendorf in the southeast, and Hirschfelde and Dittelsdorf in the east.
history
Wittgendorf was first mentioned in a document in 1322 as the village of a Wittiko under the name Witchendorf , but it was founded in the 13th century. From its original development, it is one of the forest hoof villages . Due to the loess loam soil , the fields of the village were very fertile and almost all the forests have been cut down to make space for agriculture . In 1405 the place was called a knight's seat. A Vorwerk near the church suggests that a noble lord ruled the exclusively rural settlement here.
For the end of the 14th century it is recorded that part of the population made interest payments to the St. Jakob Hospital in Zittau. In 1525 Wittgendorf became a council village of Zittau, which led to an upswing in home weaving , as the fabrics could now be sold to Zittau traders. In 1840, therefore, more than half of the population were recruited to be linen weavers. However, weaving declined until 1900, as fabrics could now be produced by machine. The unemployed weavers then tried to make cigars .
By the middle of the 20th century, Wittgendorf developed into a workers' settlement for the plants in Zittau and Hirschfelde . On January 1, 1999, Wittgendorf became part of the Hirschfelde community, which in turn was incorporated into the city of Zittau on January 1, 2007 .
| year | Residents |
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| 1547 | about 150 |
| 1777 | about 625 |
| 1834 | 1009 |
| 1855 | 1099 |
| 1871 | 1155 |
| 1890 | 993 |
| 1910 | 1050 |
| 1925 | 1095 |
| 1939 | 1090 |
| 1946 | 1428 |
| 1950 | 1540 |
| 1964 | 1287 |
| 1990 | 872 |
| 2010 | 782 |
| 10/2011 | 767 |
| 10/2012 | 744 |
Population development
In 1547 there were 31 possessed men working in Wittgendorf ; from 1777 there were already 28 possessed men, 29 gardeners and 68 cottagers .
The first population survey in Saxony took place in 1834, in which not the ownership structure, but each individual inhabitant was counted equally, at that time just over 1000 people lived in the village. The population increased within half a century by about 150 inhabitants to 1155 in 1890. The reason for this was the establishment of the first factories in the Zittau area and the associated settlement of factory workers. Later, however, the population decreased again. After the end of the Second World War , many refugees found a new home in Wittgendorf, so that the population grew to over 1,500.
Place name forms
Place names forms of Wittgendorf include Witchendorf (1322), Wytigendorf (1352), Wytichendorff (1433), Witchendorf (1552), Wittgendorf (1791) and Wittgendorf b. Zittau (1875). Today the form Wittgendorf is used again . The name of the place was probably a locator named Wittiko .
Districts
Romance
The Romerei is a hamlet in the northwest of Wittgendorf and a former district of the village. It consists of a few farms and several small houses and is traversed by the Romereifeldgraben brook. The gap in the development between Romerei and Wittgendorf was closed over time by a few new buildings.
An old name of the hamlet is Romerye and indicates the family name Romer . It is believed that Wittgendorf cleared the square and settled it. From the houses, two kilometer long hooves run past the Schanzberg to the Oberwald . In 1960 an agricultural production cooperative was established here , which merged with the Wittgendorf cooperative in 1967.
Wittgendorf field houses
Another hamlet made up of farms are the Wittgendorfer field houses, which are located between Wittgendorf and Dittelsdorf . An old name of the settlement was Wittgendorfer Neufelder . The four-sided courtyards built here indicate that the surrounding fields are particularly fertile. Topographic maps from the 19th century indicate a windmill , and the name of a drop in the terrain suggests that hops were once grown here . Here, too, an LPG was founded in 1952 , which joined the Wittgendorfer cooperative in 1965.
literature
- The south-eastern Upper Lusatia with Zittau and the Zittau Mountains (= values of the German homeland . Volume 16). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 88, 94-96.
- Cornelius Gurlitt : Wittgendorf. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 29. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Zittau (Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1906, p. 254.
Web links
- Information on the Wittgendorf district on the website of the city of Zittau
- Information about Wittgendorf on the homepage of the former municipality of Hirschfelde
- Wittgendorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadtanzeiger No. 281 (April 2016). (PDF; 2.1 MB) (No longer available online.) Zittau city administration, April 10, 2016, archived from the original on April 19, 2016 ; Retrieved April 19, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Area changes from January 1, 1999 to December 31, 1999 (PDF) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , p. 1 , accessed on February 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Area changes from January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2007. (PDF; 13 kB) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony, p. 1 , accessed on February 15, 2016 .
- ↑ CFT Rudowsky: directory of whole villages of the Kingdom of Saxony ... after counting on 3 December 1855. Ramming, Dresden 1857 S. 79th
- ↑ The city of Zittau in facts and figures. City administration Zittau - press and public relations, archived from the original on July 14, 2010 ; Retrieved July 12, 2010 .
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