Sagar (Krauschwitz)

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municipality Krauschwitz
Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 2 "  N , 14 ° 45 ′ 37"  E
Height : 118 m
Area : 15.88 km²
Residents : 658  (2017)
Population density : 41 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1994
Postal code : 02957
Area code : 035771
Neisse bridge

Sagar , in Upper Sorbian Zagor , is a village in the northeastern part of the district of Görlitz ( Saxony ). Sagar has been part of the Krauschwitz community since 1994 . The place is part of the official Sorbian settlement area in Upper Lusatia .

geography

Sagar is located east of the Krauschwitz town center on the Lusatian Neisse in the Muskauer Heide. Bad Muskau connects to the northwest and Skerbersdorf to the southeast .

history

Sagar's history is strongly influenced by the rulership of Muskau , to which the place has belonged since its early days. Sagar was first mentioned in a document on September 9, 1366.

The surrounding pine forests are decisive for the economic development of the village. In addition to forestry, the inhabitants lived for centuries from fishing, agriculture in the Neißetal and forest beekeeping. In addition to wood processing, pottery developed as a further branch of the economy in the Middle Ages, as clay deposits and water power offer good location factors for it.

In 1770 a country school is opened in Skerbersdorf, which also children from Sagar attend. Sagar himself received a school in 1881, which was replaced by a new building in 1927.

After the Napoleonic Wars lost on France's side, Saxony had to cede parts of Upper Lusatia to Prussia in 1815. As a result, Sagar is assigned to the Rothenburg district (Ob. Laus.) . When the majority of the Lugknitz community was incorporated into Muskau in 1940 , part of the area was incorporated into the Sagar community.

After the end of the Second World War, the parts of the province of Lower Silesia to the west of the Neisse River were assigned to the State of Saxony, completing a 130-year Prussian phase in local history. With the administrative reform in the GDR in 1952, Sagar was assigned to the Weißwasser district .

On January 1, 1994, the communities of Krauschwitz , Sagar, Skerbersdorf , Pechern and Klein Priebus on the Neisse merged to form the unitary community of Krauschwitz.

Plans from the 90s to build another border crossing to the city of Łęknica south of the Bad Muskau – Łęknica border crossing in the municipality of Krauschwitz to relieve the park and spa town of Bad Muskau , which is battered by border traffic, take place in Sagar with the construction of a bridge 2008 for the first time concrete forms.

Population development

year Residents
1825 391
1871 478
1885 519
1905 777
1910 874
1925 885
1933 1016
1939 1115
1946 1226
1950 1247
1964 1038
1990 776
1993 743

From the year 1552, 14 possessed men , four gardeners and 16 cottagers are recorded for Sagar . In 1777 the general structure changed only slightly apart from a sharp decline in the number of cottagers. Sixteen possessed men, three gardeners, five cottagers and six desolate farms are named.

In the Prussian-Silesian phase of Sagar, the population quadrupled from around 300 at the beginning to over 1200 towards the end. While the First World War resulted in further growth stagnation, the changed political and geographical situation after the Second World War resulted in a population decline with some delay.

When Arnošt Muka compiled statistics on the Sorbs in Lusatia in the 1880s, he counted only 13 Germans among the 523 inhabitants in Sagar. This corresponds to a Sorbian population of 97.5 percent.

Place name

The origin of the Sorbian name Zagor , from which the German originated, is seen inconsistently in the literature. Jan Meschgang traces the name back to the word gorěti ' anbrennen ', meaning a "settlement on a slash and burn", while Ernst Eichler and Hans Walther see a derivation from the Old Sorbian Zagor´e or Zagora with the root word gora / hora for 'mountain'. According to them, Sagar is a "place behind the mountain". They also point to a similarity in name with the Polish town of Nowy Zagór (formerly Sagar, Krossen district).

Attractions

In Sagar there is the handicraft and trade museum. Since 1995, on the approximately one hectare site of the former sawmill at Mühlteich in the middle of the Sagar district, the development of craft and industry has been demonstrated using the example of the economic structure of the Muskau estate. The region-specific development was based on the raw materials clay, coal, iron ore and wood, their extraction and processing is the subject of the exhibition. The focus is on the collections on woodworking and on industrial and utility ceramics. In addition to the steam engine from the Richard Hartmann machine factory in Chemnitz from 1897 and the locomobile from the Buckau R. Wolf Magdeburg / Buckau machine factory around 1930, you can experience a saw frame that is over 100 years old and a wood grinder in motion. Other exhibition areas are devoted to local handicrafts, the geology of the Muskau folds, iron smelting, hunting and forestry as well as historical toys.

literature

  • From the Muskauer Heide to the Rotstein. Home book of the Lower Silesian Upper Lusatia District . Lusatia Verlag, Bautzen 2006, p. 239 f .

Web links

Commons : Sagar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Digital historical place directory of Saxony. Retrieved April 17, 2008 .
  2. ↑ Saxony regional register. Retrieved April 17, 2008 .
  3. ^ Jan Meschgang : The place names of Upper Lusatia . 2nd Edition. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1979.
  4. ↑ 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.