Pork earths

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Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 34 ″  N , 14 ° 12 ′ 46 ″  E
Height : 190 m above sea level NN
Residents : 72  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation : January 1, 1957
Incorporated into: Panschwitz-Kuckau
Postal code : 01920
Area code : 035796
The former post office in Schweinerden
The former post office in Schweinerden
Aerial view

Pork earth , Upper Sorbian Swinjarnja ? / i , is a village in the center of the Bautzen district in Upper Lusatia and has belonged to the Panschwitz-Kuckau community since 1957 . Schweinerden is located in the Sorbian core settlement area about two kilometers south-east of Panschwitz-Kuckau on the right valley slope of the monastery water . Most of the population speaks Sorbian . Audio file / audio sample

The neighboring towns are Siebitz in the southwest, Neuhof in the south, Cannewitz in the southwest and Panschwitz-Kuckau in the northwest. Not far to the north, the S 100 road runs from Bautzen to Kamenz .

history

The square village was first mentioned in 1296 as Zwinern or Zwynern . The basic rule was the monastery of St. Mary Star , which meant that pig earth about the Reformation addition catholic remained. Schweinerden was the seat of a monastery suburb.

Until 1957 Schweinerden was an independent rural community, then it was combined with Panschwitz and Kuckau to form the new Panschwitz-Kuckau community.

population

According to statistics from Arnošt Muka , 128 of the 130 inhabitants in 1884 (98%) were Sorbs. Ernst Tschernik determined a Sorbian-speaking population of 82.5% in 1956.

The almost exclusively Catholic population has been parish in Crostwitz since ancient times .

Individual evidence

  1. Schweinerden in the digital historical place directory of Saxony
  2. Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
  3. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995

Web links

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