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Seitschen Žičeń Municipality of Göda Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 51 ″  N , 14 ° 19 ′ 38 ″  E
Height :	210 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	202  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation :	1st January 1974
Postal code :	02633
Area code :	035930

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Seitschen , in Sorbian Žičeń ^{? / i} , is a village in the south of the Bautzen district in the Saxon Upper Lusatia . The place has belonged to the municipality of Göda since 1974 and is part of the official Sorbian settlement area . Seitschen was first mentioned in 1017, making it one of the longest known places in the region.

geography

Large and small pages on the Oberreit map from 1844/46

The place is about eight kilometers west of Bautzen and two kilometers south of the community center Göda in the valley of the long water and on the edge of the Oberlausitzer Bergland .

Today's Seitschen consists of two historical settlement centers, which can still be clearly distinguished from one another today. The northern Großseitschen on the western bank of the Long Water is a lane village with an estate and a village pond, while the somewhat southern Kleinseitschen is an estate on the eastern bank. At the end of the 19th century, the first buildings of a third settlement were erected at Seitschen train station, which has grown over time and is also part of Seitschen. South of the railway line, on the way to Gaussig , is the Puschermühle , formerly known as the Kleinseitschen district.

The neighboring towns are Göda in the north, Siebitz in the east, Brösang in the south, Birkau in the west and Semmichau in the north-west.

history

The Seitschener Gutshof

Seitschen stop

Seitschen was - possibly - mentioned for the first time as Sciciani by Thietmar von Merseburg as early as 1017 . The exact location of "Sciciani" is not scientifically proven and is controversial, according to other sources this place is said to have been in or near Zinnitz in Lower Lusatia.

In the place, however, there are the remains of an old castle ramparts, which suggest a much older settlement. In the centuries that followed, mentions such as Sycene (1241) and Syczan (1423) followed; 1440 the present form for the first time. The mentions refer to the district Großseitschen, named Burgward , which is mentioned throughout as a knight's seat.

Kleinseitschen originally emerged as a preliminary work of the Seitschener Gut and was first recorded as Parva Zyczchen in 1374 . Since 1580 at the latest, the inhabitants of both places were evangelically parish to Göda. At this point in time, the Vorwerk had already become an independent manor called Kleinseitschen.

Although parish to Göda, the two places belonged to the Margraviate of Upper Lusatia until 1815 (i.e. to Bohemia until 1635) and not, like the neighboring church, to the land of the Diocese of Meissen , which was transferred to the Electorate of Saxony in 1559 . The state border between Saxony and the Kingdom of Bohemia ran north and east past Großseitschen between 1559 and 1635.

In July 1846 the Görlitz – Dresden railway line was first opened between Bautzen and Dresden and Seitschen was connected to the Saxon railway network with a stopping point south of the town . From 1847 trips to Görlitz were possible.

Until April 1, 1936, Groß- and Kleinseitschen existed as independent rural communities; then they were merged to form a unified municipality Seitschen, which on January 1, 1974 finally became part of Göda.

population

The older district of Großseitschen has always been the more populous one. In 1834 145 people lived here and 87 in Kleinseitschen. In the 19th century the population increased slowly but steadily. In 1871 Seitschen had a total of 306 residents (188/118), in 1910 317 (218/99) and in 1925 there were 324 (220/104). After the end of the Second World War , there was a sharp rise in population with the influx of numerous expellees from the former eastern regions. The number of residents rose to 529 by 1950, and then decreased slightly again. A clear decline has been observed since reunification. Today 209 people live in Großseitschen and 91 people in Kleinseitschen.

For his statistics on the Sorbian population of Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined in the 1880s a population of 236 inhabitants for large and 104 for small whips. In Großseitschen there was a clear Sorbian majority with 201 Sorbs (85%) and 35 Germans. 61 Sorbs (59%) and 43 Germans lived in Lesser Town. Seitschen was then in the closed language area of Upper Sorbian . Since then, however, the use of Sorbian has declined sharply, especially since after 1945 numerous German-speaking expellees moved to the town. In 1956 , Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking population of only 21.6% in the entire Seitschen community.

The last information on denomination dates from 1925. At that time, almost all residents in both districts were Evangelical Lutheran.

Infrastructure

State road 107 (Göda - Gaußig) runs through the village. The next junction of the A4 (Dresden - Wrocław ) is Salzenforst , seven kilometers to the northeast. Seitschen also has a stop on the Görlitz – Dresden railway line .

Personalities

• Pětr Młónk (1805–1887), Sorbian folk poet, born in Seitschen

Web links

Commons : Seitschen / Žičeń  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Seitschen in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

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. 246 .