Siebitz (Panschwitz-Kuckau)
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Siebitz
Zejicy Community Panschwitz-Kuckau
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 11 ″ N , 14 ° 14 ′ 9 ″ E
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| Height : | 205 m above sea level NN |
| Residents : | 34 (Dec 31, 2016) |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1957 |
| Incorporated into: | Lehndorf |
| Postal code : | 01920 |
| Area code : | 035796 |
 Wayside shrine on the road to Crostwitz
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Siebitz , in Upper Sorbian , is a village in the center of the Bautzen district in Upper Lusatia and has been part of the Panschwitz-Kuckau community since 1974 . Siebitz is located in the Sorbian core settlement area about four kilometers southeast of Panschwitz-Kuckau on the road from Bautzen to Kamenz . Most of the population speaks Sorbian .
The neighboring towns are Crostwitz in the north, Lehndorf in the east, Tschaschwitz in the southeast, Neuhof in the southwest and Schweinerden in the west. State roads 100 (Bautzen – Kamenz) and 101 ( Uhyst am Taucher –Crostwitz) cross in Siebitz .
history
The square village was first mentioned in 1351 as Siwycz . Unlike in the neighboring towns, the manor was not at the St. Marienstern Monastery , but with changing manors in the area and partly with the Bautzen Cathedral Monastery .
Siebitz was an independent rural community until 1957, then it was incorporated into Lehndorf .
population
According to Arnošt Muka's statistics , in 1884 all 63 inhabitants were Sorbs. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik determined that the Sorbian-speaking population was 61.1%.
Personalities
- Jacob Buk (Sorbian Jakob Buk ; 1825–1895), Sorbian clergyman and author
Individual evidence
- ^ Siebitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
- ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995
