Sollschwitz (Wittichenau)

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City of Wittichenau
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 54 ″  N , 14 ° 12 ′ 59 ″  E
Height : 134 m above sea level NN
Area : 5.96 km²
Residents : 296  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 50 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1994
Postal code : 02997
Area code : 035725
Sollschwitz (Saxony)
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Location of Sollschwitz in Saxony
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Sollschwitz , Upper Sorbian Sulšecy ? / i , is a district of the city of Wittichenau in the Bautzen district in Saxony . The place is in the recognized Sorbian settlement area . Audio file / audio sample

location

Sollschwitz is located in Upper Lusatia . Surrounding villages are Saalau the northeast Kotten in the east, to the municipality Ralbitz-Rosenthal belonging Schoenau in the southeast, belonging to the municipality Oßling districts Trado and Skaska the southwest and west and Dear host in the northwest.

District road 9225 runs through Sollschwitz to Wittichenau . Furthermore, the Schwarze Elster flows through the place.

history

Sollschwitz was first mentioned in a document in 1291 as Zhulisdorph . In the course of time the place name changed from Czollischdorf (1382) to Solschwitz (1732) and Zollsdorf (1791) to today's Sollschwitz in 1908.

The chapel in the village was built in 1716. The stones that were used for the construction were donated by the pastor Lukas Laurencius Jochomec from Peicherwitz . Jochomec also gave the Sollschwitz community a chalice, missal and vestments . These gifts were destroyed on February 28, 1875 in the fire in the house of the sexton Jakob Mikwauschk. On the altar of the chapel there is a picture of Saint Mark , which was painted in 1858.

After the Congress of Vienna , Sollschwitz came to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 . There the place was until July 8, 1945 in the administrative district of Liegnitz . On July 1, 1950, the place Liebegast was incorporated into Sollschwitz. The community was assigned to the newly formed Hoyerswerda district on July 25, 1952 . After the reunification , Sollschwitz was in the Hoyerswerda district in Saxony . On January 1, 1994, the incorporation of Liebegast was reversed, Liebegast a district of the community Oßling and Sollschwitz was incorporated into Wittichenau . From January 1, 1996 to July 31, 2008, Sollschwitz was in the district of Kamenz , since the Saxon district reform on August 1, 2008 , the place has been in the district of Bautzen .

population

Catholic chapel in Sollschwitz

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 205 inhabitants in the 1880s; 200 of them were Sorbs (98%) and five were Germans. In 1956, Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking population of 54% in Sollschwitz.

The village belongs to the Catholic Upper Sorbian core settlement area and belongs to the parish of Wittichenau.

proof

  1. ↑ Sollschwitz (Wittichenau) in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony , accessed on May 7, 2017
  2. ^ Catholic parish of St. Mariä Himmelfahrt Wittichenau: Sollschwitz. In: st-mariae-himmelfahrt-wittichenau.de. Retrieved May 7, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Sollschwitz in the database of the Verein für Computergenealogie. Retrieved May 7, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 93 .

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