Spreewiese

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Commune Großdubrau
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 39 ″  N , 14 ° 32 ′ 8 ″  E
Height : 145 m above sea level NN
Residents : 121  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation : April 1, 1936
Incorporated into: Klix
Postal code : 02694
Area code : 035932
Spreewiese Castle
Spreewiese Castle

Spreewiese , Lichań in Upper Sorbian ? / i , is a place in the east of the Bautzen district in Saxony and has been part of the Großdubrau community since 1994 . The place lies in the Upper Lusatia and belongs to the settlement area of the Sorbs . Audio file / audio sample

Until 1911 the place was called, derived from the original Sorbian place name "Lychan" ("clearing" on which people settled) in German "Leichan" and later "Leichnam (b)"; In 1911 the landowner Franz Sachsse caused the name to be changed to "Spreewiese".

geography

Spreewiese is located in the Upper Lusatian heath and pond landscape about 13 kilometers northeast of Bautzen in the floodplain of the Kleiner Spree directly below the junction from the Spree .

In terms of settlement history, Spreewiese is an alley village that was laid out parallel to the course of the Little Spree. The neighboring towns are Halbendorf in the northeast, Lömischau in the east, Brösa and Guttau in the southeast, Klix in the south, Särchen in the west and Göbeln in the northwest.

There are several fish ponds in the immediate vicinity of the village, including Granichsteich and Koselteich on the western outskirts, Miethesteich in the south and Rokotenteich in the east.

history

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The current place was first mentioned in 1394 as Lycham . Other forms of name recorded included a. Parvom body ( "large body"; 1419), Leichan (1461) and Leichnamb (1621). Since the 15th century, a knight's seat has been recorded in the place who exercised the manorial rule. From 1553 the manor belonged to the von Nostitz family . The castle was built as a successor to a former moated castle around 1557 (according to other sources in the last quarter of the 16th century). In the following two centuries, several renovations took place. The manor came to the von Schönberg family in 1629 and returned to the von Nostitz family in 1685. From 1728, other owners were Friedrich Caspar Graf von Gersdorff , Governor of Bautzen, who underwent a renovation in 1729, as can be seen in his coat of arms. He was a relative and college friend of Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf , the founder of the Moravian Brethren, for whom Gersdorff set up a Sorbian preacher's school on his estate in neighboring Klix . In 1743 he moved this, including a later nobility education with boarding school, to a newly built building next to the church in Uhyst , where he also had the large baroque palace built.

In 1751 the estate came to Hans Heinrich von Zezschwitz , from 1754 to the Count Family Reuss and from 1840 to the von Watzdorf family for 20 years . In 1901, Dr. Eisenstuck took over the property and sold it in 1911 to the Sachsse family, who were expropriated in 1945. After that, the castle served as a residence for several families. In 1997 the community sold the property to the architect Paul Wehrle-Nielsen. He completely renovated the building; it has since served as a residence and wedding venue. It is currently (2020) for sale again.

A little to the east of the actual place on the Great Spree was the Vorwerk Klein- Leichnam (Lichańk) . This was destroyed in the fierce fighting in connection with the Battle of Bautzen at the end of April 1945.

Until April 1, 1936, Spreewiese was an independent rural community; then it was incorporated first to Klix and together with this in 1994 to Großdubrau.

Population and language

The population was constant at around 200 in the 19th and 20th centuries.

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 214 in the 1880s; including 207 Sorbs (97%). Since then, the use of Sorbian has declined in town.

The predominantly Protestant population has been parish to Klix since at least 1614 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Spreewiese / Lichań  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Manors and castles in the Kingdom of Saxony: Corpse  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Exposé Spreewiese Castle
  2. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.