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Community Hochkirch
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 12 ″  N , 14 ° 32 ′ 42 ″  E
Height : 255–269 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 104  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation : 1st January 1974
Postal code : 02627
Area code : 035939
Aerial view

Steindörfel , Sorbian Trjebjeńca ? / i , is a village in the east of the Saxon district of Bautzen , which belongs to the municipality of Hochkirch . It is part of the official Sorbian settlement area in Upper Lusatia . Audio file / audio sample

geography

Topographic map from 1844

The place is located two kilometers west of the community center Hochkirch at 264 m above sea level. NN directly on the federal highway 6 . To the north, the area falls below 200 m above sea level. NN, while in the southern area it is sometimes over 300 m above sea level. NN increases.

The neighboring towns of Steindörfel are Hochkirch in the east, Meschwitz in the south and Waditz in the northwest. The city of Bautzen is 7 km west of the village.

After the settlement, Steindörfel is a square village.

history

The place name Trebnitz - as Steindörfel was once called - is still recognizable in the Sorbian name. The older Sorbian place name denotes a clearing settlement or a stream that flows through cleared areas ( trjebić = clearing). Steindörfel is first mentioned in a document - referring to Flemish settlers - under the names Vlemischentorff (1419) and Flemmingsdorff vel Trebnitz (1512), later the name Steindörfel (1657) given by the German settlers is added.

Until 1974 Steindörfel was an independent rural community, since 1936 with the district of Waditz . Then it was incorporated into Hochkirch, Waditz later came to the municipality of Kubschütz .

population

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 186 inhabitants for the place in the 1880s; 177 of them were Sorbs (95%) and nine were Germans. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik still had 40 percent Sorbian population. Since then, the use of Sorbian has continued to decline sharply.

Until 1925, 169 inhabitants were recorded for Steindörfel. Due to the incorporation of Waditz and later the admission of refugees and displaced persons after the Second World War, the number rose to 363 at times, but has since decreased again and was around 140 in the 1990s and around 130 in the 2000s.

Most of the believing population is Evangelical Lutheran. The place is parish to Hochkirch.

traffic

The federal highway 6 (Bautzen-Görlitz) crosses the place. The Dresden-Görlitz railway line runs north past Steindörfel.

Personalities

  • In 1739 Johann Georg Vogel was born in Steindörfel . Initially a private tutor in Görlitz , he studied theology in Göttingen . In Muskau he then became pastor and superintendent. Here he also dealt intensively with beekeeping (in close contact with the small-scale pastor Adam Gottlob Schirach ); Envoys from the Russian Tsarina Catherine I also sought advice on this matter. Vogel died in 1826.

literature

  • Karl August Kubitz: Description of the parish Hochkirch , in: Neue Sächsische Kirchengalerie, 1903
  • Hochkirch before the Czorneboh . The beautiful Bautzener Land, issue 12, Bautzen 1965
  • Between Strohmberg, Czorneboh and Kottmar (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 24). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1974.

Web links

  • Steindörfel in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

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