Stiftitz

This article describes the place Stiebitz . For other meanings, see Stiebitz (disambiguation) .

Stiebitz Sćijecy City of Bautzen Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 38 "  N , 14 ° 23 ′ 41"  E
Height :	210 m
Area :	4.73 km²
Residents :	567  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	120 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1994
Postal code :	02625
Area code :	03591
Location of Stiebitz in Bautzen
Rattwitz manor house

Stiebitz , Upper Sorbian Sćijecy ^{? / i} , is a village with around 500 inhabitants in eastern Saxony and has been part of the city of Bautzen since January 1, 1994 . The district is located about two kilometers west of the city ​​center , is divided into the old villages of Stiebitz and Rattwitz ( Ratarjecy ) and is part of the official Sorbian settlement area in Upper Lusatia .

State road 111 runs through the district of Stiebitz to Bischofswerda .

history

Stiebitz was one of the old council villages of Bautzen. It was first mentioned in 1242 as the manor of Martinus von Stewicz . Already around 1500 the local corridor belonged to the water catchment area of ​​the old water art . Both the Alte Dresdener Straße and the Neue Dresdener Straße, completed in 1820, ran through the town. In 1936 Rattwitz was incorporated.

Stiebitz was the branch point of the railway in the previously little infrastructural area north of Bautzen. Modern signal boxes and breakpoints were built here at different times.

Up until a few years ago there was a retirement home in the old Rattwitz manor; today it is empty. During the lifetime of Abraham von Nostitz it is known that the fron farmers fled from their brutal serf lord, so that the estate was temporarily deserted.

Population and language

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 96 in the 1880s, including 70 Sorbs (73%) and 26 Germans. The language change to German took place mainly in the course of the rapid population growth in the first half of the 20th century. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking population of only 6.7% in the municipality of Stiebitz, including only four young people.

Web links

Commons : Stiebitz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Stiebitz in the digital historical place directory of Saxony
• Web presence Herrenhaus Rattwitz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Stiebitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
2. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
3. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 246 .