Strehla (Bautzen)

Strehla ; Třělany City of Bautzen Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 4 ″ N , 14 ° 26 ′ 21 ″ E
Height :	197 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.06 km²
Incorporation :	1913
Postal code :	02625
Area code :	03591
Location of Strehla in Saxony

Old Strehla waterworks

Strehla , in Upper Sorbian Třělany , is a village in the Ostvorstadt district of the Saxon district town of Bautzen . The place is located in Upper Lusatia and is part of the recognized Sorbian settlement area .

geography

Strehla is located in the south-eastern part of the city of Bautzen on the Albrechtsbach and is now surrounded by the Bautzner Ostvorstadt. Other surrounding neighborhoods and villages are Auritz in the east, to the municipality Kubschütz belonging Soculahora the southeast, Oberkaina in the south, the Suedvorstadt in the west and north-east ring in the northwest.

Strehla is on the district road 7239, which leads from Bautzen via Mehltheuer to Cunewalde .

A few farms near the intersection of Czornebohstrasse and Thrombergstrasse form the historic town center.

history

Strehla was first mentioned in 1242 as "Strel". In the following time the name was changed from “Strelen” in 1360 to “Strelan” in 1396. In 1571 it was called “Stelenn” and in 1791 “Strehla”. The place name comes from Sorbian and is derived from the ancient Slavic * strěla ("arrow"). In place and body of water names this probably means something like “water jet” or “river arm”.

The place was partly under the lordship of the Bautzen council and partly under that of the Landvogtei Bautzen .

Strehla was an independent rural community until 1913, when it was incorporated into Bautzen . On July 25, 1952, the location was assigned to the then newly formed Bautzen district in the Dresden district . After the change in the GDR , the place was assigned to the old district of Bautzen on August 1, 1994 , and since the district reform in Saxony on August 1, 2008 , the village has belonged to the Bautzen district . Today, Strehla is structurally fused with the Ostvorstadt district of Bautzen .

Population and language

For the year 1547 there were nine possessed men in Strehla . In 1777 there were seven possessed men and three gardeners . In 1834 the place had 74 inhabitants. The population in the village increased from 90 inhabitants in 1871 to 221 inhabitants in 1910. In 1925 Strehla had 639 inhabitants, 597 of whom were Evangelical Lutheran , 27 Catholics and 15 others.

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 93 inhabitants for 1884, of which 78 were Sorbs (84%) and 15 were Germans.

Web links

Strehla in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

^ Walter Wenzel: Oberlausitzer Ortnamesbuch. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 2008, p. 171
^ Strehla in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony . Retrieved October 7, 2017
^ Strehla in the historical index of places. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .
↑ Ernst Tschernik : The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.

[1] Walter Wenzel: Oberlausitzer Ortnamesbuch. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 2008, p. 171

[2] Strehla in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony . Retrieved October 7, 2017

[3] Strehla in the historical index of places. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .

[Muka-4] Ernst Tschernik : The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.