Tauer (Boxberg)

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Municipality Boxberg / OL
Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 20 ″  N , 14 ° 37 ′ 40 ″  E
Height : 140 m above sea level NN
Area : 3.42 km²
Residents : 89  (December 31, 2008)
Population density : 26 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : September 30, 1928
Incorporated into: Zimpel
Postal code : 02943
Area code : 035895

Tauer , Turjo in Upper Sorbian ? / i , is a district of the East Saxon community Boxberg / OL It is part of the official Sorbian settlement area in Upper Lusatia . Audio file / audio sample

geography

Tauer is in the form of an extended alley village around four kilometers southeast of Klitten on the road to Förstgen am Weigersdorfer Fließ . To the north-west of Tauer is the Zimpel district , which is roughly the same size in terms of inhabitants, but twice as large as Tauer in area. Unlike Zimpel, Tauer is not parish in Klitten, but in Förstgen.

Tauer and Zimpel lie in the Upper Lusatian heath and pond landscape , surrounded by forests. North of Tauer are the 148 meter high Kreuzberge; south of it the Tauerwiesen, an approximately 120 hectare fen area. The nearest towns are both around five kilometers away to the east and west.

history

Signpost southwest of Tauer in the Daubaner Heide

Local history

Finds at a Mesolithic camp and resting place prove that there were people in the Tauer district as early as prehistory .

The well-known documented first mention took place in 1447 as Thure , almost 40 years before Zimpels was first mentioned in a document. Tauer's affiliation at this time is not certain thanks to a sparse source of sources, but in 1519, when property was divided, Tauer was named as the place of pertinence of the Baruther rule .

Christoph von Nostitz acquired Gut Tauer in 1604, after Zimpel had been in the possession of the Nostitz lordship of Jahmen since 1572 .

After the Wars of Liberation , Tauer was in the part of Upper Lusatia that the Kingdom of Saxony had to cede to Prussia. In 1816 the rural community was assigned to the newly founded district of Rothenburg (Ob. Laus.) . In 1928 it was incorporated into Zimpel after, among other things, the population figures had been collected for both communities since the second half of the 19th century. Five years later, in March 1933, the community name was changed to Zimpel-Tauer .

Towards the end of the Second World War , ten residential buildings and several farm buildings out of 30 homesteads were destroyed.

Until 1958 the school was attended in the parish of Förstgen, since then in Klitten. Zimpel-Tauer was incorporated there in 1973.

With the merger of the communities of Klitten and Boxberg in February 2009, Tauer has since been part of the community of Boxberg / OL

Population development

year Residents
1825 132
1999 95
2008 83

In 1777 there was 1 man possessed , 9 gardeners and 15 cottagers in Tauer. Compared to the 6 possessed men in Zimpel, the population is larger, but also socially worse off.

The population was 132 in 1825. In 1884, Arnošt Muka counted 153 Sorbs among the 156 inhabitants for the survey of the Sorbian population . The further consideration of the population figures is made more difficult by the fact that the surveys of the population figures for Tauer are carried out together with the approximately equally large Zimpel. With the exception of 339 inhabitants in 1871, Tauer and Zimpel together have had fewer than 300 inhabitants since the 1880s. The language change to German takes place here predominantly in the first half of the 20th century, so that Ernst Tschernik put the Sorbian-speaking population in the municipality of Zimpel-Tauer at only 32.4% in 1956.

At the turn of the millennium, the number of inhabitants in Tauer was 90 with a falling trend.

Place name

The place name is coincidentally derived from Paul Kühnel (1892), Jan Meschgang (1973) and Ernst Eichler (1975) from the Urrind (Ur, Auerochse ), which is called tur in the West Slavic languages . Meschgang and Eichler also refer to Tauer in Niederlausitz, whose Lower Sorbian name Turjej is very similar to the Upper Sorbian name Turjo of this place Tauer.

Sources and further reading

literature

  • From the Muskauer Heide to the Rotstein. Home book of the Lower Silesian Upper Lusatia District . Lusatia Verlag, Bautzen 2006, ISBN 3-929091-96-8 , p. 277 .

Footnotes

  1. ^ Tauer in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  2. ↑ Von der Muskauer Heide zum Rotstein , p. 277
  3. ^ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian rural population (=  German Academy of Sciences in Berlin - publications of the Institute for Slavic Studies . Volume 4 ). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 121 .
  4. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 254 .
  5. ^ Paul Kühnel: The Slavic place and field names of Upper Lusatia . Central antiquariat of the German Democratic Republic, Leipzig 1982, p. 105 f (photomechanical reprint of the original edition (1891–1899)).
  6. ^ Jan Meschgang: The place names of Upper Lusatia . 2nd Edition. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1979, p. 115 (edited by Ernst Eichler ).
  7. ↑ Ernst Eichler , Hans Walther : Oberlausitz toponymy - studies on the toponymy of the districts of Bautzen, Bischofswerda, Görlitz, Hoyerswerda, Kamenz, Löbau, Niesky, Senftenberg, Weißwasser and Zittau. I name book (=  German-Slavic research on naming and settlement history . Volume  28 ). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1975, p. 310 .

Web links

Commons : Tauer / Turjo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files