Torga
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Torga
community Kodersdorf
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 35 " N , 14 ° 53 ′ 40" E
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| Area : | 1.53 km² |
| Incorporation : | 1938 |
| Postal code : | 02923 |
| Area code : | 035825 |
Torga (1936–1947 Kleeberg ) is a place in the East Saxon community of Kodersdorf in the district of Görlitz .
geography
Torga is located in the south of the municipality in a side valley of the White Schöps that flows through Rengersdorf and Kodersdorf . The federal motorway 4 runs in a west-east direction north of the town through Rengersdorf and is connected to the federal highway 115 via the Kodersdorf junction .
Neighboring towns are Wiesa in the northeast and Rengersdorf in the north, the church village Kunnersdorf in the southeast, Liebstein in the south and Königshain in the southwest. To the west are the Königshain Mountains , through which the motorway tunnel of the same name leads.
Together with Liebstein Torga is in the hill area around Liebstein , a small landscape of the natural space Oberlausitzer plate and granite hills . Characteristic for this are the altitudes between 190 and 290 m above sea level. NN , ridges, knolls, steep hollows and notched valley valleys in the surface shape, Königshain granite and loess loam as the predominant rock and the soil types brown earth , parabraun earth , Staugley , Braunstaugley and amphigley .
history
The village was first mentioned in 1399 as Torge . The area was probably settled much earlier, because around 1755 a coin from the Roman Empire with a portrait of Emperor Antoninus Pius (138–161 AD) was found.
Even when Upper Lusatia was a Bohemian crown land, Torga came to the manorial estate of Oberrengersdorf, to which it was subject until the 19th century. In terms of the church, Torga has been subordinate to the church in Kunnersdorf since 1545 at the latest, which was a branch church of Ebersbach until 1748 .
After the Congress of Vienna in 1815 , the Kingdom of Saxony had to cede a large part of Upper Lusatia to the Kingdom of Prussia . In the following year Torga was incorporated into the Rothenburg district (Ob. Laus.) . The district border with the Prussian-Silesian district of Görlitz ran south of the town .
In 1938 the village, which had been called Kleeberg since 1936, came to the Kodersdorf community together with Ober- and Niederrengersdorf.
Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 1825 | 191 |
| 1871 | 230 |
| 1885 | 221 |
| 1905 | 216 |
| 1925 | 194 |
Population figures collected separately for Torga are available for the period 1825–1925. After that, the population grew from 191 to 230 inhabitants from 1825 to the year the empire was founded. In the following surveys, the number of inhabitants fell again, so that in a 100-year comparison in 1925, just 3 inhabitants surplus (+1.6%) could be recorded.
Place name
The place name developed in documents from de Torge (addition to a personal name, 1399) via Turgaw (1416), Turkow (1454), Torgaw (1500), Torge bey Ebirßbach (1519), Torgaw (1532) to Torga in the year 1602. At this time the name was not yet established, as the later documentary mentions Turgau (1616) and Torge (1824) show. The place name probably comes from the Old Sorbian Torgow - as with Torgau - and referred to a market place (cf. Upper Sorbian torhošćo ). Meschgang, on the other hand, derives it from torgać (tear) and points to the location in the Schöps water crack .
In the course of the Germanization of Sorbian place names during the National Socialist era, which was particularly promoted in Prussia, the place was given the name Kleeberg on November 30, 1936 . Like most of the former Silesian towns in Saxony, Torga got its old name back in 1947.
literature
- Görlitz and its surroundings (= values of the German homeland . Volume 54). 1st edition. Verlag Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1994, ISBN 3-7400-0932-2 .
Footnotes
- ^ Torga in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- ^ Walter Wenzel: Oberlausitzer Ortnamesbuch . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 2008, p. 176 .
- ^ 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. 315 f .
- ^ Jan Meschgang: The place names of Upper Lusatia , VEB Domowina-Verlag Bautzen, 1973, p. 139