Troops (Königswartha)

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Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 35 ″  N , 14 ° 17 ′ 11 ″  E
Height : 135 m above sea level NN
Residents : 74  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation : April 1, 1936
Incorporated into: Commerau
Postal code : 02699
Area code : 035931
Aerial view
Stork nest in troops

Troops , Upper Sorbian Trupin , is a place in the East Saxon district of Bautzen and has been part of the Königswartha community since 1957 . The place is located in Upper Lusatia and is part of the Sorbian settlement area .

geography

Troops is located about 19 kilometers northwest of the large district town of Bautzen and twelve kilometers south of Hoyerswerda in the Upper Lusatian heath and pond landscape . The Königswartha community center is three kilometers away. An extensive forest area stretches to the west of the village; large fish ponds in the east and north.

Troops is historically a loose square village with the former Vorwerk in the south of the place. The neighboring towns are Commerau in the northeast, Entenschenke in the southeast, Eutrich in the south and Cunnewitz (municipality of Ralbitz-Rosenthal ) in the west.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1380 as Trupine . Other forms of name recorded are Truppe (1419), Droppe (1499) and Troppen (1556). Since the 18th century at the latest, the manor had been with the Königswartha manor, which operated an outbuilding in troops.

Until April 1, 1936, Troops was an independent rural community; then it was incorporated first to Commerau and on January 1, 1957 together with this to Königswartha.

population

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 142 inhabitants in the 1880s; without exception all of them were Sorbs . Even after the Second World War, Sorbian was still the predominant everyday language; however, since then its use in troops has continued to decline.

Most of the believing residents are of the Evangelical Lutheran denomination and parish to Königswartha; the smaller Catholic part belongs to the Ralbitz parish .

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Individual evidence

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