Indignity

Indignity City of Löbau Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 25 ″ N , 14 ° 40 ′ 30 ″ E
Height :	280 m above sea level NN
Incorporation :	April 1, 1938
Incorporated into:	Kittlitz
Postal code :	02708
Area code :	03585
	Situation of indignity in the area of the city of Löbau

Unwürde ( Upper Sorbian Wujer ) is a place in southern Upper Lusatia in Saxony . The estate settlement, which was incorporated into Kittlitz in 1938 , has been part of the large district town of Löbau together with Kittlitz since 2003 .

geography

Unwürde is located north of the Löbauer town center on the state road 112 in the direction of Weißenberg at the foot of the Lauchaer Schafberg . West of indignity is Laucha and northwest Carlsbrunn . In the north, disgrace goes seamlessly into Kittlitz, while Oppeln , Bellwitz and Georgewitz are in the northeast and east .

history

Castle Unworthiness in the 19th century

Unworthiness as Uwer was first mentioned in a certificate that was issued on the Sunday before St. Niklastag 1306 by the Brandenburg margraves Otto and Woldemar . In it they surrendered to the higher courts of the city of Löbau. The originally Sorbian settlement became the ancestral seat of the line of Unworthiness of the Lords of Nostitz , who were first documented in 1348 with the soft picture elder Heinrich von Nostitz on Unworthiness.

In 1603 the estate passed into the possession of von Hund and Altengrotkau . Gotthelf Freiherr von Hund and Altengrotkau founded the Masonic lodge "To the three pillars" in 1751 in Unworthiness .

The Castle indignity , renewed 1727-1730, burned in the night of 26 to 27 January 1930 and was later demolished. The English style park surrounding the castle was preserved.

On April 1, 1938, the neighboring communities Unwürde and Laucha were incorporated into Kittlitz. The landowners were expropriated after the end of the Second World War and their lands were transferred to poor farmers and new farmers, mainly displaced persons and refugees from the former German eastern regions, as part of the land reform .

language

Until the early 20th century, Sorbian was also spoken in disgrace . Arnošt Muka determined a population of 237 in 1884/85, including 166 Germans and 71 Sorbs (30%). These spoke the now extinct Löbauer dialect . In the neighboring village of Laucha to the west there was even a Sorbian majority. Meanwhile, Sorbian has disappeared from everyday life.

Place name

Around a century after it was first mentioned in a document, Albrecht von der Unwirde , a form of the place name in 1405, comes very close to today's. Other variations were Vnwürde (1527), Vnwyrde (1543) and Vnwirda (1566).

Sources and further reading

literature

Peter Altmann: Unwürde & Laucha: History and stories in words and pictures from the Upper Lusatian villages: on the occasion of the first documentary mention of our hometowns; 1306-2006 . Oberlausitzer Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-933827-62-3 .
Between Löbau and Herrnhut (= values of the German homeland . Volume 56). 1st edition. Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Successor, Weimar 1996, ISBN 3-7400-0935-7 , p. 89 f.
Indignity . In: Markgrafenthum Oberlausitz , expedition of the album Sächsischer Rittergüter und Schlösser, Leipzig 1859. pp. 20–22 (Expedition of the Knightly Album Association: Album of the knightly estates and castles in the Kingdom of Saxony. Volume 3. Digital copy of the SLUB Dresden )
Cornelius Gurlitt : Indignity. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 34. Issue: Official Authority Löbau . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1910, p. 569.

Footnotes

↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
^ Unworthiness in the digital historical place directory of Saxony

Web links

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

Wikisource: Dignity - Sources and full texts

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

[HOV-2] Unworthiness in the digital historical place directory of Saxony