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Community Hochkirch
Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 10 ″  N , 14 ° 34 ′ 30 ″  E
Height : 218 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 65  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation : April 1, 1936
Incorporated into: Pommritz
Postal code : 02627
Area code : 035939
Aerial view

Wawitz , Sorbian Wawicy ? / i , is a village in the east of the Saxon district of Bautzen , which belongs to the municipality of Hochkirch . It is part of the official Sorbian settlement area in Upper Lusatia . Audio file / audio sample

geography

The place is located 2.3 kilometers north of the community center Hochkirch at 210 meters above sea level. The neighboring towns are Rodewitz in the east, Pommritz in the south and Drehsa in the north-west.

After the settlement, Wawitz is a farming hamlet.

history

The place name was first mentioned in 1228 as Wawiz in a document from the Bohemian King Wenceslaus.

Until April 1, 1936, Wawitz was an independent rural community, then it was incorporated into Pommritz and in 1993 to Hochkirch.

population

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 122 inhabitants for the place in the 1880s; 121 of them were Sorbs and one German. Since then, the use of Sorbian in the village has decreased significantly.

In 1910 Wawitz had 125 inhabitants. Since 1993, the number of inhabitants has fallen slightly, from around 100 inhabitants at the end of the 1990s to around 80 inhabitants at the end of the 2000s.

Most of the believing population is Evangelical Lutheran. The place is parish to Hochkirch.

literature

  • Karl August Kubitz: Description of the parish Hochkirch , in: Neue Sächsische Kirchengalerie, 1903
  • Hochkirch before the Czorneboh . The beautiful Bautzener Land, issue 12, Bautzen 1965
  • Between Strohmberg, Czorneboh and Kottmar (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 24). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1974.

Web links

Commons : Wawitz / Wawicy  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Wawitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

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