Horka

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Horka
Horka
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Coordinates: 51 ° 18 '  N , 14 ° 54'  E

Basic data
State : Saxony
County : Goerlitz
Administrative association: White Schöps / Neisse
Height : 164 m above sea level NHN
Area : 41.01 km 2
Residents: 1694 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 41 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 02923
Area code : 035892
License plate : GR, LÖB, NOL, NY, WSW, ZI
Community key : 14 6 26 200
Community structure: 3 parts of the community
Address of the
municipal administration: 		At the municipal office 2
02923 Horka
Website : www.horka.de
Mayor : Christian Nitschke ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Horka in the district of Görlitz
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Horka ( Upper Sorbian Hórka ) is a Saxon municipality in the district of Görlitz . The community, consisting of the three districts of Biehain , Horka and Mückenhain , belongs to the administrative association Weißer Schöps / Neisse .

geography

The municipality of Horka is located in the eastern part of the district in a wooded area near the border with Poland , about 18 km northwest of the district town of Görlitz and 4 km east of Niesky . With its extensive forests, the area belongs to the Upper Lusatian heath and pond landscape .

history

The place name comes from the Upper Sorbian word hórka (Old Sorbian gorka , in German "hill") and therefore means "hill village".

Horka was first mentioned in 1305 in a Görlitz town book. From 1377 to 1396 the region belonged to the Duchy of Lusatia , from 1635 to 1806 to the Electorate of Saxony and then to 1815 to the Kingdom of Saxony . As a result of the Congress of Vienna , the municipality of Horka came to Prussia and was assigned to the province of Silesia . From 1919 to 1938 and again from 1941 Horka belonged to the Province of Lower Silesia . Saxon again after the Second World War , the community belonged to the Niesky district , since 1952 with the dissolution of the states in the Dresden district . Horka carried the name Wehrkirch between 1936 and 1947 as part of the National Socialist Germanization of Sorbian place names .

On March 1, 1994, the communities of Biehain and Mückenhain were incorporated into Horka.

politics

City council election 2019
Turnout: 67.1% (2014: 53.0%)
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
30.2%
19.2%
10.0%
6.3%
n. k.
13.1%
21.2%
FH
WVM
WGB
WGH
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
 % p
 25th
 20th
 15th
 10
   5
   0
  -5
-10
-15
-14.9  % p
+ 4.9  % p
-4.3  % p
-1.5  % p
-2.6  % p
-2.8  % p
+ 21.2  % p
FH
WVM
WGB
WGH

Since the municipal council election on May 26, 2019 , the seats of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

  • CDU : 4 seats
  • Voters' association "Florian" Horka (FH): 2 seats
  • Biehain voter community (WGB): 1 seat
  • Free voter association Mückenhain (WVM): 1 seat
  • Voting community for Horka (WGH): 1 seat

Attractions

The cultural monuments are included in the list of cultural monuments in Horka .

Evangelical fortified church

Horka fortified church

The fortified church dates from the early 13th century and is Romanesque-Gothic. It is surrounded by a defensive wall that was built in the 12th or 13th century. In the foundations of the oldest part of the wall, an approximately 1000 year old skeleton was discovered in a Christian-looking grave during excavation work. The fortified church has a crypt with several stone coffins. There are still bones in them.

traffic

The federal highway 4 runs south of the community. It can be reached via the Kodersdorf connection, about 5 km away .

The Horka Pbf station links the Węgliniec – Roßlau (Elbe) and Berlin – Görlitz lines . Horka is in the track triangle of these routes, trains run on the route: Görlitz – Niesky – Hoyerswerda (without stopping in Horka, 2010–2018 only as SEV ), Cottbus – Görlitz and the Hoyerswerda – Horka – Węgliniec route as a heavily frequented freight line. As part of the expansion of this important freight route in east-west traffic, the last section from Knappenrode via Horka to the border bridge was electrified by 2018. The branch line of the former Horka – Rothenburg – Priebus small railway branching off in Horka is no longer served.

To the east of the passenger station, there is another freight station, Horka Gbf station, which functions as a border station to the Republic of Poland. The Zweckverband Verkehrsverbund Oberlausitz-Lower Silesia is planning to set up a new Horka Mitte stop, which will enable the Görlitz – Hoyerswerda regional railways to stop at the connecting curve at the Rothenburger Straße level crossing. However, there are delays because Deutsche Bahn wants to change the previous plans with a platform height of 55 centimeters, although the vehicles and the new platforms towards Hoyerswerda also have this height.

Personalities

literature

  • Ludwig August Theodor Holscher: The parish Horka in the Rothenburg district, consisting of the villages of Ober-, Mittel-, Nieder-Horka and Mückenhain, described topographically, statistically, historically . Rothenburg id L. 1856 ( e-copy ).
  • From the Muskauer Heide to the Rotstein. Home book of the Lower Silesian Upper Lusatia District . Lusatia Verlag, Bautzen 2006, ISBN 978-3-929091-96-0 , p. 324 ff .
  • Horka municipality . Horka 1994 (60-page booklet).
  • Hans-Peter Berwig: Horka. 700th anniversary in 2005 . Horka 2005 (80-page illustrated book).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
  2. ^ Jan Meschgang: The place names of Upper Lusatia ; Domowina Verlag, Bautzen 1973; P. 103
  3. ↑ Results of the 2019 municipal council elections
  4. ↑ a b Corpse discovery puzzles archaeologists. (No longer available online.) In: Sächsische Zeitung . July 14, 2011, archived from the original on February 12, 2013 ; Retrieved July 14, 2011 .
  5. ^ Tilo Berger: A new stop for Horka. (No longer available online.) In: Sächsische Zeitung. December 12, 2017, archived from the original on April 10, 2018 ; accessed on April 12, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Till Scholtz-Knobloch: Horka is waiting for the new stop. In: Alles-Lausitz.de. April 3, 2018, accessed April 12, 2018 .