Weißig (Oßling)

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Whitish
community Oßling
Stone, forest, fish farming
Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 2 ″  N , 14 ° 7 ′ 15 ″  E
Height : 173  (150-188)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 9.57 km²
Residents : 272  (Aug 1, 2019)
Population density : 28 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1996
Postal code : 01920
Area code : 035792

Weißig ( Upper Sorbian Wysoka ? / I ) is a district of the municipality of Oßling in the north of the East Saxon district of Bautzen in Upper Lusatia . Audio file / audio sample

history

View from the south

Weißig is located on the slope of the Windmühlenberg, in the midst of an idyllic landscape of ponds, meadows and forests. The Sorbian settlement was first mentioned in documents in 1374 . The place name is derived from its location: "Wysok", from the Sorbian Wysoka, the height. In the course of time the name has been changed several times to the present form.

In Weißig it is customary to sing the Weißiger Heimatlied on village occasions. The annual maypole raising and throwing followed by the selection of the may queen as well as the carnival and the kite festival in Weißig are also an established tradition.

Population and language

Weissig originally belonged to the Upper Sorbian language area. For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 274 in the 1880s, including 228 Sorbs (83%) and 46 Germans. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking population of only 7.1% in the municipality of Weißig, including not a single young person. The language has now disappeared from everyday local life.

Attractions

Castle, north side
  • The castle: The Weißiger Castle , visible from the south and southwest, is the dominant point of the place. From 1723 it was the ancestral seat of the von Zehmen family. From 1569 to 1723 it was the seat of three other noble families. In 1908 the construction of today's castle was finished.
  • The crypt: The von Zehmen noble family had a family burial site built between 1842 and 1844. This neo-Gothic mausoleum is located in the castle park, about 150 meters east of the castle, on the main path of the park.
  • The land of a thousand ponds: The largest economically used pond area in Europe is in Upper Lusatia. Over a thousand ponds make up the special charm and charm of the landscape. Due to the near-natural pond management, Upper Lusatia is home to many rare animal and plant species.
  • Weißig Castle, park side
    The memorial standing on the village green: it shows with a memorial stone who fell in the Second World War , including Georg von Zehmen, who lost his life in 1941.

Recreation

Weißig lies on the Krabat cycle path and the frog cycle path . It can come up with a delightful drive through the Weißig-Biehla pond area.

Connection

The tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe applies in Weißig . The 184 bus connects Weißig to the municipality of Oßling (5 minutes 'drive) and to Kamenz train station (20 minutes' drive). There you can change to many other bus lines and to the Sachsen urban railway (line 34) to Dresden Hauptbahnhof . Weißig is located approx. 6 km south of the B97 and is connected by an access road to the state road S 94 Neustadt - Kamenz - Bernsdorf to the Burkau junction on the federal motorway 4 .

literature

  • Manfred Prescher: Weißig 1374–1999. Heimatverein Weißig eV, Kamenz 1999, pp. 1-60.
  • Matthias Donath : Saxony's most beautiful castles. edition Sächsische Zeitung Redaktions- und Verlagsgesellschaft Elbland mbH, Meißen 2008, Weißig p. 202.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Statistics of the community of Oßling. Oßling community, accessed on October 1, 2019.
  2. ↑ see historical facts on weissig-sachsen.de
  3. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
  4. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 252 .