Weigersdorf (Hohendubrau)
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Weigersdorf
Wukrančicy Hohendubrau municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 50 " N , 14 ° 38 ′ 45" E
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| Height : | 167 m above sea level NN |
| Residents : | 428 (Jun. 30, 2014) |
| Incorporation : | July 1, 1995 |
| Postal code : | 02906 |
| Area code : | 035932 |
Weigersdorf , Upper Sorbian , is a district of the Saxon community Hohendubrau in the district of Görlitz . The municipality has its administrative seat in Weigersdorf, which is part of the Sorbian settlement area .
geography
Weigersdorf is located about ten kilometers north of the town of Weißenberg, which lies on the federal motorway 4 , and west of the Hohen Dubrau on the Weigersdorfer Fließ.
Dauban is in the northeast , Förstgen in the north , Leipgen , Steinölsa and Kollm connect to the east, and Groß Radisch and Ober Prauske in the south in the southeast. The district boundary runs to the west, behind which the Malschwitz districts of Wartha and Kleinsaubernitz lie in the Bautzen district .
history
Local history
Bronze Age cremation graves were found in the district , which prove a prehistoric settlement. After the Great Migration , this area was uninhabited for several centuries. The form of settlement as Waldhufendorf suggests German settlement during the time of German settlement in the east . The first documentary mention can be found in a document from the St. Marienthal monastery , when in 1334 a "Petrus de Wignandisdorff" was named. The form of the name is also an indication of a German town foundation, as many villages were named after a locator .
Weigersdorf was part of the parish of Baruth and also belonged to the Baruth lordship when it was enfeoffed to the seven sons of Christoph von Gersdorff in 1527 .
The Kingdom of Saxony had to cede many parts of the country to Prussia in 1815 because it fought on the French side in the Napoleonic Wars . Among other things , Lower Lusatia, which had belonged to Saxony since the Peace of Prague , and the north-eastern part of Upper Lusatia came to Prussia. As a result, Weigersdorf was assigned to the newly founded district of Rothenburg ( province of Silesia ) in 1816 and re-parish in 1829 from Baruth, still in Saxony, to Groß Radisch .
In 1834 the Evangelical Lutheran (Old Lutheran) congregation was founded. She built a church in 1846, but had to wait until 1872 to be allowed to build a church tower. From 1848 Jan Kilian was pastor in Weigersdorf. In 1854 he emigrated to Texas with 550 Sorbs from Weigersdorf, Klitten and other places in the area , where he founded the Sorbian settlement of Serbin . The Evangelical Lutheran Church and the parish today belong to the Lausitz church district of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church .
A Protestant school had existed in Weigersdorf since 1828. The old Lutheran congregation founded its own school in 1872, after which the Protestant school was closed from 1875 to 1901. The school district included the villages of Dauban , Groß Saubernitz and Ober Prauske .
The church bell given in 1917 for armaments production during the First World War could be replaced by a new one in 1924.
On April 1, 1938, the northern municipality of Dauban was incorporated.
After the Second World War , the Silesian part of Upper Lusatia came back to Saxony. In the land reform carried out in 1945/1946 , the Weigersdorf estate was redistributed. With the dissolution of the states in the GDR, Weigersdorf was assigned to the Niesky district ( Dresden district ) in 1952. In March 1955, an agricultural production cooperative (LPG) was founded in the village , in which the land was also brought in.
In 1973 Ober Prauske was incorporated.
On July 1, 1995 the communities Weigersdorf, Gebelzig and Groß Radisch merged to form the community Hohendubrau .
Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 1825 | 332 |
| 1871 | 646 |
| 1885 | 616 |
| 1905 | 621 |
| 1925 | 721 |
| 1939 | 878 |
| 1946 | 1104 |
| 1950 | 1086 |
| 1964 | 958 |
| 1971 | 960 |
| 1988 | 1073 |
| 1999 | 494 |
| 2002 | 490 |
In 1777 there were 11 possessed men , 8 gardeners and 23 cottagers in Weigersdorf .
Between 1825 and 1871 the population almost doubled from 332 to 646, but then fell back to 616 by 1885. By the beginning of the Second World War, Weigersdorf had almost 880 inhabitants.
The post-war figures also include Dauban, which in 1925 still had 250 inhabitants. From 1946 to 1964 there was a decrease of around 150 inhabitants. The number could be maintained until 1971 and then rose again to over 1000 through the incorporation of Ober Prauske.
The figures after the Hohendubrauer community amalgamation show that only about 500 inhabitants live in the village.
Weigersdorf originally had a predominantly Sorbian population . In 1863 there were 467 Sorbs among the 600 inhabitants, according to official information, in 1884 Muka had counted 530 Sorbs out of 625 inhabitants for his Sorbian statistics in Upper Lusatia. This corresponds to a Sorbian population of 77.8% (1863) and 84.8% (1884). The language change to German mostly took place until the middle of the 20th century. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking population of only 25.4% in the municipality of Weigersdorf with Dauban, although it was slightly higher in the more remote Dauban and lower in Weigersdorf.
Today, Sorbian has disappeared from everyday life as a colloquial language in Weigersdorf. Sorbian inscriptions on the old school, on and in the church of St. Trinitatis and on the gravestone of teacher Andreas Dutschmann in the old Lutheran cemetery remind of the Sorbian past.
Place name
The place name can be traced back to a Wignand as the place founder. Via Wignandisdorff (1334), Wiknantstorf (1419), Weygeßdorff (1488), Weichmannsdorf (1529), the place name developed into Weygersdorff (1658) and finally Weigersdorf (1791).
The Sorbian name Wukrančicy was Sorabized from the German personal name, wi- became wu- and Wuknan- became Wukran- . In addition, the -icy prefix, which is often used for place names, has been added.
Sources and further reading
literature
- From the Muskauer Heide to the Rotstein. Home book of the Lower Silesian Upper Lusatia District . Lusatia Verlag, Bautzen 2006, ISBN 3-929091-96-8 , p. 278 f .
- Robert Pohl : Heimatbuch des Kreis Rothenburg O.-L. for school and home . 1st edition. Buchdruckerei Emil Hampel, Weißwasser O.-L. 1924, p. 243 f .
Footnotes
- ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities of Germany, see 1995
- ^ Weigersdorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- ↑ Population figures 1946–1995 include Dauban, from 1973 also include Ober Prauske.
- ↑ a b From Muskauer Heide to Rotstein , p. 278
- ^ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian rural population (= German Academy of Sciences in Berlin - publications of the Institute for Slavic Studies . Volume 4 ). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 122 .
- ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 254 .
- ↑ Ernst Eichler , Hans Walther : Oberlausitz toponymy - studies on the toponymy of the districts of Bautzen, Bischofswerda, Görlitz, Hoyerswerda, Kamenz, Löbau, Niesky, Senftenberg, Weißwasser and Zittau. I name book (= German-Slavic research on naming and settlement history . Volume 28 ). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1975, p. 329 f .
