Wendischbaselitz

Wendischbaselitz ; Serbske Pazlicy Community Nebelschütz Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 55 " N , 14 ° 10 ′ 38" E
Height :	190 m above sea level NN
Residents :	278 (Dec. 31, 2016)
Incorporation :	1st January 1974
Postal code :	01920
Area code :	03578
Location of Wendischbaselitz in Saxony
	Nebelschützer Strasse in Wendischbaselitz

Wendischbaselitz, aerial photo (2017)

Easter rider procession in Wendischbaselitz

Wendischbaselitz , Upper Sorbian Serbske Pazlicy ^?^/ⁱ , is a place in the center of the Bautzen district in East Saxony and has been part of the Nebelschütz community since 1974 . The place is located in Upper Lusatia and is part of the core settlement area of the Sorbs . The majority of the residents speak Sorbian as their mother tongue.

geography

Wendischbaselitz is a street village on the road from Nebelschütz to Crostwitz , about six kilometers east of the large district town of Kamenz . The expansion of the Josefshäusel on the northern outskirts belongs to the village.

The surrounding area is gently rolling and is used for agriculture. Only in a northerly direction do extensive forests extend towards Piskowitz and Rosenthal , including the Lugewald . The neighboring towns are Piskowitz in the north, Schmeckwitz and Dürrwicknitz in the southeast and Nebelschütz in the west.

history

The place was first mentioned around 1375 in the interest register of the St. Marienstern monastery as Pazelicz Slavicum . The addition slavicum (Slavic / Wendish) served to distinguish it from Deutschbaselitz further north .

From the 16th century on, Wendischbaselitz was divided between the manor Räckelwitz and the Marienstern monastery. The place is parish from ancient Roman Catholic to Nebelschütz.

On November 1, 1937, as part of the National Socialist Germanization of Sorbian place names, the place was renamed “Kleinbaselitz” in order to avoid the ethnonym “Wendisch” . In January 1948 it got its original name back. The strategy of the National Socialists was to negate the existence of a Sorbian people as much as possible. Wendischbaselitz was an independent rural community until January 1, 1974, when it was incorporated into Nebelschütz.

population

In 1925 Wendischbaselitz had 244 inhabitants, 229 of whom were Catholic (94%).

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka had determined a population of 179 inhabitants in the 1880s; 174 of them were Sorbs (97%) and five were Germans. Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking population of 88.6% in 1956.

The population has increased - atypical for Upper Lusatia - by around a fifth in the last 50 years. Today the place is after Nebelschütz itself the second largest municipality in terms of population.

Culture and sights

Wendischbaselitz is on the traditional route of the Nebelschützer Easter rider procession to Ostro . In addition, the Krabat cycle path runs through the village.

Personalities

Jurij Grós (1931–2019) - politician (SED, PDS, Die Linke), chairman of Domowina

Web links

Commons : Wendischbaselitz / Serbske Pazlicy - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wendischbaselitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

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^ Gero Lietz: On dealing with the National Socialist place-name legacy in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Leipzig 2005, p. 54
↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 252 .

[1] Gero Lietz: On dealing with the National Socialist place-name legacy in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Leipzig 2005, p. 54

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

[3] Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 252 .