Werda (Rietschen)

Werda Wjerto Community Rietschen Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '57 "  N , 14 ° 45' 58"  E
Height :	140 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.08 km²
Residents :	179  (December 31, 2009)
Population density :	58 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	April 1, 1938
Postal code :	02956
Area code :	035772
View over Werda

Werda , in Upper Sorbian Wjerto , is a place without district status in the municipality of Rietschen in the district of Görlitz in Saxony . The place belongs to the administrative community Rietschen and was incorporated into Rietschen on April 1, 1938. From 1936 to 1947 the place was called Inselheide .

location

Werda is located in Upper Lusatia , around twelve kilometers northwest of Niesky and 14 kilometers southeast of Weißwasser on the Weißen Schöps . Neighboring places are Rietschen in the east, Nieder Prauske in the south and Hammerstadt in the west. To the north is the Oberlausitz military training area . Werda is on county road 8413, federal road 115 is around one and a half kilometers east of the village. Werda belongs to the official Sorbian settlement area .

history

In 1411 Werda was mentioned in a document with the name Werde . Other traditional forms of place names are Werdau in 1546 and finally Werda since 1767. The place name goes back to the Sorbian name wjerćeć = "screw, turn, drill" for a water vortex. Werda was mentioned as a manor in 1604 and was already part of Daubitz's church at that time . Since 1816 the place was in the district of Rothenburg (Ob. Laus.) In the Prussian province of Silesia . In 1936 the place name was changed to Inselheide (Middle High German value = "island") in the course of the National Socialist Germanization of Sorbian place names .

On April 1, 1938, the place was incorporated into Rietschen. After the end of the Second World War , it was renamed Werda. From 1947 the place belonged to what was then the district of Weißwasser-Görlitz , which was renamed the district of Niesky in 1950 . After the GDR district reform in July 1952, Werda belonged to the Weißwasser district in the Cottbus district . After reunification , Werda was first in the district of Weißwasser and, from 1994, in the newly founded Lower Silesian Upper Lusatia district , which became part of the district of Görlitz in 2008.

population

For the year 1777 there were two possessed men, four gardeners and 14 cottagers in Werda . In 1825 the place had 143 inhabitants, in 1871 there were 130 inhabitants. Then the population of Werda rose to 165 in 1885 and 173 in 1905. In 1925 Werda had 169 inhabitants.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Arnost Muka: Serbski zemjepisny słowničk. Budyšin, 1927, p. 29 ( digitized version ).
2. ↑ Werda in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony , accessed on May 10, 2020.