Werdeck (Krauschwitz)

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municipality Krauschwitz
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 45 ″  N , 14 ° 54 ′ 30 ″  E
Residents : 30  (Jun 30, 2009)
Incorporation : July 1, 1950
Incorporated into: Little Priebus
Postal code : 02957
Area code : 035775

Werdeck , in Upper Sorbian Wjertko , is a small village in the northeastern part of the district of Görlitz ( Saxony ). Since 1994 the place in the official Sorbian settlement area belongs to the municipality of Krauschwitz .

geography

Neisse at Werdeck

Werdeck is a round hamlet in the wooded Muskauer Heide on the Lusatian Neisse . Downstream is Pechern , upstream is Podrosche .

history

Werdeck is first mentioned in a document in 1521. Since 1552 at the latest, the place has belonged to the Muskau rulership . Due to its location in a wooded area away from the military roads, the place survived the Thirty Years' War , which in other places in Lusatia had devastating effects in part, unscathed.

Originally attached to Priebus , Werdeck has been part of the Podrosche parish since 1668 .

Werdeck is incorporated several times in the 20th century. In 1938 the merger with the twin town Jamnitz-Pattag on the right side of the Neisse to form the municipality of Neißebrück . After Poland shifted west to the Oder-Neisse line after the Second World War, Werdeck became an independent municipality again in 1945. As early as July 1, 1950, the place was incorporated again, this time to Klein Priebus . When several communities between Bad Muskau and Rothenburg / OL merged along the Neisse in 1994 , Klein Priebus was one of them. Werdeck is henceforth a part of the unified community of Krauschwitz .

Population development

year Residents
1825 61
1871 52
1885 61
1905 55
1910 55
1925 60
1946 77
2009 30th

From the year 1552 there are four possessed men and one cottage owner for Werdeck . In 1777 the social structure improved somewhat, in addition to the four possessed men, three gardeners are named.

Place name

The origin of the name is seen inconsistently in the literature. Jan Meschgang derives the word stem from the Middle High German value 'island' and sees it as an "island village", similar to Werda in the south-west , which becomes a "small island village" with the suffix. Ernst Eichler and Hans Walther agree with this possibility in principle, especially since it is "close to the Neisse because of its location", but favor a Sorbian origin. Accordingly, the place name from a derivation of the word wjerćeć 'turn, turn, drill, screw (from the water vortex)' cannot be completely ruled out.

literature

  • From the Muskauer Heide to the Rotstein. Home book of the Lower Silesian Upper Lusatia District . Lusatia Verlag, Bautzen 2006, p. 242 f .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Digital historical place directory of Saxony. Retrieved April 17, 2008 .
  2. ^ Jan Meschgang : The place names of Upper Lusatia . 2nd Edition. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1979.
  3. ↑ 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 . In: German-Slavic research on naming and settlement history . tape 28 . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1975.

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