Wuischke (Hochkirch)

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Community Hochkirch
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 45 ″  N , 14 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 293 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 131  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation : April 1, 1936
Incorporated into: Meschwitz
Postal code : 02627
Area code : 035939
Aerial view

Wuischke , in Sorbian Wuježk ? / i , is a village in the east of the Saxon district of Bautzen , which belongs to the municipality of Hochkirch . It belongs to Upper Lusatia and belongs to the official Sorbian settlement area . Audio file / audio sample

geography

Topographic map from 1821/1822

The place is located 2.5 kilometers southwest of the community center of Hochkirch at 295 meters above sea level. NN in a valley floor at the foot of the Czorneboh . The neighboring towns are Meschwitz in the north-west, Hochkirch in the north-east and Sornssig in the east. Wuischke is surrounded on three sides by forests, the landscape is only open to the north.

After the settlement, Wuischke is a row village .

history

The place is mentioned in 1419 as Ugest parcva, later also Wugist (1441), Vgest / Vgist (1472), Vgischgk (1499), Wgest (1505). The place name appears in its current form around 1760.

In 1936 Wuischke was incorporated into Meschwitz and came to Hochkirch when Meschwitz was incorporated in 1973.

population

Half-timbered house Wuischke 33a (cultural monument)

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 237 inhabitants for the place in the 1880s; 205 of them were Sorbs (86%) and 32 were Germans. Since then, the proportion of Sorbian speakers has fallen sharply, even if the places on the Czorneboh (Wuischke, Rachlau, Meschwitz) remained mostly Sorbian for much longer than their surroundings - namely until the 1960s.

The Evangelical Sorbian Court Festival, organized by the villagers, has been taking place in Wuischke in August since around 2000. In the course of these revived cultural Sorbian activities, the Easter singing on Easter Sunday, once widespread in the Sorbian villages, has been revived in the village: Today it takes place in Wuischke as a bilingual prayer every year at sunrise on Easter Sunday.

In 1910 Wuischke had 202 inhabitants. In the data available for the 1990s, the Neuwuischke settlement is counted separately. Since then it has had a comparatively constant population of around 30. The main town of Wuischke recorded slightly fluctuating population figures between around 130 and 150 during the same period.

Most of the believing population is Evangelical Lutheran. The place is parish to Hochkirch.

Personalities

Wuischke has been the place of residence of the German-Sorbian poet Kito Lorenc (1938-2017) since the 1970s . In 1970 the writer Adolf Endler and his then wife Elke Erb bought a house in Wuischke, where Erb still lives for the summer. The poet Heinz Czechowski also owned a house in Wuischke since 1978 and describes his summer stays there a. a. in his autobiography. Until the beginning of the 1990s, when the circle of artists quickly disintegrated after the end of the GDR, other artists and writers, such as B. Franz Fühmann , Heiner Müller , Volker Braun , Uwe Kolbe , Christian Borchert , Rainer Kirsch , Brigitte Struzyk and Sascha Anderson .

literature

  • Karl August Kubitz: Description of the parish Hochkirch. in: New Saxon Church Gallery, 1903
  • Hochkirch before the Czorneboh . The beautiful Bautzener Land, issue 12, Bautzen 1965
  • Between Strohmberg, Czorneboh and Kottmar (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 24). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1974.

Web links

Commons : Wuischke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: Wuischke  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
  • Wuischke in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

  1. Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
  2. Elke Erb on literaturport.de; Retrieved June 19, 2017.
  3. Anne-Marie Pailhès: Regional identity in the GDR: Heinz Czechowski and Saxony - in search of the lost home in the autobiography, in: East German memory discourses after 1989: Narrative cultural identity, ed. by Elisa Goudin-Steinmann and Carola Hähnel-Mesnard, Berlin 2013, pp. 227–244, here p. 238.