Zentendorf

Zentendorf community Neißeaue Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 44 ″  N , 15 ° 1 ′ 46 ″  E
Height :	168 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.13 km²
Residents :	150  (Jun 30, 2018)
Population density :	18 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 1950
Incorporated into:	Deschka
Postal code :	02829
Area code :	035820
Location of Zentendorf in Saxony
Zentendorf from the air

Zentendorf ( Upper Sorbian Šćeńc ) is a district of the municipality Neißeaue in the district of Görlitz in Saxony . Until it was incorporated into Neisseaue on January 1, 1999, Zentendorf was part of the Deschka community , and until July 1, 1950, the place was an independent community. Zentendorf is the easternmost place in Saxony and the Federal Republic of Germany . The place belongs to the administrative association Weißer Schöps / Neisse .

location

Zentendorf is located in Upper Lusatia , about 15 kilometers as the crow flies northeast of the city of Görlitz and right on the border with Poland . The Lusatian Neisse flows east of the village . The eastern outskirts of Zentendorf is (51 ° 16 ′ 44 ″ N, 15 ° 2 ′ 2 ″ E) , so Zentendorf is both the easternmost town in Saxony and the easternmost town in Germany and, besides Deschka and Zodel, only one of three places in Germany, which are east of the 15th longitude .

Surrounding towns of Zentendorf are the Polish rural community Pieńsk belonging villages Bielawa Dolna (Lower Bielau) in the northeast and Stoyanov (low Penzighammer) to the east, the city Pieńsk (Penzig) to the southeast, Deschka in the south, cold water in the west and Biehain and to City of Rothenburg belonging district Nieder-Neundorf in the northwest. State road 127 leads through Zentendorf from Bad Muskau to federal road 115 near Kunnersdorf .

history

The street green village Zentendorf was first mentioned in 1390 under the name Cenetindorf . A wide variety of place name forms have been mentioned for the place in the further course of time. In 1427 the place was called Czenthendorf and in 1533 Zenttendorff , for 1560 the place name Centendorf is recorded. In 1791, Zentendorf was first mentioned under its current name. The place name is derived from the Sorbian term for "young dog".

Zentendorf was owned by the city of Görlitz from 1589 . The place has always been in the Kingdom of Prussia and there in the province of Silesia in the administrative district of Liegnitz . In 1919 the province of Silesia was divided and from then on Zentendorf belonged to the province of Lower Silesia . Until 1930, Zentendorf had a stop on the Węgliniec – Roßlau railway , which runs north of the village. In 1938 the provinces of Upper and Lower Silesia were reunited to form the Province of Silesia, which was separated again in 1941. Since the end of the Second World War and the establishment of the Oder-Neisse border , Zentendorf has been located directly on the border with Poland. On 16 January 1947, the municipality of Zentendorf moved from the district of Görlitz in the district Niesky .

On July 1, 1950, Zentendorf was incorporated into the southern municipality of Deschka . During the GDR district reform of July 25, 1952, the community Deschka with the district Zentendorf was assigned to the district of Görlitz-Land in the Dresden district . After the fall of the Wall , Zentendorf was initially in the Görlitz district in Saxony . During the Saxon territorial reform of 1994 , Zentendorf came into the newly founded Lower Silesian Upper Lusatia District . On January 1, 1999, the community Deschka was dissolved and Deschka and Zentendorf independent districts of the community Neißeaue . During the district reform in 2008, Zentendorf came to the district of Görlitz .

population

In 1553 there were 17 possessed men in Zentendorf . For the year 1777 there were again 17 possessed men, eleven gardeners and two cottagers in the village ; a good was not cultivated. In 1825, Zentendorf had a total of 228 inhabitants. By 1885 the number of residents rose to 269 and then remained relatively stable for a long time. In 1905 253 inhabitants were counted; In 1925, Zentendorf had 277 inhabitants. Before the start of the war in 1939, there were 266 people in Zentendorf; after the end of the war in 1946, the number of inhabitants had risen to 325 due to refugees from eastern Germany. After 1990, the Upper Lusatia experienced a drastic population decline, especially younger people emigrated. During the district reform in 2008, Zentendorf still had 167 inhabitants. In the period that followed, the number of inhabitants steadily declined due to the age-related high death rate and out-of-home care for older residents.

Cultural monuments

See also : List of cultural monuments in Neißeaue # Zentendorf

According to the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony, eight monuments have been identified for Zentendorf . These include a water tower from 1930, a Soviet memorial for around 200 Soviet soldiers and a former inn from the second half of the 19th century.

Others

The adventure park “ The Secret World of Turisede ” (formerly “Kulturinsel Einsiedel”) is located to the northwest of the Zentendorf location . In 2008 it received a tourism award and in 2009 it was named “Chosen Place in the Land of Ideas ”. The "Folklorum" festival takes place in the park, which is the second largest folk festival in Germany after the Rudolstadt Festival .

Web links

• Zentendorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interesting facts about the community. Municipality of Neißeaue, accessed on July 10, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Zentendorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony.Retrieved on July 18, 2018
3. ↑ Arnost Muka: Serbski zemjepisny słowničk. Budyšin, 1927, p. 30 ( digitized version ).
4. ↑ Zentendorf in the historical directory. Retrieved July 18, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Ernst Dohlus: In spite of all this. In: Die Zeit , December 14, 2014, accessed on July 22, 2020.