Zescha

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commune Neschwitz
Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 14 ″  N , 14 ° 19 ′ 12 ″  E
Height : 145 m above sea level NN
Residents : 276  (Dec. 31, 2016)
Incorporation : January 1, 1978
Postal code : 02699
Area code : 035933
Aerial view
Zescha on the measuring table from 1884

Zescha , in Upper Sorbian Šešow ? / i , is a place in the center of the Bautzen district in East Saxony and has been part of the Neschwitz community since 1978 . The place lies in the Upper Lusatia and belongs to the settlement area of ​​the Sorbs . Audio file / audio sample

geography

Zescha is located about 14 kilometers northwest of the large district town of Bautzen along the Schwarzwasser , which flows here from the south towards the Schwarze Elster . To the east of Zescha, a contiguous forest area extends over eight kilometers to Milkel .

The neighboring towns are Niesendorf in the north and Neschwitz in the south.

history

Even before the 14th century, Zescha belonged to the Neschwitz rule of the von Schreibersdorf noble family. The settlement was first mentioned in 1357 as Zchesschow . Hans Heinrich von Schreibersdorf sold the manor to Wolf Conrad von Theler in 1646. Son George Bernhard took it over in 1673 and after the death of his father in 1690 his son Carl Gottlob von Theler. He sold Zescha in 1718 to Gottlob von Penzig, who changed it from fiefdom to inheritance on March 20, 1719. The heirs sold the manor in 1739 to Count Alexander Joseph von Sulkowski, Foreign Minister of the King of Poland and Elector of Saxony. After that it belonged as freely available genetic material (alloid) to the von Riesch noble family of the Neschwitz rule. 1834 sold to Ernst Gustav Herrmann von Kyaw and in 1844 bought back by Isaak Wolfgang Graf von Riesch. Thereafter property of the Counts Peralta-Renaud-Riesch and the noble family of the Barons von Vietinghoff-Riesch. On May 19, 1813, violent fighting broke out in the area of ​​Zescha in the run-up to the Battle of Bautzen . A memorial stone reminds of this. Zescha was always an economically important part of the Neschwitz rule. Forestry, fish farming, two water mills (field and village mill), lawn iron mining and cattle trading contributed to this. Until 1978 Zescha formed an independent rural community; then it was incorporated into the neighboring Neschwitz.

population

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 285 inhabitants in the 1880s; including 267 Sorbs (94%) and 18 Germans. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking share of only 44.7% of the population in the community of Zescha. Since then, the use of Sorbian in the village has continued to decline.

In 1925 Zescha had 323 inhabitants; 314 of them were of Protestant denomination. After the Second World War, over 400 people were temporarily resident in Zescha due to the influx of resettlers from the eastern regions.

The place has been parish to Neschwitz since the 16th century.

Infrastructure

The federal highway 96 from Bautzen to Hoyerswerda runs one kilometer east of the village.

Since 1890, Zescha had a stop on the railway from Bautzen to Königswartha , which in 1908 was extended beyond the Saxon-Prussian border and thus expanded to form the Bautzen – Hoyerswerda railway line . The traffic was finally stopped in 2001.

literature

  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Zescha. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 32nd issue: Bautzen Official Authority (Part II) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1908, p. 325.

Web links

Commons : Zescha / Šešow  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Zescha in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
  2. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 246 .