Zimpel (Boxberg)

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Municipality Boxberg / OL
Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 30 ″  N , 14 ° 36 ′ 50 ″  E
Height : 139 m above sea level NN
Area : 8.13 km²
Residents : 91  (Dec 31, 2008)
Population density : 11 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : September 30, 1928
Incorporated into: Zimpel (-Tauer)
Postal code : 02943
Area code : 035895

Zimpel , Upper Sorbian Cympl ? / i , is a district of the East Saxon community Boxberg / OL in the district of Görlitz . With around 90 inhabitants, Zimpel is one of the smaller districts of the municipality and is part of the official Sorbian settlement area in Upper Lusatia . Audio file / audio sample

geography

Zimpel is around three kilometers southeast of Klitten on the road to Förstgen . Tauer joins the south-east of Zimpel . The Weigersdorfer Fließ flows through the village .

Zimpel and Tauer are surrounded by forests in the Upper Lusatian heath and pond landscape . The nearest towns are both around five kilometers away to the east and west.

history

Local history

Finds of a Middle Bronze Age burial ground in the center of the village are evidence of prehistoric settlement activity.

Zympel is mentioned in a document in 1485 in a Görlitz confession book through an admission of murder: Vnger von Zcymel had Libnaw irslagen. Zimpel is parish after Klitten and thus experienced the Reformation in 1555 .

The von Metzradt brothers on Reichwalde sold the manor in 1572 to Caspar von Nostitz , who owned the Jahmen estate . Wolf Christian von Schönberg bought the estate in 1700 and it remained in the family until 1780.

After the Wars of Liberation , Zimpel was in the part of Upper Lusatia that the Kingdom of Saxony had to cede to the Kingdom of Prussia . In 1816 the rural community was assigned to the newly founded district of Rothenburg (Ob. Laus.) . Johann Friedrich Neu from Görlitz had been the owner of the Zimpel manor since 1828 . The inhabitants made their livelihood through agriculture and forestry, and fish farming was carried out by the manor. A grinding and cutting mill was also important. The landowner in the 20th century was Hugo Stinnes .

After, among other things, the population figures had been collected for both communities together since the second half of the 19th century, Tauer was incorporated in 1928. Five years later, in March 1933, the community name was changed to Zimpel-Tauer .

Towards the end of the Second World War , the village and the estate burned down.

Zimpel-Tauer was incorporated into Klitten on January 1, 1973. With the incorporation of Klitten, Zimpel has been a part of Boxberg since February 1, 2009.

Population development

year Residents
1825 154
1999 125
2003 94
2008 91

In 1777 six possessed men ran in Zimpel.

The population was 154 in 1825. The further consideration of the population numbers is made more difficult by the fact that the surveys of the population figures for Zimpel were carried out together with the approximately equal Tau . With the exception of 339 inhabitants in 1871, Zimpel and Tauer together had less than 300 inhabitants since the 1880s.

Although in 1863 an 80 percent and in 1884 a 98 percent Sorbian population was determined, the rector of Weißwasser, Robert Pohl, came to the conclusion in 1924 that the village is "almost exclusively inhabited by Germans" . In fact, the language change to German takes place here predominantly in the first half of the 20th century, but in 1956 Ernst Tschernik still counts a Sorbian-speaking population of 32.4% in the municipality of Zimpel-Tauer.

While there were 125 inhabitants in 1999, there were only 91 in 2008.

Place name

In the opinion of Hans Walther , the place name goes back to the Middle High German word for 'tip', 'pointed end' and thus reflects its location.

Personalities

  • Heinz Roy (1927–2019), German-Sorbian composer, born in Zimpel

Sources and further reading

literature

  • From the Muskauer Heide to the Rotstein. Home book of the Lower Silesian Upper Lusatia District . Lusatia Verlag, Bautzen 2006, ISBN 978-3-929091-96-0 , p. 277 .
  • Upper Lusatian heather and pond landscape. A regional survey in the Lohsa, Klitten, Großdubrau and Baruth area . In: Values ​​of the German homeland . tape 67 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-412-08903-6 .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
  2. ↑ Zimpel in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  3. ↑ a b From Muskauer Heide to Rotstein , p. 277
  4. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian rural population . In: German Academy of Sciences in Berlin - Publications of the Institute for Slavic Studies . tape 4 . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 122 .
  5. ^ Robert Pohl : Heimatbuch des Kreis Rothenburg O.-L. for school and home . Buchdruckerei Emil Hampel, Weißwasser O.-L. 1924, p. 238 .
  6. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 254 .
  7. ^ Ernst Eichler and 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, p. 348 .

Web links

Commons : Zimpel / Cympl  - collection of images, videos and audio files