Milkersdorf or Gorney ( German: Milkersdorf ; n.-puddle. Górnej ) is a village in Lower Luzic , Germany . It is part of the Kolkwitz municipality in the Spree-Naise district in Brandenburg .
| Village | |
| Milkersdorf Horney | |
|---|---|
| Milkersdorf Górnej | |
| A country |  Germany |
| land | Brandenburg |
| Area | Spree-Nice (district) |
| Community | Kolkwitz |
| History and Geography | |
| First mention | 1652 |
| Center height | 59 m |
| Timezone | UTC + 1 , in summer UTC + 2 |
| Population | |
| Population | 236 [1] people ( 2006 ) |
| Nationalities | Luzhichans , Germans |
| Digital identifiers | |
| Telephone code | +49 35604 |
| Postcode | 03099 |
Geography
Located about twelve kilometers south of Cottbus . Highway 7131 runs through the village, which is connected via federal road 49 via 7132. The Berlin - Görlitz railway line runs south of the village.
Neighboring settlements: in the north - the administrative center of Verben commune, in the east - the villages of Popojce and Kosobuz , in the south - the village of Ksishov , in the south-west - the village of Duba and in the north-west - the village of Bobov [2] .
History
First mentioned in 1652 under the name Popewitz [3] .
Until 1993, it was the center of the eponymous commune. Since 1993, it has been part of the modern commune of Kolkwitz.
Currently, the village is part of the cultural and territorial autonomy of the “ Luzhitsky Settlement Region ”, on the territory of which there are legislative acts of the lands of Saxony and Brandenburg, contributing to the preservation of the Luzhitsky languages and culture of Luzhic [4] [5] .
Population
The official language in the village, in addition to German , is also the Lower Sorbian language .
According to the statistical work “Dodawki k statisticy a etnografiji łužickich Serbow”, Arnosht Muki in 1884 lived 263 people (259 of them were Serbluzhichans (98%)) [6] .
The Luzhitsky demographer Arnosht Chernik in his essay Die Entwicklung der sorbischen Bevölkerung indicates that in 1956, with a total population of 301 people, the Serbluzhitsky population of the village was 57.8% (120 of them were active in the Lower Luzhsky language, 6 were passive and 38 minors knew the language) [7] .
| 1875 | 1890 | 1910 | 1925 | 1939 | 1946 | 1950 | 1964 | 1981 | 1992 | 2006 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 245 | 264 | 280 | 281 | 240 | 312 | 330 | 272 | 227 | 215 | 236 |
Notes
- ↑ Beitrag zur Statistik Landesbetrieb für Datenverarbeitung und Statistik Historisches Gemeindeverzeichnis des Landes Brandenburg 1875 bis 2005 19.13 Landkreis Spree-Neiße
- ↑ Jenička serbska karta w syći
- ↑ Reinhard E. Fischer: Die Ortsnamen der Länder Brandenburg und Berlin: Alter - Herkunft - Bedeutung. be.bra Wissenschaft, 2005
- ↑ Gesetz zur Ausgestaltung der Rechte der Sorben (Wenden) im Land Brandenburg (Sorben (Wenden) -Gesetz - SWG) dated July 7, 1994
- ↑ Gesetz über die Rechte der Sorben im Freistaat Sachsen (Sächsisches Sorbengesetz - SächsSorbG) dated March 31, 1999
- ↑ Ernst Tschernik: Die Entwicklung der sorbischen Bevölkerung. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, str. 52
- ↑ Ludwig Elle: Sprachenpolitik in der Lausitz. Ludowe nakładnistwo Domowina, Budyšin 1995
Literature
- Müllers Großes Deutsches Ortsbuch 2012: Vollständiges Ortslexikon. 33. überarb. und erw. Ausg., Walter de Gruyter, Berlin und Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-027420-2 , S. 898
- Reinhard E. Fischer: Die Ortsnamen der Länder Brandenburg und Berlin: Alter - Herkunft - Bedeutung. be.bra Wissenschaft, 2005, S. 116.