Meshwitz or Meshitsy ( German: Meschwitz ; w.- lug . Mješicy ) - a village in Upper Lusatia , Germany . Part of the commune Hochkirch district Bautzen in Saxony . Submits to the administrative district of Dresden .
| Village | |
| Meshwitz Meshitsy | |
|---|---|
| Meschwitz Mješicy | |
| A country |  Germany |
| land | Free State of Saxony |
| Area | Bautzen |
| Community | Hochkirch |
| History and geography | |
| First mention | 1315 |
| Square | 3.81 km² |
| Center height | 259 m |
| Timezone | UTC + 1 , in the summer UTC + 2 |
| Population | |
| Population | 175 [1] people ( 2011 ) |
| Nationalities | Lusatians , Germans |
| Digital identifiers | |
| Telephone code | +49 35939 |
| Postcode | 02627 |
| Car code | Bz |
Content
Geography
Located at the foot of the hill Chorneboh (Czorneboh, Čornobóh, 555 m.).
Neighboring localities: in the north - the village of Trebenca , in the northeast - the administrative center of the Hochkirch commune, in the southeast - the village of Vuyzhk pod Chornobog , in the southwest - the Rakhlov pod Chornobog village of the Kubszyuts commune and in the northwest - Sovretsy village [2] .
History
First mentioned in 1315 under the name Meshewicz [3] .
From 1935 to 1973 was part of the commune Vyushke. Since 1973 enters the modern commune Hochkirch [4] .
Currently, the village is part of the cultural-territorial autonomy " Luzhitsky Settlement Region ", on the territory of which there are legislative acts of the lands of Saxony and Brandenburg, which contribute to the preservation of Lusatian languages and the culture of Luzhich [5] [6] .
- Historical German names [7]
- Meshewicz, 1315
- Messicz, 1400
- Meschicz, 1443
- Messch (e) wicz, 1467
- Meschwitz, 1791
Population
The official language in the village, in addition to German , is also Upper Luzhk language .
According to the statistical work “Dodawki k statisticy a etnografiji łužickich Serbow” by Arnoš Muki in 1884, 267 people lived in the village (of which 250 were Serbian inhabitants (94%)) [8] .
Luzhitsky demographer Arnošt Chernik in his work “Die Entwicklung der sorbischen Bevölkerung” indicates that in 1956, with a total number of 553 people, the village’s population in Mongolia was 55.9% (of which 232 adults and 77 minors were fluent in the language) [9] .
| 1834 | 1871 | 1890 | 1910 | 1925 | 1939 | 1946 | 1950 | 1964 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 238 | 250 | 263 | 243 | 239 | 393 | 497 | 553 | 534 |
Famous residents and natives
- Jan Waver (1672-1728) - Lutheran priest and Serbian-Luzhsk cultural worker, one of the four translators of the first complete translation of the Bible into Upper-Luzhsk language
Notes
- ↑ Statistisches Landesamt des Freistaates Sachsen , p. 5
- ↑ Jenička serbska karta w syći
- ↑ Meschwitz / Mješicy , Historischen Ortsverzeichnis von Sachsen
- ↑ Meschwitz / Mješicy , Historischen Ortsverzeichnis von Sachsen
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Meschwitz / Mješicy , Historischen Ortsverzeichnis von Sachsen
- ↑ Ernst Tschernik: Die Entwicklung der sorbischen Bevölkerung. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, str. 52
- ↑ Ludwig Elle: Sprachenpolitik in der Lausitz. Ludowe nakładnistwo Domowina, Budyšin 1995
Links
- Meschwitz / Mješicy , Historischen Ortsverzeichnis von Sachsen