Oppitz or Psove ( German: Oppitz ; w.- pud . Psowje ) is a village in Upper Lusatia , Germany . It is part of the Königswart commune of the Bautzen district in Saxony . Submits to the administrative district of Dresden .
| Village | |
| Oppits Dog | |
|---|---|
| Oppitz Psowje | |
| A country |  Germany |
| land | Free State of Saxony |
| Area | Bautzen |
| Community | Königswart |
| History and geography | |
| First mention | 1353 |
| Center height | 138 m |
| Timezone | UTC + 1 , in the summer UTC + 2 |
| Population | |
| Population | 202 [1] people ( 2011 ) |
| Nationalities | Lusatians , Germans |
| Digital identifiers | |
| Telephone code | +49 35931 |
| Postcode | 02699 |
| Car code | Bz |
Content
Geography
It is located on both banks of Klein-Spree, at the very east of the commune in the southern part of the Lusatian Lakes region, about 6 kilometers east of the administrative center of the Königswart commune. It is surrounded in the north, south and east by a vast forest and several ponds. To the west of the village is the village of Neuppitz, which does not have the independent status of a settlement and is part of the administrative borders of Oppitz. The highway S 101 passes through the village.
Neighboring settlements: in the north - the village of Germanes of the Loza commune, in the north-east - the village of Lipich of the commune of Radibor , in the east - the village of Minakal of the commune of Radibor, in the southeast of the village of Droby of the commune of the commune of Radibor and in the west - the village of Neuoppits [2] .
History
The village has an old Slavic circular shape of building houses with an area in the center. First mentioned in 1353 under the name Obczow [3] .
Since 1994 enters the modern commune of Königswart [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]
- Obczow, 1353
- Oppetz, 1400
- Opitz, 1612
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, 280 people lived in the village (251 of them were Serbian (90%)) [8] .
Luzhitsky demographer Arnošt Chernik in his work “Die Entwicklung der sorbischen Bevölkerung” indicates that in 1956, with a total population of 324 people, the village’s population in Serbius was 74.7% (of them, 191 adults and 51 minors spoke the language) [9] .
| 1834 | 1871 | 1890 | 1910 | 1925 | 1939 | 1946 | 1950 | 1964 | 1990 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 280 | 313 | 230 | 310 | 306 | 320 | 385 | 362 | 286 | 237 |
Notes
- ↑ Statistisches Landesamt des Freistaates Sachsen , p. 5
- ↑ Jenička serbska karta w syći
- ↑ Oppitz / Psowje , Digitales Historisches Ortsverzeichnis von Sachsen
- ↑ Oppitz / Psowje , Digitales Historisches 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
- ↑ Oppitz / Psowje , Digitales Historisches 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
- Oppitz / Psowje , Digitales Historisches Ortsverzeichnis von Sachsen
- Oppitz , Königswart Commune Official Website