Kleinwelka
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Location of Kleinwelka in Bautzen
Kleinwelka, Sorbian Maly Wjelkow, since 1 January 1999, a district of the city of Bautzen in Saxony and was previously an independent municipality. Originally belonged to the district of the villages Großwelka, Lubachau and Kleinseidau, but these count since 2007 as a separate districts.
History
The place was in 1345 for the first time mentioned. The village chronicle to the early 15th century.
1751 could be at the invitation of the sorbent Matthew Lange ( Matej Dołhi ) members of the Moravian Church in Kleinwelka down. They founded the colony Kleinwelka they developed according to the architectural ideas of the Free Church. Center of the town has since become the Moravian church hall.
Played an important role from 1778 boarding school for children of missionaries ( boys 'and girls' institution ). Numerous mission children came over several years for school education from Labrador, Suriname, Tanganyika and Natal to Kleinwelka and changed in higher classes to the Moravians Pädagogium in Niesky over.
After its dissolution in 1942 and converted into a military hospital, a nursing home is housed in the building of the boys' institution today, part of the Moravian Diakonia since 1 January 2005. The boys Institute of the Moravian Church was an important site in the tradition of manufacturing the Moravian star. Under the leadership of Hermann Bourquin (1847-1913) the today's popular Advent stars were made here of children.
Kleinwelka was increased by the incorporations of Coelln and Milkwitz on 1 January 1973 and Salzenforst - Bolbritz ( merger of these two places on July 1, 1969) on 1 January 1994. Schmochtitz was incorporated into Salzenforst on April 1, 1948. On 1 October 1998, the districts Coelln, Großbrösern and Milkwitz from Kleinwelka were off and reclassified into the community Radibor.
In connection with the Battle of Bautzen in Kleinwelka it came to fighting in which French and Bavarian soldiers were killed on 20 May 1813. Near the water tower in Kleinwelka there is a memorial stone.
For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia Arnost Muka determined in the eighties of the 19th century had a total population of 605 inhabitants in the colony and village Kleinwelka; which were 196 Sorbs ( 32%) and 409 German. In the village proper, however, the proportion of the Sorbs was significantly higher at 91 percent.
Culture and sights
Kleinwelka is a station on Easter riding from the center of Bautzen after Radibor. In the districts Kleinwelka and Großwelka leisure parks were created:
The maze was created in 1992 by private initiative of the Frenzel family after a plan by Manfred Frenzel. The rectangular system of over 5000 m² of floor space is divided into three sections: a hedge maze, an adventure maze with various climbing equipment and a puzzle maze, in which there are thirteen fields with different categories of questions. The planting consists of 3800 evergreen trees of life. The shortest Zielweg measures 356 meters, the longest 1053 meters. There are 30,720 ways to achieve the goal of the maze without passing through a directional piece twice.
The miniature park was opened in 1998. The 60 -acre resort with over 600 characters in 90 scenes was created by Tom Glöß. He himself has Turned Most of the wooden figures. Many of the scenes show rural life in Upper Lusatia. Part of the park is the so-called small - Ossi country in which scenes from the GDR life are shown. Three objects of the miniature park were included in the Guinness Book of Records: the smallest Sorbian Easter egg and the smallest and the largest Incense in the world.
Economy
In Kleinwelka is the production site of well-known Germany Bautz'ner mustard.