Panschwitz-Kuckau
Panschwitz -Kuckau, Sorbian Pančicy - Kukow, is a municipality in the district of Bautzen in Upper Lusatia in Saxony. The community in the Sorbian settlement area is located about 12 km from the city Kamenz. It has 2200 inhabitants, of whom about half live in the place Panschwitz -Kuckau itself. In 2001, 49.7 % of the inhabitants of the Sorbian were powerful.
Geography
The place is situated 165-185 meters above sea level. NN in the " Oberland " ( Horyany ) of the former Convent of St. Mary Star Care. By Panschwitz -Kuckau the monastery Water, a tributary of the Black Elster flows. It separates the historic districts and Panschwitz Kuckau.
Local structure
Panschwitz -Kuckau was created in 1957 from the previously independent places and Panschwitz Kuckau. It has the following districts:
- Old brick barn ( Stara Cyhelnica ), 48 residents
- Cannewitz ( Kanecy ), 53 residents
- Glaubnitz ( Hłupońca ), 25 residents
- Jawor ( Jawora ), 123 inhabitants
- Kaschwitz ( Kašecy ), 123 inhabitants
- Lehndorf ( Lejno ), 101 inhabitants
- Neustädtel ( Nowe Městačko ), 9 residents
- Ostro ( Wotrow ), 281 inhabitants
- Panschwitz -Kuckau ( Pančicy - Kukow ), 1,114 inhabitants
- Säuritz ( Žuricy ), 112 inhabitants
- Pig Earth ( Swinjarnja ), 74 residents
- Siebitz ( Zejicy ), 35 residents
- Tschaschwitz ( Časecy ), 22 residents
History
Built In GDR times and maintained a state-owned enterprise in place an operating summer camp for the children of his company employees.
Population
According to the census of 2011, there were at this time of 2,141 inhabitants, 1,662 Roman Catholic ( 77.6 %), 201 Protestant (9.4%) and 278 belonged to another or no religion at ( 13%).
Policy
The local council of Panschwitz -Kuckau currently consists of twelve members, including eleven men and one woman. The municipal election in 2009 resulted in the following voting or distribution of seats:
A targeted July 1, 2011 merger with the neighboring community Crostwitz failed due to disagreements of local councils, including the language of the conference of the Council on.
Culture and sights
Characterised is the place St. by the Cistercian convent Marienstern that exists in its original purpose since its inception in 1248 until today. Every year at Easter draws Panschwitz -Kuckau also thousands of visitors when the traditional Easter horsemen ride to the monastery courtyard. Everywhere in the village and to the ways of the surrounding countryside bear witness crosses and Betsäulen from deep-rooted Catholic faith in this part of the Sorbian Lusatia.
In the district Ostro, a castle rampart is very well preserved (the " Ostroer Lair" ), which served the Slavic village population at times of the German Ostsiedlung as a refuge. The district pork earth, including a large former coaching inn in the 18th century as part of the Via Regia, is completely protected monument. The typical for this area originally Rundling is particularly well preserved.
By Panschwitz -Kuckau runs on the way from Nebelschütz after Crostwitz the bike path " On the tracks of Krabat ". Also revived Ecumenical pilgrimage route on the route from Görlitz to Vacha through the village. In the monastery there is a hostel for pilgrims.
Education
The municipality has the Sorbian Grammar School " Šula Ćišinskeho ". The adjacent middle school was closed despite violent protests as one of five remaining Sorbian secondary schools in 2007. On the monastery grounds there is a small special school is (G).
Personalities
- Jakub Bart - Cisinski (1856-1909), Sorbian poet, born in Kuckau
- Mikławš Andricki (1871-1908), Sorbian writer, born in Panschwitz
- Born Alexander Reiner (1885-1960), dentist, SS officer, commandant of the concentration camp of Sachsenhausen concentration Columbia and Castle, in Panschwitz
- Stanislaw Tillich (* 1959), Saxon Prime Minister, lives in Panschwitz -Kuckau
- Bogna Koreng (* 1965), Sorbian television journalist, lives in Panschwitz -Kuckau