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Goda, Upper Sorbian Hodźij, is a place and the eponymous town in Upper Lusatia west of Bautzen.

4.1 Church of St. Peter and Paul
4.2 Fixed

5.1 municipal
5.2 Local Partnerships

Geography

The municipality is located in the fertile Goda Altsiedelland of Oberlausitzer Arabah west of the city of Bautzen. The town itself stands on the right bank of the Long Water, which has been traversed for centuries by a ford. Even today's State Road 111 (formerly B 6 ) essentially follows the history of this ancient trade route. At the highest point in the town is the parish church of St. Peter and Paul.

The long water resulted in particular in the years 1897, 1945 and 1981, devastating floods, which caused considerable damage. Therefore, after the Second World War, several reservoirs were built on the upper reaches. The Gödaer pool was taken into operation in 1962.

Community structure

The municipality consists of 6 main districts, which are each associated with even smaller villages:

Coblenz ( Koblicy ), 56 residents Dobranitz ( Dobranecy ), 20 Ew.
Kleinpraga ( Mała Praha ), 17 Ew.
Nedaschütz ( Njezdašecy ), 179 Ew.
Pietzsch joke ( Běčicy ), 102 Ew.
Sizzling Schukowitzgasse ( Čěškecy ), 30 Ew.

Goda ( Hodźij ), 946 Ew. Birkau ( Breza ), 105 Ew.
Busche Ritz ( Bóšericy ), 16 Ew.
Dahren ( It ), 35 Ew.
Döbschke ( Debiškow ), 34 Ew.
Jannowitz ( Janecy ), 22 Ew.
Semmichau ( Zemichow ), 93 Ew.

Kleinförstchen ( Mała Boršć ), 105 Ew. Three Star ( Tři Hwězdy ), 40 Ew.
New Bloaschütz ( Nowe Błohašecy ), 23 Ew.
Oberförstchen ( Hornja Boršć ), 124 Ew.
Preske ( Praskow ), 55 Ew.
Siebitz ( Dźiwoćicy ), 82 Ew.

Prischwitz ( Prěčecy ), 171 Ew. Dreikretscham ( Haslow ), 75 Ew.
Shell joke ( Myšecy ), 100 Ew.
Paßditz ( Pozdecy ) with Liebon ( LIBON ), 57 Ew.
Sollschwitz ( Sulšecy ), 139 Ew.
Storcha ( Bacon), 87 Ew.
Zscharnitz ( Čornecy ), 27 Ew.

Seitschen ( Žičeń ), 212 Ew. Kleinseitschen ( Žičeńk ), 91 Ew.

Spittwitz ( Spytecy ), 123 Ew. Leutwitz ( Lutyjecy ), 41 Ew.
Neuspittwitz ( Nowe Spytecy ), 99 Ew.

History

The earliest detectable traces of settlement, which were found in Goda itself, come from the Bronze Age. Near the road to Seitschen is located at Langen water called Alte Schanze, also called Gödaer jump, an oval ring wall, which was used by the local Slavic Milzeners between the 10th and 13th centuries. A little downstream, approximately at the site of the present bridge over the Long Water, was also around 1000 already an important ford of the Franks road on both sides of Rest Houses were built later. The Sorbian village stood south of the present church, so on the southern slope. Only with the arrival of the Germans and the establishment of the church itself was built on the hill.

The place was first mentioned in 1006 Goda in a document of the East Frankish King Henry II as Castle Ward Godobi, which assumed the bishopric of Meissen with two other castles as a gift. After Bautzen Goda since 1076 was the second oldest vicarage of the Diocese of Meissen in Upper Lusatia and as such is a center of begun by Bishop Benno of Meissen Christian mission among the local Sorbs. Later affiliated churches in Gaußig and Neschwitz and chapels in Uhyst were established on divers and Pohla. East of the old hill, a fixed knight castle was built, called in 1253 as a manor house. In the 13th century, the territory of the episcopal possessions Goda extended even to Sebnitz in the south and to the west Röder.

In the late 15th century the castle Stolpen was a bishopric and Goda the administrative center of the " Wendish care ", ie the Sorbian-speaking areas of the diocese. After its secularization in 1559, it came directly into the possession of the Saxon electors, was so unlike large parts of Upper Lusatia never Bohemian. Because of this special status Goda initially remained a regional center of management, church and low jurisdiction, the latter was no longer after 1559 in the hands of Gödaer pastor, but the so-called Gödaer thing chair, which she held until 1810.

Elector August made the Gödaer Latin School, which was attended mainly by students Sorbian, expand and promote. Young sorbent were prepared at this school to study theology. A large proportion of Sorbian-speaking, Protestant clergy in the Electorate has thus started his training in Goda.

From the Middle Ages to the early 19th century Goda was the meeting place of the Wendish District Court. At this court processes took place under the old Wendish law. It was responsible for the Sorbian population of the wider area.

Population and language

About 900 of the 3,100 residents of the municipality of abundant life in Goda itself for its statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia determined Arnost Muka in the eighties of the 19th century for the city had a total population of 574 inhabitants; which were 468 Sorbs ( 82%) and 106 German. Ernst Tschernik counted - due to the linguistic assimilation va in the first half of the 20th century - 1956 Sorbian population share of only 24 %. Today Sorbian is spoken only in the predominantly Catholic villages of northern municipal area as everyday language, predominantly in Storcha, where since the 1890s, a Sorbian parish church, and in Dreikretscham.

In the 2011 census 47.2 % of the population were non-denominational church Gödaer, 39 % belonged to the Protestant Church, and 13.9% to the Roman Catholic Church, the latter live mainly in the northern districts. The Evangelical Lutheran parish Goda today comprises 40 villages with about 2000 parishioners.

Culture and sights

Church of St. Peter and Paul

From the widely visible in the center located church of St. Peter and Paul, with its characteristic twin tower. The first church on this site was built in the 11th century and served as a nucleus of Christianity in the Sorbian villages between the mountain range of Picho and the monastery of water. In the 16th century it was the parish church of a total of 75 villages.

Its current neo-Gothic form it has since 1892, when it was rebuilt by the Dresden architect Christian Schramm. However, various structural features, such as the thick base of the tower house, the cornice in the Hall of the Dead and the massive figure of the baptismal font can be traced back to the Romanesque period. During the construction of the church under Bishop John VI. of Saalhausen 1505-1518 was a late Gothic hall church with three-aisled nave and vaulting. From this time, the sand stone pulpit, a holy water basin and especially the pointed arch windows to today have received during tower and nave were destroyed by a fire in the winter of 1580. Two years later, began with the restoration. One hundred years later burned again in 1680 the church tower.

Since its renovation in 1702-1714 several times of grave Pirnaer school of sculpture from the 16th and 17th century are situated in the tower hall. In the cemetery surrounding the church is, among other things the grave of jaromer Hendrich IMIS.

Festivals

Since 1965 takes place on the hard meadow near the hill annually burning the witches along with theatrical performance.

Policy

Parish council

The local council of Goda currently consists of 16 members, including two women. The municipal election in 2009 resulted in the following voting or distribution of seats:

Local partnerships

Partner community Kunfehértó in Hungary

Education

The community Goda has a primary school. The middle school was closed in 2006.

Personalities

→ see also: List of pastor of Goda

Michał Frencel (* 1628 Pietzsch joke), Sorbian pastor and Bible translator
Jaromer Hendrich IMIS (1819-1897), 1858-1897 pastor in Goda
Yuri Pirk / Georg Pirk (1858-1926), historian, local historian, musician, composer

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