Jetscheba

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Jetscheba, Upper Sorbian Jatřob, is a place in the east of the district of Bautzen in Saxony and belongs since 1994 to the municipality Grossdubrau. The place is located in Upper Lusatia and belongs to the settlement area of ​​the Sorbs.

Geography

Jetscheba located in the Upper Lusatian Heath and Pond Landscape about 14 kilometers north of Bautzen in the floodplain of the Little River Spree. To the north, extending between Jetscheba and five kilometers away villages Rauden Mönau and extensive forests.

Settlement Historically, the place is a village streets, which was later expanded to the east and is bounded to the south by the Little River Spree. The estate is located in the town center. The nearby towns are Kauppa in the south and Milkel in the West.

History

Already in the Middle Bronze Age was on the road to today's Teicha a village with wooden houses.

The present town was first mentioned in 1419 as Jetzrebie. The place name derives from the Sorbian word for " hawk ", jatřob in modern Upper Sorbian, from. So the place is 1441 also called for Habich. The Nazis attacked this origin in 1938, when she Germanized Slavic place names Habichtau. The name change was reversed in 1949.

In 1621 a Vorwerk of the manor Kauppa is listed in Jetscheba. Jetscheba was a district of Kauppa since time immemorial and was incorporated together with this Commerau 1936 and 1994, after Grossdubrau.

Population and language

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 285 for Kauppa and Jetscheba; including 257 Sorbs ( 90%). Since then, the use of Sorbian in place has fallen sharply.

The predominantly Protestant population is gepfarrt by Klix at least since 1614.

Personalities

  • Adam Horst ( b. 1939 ), Sorbian journalist and writer, chief editor of Novy Casnik

Swell

  • Upper Lusatian Heath and Pond Landscape. ( Values ​​of the German homeland. Band 67). 1st edition. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Wien 2005, ISBN 3-412-08903-6, pp. 199ff.
  • Jetscheba in the Digital Historical Gazetteer of Saxony
Bautzen (district) Kleine Spree Großdubrau
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