Niwica, Żary County
Niwica ( Zibelle German, Sorbian Cybalin ) is a village in the municipality Trzebiel, powiat Żarski, Poland. It lies between Bad Muskau and Trzebiel ( Triebel ) in the Euro region Neisse on the edge of geologically remarkable hills Muskau Arch.
The boundary between the regions of Lower Lusatia Upper Lusatia and ran 1.5 km north of Zibelle towards Triebel.
History
Originally Zibelle an exclave of the professional Muskau. Documentary nominations are announced for the year 1478 ( Tzebelle, Zcebelle ) and 1551 ( Zibelle ). The name researcher Paul Kuehnel closed on a derivation from the old Slavic word, cebulja ' for onion, Upper Sorbian, cybla '. The ending- in the Sorbian name has a persons name as name leads ("place of Cybala ").
Originally the population of Zibelle was sorbischsprachig; the gradual Germanization took place in the second half of the 18th century and was largely completed at the beginning of the 19th century.
In 1816 the district was founded in Rothenburg (Colonel louse. ) Was Zibelle until the end of the German administration in 1945, the seat of the administrative district Zibelle founded in 1874.
The locality in the form of a village road was divided at that time in the southwestern Lower Zibelle and the northeastern Upper Zibelle.
The manor was acquired in 1921 by Upper Zibelle the famous Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and physicist Walther Nernst, who lived there, especially after his retirement until his death in 1941 and in the surrounding ponds carp farming operation. Him a plaque on a guest house in the center of Niwica was installed in 1992 in honor.