Rietschen

Rietschen, Upper Sorbian Recicy, is a municipality within the district of Gorlitz within the east of the Free State of Saxony. The municipality is the seat of the executive community Rietschen. In the network live about 2600 inhabitants, 1100 of them in the capital of the identical name. The municipality is positioned absolutely in the Sorbian settlement place of Upper Lusatia; most of the people of the locations has been largely Germanized since the mid 19th century.

In the 19th century west of Rietschen excavated vessels of a Bronze Age burial floor occupy a prehistoric agreement. The largely deserted Upper Lusatia after the migration of peoples turned into handiest settled within the 7th century through Slavs, who were accompanied by using German settlers inside the direction of the East expansion. The first written mention of the area, in 1362 as Reczicz, indicates an authentic Slavic settlement on the river, the White Schops. Already on the give up of the 14th century there has been a manor residence within the village, which became a manor until the start of the 17th century. The estate with its fields, meadows, ponds and forests was of monstrous significance for the estate settlement.