Reppist
Reppist , Rěpišćo in Lower Sorbian , was a place northeast of Senftenberg . In 1986 Reppist almost completely fell victim to the expansion of the Meuro lignite mine . 582 residents were relocated. Today only a few uninhabited houses are evidence of the place itself.
timeline
The place was first mentioned in 1370. The name is derived from the Sorbian word for beet repa . The fertile fields and meadows of the place were irrigated by the Sornoer and Schwarze Elster . The residents also cultivated wine . From the year 1738 a community seal was handed down for the first time, which contains the representation of a grape. Reppist was on an old Reichsstrasse that leads from Beeskow to Dresden . The place, which originally had a horseshoe-shaped settlement, consisted mainly of four-sided farms until the beginning of lignite mining , none of which has survived. In the course of the opening of new open-cast mines, the village began to develop into a mining settlement. Around 1850, lignite was mined in civil engineering for the first time around Reppist . In 1871 a Protestant mountain chapel was built by the Henkel lignite works. In 1974 this chapel was demolished because of the progressing opencast mining. On January 1, 1974 Reppist was incorporated into Senftenberg.
The place was located directly on the railway systems of the Grossenhain-Cottbus and Lübbenau-Kamenz railway lines . The Reppist stop existed on the latter route from the 1950s to 1987.
Population development
| Population development in Reppist from 1875 to 1971 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| year | Residents | year | Residents |
| 1875 | 347 | 1890 | 635 |
| 1910 | 895 | 1925 | 1419 |
| 1933 | 1360 | 1939 | 1165 |
| 1946 | 1121 | 1950 | 1242 |
| 1964 | 944 | 1971 | 826 |
Todays situation
Part of the Senftenberg marshalling yard and a depot for freight locomotives are located in the area of the community that has not been excavated. Not far from there is the Reppist cultural center , which is a listed building.
Despite the end of mining and the associated recultivation , repopulation is unlikely.
A little to the north of the former village on the Hochkippe there is a vantage point from which you can see the open pit landscape from a wide area. When visibility is good, the mountains of the West Lusatian hills and mountains can be seen. There are memorial plaques for other, also excavated places at the lookout point.
Personalities
- Gustav Strahl (born February 16, 1906 - † January 16, 1977) German local politician (Mayor of Wernigerode)
See also
literature
- Erika Jantzen: The series of pictures from the GDR. Black gold from Senftenberg . Sutton, Erfurt 2002, ISBN 3-89702-495-0 .
- Werner Forkert : Senftenberger reviews. Interesting facts from Senftenberg's history . Publisher of the bookstore "Glück Auf", 2006.
- Documentation of relocation due to mining . Editor Archive of Disappeared Places, Forst 2010.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Documentation of relocation due to mining . Editor: Archive of Disappeared Places , Forst 2010. Page 221
- ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
- ↑ Hans Hörenz: Where once carts of oxen were on their way to harvest hay. In: Lausitzer Rundschau , Senftenberg edition. July 6, 2006, accessed August 15, 2015 .
- ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. (PDF; 331 kB) District Oberspreewald-Lausitz. State Office for Data Processing and Statistics State of Brandenburg, December 2006, accessed on April 19, 2015 .
- ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: District Oberspreewald-Lausitz (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum
Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ' N , 14 ° 1' E