Sielow

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City of Cottbus
Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 59 ″  N , 14 ° 18 ′ 10 ″  E
Height : 63 m above sea level NHN
Area : 18.8 km²
Residents : 3511  (Apr 30, 2020)
Population density : 187 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 6, 1993
Postcodes : 03044, 03055
Area code : 0355
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Location of Sielow in Cottbus
Village church
Village church

Sielow , Žylow in Lower Sorbian , is a district of the city of Cottbus in Brandenburg .

geography

The place is five kilometers north-northwest of Cottbus. Neighboring towns are Maiberg and Döbbrick in the northeast, Skadow and Masnick's Häuslergut in the east, Saspow , Schmellwitz , Windmühlensiedlung and Brunschwig in the southeast, Ströbitz in the south, Zahsow and Gulben in the southwest, Ruben in the west and Briesen , Alte Schäferei , Striesow and Dissen in the northwest.

History and etymology

Sielow was probably founded in 1300. The first written mention is in a document from July 12th 1449. The name derives from the word Žyta , which means something like water vein in the Sorbian language . The municipality assumes this geographical peculiarity also as the basis for the settlement. For many centuries the inhabitants lived mainly from agriculture. During the Thirty Years War , the place fell almost desolate . But new settlements have already been handed down from 1644.

On May 21, 1899, the Burg – Cottbus Westbahnhof section of the Spreewald Railway was opened. One operating point of this narrow-gauge railway was the Sielow station at kilometer 46.37, a stop with an overtaking track. The place benefited from the strengthening of the textile industry in nearby Cottbus. From January 23, 1921, Sielow was the location of a Prussian concentration camp in which "undesirable foreigners" were imprisoned. After two years, the camp was closed again due to the inhumane conditions there.

Sielow was an independent municipality in the Cottbus district and later in the Cottbus district . After the reunification , large parts of the LPG were converted into an agricultural company. On December 6, 1993, Sielow was incorporated into Cottbus and became a district there.

Sights and culture

Personalities

  • Jurij Koch (* 1936), writer; lives in Sielow
  • Reinhard Lauck (1946–1997), soccer player and national player of the GDR, gold medalist at the 1976 Summer Olympics; born in Sielow
  • Horst Krautzig (* 1952), soccer player; born in Sielow

literature

  • Harald Großstück: The Spreewaldbahn - a chronicle . Series From the home history of the city of Cottbus and the surrounding area , issue 1. City archive Cottbus, German Model Railway Association of the GDR, AG 2/15 “Spreewaldbahn” (publisher). Cottbus 1988.

Web links

Commons : Sielow / Žylow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ residents by district. In: cottbus.de. City administration Cottbus - Citizen Service Department, April 30, 2020, accessed on June 12, 2020 .
  2. ^ District-free city of Cottbus - districts according to § 45 municipal constitution - living spaces. In: service.brandenburg.de. Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs of the State of Brandenburg, accessed on April 26, 2016 .
  3. ↑ BrandenburgViewer of the state survey and geographic base information Brandenburg (LGB)
  4. ^ Information board Our Sielow , set up west of the church, March 2019.
  5. ↑ Prussia. Chronicle of a German state. Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, accessed on January 29, 2019.
  6. ^ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .