Alt Zauche-Wußwerk

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 51 ° 55 '  N , 14 ° 1'  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Dahme-Spreewald
Office :	Lieberose / Oberspreewald
Height :	50 m above sea level NHN
Area :	33.31 km 2
Residents:	483 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	15 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	15913
Primaries :	03546, 035475
License plate :	LDS, KW, LC, LN
Community key :	12 0 61 005
Office administration address:	Kirchstrasse 11 15913 Straupitz
Website :	www.amt-liebeose- oberspreewald.de
Mayor :	Jens Martin
Location of the municipality of Alt Zauche-Wußwerk in the Dahme-Spreewald district

Alt Zauche-Wußwerk ( Lower Sorbian Stara Niwa-Wózwjerch ) is a municipality in the district of Dahme-Spreewald in Brandenburg in the Lieberose / Oberspreewald district .

geography

The municipality of Alt Zauche-Wußwerk is located on the northern edge of the Spreewald . Your southern border is the Great Flux .

Community structure

According to § 45 of the municipal constitution of the state of Brandenburg, the community is divided into the districts

• Alt Zauche ( Lower Sorbian Stara Niwa )
• Wußwerk ( Wózwjerch )

the inhabited parts of the community

• Wusswerk station
• Burglehn ( Bórklin )

the living spaces

• Old Zaucher Mill ( Staroniwojski młyn )
• Forsthaus Schützenhaus ( Golnica-Stśělnica )
• Kanno Mill ( Kanowy młyn )

history

Typical farmhouse in Alt Zauche with a milk collection stand on the street

Alt-Zauche and Wußwerk belonged to the district of Lübben (Spreewald) in the province of Brandenburg since 1816 and to the district of Lübben in the GDR district of Cottbus from 1952 . Since 1993, the places have been in the Dahme-Spreewald district of Brandenburg. On October 26, 2003, the community was formed from the previously independent communities Alt Zauche and Wußwerk.

Alt Zauche

Finds of a burial site and settlement show evidence of early Bronze Age settlement in the area. The property was first mentioned in writing on February 27, 1347 as Alte Niewe in a document, according to which the Margrave of Brandenburg enfeoffed the "Brothers von Zauche" with "Alt Zauche". In later documents, the place name and the spelling were changed several times via Antiqua Czuche , Aldin Czuche , Alte Zcawche , until the current spelling Alt Zauche was first used in a document in 1541.

Until 1674, Alt Zauche belonged to the rulership of Neu Zauche of the Margraviate of Niederlausitz , after which it came to the Neu Zauche office, which was administered jointly with the Lübben office from 1815 after it was incorporated into the Kingdom of Prussia .

Both places - Alt Zauche and Wußwerk - were originally purely Sorbian-speaking . In the 1880s, all older residents still spoke Sorbian; the younger ones were already monolingual German due to the change in school and worship language to German. The last Sorbian native speakers died in the middle of the 20th century.

The local farmers built low brick houses, which are arranged as a dead-end village and are well preserved to this day. In 1879 Alt Zauche received its own one-class village school, which in 1930 was expanded to become an eight-class school.

From 1949 to 1992 Alt Zauche was part of the Lübben district in the GDR district of Cottbus . This was followed by an assignment to the Dahme-Spreewald district. Alt Zauche-Wußwerk was created in 2003 from the voluntary amalgamation of the previously independent municipalities of Alt Zauche and Wußwerk . Finally, the Oberspreewald office was formed by combining a total of 10 villages , which was then combined with the Lieberose office to form the Lieberose / Oberspreewald office.

The school was a polytechnic high school with ten grade levels from 1950 to 1981 . This educational institution has been operated as a 6-class elementary school since 1990 .

Inhabitants of Alt Zauche

• 1708: 3 farmers, 2 cottagers , 1 Büdner
• 1818: 42 fire places (= houses) and 10 other (unspecified) residents
• 2008: around 450 people

Knowledge

The half-timbered farm Wußwerk with its faithfully renovated buildings of an old half-timbered farm is well worth seeing.

Population development

year	Alt Zauche	Knowledge		year	Alt Zauche- Wußwerk		year	Alt Zauche- Wußwerk
1875	582	391		2003	636		2016	504
1910	546	255		2005	602		2017	488
1939	475	273		2010	551		2018	485
1946	731	386		2011	523		2019	483
1950	666	363		2012	522
1971	503	212		2013	515
1990	446	194		2014	506
1995	544	179		2015	502
2000	449	179
2002	435	184

Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31 (from 1991), from 2011 based on the 2011 census

politics

Community representation

The community council of Alt Zauche-Wußwerk consists of eight community representatives and the honorary mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Voter group	Seats
Independent voter group Alt Zauche / Burglehn	5
Citizens for Wusswerk	3

mayor

• since 2003: Jens Martin

Martin was elected in the mayoral election on May 26, 2019 with 84.2% of the valid votes for a further term of five years without a candidate.

Sights and culture

War memorial

• War memorial in the center of Alt Zauche to commemorate the dead of the First World War of the place
• Memorial stone in the cemetery to the right of the mourning hall at the exit towards Wußwerk, commemorates six Soviet prisoners of war buried here
• The Schützenhaus nature reserve about 2.5 kilometers south of Alt Zauche, but in the municipal area, extends as far as state road 44

See also : List of architectural monuments in Alt Zauche-Wußwerk

See also : List of soil monuments in Alt Zauche-Wußwerk

Regular events

Easter , funfair and carnival and others with the Sorbian customs Zampern and Spinteball are preserved as customs and celebrated together with the visitors of the community. The Alt Zaucher Trachtenfest has been held every spring since 2004, when marching bands , folk dance groups and numerous onlookers from various German federal states visit the community.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

In the past, agriculture and fishing were the dominant economic sectors. In the 19th century, forest management (establishment of a forestry), the production of bricks (a brick factory ) and the operation of windmills were added (two windmills were in operation in Alt Zauche in 1864). In the 20th century the windmills lost their importance and the brickworks stopped working. Now the residents concentrated on grain and vegetable production as well as the keeping of livestock and slaughter cattle. Between 1953 and 1990 the state-owned Gut Spreewald existed in the Burglehn district, to which the farmers from Alt Zauche also belonged. Cattle were raised and vegetables (especially cucumber and horseradish ) as well as milk and cereals were produced. After the reunification , the estate was liquidated and agriculture lost its importance.

traffic

The districts are connected to each other by the state road L 44 (until 2005 federal road 320 ) and the district road K 6115.

From 1898 to 1967, the two communities with the stations Altzauche-Burglehn (originally Burglehne ) and Wusswerk (until 1938 Wusswergk ) had a rail connection on the Lübben Hauptbahnhof - Straupitz section of the narrow-gauge Spreewald Railway .

tourism

Gasthaus Hempel in Alt Zauche

Since 1990 tourism has developed as an economic focus in the entire region. The Gasthaus Hempel has been in Alt Zauche since 1908 . From 1993 the small pumpkin forge restaurant as well as several private guest houses and holiday apartments were added. In 2007 a newly built inn opened in Mühle .

Some ferrymen offer boat trips, especially in the Hochwald area of ​​the Spreewald, and it is also possible to borrow boats or bicycles. Bicycle and hiking routes to the near and far are well signposted, the Gurkenradweg is particularly worth mentioning .

Opportunities for carriage and chariot rides complete the tourist offer.

Personalities

• Paul Gurran (1893–1944), Lieutenant General of the Wehrmacht in World War II , born in Alt-Zauche
• Erich Köhler (1928–2003), writer, lived in Alt-Zauche

Web links

Commons : Alt Zauche-Wußwerk  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Main statute of the municipality of December 18, 2008 (PDF; 560 kB)
• Service portal of the state administration
• Homepage of the Alt Zauche Tourist Association
• Spreewaldportal - Pictures from Alt Zauche
• Homepage of the traditional Alt Zaucher club

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population in the State of Brandenburg according to municipalities, offices and municipalities not subject to official registration on December 31, 2019 (XLSX file; 223 KB) (updated official population figures) ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Municipal constitution of the state of Brandenburg, § 45
3. ^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. Alt-Zauche-Wußwerk community
4. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003
5. ↑ Arnost Muka: Pućowanja po Serbach. Nakład Domowiny, Budyšin 1957, p. 70
6. ↑ Historical municipality register of the State of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Landkreis Dahme-Spreewald , pp. 14-17
7. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2015 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
8. ^ Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.): Statistical report AI 7, A II 3, A III 3. Population development and population status in the state of Brandenburg (respective editions of the month of December)
9. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
10. ↑ Local elections October 26, 2003. Mayoral elections , p. 22
11. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)
12. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019
13. ↑ Karl Lemke, Hartmut Müller: Naturdenkmale. Trees, rocks, waterfalls. Tourist guide, VEB Tourist Verlag Berlin-Leipzig, page 44; 1988, ISBN 3-350-00284-6 .