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Bückgen ( Bukowka in Lower Sorbian ) was an independent municipality and later a district of Großräschen , which had to give way to the Ilse mine, which later became the Meuro opencast mine .
history
Following the place, field and family names of the place, it is assumed that the origin of Bückgen goes back to a Slavic settlement at the end of the 12th century . The place name is derived from the Sorbian word "Bukowka", which means something like "small beech". In 1474 Bückgen was first mentioned in writing as Bogkichen . Until the 1870s, the Sorbian language prevailed in Bückgen. There were a dozen viable farms ( hooves ) and four leanings . The medieval condition of the place remained almost unchanged until the Prussian agrarian reforms at the beginning of the 19th century. Block houses with thatched roofs that were destroyed by a fire were replaced by brick shells, which fell victim to another fire in 1860. After the establishment of a branch of the Berlin-based Chemical Factory Kunheim & Co. in 1870, the economic boom began. The neighboring mine field was used to extract fuel for the factory and was registered with the mining authorities as the "Ilse" lignite works as early as 1871 . A year later, a brick factory was built and the briquette factory was built in 1879/1880 . The enormous demand for workers drew many people from all over Germany to Niederlausitz , which also favored the language change from Sorbian to German. They were supplied by the "Ilse" Wohlfahrtsgesellschaft mbH founded in the 1890s . Comprehensive social services, sick and housing care, the provision of living needs, hygienic facilities (bathhouses) and education (schools and libraries) made the environment interesting. A modern industrial community with more than 4000 inhabitants developed from the farming village.
On March 1, 1946, the place Bückgen was incorporated into Großräschen and later run as the Großräschen-Süd district. In the years from 1987 to 1991, the entire Großräschen-Süd (Bückgen) district was gradually devastated and around 4,000 residents were relocated; until the end of the 1990s, the underlying brown coal seams were mined. The bells and several neo-Gothic stained glass windows of the Protestant church were purchased for the Catholic Church in Hoyerswerda in 1989 . By 2017 one of the largest lakes in the Lusatian chain of lakes , the Großräschener See , is to be created from the remaining open-cast mine in the Ilse mine .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin: age - origin - meaning . be.bra Wissenschaft, 2005, p. 36 .
- ^ Chronicle of the parish church of Hoyerswerda
- ↑ Devastated places - Meuro opencast mine: Ilse-Bückgen mine ( Memento from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Places in the vicinity of Bückgen that had to give way to mining. ( Memento from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 30.1 ″ N , 14 ° 0 ′ 59.9 ″ E