Bursting land

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 58 '  N , 13 ° 45'  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Dahme-Spreewald
Office :	Unterspreewald
Height :	54 m above sea level NHN
Area :	29.53 km 2
Residents:	902 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	31 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	15910
Area code :	035474
License plate :	LDS, KW, LC, LN
Community key :	12 0 61 017
Office administration address:	Hauptstrasse 41 15938 Golßen
Website :	www.unterspreewald.de
Mayor :	Manfred Mietusch
Location of the municipality of Bersteland in the Dahme-Spreewald district

The municipality of Bersteland is located in the Dahme-Spreewald district ( Brandenburg ) and is a member of the Unterspreewald office .

geography

The municipality is located in the east of the Baruther glacial valley on the river Berste . The Berste, which rises south of Luckau and turns east in Bersteland, flows into the Spree a few kilometers further in Lübben (Spreewald) . The area reaches 85 m above sea level near the district of Niewitz. NHN .

Community structure

Bersteland consists of the districts Freiwalde , Niewitz and Reichwalde and the inhabited part of the municipality Rickshausen.

history

Freiwalde and Niewitz 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 . Reichwalde in the Luckau district of the Brandenburg province became part of the Luckau district in 1952 , also in the Cottbus district.

Bersteland was created on February 1, 2002 from the voluntary amalgamation of the previously independent municipalities and today's districts of Freiwalde, Niewitz and Reichwalde.

Freiwalde district

Church in Freiwalde

The place appears for the first time in a document in 1345. The village church (rectangular neo-Gothic building) dates from 1871.

District Niewitz

Church in Niewitz

As for Freiwalde, 1345 is also the year of the earliest documented mention of Niewitz.

The well-preserved structure of a round settlement is of Wendish origin. The name of the place comes from the Lower Sorbian word nieva = fertile field.

Bricks were made in Niewitz until 1950, based on their material from the nearby clay pits.

Reichwalde district

Reichwalde (Lower Sorbian Rychwałd ) was first mentioned in 1170.

Built on a Wendish wall surrounded by swamps in the 12th / 13th centuries. In the 19th century, Mr. Strehle and Mr. Bieberstein built Reichwalde Castle . The castle was the center of a small aristocratic rule, the Reichwalde rule , which comprised eleven to thirteen villages around 1400. This was sold in 1414 and dissolved. The greater part went to the city of Luckau , a smaller part went to the Storkow rule (and later to the Storkow office ). The castle was demolished.

Population development

year	Freiwalde	Niewitz	Reichwalde		year	Bursting land		year	Bursting land
1875	353	573	330		2002	911		2015	896
1910	381	558	320		2005	934		2016	901
1939	366	476	259		2010	925		2017	880
1946	468	642	361		2011	915		2018	894
1950	415	566	217		2012	907		2019	902
1971	277	429	230		2013	902
1990	291	405	174		2014	895
1995	284	368	182
2000	357	390	182
2001	348	397	185

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

politics

Community representation

The local council of Bersteland consists of 10 council representatives and the honorary mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Party / group of voters	Seats
Sports and leisure club Freiwalde	4th
Niewitz Volunteer Fire Brigade	3
Reichwalde voter group	1
Single applicant Anja Haupt	1
CDU	1

mayor

• since 2003: Manfred Mietusch (CDU)

In the mayoral election on May 26, 2019, Mietusch was elected unopposed candidate with 66.8% of the valid votes for a further term of five years.

Attractions

In the list of architectural monuments in Bersteland and in the list of ground monuments in Bersteland are the monuments entered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.

• Niewitz village church , was built around 1770. The church furnishings include a pulpit altar from the end of the 17th century.
• former watermill in the district of Reichwalde
• Village center in the district of Reichwalde
• Bauernstube am Sandberg in the Freiwalde district
• Half-timbered farmstead at Dorfstrasse 12 in the Freiwalde district

Economy and Infrastructure

The industrial area in the Freiwalde district, which also includes the Freiwalde autobahn tank and rest area, employs many residents. In Niewitz, the Van der Valk Group operates the Spreewald Park Hotel with 200 beds.

traffic

The community is on the federal highway 115 ( Jüterbog - Lübben ). The federal motorway 13 (Berlin – Dresden) runs through the municipality and crosses the B 115 at the Freiwalde junction . The state road  L 71, which also crosses the municipality, connects Kasel-Golzig (district of Schiebsdorf) and Leibsch an der B 179 .

The nearest train station is Schönwalde (Spreewald) in nearby Schönwald on the Berlin – Cottbus line . It is served by the regional train line RB 24 Eberswalde - Berlin - Senftenberg .

Web links

Commons : Bersteland  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. Bersteland parish
3. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2002
4. ↑ Arnost Muka : Serbski zemjepisny słowničk. Budyšin, 1927, p. 78 ( digitized version ).
5. ↑ Historical municipality register of the State of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Landkreis Dahme-Spreewald , pp. 14-17
6. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2015 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
7. ^ 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)
8. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
9. ↑ Local elections October 26, 2003. Mayoral elections , p. 23
10. ^ Law on local elections in the state of Brandenburg (Brandenburg Local Election Act - BbgKWahlG). Retrieved January 17, 2019 . 
11. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019. Accessed on August 19, 2019 .