Bleach (castle)
The bleach is a locality of Burg in the Spreewald .
history
The hunting advisor and chief magistrate Crüger from Cottbus approached the Prussian King Friedrich II. In 1748 and offered to build a "linen weaver factory", d. H. a factory to be built in Burg. Eighteen weaver families were settled in the small village. To this day, the names Leineweberfließ, Bleiche and Fabrik in Burg refer to the linen weaving mill that was once operated here.
With his “special order” of October 20, 1748, Frederick II, King of Prussia, decided that the hunting councilor Crüger's license to operate his factory was extended by twelve years. In 1766 the Berlin merchant Christian Richter bought the entire company for 1700 thalers. Now it was time to create the actual “bleaching”, the new owner wanted to process the textiles as economically as possible on site so that they could then be sold better and more expensively in Berlin and Cottbus.
On the Bleiche, at the Burgschen Huthung, two wooden houses were built in 1767, into which two families moved. The Prussian authorities provided the wood for this at a reasonable price. The textile manufacturing business was modest but continuous. Many locals devoted themselves to home weaving. Soon the weaving mill was set up on a cooperative basis. A buyer served the Cottbus market directly. His homestead is still in Burg today. The stone building is located immediately to the right behind the entrance to the town on the Leineweberfließ. The masters formed a weavers' guild in 1841 , and the journeymen formed a journeyman weaver association.
The expanding machine weaving mill in Cottbus then deprived this branch of the economy. Agricultural owners found individual pieces of land. Many of the traditional tools were destroyed in a factory fire in 1850. That accelerated this dissolution process. The guild existed until 1889.
When Prince Wilhelm, who later became German Emperor Wilhelm I , visited Burg in 1824 with his court, textiles were still being used on the Bleiche site. The decline in the industry and finally the end of linen weaving after 1850 meant that the economic focus on the "Bleiche" was soon on catering for guests. As advertised around 1925, it was one of the best-visited historical sites in the Spreewald. Restoration families such as Roggatz and Lehnigk held the scepter here. Even Japanese rooms passed.
During the Second World War , the Bleiche served not only as an inn, but also as a hospital for French prisoners. A horseradish factory was producing in an outbuilding.
The Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB) of the GDR took over the old Bleiche in 1975. Two years later, a modern home was demolished and a new home built on the foundations of the old complex. The FDGB home “Zur Bleiche”, which opened in 1977, initially presented two suites, five rooms and two restaurant rooms. In 1979 a newly built ward with 3 and 4 bed rooms, two suites and two conference rooms opened.
Heinrich Michael Clausing bought the FDGB home in November 1992. For the ideas and the implementation of the expansion and modernization of the Bleiche Resort & Spa, the Clausing family received, among other things, the industry award "Hotelier of the Year" in 2005.
In 2002 Christine and Heinrich Michael Clausing founded the Spreewald Cultural Foundation .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Award for the modernized operation 2005 ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Spreewälder-Kulturstiftung website
literature
- Amt Burg, The New Villages of the Prussian Kings, Burg 2001.
- Burger and Lübbenauer Spreewald (= values of our homeland . Volume 36). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1981.
- Alfred Roggan, The official village of Burg and the Kauensiedlung, Bautzen 2007.
- Series of publications by the Spreewälder Kulturstiftung, three volumes, Müschen Castle from 2008.