Bohrau (Forst (Lausitz))

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Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 2 "  N , 14 ° 35 ′ 46"  E
Height : 67 m above sea level NHN
Area : 20.44 km²
Residents : 89  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 4 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 6, 1993
Postal code : 03149
Area code : 03562
Bohrau (Brandenburg)
Bohrau

Location of Bohrau in Brandenburg

Bohrau , Bórow in Lower Sorbian , is a district of the town of Forst (Lausitz) in the Spree-Neisse district in Brandenburg . Bohrau lies in the official settlement area of ​​the Sorbs / Wends .

location

Bohrau is located in Lower Lusatia about five kilometers west of the border with Poland and just under nine kilometers north of Forst. Surrounding villages are Briesnig in the north, Naundorf in the east, Mulknitz in the south, the district of Grötsch in the west and Heinersbrück in the north-west , which belongs to the municipality of Heinersbrück .

Bohrau is on the federal road 112 , which connects the place with Forst and Guben . The Jänschwalde open-cast lignite mine is located west of Bohrau . The former district of Klein Bohrau was demolished in 1986 in favor of the open pit.

history

Bohrau was first mentioned in 1546 as "Boraw". The place name comes from the Sorbian and means “settlement on the pine forest”.

After the Congress of Vienna , Bohrau, like all of Lower Lusatia, came to the Kingdom of Prussia . There the place was in the district of Bohrau in the district of Sorau (Lausitz) . Then Bohrau was in the Cottbus district until 1952 . On July 25, 1952 Bohrau was assigned to the newly formed Forst district in the Cottbus district and, after the fall of the Wall, was in the Forst district in Brandenburg . After the district reform in Brandenburg on December 6, 1993 , the municipality Bohrau came to the newly formed district Spree-Neisse and was incorporated into the city of Forst (Lausitz) together with nine other previously independent municipalities .

Population development

Population development in Bohrau from 1875 to 1992
year Residents year Residents year Residents
1875 239 1939 229 1981 214
1890 262 1946 262 1985 199
1910 212 1950 250 1989 191
1925 235 1964 257 1992 197
1933 235 1971 273

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Lusatia, Arnošt Muka counted 25 Sorbian-speaking residents in the 1880s.

Web links

  • Bohrau in the RBB broadcast Landschleicher on April 17, 1994

proof

  1. ↑ a b Facts and figures: residents of the town of Forst (Lausitz). In: forst-lausitz.de. Retrieved February 5, 2019 .
  2. ↑ "Borów" entry in the Lower Sorbian place names database on dolnoserbski.de
  3. ↑ Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin: age - origin - meaning . be.bra Wissenschaft, 2005, p. 30 .
  4. ↑ Bohrau in the historical index of places. Retrieved July 24, 2017 .
  5. ^ Changes in the municipalities of Germany, see 1993 StBA
  6. ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. (PDF; 331 kB) District Spree-Neisse. State Office for Data Processing and Statistics State of Brandenburg, December 2006, accessed on July 24, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Ernst Tschernik : The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.