Bornsdorf

Bornsdorf Municipality Heideblick Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ′ 13 ″  N , 13 ° 41 ′ 36 ″  E
Height :	71 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.61 km²
Residents :	304  (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	40 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	December 31, 1997
Incorporated into:	Burst source
Postal code :	15926
Area code :	035455
Location of Bornsdorf in Brandenburg
Bornsdorf village church

Bornsdorf ( Baranojce in Lower Sorbian ) is a district of the municipality of Heideblick in the Dahme-Spreewald district in Brandenburg . The municipality parts Trebbinchen and Grünswalde belong to the district .

history

Bornsdorf Castle around 1860 ( Alexander Duncker Collection )

The district on the edge of the Luckau basin has about 100 inhabitants and was first mentioned in 1347 as "Boransdorf". The place derives its name from the Sorbian word baran = “ram”, which means something like a settlement “of the Baran clan (the ram)”. Presumably it was a moated castle , which was ascribed a "certain importance" in Niederlausitz. The place was about a kilometer to the north and was destroyed during the Hussite Wars except for the church, which has since been in ruins. In 1489 the von Wolffersdorff took over the knight's seat. They built a castle with a manor. The field stone church was also built during this period . In 1728 the property passed to the von Langen family, who converted the property into a three-wing complex on the initiative of Caspar Sigismund von Langen in 1734 . The old stair tower was integrated into the building. The von Thermo family took over the property in the 19th century . They converted the previously baroque garden into a landscape park . According to tradition, Herr von Themo is said to have gambled away the manor in 1917. The municipality of Neukölln took over the property in order to mine the lignite found in the area . From 1922 to 1945 Friedrich von Arnim was the last owner. During the Second World War , the castle was looted and should then be blown up. However, since there was a shortage of housing, the administration refrained from doing so and the property was used for residential purposes and as a school. In 1967 part of the building collapsed, whereupon the municipality decided to demolish it. Only the 23.07 m high tower remained standing. However, the park fell into disrepair. In addition, it came through lignite mining to a land improvement , so that many trees are cut out of the old stock had. After the fall of the Wall , a development association was founded in the mid-1990s to look after the park and the castle ruins. The buried cellars were cleared and secured. Water bats now overwinter there , as do the fringed bat and pug bat, which are endangered in their species . In 1999 the community renovated the castle tower, which has served as a lookout tower ever since. In 2006, craftsmen built a village community center in the former school building.

traffic

The federal highway 96 runs through the village .

Attractions

Remains of the former “castle” Bornsdorf, 2017

In the list of architectural monuments in Heideblick , four architectural monuments are listed for Bornsdorf :

• The Bornsdorf village church is a late Gothic hall church from the 15th century. Inside there is, among other things, an altarpiece made of sand that was created in the second half of the 17th century.
• The round tower , part of the foundations, cellars, parts of the rising masonry and the associated park have been preserved from the former “Castle” Bornsdorf .
• The Wolfsstein (on the B 96 , km 263.8, between Riedebeck and Bornsdorf), a boulder with the inscription "A wolf was killed here on April 10, 1781", is dated 1880/1900.
• The church ruins (desert church; on the Luckauer Chaussee cemetery 2 a) made of field stones are dated 1220/1240. The church was destroyed around 1400.
• Waldbad recreation area with campsite and artificially created swimming lake. It is called by the locals "old mine" and was created in 1937 from an open-cast brown coal mine.

Regular events, associations

• Tower bubbles
• Christmas market on the 1st of Advent
• The volunteer fire brigade, a home club and a sports club are active in the village.

literature

• Georg Dehio (edited by Gerhard Vinken et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .

Web links

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

• Information on the Gem. Heideblick website
• Material on Bornsdorf Castle in the Duncker Collection of the Central and State Library Berlin (PDF; 210 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Community and district directory of the state of Brandenburg. Land surveying and geographic base information Brandenburg (LGB), accessed on June 20, 2020.
2. ↑ Arnost Muka: Serbski zemjepisny słowničk. Budyšin 1927, p. 63 ( digitized version ).
3. ↑ Information board : From the moated castle to the baroque palace , installed on the tower, April 2018.