Briesen (Spreewald)

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 49 '  N , 14 ° 15'  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Spree-Neisse
Office :	Castle (Spreewald)
Height :	58 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.14 km 2
Residents:	771 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	84 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	03096
Area code :	035606
License plate :	SPN, FOR, GUB, SPB
Community key :	12 0 71 028
Office administration address:	Hauptstrasse 46 03096 Burg (Spreewald)
Website :	amt-burg-spreewald.de
Mayoress :	Eva-Brigitta Schötzig
Location of the municipality of Briesen in the Spree-Neisse district

Briesen , Brjazyna in Lower Sorbian , is a municipality in the southeast of Brandenburg in the Spree-Neisse district . It is part of the Burg (Spreewald) office in Niederlausitz .

geography

The community is located in the traditional settlement area of the Sorbs / Wends . Public buildings and facilities, streets, paths, squares and bridges are therefore usually labeled in two languages. Briesen is about 10 km northwest of Cottbus . The northern border of the district is the Great River .

Community structure

Briesen has no districts, inhabited parts of the municipality or places to live .

history

Briesen was first mentioned in 1346 as a Breßzine . The Slavic place name means something like "Birkenort". The Wendish settlement is some centuries older. In the 15th century the place was referred to as Bryßen in the registry of Margrave Friedrich II of Brandenburg .

Since there are five places with this name in Lower Lusatia and only a few sources are available for the early period, the succession of ownership of the property, which often changed hands in the 15th century, can only be partially reconstructed. In 1486 Margrave Johann Cicero enfeoffed Johann von Mühlen (Jan von Mylen / Mielen) with the village along with all the goods, interest and rents that he had bought from Hans and Caspar von Sachs. Houwald suspects “Sachse” to be a nickname for the von Luckowin family, who lived in the Beeskow - Storkow rule . After the loan letter of 1519, v. Mills also the village of Brahmow and shares in Werben, Guhrow, Kunersdorf and Ruben, all of which are in the vicinity of Briesen. The family sold the estate between 1550 and 1576 to Hieronymus von Minckwitz , who was enfeoffed with it in 1576. From 1586 to 1591 the von Birckholtz men appeared as lords. In 1591 Otto von Hake bought Briesen on Berge, Rat und Hauptmann zu Cottbus. He had a weather vane with Hake's coat of arms and the year 1599 installed on the stair tower of Briesen Castle. In 1617 his brother Weigand bought Brahmow again, which had been inherited in the von Mühlen family. It remained united with Briesen until 1781. In 1644 the general and governor of the fortress Peitz Hans Caspar von Klitzing , who was married to Anna Margaretha von Hake, daughter of Weigand von Hake, acquired the two estates. After his grandson Carl Philipp died childless (epitaphs of the Klitzing family can still be found in the Briesen church), Wilhelmine Christiane Countess von Schönburg-Glauchau bought Briesen and Brahmow in 1719, but sold it in 1735.

The acquirer, Baron Franziskus Matthäus von Vernezobre de Laurieux , came from a Huguenot family and was raised to the Prussian nobility and baron status in 1724. He had made a considerable fortune as a merchant in the silk trade, which he invested in goods on the Barnim (1721 Hohenfinow and Tornow, 1731 Sommerfelde ), in the Uckermark (1731 Polßen) and in Niederlausitz (1733 Krieschow and Milkersdorf ). In addition, at the behest of Friedrich Wilhelm I, he built a city palace in Berlin's Friedrichstadt , which later became the Prinz-Albrecht-Palais in Wilhelmstrasse, because this was the only way he could prevent his daughter's marriage to the captain of Forcade, which was ordered by the king . Vernezobre had the stair tower from the Renaissance removed, doubled the old castle with an extension and provided it with a uniform facade and a mansard hipped roof in the Saxon Baroque style . After his death in 1748, his son Friedrich Wilhelm von Vernezobre, district administrator of the Cottbus district, inherited the Niederlausitz estates Krieschow, Milkersdorf, Briesen and Brahmow. As a result of the Seven Years' War , bad investments and a cattle plague on his property, Vernezobre was so indebted that his creditors had the district administrator's salary arrested and his property placed under compulsory administration. Shortly before his death in 1781, bankruptcy was opened. Vernezobre had to sell Briesen to Carl Gustav von Roebel in 1766 and Krieschow to Johann Alexander von Normann in 1779; In 1781 Brahmow and Milkersdorf became bankrupt to his two daughters Johanna Christiana Louisa and Friderica Wilhelmina Augusta, married v. Normann, struck.

Briesen Castle in the Spreewald (demolished in 1946), Alexander Duncker

In 1783 Ludwig (since 1810 Freiherr) von Wackerbarth acquired the Briesen estate and in 1797 the neighboring Guhrow estate from the poet Heinrich von Kleist . Since he had no sons, he took the nephew of his wife Helene, born in 1810. von Bomsdorff, Adolf Leberecht von Bomsdorff on Linderode , Sorau district, as a child, who in 1811 was awarded the Saxon baron status as von Wackerbarth named by Bomsdorff. Guhrow was given to the farmers on a long lease and after the separation in 1848 it was removed from the list of manors. In 1885 a conflagration destroyed 35 houses in Briesen, the plots were evenly redistributed. The estate with an area of ​​510 hectares remained in the possession of the Barons von Wackerbarth until 1945. That of Vernezobre built Baroque castle, which was inside halfway out of the late medieval predecessor was down to the servants' quarters demolished at the behest of the then mayor in 1946 and demolished in part, with all under-down there refugees had to leave the undamaged in the war construction. They were moved to wooden barracks that served as labor camps under the National Socialists. The von Wackerbarth family was expropriated and expelled. The small castle park, once laid out under Pückler's advice , but well-designed with an orangery, ponds and grotto, was built over with a school.

Briesen belonged to the Cottbus district in the Prussian province of Brandenburg since 1816 and to the Cottbus-Land district in the GDR district of Cottbus from 1952 . The community has been in the Spree-Neisse district of Brandenburg since 1993.

Population development

year Residents 1875 487 1890 533 1910 531 1925 488 1933 499 1939 531 1946 820 1950 775

year Residents 1964 667 1971 633 1981 591 1985 561 1989 539 1990 533 1991 528 1992 524 1993 524 1994 556

year Residents 1995 602 1996 694 1997 761 1998 827 1999 857 2000 871 2001 867 2002 860 2003 851 2004 834

year Residents 2005 833 2006 824 2007 821 2008 831 2009 825 2010 811 2011 811 2012 798 2013 807 2014 784

year Residents 2015 767 2016 763 2017 763 2018 766 2019 771

Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31 (from 1991), from 2011 based on the 2011 census

politics

Community representation

The municipal council consists of nine members and the honorary mayor as chairperson.

Voter group	Seats
Sports community Frischauf Briesen	4th
Briesen volunteer fire department	2
Individual applicant Kerstin Krüger	1
Domowina local group Briesen	1
Community of voters for children and families	1

(As of: local election on May 26, 2019)

Kerstin Krüger's share of the vote corresponds to two seats. Therefore, according to § 48 (6) of the Brandenburg Local Election Act, a seat in the municipal council remains vacant.

The municipal council has formed the building committee and the committee for social affairs, youth and culture.

mayor

• 1998–2014: Klaus Heinrich
• since 2014: Eva-Brigitta Schötzig (Volunteer Fire Brigade Briesen)

Schötzig was elected in the mayoral election on May 26, 2019 with 76.7% of the valid votes for a further term of five years.

Attractions

Briesener Church

The Briesen church , built towards the end of the 15th century, contains important late medieval wall paintings that were only rediscovered and uncovered a few decades ago. There are also several Baroque splendor epitaphs belonging to the von Klitzing family , including Major General Hans Caspar von Klitzing , in the church .

In the list of architectural monuments in Briesen (Spreewald) and in the list of ground monuments in Briesen (Spreewald) are the monuments entered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Letters situated on the country road L 50 between Kolkwitz and Peitz . 1 km south of the village, the L 51 runs between Burg (Spreewald) and Cottbus.

The Briesen (b Cottbus) station was on the Lübben – Straupitz – Cottbus narrow-gauge railway , which was closed in 1970.

education

There is a single-class primary school in the village, which is named after the Lower Sorbian / Wendish poet Mato Kosyk and runs all day.

Personalities

• Johann Ludwig Will (before 1736–1771), pastor in Briesen
• Otto von Wackerbarth (1823-1904), manor owner in Briesen, member of the Reichstag ( German Conservative Party )
• Oskar von Wackerbarth (1862–1937), manor owner in Briesen

Others

Arthur Berson and Reinhard Süring's record run in the hydrogen- filled free balloon Prussia ended near Briesen on July 31, 1901 . The balloon had previously reached a height of around 10,800 m.

literature

• Peter-Michael Hahn and Hellmut Lorenz (eds.): Mansions in Brandenburg and Lower Lusatia. Commented new edition of Alexander Duncker's (1857–1883) works of views . Nicolai, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-87584-024-0 , Volume 1 (Introduction), Volume 2 (Catalog), Volume 2, pp. 65-68 (Briesen).
• Gerhard Krüger: Gut Briesen and its owners. In: Home calendar for Niederlausitz 1939, p. 75 f.
• Götz Freiherr von Houwald : The Niederlausitz manors and their owners. Volume VII Kottbus District. 278 S., Neustadt an der Aisch 2001, Verlag Degener & Co. ISBN 3-7686-4206-2 pp. 47-54 (Briesen), pp. 30-37 (Brahmow), pp. 159-162 (Krieschow) and Pp. 178-180 (Milkersdorf).

Web links

Commons : Briesen / Brjazyna  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Main statute of the municipality of Briesen
• Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg
• Contribution to the RBB program Landschleicher on December 29, 2013

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. Briesen parish
3. ↑ The Hake's weather vane is now in Rethmar Castle .
4. ^ Armin Dahl: History of the Prinz-Albrecht-Palais on kreuzberger-chronik.de
5. ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. District Spree-Neisse . Pp. 14-17
6. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2017 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. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 48
10. ↑ Results of the municipal elections in 1998 (mayoral elections) for the Spree-Neisse district ( memento of the original from April 17, 2018 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. 
11. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 25, 2014
12. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)
13. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019
14. ↑ Hans Caspar von Klitzing
15. ^ Kurt Schlodder: Emergency landing in Briesen 100 years ago . Lausitzer Rundschau, August 21, 1999.
16. ↑ Stephan Wiehler: Memory of height record: Zone edge experience: only the barometer was witness . Tagesspiegel, July 28, 2001.