Briesen (Vetschau / Spreewald)

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Coordinates: 51 ° 43 '53 "  N , 14 ° 6' 49"  E
Height : 65 m above sea level NHN
Incorporation : January 1, 1926
Incorporated into: Tornitz
Postal code : 03226
Area code : 035436

Briesen , Brjaze in Lower Sorbian , is a residential area in Laasow , a district of the town of Vetschau / Spreewald in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district in Brandenburg . Before January 1, 1926, Briesen was an independent municipality, after that the village belonged to the municipality of Tornitz until May 1, 1974 and then to the municipality of Laasow until October 26, 2003. Briesen lies in the recognized settlement area of ​​the Sorbs / Wends .

location

The small village of Briesen is located in Lower Lusatia , about six kilometers as the crow flies south-east of Vetschau. Surrounding villages are Tornitz in the north, the districts of Eichow and Krieschow in the north-east , which are part of the municipality of Kolkwitz in the Spree-Neiße district , Wiesendorf in the east and Brodtkowitz in the south-east, Wüstenhain in the south, Laasow in the south-west and Missen in the west.

Briesen is located on the national road 524 from Eichow to Ogrosen . The Briesener Wiesengraben flows south .

history

The village of Briesen was first mentioned in a document in 1495. The place name is derived from the Sorbian word "brjaza", which means " birch ". Briesen was a hamlet of Laasow.

In 1844 Briesen had a sheep farm and a brick factory . At that time there were 20 residential buildings with 108 residents in the village. The village was parish after Laasow. In 1867 there was only the sheep farm, at that time Briesen had 122 inhabitants. Historically, Briesen had a high proportion of the Sorbian-speaking population. Arnošt Muka counted 110 inhabitants in Briesen for his statistics on the Sorbian population in Lusatia in 1884, of which 74 inhabitants (67%) were Sorbs .

At the Congress of Vienna in 1815, after the defeat of the Kingdom of Saxony, it was decided to assign territory to the Kingdom of Prussia , which also affected Briesen. After that, the municipality was in the district of Calau in the administrative district of Frankfurt in the province of Brandenburg . On January 1, 1926, Briesen was incorporated into Tornitz . After the end of the Second World War, Briesen became part of the Soviet occupation zone and later the GDR . During the district reform on July 25, 1952, the village came to the district of Calau in the Cottbus district . On May 1, 1974, the municipality of Tornitz was dissolved and the villages of Briesen and Tornitz incorporated into Laasow . After reunification , the Calau district was renamed the Calau district and finally dissolved. In the course of the Brandenburg district reform in 1993 , the municipality of Laasow and its districts became part of the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district . On October 26, 2003, the municipality of Laasow and its districts were incorporated into the city of Vetschau / Spreewald .

Population development

Population development in Briesen from 1875 to 1925
year Residents year Residents
1875 116 1910 93
1890 112 1925 93

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin: age - origin - meaning . be.bra Wissenschaft, 2005, p. 34 . (Note: misprint in the book, referring to Briesen (e) (LOS) at Laasow)
  2. ↑ Topographical-statistical overview of the administrative district of Frankfurt ad O. 1844, p. 17 ( bsb-muenchen.de ).
  3. ↑ Statistical Bureau of the Royal Government of Frankfurt a. O .: Topographical-statistical manual of the government district of Frankfurt a. O. Verlag von Gustav Harnecker u. Co., Frankfurt ad O. 1867, online at Google Books , p. 21
  4. ↑ Ernst Tschernik : The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
  5. ↑ Briesen in the historical directory. Retrieved August 5, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Historical municipality register of the State of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. (PDF; 331 KB) District Oberspreewald-Lausitz. State Office for Data Processing and Statistics State of Brandenburg, December 2006, accessed on August 5, 2018 .