Briesnig

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Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 46 ″  N , 14 ° 35 ′ 25 ″  E
Height : 66 m above sea level NHN
Area : 9.67 km²
Residents : 228  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 24 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 6, 1993
Postal code : 03149
Area code : 035696
Old train station in Briesnig

Briesnig (until October 17, 1937 officially Briesnigk , then until May 1, 1953 Groß Briesenig ), Rjasnik in Lower Sorbian , is a district of the town of Forst (Lausitz) in the Brandenburg district of Spree-Neisse .

location

Briesnig is located in Lower Lusatia, right on the border with Poland . Neighboring places are the Jänschwalde district of Grießen in the north, the villages of Strzegów and Mielno in Poland in the gmina wiejska Gubin in the north-east and east, Naundorf in the south-east and Bohrau in the south. The Jänschwalde open-cast mine is located to the west of Briesnig .

The federal road 112 from Forst to Küstriner Vorland leads through the district of Briesnig. The Lusatian Neisse flows through Briesnig .

history

The village name comes from the Sorbian word Breza or brjaza for birch from. In 1937 the spelling of the name was changed from Briesnigk to Briesnig by the National Socialists in the course of Germanization in the German Empire . To distinguish it from the neighboring village of Klein Briesnig , which has now been devastated , the place was sometimes also referred to as Groß Briesnig .

After the Congress of Vienna , the entire Lower Lusatia, and thus also the place Briesnig, came to the Kingdom of Prussia . There Briesnig was in the district of Weißagk in the district of Sorau (Lausitz) . Then Briesnig was in the Cottbus district until 1952 . On July 25, 1952, Briesnig was assigned to the newly formed Forst district in the Cottbus district and, after the reunification, was in the Forst district in Brandenburg . After the district reform in Brandenburg on December 6, 1993 , Briesnig came to the newly formed Spree-Neisse district and was incorporated into Forst (Lausitz) .

The Guben – Forst railway , to which Briesnig was connected by a train station, ran through Briesnig. On July 1, 1950, the neighboring Klein Briesnig was incorporated, which was excavated in 1987/88 in favor of the Jänschwalde open-cast mine .

Population development

Population development in Briesnig from 1875 to 1992
year Residents year Residents year Residents
1875 389 1939 468 1981 402
1890 422 1946 467 1985 379
1910 446 1950 532 1989 332
1925 481 1964 485 1992 379
1933 496 1971 463

proof

  1. ↑ Facts and Figures: Districts of the city of Forst (Lausitz). In: forst-lausitz.de. Retrieved January 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Numbers and facts: residents of the city of Forst (Lausitz). In: forst-lausitz.de. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .
  3. ↑ entry "Rjasnik" in the Lower Sorbian place names database on dolnoserbski.de
  4. ↑ Der Landschleicher - Portrait of Briesnig in the Spree-Neisse district. In: rbb-online.de. December 12, 1999, accessed April 3, 2017 .
  5. ^ Briesnig in the historical index of places. Retrieved April 3, 2017 .
  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 April 3, 2017 .