Burglehn Muskau
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Burglehn Muskau was a municipality on both sides of the Lusatian Neisse in what was then the district of Rothenburg (Ob. Laus.) In the Prussian province of Silesia , which existed until 1945. Today it is mostly in the area of the municipality Łęknica (Lugknitz) in the powiat Żarski in the Polish Lubusz voivodeship and partly in the area of the city of Bad Muskau in the Görlitz district in Saxony . The municipality had an area of 6.01 square kilometers and had 159 inhabitants in 1939 - at the last census before its dissolution.
location
The municipality of Burglehn Muskau was located in Upper Lusatia on both sides of the Lusatian Neisse, around seven kilometers northeast of Weißwasser , 25 kilometers east of Spremberg and 30 kilometers southwest of Żary . Neighboring communities were most recently Neu Tschöpeln in the northeast, Lugknitz and Krauschwitz (with Keula ) in the south, Muskau in the west and Köbeln in the northwest. The district of Neustadt belonged to the rural community of Burglehn Muskau .
history
Burglehn Muskau originally belonged to the Electorate of Saxony , which was elevated to the Kingdom of Saxony in 1806 . Following on the Congress of Vienna agreed division of the kingdom of Saxony Burglehn Muskau came with the north-eastern part of Upper Lusatia to the Kingdom of Prussia , where the Gutsbezirk the at the regional reorganization in 1816 (Laus Whether..) County Rothenburg in district Liegnitz the province of Silesia assigned has been. Burglehn refers to a feudal estate belonging to a castle , in this case the estate belonged to the Muskau estate . From 1815 Count Hermann von Pückler-Muskau had what is now the Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau laid out in the area of Burglehn Muskau and on land belonging to the neighboring municipality of Köbeln . In 1825, Burglehn Muskau consisted of 32 houses with 215 residents. In addition to the castle and the castle park, the district of Neustadt, Hermannsbad and a brewery as well as an alum factory belonged to the manor district .
By 1871 the population had decreased to 125. In the census of December 1, 1910, the manor district Burglehn Muskau had 306 inhabitants. This included the manor, the castle and an outbuilding . In 1919 the province of Silesia was divided and Burglehn-Muskau (then spelled with a hyphen) was henceforth in the province of Lower Silesia . In 1925 there were 213 people in Burglehn Muskau. In the course of the dissolution of the manor districts in 1928, Burglehn Muskau was first converted into a rural municipality and in 1935 into a municipality. As early as 1933, Burglehn Muskau belonged to the Lugknitz district . In 1938 Upper and Lower Silesia were reunited to form the Province of Silesia. At the last census before it was dissolved, the municipality of Burglehn Muskau had 159 inhabitants. In 1941 the province of Silesia was divided again. Towards the end of the Second World War , Muskauer Park was criss-crossed with German defenses. On April 16, 1945 the park and with it the area of the municipality of Burglehn Muskau was captured by the Red Army . In May 1945 the castle burned down.
After the end of the war and the determination of the Oder-Neisse border in August 1945, the municipality of Burglehn Muskau was divided, the part of the municipality on the eastern side of the Lusatian Neisse was divided into the Polish municipality of Lubanica (later renamed Łęknica ) and the part to the west of the Neisse part with the district Neustadt incorporated into the Muskau municipality of the Soviet occupation zone.
Web links
- Burglehn Muskau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann G. Knie: Geographical description of Silesia Prussian Antheils, the estate Glatz and the Prussian margraviate Upper Lusatia. Volume 3, Breslau 1830, p. 512ff. ( Online ).
- ^ Burglehn Muskau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony , accessed on July 16, 2020.
- ↑ Municipal directory Germany 1900. District Rothenburg (Ob. Laus.). In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de , accessed on July 16, 2020.