Burxdorf

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Burxdorf
Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 27 ″  N , 13 ° 15 ′ 30 ″  E
Height : 90 m
Residents : 130  (2019)
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Incorporated into: Neuburxdorf
Postal code : 04895
Area code : 035342
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Location of Burxdorf in Bad Liebenwerda

Burxdorf is the westernmost district of the city of Bad Liebenwerda in the Elbe-Elster district in Brandenburg and is about 10 kilometers southwest of the city. To the north-east of the district is the forest area of Grüne Heide .

Burxdorf was part of the Bad Liebenwerda district until it was incorporated in 1993 and currently has 130 residents.

history

Burxdorf in a cabinet card from 1762 by Isaak Jacob von Petri

Origin and foundation of the village

The brick church of the village was probably built around 1250 and contains a remarkable altar. Evidence suggests that the place was previously called Kuhnersdorf and was destroyed by the Elbe floods . After the reconstruction, the village was first mentioned in 1411 as Burchardtsdorf . In 1418, Margrave Friedrich the Arguable bought it and gave it to the Mühlberg Monastery .

More local history

From 1559 to 1570 the Burxdorf farmers were liable to pay taxes to the Bishop of Meißen . After the village had already been completely destroyed in the Thirty Years' War , a fire destroyed all of Burxdorf's houses on November 7, 1707; only the church remained.

The favorable traffic situation of the place on the Poststrasse from Grossenhain to Berlin used to bring its inhabitants many guests and the local inn was frequented by Saxon and Prussian princes. The residents of the place mainly farmed and raised cattle. Viticulture was also practiced on a modest scale until 1750. There were no large feudal estates in the village; most of the residents were small and medium-sized farmers.

In 1820 the town had 143 inhabitants in 23 households, in 1835 143 inhabitants, in 1839 the number of inhabitants increased to 207 and in 1855 to 251.

On September 9, 1890, the later Saxon king was staying Georg in his capacity as Prussian Field Marshal , accompanied by his personal aide said Captain Freiherr von Müller in Burxdorf to the drill of two cavalry divisions attend. At the Burxdorf train station, a joint breakfast was then held with officers from the Altmark Uhlan Regiment .

In 1848 the Riesa - Falkenberg / Elster railway line was completed and a train station opened in Burxdorf. In 1858 a porcelain factory started producing nippy figures. In 1861 the entrepreneur Carl Lippert built a glass factory.

On October 1, 1899, the residents of the colony at the train station formed the independent village of Neuburxdorf .

In the Second World War , 29 Burxdorf residents were killed.

More historical data

  • 1952 Foundation of the LPG "Aufbau" type 1.
  • 1960–1961 construction of the cultural center
  • January 1st, 1977 district of Neuburxdorf

Culture and sights

Village church

Very close relationships are said to have existed between the Mühlberg monastery and the church in Burxdorf, which was built around 1250 . The building originally had three entrances. Today only the west entrance with its later attached porch is preserved. The tower burned down in 1889 and was replaced in the same year by a roof turret with a bell. The tower is supported by a pillar at the northwest corner. Due to the weight of the tower, cracks had formed in the masonry between the gable and the nave. The east gable is adorned by three narrow windows, the Trinity Windows. The ravages of time had gnawed at the building over the years, and in 1980 a renovation of the outer facade was urgently necessary. The people of Burxdorf followed the call of the parish church council and actively helped with the very extensive work.

A prayer chapel is said to have stood on the Kapellenacker at the northern entrance to the village around 120 years ago. A stone cross on the edge of the field mentioned, which is still preserved today, allegedly bears witness to the boundary of the Meißen deanery .

literature

  • Wolfgang Eckelmann, Michael Ziehlke: Chronicle of the city of Liebenwerda. Edited by Association for City Marketing and Economy Bad Liebenwerda eV Winklerdruck GmbH Gräfenhainichen, Bad Liebenwerda 2007, p. 246 to 247 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population development in the city of Bad Liebenwerda and its districts in recent years. (pdf; 48 kB) Archived from the original on November 30, 2012 ; Retrieved July 26, 2009 .
  2. ↑ Leipziger Tageblatt, September 11, 1990, p. 6

Web links

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