Crinitz

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 51 ° 44 '  N , 13 ° 46'  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Elbe Elster
Office :	Kleine Elster (Niederlausitz)
Height :	99 m above sea level NHN
Area :	21.95 km 2
Residents:	1164 (December 31, 2019)
Population density :	53 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	03246
Area code :	035324
License plate :	EE, FI, LIB
Community key :	12 0 62 088
Community structure:	3 districts
Office administration address:	Turmstrasse 5 03238 Massen-Niederlausitz
Website :	www.crinitz.de
Mayor :	Uwe Mader ( The Left )
Location of the municipality of Crinitz in the Elbe-Elster district

Crinitz ( Lower Sorbian Krynica ) is a municipality in the Elbe-Elster district in the south of Brandenburg and belongs to the Kleine Elster (Niederlausitz) office in the municipality of Massen-Niederlausitz .

geography

Crinitz lies in a terminal moraine landscape on the edge of the Lusatian border wall .

Community structure

The main statute of the municipality shows the district Gahro ( Lower Sorbian Gary ). The community also includes the Gahroer Pechhütte, Niederhof and Oberhof residential areas.

history

Crinitz was first mentioned on December 21, 1275 in the Doberlug monastery record book in the form of the personal name Martinius de Crinitz . In the oldest Lower Lusatian fiefdom register, the place is registered as Krinticz on October 21, 1527. The name is interpreted as a settlement at a spring . The von Polenz auf Beesdau from before 1436 to 1792 are named as landowners .

The von Thümen family appeared as landowners in 1794 and 1809. The estate has been owned by the von Koppe family, then Kühne, since 1842. In 1915 there was the Kühnesche Family Foundation. Crinitz has had a village seal since 1845 . In 1708 13 semi-farms - 28 people between the ages of 12 and 60 - and in 1718 12 farms with 12.5 hooves are called land. 1723 again 13 farms. In 1755, 91 people lived in Crinitz, 46 of whom were male and 45 were female. In 1810 there were 13 farms and 7 cottagers or Büdner. In 1864 a windmill, a water mill and a sheep farm are mentioned. The place had 12 potteries and developed into an important place for the clay industry. With the construction of the Finsterwalde – Luckau railway in 1911, Crinitz was also connected.

Crinitz was parish in Gahro from 1718 to 1945 , and then from 1945 to Fürstlich Drehna . A baptismal font from the Middle Ages indicates a church or chapel that was expanded several times and finally demolished in 1843. The church chronicle reports that the sermon before the demolition of the dilapidated half-timbered church was given by a potter who was then fined.

In 1818 there were 26 fireplaces and 154 residents. In 1846 there were 268 inhabitants (including estate) and in 1871 already 587. The continued rapid increase in the number of inhabitants indicates the development not only of the clay industry. In 1900 there were 676 inhabitants in the entire village (good 49, municipality 627), in 1925 there were 900 and in 1939 1256 inhabitants.

Crinitz and Gahro belonged to the Luckau district in the province of Brandenburg since 1816 and to the Finsterwalde district in the GDR district of Cottbus from 1952 . Since 1993, the places have been in the Elbe-Elster district of Brandenburg.

The community in its current boundaries was created on October 26, 2003 through the legally mandated incorporation of the community of Gahro into the community of Crinitz. Both communities have been administered by the Kleine Elster (Niederlausitz) office since 1992 (until 1995 the Kleine Elster office).

Population development

year Residents 1875 715 1890 754 1910 786 1925 900 1933 1 129 1939 1 256 1946 1 642 1950 1 755

year Residents 1964 1 709 1971 1 809 1981 1 555 1985 1 501 1989 1 440 1990 1 425 1991 1 405 1992 1 412 1993 1 408 1994 1 410

year Residents 1995 1 409 1996 1 398 1997 1 417 1998 1 395 1999 1 353 2000 1 359 2001 1 336 2002 1 320 2003 1 512 2004 1 481

year Residents 2005 1 450 2006 1 407 2007 1 373 2008 1 340 2009 1 339 2010 1 295 2011 1 257 2012 1 236 2013 1 238 2014 1 226

year Residents 2015 1 222 2016 1 214 2017 1 196 2018 1 182 2019 1 164

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 community council of Crinitz consists of 10 community representatives and the honorary mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Party / group of voters	Seats
CDU	4th
The left	3
Individual applicant René Hannig	1
Individual applicant Lothar Thor	1
Individual applicant Horst Hofmann	1

mayor

• 1998–2003: Walter Keilholz
• 2003–2019: Horst Hofmann
• since 2019: Uwe Mader (Die Linke)

Mader was elected in the mayoral election on May 26, 2019 with 72.5% of the valid votes for a term of five years.

Sights and culture

Buildings

The list of monuments in Crinitz includes the monuments entered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.

The field stone church in Gahro from the 12th / 13th centuries is well worth seeing . Century.

Museums

The first home parlor was located in the passage at the "Bürgerhaus" restaurant to the pottery market area until 2011. The new Heimatstube was opened in November 2011 in Hauptstr. 82 and is clearly recognizable by the oversized, glazed clay pot in front of the house.

The eight local potteries are ready to demonstrate their partly historic workshops on request.

The Niederlausitzer Museumseisenbahn runs museum trips a few days a year.

Regular events

The big pottery market always takes place on the first weekend in April. Around 70 potters and other craftsmen from all over Germany - and since 2006 also from other European countries - present their goods here.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Crinitz is located on the L 56 state road between the B 96 north of Sonnewalde and the Calau junction on the A 13 .

The Crinitz train station and the Crinitz Töpferpark stop are on the single- track Finsterwalde – Luckau railway line . Passenger traffic ceased in 1968. The Niederlausitzer Museumseisenbahn has been running museum trips between Finsterwalde and Crinitz since 2002 .

education

In May 2006, the Crinitzer elementary school was the first school in the state of Brandenburg to be given the name “ Heinz Sielmann ”.

Sports

• Crinitz forest pool
• SV Vorwärts Crinitz 1921 eV (football, table tennis, volleyball, gymnastics)
• Pot run (start at the Waldbad, on Sunday of the pottery market weekend in early April, organized by Crinitz primary school and the Crinitz eV sports and meeting center)

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. ↑ Entry “Krynica” in the Lower Sorbian place name database on dolnoserbski.de
3. ^ Sorbian name OT Gahro: Gary (formerly Luckau district )
   → Arnošt Muka : Lower Sorbian names of cities and villages ; 1911–1928, Sorbian Institute.
   → Arnošt Muka: building blocks for local history of the Luckauer Kreis. District Committee, Luckau 1918.
4. ↑ Main statutes of the municipality of Crinitz from February 9, 2009 PDF
5. ^ Service portal of the state administration of the state of Brandenburg - Crinitz municipality
6. ↑ Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin: age - origin - meaning . be.bra Wissenschaft, Berlin 2005, p. 40 .
7. ↑ Märkische Oderzeitung, 4./5. November 2006, p. 11
8. ↑ Sixth law on state-wide municipal reform concerning the districts of Dahme-Spreewald, Elbe-Elster, Oberspreewald-Lausitz, Oder-Spree and Spree-Neiße (6th GemGebRefGBbg) of March 24, 2003, Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Brandenburg, I ( Laws), 2003, No. 05, p. 93
9. ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Elbe-Elster district . Pp. 14-17
10. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2015 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
11. ^ 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)
12. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
13. ↑ Results of the municipal elections in 1998 (mayoral elections) for the Elbe-Elster district ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
14. ↑ Local elections October 26, 2003. Mayoral elections , p. 24
15. ↑ Section 73 of the Brandenburg Local Election Act
16. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019
17. ↑ Märkische Oderzeitung, November 28, 2006, p. 9

Web links

Commons : Crinitz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Link catalog about Crinitz at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
• Crinitz in the RBB program Landschleicher on December 4, 2016