Drachhausen

Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Spree-Neisse
Office :	Peitz
Height :	61 m above sea level NHN
Area :	38.4 km 2
Residents:	786 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	20 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	03185
Area code :	035609
License plate :	SPN, FOR, GUB, SPB
Community key :	12 0 71 052
Office administration address:	Schulstrasse 6 ; 03185 Peitz
Mayoress :	Doreen Krötel
Location of the municipality of Drachhausen in the Spree-Neisse district

Drachhausen , Hochoza in Lower Sorbian , is a municipality in the Spree-Neisse district in the south of Brandenburg . It is part of the Peitz office .

geography

The community lies in the traditional settlement area of the Sorbs . The Malxe flows in the south of the municipality .

Community structure

The inhabited parts of the municipality Aue (until 1937 Plonitza , in Sorbian Hugon ), village (Wjas), heath (Pódgóla) and sand (Pěski) belong to Drachhausen. Added to that come habitations Forsthaus Kiefernheide (until 1937 Dolk , Sorbian Gólnikaŕnja na Dołku ) and Forest Haus Tannenwald (Gólnikaŕnja w Škrjokach) .

The dragon in Drachhausen

history

Drachhausen was first mentioned in writing in 1504 under the name "Hoen Drußow". Other names followed in 1506 "Drochoßen", 1641 "Drachausen", 1652 "Drachhaußen", 1765 "Trachhausen" and then the current name Drachhausen. The Sorbian name is derived from ochoz and means "dealing with a piece of forest destined for settlement clearing ". The place was populated from the beginning by Sorbs, whose language and culture was widespread over the centuries and is still cultivated today. From the 16th century to 1874 Drachhausen was under the offices of Cottbus and Peitz. In 1759, during the Seven Years' War , the place burned down except for the outwork and a few barns. The old structure of the place was largely preserved due to its special location, since a fixed road connection to Cottbus was not established until 1960.

Drachhausen has belonged to the Cottbus district in the Prussian province of Brandenburg since 1816 and to the Cottbus-Land district in the GDR district of Cottbus from 1952 . The community has been in the Spree-Neisse district of Brandenburg since 1993. The community was in the "coal protection area" from 1973 to 1992 and was to give way in part to an open-cast brown coal mine.

Population development

year	Residents
1875	1 116
1890	1 171
1910	1 238
1925	1 245
1933	1 220
1939	1 161
1946	1 480
1950	1 414

year	Residents
1964	1 168
1971	1 150
1981	990
1985	953
1989	912
1990	902
1991	888
1992	873
1993	867
1994	877

year	Residents
1995	877
1996	884
1997	897
1998	902
1999	889
2000	889
2001	893
2002	887
2003	861
2004	840

year	Residents
2005	854
2006	856
2007	848
2008	855
2009	836
2010	843
2011	846
2012	838
2013	829
2014	814

year	Residents
2015	816
2016	804
2017	800
2018	804
2019	786

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 consists of 10 community representatives and the honorary mayor:

Party / group of voters	Seats
Independent group of voters Drachhausen	4th
SPD	2
Civic community Drachhausen	2
Voting group Voluntary Fire Brigade Drachhausen	2

(As of: local election on May 26, 2019)

mayor

1998–2019: Fritz Woitow (Independent Electoral Group Drachhausen)
since 2019: Doreen Krötel (Independent Voting Group Drachhausen)

Krötel was elected in the mayoral election on May 26, 2019 with 90.4% of the valid votes for a term of five years without an opponent.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on November 16, 1998.

Blazon : "In silver, a soaring, four-legged, red-tongued black dragon (lindworm) with a green linden leaf in the left front claw."

Sights and culture

St. Laurentius Church

The heraldic animal of Drachhausen, a concrete dragon, was erected on the village green in 1998 on the occasion of the Wendish festival. The Protestant St. Laurentius Church, built in 1895, is one of the largest village churches in the region. Every two years, Drachhausen, along with Crostwitz and Bautzen, is the venue for the Lausitz / Łužica International Folklore Festival .

The list of monuments in Drachhausen and the list of ground monuments in Drachhausen contain the monuments entered in the list of monuments of the State of Brandenburg.

museum

Local museum “Kólasko” on the tradition of flax processing