Dreska
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Dreska
community Hohenleipisch
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 1 ″ N , 13 ° 32 ′ 36 ″ E
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| Height : | 108 m |
| Residents : | 360 (2009) |
| Incorporation : | April 1, 1974 |
| Postal code : | 04934 |
| Area code : | 03533 |
Dreska ( Sorbian Drězg ) is a district of the municipality of Hohenleipisch in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg . It is located about four kilometers northeast of the city of Elsterwerda in the Niederlausitzer Heidelandschaft nature park .
Until the district reform in Brandenburg in 1993, Dreska belonged to the Bad Liebenwerda district and in 2009 had 360 inhabitants.
history
Local history
Dreska, then known as Dresgk , was named in 1406 in the Landbete (a tax register) in the registry of the Grossenhain office with ten hooves. The place name is derived from the Sorbian word "drjewina", which means something like "wood" (cf. Sorb. Drjewo , 'wood'). The place belonged like Krauschütz , Biehla , Kotschka , Plessa , Kraupa and Kahla to the rule Elsterwerda . The originally Sorbian population of Dreska mainly farmed and raised cattle.
In 1539/1540 Dreska owned a chapel.
The school and sexton was established in Dreska as early as 1717. The school was established in 1726 on the orders of Baron Waldemar von Loewendahl, who was seated at Elsterwerda Castle . In addition to the 15 m² teacher's apartment with a small kitchen and a pantry behind the classroom, built into the ordinary thatched schoolhouse were: a cowshed, two pigsties and a stable for the pastor's horse. In addition, the Dreska teacher had the right since 1726 to drive a cow, a calf and two pigs to the community herd. The school was also attended by the children from Kraupa until 1772 . Every landlord from Kraupa, Dreska and Kahla was obliged to deliver a maize of grain to the teacher every year , and whoever sent children to school even sent two cutters. Those who didn't own a field paid two groschen instead.
In 1816 there were 197 inhabitants and in 1835 Dreska had 36 houses with 202 inhabitants, 23 horses, 216 cattle, 193 sheep, a goat and 19 pigs.
In 1864, the Kraupa timber merchant Friedrich August Hummel, together with the Schöneich economics inspector Gustav Voigt and a mine owner from Hohenleipisch, received permission to drive a tunnel for underground lignite mining. A cable car was also built to transport the coal . The mine was named Friedrich Gustav and was located between the towns of Kraupa and Dreska. In 1878 the mining operations were stopped again.
From 1865 to 1896, Dreska formed its own parish with Plessa and Kahla , but was then again added to Elsterwerda. Kraupa was parish in Dreska.
On June 17, 1874, the train service of the Berlin-Dresden Railway started , which runs past the site.
Sorbian was spoken in the area of the former rule of Elsterwerda until the last decades of the 19th century, as recorded in 1885 by the Lower Sorbian linguist Mjertyn Moń (1848–1905). When he got off the train in Plessa and went on a hike to Kahla and Dreska, he often had the opportunity to use the Sorbian language .
The red brick building of the old school building, which characterizes the townscape, was built in 1902. In 1910 the village had 369 inhabitants.
In July 1912 there was a severe storm in Dreska and the surrounding area, which caused considerable damage. During the floods, a bridge on the way from the village to Biehla was torn away by running water.
From 1919 to 1924 there was the Anna mine in the area of the former Friedrich Gustav mine . Here the brown coal was extracted in the open pit . In 1928 the Elsterwerda bicycle manufacturer Carl Wilhelm Reichenbach bought this pit, which has now been filled with water, and expanded it into the Bad Aegir outdoor pool . The outdoor pool was named after the Aegir-Rad of the Elsterwerdaer Fahrradfabrik (ELFA) and remained a popular destination for people from the area until the end of the 1930s. In the 1930s, Dreska was a quiet farming village. In the years that followed, basket crafting emerged as a further branch of industry, which is still cultivated today. On April 22, 1945, the Red Army moved in, as in the neighboring towns .
In 1998 the old school was converted into a village community center. In addition, a new fire station was built for the local volunteer fire department .
Today, Dreska is part of the Hohenleipisch community and is well worth seeing with its own church. There is a youth club on the village's sports field, which is known for its active association work. In a local horse boarding house, visitors have the opportunity to discover the area around the village on horseback or as part of a chariot ride , which is particularly attractive during the flowering season in spring.
Population development
| Dreska population development since 1875 | |||||||||||||
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| year | Residents | year | Residents | year | Residents | ||||||||
| 1875 | 200 | 1933 | 493 | 1964 | 499 | ||||||||
| 1890 | 200 | 1939 | 500 | 1971 | 477 | ||||||||
| 1910 | 350 | 1946 | 664 | 2006 | 385 | ||||||||
| 1925 | 421 | 1950 | 624 | ||||||||||
Culture and regular events
Attractions
- Village church
- old school
- War memorial
Footnotes and individual references
- Matthäus Karl Fitzkow : On the older history of the city of Liebenwerda and its district area . Ed .: District Museum Bad Liebenwerda. Bad Liebenwerda 1961.
- “Overview of the population and the number of cattle in 1835” in “The Black Elster - Our Home in Words and Pictures” . No. 596 . Bad Liebenwerda 1985, p. 8 to 10 .
- Heinz Wolf: "A Dreska schoolmaster - Johann Gottlieb Wolf" In: Local calendar for the old district of Bad Liebenwerda, the Mückenberger Ländchen, the outskirts of the Schraden and Uebigau-Falkenberg . Ed .: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Heimatkunde eV Bad Liebenwerda. Bad Liebenwerda 1996, p. 276-283 .
- ↑ Filip Rězak : German-Wendish encyclopaedic dictionary of the Upper Lusatian language , Bautzen 1920.
- ↑ Status: 2009
- ↑ a b Plessa's official homepage
- ↑ Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin: age - origin - meaning . be.bra Wissenschaft, 2005, p. 48 .
- ↑ Home calendar for the Bad Liebenwerda district, 1963, page 139/140
- ↑ Historical municipality directory 2005 for Brandenburg ( online as PDF file )
