Dubrau (meadow ground)

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Municipality Wiesengrund
Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 40 ″  N , 14 ° 32 ′ 13 ″  E
Height : 97 m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.62 km²
Residents : 108  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 14 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : May 1st 1973
Incorporated into: Gosda
Postal code : 03149
Area code : 035694
Half-timbered church Dubrau

Dubrau (until 1952 Noble Dubrau ), Lower Sorbian Dubrava , is a part of municipality of Gosda , in the municipality of meadow land in the district of Spree-Neisse in Brandenburg . The place is in the official settlement area of ​​the Sorbs / Wends .

location

Dubrau is located in Lower Lusatia, about five kilometers west of Forst and about 16 kilometers east of Cottbus . Surrounding villages are Gosda in the north, the Forster district Groß Jamno in the east, Jethe in the southeast, Trebendorf in the south, the districts Gablenz and Sergen in the southwest and Kathlow in the west and Klinge in the northwest , which belong to the municipality of Neuhausen / Spree .

Dubrau is on the state road 49 (former federal road 122 ) from Cottbus to Forst. The federal motorway 15 from the Spreewald triangle to the Polish border runs south of the Dubrau locality, the closest junction, Roggosen, is about six kilometers away. The Jänschwalde open-cast lignite mine is located north of Dubrau .

history

The first written mention of Dubrau dates back to 1293 as "Dubrauinsis". The place name comes from the Sorbian language and means "settlement on / in an oak forest". The addition "noble" was used to differentiate it from Königsdubrau , today's Dąbrowiec in the Polish Gmina Żary , it was deleted in 1952.

The Valentinkirche in Dubrau was built in 1818 as a half-timbered building. The pulpit altar dates from 1738.

Dubrau was always been in the Kingdom of Prussia , 1816-1945 was the place where part of the district Sorau (Lausitz) in the administrative district of Frankfurt in the part of the province Neumark . Within the administrative district, Dubrau was administered by the Eulo district. At the time of the Soviet occupation zone , Dubrau was in the Cottbus district for years .

On July 25, 1952, Dubrau was assigned to the newly formed forest district in the Cottbus district . On May 1, 1973 Dubrau was incorporated into Gosda . After the reunification in the GDR , Dubrau was initially in the forest district and was assigned to the Spree-Neisse district with the Brandenburg district reform of December 6, 1993 . On December 31, 2001 Dubrau was merged as part of Gosda with the municipalities of Gahry , Jethe , Mattendorf and Trebendorf to form the new municipality of Wiesengrund .

Population development

Population development in Dubrau from 1875 to 1971
year Residents year Residents year Residents year Residents year Residents
1875 142 1910 98 1933 104 1946 189 1964 157
1890 128 1925 121 1939 97 1950 191 1971 152

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 133 for (noble) Dubrau in the 1880s, of which 80 were Sorbs (60%) and 53 Germans. In 1956, Ernst Tschernik had a Sorbian-speaking population of only 0.5%.

Web links

Commons : Dubrau / Dubrawa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

proof

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  4. ^ Dubrau in the historical index of places. Retrieved October 29, 2017 .
  5. Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. (PDF; 331 KB) District Spree-Neisse. State Office for Data Processing and Statistics State of Brandenburg, December 2006, accessed on October 29, 2017 .
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  7. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995.