Princely Drehna

Princely Drehna City of Luckau Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 36 ″  N , 13 ° 48 ′ 21 ″  E
Height :	77 m above sea level NHN
Area :	20.85 km²
Residents :	276  (Sep 9, 2014)
Population density :	13 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	December 31, 1999
Postal code :	15926
Area code :	035324

Fürstlich Drehna Castle, east side

Fürstlich Drehna (until 1807 German Drehna , from 1950 to 1991 Drehna , Lower Sorbian Serbski Drjenow ) is a district of the town of Luckau in the Dahme-Spreewald district in Brandenburg .

location

Fürstlich Drehna is located in Lower Lusatia, about twelve kilometers southeast of Luckau, ten kilometers west of Calau and 15 kilometers north of Finsterwalde . Surrounding villages are Egsdorf in the north, Schlabendorf am See and the Zinnitz district in the northeast, which belongs to Calau in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district , the districts Groß Jehser and Mallenchen in the east, Klein Mehßow in the southeast and Groß Mehßow in the south, the already in the Elbe-Elster district lying Crinitz in the southwest, which in turn belongs to the district Luckau mountains to the west and to the municipality of Heideblick belonging district Beesdau and Luckauer district Görlsdorf in the northwest.

State road 56 runs through Fürstlich Drehna. A large part of the area around the village is now in the former Schlabendorf-Süd opencast mine , while parts of the Schlabendorfer See and about half of the Drehnaer See are in Fürstlich Drehna. The municipality part of Tugam belongs to the place .

history

Fürstlich Drehna Castle, around 1860

The former desert church near Fürstlich-Drehna

Local history

In the Meißen diocese register of 1495, which lists the individual archdeaconates and arch priestly chairs in the diocese of Meißen from 1346 and earlier, Fürstlich Drehna is mentioned as Drehnaw . In a list of the vassals and towns under Saxon protection in Niederlausitz from January 4, 1447, Fürstlich Drehna appears again with the manor owner Bernhard Drauschwitz.

In 1521 Drehna was taken over by the von Minckwitz family . They built the moat around the castle and erected the defense towers. In 1697 the area was acquired by the von Promnitz family. This allowed the palace complex to be expanded. Count Moritz von Lynar , who was raised to the rank of prince in 1807, renamed the place and the castle in Fürstlich Drehna. In 1877 the Bremen shipping company family Wätjen became lords of the castle. The family had a family grave laid in the palace gardens.

After the Second World War, the palace was expropriated and used as a youth workshop during the GDR era . Today the castle and the 50-hectare landscape park belong to Brandenburgische Schlösser GmbH .

The village includes the historic “Zum Hirsch” inn with a historic stage hall in the shape of a ship's hull and the Fürstlich Drehna brewery, which has existed since 1745.

Fürstlich Drehna was renamed Drehna on July 1, 1950. The renaming in Fürstlich Drehna took place on January 1, 1991.

On December 31, 1999 the parish Fürstlich Drehna was incorporated into the city of Luckau together with five other places.

Desert church

The desert church was located northeast of Fürstlich Drehna. It was unclear how old the building is, what function it had and why it was abandoned. However, it is dated between 1200 and 1300. The remains of this church fell victim to open-cast lignite mining and were blown up in October 1979. In the run-up to the demolition and immediately afterwards, archaeological investigations took place on the area around the church and inside with the aim of clarifying the age and function of the church. In addition to a large number of findings and finds, five graves with seven human skeletons were discovered. Usually in the Middle Ages the areas around a church were used as a cemetery, but none could be detected here; the skeletons found could not be assigned to a regular cemetery. The buried were men and women with a remarkably high average age at death of around 60 years with an average height. The present graves are likely to be special / emergency burials from a - in the broadest sense - crisis period when the church was no longer in use. Archaeologically, they have been dated to the early modern period.

Culture and sights

Pavilion in the castle park

Evangelical village church

Buildings and other sights

• The most important building is the moated castle Fürstlich Drehna (14th - 16th century), which is located near an old Slavic castle complex in the Niederlausitzer Landrück nature park : Castle complex of medieval origin, further expansion to a closed four-wing complex in the Renaissance period . From 2006 to 2007 it was renovated and converted for use as a hotel .
• Castle Park: great, by Peter Joseph Lenne created landscape park where the pond shore from a formerly Wertheim Manor in Calauer district Saßleben from Castle Saßleben originating cast-iron gazebo stands.
• Evangelical village church with historical gravestones of the von Minckwitz family.
• Reduced floor plan of the desert church, shifted from the former location
• Nature conservation administration of the Niederlausitzer Landrückens Nature Park with exhibition
• Drehnaer See , open- cast mining hole prepared for future local recreational tourism
• replica post mill

Sports

In 1951 a motorcycle race took place in the park of Drehna. From 1954 there was the motocross races "Around the Mühlberg".

Princely Drehna in art and literature

Fürstlich Drehna and its residents were erected by the Luckau- born writer and former civil rights activist Andreas H. Apelt (* 1958). With Schneewalzer (1997) and Schwarzer Herbst (2011), he published two novels devoted to contemporary history.

Personalities

• Martin Kaschke (1610–1727), farmer and probably the oldest man who ever lived in Germany, died in Fürstlich Drehna
• Ernst Wolff (1936–2014), multiple GDR champion in motorcycle racing
• Torsten Wolff (* 1963), son of Ernst Wolff, motorcycle racer
• Toni Wolff (* 1986), son of Torsten Wolff, motorcycle racer

literature

• Barbara Eggers: Princely Drehna. (= Castles and gardens of the market ). Friends of the Palaces and Gardens of the Mark, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-87584-511-0 .
• Authors' collective of the Fürstlich Drehna cultural and homeland association: The Fürstlich Drehna palace gardens: its creators, sponsors, custodians, revitalists. Regia, Cottbus 2011, ISBN 978-3-86929-061-4 .

Web links

Commons : Fürstlich Drehna  - Collection of images

• Homepage about Princely Drehna
• Material on Schloss Fürstlich Drehna in the Duncker Collection of the Central and State Library Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ^ District of Fürstlich Drehna. In: www.luckau.de. City of Luckau, accessed on July 5, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin: age - origin - meaning . be.bra Wissenschaft, 2005, p. 213 and 215 .
3. ^ Woldemar Lippert : Document book of the city of Lübben.
4. ↑ brauerei-fuerstlich-drehna.de
5. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states. Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
6. ↑ Change in the registry office district Luckau (district Dahme-Spreewald) - announcement by the Ministry of the Interior of December 16, 1999 . In: Minister of the Interior of the State of Brandenburg (Hrsg.): Official Journal for Brandenburg - Common Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg . 11th year, no. 1 . Brandenburg University Printing and Publishing Company Potsdam, Potsdam January 11, 2000, p. 2 ( brandenburg.de [PDF; 248 kB ; accessed on July 5, 2015]).
7. ↑ Postcard puzzle Church had to give way to coal excavators. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . March 20, 2004.
8. ^ Project Drehna, Desert Church. In: anthropologie-jungklaus.de. Retrieved June 4, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Bettina Jungklaus : Burials in the church ruins: anthropological investigation of the skeleton finds of the desert church of Fürstlich Drehna . In: Luckauer Heimatverein (Ed.): Luckauer Heimatkalender 2007 . 39th year, 2006, p. 55-58 .
10. ↑ Lutz Hartmann in: Illustrated Motorsport. (Berlin), issue 12/1979, p. 275.