Felixsee (municipality)

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 36 '  N , 14 ° 31'  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Spree-Neisse
Office :	Döbern country
Height :	140 m above sea level NHN
Area :	35.53 km 2
Residents:	1920 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	54 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	03130
Area code :	035600
License plate :	SPN, FOR, GUB, SPB
Community key :	12 0 71 074
Community structure:	5 districts
Office administration address:	Forster Strasse 8 03159 Döbern
Website :	www.amt-doebern-land.de
Mayor :	Peter Rabe ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Felixsee (municipality) in the Spree-Neisse district

Name-giving lake with observation tower

Felixsee , in Lower Sorbian Feliksowy Jazor , is a municipality in the Spree-Neisse district in Brandenburg . It is administered by the Döbern-Land office. The district Bloischdorf belongs to the official settlement area of ​​the Sorbs / Wends .

Community structure

Felixsee consists of the districts

• Bloischdorf (Błobošojce)
• Bohsdorf (Bóšojce)
• Friedrichshain (Frycowy Gaj)
• Klein Loitz (Łojojc)
• Reuthen (Ruśi)

In addition, there are the residential areas Adamschenke (Adamowa Kjarcma), Expansion (Wutwaŕki), Bloischdorf Colony (Błobošojska Kolonija), Bohsdorf-Vorwerk (Bóšojski Forwark), Horlitza (Horlica) and Klein Loitz Vorwerk (Łojojc Wudwór).

history

Bloischdorf, Bohsdorf, Friedrichshain, Klein Loitz and Reuthen belonged to the Spremberg district in the Prussian province of Brandenburg since 1816 and to the Spremberg district in the GDR district of Cottbus from 1952 . Since 1993 the places have been in the Brandenburg district of Spree-Neisse.

The Felixsee municipality was created on December 31, 2001 from the voluntary amalgamation of the previously independent municipalities of Bloischdorf, Bohsdorf, Friedrichshain and Klein Loitz. Reuthen was added on October 26, 2003.

The youngest district is Friedrichshain. It was not built until 1768 as a settlement for the glassworks workers . The namesake was the Saxon Elector Friedrich August III . In 1961, the Friedrichshain television piston factory (FSKW, manufacturer of the first television screens in the GDR ) emerged from the former glassworks .

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  Friedrichshain glassworks around 1900

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  Village street from Klein Loitz in the winter of 1987

Population development

year Residents 2001 2 223 2002 2 194 2003 2,476 2004 2,427

year Residents 2005 2,382 2006 2,336 2007 2 301 2008 2 249 2009 2 192

year Residents 2010 2 210 2011 2,090 2012 2,053 2013 1 981 2014 1 929

year Residents 2015 1 920 2016 1 932 2017 1,898 2018 1 906 2019 1 920

Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31, from 2011 based on the 2011 census

politics

Community representation

Lookout tower on Lake Felix

The Felixsee community council consists of 12 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
SPD	4th
AfD	2
FDP	1
Voting group Friends of Sports Friedrichshain	1
The left	1
Individual applicant Karsten Lehmann	1
Individual applicant Hartmut Dieter Bastisch	1
Individual applicant Dietrich Kirmse	1

mayor

• since 2003: Peter Rabe (SPD)

In the mayoral election on May 26, 2019, Rabe was elected unopposed with 70.7% of the valid votes for another term of five years.

Attractions

Strittmatters shop in Bohsdorf

Information board about the diary

The name-giving lake is a bathing water that arose from a flooded open pit. At its edge there is a 36 m high observation tower.

In Bohsdorf a museum to remind store from the novel trilogy by Erwin Strittmatter .

In the list of architectural monuments in Felixsee and in the list of ground monuments in Felixsee are the monuments entered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.

traffic

The district Friedrichshain is located at the country road L 49 according Doebern. The federal highway 156 between Spremberg and Tschernitz crosses the southern municipality.

The Lower Lusatian mining tour cycle path leads through the community, including along a quarry .

Personalities

• Carl Klinke (1840–1864), a Prussian soldier revered as a hero, was born in Bohsdorf
• Erwin Strittmatter (1912–1994), writer, described his childhood and youth in Bohsdorf and Spremberg in the partially autobiographical novel trilogy Der Laden
• Walter Kaiser (1923–1965), engineer, first operations manager (technical director) of the TV piston factory (FSKW) Friedrichshain, lived and died in Friedrichshain
• Sebastian Freiherr von Rotenhan (* 1949) bought the manor house in Reuthen Park in 2001
• Solveig Bolduan (* 1958), painter and sculptor, lives and works in Klein Loitz

Source

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. ^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. Felixsee community
3. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2001
4. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003
5. ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. District Spree-Neisse . Pp. 14-17
6. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2017 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
7. ^ 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)
8. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
9. ↑ Local elections October 26, 2003. Mayoral elections , p. 32
10. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)
11. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019
12. ↑ Lower Lusatian mining tour

Web links

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