Frankenhain (Schlieben)

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Frankenhain
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Coordinates: 51 ° 42 ′ 11 "  N , 13 ° 24 ′ 52"  E
Height : 89 m
Incorporation : November 1, 2001
Postal code : 04936
Area code : 035361

Frankenhain is a district of the town of Schlieben in the Elbe-Elster district in Brandenburg . Frankenhain is about 3 kilometers southeast of the city center area.

history

First documentary mention and development of the place name

The village street in Frankenhain
Next to the bathing lake is the fairground with an open-air stage

The place was first mentioned in 1384 as Frankinhayn . Further mentions and spellings were: 1384 Frankenhain , 1474 and 1602 Franckenhain . The place name refers to a the grove located settlement of the Franks or of Franko .

Local history

Frankenhain was a row village created by German settlers that originally only had one row of hooves . Later other houses without gardens were built on the street south of the row. Frankenhain was surrounded by moor until it was drained in the middle of the 20th century . Until then, the residents lived from peat extraction and hop growing . Frankenhain was an official village of the Electoral Saxon office of Schlieben . The residents were parish in Schlieben.

Culture and sights

In the south of the village there is a bathing lake created from a gravel pit, on which a traditional pond ride is organized every year. There is a smaller sports and recreation area around the lake.

In addition, there are some buildings in the village that are on the local list of monuments . One of the most striking structures in the village is a bell and fire tower with a square floor plan and an octagonal bell storey. The half-timbered building erected in the second third of the 18th century was badly bash damaged in 1945 and was rebuilt a few years later. About 100 meters further on the Frankenhain 2 property is a four-sided courtyard that was built at the beginning of the 20th century and is also partly under monument protection. A half-timbered building from the 18th century can be found on the neighboring property. A few meters further there is a historic pigeon tower, which is a building that was partly built as a brick and half-timbered structure towards the end of the 19th century.

Web links

Commons : Frankenhain  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ^ Walter Wenzel : The place names of the Schweinitzer country, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1964, also dissertation, Leipzig 1960
  2. ^ The district of Schweinitz A. Richter 1912; A little local history for the schools in the district
  3. ↑ http://www.amt-schlieben.de/
  4. ↑ Sybille Gramlich, Irmelin Küttner: Elbe-Elster district, part 1: The city of Herzberg / Elster and the offices of Falkenberg / Uebigau, Herzberg, Schlieben and Schönewalde. ISBN 978-3-88462152-3 , p. 106
  5. ↑ The Frankenhain bell tower in the database of the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum , accessed on December 3, 2016.
  6. ↑ The Frankenhain 2 property in the database of the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum , accessed on December 3, 2016.
  7. ↑ The Frankenhain 3 property in the database of the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and the State Archaeological Museum , accessed on December 3, 2016.
  8. ↑ The Frankenhainer Taubenturm in the database of the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum , accessed on December 3, 2016.