Friedersdorf (Sonnewalde)

Friedersdorf City of Sonnewalde Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′ 57 ″  N , 13 ° 34 ′ 25 ″  E
Height :	100 m
Residents :	185  (2010)
Incorporation :	May 1, 2002
Postal code :	03249
Area code :	035323

Friedersdorf ( Lower Sorbian Bedrichojce ) is a formerly independent municipality, which is now part of the town of Sonnewalde in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg . The place is located about six kilometers west of the city center on state road 703.

history

Friedersdorf

The village is first mentioned in documents in 1414 as Fredersdorf . From the year 1739 an uprising of the villagers against the Counts of Solms is known, during which they resisted the increase of the compulsory labor. There was also a glassworks in Friedersdorf in the 18th century. Half of the village fell victim to a devastating fire in 1872.

On May 1st, 2002 Friedersdorf, Bahren, Brenitz, Goßmar, Großkrausnik, Kleinkrausnik, Pahlsdorf, Sonnewalde and Zeckerin merged to form the town of Sonnewalde.

Population development of Friedersdorf from 1875 to 2010
year	Residents		year	Residents		year	Residents		year	Residents
1875	311		1933	301		1964	287		1995	215
1890	349		1939	280		1971	256		2000	194
1910	338		1946	380		1985	207		2012	185
1925	345		1950	397		1990	213

Culture and sights

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  Brick gable in the east of the village church

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  War memorial

The 15th century Friedersdorf church was once a Schönewald daughter church. In the course of its history it has undergone several renovations, during which it received a brick gable in the east in the 16th century and the half-timbered vestibule in the 18th century. The once massive tower in the west of the church was demolished and replaced by the octagonal wooden roof tower that exists today. It is currently the only building in the area that is on the Brandenburg State Monument List.

Another place of interest is the stone cross, which is now located on the corner of the old school garden. Originally, its location is said to have been at the old municipal sand pit of Brenitz. Furthermore, a war memorial can be found in the village in the form of a stele , which commemorates the fallen villagers of the First and Second World Wars and the Franco-German War (1870/71).

To the north-east of the village, the 959 hectare nature reserve Sonnewalde and Lugkteich , which was placed under protection in 1968, extends.

Local associations include the Friedersdorfer Kulturverein founded in 1994 and the local volunteer fire brigade founded in 1912.

The largest event in the district is the Friedersdorf Brass Music Festival, which takes place every year in May.

Web links

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

• Friedersdorf on the homepage of the city of Sonnewalde

Footnotes and individual references

1. ↑ Sorbian name: Bedrichojce (formerly Luckau district )
   → Arnošt Muka : Lower Sorbian names of towns and villages ; 1911–1928, Sorbian Institute.
   → Arnošt Muka: building blocks for local history of the Luckauer Kreis. District Committee, Luckau 1918.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} district page on the homepage of the city of Sonnewalde , accessed on May 1, 2014
3. ^ ^{A b c d} Author collective of the MUG Brandenburg eV: Heimatbuch Landkreis Elbe-Elster . Herzberg 1996, p. 110 .
4. ↑ Heimatbuch, p. 36
5. ↑ Historical municipality directory 2005 for Brandenburg ( online as PDF file )
6. ^ Walter De Gruyter: Müller's Large German Local Book 2012: Complete local dictionary . Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-027806-4 .
7. ^ The Friedersdorfer Church on the homepage of the city of Sonnewalde , accessed on May 1, 2014
8. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: Elbe-Elster district (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum
9. ↑ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments - The districts of Cottbus and Frankfurt / Oder . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1987, ISBN 3-422-00384-3 .
10. ↑ www.sühnekreuz.de , accessed on June 13, 2014
11. ↑ Online project Memorial Memorials , accessed on June 13, 2014.
12. ↑ List of landscape protection areas in Brandenburg published by the Ministry for the Environment, Health and Consumer Protection (PDF file, as of December 2013)
13. ^ "Kulturverein Friedersdorf e. V. “in Lausitzer Rundschau , May 10, 2003
14. ↑ The Friedersdorf volunteer fire brigade on the homepage of the city of Sonnewalde  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.