Friedrichshain (Felixsee)

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Friedrichshain
community Felixsee
Coordinates: 51 ° 36 ′ 11 ″  N , 14 ° 34 ′ 54 ″  E
Height : 142 m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.18 km²
Residents : 624  (June 30, 2018)
Population density : 120 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 2001
Postal code : 03130
Area code : 035600
Glassworks in Friedrichshain around 1904
Glassworks in Friedrichshain around 1904

Friedrichshain ( Frycowy Gaj in Lower Sorbian ) is a district of the Felixsee municipality in the Spree-Neisse district in Brandenburg .

location

Friedrichshain is located in Lower Lusatia near the border with Saxony . Surrounding villages are the town of Döbern in the northeast, its district Eichwege in the east, the district Wolfshain belonging to the municipality of Tschernitz in the southeast, Groß Düben in the south, Reuthen in the southwest, Klein Loitz in the west and Bohsdorf in the northwest.

State road 49 runs through Friedrichshain. Federal roads 115 and 156 run about three kilometers east and two kilometers south of Friedrichshain, respectively.

history

Friedrichshain station on the Weißwasser – Forst railway line was in operation until 1996.

Friedrichshain was founded in 1766 when the Saxon Chamber Councilor George Michael Helbig bought 20 hectares of heather in order to build a glassworks on it. Friedrichshain was named in honor of the Saxon Elector Friedrich August III.

From the 1930s, the first housing estate was built in Friedrichshain . At that time the glassworks had almost 1200 employees. On April 16, 1945, the first day of the Battle of Berlin , Red Army troops stood at Friedrichshain in the evening. Over 200 German soldiers died in a night battle, many of them still students. 300 soldiers died in Friedrichshain.

From 1948 to 1990 the glassworks was a VEB company . In 1961, the Friedrichshain TV piston factory (FSKW, manufacturer of the first TV screens in the GDR ) was formed from the former glassworks . A solar park has been located on the former site of the glassworks since 2012 .
After the Congress of Vienna , Friedrichshain came to the Kingdom of Prussia as part of Niederlausitz . On July 25, 1952, the community was assigned to the newly formed Spremberg district in the Cottbus district, was in the Spremberg district in Brandenburg after the fall of the Wall and was part of the Döbern-Land office from July 31, 1992 . Since the district reform in Brandenburg on December 6, 1993 , Friedrichshain has belonged to the then newly formed Spree-Neisse district . On December 31, 2001, Friedrichshain was merged with the previously independent municipalities of Bloischdorf , Bohsdorf and Klein Loitz to form the new municipality of Felixsee .

Population development

Population development in Friedrichshain from 1875 to 2000
year Residents year Residents year Residents
1875 487 1939 1,229 1981 1,136
1890 552 1946 1,063 1985 1,084
1910 877 1950 1,367 1989 1,069
1925 1.101 1964 1,265 1995 893
1933 1,184 1971 1,269 2000 865

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 458 in the 1880s, of which only ten were Sorbs (2%). Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking population of 0.4% in 1956.

Web links

proof

  1. ↑ Facts and Figures. In: amt-doebern-land.de. Office Döbern-Land , accessed on August 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Fierce fighting raged near the Neisse in April 1945
  3. ↑ lr-online.de
  4. ↑ Felixsee municipality. Office Döbern-Land, accessed on May 21, 2017 .
  5. ^ Friedrichshain in the database of the Verein für Computergenealogie. Retrieved May 21, 2017 .
  6. ↑ 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 May 21, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
  8. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995.