Gerbisbach

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Gerbisbach
Coordinates: 51 ° 44 ′ 58 ″  N , 12 ° 56 ′ 55 ″  E
Area : 8.41 km²
Residents : 186  (June 1, 2017)
Population density : 22 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : November 1, 1993
Postal code : 06917
Area code : 03537
Gerbisbach (Saxony-Anhalt)
Gerbisbach

Location of Gerbisbach in Saxony-Anhalt

Gerbisbach is a district of Jessen (Elster) in the state of Saxony-Anhalt . The place is about 4 km south of Jessen, not far from the new digging , and until 1937 carried the Slavic place name Zwiesigko . The incorporation to Jessen took place on November 1, 1993.

history

Zwiesigkow manor around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

The local area of ​​Gerbisbach was already settled in the late Bronze Age. Visible evidence is the Gerbisbach castle wall , which is located directly behind the Gerbismühle district in the direction of Annaburg. The first written mention of the place comes from the year 1339.

The spelling of the place name was Zwisico in 1550 . The name Svis (i) kov means in Old Sorbian : place of Svisik or Svis (e) k.

As part of the National Socialist Germanization of Sorbian place names, the district administrator of the Schweinitz district, with the consent of the municipality, applied in 1937 to rename Zwiesigko to “Gerbisdorf” and thus to erase the Sorbian name. Since that name already existed in the Delitzsch district and the name "Elsterau" proposed by the community as a substitute was rejected by the district president, the name was finally changed to "Gerbisbach", against the protest of the community, which finally opted for a fourth variant, namely " Ährenfeld “.

The new name Gerbisbach goes back to the deserted Gerbis, which was in the office of Annaburg and on the corridor at the beginning of the 18th century by Johann Christoph Herrmann with the approval of Elector Friedrich August I of Saxony on December 29, 1722 a new mill at Neugraben has been built, which was named Gerbismühle. Johann Gottlieb Herrmann later applied for a cutting mill to be added to the Gerbismühle, which was approved by Elector Friedrich August II of Saxony on February 16, 1745 . In contrast to numerous Lusatian places , the place never got its historical name back.

Culture and sights

The local church probably dates from the 13th century.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.jessen.de/stadtportal/ortsteile/gerbisbach.html
  2. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
  3. ^ Gero Lietz: On dealing with the National Socialist place-name legacy in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Leipzig 2005, p. 181f.

Web links

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