Golßen

Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Dahme-Spreewald
Office :	Unterspreewald
Height :	58 m above sea level NHN
Area :	63.68 km 2
Residents:	2509 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	39 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	15938
Area code :	035452
License plate :	LDS, KW, LC, LN
Community key :	12 0 61 164
City structure:	8 districts
; City administration address :	Hauptstrasse 41 ; 15938 Golßen
Website :	www.golssen.de
Mayoress :	Daniela Maurer ( SPD )
Location of the town of Golßen in the Dahme-Spreewald district

Golßen Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

Golßen Castle

Golßen ( Lower Sorbian Gólišyn ) is an official city in the Dahme-Spreewald district in Brandenburg (Germany) and the seat of the Unterspreewald office . Golßen is located in the northwest of Niederlausitz .

geography

Golßen lies between the Glogau-Baruther glacial valley , the Niedere Fläming and the Lausitz basin and heathland and is traversed by the Dahme .

City structure

According to its main statute, the city of Golßen comprises the core city and the following districts and municipalities as well as residential areas:

Core city Golssen with the municipality parts Altgolßen , Landwehr and Prierow and the dwelling place Fischer House
Mahlsdorf (district)
Zützen (district with the districts of Gersdorf and Sagritz )

history

The development of Golßen goes back to the time of the German settlement in the east in the 12th century. The oldest surviving document of the city dates back to October 21, 1276. The settlement structure of Golßen still shows the typical central form of an Angers settlement grouped around the market square .

In 1276, the Golssen manor was owned by the burgraves from the Wettin family . In 1346 the property was owned by Heinrich de Damis . In 1372 Emperor Charles IV pledged the "Veste Golssin" to the Lords of Querfurt . In 1395 the Margrave Wilhelm "der Einäugige " von Meißen, 1402 Wichard von Rochan and from 1418 Caspar and Paul von Knobelsdorff are mentioned as owners. After the von Knobelsdorffs, the von Polentz and finally von Stutterheim families appear as owners of the Golßen estate in the further course of the 15th century .

The von Stutterheim family united the goods Alt-Golssen, Sellendorf, Hohendorf, Schäcksdorf, Krossen, Drahnsdorf, Liedekahle, Jetzsch, Falkenhain, Zützen, Görsdorf, Landwehr, Priaro from the middle of the 15th century to the 17th century , Waldow, Rietzneuendorf, Briesen, Oderin, Sagritz, Pitschen, Krebitz and a number of other goods in their hand and thus held an area that went far beyond the area of today's Golßen. In the course of the Thirty Years' War and subsequently until the beginning of the 18th century, the family gradually lost or sold their property.

Around 1647 the von Bredow family acquired partial ownership of the Golssen estate and held it until 1718. In 1718, this family estate was sold to the Prussian Chamber Councilor Johann-Peter von Koehler, through whom the estate was passed on to his son-in-law Johann Just Vieth (later as Vieth ennobled by Golssen (au) , cf. Ludwig Renn ) passed over. This built the middle part of today's castle. The estate finally came to the Counts of Solms-Baruth through various owners . After 1945 the property was expropriated as part of the land reform . Today (2014) the castle is empty.

The Zützen and Wendisch-Gersdorff estates belonged to the von Klitzing family in the 17th century . In 1651 she married the royal Swedish colonel Herbert von Droste zu Möllenbeck, a brother of Everwin von Droste zu Möllenbeck (from a branch of the Westphalian noble family Droste zu Hülshoff ). His son, the Saxon general Johann Eberhard von Droste-Zützen , married the estates Reddern (where he built the flat church) and Grebendorf. His visit to the family ancestral estate Burg Hülshoff was handed down through literary work by the poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff . In the middle of the 18th century, a descendant sold the estate to the Kleist family , who had Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff build the splendid Baroque Zützen Castle, which burned to the ground in May 1945 - probably as a result of arson.

Administrative affiliation

1816–1947 Luckau district ( Brandenburg province , Prussia )

1947–1952 Luckau district (State of Brandenburg )

1952–1990 Luckau district ( Cottbus district )

1990–1993 Luckau district (State of Brandenburg)

since 1993 district of Dahme-Spreewald

Incorporations

The formerly independent towns of Landwehr and Prierow have belonged to the town of Golßen since July 1, 1950. Altgolßen followed on January 1, 1973.

Mahlsdorf was incorporated on May 1, 1998. On December 31, 2002, today's district of Zützen was incorporated.

Population development

year	Residents
1875	1 577
1890	1 762
1910	1 750
1925	1 762
1933	1 708
1939	1 688
1946	2,327
1950	2,673

year	Residents
1964	2 194
1971	2 219
1981	2,444
1985	2,445
1989	2 424
1990	2,453
1991	2 422
1992	2,375
1993	2,376
1994	2,354

year	Residents
1995	2,326
1996	2,335
1997	2 298
1998	2,379
1999	2,379
2000	2 322
2001	2 292
2002	2,923
2003	2,868
2004	2,852

year	Residents
2005	2,817
2006	2,746
2007	2,730
2008	2,661
2009	2 627
2010	2,616
2011	2 554
2012	2,532
2013	2,532
2014	2,505

year	Residents
2015	2 567
2016	2 575
2017	2,553
2018	2 542
2019	2,509

Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31 (from 1991), from 2011 based on the 2011 census

politics

Local elections 2019

Turnout: 63.4%

%

40

30th

20th

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32.2%

30.8%

22.1%

14.9%

UBL

SPD

AfD

CDU

town hall

City Council

The city council consists of 16 members and the honorary mayor. Since the local elections on May 26, 2019 , it has been composed as follows:

Party / group of voters	Seats 2014	Seats 2019
Independent citizens' list Golßen	-	5
SPD	9	5
AfD	-	4th
CDU	4th	2
LEFT	2	-
Single applicant Ivonne Menzel	1	-

mayor

1998–2008: Hartmut Laubisch (SPD)
2008–2015: Lars Kolan (SPD)
2015–2019: Hartmut Laubisch (SPD)
since 2019: Daniela Maurer (SPD)

Maurer was elected in the mayoral election on June 16, 2019 with 58.1% of the valid votes for a term of five years.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on June 12, 1992.

Blazon : “Divided by red through silver; above a continuous silver wall covered with three towers, which are provided with black windows and blue pointed roofs, as well as an open red gate, below a black boar walking to the left on green ground. "

Sights and culture

The list of architectural monuments in Golßen and the list of ground monuments in Golßen include the cultural monuments entered in the list of monuments of the State of Brandenburg.

Buildings

Castle , in the middle part a two-story plastered building built by Johann Just Vieth in 1723, which includes a landscape park with rare tree species and an artificially created pond. The park was laid out in its present form around 1838–1840 by the new owner of Heinrich Ludwig zu Solms-Baruth . The wing, which was added in 1852 according to plans by Eduard Knoblauch , also goes back to Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig zu Solms. Inside, the castle shows features of the baroque and classicism.
Town houses from the fin de siècle time in the city center
Town hall, built between 1904 and 1906 according to plans by the building council Tieffenbach in the neo-Gothic style, three-storey building with a tower restored from 1992 to 1995, defines the silhouette of the city to this day.

Town church Golßen

The town church Golßen was built between 1811 and 1820 according to plans by the Berlin building councilor Colberg. The church tower was added in 1845 . The church furnishings largely come from the construction period.
The village church of Altgolßen was built on a Slavic rampart at the beginning of the 14th century . In the adjoining cemetery there are a total of 15 historical sandstone grave monuments . Members of the patronage families of the Altgolßen manor from the years 1725 to 1803 are buried there. The Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg describes this arrangement as "an almost unique ensemble for southern Brandenburg (s)"
Church in Mahlsdorf, completed in 1899
Church in Zützen from the Middle Ages
Watermill on the Dahme in Sagritz, acquired in 1815 by a member of the current owner family

Ground monument

The Utzenberg is a Slavic rampart that is located around 300 meters northwest of the city center. A medieval, early German tower hill castle was built on top of it. It is a registered ground monument

natural reserve

In the area of Golssen of was by resolution no. 75/81 District day of Cottbus from 25 March 1981 established March 26, 1981, the nature reserve "Pierow in Golßen". In addition, the “Ordinance on the 'Zützener Busch' nature reserve” of March 17, 2003 (Brandenburgisches GVBl. II / 03, [No. 14], p. 290) established a 91 hectare nature reserve. The nature reserve comprises a wetland characterized by groundwater with representative forest communities with stands of floodplain forests with Alnus glutinosa ( black alder ) and Fraxinus excelsior ( common ash ).

societies

The Golßen Men's Choir has existed since 1867. In the city there is the Golßen Carnevals Club (GCC) and the Association of the Volunteer Fire Brigade 1902 Golßen.

Culinary specialties

The area around Golßen is known for the Spreewald gherkins .

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

In Golßen, the best-known products are Spreewald gherkins and other canned products in the “ Spreewaldhof Golßen ” as well as products from the local meat and sausage factory. The "Spreewaldhof Golßen" offers a guided tour. There is also the starch factory that has existed since 1879. The plant has been part of the Emsland Group since 1991 and has meanwhile been expanded to include fish feed production.

traffic

Golßen is on the federal highway 96 between Baruth and Luckau . In the city, the federal road 115 branches off to the district town of Lübben . The closest motorway junction is Freiwalde on the A 13 Berlin – Dresden.

Golßen station is on the Berlin – Dresden railway line . It is served by the regional express line RE 5 ( Rostock- Berlin- Elsterwerda ) every two hours.

Public facilities

The castle has been empty since 2005. It used to be used as a day care center. The palace also used to be home to the library and the horticultural office. There are also two other kindergartens.

education

Golßen has a primary school with after-school care and the “Hans-Christian-Andersen” special needs school in Altgolßen. The comprehensive school was closed in 2006. There is a city library and a swimming pool. There is a youth club for the youth, it is run by the DRK and is located in Gartenstrasse 17/18 near the market.

Sports

The city's sports clubs are SG Eintracht Kasel-Golzig , SV 1885 Golßen with four soccer teams and a table tennis department, the Schützengilde 1836 Golßen and SG Einheit Drahnsdorf .

sons and daughters of the town

Nikolaus Pompeius (1591–1659), philologist and mathematician
Wolfgang Wedel (1645–1721), medic and alchemist
Johann Eberhard von Droste zu Zützen (1662–1726), Saxon general, commander of the Königstein Fortress and landowner
Gottlob Eusebius Fischer (1767/1769? –1847), pastor and writer
Johann Christian Dolz (1769–1843), educator
Knut Hickethier (* 1945), media scientist
Ruth Misselwitz (* 1952), pastor, born in Zützen
Karin Weber (* 1953), politician ( Die Linke )
Alfred Hoffmann (* 1958), Catholic clergyman

literature

History and stories of Golßen, on the occasion of its 700th anniversary . Ed .: Council of the City of Golßen. Golßen, 1976, 69 pp.
Lars Rose and Michael Bock: Golßen in historical views . Horb am Neckar: Geiger, 2001, 168 pages, ISBN 3-89570-718-X .

Web links

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

City of Golßen
Historical engraving and description of the history of the town of Golßen in the Duncker Collection (PDF file; 246 kB) ( Memento from April 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

↑ 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 ).

↑ List of Lower Sorbian place names section E – G, → Golßen ( Lower Sorbian Gólišyn) ( Memento from March 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

^ Main statute of the city of Golßen from December 15, 2008 PDF

^ Service portal of the state administration of the state of Brandenburg: City of Golßen

↑ 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

^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1998

↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2002

↑ Historical municipality register of the State of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Landkreis Dahme-Spreewald , pp. 14-17

↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2015 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 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)