Gosen-Neu Zittau

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	Coordinates: 52 ° 24 '  N , 13 ° 44'  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Oder-Spree
Office :	Spreenhagen
Height :	35 m above sea level NHN
Area :	15.26 km 2
Residents:	3239 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	212 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	15537
Area code :	03362
License plate :	LOS, BSK, EH, FW
Community key :	12 0 67 173
Community structure:	4 districts
Office administration address:	Main street 13 15528 Spreenhagen
Website :	www.amt-spreenhagen.de
Mayor :	Thomas Schwedowski ( SPD )
Location of the community of Gosen-Neu Zittau in the Oder-Spree district

Eugen Bracht : Heidelandschaft (Neu Zittau near Berlin), 1884

Gosen village church

Monument to the founding of Gosen

Neu Zittau village church

Neu Zittau local history museum

Gosen-Neu Zittau ( Lower Sorbian Góźna-Nowa Žytawa ) is an official municipality in the Brandenburg district of Oder-Spree and is located in the south-eastern suburb of Berlin . It is administered by the Spreenhagen office.

geography

Gosen-Neu Zittau is located directly on the Spree and borders directly on the Oder-Spree Canal and the Seddinsee (Berlin) . Nearby is the Stahlberg at 86 m above sea level. NHN .

Neighboring communities

Berlin (districts Schmöckwitz and Müggelheim ), Erkner , Königs Wusterhausen , Spreenhagen .

Community structure

The community consists of the districts of Gosen (Góźna) and Neu Zittau ( Nowa Žytawa ) , of the districts of Burig and Steinfurt and the living area of Zwiebusch .

history

founding

Frederick II of Prussia wanted to rebuild his country, which had been badly tortured by wars, and said: "Why should you buy expensive raw materials from outside when you can produce them cheaper in your own country?" One of these coveted raw materials was wool. And so Friedrich founded a few villages near Berlin , in which fine spinners from Saxony should settle in order to spin wool for the wool wholesalers in Berlin. On August 19, 1751, the king was presented with the plan for a spinner village near Wernsdorf. The name Neu Zittau first appeared on December 22, 1751. A village of 50 semi-detached houses for 100 families, a Schulzengericht, a jug and a mill was planned. 11,000 Reichstaler were then made available for the construction of the village. The first houses were completed in August 1752, and the first families arrived in Neu Zittau. All the houses were finished the following year, and with the signing of the founding deed on May 16, 1753 by Friedrich II. Neu Zittau was officially founded. Neu Zittau got its name because many settlers from the vicinity of Zittau were supposed to be settled in Saxony. In fact, only two families came from this area.

shipping

The main branch of industry in Neu Zittau was supposed to be wool spinning. In addition, the resident fine spinners were supplied with wool from the wool weaving mill “Wegely und Sons” in Berlin. The people of Neu Zittau were supposed to spin yarns and deliver them back to the Wegely company. Since most of them could only spin medium and coarse yarns, although fine yarns were desired, one could hardly make a living from spinning. Even a hard-working weirdo could get a maximum of 16-20 groschen a week. Since the silk industry had declined sharply at the end of the 18th century due to diseases of the silkworms , the people of Neu Zittau had to look for a more profitable source of income. The great age of shipping began. Since the waterway ran right past the site and the Spree carried more water back then than it does today, the spinner village became a boatmen's village. As early as 1768 there were six skippers, in 1803 there were 17 and between 1850 and 1900 there were more than 100 skippers. The Neu Zittau boatmen were counted among the freight boatmen. There were Rüdersdorfer limestones to Berlin, or coal, lead and zinc from Wroclaw transported to Berlin. Neu Zittau achieved some prosperity through shipping, and larger and nicer houses were built, some of which are still standing today. In 1806 a boatmen's association was founded. This was soon renamed the Schiffergeselligkeitsverein, and everyone in the village considered it a duty to be a member. On March 25, 1889, a boatmen's guild with 67 members from Neu Zittau, Gosen, Wernsdorf and Freienbrink was founded. Later other boatmen joined, so that in 1906 the guild already had 130 members. In 1897 a boat school was founded, where you could get a boat license. This school became so famous that even boatmen from the Rhineland filed their patent here. Later the course of the Spree silted up more and more, and shipping shifted to Wernsdorf, which was favored by the construction of the Oder-Spree Canal (1887-1891). On April 1, 1935, the guild was dissolved because free guilds were no longer allowed to exist in the Third Reich. In the end it had 70 members. Today there is no shipping in Neu Zittau, but there is a wide range of service companies. The palette ranges from master cooper, baker and flower shop to riding stables, guest houses and many restaurants.

GDR past

The former training center of the GDR State Security for foreign agents ( HVA ), which was completed in 1988, was located in Gosen .

Administrative history

Gosen and Neu Zittau belonged to the Beeskow-Storkow district in the province of Brandenburg since 1836 and to the Fürstenwalde district in the GDR district of Frankfurt (Oder) from 1952 . Since 1993, the places have been in the Oder-Spree district of Brandenburg.

Gosen and Neu Zittau were forcibly merged on October 26, 2003 as part of the municipal reform of Brandenburg . On June 24, 2004, the state constitutional court of Brandenburg found irregularities in the merger. Although it came about in violation of the Brandenburg Constitution, it was not overturned by the court. The legislature was given until January 1, 2006 to make the merger constitutional.

Population development

year	Gosen	New Zittau		year	Gosen	New Zittau		Gosen-Neu Zittau
1875	0.771	0.901		2003				2,688
1910	0.954	1,155		2005				2,731
1939	1,000	1,851		2010				2,900
1946	1,059	2.015		2011				3,020
1950	0.982	1,891		2012				2,991
1971	0.863	1,673		2013	1,605	1,412		3,002
1990	0.757	1,366		2014	1,571	1,411		2,970
1995	0.777	1,329		2015	1,590	1,421		3,055
2000	1,135	1,320		2016	1,634	1,438		3,072
2002	1,282	1,352		2017	1,745	1,435		3,167
				2018	1,797	1,420		3,188
				2019	1,851	1,411		3,239

Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31 (from 1995), from 2011 based on the 2011 census

The details of the districts since 2013 do not apply to December 31, but to June 30. of the respective year, therefore there are differences between the total number of the municipality and the sum of the districts.

religion

There is an Evangelical and a New Apostolic congregation.

politics

Community representation

The community council of Gosen-Neu Zittau consists of 16 community representatives and the honorary mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Party / group of voters	Seats
SPD	5
Gosen Volunteer Fire Brigade	3
Close to the citizens of Gosen-Neu Zittau	2
Brandenburg United Citizens Movement / Free Voters Gosen	1
The left	1
New Zittau volunteer fire brigade	1
Friends of the village church in Gosen	1
Alliance 90 / The Greens	1
CDU	1

mayor

• 2003–2014: Horst Buch (SPD)
• since 2014: 0.Thomas Schwedowski (SPD)

In the mayoral election on June 16, 2019, Schwedowski was elected for a further five-year term with 54.7% of the valid votes.

Sights and culture

In the list of architectural monuments in Gosen-Neu Zittau and in the list of ground monuments in Gosen-Neu Zittau are the cultural monuments entered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.

Church in Neu Zittau

With the first colonists, Carl Gottfried Agricola also came to Neu Zittau, who initially took over the office of preacher free of charge. In 1756 it was introduced properly. Since there was still no church in Neu Zittau, the service took place in the early years in the Krug (village tavern). In 1761, the preliminary negotiations for the construction of a church began, the costs were estimated at 3,204 thalers and 18 silver groschen. The church was consecrated on December 18, 1767, but still without a steeple for cost reasons. The missing tower was replaced by a scaffolding on the roof, in which there was a small bell. It was not until 1825 that the idea of ​​buying a second, larger bell emerged because the ringing was felt to be poor. In 1907 the church tower was built and a second bell was purchased. On April 3, 1877, the organ in Neu Zittau was inaugurated. At that time it was decided to increase the number of seats in the church by adding side galleries. As everywhere, in Neu Zittau during the First World War the big bell had to be handed in to be melted down. The small bell was allowed to remain in the tower. The bell that was delivered was not cast until the tower was built in 1907. It had a diameter of 80 cm, and a weight of 6 quintals and bore the inscription "God the honor". For the delivery of non-ferrous metal, the organ's prospect pipes as well as the copper roof of the tower and the lightning rod had to be sacrificed.

In 1919 a memorial plaque for those who died in the First World War was placed in the church. In 1924, despite the poor financial situation, the repair work in the church could begin. The church and the parsonage were equipped with electric lights and a new bell ringing was procured. The total costs including the necessary reconstruction of the bell cage amounted to around 1,700 marks. On May 3, 1925, the celebration of the inauguration of the bells took place. The church now had a peal with three sound bells. The small bell (five hundredweight) bears the inscription “Faith”, the middle bell (seven hundredweight) bears the inscription “Hope”, the big bell (twelve hundredweight) bears the inscription “Love” as a reminder for those who fell in war. On October 28, 1928, the inauguration of the memorial to those who died in the war took place on the east gable of the church. In 1929 the plan to build a cemetery chapel was realized; it was inaugurated on November 24, 1929. The cost was 12,000 Reichsmarks . The major repairs to the church, decided in 1924, could only be started in the spring of 1930. The cost was not 10,000, as planned, but more than 12,000 Reichsmarks. In the late autumn the work was finished and on November 16, 1930 the opening service could be held by Pastor Häuseler. During the Second World War , the bells were confiscated without compensation. The interior of the church was also literally "looted", including a brass chandelier, a gift from the boatmen's guild, altar candlesticks and brass sacrificial boxes. The church suffered severe external damage from aerial bombs.

In 1967 an extensive restoration of the church began. The small wooden sacristy next to the chancel had to be demolished because of worms. The wooden pulpit altar was also badly damaged. The new stone altar plinth was placed in the middle of the chancel. The altar plate and the lectern are made of wood. Repairs to the beams also had to be carried out on the roof. The lighting in the church has been changed, with twelve circular lamps hanging from long cables in the middle. The light colors yellow, white and gray inside the church are dominant again. These colors are said to have been the original in the first few years after construction.

Historical monuments

• Commemorative plaque from 1994 on the house of the Jewish sisters Lina and Johanna Samters, who died in the persecution of the Nazis, in Storkower Straße 3 in the Gosen district
• Cenotaph for the victims of fascism in front of the church on Berliner Strasse in the Neu Zittau district

Museums

• Neu Zittau local history museum
• Gosen home office

Spree driving

17th Spree in 2014

Every year at Easter the Spree takes place. In swimsuits , it goes from Neu Zittau along the Spree in the direction of Berlin to Erkner to the lido. The participants wear strange swimming aids and are admired and cheered on by up to 5,000 visitors along the route.

Home song

New Zittauer Heimatlied by main teacher Gause (1938):

1. There, where the Spree turns westward, there is a little village lying quietly and trustingly, and where the slope ends at the river, it was once built by "old Fritz". He called the people from Saxony, gave them fields, farms and houses. And just like back then, it still resounds today, a happy life from the place.
2. If you follow the meadow path along the river, the rows of houses greet you over there, and all kinds of sizes are there as if from a toy store. Nestled against that chain of hills, the Church faithfully mothers it, and everything here shines in competition - a wonderful picture that you never forget.
3. If you stand on the edge of those hills where the heather stretches wide, you would have borrowed wide wings for this sight. The houses crouch down in front, the river meanders back there. Forest, meadow, hills greet you again - a splendid picture that has to stay forever.
4. Do you know what I call this spot, the place that offers this? Who lives in it believes that he knows it - it is called “Neu-Zittau”, after all. We, who are called its citizens, are proud of this homeland. Are our old people also from Zittau-Meißen, now we are Märker, loyal to home like you.

Economy and Infrastructure

Established businesses

• Müggelpark Gosen
• Electronics store
• Cooperage
• Farm
• Tourist company, boarding houses

traffic

Gosen-Neu Zittau is situated on the provincial roads L 30 ( King Wusterhausen - Rüdersdorf ) and L 39 (Goshen to the Berlin border (district of Berlin-Müggelheim )). The closest motorway junction is Erkner on the A 10 (east Berlin ring).

Until the end of the Second World War, the community had a direct connection to the A 12 Berlin– Frankfurt (Oder) via the Friedersdorf junction . Since the bridge over the Oder-Spree Canal was blown up in 1945 and not rebuilt, this connection has been interrupted since then.

In Gosen-Neu Zittau there are several bus routes operated by Busverkehr Oder-Spree GmbH, which, among other things, lead to the Erkner train station . The BVG bus route 369 connects Gosen-Neu Zittau with the Berlin district of Müggelheim.

education

• Elementary school in the Neu Zittau district ("School on the Spree")
• Johannes-Gutenberg-Oberschule (private school of Docemus Privatschulen gGmbH)
• Bertha-von-Suttner-Fachoberschule (private school of Docemus Privatschulen gGmbH)

Personalities associated with Gosen-Neu Zittau

• Günther Fischer (* 1944), jazz pianist and composer, lived in Gosen for years and still owns a house on the lake there.

Web links

Commons : Gosen-Neu Zittau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Decision of the state constitutional court
• Private page about Neu Zittau
• Private page about Gosen-Neu Zittau
• Homepage fire department Gosen-Neu Zittau

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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 ).
2. ^ The place names of the Beeskow-Storkow district. ISBN 3-515-08664-1 , pp. 226–228 → Gosen nsb. Góźna
3. ^ Arnošt Muka : Lower Sorbian names of cities and villages. Sorbian Institute, 1911–1928 ( Gózńa ).
4. ^ Arnošt Muka : Lower Sorbian names of cities and villages. Sorbian Institute, 1911–1928 ( Nowa Žytawa ).
5. ^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg
6. ↑ to hand in the Stasi training center for 1 euro. Welt Online , archived from the original on October 3, 2009 ; Retrieved October 3, 2009 . 
7. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003
8. ↑ Historical municipality register of the State of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Landkreis Oder-Spree, pp. 18–21.
9. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2017 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
10. ^ 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)
11. ↑ Statistical data of the municipalities of the Spreenhagen office. Retrieved January 25, 2018 . 
12. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
13. ↑ Local elections October 26, 2003. Mayoral elections , p. 28
14. ^ Result of the mayoral election on June 15, 2014
15. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)
16. ^ Result of the mayoral election on June 16, 2019
17. ↑ What is Spree driving? ( Memento from April 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
18. ^ Müggelpark in the Gosen district. Retrieved April 8, 2016 . 
19. ↑ Gosen is proud of Günther Fischer