Gray stone

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City of Spremberg
Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 30 ″  N , 14 ° 28 ′ 20 ″  E
Height : 165 m above sea level NHN
Area : 11.58 km²
Residents : 357  (Jan. 1, 2018)
Population density : 31 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 2002
Postal code : 03130
Area code : 03563

Graustein , Syjk in Lower Sorbian , is a district of the Brandenburg town of Spremberg in the Spree-Neisse district in the south of Lower Lusatia .

geography

Muskauer Strasse (B 156)

Graustein is 7 km east of the city of Spremberg on the federal highway 156 and about 15 km northwest of Weißwasser . Autobahn 15 runs around 15 kilometers to the north .

Surrounding villages are Türkendorf and Bloischdorf in the north, Schönheide in the east, and the Saxon community Runde in the southeast.

Infrastructure and sights

The church in the middle of the village meadow has a slate-roofed tower with a gilded weather vane . There is also an animal shelter, an inn and a tailor shop. Two small ponds with a playground and a mighty old summer linden tree in the park-like area around the church complete the facilities.

The old school building now forms the community center. A village educational trail with 14 stations describes localities and history, such as the so-called Zuckerstraße , a medieval trade route to nearby Bohemia that once led through Graustein.

Place name

Early documented forms of the place name are Grawynsteyn (1421), (zum) Grefenstein (1446), Grauenstein (1495) and (zum) Grauenstein (1527). The name refers to a settlement on or on gray, stony terrain , which is very likely to refer to the large gray stone on the village green in the immediate vicinity of the church. According to legend, the devil wanted to throw this stone at the church, but was frightened by the ringing of the church bells and let the stone fall on him, whereby it was buried under it and is said to lie under it to this day. In fact, like many boulders in this area, the stone is the remnant of a terminal moraine from the last Ice Age .

The Sorbian name was documented as Szuͤwik in 1761 and as Sywik and Syjk in 1843 . According to Körner, the Lower Sorbian name form corresponds to the German one. It is derived from the Old Sorbian sivy 'ash gray, blue gray' and has the deminutive suffix -k.

traffic

Graustein is on the Berlin – Görlitz and Spreewitz – Graustein lines .

Personalities

Born in Spremberg, Erwin Strittmatter started school in Graustein in 1919.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Districts of the city of Spremberg. In: stadt-spremberg.de. Retrieved February 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Siegfried Körner: Book of place names in Niederlausitz - studies on the toponymy of the districts of Beeskow, Calau, Cottbus, Eisenhüttenstadt, Finsterwalde, Forst, Guben, Lübben, Luckau and Spremberg . In: German-Slavic research on naming and settlement history . tape 36 . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-05-000836-9 , pp. 159 .

Web links

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