Greifenhain (Drebkau)

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City of Drebkau
Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 40 "  N , 14 ° 8 ′ 23"  E
Height : 89 m above sea level NHN
Area : 9.26 km²
Residents : 343  (December 31, 2011)
Population density : 37 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 2001
Postal code : 03116
Area code : 035602
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Greifenhain , Maliń in Lower Sorbian , is a district of the city of Drebkau in the Spree-Neisse district in Brandenburg . Until its incorporation on December 31, 2001, the place was an independent municipality, which was administered by the Drebkau (Niederlausitz) office. Greifenhain is part of the official settlement area of ​​the Sorbs / Wends .

location

Greifenhain is located in Niederlausitz , about 17 kilometers as the crow flies southwest of the city of Cottbus . Surrounding villages are Casel in the north, Radensdorf in the east, Domsdorf and Neupetershain-Nord in the southeast, the districts of Ressen in the south and Lubochow in the south-west, which belong to the municipality of New Zealand in the district of Oberspreewald-Lausitz, and the district of Pritzen in the west, which belongs to the town of Altdöbern Göritz in the northwest.

Greifenhain is on the state road 522, which leads to Welzow . The place is located in the middle of the Lausitz lignite mining area , east of the former Greifenhain open-cast lignite mine named after the place, today's Altdöberner See . In addition to the Radensdorf district, Greifenhain also includes the Greifenhain colony residential area .

history

The street green village Greifenhain was first mentioned in the church articles of the diocese of Meißen from 1346 under the name Greiffenhayn . According to Reinhard E. Fischer, the place name can not be traced back to the heraldic symbol of the griffin , but is named after a man nicknamed the griffin , possibly a former owner of the village. The Sorbian place name, Maliń, is derived from the Sorbian word malina and means raspberry .

According to the topographical-statistical overview of the administrative district of Frankfurt ad O. from 1844 there were 71 residential buildings in Greifenhain that year, the place had 375 inhabitants at that time. Greifenhain had a windmill and two manors . In 1867 Greifenhain had 388 inhabitants in 70 residential buildings, and in that year the colony in the southeast was mentioned. There was also a brick factory next to the windmill .

Greifenhain also had a Sorbian-speaking population until the end of the 19th century. For his statistics on the Lusatian Sorbs, Arnošt Muka counted a population of 407, of which 100 were Sorbs (25%). After that, however, the proportion fell sharply, and the place no longer appears in Ernst Tschernik's statistics from 1956.

At the Congress of Vienna in 1815, after the defeat of the Kingdom of Saxony, it was decided to assign territories to the Kingdom of Prussia , which also affected Greifenhain. After that, the municipality was in the district of Calau in the administrative district of Frankfurt in the province of Brandenburg . After the end of the Second World War, Greifenhain became part of the Soviet occupation zone and later the GDR . During the district reform on July 25, 1952, the community came to the Cottbus-Land district in the Cottbus district . On January 1, 1974 Radensdorf was incorporated into Greifenhain. After the fall of the Berlin Wall , the Cottbus-Land district was renamed the Cottbus district . In the course of the Brandenburg district reform in 1993 , the community of Greifenhain came to the newly founded Spree-Neisse district and was administered there by the Drebkau (Niederlausitz) office. On December 31, 2001, the municipality of Greifenhain was incorporated into the city of Drebkau and the Drebkau (Niederlausitz) office was dissolved.

Monuments

In the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg there is a monument for Greifenhain :

  • The Protestant village church Greifenhain was built in the 13th and 14th centuries. The building is a rectangular field stone building with a square west tower , this is plastered in the Baroque style. The upper floor of the tower is octagonal and raised with a lantern and pointed helmet . Inside the church has galleries to the south and west. The church tower was renovated in 1994 and 1995.

Population development

Population development in Greifenhain from 1875 to 2000
year Residents year Residents year Residents
1875 381 1939 307 1981 371
1890 351 1946 447 1985 352
1910 337 1950 508 1989 328
1925 321 1964 403 1995 328
1933 326 1971 341 2000 347

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proof

  1. ↑ Müller's Large German Local Book 2012: Complete local dictionary. 33. revised and exp. Ed., Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-027420-2 , online at Google Books , p. 460
  2. ↑ Reinhard E. Fischer: The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin: age - origin - meaning . be.bra Wissenschaft, 2005, p. 68 .
  3. ↑ Arnost Muka: Serbski zemjepisny słowničk. Budyšin, 1927, p. 68 ( digitized version ).
  4. ↑ Topographical-statistical overview of the administrative district of Frankfurt ad O. 1844, p. 21 ( bsb-muenchen.de ).
  5. ↑ Statistical Bureau of the Royal Government of Frankfurt a. O .: Topographical-statistical manual of the government district of Frankfurt a. O. Verlag von Gustav Harnecker u. Co., Frankfurt ad O. 1867, online at Google Books , p. 25
  6. ↑ Arnost Muka: Statistika łužiskich Serbow. Wobličenje a wopisanje. , Budyšin 1884–1886, Online , p. 126
  7. ↑ Greifenhain in the historical index of places. Retrieved June 23, 2018 .
  8. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 408 .
  9. ↑ 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 June 23, 2018 .