Gross Breesen (Guben)

Great Breesen City of Guben Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′ 18 ″ N , 14 ° 41 ′ 53 ″ E
Height :	43 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.58 km²
Residents :	949 (Dec. 31, 2006)
Population density :	170 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 1950
Postal code :	03172
Area code :	03561
Location of Groß Breesen in Brandenburg

Groß Breesen ( Brjazyna in Lower Sorbian ) is a district of the town of Guben in the Spree-Neisse district in Brandenburg .

location

Groß Breesen is located in Niederlausitz, right on the border with Poland . The town of Guben is about four kilometers away. Surrounding villages are Bresinchen in the north, the already in Poland villages Budoradz in the northeast, Drzeńsk Wielki in the east and Drzeńsk Mały in the southeast, the city of Guben in the south and the districts of Wilschwitz and Grano in the southwest, Lauschütz in the west and Sembten, which belong to the municipality of Schenkendöbern in the north-west.

Groß Breesen is located on the state road 7148 to Guben. The federal road 112 to Frankfurt (Oder) runs through the western part of the district of the village. The Frankfurt (Oder) –Cottbus railway runs through Groß Breesen .

The Lusatian Neisse flows east of the town along the border with Poland.

history

Village church

Groß Breesen was first mentioned in 1293 as "Bresyn". In 1347 it was named as "large Breesen". The place name comes from the Sorbian language and means " birch forest ", the addition "large" serves to distinguish it from the neighboring Bresinchen ("Klein Breesen"). Groß Breesen received its own mother church as a parish . The five villages of Breslack , Coschen , Seitwann , Buderose and today's Vorwerk Grunewald were parish off to Groß Breesen. In 1852 the old village church of Groß Breesen was replaced by a new building. In 1862 the first school building was built opposite the church . Up to 193 pupils from the villages of Groß Breesen, Grunewald and Bresinchen were taught at this school. In 1905 a second school was built, from then on teaching was carried out in both buildings.

During the First World War , a POW camp for 1,800 prisoners was set up in Groß Breesen . The first transport of Russian prisoners of war arrived in Groß Breesen on September 11, 1914. The official name of the camp was "Guben POW camp", but the term "Russian camp" soon became commonplace. In July 1921 the camp was closed. At times there were 10,000 prisoners in the camp and at least 500 prisoners died.

In 1953, Groß Breesen had its own kindergarten . It has been managed by an independent organization since 2005, previously it was the city of Guben. On January 1, 1976, the agricultural production cooperatives "Blühende Aue" from Bresinchen and "Fortuna Groß Breesen" and the horticultural production cooperatives "Groß Breesen" and "Guben" were merged to form "GPG Fortuna" based in Groß Breesen. After the reunification, the GPG was transformed into the "Gubener Vegetable and Agricultural Cooperative", which went bankrupt in 1998 .

Groß Breesen has always been part of the Kingdom of Prussia , between 1816 and 1945 the place there was part of the Frankfurt administrative district in the Neumark sub-province . Within the administrative district, Groß Breesen was the seat of the administrative district of the same name , to which the municipalities of Bresinchen and Grunewald also belonged. At the time of the Soviet occupation zone , Groß Breesen was located in the Frankfurt (Oder) district for two years . On July 1, 1950, it was incorporated into Guben .

On July 25, 1952, Groß Breesen was assigned to the newly formed Guben district in the Cottbus district . After the reunification , the community was initially in the district of Guben and was assigned to the district of Spree-Neisse with the Brandenburg district reform of December 6, 1993 .

Groß Breesen is the seat of a parish . This belongs to the parish Guben, which has been subordinate to the dean's office Cottbus-Neuzelle since September 1st, 2004 and belongs to the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia .

Population development

Population development in Groß Breesen from 1875 to 1992
year	Residents	year	Residents
1875	793	1933	1206
1890	911	1939	1240
1910	900	1946	1681
1925	863

Personalities

Johann Crüger (1598–1662), composer, born in Groß Breesen
Ernst Tillich (1780–1807), educator, born in Groß Breesen

Web links

Groß Breesen on the side of the town of Guben

Individual evidence

↑ Community and district directory. In: geobasis-bb.de. Land surveying and geographic base information Brandenburg, accessed on September 12, 2017 .
↑ Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin: age - origin - meaning . be.bra Wissenschaft, 2005, p. 33 .
^ History of the Groß Breesen district. City of Guben, accessed on September 12, 2017 .
↑ Groß Breesen in the historical index of places. Retrieved September 12, 2017 .
↑ 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 September 12, 2017 .

[1] Community and district directory. In: geobasis-bb.de. Land surveying and geographic base information Brandenburg, accessed on September 12, 2017 .

[2] Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin: age - origin - meaning . be.bra Wissenschaft, 2005, p. 33 .

[3] History of the Groß Breesen district. City of Guben, accessed on September 12, 2017 .

[4] Groß Breesen in the historical index of places. Retrieved September 12, 2017 .

[StatBB-5] 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 September 12, 2017 .