Gross Briesen (Friedland)

Great Briesen City of Friedland Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 47 ″ N , 14 ° 22 ′ 49 ″ E
Height :	67 m above sea level NHN
Area :	26.1 km²
Residents :	248 (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	10 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	March 31, 2001
Postal code :	15848
Area code :	033673

Groß Briesen ( Brjazyna in Lower Sorbian ) is a district of Friedland in the Oder-Spree district in eastern Brandenburg .

geography

Groß Briesen is located in the north of Niederlausitz , about 8.5 km east of the main town Friedland. Two hamlets belong to the place , namely Klein Briesen in the south and Oelsen in the north with the Oelsener See . State road 435 runs through all three villages .

history

In the period from 1961 to 1962 and from 1969 to 1970, experts from VEB Erdgas und Erdölerkundung Mittenwalde explored the region in and around Groß Briesen with the help of large drilling rigs in order to find oil deposits .

politics

Wolfgang Götze (based in Oelsen) was elected to the office of mayor (as of 2008).

Culture and sights

The church

Groß Briesen village church

Typical of the region, there is also a village church in Groß Briesen, which was built in 1893 from bricks in the neo-Gothic style. The rectangular nave is covered with a gable roof and the three sides of the apse are adorned with leaded-glass windows . There are also six ogival glazed windows arranged in pairs on the sides. The Sauer organ located under the western gallery was recently renovated and inaugurated in 2006. The winter church is located under the west gallery, as the nave itself is unheated. The furnishings date from the time the church was built .

Web links

Groß Briesen on the Friedland website

Individual evidence

↑ Community and district directory of the state of Brandenburg. Land surveying and geographic base information Brandenburg (LGB), accessed on June 21, 2020.
^ Company history ( Memento from November 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Society of Underground Storage and Geotechnology Systems GmbH (UGS)
↑ "The Drills" by Groß Briesen , in: Märkische Oderzeitung , August 19, 2009

[1] Community and district directory of the state of Brandenburg. Land surveying and geographic base information Brandenburg (LGB), accessed on June 21, 2020.

[2] Company history ( Memento from November 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Society of Underground Storage and Geotechnology Systems GmbH (UGS)

[3] "The Drills" by Groß Briesen , in: Märkische Oderzeitung , August 19, 2009