Great Buckow

Groß Buckow , Bukow in Lower Sorbian , was an independent municipality and was completely devastated in 1984/85 . 547 residents had to relocate before the demolition.

Table sheet 2474 - Komptendorf - from 1903, detail Groß Buckow

Memorial to Groß Buckow 2017

Memorial stone at the site of the abandoned church

location

Until it was devastated by the Welzow-Süd opencast mine, Groß Buckau was located in Niederlausitz, northwest of Spremberg . The village was originally surrounded by swamps, lakes and mixed forests. Fish farming and agriculture were the main occupations.

history

The village was first mentioned in a document in 1346. Old chronicles report that there was a plague of locusts in 1542 and an epidemic of plague in 1585. From 1805 new settlements arose around the old village, z. B. Knorraua and Pschagon. Important dates from the recent history of the village are the construction of the church in 1896, the paving of the Dorfstrasse in 1897, the establishment of the volunteer fire brigade in 1946 and the opening of the Knusperhäuschen sports center in 1963.

In 1998, 13 years after the demolition, former residents of the town founded a local history association. In 2001 the association bought an area from the LMBV on the site of the former location and created a memorial site there. Every year the former villagers celebrate their stone festival there .

In 1880, according to Dr. Ernst Mucke 635 Sorbs in the village. 76 years later, Dr. Ernst Tschernik still has 28 people with Sorbian language skills.

Infrastructure

There was a bakery, a shop and a school in the village.

building

Groß Buckow had been a church village since the Middle Ages. The villages of Klein Buckow and Byhlow were parish there. Instead of the old stone church from the Middle Ages, a new church was built from 1894 to 1896. It was one of the landmarks of Groß Buckow. The new church had around 600 seats and was equipped with an organ from the Sauer company .

literature

• Archive of Disappeared Places (Ed.): Documentation of mining-related resettlements . Forest 2010
• Torsten Richter: Home that stays. Places of remembrance in Lusatia. REGIA Verlag, Cottbus 2013, ISBN 978-3-86929-224-3 .
• Evangelical parish Horno (ed.): Lost home. Mining and its effects on churches and parishes in Upper and Lower Lusatia. Hornow 2007, ISBN 978-3-935826-88-4 .

See also

• List of abandoned locations in the Lausitz coal area
• Archive of disappeared places

Web links

• Homepage of the Heimatverein Gross-Buckow
• Celebrate in the Knusperhäuschen. In: Lausitzer Rundschau. August 21, 2017. (Report on the stone festival at the Groß Buckau memorial site)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Documentation of relocations due to mining, archive of disappeared places. Forst 2010, p. 162.
2. ↑ Torsten Richter: Home that remains. Places of remembrance in Lusatia. REGIA Verlag, Cottbus 2013, ISBN 978-3-86929-224-3 , p. 76.
3. ↑ Documentation of relocations due to mining, archive of disappeared places. Forst 2010, p. 163.
4. ↑ Celebrate in the Knusperhäuschen. In: Lausitzer Rundschau. August 21, 2017. (Report on the stone festival at the Groß Buckau memorial site)
5. ↑ Documentation of relocations due to mining, archive of disappeared places. Forst 2010, p. 162.
6. ↑ Evangelical Church Community Horno (Ed.): Lost Home. Mining and its effects on churches and parishes in Upper and Lower Lusatia. Hornow 2007, p. 78.