Great Lieskow

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Groß Lieskow , Liškow in Lower Sorbian , was an independent municipality and was partially devastated in 1976/77 and completely devastated in 1983/84 . 255 residents had to relocate in the year before the demolition.

Table sheet 1921, detail

location

Groß Lieskow was located in Niederlausitz, east of Cottbus, between the Tranitzer Fließ and the Neuer Graben .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1351 under the name Grozßen Lisekow . The place name is derived from the Sorbian word "liška" for "fox". In 1880 511 Sorbs lived in the village, in 1956 400 were found. The place was badly damaged during World War II . In 1969 the LPG "Nowa droga" (New Way) was founded. After it was announced in 1972 that the village would fall victim to the Cottbus-Nord opencast mine , many residents left the place. The district of Hustall had to be left by the residents in 1974/75 because of the approaching opencast mine.

church

Groß Lieskow had been a parish since the 15th century. In 1880 the entire parish with the parish communities of Klein Lieskow , Schlichow , Tranitz , Klinge , Grötsch , Heinersbrück and Bärenbrück was largely Sorbian. This meant that the church preached in both German and Sorbian. The church was built in the 15th and 16th centuries. In World War II bullet damaged the church. Two of the three bells had already been pulled in. The last remaining bell rang in the Groß Lieskow church until 1982. Then it was kept in the Heinersbrück church. In 2005, on the initiative of former residents, the remaining bell in Bärenbrück, in a newly built bell tower, was inaugurated. Their ringing is reminiscent of the excavated place.

  • Bell tower in Bärenbrück

  • Memorial site for the village of Groß Lieskow

  • View towards the former village location

See also

literature

  • Documentation of relocations due to mining, archive of disappeared places. Forest 2010.
  • Lost homeland - mining and its effects on churches and parishes in Upper and Lower Lusatia. Semmler Cottbus 2007, ISBN 978-3-935826-88-4 .
  • Richard Ihlo, Wilfrid Scholze: The village of Gross Lieskow. From its beginnings until 1983. Cottbus lignite plant, 1984.
  • Torsten Richter: Home that stays. Places of remembrance in Lusatia. REGIA Verlag Cottbus, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86929-224-3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Documentation of relocations due to mining, archive of disappeared places. Forst 2010, p. 96.
  2. ↑ Arnost Muka: Serbski zemjepisny słowničk. Budyšin, 1927, p. 69 ( digitized version ).

Coordinates: 51 ° 48 '  N , 14 ° 26'  E