Hänchen (Kolkwitz)

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community Kolkwitz
Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 32 ″  N , 14 ° 16 ′ 27 ″  E
Height : 70 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 479  (2012)
Incorporation : December 6, 1993
Postal code : 03099
Area code : 0355
Hänchen, center of the village
Hänchen, center of the village

Hänchen , Hajnk in Lower Sorbian , is a district of the Kolkwitz community in the Spree-Neisse district in Brandenburg .

location

Protestant church

Hänchen is located in Niederlausitz, almost seven kilometers southwest of Cottbus . Surrounding villages are the municipality main town Kolkwitz in the north, the Cottbus neighborhoods Stroebitz and Sachsendorf in the northeast, small Gaglow in the East, to the city Drebkau belonging districts large Oßnig and Leuthen in the south, Kackrow the west and Glinzig in the northwest.

A local road runs through Hänchen , which connects the town with federal highway 156 , which runs just under a kilometer to the east . In addition, the Grossenhain – Cottbus railway line and the 15 federal motorway from the Spreewald triangle to the Polish border run through the district. The closest motorway junction, Cottbus-West, is about two kilometers away.

The old settlement (Stare sedlišćo) , Annahof (Aniny dwór) and New settlement (Nowe sedlišćo) residential areas belong to Hänchen .

history

The war memorial

Hänchen was first mentioned in a document in 1448 in loan letters . The place used to have different spellings, including Heynchen , Henichen and Heinichen . Hänchen used to be the seat of a manor , which was divided into the individual manors Annahof and Weinberg in 1864.

After the Congress of Vienna , Hänchen came to the Kingdom of Prussia as part of Niederlausitz . On July 25, 1952, the community was assigned to the newly formed Cottbus-Land district in the Cottbus district . After the fall of the Wall , Hänchen was in the Cottbus district in Brandenburg . After the district reform in Brandenburg on December 6, 1993 , Hänchen came to the newly formed Spree-Neisse district and was incorporated into Kolkwitz at the same time .

Population development

Population development in Hänchen from 1875 to 1992
year Residents year Residents year Residents
1875 299 1939 702 1981 519
1890 333 1946 905 1985 590
1910 296 1950 857 1989 479
1925 373 1964 708 1992 458
1933 449 1971 674

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 321 inhabitants for Milkersdorf in the 1880s, of which 301 were Sorbs (94%) and 20 were Germans. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking population of only 2.5%.

Personalities

  • Johann Georg Zwahr (1785–1844), Protestant pastor in Stradow near Spremberg 1812–1844, author of the first Lower Sorbian-German dictionary, born in Hänchen
  • Max Pohlenz (1872–1962), classical philologist, born in Hänchen
  • Joochen Laabs (* 1937), writer, grew up in Hänchen

photos

Web links

Commons : Hänchen / Hajnk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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. 505
  2. Hänchen. In: kolkwitz.de. Kolkwitz municipality, accessed on June 4, 2017 .
  3. ^ Hänchen in the database of the Verein für Computergenealogie. Retrieved June 4, 2017 .
  4. ^ Changes in the municipalities of Germany, see 1993 StBA
  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 June 4, 2017 .
  6. Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
  7. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995.