Hohenkuhnsdorf

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Hohenkuhnsdorf
City of Schönewalde
Coordinates: 51 ° 51 ′ 39 ″  N , 13 ° 12 ′ 37 ″  E
Height : 85 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 66  (December 31, 2006)
Incorporation : July 1, 1957
Incorporated into: Ahlsdorf
Postal code : 04916
Area code : 035362
Hohenkuhnsdorf village church
800 year old winter linden tree in Hohenkuhnsdorf

Hohenkuhnsdorf is an inhabited part of the municipality of Ahlsdorf / Hohenkuhnsdorf, a district of the town of Schönewalde in the Elbe-Elster district in Brandenburg . The place was incorporated into Ahlsdorf on July 1, 1957 and was until then an independent municipality. Hohenkuhnsdorf is the northernmost town in the Elbe-Elster district.

location

Hohenkuhnsdorf is located in Fläming and to the west of the little country Bärwalde , to which Hohenkuhnsdorf itself does not belong. In the north and east, the place borders directly on the district of Teltow-Fläming , the border with Saxony-Anhalt is four kilometers west of Hohenkuhnsdorf. Surrounding villages are Reinsdorf in the north, Wiepersdorf in the northeast, Kossin in the east, Weißen in the southeast, Ahlsdorf in the south, Stolzenhain in the southwest and Welsickendorf in the northwest.

Hohenkuhnsdorf is at the northern end of the county road 6251 to Schönewalde. State road 714 is two kilometers east of the town.

history

Hohenkuhnsdorf was first mentioned in a document around 1420 with the name Hoenkunstorff , and in 1449 the place was called Kunersdorff . The place name can be derived from the German personal name Konrad, the addition "Hohen-" is used to distinguish it from the village of Buschkuhnsdorf located seven kilometers southwest .

Hohenkuhnsdorf belonged to the historical office of Schweinitz and was thus initially part of the Electorate of Saxony , which was elevated to the Kingdom of Saxony in 1806 . After the division of the Kingdom of Saxony decided at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the community of Hohenkuhnsdorf came to the Kingdom of Prussia and there to the newly formed Province of Saxony . During the regional reform in the following year, the place was assigned to the district of Schweinitz in the administrative district of Merseburg . Hohenkuhnsdorf belonged to the province of Saxony until its dissolution on July 1, 1944, after which the place belonged to the province of Halle-Merseburg .

After the end of the Second World War Hohenkuhnsdorf belonged to the Soviet occupation zone and from 1947 to the state of Saxony-Anhalt . On October 7, 1949, the Soviet Zone became the German Democratic Republic. On July 1, 1950, the Schweinitz district was renamed the Herzberg district . During the regional reform on July 25, 1952, the state of Saxony-Anhalt and the district of Herzberg were dissolved, Hohenkuhnsdorf came to the reduced district of Herzberg in the district of Cottbus . On July 1, 1957 Hohenkuhnsdorf was incorporated into Ahlsdorf .

After reunification , Hohenkuhnsdorf initially belonged to the district of Herzberg in Brandenburg, which was merged with the districts of Bad Liebenwerda and Finsterwalde in the new district of Elbe-Elster during the district reform on December 6, 1993 . The municipality of Ahlsdorf joined the Schönewalde office in 1992 to handle its administrative business . On December 31, 1998, the community of Ahlsdorf merged with Hohenkuhnsdorf with the communities of Brandis and Stolzenhain to form the new community of Heideeck . This was dissolved on December 31, 2001 and its districts incorporated into Schönewalde. Hohenkuhnsdorf was initially an inhabited part of the municipality in the Ahlsdorf district, which was renamed Ahlsdorf / Hohenkuhnsdorf on October 6, 2004.

Population development

year Residents
1875 80
1890 80
1910 90
year Residents
1925 96
1933 97
1939 80
year Residents
1946 129
1950 125

Territory of the respective year

Culture and sights

Web links

Commons : Hohenkuhnsdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin. Age - origin - meaning. be.bra, Berlin 2005, p. 98.
  2. Community and district directory of the state of Brandenburg. Land surveying and geographic base information Brandenburg (LGB), accessed on August 2, 2020.
  3. Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. (PDF; 331 kB) District Elbe-Elster. State Office for Data Processing and Statistics State of Brandenburg, December 2006, accessed on August 2, 2020 .
  4. ^ Ahlsdorf , website of the city of Schönewalde, accessed on August 1, 2020.