Jeßnigk

Jeßnigk City of Schönewalde Coordinates: 51 ° 44 ′ 50 ″  N , 13 ° 17 ′ 18 ″  E
Incorporation :	December 31, 1998
Incorporated into:	Themesgrund
Postal code :	04916
Area code :	03535

Jeßnigk on an original table sheet (1847)

Jeßnigk is a district of Schönewalde , a small town in the north of the Elbe-Elster district , in the south of Brandenburg .

location

Jeßnigk is located between Dahme / Mark and Herzberg / Elster , about 9 km southeast of Schönewalde on the L 72 , which leads from Linda (Elster) via Schönewalde to Kolochau . In Jeßnigk, the L 721 also begins a country road that leads via Werchau to Wiepersdorf .

The place is located in the middle of a gentle hilly landscape, on the edge of the transition to the Elbe-Elster lowland which begins southwest of the place.

history

First documentary mention, place name and local history

The first written mention of the Angerdorf Jeßnigk took place in 1383 as Jessenken . In 1421 the name Jessenigk appears. The place name is of Slavic origin and means something like settlement on an ash wood . An old ash tree originally stood next to the old school, a half-timbered house from the 19th century, and was the seal motif after 1945 . The old school has been restored and is used as an apartment and community center.

As part of the National Socialist Germanization of Sorbian place names, the district administrator of the Schweinitz district had applied in 1937, with the consent of the municipality, to rename Jeßnigk to "Eschenhagen" and thus to erase the Sorbian name. Unlike in other regions , however, the renaming failed here due to the rejection of the responsible district president.

In 2010 the new observatory was opened, where every autumn hobby astronomers gather with their telescopes for the Herzberg telescope meeting .

Administrative affiliation

Jeßnigk originally belonged to the Electoral Saxon office of Schlieben .

According to the regulations of the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Jeßnigk then moved from the Kingdom of Saxony to the Merseburg administrative district of the Prussian province of Saxony, and the Schweinitz district was established in 1816 . With the territorial reform carried out in the GDR in 1952, Jeßnigk joined the newly founded Herzberg district .

After the reunification , Jeßnigk was initially in the Herzberg / Elster district . As a result of the district reform in Brandenburg on December 6, 1993 , the community Jeßnigk was assigned to the newly founded district of Elbe-Elster . On December 31, 1998 Jeßnigk merged with three other municipalities to form Themesgrund. Themesgrund in turn merged on December 31, 2001 with three other communities (Heideeck, Wildberg, Schönewalde) to form today's town of Schönewalde.

Population development

Population development from 1875 to 1997
year	Residents		year	Residents		year	Residents		year	Residents
1875	400		1946	566		1989	375		1995	372
1890	400		1950	557		1990	371		1996	368
1910	400		1964	466		1991	358		1997	369
1925	404		1971	446		1992	358		1998
1933	389		1981	398		1993	362		1999
1939	379		1985	374		1994	368		2000

Culture and sights

Architectural monuments

The old Jeßnigker school (2012)

→ See also: List of architectural monuments in Schönewalde

There are several listed buildings in the village. The Jeßnigker village church is a plastered early Gothic field stone building from around 1300. In 1904 it was rebuilt in the Baroque style. It has been restored since 1990, which means that the field stones are no longer externally recognizable. The wooden bell tower that originally stood next to the church was demolished in 1904. The church was later extended and the bells hung in the steeple. The bells have been rung electrically since 1994.

Furthermore, both buildings of the former Jeßnigker village schools are currently under monument protection. The building of the old village school can be found west of the church. It is a single-storey half-timbered building with a gable roof that was built at the beginning of the 19th century. The new village school was built between 1949 and 1950. This is a single-storey brick building with a gable roof. This documents the early construction of rural schools and social change after the Second World War .

In addition, the drive-through and stable barns of the properties Jeßnigk 20, 87 and 92 are under monument protection, which were built in the 19th century.

Regular events and club life

A youth club is housed in the multi-purpose building.

Zampern , a Sorbian tradition, men's carnival, children's carnival and a colorful evening take place during Carnival . There is also an Easter bonfire , a women's day celebration , an ascension party , a large village festival and a New Year's Eve party throughout the year. The most outstanding event of the year is the Herzberger Telescope Meeting (HTT), which takes place every autumn in Jeßnigk . The location of the place far from the city offers optimal visibility, because Jeßnigk is one of the darkest places in Europe at night.

Web links

Commons : Jeßnigk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Jeßnigk on the Schönewalde website
• Homepage of the Jeßnigker observatory
• Internet presence of the Herzberger Telescope Meeting

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Sybille Gramlich / Irmelin Küttner: Elbe-Elster district part 1: The city of Herzberg / Elster and the offices of Falkenberg / Uebigau, Herzberg, Schlieben and Schönewalde , pp. 207-210, ISBN 978-3-88462-152 -3
2. ↑ Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin . be.bra Wissenschaft Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-937233-30-7 , p. 83 .
3. ^ Gero Lietz: On dealing with the National Socialist place-name legacy in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Leipzig 2005, p. 176ff.
4. ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Elbe-Elster district . P. 35
5. ^ Historical municipality register 2005 for Brandenburg statistik.brandenburg.de (PDF)
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Database of the Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 13, 2017. 
7. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 500 .