Jehserig

Jehserig Jazorki City of Drebkau Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 15 ″  N , 14 ° 15 ′ 12 ″  E
Height :	97-136 m above sea level NN
Area :	15.87 km²
Residents :	505  (2006)
Population density :	32 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	December 31, 2001
Postal code :	03116
Area code :	035602

Jehserig , Jazorki in Lower Sorbian ("small lakes"), is a village and a former community in Lower Lusatia . Jehserig has been part of the city of Drebkau since December 31, 2001 and is located southwest of Cottbus in the Spree-Neisse district in Brandenburg .

geography

Geographical location

Jehserig is not far from the original Drebkau urban area and 12 km from Cottbus and Spremberg . The place is on the edge of the mountain range "Steinitzer Alpen", which was postponed by the Elster Ice Age, and has a height above sea level. M. from 97 m (Merkur) to 136 m (Papproth). At 158 ​​m, the Papprother Rodelberg, after the excavation of the Steinitzer Alps in the years 2000 to 2008, is now with the Steinitzer Rodelberg the highest elevation in Lower Lusatia west of the Spree. The Welzow -Süd opencast mine has grazed the local area in the south over the past two decades; previous plans to excavate were abandoned due to the low thickness of the coal seam, which is 80 m deep. The larger forest areas to the southwest of the village are fissured by former underground mining shafts and enclose a lake that is fed with water from the apron drainage of the opencast mine .

Local division

In addition to the original village of Jehserig, the former community also included the historically grown villages Rehnsdorf and Papproth , as well as Merkur , which emerged from a briquette factory settlement at the beginning of the last century . Around 450 people live in the four towns.

history

Jehserig is a Sorbian settlement that originated in the early Middle Ages and was first mentioned in a German document in 1353. Sorbian is the place Jazorki and means "small lakes", which describes the original setting with ponds, marshes and streams. Today the depressions in the park, at the fire station , on the right of the curve at the entrance to the village and at the end of the Kiefernweg are reminiscent of these lakes, the remains of which have disappeared in the course of the open pit drainage. Until the end of the 19th century, Jehserig was a Lower Sorbian-speaking farming village with 10 farms and one estate . The 2.5-storey manor house was the residence of the changing German owners of the lands. Both languages ​​coexisted in Jehserig for a long time. Entries in documents and church registers provide information about the difficulty of finding uniform designations for names and field names. In many families, Sorbian was spoken at home, while contact with the landlord's family, the pastor and later also the local teacher was German . Only a few pastors, like the Schorbuser Bogumił Šwjela , spoke and preached in Sorbian . In terms of church, Jehserig always belonged to the Protestant parish of Wolkenberg , while Rehnsdorf was a parish due to the Prussian-Saxon border line to Drebkau at that time. While Sorbian was able to assert itself as the domestic language in the villages to the south and east into the 20th century, German was already the main language spoken in Jehserig at that time . Some field names (Glina, Huschkusenka, etc.) and family names are still reminiscent of Sorbian today. The camping and some fairgrounds from this time have also been preserved. For a long time Jehserig was on or near the Saxon-Prussian border. Due to the various acquisitions and land assignments in the 18th and 19th centuries, there were a large number of borders between Cottbus and Ortrand between Prussian , Saxon and Silesian properties. A highlight was the so-called beer war, which was also fought in the Jehseriger Gasthaus. Drebkau, known for its many breweries at the time, fought for pub sovereignty in the Prussian town of Jehserig against the Spremberger brewery. In the years of industrialization and the subsequent development of civil engineering facilities south and south-west of Jehserig, mostly German working-class families immigrated to the newly founded Merkur. Many underground tunnels were driven into the Lausitz sand around the town of Göhrigk, southwest of Jehserig, in order to transport the lignite to the briquette factory in Merkur. Several workers' houses, a stately factory owner's house, remnants of the factory and many houses of the workers who settled here remind of this time. The Göhrigker See was created as a result of the dismantling in the municipality. The place Göhrigk had to give way in the 70s and in its structural remains finally in the 90s due to the collapsing underground construction shafts under the place. Today in Jehserig, in addition to the farms with their z. Some of the historic buildings (field stone barn from 1863 in Straße am Park 5) and the restored manor house with its park, some new houses from newcomers and, in addition to the thoroughfare from Drebkau to Spremberg, a direct connection at the western exit to the B 169 (Senftenberg -Cottbus).

On December 31, 2001, Jehserig and its districts Rehnsdorf (incorporated on January 10, 1973), Papproth and Merkur in the newly founded municipality of Drebkau. Petra Nowka has been the local mayor since 2006.

population

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 123 inhabitants for Jehserig in the 1880s, of which 66 were Sorbs (54%) and 57 were Germans.

societies

In Jehserig there are the voluntary fire brigade , the village club Jehserig, the billiards club, and a fishing club. Betreute Wohnen Rehnsdorf eV (rehabilitation of addicts) has been based in Rehnsdorf since the early 1990s.

Web links

• Jehserig in the RBB program Landschleicher on December 11, 2005

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
2. ↑ StBA Area: changes from 01.01. until December 31, 2001
3. ↑ Ernst Tschernik : The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.