Jessen (Spremberg)

Jessen , Lower Sorbian Jasen was a village in the Lower Lausitz , wholly 1972/1973 resettled and later from the lignite mine Welzow-South was dredged.

location

Jessen memorial stone

Jessen was west of Spremberg . The place had the official name Jessen / NL, because the place name Jessen existed several times in Germany. In earlier centuries, the Zuckerstrasse, a trade route that connected central Germany with Silesia, passed the town.

The church no longer exists. Today a memorial site with a memorial stone commemorates the place. The boulder with the inscription “Jessen 1346–1972” stands at a point directly on the Fürst-Pückler-Radweg , where a memorial plaque has been to be found since 1970. The memorial stone was erected in 1991 at the height of the former village center. However, he was difficult to reach there, which is why he was moved to the new location in the memorial in 2009. A street in this area was named after the community.

history

The first documentary mention goes back to the year 1346. As part of the Cottbus rulership , it belonged to the Mark Brandenburg early on . Together with Stradow , Straussdorf and Wolkenberg, it formed an exclave within the Lower Lusatia margravate , which has been Bohemian since 1370 and Saxon from 1635 , to which the neighboring villages of Roitz and Pulsberg belonged. It was not until 1815 in the course of the Congress of Vienna that Jessen was incorporated into the newly created district of Spremberg , which was part of the Frankfurt / Oder administrative district of the Brandenburg province . For the year 1844 there were 47 residential buildings, a windmill and a brick factory in Jessen . The latter was in operation until shortly before the site was demolished and produced roof tiles , among other things . There was a manor in the village , which at that time was enfeoffed by the Schleemüller family from Berlin .

The village had a church that had been built around 1500. Later the surrounding communities of Gosda , Proschim , Pulsberg and Terpe were parished to Jessen. The church tower was only built in 1877. The last service took place on October 3, 1971, as the church was also demolished in the course of the demolition of the village. While the organ of the church in Graustein found a new location, the altar from 1601 and the baptismal font were installed in the Spremberg Kreuzkirche and its parish house. The door of the Jessen church is now in the Spremberg local history museum.

In 1907, Jessen was connected to the newly built Proschim-Haidemühl-Spremberg railway , which served the place with up to six pairs of trains a day until 1947. After they were discontinued, the Spremberger Stadtbahn continued to run until bus services were established at the end of the 1950s.

The resettlement of Jessen began in 1972 and was completed the following year. A total of 650 people were resettled. On December 31, 1972, Jessen was incorporated into Pulsberg, since the incorporation of Pulsberg in January 1974, the corridor of Jessen has belonged to the town of Spremberg .

Population development

The following table shows the development of the population of Jessen.

date	Residents
1880/84	411
1885	490
1939	583
1946	576
1972/73	650

In 1972/1973, 650 people officially moved from Jessen. Most moved to the Georgenberg district of Spremberg, where 408 apartments were built for this purpose.

The place was in the Lower Sorbian settlement area. However, the proportion of Sorbian- speaking residents decreased over time. In a study by Arnošt Muka, 389 Sorbian residents and 22 German residents are named for the period 1880/84 . The significantly different proportions shown in the table below were determined for the locations in the immediate vicinity during the same period in the same study. For the year 1956 only 5 residents were named with Sorbian language skills.

place	Sorbian residents	German residents	total	Share of Sorbs (%)
Jessen	389	22nd	411	95
Stradow	350	23	373	94
Straussdorf	86	11	97	89
Wolkenberg	318	11	329	97
Pulsberg	150	452	602	25th
Roitz	175	178	353	50
Spremberg	375	11119	11494	3

Infrastructure

In the village there was a church, a school, several shops and inns, an estate and a train station.

Personalities

Paul Friedrich Bronisch (1830–1898) was a Sorbian pastor and writer born in Jessen.

Individual evidence

↑ Jens Henker, Kerstin Kirsch: Founding a village in Lausitz. Horno and Klein Görigk in focus. In: Communications of the German Society for Archeology of the Middle Ages and Modern Times . 27th year, no. 2 , p. 171-180 .
↑ Chronicle of Lausitz. Niederlausitzer Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Landeskunde, May 12, 2014, accessed on January 28, 2018 .
↑ Topographical-statistical overview of the administrative district of Frankfurt ad O. 1844, p. 210 .
↑ ^a ^b Pictures from the old Spremberg - Spremberg: Church in Jessen . In: The Märkische Bote . January 31, 2009 ( online [accessed January 28, 2018]).
↑ Table of the places that disappeared up to 1993. (No longer available online.) In: umsiedler-schleife.de. Archived from the original on April 3, 2017 ; accessed on February 7, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Ernst Tschernik : The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
↑ Welzow-Süd / Jänschwalde / Cottbus-Nord . In: Changes and Perspectives . 2nd Edition. tape 15 . LMBV , Senftenberg December 2015 ( lmbv.de [PDF; 12.1 MB ; accessed on January 28, 2018]).
↑ Elka Tschernokoshewa, Fabian Jacobs, Theresa Jacobs, Henrike Krohn, Ines Neumann, Alfred Roggan: Sorbian identity and culture in the Proschim (Prožym) location with Karlsfeld (= Small Series of the Sorbian Institute . Volume 14 ). Sorbian Institute / Serbski institut, Bautzen 2011, ISBN 978-3-9813244-0-2 .
^ Annett Igel: A walk through Jessen . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . July 3, 2008 ( lr-online.de [accessed January 28, 2018]).

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Torsten Richter: Home that stays. Places of remembrance in Lusatia. REGIA Verlag, Cottbus 2013, ISBN 978-3-86929-224-3 .
Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
Archive of Disappeared Places (Ed.): Documentation of mining-related resettlements . Forest 2010.
Disappeared places in the old district of Spremberg: Jessen. Spremberg city administration, accessed on January 28, 2018 .
Christian Lucia, Detlef Paulisch: Memories of Jessen NL 1346–1972. Self-published, Großräschen 2009.