Kerkwitz

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Community of Schenkendöbern
Coordinates: 51 ° 54 ′ 39 ″  N , 14 ° 38 ′ 32 ″  E
Height : 75 m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.64 km²
Residents : 502  (2008)
Population density : 58 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : May 28, 1998
Incorporated into: Gastrose-Kerkwitz
Postal code : 03172
Area code : 035692
Aerial view from the west to the village center at the level of Dreieckt von Kerkwitz (graphically anonymized)
Aerial view from the west to the village center at the level of Dreieckt von Kerkwitz (graphically anonymized)

Kerkwitz , Keŕkojce in Lower Sorbian , is a village in the municipality of Schenkendöbern in the Spree-Neisse district in Brandenburg . The village has 502 inhabitants and is one of the few Brandenburg municipalities that has seen an increase in the number of inhabitants due to immigration.

The place name is derived either from the Old Sorbian personal name Kyrk ("the throat") or from the word kerk for "shrub", although the latter interpretation is questioned.

location

Village Kerkwitz, view from Atterwasch

Kerkwitz is about 5 km away from the German-Polish border between Frankfurt (Oder) and Cottbus in the middle of a landscape rich in forests and lakes at an altitude of 65  m to 80  m above sea level. NN . The structural centers Cottbus and Frankfurt (Oder) can be reached via the federal highways 97 and 112 , which run near the village. Kerkwitz is on the Cottbus - Guben railway line (opened in 1871). From May 1st 1993 the ticket office was closed.

The area of ​​the Kerkwitz district is 864 hectares. Of this, 564 ha are used for forestry (65.3%), 193 ha are used for agricultural purposes (22.3%) and only 24 ha are inhabited areas (2.8%).

economy and society

The village has a few handicraft businesses, a village shop, a restaurant with a pension, the Protestant church (see Gustav-Adolf-Kirche ) and a train station. There is the volunteer fire brigade , a youth club, a church group of the Evangelical Church Community Region Guben, the Bubbatzfreunde Kerkwitz, the women's group Kleeblatt and a small animal breeding association.

Demographics

In 2008 Kerkwitz had 502 inhabitants, 91 of them were under 21 years old (18.1%); 322 inhabitants were between 21 and 65 years old (64.2%) and 89 Kerkwitzer were older than 65 years (17.7%).

Lignite mining

At the end of 2007, plans by the Vattenfall Group were announced that provided for the opening of the Jänschwalde-Nord opencast mine. Their approval would have resulted in the resettlement of the inhabitants and the destruction of the place and the landscape. In addition to Kerkwitz, the villages of Atterwasch and Grabko would be affected . Every year in January, the residents of the three towns and neighboring communities protested against the Group's plans with a star march. However, on March 30, 2017, the new owner LEAG announced that it would not expand Jänschwalde.

Memorial stone 10 years of the fight against demolition, September 2017

The planned devastation of the three locations was discussed by the documentary filmmaker Peter Benedix in the films Heimat auf Zeit (2009) and BrückenJahre (2014).

In August 2014, a human chain connected Kerkwitz to Grabice in Poland, 8 kilometers away .

tourism

Kerkwitz is connected to the Lusatian cycle paths; the small height differences and low traffic density favor cycling. Some bathing lakes are located near the village: the Deulowitzer See , the Pastlingsee and the Pinnower See . You can hike to the Neisse flood plain , through the vast forests and in the Kaltenborn mountains.

Gustav Adolf Church

Attractions

In the list of monuments in Schenkendöbern four monuments are listed for Kerkwitz .

Gustav Adolf Church

The Gustav-Adolf-Kirche belongs to the Protestant parish of Guben and is located in the center of Kerkwitz. It was inaugurated in 1952.

literature

  • Ernst Eichler : The place names of Niederlausitz. Bautzen 1975.
  • Walter Schirm: Guben. City and country before 1945. Edited by Heimatkreis Guben and Gubener Heimatbund. Hanover 1990, ISBN 3-9801199-0-4 .
  • Home encyclopedia for Guben and the surrounding area. Guben 2002.
  • Heinz-Dieter Krausch : From the older story of Kerkwitz. In: Gubener Heimatkalender 1984. Guben 1984, pp. 48–57.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Eichler : Slavic place names between Saale and Neisse. Volume 2: K-M. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1987, ISBN 3-7420-0097-7 , p. 23; 2nd edition, ibid 2010, ISBN 978-3-7420-0097-2 .
  2. ↑ Information from the local authority in Schenkendöbern. See also the homepage about the district of Kerkwitz. In: kerkwitz.de, accessed on September 2, 2017.
  3. ↑ Luther Year 2017. In: kerkwitz.de. Retrieved September 1, 2017 .
  4. ↑ The clubs. In: kerkwitz.de. Retrieved September 1, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Population statistics according to information from the Schenkendöbern municipal administration.
  6. ↑ Blumenthal and others: Jänschwalde open-cast lignite mine will not be expanded. In: rbb-online.de. RBB, March 30, 2017, accessed March 30, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Three Villages in Lusatia - Peter Benedix on his documentary "Bridge Years". In: Film service . 14/2015. July 9, 2015, pp. 24-25.
  8. ↑ Robin Avram: Protest in Lusatia - German-Polish chain reaction against coal ( Memento from September 4, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ). In: rbb-online.de. rbb report of August 23, 2014, accessed on September 1, 2017.
  9. ↑ The Gustav-Adolf-Kirche zu Kerkwitz ( Memento from August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). In: kerkwitz.de, accessed on September 1, 2017.
  10. ↑ Kerkwitz. The Gustav Adolf Church in Kerkwitz. In: r2017.org. Reformation anniversary 2017 e. V. , accessed on September 1, 2017.