Knippelsdorf

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Knippelsdorf
City of Schönewalde
Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 11 "  N , 13 ° 20 ′ 44"  E
Height : 86 m above sea level NHN
Incorporation : December 31, 1998
Incorporated into: Wildberg
Postal code : 04916
Area code : 03535
Knippelsdorf on a Urmes table sheet (1847)

Knippelsdorf is a district of Schönewalde , a small town in the north of the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg . The place is located about eleven kilometers east of Schönewalde on state road 71.

Knippelsdorf also includes the officially designated residential area Knippelsdorf-Siedlung , which is located about one kilometer southwest of the village.

history

From the first documentary mention to the 19th century

The first documentary mention of the Angerdorf Knippelsdorf took place in 1346 as Knoppelsdorff . In 1733 the name Knippelsdorf first appeared . The place name was probably derived from a man named Knoppel . The word Knoppel comes from Middle German and means something like knot, bud or knot.

In 1380, Rüdiger and Johannes von Glochow and Jenichen Schaff are mentioned as owners of the village. In the meantime, further changes of ownership took place. While Ulrich Schaff, Heinrich von Lochen and Hans von Rotzstog owned parts of the village in 1419, Jürgen von Drandorf was named as the owner in 1467.

Volume 4 of the Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony by August Schumann , published in 1817, describes that Knippelsdorf was divided into three parts at that time. Part of it belonged in writing to a manor located in Knippelsdorf , which also owned the church and the school. A second part officially belonged to the manor in Werchau and a third part in turn belonged in writing to the manor in Lebusa .

In the middle of the 19th century, Knippelsdorf had to complain about a devastating major fire. On June 20, 1858, almost the entire village burned down. 27 farmsteads fell victim to this fire.

Knippelsdorf in the Second World War

A particularly dark chapter in the history of the village is represented by some events during the Second World War. In April 1943, a group of five Polish farm workers, who were forced to do so, were arrested in Knippelsdorf. Together they had received the British radio station BBC with a converted people's receiver . While the twenty-three-year-old main defendant Tadeusz Piotrowski was sentenced to death, the other defendants were sentenced to several years of aggravated prison camps. Piotrowski was ultimately executed in the Brandenburg-Görden penitentiary on January 17, 1944, despite a petition for clemency by the Attorney General.

Towards the end of the Second World War, another crime took place not far from the village in February 1945, in which five prisoners who had fled and were returned to a passing train were shot dead by guards of the transport and the Knippelsdorfer Landwacht . The six Landwehr men involved were sentenced in February 1953 before the Cottbus district court, two of them to life imprisonment.

The Knippelsdorf local group leader of the NSDAP Alwin Poser, like the local group leaders from Mühlberg / Elbe and Großthiemig , was ultimately shot after the end of the war.

Administrative affiliation

Originally Knippelsdorf belonged to the Electoral Saxon office of Schlieben .

According to the regulations of the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Knippelsdorf came 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, Knippelsdorf came to the newly founded Herzberg district .

After turning Knippelsdorf first lay in district Herzberg / Elster . As a result of the district reform in Brandenburg on December 6, 1993 , the municipality of Knippelsdorf was assigned to the newly founded Elbe-Elster district , where the municipality initially merged with Wiepersdorf and Wildenau to form Wildberg on December 31, 1998. Wildberg in turn merged on December 31, 2001 with three other communities (Heideeck, Themesgrund, 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 320 1946 506 1989 323 1995 324
1890 330 1950 481 1990 323 1996 328
1910 350 1964 374 1991 325 1997 331
1925 373 1971 384 1992 323 1998
1933 340 1981 321 1993 324 1999
1939 339 1985 331 1994 316 2000

politics

Since December 31, 2001, Knippelsdorf has been a district of Schönewalde. The mayor is currently Thomas Wache. His deputy is Doris Schwarz.

Culture and sights

→ See also: List of architectural monuments in Knippelsdorf

There are several listed buildings in the village. The Knippelsdorf village church is a rectangular field and lawn iron stone building from the second half of the 13th century. The hall building has a group of three windows in the east wall and a square west tower with a pointed helmet dating from 1846.

Another architectural monument in the village is the former manor house in the Knippelsdorf-Siedlung district. This building dates from the years 1910 to 1912. Other listed buildings in the village are the parsonage built in 1890 at Lindenstrasse 8, a former dairy that was in operation from 1912 to 1970, and two barn warehouses built in the 18th century in Lindenstrasse 8 and 18. There is also a former medium-sized farm at Dahmer Straße 23, which is a listed building.

In the center of the village there is also a memorial for the villagers who died in the two world wars.

Economy and Infrastructure

Facilities

The volunteer fire brigade Knippelsdorf provides defensive fire protection and general help. There is also a museum in which historical fire fighting equipment and objects are exhibited.

Trivia

Knippelsdorf finds in Karl Immermann's work Münchhausen , published in 1838 . Mention. However, with Knippelsdorf he referred to a village between Jüterbog and Treuenbrietzen a few kilometers northwest of Knippelsdorf.

Web links

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

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Sybille Gramlich / Irmelin Küttner: District Elbe-Elster 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. ↑ a b 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. 92 .
  3. ↑ August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony . tape 1 . Zwickau 1814.
  4. ↑ Johannes Tuchel: The death sentences of the higher court 1943 to 1945: A documentation . Lukas Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86732-229-4 , pp. 65 .
  5. ^ Sebastian Rick : The development of the SED dictatorship in the countryside: The districts of Liebenwerda and Schweinitz in the Soviet occupation zone 1945-1949 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015, ISBN 978-3-647-36970-9 , pp. 52 .
  6. ^ Sebastian Rick: The development of the SED dictatorship in the countryside: The districts of Liebenwerda and Schweinitz in the Soviet occupation zone 1945-1949 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015, ISBN 978-3-647-36970-9 , pp. 201 .
  7. ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Elbe-Elster district . P. 35.
  8. ^ Historical municipality register 2005 for Brandenburg statistik.brandenburg.de (PDF)
  9. ↑ As of August 15, 2017
  10. ↑ The mayor of the city of Schönewalde on the city homepage, accessed on August 15, 2017
  11. ↑ a b c database of the Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum ( Memento from December 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 13, 2017.
  12. ^ A b Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 557 .
  13. ↑ Online project Memorial Monuments , accessed on August 18, 2017
  14. ↑ Blue light report Elbe - Elster: Blue light reporters visit fire brigade historians with heart and soul
  15. ^ Karl Immermann: Münchhausen . 1838.