Kolkwitz

Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Spree-Neisse
Height :	65 m above sea level NHN
Area :	104.68 km 2
Residents:	9219 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	88 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	03099
Primaries :	0355 (Dahlitz, Hänchen, Kolkwitz, Zahsow) , 035603 (Babow) , 035604 (Brodtkowitz, Eichow, Glinzig, Kackrow, Klein Gaglow, Krieschow, Kunersdorf, Limberg, Milkersdorf, Papitz, Wiesendorf) , 035606 (Gulben)
License plate :	SPN, FOR, GUB, SPB
Community key :	12 0 71 244
LOCODE :	DE LWZ
Community structure:	17 districts
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Berliner Strasse 19 ; 03099 Kolkwitz
Website :	www.kolkwitz.de
Mayor :	Karsten Schreiber (SPD)
Location of the municipality of Kolkwitz in the Spree-Neisse district

Kolkwitz , Gołkojce in Lower Sorbian , is a municipality in the Spree-Neisse district in Brandenburg (Germany).

geography

The community is five kilometers west of Cottbus .

Community structure

The large municipality of Kolkwitz has existed since 1993 and comprises the following parts of the village and municipality as well as living spaces (the Lower Sorbian name in brackets):

Babow ( Bobow )
Brodtkowitz ( Brodkojce ) with the residential area Heideschänke ( Gólna kjarcma )
Dahlitz ( Dalic )
Eichow ( Dubje )
Glinzig ( Glinsk ) with the residential areas Koselmühle ( Kózyc młyn ) and Putgolla ( Pódgóla ) (partly also belongs to the Kolkwitz district)
Gulben ( Gołbin )
Hänchen ( Hajnk ) with the residential areas Old Settlement (Stare sedlišćo), Annahof ( Aniny dwór ) and New Settlement ( Nowe sedlišćo )
Kackrow ( Kokrjow )
Klein Gaglow ( Gogolowk )
Kolkwitz ( Gołkojce ) with the residential areas Forsthaus Stadtheide ( Gólnica-Měsćańska góla ) and Putgolla ( Pódgóla ) (also part of the district of Glinzig)
Krieschow ( Kśišow ) with the residential areas Feldmühle ( Pólny młyn ) Krieschow Vorwerk ( Kśišow wudwór ) and Schneidemühle ( Rĕzaki )
Kunersdorf ( Kosobuz )
Limberg ( Limbark )
Milkersdorf ( Górnej )
Papitz ( Popojce ) with the residential areas Kleines Ende ( Mały kóńc ) and Rabenau ( Rabenow )
Wiesendorf ( Naseńce )
Zahsow ( Cazow )

history

Kolkwitz was first mentioned in a document around 1300.

Kolkwitz and its current districts belonged to the Cottbus district from 1817–1952 (until 1947 in the Prussian province of Brandenburg , 1947–1952 in the state of Brandenburg ). 1952–1993 the places were part of the Cottbus-Land district (until 1990 in the GDR district of Cottbus , 1990–1993 again in the state of Brandenburg). Since the district reform in 1993 , they have been in the Spree-Neisse district.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent communities Dahlitz and Zahsow were incorporated into Kolkwitz. In the course of the Brandenburg district and territorial reform on 5. / 6. December 1993 the communities Babow, Eichow, Glinzig, Gulben, Hänchen, Klein Gaglow, Krieschow-Wiesendorf , Milkersdorf and Papitz were incorporated into Kolkwitz. Brodtkowitz and Kackrow had already been incorporated into Krieschow-Wiesendorf and the community of Kunersdorf to Papitz.

Population development

year	Residents
1875	1 305
1890	1 719
1910	2 163
1925	2,418
1933	2,767
1939	2,945
1946	3 271
1950	3 759

year	Residents
1964	3 395
1971	3 204
1981	3 723
1985	3 701
1989	3,694
1990	3 392
1991	3,390
1992	3,379
1993	7 788
1994	8 148

year	Residents
1995	8 622
1996	9 121
1997	9 634
1998	9,980
1999	10 188
2000	10 270
2001	10 254
2002	10 225
2003	10 228
2004	10 118

year	Residents
2005	9,989
2006	9,965
2007	9 885
2008	9 773
2009	9 664
2010	9 542
2011	9 289
2012	9 301
2013	9 274
2014	9 234

year	Residents
2015	9 147
2016	9 188
2017	9 189
2018	9 177
2019	9 219

Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31 (from 1991), from 2011 based on the 2011 census

Until the 20th century, a large part of the population spoke Sorbian . Arnošt Muka determined for his statistics of the Lusatian Sorbs 1884/85 a total population of 1445, 1368 of them Sorbs (95%) and 77 Germans.

politics

Community representation

Local elections 2019

Turnout: 70.9%

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40

30th

20th

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35.1%

21.2%

18.2%

10.4%

9.4%

2.4%

OTB-FrW ^d

Gs ^f

Remarks:

^d Local alliance for free voters

^f Common (de) sam strong

The Kolkwitz community council consists of 18 community representatives and the full-time mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Party / group of voters	Seats
CDU	6th
SPD	4th
AfD	3
Local alliance of free voters	2
The left	2
Common (de) sam strong	1

mayor

Town hall of the municipality in Kolkwitz

1990-2017: Fritz Handrow (CDU)
since 2018: Karsten Schreiber (SPD)

Schreiber was elected for a term of eight years on September 24, 2017 with 51.9% of the valid votes.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was established in 1998 by the municipal council and approved by the Brandenburg Ministry of the Interior on April 9, 1999.

Blazon : "From a wavy green-silver split blue corrugated shield base, topped with a silver fish, a green deciduous tree growing in gold."

The deciduous tree already appears in a community seal from the end of the 19th century. The heraldic motif, designed as a general deciduous tree, has 17 leaves and thus reflects the number of districts of the municipality.

The tree also stands as a talking image for the community name. Kolkwitz is etymologically interpreted as "surrounded by pine wall" or "lying below the forest". The two corrugated beams and, above all, the heraldic stylized fish symbolize the water-rich pond landscape of the Kolkwitz community, which is crossed by the Priorgraben, a historically significant canal.

For the municipality, the motif and the color scheme with green as the main color also reflect the wealth of meadows and forests in the municipality's corridor and the location of the municipality on the edge of the Spreewald.

The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Frank Diemar .

Community partnerships

There has been a partnership with the Bavarian municipality of Großmehring in the Eichstätt district since 1994, and with Torzym in the Polish Lebus voivodeship since 2006 .

Attractions

The list of monuments in Kolkwitz includes the monuments entered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg. The soil monuments are listed in the list of soil monuments in Kolkwitz .

In Kolkwitz a bunker of the GDR Air Force ( 1st Air Defense Division , GS-31) can be visited, the radio company of the NB-31 was also on duty here and secured the communications connections of the former GS-31.
The village church Krieschow is a hall church from the second half of the 15th century, the nave of which was increased in the 17th century. Inside there is, among other things, an altarpiece from 1680.
Papitz village church from the 15th century

Economy and Infrastructure

Langosa industrial park in Kolkwitz

traffic

Kolkwitz is on the state road L 49 (ex B115 ) between Vetschau and Cottbus. The federal motorway 15 ( motorway triangle Spreewald - Polish border) runs through the municipality.

The breakpoints Kunersdorf and Kolkwitz lying on the railway line Berlin-Görlitz and in the early morning and late evening trains the regional express -line RE 2 ( Wismar -Berlin- Cottbus ) and the day of the regional rail line RB 41 Lubben (Spreewald) - Cottbus served.

The regional train line RB 43 ( Falkenberg (Elster) -Cottbus) operates at the Kolkwitz Süd stop on the Halle – Cottbus line . The trains have not stopped at the former Eichow station since 1999.

Sports

The football club VfB 1921 Krieschow plays in the 2017/18 season in the Oberliga Nordost , the fifth-highest division in Germany.

A number of other clubs are at home in the Kolkwitz community, including SV Kolkwitz 1896 (Kolkwitzer SV, KSV), SG Glinzig and SV Fichte Kunersdorf.

Personalities

Gotthelf Christlieb Fritze ( Pomgajbog Kristalub Fryco , 1744–1815), Protestant pastor and writer, born in Kolkwitz
Johann Friedrich Fritze ( Jan Bjedrich Fryco , 1747–1819), Protestant pastor in Kolkwitz 1778–1808, was the first to translate the Old Testament into Lower Sorbian
Johann Georg Zwahr ( Hanzo Juro Swora , 1785–1844), Protestant pastor in Stradow near Spremberg 1812–1844, author of the first Lower Sorbian-German dictionary, born in Hänchen
Johann Friedrich Teschner ( Jan Bjedrich Tešnaŕ , 1829–1898), Protestant pastor, editor and translator; born in Putgolla
Max Pohlenz (1872–1962), classical philologist, born in Hänchen
Joochen Laabs (* 1937), writer, grew up in Hänchen