Cost brew

Cost brew City of Lauchhammer Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 33 ″  N , 13 ° 49 ′ 35 ″  E
Height :	141 m
Residents :	514  (Dec. 31, 2016)
Incorporation :	December 6, 1993
Postal code :	01979
Area code :	03574

Kostebrau ( Upper Sorbian Kósćerjow ) is a district of the southern Brandenburg town of Lauchhammer in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district . In the course of the lignite mining , the districts of Kostebraus were devastated .

Location and structure

Kostebrau was surrounded by the peaks mountains , the Dubrau's mountains and the Ox mountains . The place consists of the upper village and the lower village in the valley. In the east, Friedrichsthal joined, a settlement that developed around the glassworks.

The villages of Römerkeller and Wischgrund , which were devastated by open- cast lignite mining, belonged to Kostebrau .

history

Name development

The name Kostebrau is derived from the Sorbian word for Trespe (Lower Sorbian: kóstrjawa ) or Trespenfeld .

Local history

The place was first mentioned in a document as Costebrau in 1421. He belonged to the Senftenberg office . In the period from 1440 to 1474 Kostebrau was part of the Mückenberg rule .

In 1551 there were twenty households in Kostebrau, including two millers in the adjacent water-rich Pommelheide . In the same year the manor in Kostebrau was first mentioned. The first owner known by name was Thomas Bohdan.

Due to the abundance of wood and the abundant occurrence of glass sand, especially at Hohenbocka and Hosena , in 1709 the Saxon Elector Friedrich August I approved a Bohemian smeltery builder to build the Friedrichsthal mirror glassworks . It was the first glassworks in Niederlausitz .

At the beginning of the 19th century, Johann Christian Oestreich was the owner of the estate. He had a new manor built according to his own plans. It was the first brick building with a tiled roof in town. Agriculture, livestock and beekeeping were carried out on the estate. The estate also had a vineyard and a windmill. The manor owned branding and brewing rights. The licensing right was transferred to a local innkeeper around 1850.

In the year 1896 the brown coal mine Unser Fritz was opened in Kostebrau . Soon afterwards a briquette factory with three presses and the Alwine mine were opened by the landowner Alwin Oestreich . The factory had a connecting line to the Römerkeller station and the Sallgast-Lauchhammer branch line to the Schipkau-Finsterwalder railway . The housing estate of the same name, Unser Fritz , belonged to the factory . The district of the same name developed around the Römerkeller station from 1902.

As part of a Prussian reform, the manor district was incorporated into the rural community of Kostebrau in 1928 .

Post-mining landscape in Kostebrau

As the Klettwitz opencast mine progressed , the entire area was dredged over and Kostebrau became an opencast island. The two districts of Wischgrund and Römerkeller were also devastated. According to official information, 29 residents were relocated for the overdredging of Römerkeller around 1980. 183 people were affected by the dredging of Wischgrund in 1983. In 1974 the mirror factory was shut down. The former inspector's house was demolished in 1979 because it was in disrepair.

On December 6, 1993, Kostebrau was incorporated into Lauchhammer together with the neighboring Grünewalde .

Population development

Population development in Kostebrau from 1875 to 1992
year	Residents	year	Residents
1875	883	1890	1,047
1910	2 287	1925	2,349
1933	2,366	1939	2 050
1946	1 764	1950	1 756
1964	1 502	1971	1 348
1981	952	1985	773
1989	712	1990	701
1991	658	1992	657

Culture and sights

The church, built in 1907 in the upper village, is one of the architectural monuments in Lauchhammer . It has an organ created by Wilhelm Sauer .

The peace oak planted in 1881 and the village linden tree stand next to the church .

On Klettwitzer Straße behind the cemetery there is a wooded area with the broken fields of the former Alwine mine .

The clay pit in the former district of Wischgrund was the site of Tertiary plant fossils . This Wischgrund collection was exhibited in the Museum of Nature and Environment Cottbus and is now in the storage of the Cottbus City Museum after its closure .

The Heimatstube has been set up in the Neue Schule since 1993 . It shows the story of Kostebrau.

Personalities

The musician and former electra guitarist Ecki Lipske lives in Kostebrau.

Web links

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

• District page on the website of the city of Lauchhammer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Community and district directory of the state of Brandenburg. Land surveying and geographic base information Brandenburg (LGB), accessed on June 17, 2020.
2. ↑ Filip Rězak : German-Sorbian encyclopedic dictionary of the Upper Lusatian Sorbian language (Němsko-serbski wšowědny słownik hornjoserbskeje rěče (1920), Fotomechaniski nowoćišć (1987), Ludowe nakładnistwo Domowina , ISBN 3-7420-0176 )
3. ↑ German-Lower Sorbian online dictionary ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Petra Maser: No treasure under the doorstep - the estate lives on anyway. (No longer available online.) In: Lausitzer Rundschau . October 23, 2008, archived from the original on June 10, 2015 ; accessed on June 10, 2015 . 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.  
5. ^ Friedrichsthal glassworks shaken by several bankruptcies. (No longer available online.) In: Lausitzer Rundschau. July 21, 2009, archived from the original on June 10, 2015 ; accessed on June 10, 2015 . 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.  
6. ↑ Team of authors: Historical Guide Districts Dresden, Cottbus . Urania-Verlag, Leipzig, Jena, Berlin 1982, p. 286 .
7. ^ ^{A b} Frank Förster : Disappeared Villages - The demolitions of the Lusatian lignite mining area until 1993 . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, ISBN 3-7420-1623-7 .
8. ↑ Hustle and bustle in "Our Fritz". In: Lausitzer Rundschau. September 6, 2008, accessed June 10, 2015 . 
9. ^ Changes in the municipalities of Germany, see 1993 StBA
10. ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. (PDF; 331 kB) District Oberspreewald-Lausitz. State Office for Data Processing and Statistics State of Brandenburg, December 2006, accessed on June 10, 2015 .