Crass

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House from 1796, part of a three-sided courtyard

Krassig is part of the municipality of the town of Schlieben in the Elbe-Elster district . The place is about 4 km northwest of the city center of Schlieben on the Lebusa - Kolochau road .

history

First mention and interpretation of the name

The village was first mentioned in documents in 1419 as Croaczk . Later spellings were 1419/20 Crawask , around 1420 Croaczk , 1447 Krawasick , 1457 Krobassig and 1577 Crasig, Krassigk . The name is derived from the Old Sorbian Krovačk , which means a cow village, i.e. a place where there were many cows .

As part of the National Socialist Germanization of Sorbian place names, the district administrator of the Schweinitz district had applied in 1937 with the consent of the municipality to rename Krassig to "Schönheide" and thus to erase the Sorbian name. Unlike in other regions , however, the renaming failed here due to the rejection of the responsible district president.

Local history

In 1474, eight Hüfner, who managed 18 Erbhufen, lived in Schlieben's castle village . In 1550 there were four gardeners in Krassig in addition to eight hoppers. During the Thirty Years War the village was completely destroyed by Swedish troops in 1637 and the church was badly damaged. It is mentioned as a desert village in 1653 and it was not until 1694 that all of the Hüfner positions in the village were filled again. In the period between 1644 and 1658 Krassig lent the two church bells to the church in Alt-Herzberg for an annual interest of 1 gulden . Around 1820 there was a post mill near the village, but it was no longer mentioned in the mill directory from 1925.

Administrative affiliation

Krassig belonged to the electoral , then to the royal Saxon office of Schlieben until 1806 and became part of the Schweinitz district in 1816 . From 1952 the place belonged to the Herzberg district and was incorporated into Schlieben on January 1, 1957. The district of Herzberg became part of the district reform in 1993 in the district of Elbe-Elster .

Culture and sights

Church in Krassig
The half-timbered building on the Krassig 11 property

The village still has four-sided courtyards from the 18th and 19th centuries with house trees and front gardens on its narrow green. Particularly noteworthy is the historically grown courtyard at Krassiger-Dorfstraße 12 with what is probably the oldest surviving small farmhouse in the village.

The small village church is a branch church of Schlieben. It is surrounded by a cemetery and stands slightly set back east of the village road. As a rectangular hall church, it was built in the late 13th century from irregularly hewn fieldstones and lawn iron stones with wide mortar joints. In 1735, two south windows were enlarged, in 1910 the north window was broken in and the church was restored, where the parapets of the west and north lofts were probably also created. The square west tower with hipped roof is smaller than the nave. In the 18th century the half-timbered upper floor of the tower was boarded up on the outside. In 1970 a modern wooden ceiling was installed under the old ceiling. The church has a winged altar with wooden sculptures of remarkable quality from the end of the 15th century. The bronze bell is a work by Georg Billich from Wittenberg around 1690. According to oral tradition, the church was a focal point for pilgrims on their way to the St. Martin's Chapel in Schlieben until the Reformation.

The village church is now a listed building. In addition, two other structures are listed in the local list of monuments . The monument on the Krassig 10 property is a half-timbered building with adobe infills. The house was built in the first half of the 19th century. The brick facade presented to the half-timbered structure was built towards the end of the same century. Another architectural monument can be found on the neighboring plot of Krassig 11 . The building is a single-storey half-timbered building with adobe infills and a crooked hip roof. The house was built in 1796.

literature

  • A. Richter: The Schweinitz district. A little local history for the schools in the district; 1912
  • Voegler 1934 p. 114
  • Hans-Dieter Lehman: Stories about history about the village and church Krassig. In: Home calendar Herzberg. 1992
  • Hans-Dieter Lehman: Pictures from the Schliebener administrative area. In: Schliebener official news. 1993
  • Sybille Gramlich, Irmelin Küttner: Elbe-Elster district part 1: The city of Herzberg / Elster and the offices of Falkenberg / Uebigau, Herzberg, Schlieben and Schönewalde. ISBN 978-3-88462152-3

Web links

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

Notes and individual references

  1. ^ Walter Wenzel : The place names of the Schweinitzer country, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1964, also dissertation, Leipzig 1960
  2. ^ Gero Lietz: On dealing with the National Socialist place-name legacy in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Leipzig 2005, p. 176ff.
  3. ↑ The Krassiger land Krassig 10 in the database of the Brandenburg State Office of Historic Monuments and Archaeological Museum , accessed on 4 December 2016th
  4. ↑ a b Sybille Gramlich, Irmelin Küttner: Elbe-Elster district, part 1: The city of Herzberg / Elster and the offices of Falkenberg / Uebigau, Herzberg, Schlieben and Schönewalde. ISBN 978-3-88462152-3 , p. 294
  5. ↑ The Krassiger property Krassig 11 in the database of the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and the State Archaeological Museum , accessed on December 4, 2016.

Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 28.4 "  N , 13 ° 21 ′ 15.8"  E