Kraupa

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Kraupa
City of Elsterwerda
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 43 ″  N , 13 ° 30 ′ 30 ″  E
Height : 126 m
Residents : 635  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation : December 6, 1993
Postal code : 04910
Area code : 03533

Kraupa is a district of the town of Elsterwerda in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg, not far from the border with Saxony and was part of the Bad Liebenwerda district until the district reform in Brandenburg in 1993 . The place currently has about 600 inhabitants and is located directly at the nature reserve "Forsthaus Prösa" in the area of ​​the Niederlausitzer Heidelandschaft nature park .

History and Development

Bell tower in Kraupa (2013)
Karl Marx memorial stone on the village green

Interpretation of the place name

Kraupa appeared earlier than Krup . This word comes from Slavic and particularly refers to waters. Since a stream rises close to Kraupa, the water of which sinks into a meadow not far from the village , it can be assumed that it means “short stream” .

Local history

Presumably it already happened in the 12th / 13th Century to a Wendish settlement at the spring next to the village. It was first mentioned in a document in 1398 in a document from the von Köckritz family . Like Krauschütz , Biehla , Kotschka , Plessa , Dreska and Kahla, Kraupa belongs to the Elsterwerda rulership.

After the Thirty Years' War , a water mill was built north of the village at the behest of the Elsterwerda rulers . From 1772 Kraupa had its own school house. Until then, the local children had started school in Dreska.

Leberecht Heinemann built a post office in 1836 on the former old post road Berlin-Elsterwerda-Dresden running through the town . 1855, there were 12 large and small in 14 Kraupa gardener , 16 Häusler , 1 arms House , 1 firehouse , 1 mill and 1 Schankwirtschaft.

In 1864 the Kraupa timber merchant Friedrich August Hummel, together with the Schöneich economics inspector Gustav Voigt and a Hohenleip mine owner, received permission to drive a tunnel for the purpose of underground lignite mining . A cable car was even built here to transport the coal . The mine was named "Friedrich Gustav" , but in 1878 the mine operation was stopped again.

Three years later, the Vorwerk built by the owners of Elsterwerda Castle , which later became the royal Prussian domain, was dissolved. In the same year, the Prussian military erected a signaling station on the goods bank , the 153 m highest mountain on the right of the Black Elster , which served Torgauer riders and could emit light signals if necessary. Around 1900 this tower collapsed during a wet autumn. There was also a grinding and cutting mill in town at this time .

From 1919 to 1924 there was the “Anna” mine in the area of ​​the former “Friedrich Gustav” mine . Here brown coal was extracted in open-cast mining . In 1928 the Elsterwerda bicycle manufacturer Carl Wilhelm Reichenbach bought this pit, which has now been filled with water, and expanded it into the “Bad Aegir” outdoor pool. The outdoor pool was named after the Aegir bike from the Elsterwerda bicycle factory and remained a popular destination for people from the area until the late 1930s.

The 1926/27 population register shows that there were around twenty basket makers in Kraupa at that time . At that time the community was known as the Koberwalke , which refers directly to the manufacture of wicker. The basket makers moved far beyond their home borders and offered their baskets for sale. Also, there were 1 each butcher, hairdresser, blacksmith , Seiler , wheelwright , shoemaker , two mills and two guest and public houses. 542 inhabitants were recorded, as well as a military club, an agricultural club, a gymnastics club, a choir, a youth club and the football club "Deutsche Eiche" , whose name changed several times in the course of the later years, but is run again in 1990.

LPG was founded in the 1950s . The cultivation of strawberries, cherries and other types of fruit made the place widely known.

On December 6, 1993 the place was incorporated into the city of Elsterwerda.

Population development

  • In 1835 Kraupa owned 42 houses with 244 inhabitants, 2 horses, 142 cattle, 7 goats and 51 pigs.
Population development of Kraupa from 1875 to 2007
year Residents year Residents year Residents
1875 300 1946 901 1989 768
1890 350 1950 882 1990 755
1910 450 1964 731 1991 740
1925 548 1971 746 1992 736
1933 601 1981 794 2007 600
1939 673 1985 791

Attractions

Historic half-timbered house on the village green

One of the sights is the town's bell tower . It is not known exactly when it was built in its current form. The consecration of bells took place on December 7, 1852. In 1896 it was redesigned in stone. The tower, which had been made of wood until then, was sold to the highest bidder.

Another landmark are the two old linden trees on the village green , in the shadow of which there is a monument erected in 1953 on the occasion of a Karl Marx year, as well as an old, cast iron water pump. In addition, there is a historic half-timbered house that has been placed under monument protection and was built around 1800.

Germany's largest contiguous sessile oak population is located on the site of the former military training area and today's Niederlausitzer Heidelandschaft nature park .

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The Niederlausitzer Heidelandschaft nature park near Kraupa

literature

  • Brochure "City of Elsterwerda"
  • M. Karl Fitzkow : "On the older history of the city of Liebenwerda and its district", issue 2 . Bad Liebenwerda 1961.
  • "Overview of the population and the number of cattle in 1835" in "The Black Elster - Our home in words and pictures" . No. 596 . Bad Liebenwerda 1985, p. 8 to 10 .
  • Info sheet of the city of Elsterwerda "Kraupa"

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Community and district directory of the state of Brandenburg. Land surveying and geographic base information Brandenburg (LGB), accessed on June 22, 2020.
  2. ↑ Status: 2007
  3. ↑ Erhard Uschner: "A Sunday conversation on the Kraupaer Berge." In: Working groups of nature and home friends of the German Cultural Association of Bad Liebenwerda (Ed.): Home calendar for the Bad Liebenwerda district . Bad Liebenwerda 1959, p. 47 to 51 .
  4. ^ Changes in the municipalities of Germany, see 1993 StBA
  5. ^ "Overview of the population and the cattle stock in 1835" in "The Black Elster - Our home in words and pictures" . No. 596 . Bad Liebenwerda 1985, p. 8 to 10 .
  6. ↑ Historical municipality directory 2005 for Brandenburg ( online as PDF file )