Kunersdorf (New Zealand)

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New Zealand municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′ 15 ″  N , 14 ° 4 ′ 54 ″  E
Height : 111 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 20  (Aug 2017)
Incorporation : January 1, 1926
Incorporated into: Leeskow
Postal code : 03103
Area code : 035751
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Kunersdorf , Chójany in Lower Sorbian , is a residential area belonging to the district of Lindchen in the municipality of New Zealand in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district in the south of Brandenburg . The place belongs to the Altdöbern office .

location

Kunersdorf is located in Lower Lusatia and in the north of the Lusatian Lake District , about seven kilometers northeast of Großräschen and 22 kilometers as the crow flies southwest of Cottbus . To the north of Kunersdorf is the former Greifenhain open-cast lignite mine , which is currently being flooded to Lake Altdöberner . Surrounding villages are Pritzen in the north, Lubochow in the east, Leeskow in the south and Woschkow in the southwest. Klein Jauer , adjacent to Kunersdorf to the northwest , was devastated by open-cast lignite mining.

Kunersdorf is about two kilometers north of state road 531 and west of county road 6617. To the east, the New Buchholzer Fliess flows past Kunersdorf. The place is in the official settlement area of ​​the Sorbs / Wends .

history

The settlement is listed as Kunersdorff in the Schmettauschen map series from 1767/87 . The card also mentions a sheep farm in the village. The Lower Sorbian place name Chójany means "place in a pine forest". Until 1815, Kunersdorf was part of the Lower Lusatia Margraviate in the Kingdom of Saxony , after the Congress of Vienna Lower Lusatia was ceded to Prussia , where Kunersdorf was henceforth part of the Brandenburg Province . In 1864 Cunersdorf had 10 residential buildings and 69 residents. A watermill called Neue Mühle and a manor belonged to the village . Kunersdorf was parish in the neighboring Pritzen. At Arnošt Muka the place name is mentioned in 1928 as Cunnersdorf bei A.-Döbern .

On January 1, 1926, Kunersdorf was incorporated into Leeskow. Until 1952 the place belonged to the district Senftenberg (until 1950 called district Calau ), after a district reform in the GDR the community Leeskow with the district Kunersdorf belonged to the district Senftenberg in the district Cottbus . On January 1, 1974 the community Leeskow was dissolved and incorporated into Lindchen . After German reunification , Kunersdorf belonged to the Senftenberg district and, since December 6, 1993, to the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district . On February 1, 2002, the community of Lindchen merged with three other communities to form the new community of New Zealand .

Population development

year Residents
1875 65
1890 65
year Residents
1910 53
1925 37

Territory of the respective year

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. New Zealanders on the way to New Zealand. Lausitzer Rundschau, August 21, 2017, accessed on June 30, 2020.
  2. Arnost Muka: Mena ds. městow a wsow. Bautzen 1911.
  3. Topographical-statistical manual of the government district of Frankfurt a. O. , publishing house by Gustav Harnecker u. Co., Frankfurt a. O. 1867 Online at Google Books , p. 19.
  4. Arnost Muka: Serbski zemjepisny słowničk. Budyšin, 1927, p. 83 ( digitized version ).
  5. 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 September 19, 2019 .