Lauchhammer Center

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Lauchhammer Center
City of Lauchhammer
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 40 "  N , 13 ° 45 ′ 43"  E
Height : 112 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 8001  (2007)
Incorporation : July 1, 1950
Postal code : 01979
Area code : 03574
Nikolaikirche
Bockwitz on a topographic map from 1847

Lauchhammer-Mitte (formerly Bockwitz, Sorbian Bukowc ) is a district of the city of Lauchhammer in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district in southern Brandenburg .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1267 in a document from the Dobrilugk monastery as "Buckuwitz". Created as a Wendish Rundling , the village extended in the west of the district approximately to the medieval stone cross, in the east to the end of today's Dietrich-Heßmer-Platz.

The place probably owes its name to the Sorbian “buk” (red beech) and can be interpreted as a “beech place”. Bockwitz was renamed Lauchhammer-Mitte in 1950.

In 1418 Bockwitz belonged to the rule Mückenberg ( Lauchhammer-West ), the area of ​​which is also known as the "Mückenberger Ländchen". In 1440 the village was Leibgedinge of Margarethe von Köckritz and in 1491 Alisch von Köckritz was designated as resident in Bockwitz. They belonged to the noble family of the Köckritze , who at that time succeeded in establishing a dominion with numerous possessions in the transition country between the Mark Meissen and Niederlausitz .

In the 16th century, the Bockwitz population was still Sorbian-speaking, as evidenced by a princely ordinance of July 15, 1557, which placed the Bockwitz church under the suzerainty of the Senftenberg pastor, who, in contrast to the superintendent in Grossenhain , spoke Sorbian.

The first lignite deposits in the area around Bockwitz were discovered at the end of the 18th century. In 1789 a lignite seam was drilled for the first time on the Bockwitz Butterberg . However, the first briquette pressing took place around 1898 in Bockwitz about a hundred years later. With the opening of further lignite mining operations, the village steadily increased in population and size, so that the population in 1946 with 6,782 inhabitants almost five times as much as 1875 (1,406 inhabitants).

In 1950, the places Mückenberg, Lauchhammer, Bockwitz and Dolsthaida merged to form the large municipality of Lauchhammer, which shortly afterwards received town charter in 1953. In 1952, Bockwitz and the other places in the large community came to the newly created Senftenberg district .

In connection with the construction of the lignite coking plant in Lauchhammer-West, additional residential areas were created in Lauchhammer-Mitte, so that the population in the district was around 8,000 in 2007.

Population development

Population development in Lauchhammer-Mitte (Bockwitz) since 1875
year Residents year Residents
1875 1406 1933 4630
1890 1748 1939 5308
1910 2927 1946 6782
1925 3858 2007 8001

Culture and sights

Rectory at the Nikolaikirche
Former sheep farm
Grundhof

→ See also: List of architectural monuments in Lauchhammer

The core of the Nikolaikirche essentially dates from the 15th century. Over the centuries there have been several alterations to the church. The construction of the tower will be completed in 1720. A walk-in crypt for Baroness Benedicta Margareta von Löwendal , her husband Baron Woldemar von Löwendal and their four children who died prematurely is located on the north side of the church.

In the immediate vicinity of the church is the two-storey half-timbered building of the old rectory with a hipped roof from 1733. The half-timbered building of the old manorial sheep farm, whose sheep farm was run until 1873, is in the immediate vicinity of the Volksbank and on the western outskirts is a medieval one Find stone cross.

The Germania memorial was originally erected on the market square in Lauchhammer-Mitte in 1896 and destroyed in 1946. A replenishment from 1996 has been back at the old location since 2000.

To the west of the location of Lauchhammer-Mitte is the listed workers' colony "Grundhof", which was restored after the fall of the Wall .

Personalities

Literature (selection)

  • City administration Lauchhammer (ed.): Lauchhammer - stories of a city . Geiger Verlag, Horb am Neckar 2003, ISBN 3-89570-857-7 .
  • Collective of authors: Mining history in the Lauchhammer district . Ed .: Traditionsverein Braunkohle Lauchhammer eV Lauchhammer 2003.
  • Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach (author): The Schraden. A regional study in the Elsterwerda, Lauchhammer, Hirschfeld and Ortrand area . Ed .: Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-412-10900-2 , pp. 148 to 151 .

Periodicals

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sorbischer Name: Bukowc (Bockwitz b mosquito, Kreis Liebenwerda, Prov Sachs...) → Arnost Muka : Lower Sorbian names of the towns and villages ; 1911–1928, Sorbian Institute
  2. ^ Richard Andree : Wendish wandering studies. Stuttgart 1874, p. 168
  3. ↑ a b Facts and figures on the city of Lauchhammer. Retrieved August 12, 2009 .
  4. ↑ Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach (author): Der Schraden. A regional study in the Elsterwerda, Lauchhammer, Hirschfeld and Ortrand area . Ed .: Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-412-10900-2 , pp. 148 to 151 .
  5. ↑ Heinz Helm: "Lauchhammer-Mitte (formerly Bockwitz)" on the Lauchhammer homepage. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 6, 2010 ; Retrieved August 9, 2009 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lauchhammer.de
  6. ↑ Historical municipality directory of the State of Brandenburg (online as PDF file)
  7. ^ The Germania on the homepage of the city of Lauchhammer. Retrieved June 19, 2012 .
  8. ↑ The “Grundhof” colony on the Lauchhammer town website. Retrieved August 12, 2009 .
  9. ↑ List of monuments of the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district in the state of Brandenburg (PDF). (PDF (130 kB)) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 29, 2014 ; Retrieved August 2, 2009 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / preview.bldam-brandenburg.de
  10. ^ City administration Lauchhammer (ed.): Lauchhammer - stories of a city . Geiger Verlag, Horb am Neckar 2003, ISBN 3-89570-857-7 , p. 61/62 .

Web links

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