Lauchhammer-West

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Lauchhammer-West
City of Lauchhammer
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 12 ″  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 24 ″  E
Height : 96 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 2918  (2007)
Incorporation : July 1, 1950
Postal code : 01979
Area code : 03574

Lauchhammer-West (formerly Mückenberg , Sorbian Głupsk ) is a district of Lauchhammer in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district in southern Brandenburg .

history

Local history

Detlev Carl Graf von Einsiedel
Mückenberg on a topographic map from 1847

The place was first mentioned in 1278. Mückenberg was therefore owned by a Cunczo Schoff de Monte Miconis . The place name is probably to be interpreted as a "settlement on elevated terrain in an area rich in mosquitoes". Mückenberg was renamed Lauchhammer-West in 1950. Other place names are: "Muckenbergk", "Mügkenberg", "Mugkinberg", "Mugkenberg", "Mockenberg", "Muckenberg" and "Mückenberg".

The Schaff family ruled over the Mückenberg domain until the end of the 14th century, the area of ​​which is also known as the " Mückenberger Ländchen ". After the brothers Günter and Luther Schaff were mentioned as owners of the estate in 1384, the knight Heinrich von Waldow followed in 1398 and in 1405 the Margrave Wilhelm von Meißen enfeoffed the brothers Heinrich, Balthasar and Hans von Waldow with Mückenberg. A short time later, Hans and Hermann von Polenz as well as Voylczsche von Thorgaw followed , who enfeoffed Margrave Friedrich the Controversial in 1418 with the rule of Mückenberg. From 1467 the Köckritz family followed , who at that time succeeded in establishing a domain with numerous estates independent of the Hayn office in the transition country between the Mark Meißen and Niederlausitz, which also included the Schraden southwest of Mückenberg . In 1467 Mückenberg Castle and the town of Mückenberg, the village in front of the town, the mill at Bockwitz , Naundorf , Grünewalde , Kleinleipisch , Schipkau , Särchen and Kostebrau belonged to the Mückenberg rule . The Köckritze remained in Mückenberg until the 16th century and they were followed by the Schleinitze . At that time, the Meissnian noble family also owned the Saathain lordship about 20 kilometers to the west , which was connected to Mückenberg via the Schleinitzweg .

In 1716, Woldemar Freiherr von Löwendal , who had already acquired the Elsterwerda estate to the west in 1708, acquired the Mückenberg estate. His wife Baroness Benedicta Margareta von Löwendal moved her residence from Dresden to Mückenberg Castle and, after discovering extensive lawn iron stone deposits in the area, founded an ironworks, the so-called Lauchhammer. In 1725, the first blast furnace was put into operation here with the personal consent of August the Strong . The Freifrau is one of the first entrepreneurs in Lower Lusatia and thus founded the industrial site of Lauchhammer. After the baroness died in Mückenberg Castle in 1776, she bequeathed all of her property to her godchild, the Saxon cabinet minister Detlev Carl Graf von Einsiedel , who eventually founded the Gröditz steelworks, among other things . The art-loving nobleman is also considered the founder of iron art casting in Lauchhammer, which has been a tradition in the city since then and from which numerous works of art and bells emerged. After his death in 1810, he was followed by his son Detlev von Einsiedel . He died in Wolkenburg in 1861 and the Einsiedel property in Mückenberg was taken over by a stock corporation in 1872. The castle and manor were taken over by Rittmeister Ernst von Bredow , who was also the district administrator of the Liebenwerda district . He sold both in 1895 to Rittmeister Arthur von Wentzky and Petersheide , who, after extensive brown coal deposits were discovered in the Mückenberger Ländchen , sold large parts of the property as coal fields. From 1904, Baron von Arnim came into the possession of the Mückenberger lands, which were now part of BUBIAG (brown coal and briquette industrial stock company).

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 Mückenberg and the other places in the larger community came to the newly created Senftenberg district .

Population development

Population development in Lauchhammer-West (Mückenberg) since 1875
year Residents year Residents
1875 1081 1933 3824
1890 1231 1939 4735
1910 2408 1946 6001
1925 3079 2007 2918

Culture and sights

The castle church in the castle park with the war memorial.
"Woman of Herculaneum"
Bio towers

→ See also: List of architectural monuments in Lauchhammer

In Lauchhammer-West there is the 14 hectare castle park, where the ruins of the Mückenberg castle were to be found until the mid-1950s . In 1945, the building fell victim to arson just a few days after the end of the Second World War. The baroque park, where there is also a large open-air stage, an animal enclosure and a park railway , suffered severe damage in the night of January 18-19, 2007 from the hurricane Kyrill passing through here, and a large part of the old tree population was destroyed equalized. The city invested over one million euros in new planting and reconstruction by 2010.

The former Mückenberg castle church , which is a listed building, is located on the grounds of the castle park . It was built in 1746 and consecrated on the day of the Reformation of the same year. Externally, the church was adapted to the former palace complex. Its interior is kept in the Rococo style. The church's furnishings include a crucifixion group made of Meissen porcelain by the most important modeller of the Meissen porcelain factory, Johann Joachim Kändler , which still decorates the altar on church or other special occasions.

Since August 2000, a replica of the "Frau von Herculaneum" was created on the occasion of the 275th anniversary of the Lauchhammerwerk, the original of which was made in 1788 as an iron art casting in the Lauchhammer art foundry for the Mückenberger Schloss. In addition, in the immediate vicinity of the church there is a war memorial in the form of a sandstone figure on a pedestal in honor of the residents of Mückenberg who fell in World War I. In front of the memorial are two plates with the names of those who died in the Second World War .

In the immediate vicinity of the palace gardens, at the southern end of Berliner Strasse, is the " Luthereiche ". It was planted at its location in 1883 on the occasion of the 400th birthday of the reformer and a memorial stone was placed at its foot. For the 750th anniversary of Lauchhammer (relating to the Bockwitz district), the mayor of Ortrand, Niko Gebel, presented the city of Lauchhammer with a young Luther oak that was planted in the castle grounds.

On the memorial square in Lauchhammer-West there is another war memorial for the fallen soldiers of the German-Danish War (1864), the German War (1866) and the Franco-German War (1870/71). Opposite it is a Kaiser Wilhelm memorial stone erected in 1897.

In the old cemetery, which is located in the immediate vicinity of the train station, the tombstone of the local researcher Otto Bornschein , who died in 1936 and is considered one of the founders of regional local history research, can be found in the form of a boulder .

A landmark that can already be recognized from afar is the "bio towers" in Lauchhammer-West, built in 1958 on the site of the former brown coal coking plant . The 22-meter-high towers, which have been a listed building since 1996, are the last relics of coke production in Lauchhammer. Up until the coking plant was shut down, wastewater containing phenol was treated biologically by trickling it over slag . After their renovation, they have been open to the public since summer 2008 as part of a project of the International Building Exhibition Fürst-Pückler-Land . Visitors can climb one of the towers, which were used until 2002, and look over the former industrial area via glazed viewing platforms.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Schradenmaler Walter Besig

Other personalities associated with the city

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 e. V. Lauchhammer 2003.
  • Angelika Steffens: "Just stop your coking plant!" - memories of the Lauchhammer coking plant . Lauchhammer 2004.
  • 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. 151 to 155 .

Periodicals

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Herbert Lorenz: Lauchhammer-West (formerly Mückenberg). City of Lauchhammer, accessed October 28, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Sorbian name: Głupsk (town of Mückenberg, Liebenwerda district, Prov. Sachs.) → Arnošt Muka : Lower Sorbian names of towns and villages ; 1911–1928, Sorbian Institute
  3. ^ A b 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. 151 to 155 .
  4. ^ Historical community directory of the state of Brandenburg. (PDF; 331 kB) Retrieved October 28, 2014 .
  5. ↑ The castle park on the Lauchhammer website. Retrieved October 28, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Manfred Feller: Only around 150 trees survived the storm in: Lausitzer Rundschau , Senftenberg edition, February 3, 2007; accessed on July 30, 2017
  7. ↑ Torsten Richter: There is a million euros in the palace park in: Lausitzer Rundschau , Senftenberg edition, January 20, 2010; accessed on July 30, 2017
  8. ↑ Castle Church. Friends of the Castle Church Lauchhammer-West e. V., accessed on October 28, 2014 .
  9. ↑ The Herkulanerin on the Lauchhammer website. Retrieved October 28, 2014 .
  10. ^ Art cast from Lauchhammer - historical references. Lauchhammer Art Foundry, accessed on October 28, 2014 .
  11. ↑ (pm): Luther oak planted in Lauchhammer  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.lausitzer-woche.de   in: Lausitzer Woche , Senftenberg issue, July 21, 2017; accessed on July 24, 2017
  12. ^ Lauchhammer (City Park Lauchhammer-West). Fallen Memorials online project, Lawrenceville, USA, accessed October 28, 2014 .
  13. ↑ Homepage of the bio towers in Lauchhammer. Retrieved October 28, 2014 .
  14. ↑ The bio towers on the Lauchhammer website. Retrieved October 28, 2014 .
  15. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: District Oberspreewald-Lausitz. (PDF; 130 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 29, 2014 ; accessed on October 28, 2014 . 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
  16. ^ Biographical Encyclopedia A ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ↑ Hans Priebe . In: Annual publication for Central German prehistory . 1952, p. 310 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

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