Lichtenau (Lübbenau / Spreewald)

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Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 21 ″  N , 13 ° 53 ′ 41 ″  E
Height : 60 m above sea level NN
Residents : 59  (Jul 17, 2017)
Incorporation : January 1, 1926
Incorporated into: Tornow
Postal code : 03222
Area code : 03542
Entrance to Lichtenau
Entrance to Lichtenau

Lichtenau , Lichtnow in Lower Sorbian , is part of the municipality of the Lübbenau district of Kittlitz . The place is in the north of the southern Brandenburg district of Oberspreewald-Lausitz .

location

Lichtenau is located in Niederlausitz in the eastern part of the Niederlausitzer Landücken nature park and south of the Spreewald . Lichtenau is located on the east bank of the Lichtenauer See , which is emerging from the former Schlabendorf-Nord opencast mine .

In the north, Lichtenau borders the Lübbenau district of Groß Beuchow . To the east follows the districts of Kittlitz with the districts of Eisdorf and Schönfeld . In the south and southwest beyond the former open-cast mine are the Bathow and Zinnitz , which are districts of Calau . In the west, also on the opposite side of the open pit, there are places in the districts of Dahme-Spreewald , Egsdorf and Görlsdorf .

history

Local history

The place name denotes a place in a clearing, i.e. on a clearing. Lichtenau was mentioned in 1319 as Lichtenow , in 1397 as Lichtno and in 1447 as Lichtenaw . The Lower Sorbian name variant was called Lichtnow in 1761 and 1847 .

As a result of the Congress of Vienna Lichtenau came with the entire Lower Lusatia to the Kingdom of Prussia and belonged to the Luckau district . On July 21, 1875, Lichtenau and the Lichtenau estate district from the Luckau district were incorporated into the Calau district. With the Brandenburg district reform in 1950, Lichtenau and other communities left the district of Calau, which was converted into the district of Senftenberg, and was incorporated into the district of Lübben (Spreewald) . In 1952 the places came to the newly founded district of Calau .

On January 1, 1926, Lichtenau was incorporated into Tornow . From the beginning of the 1960s, lignite was mined in the area around Lichtenau and Tornow . Tornow was devastated in 1968 by the Schlabendorf-Nord opencast mine . The corridor of Tornow and Lichtenau was incorporated into Kittlitz on January 25, 1968.

On October 26, 2003, Kittlitz with its parts of the municipality including Lichtenau and the places Boblitz , Groß Beuchow , Bischdorf , Groß Klessow , Hindenberg , Groß Lübbenau , Klein Radden , Leipe and Ragow were incorporated into Lübbenau / Spreewald as districts.

Lichtenau belongs to the Lower Lusatia church district .

Population development

Population development in Lichtenau from 1875 to 1925
year Residents year Residents year Residents year Residents
1875 59 1890 60 1910 74 1925 59

Economy and Infrastructure

Lichtenau is located south of the Spreewald motorway triangle , where the federal motorway 15 merges with the federal motorway 13 running directly to the east of the town . Lichtenau is connected to the A 13 via the Kittlitz junction.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
  2. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003
  3. ↑ Brandenburg Statistics (PDF)

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