Märkischheide

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Coordinates: 51 ° 47 '12 "  N , 14 ° 5' 50"  E
Height : 59 m above sea level NHN
Incorporation : April 1, 1959
Postal code : 03226
Area code : 035433

Märkischheide (officially Weißagk until October 23, 1937 ), Husoka in Lower Sorbian , is part of the municipality of Vetschau / Spreewald in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district in Brandenburg .

location

The place Märkischheide is located in Niederlausitz and in the Spreewald biosphere reserve , immediately northeast of the core town of Vetschau. Surrounding villages are Suschow in the north, the districts of Babow in the northeast, Milkersdorf in the east and Eichow in the southeast and Vetschau in the south and west , which are part of the Kolkwitz municipality . Märkischheide belongs to the official settlement area of ​​the Sorbs / Wends .

Märkischheide borders directly on the town of Vetschau, the border between the two places is the Berlin – Görlitz railway line , which runs south of Märkischheide. The district road 6627 runs through the village to Burg . The former Vetschau power station is located south of Märkischheide.

history

Märkischheide was mentioned in a document as Wissek in 1450 . The former place name Weißagk comes from the Sorbian language and means high place . On October 23, 1937, the site was renamed Märkischheide by the National Socialists .

Märkischheide was a purely Sorbian-speaking village until the 19th century. For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Lausitz, Arnošt Muka determined a total population of 412 in the 1880s, of which 411 were Sorbs and only one was German. Ernst Tschernik counted a total of 1,028 inhabitants for his research in 1954. Of these, 76 people still actively spoke Sorbian, 32 people had a knowledge of Sorbian, which corresponded to a total of 11.5%.

After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the previously Saxon Lower Lusatia passed to the Kingdom of Prussia . When the district was newly formed in 1816, Märkischheide came to the district of Calau . On July 25, 1952, Märkischheide was assigned to the Calau district in the Cottbus district , and on April 1, 1959, it was incorporated into Vetschau . After the reunification , Märkischheide was initially in the Calau district in Brandenburg , after the Brandenburg district reform in December 1993, Märkischheide came to the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district . Today the place is structurally connected to the city of Vetschau.

Population development

Population development in Märkischheide from 1875 to 1950
year Residents year Residents year Residents year Residents
1875 418 1910 686 1933 702 1946 1.014
1890 524 1925 683 1939 856 1950 986

Personalities

  • Wilhelm Schieber ( Wylem Šybaŕ ; 1887–1974), Lower Sorbian painter, born in Märkischheide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin: age - origin - meaning . be.bra Wissenschaft, 2005, p. 177 .
  2. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
  3. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995.
  4. ↑ Märkischheide in the historical index of places. Retrieved January 17, 2018 .
  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 January 17, 2018 .