Mouse

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Teichland municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 26 ″  N , 14 ° 24 ′ 31 ″  E
Height : 63 m above sea level NN
Area : 14.36 km²
Residents : 564  (Dec. 2004)
Population density : 39 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 2000
Postal code : 03185
Area code : 035601
Village street
The Peitzer Teiche seen from the Mouse Mill.
Typical log house in Maus
The fire station of the volunteer fire brigade, inaugurated in 2008
Memorial to the local residents who fell in the First World War

Maust , Lower Sorbian Hus is a municipality Teichland in office Peitz in Brandenburg Spree-Neisse district with around 550 inhabitants. Mouse is the largest part of the Teichland municipality in the Sorbian settlement area in Lower Lusatia .

geography

Maus is located northeast of the Cottbus district of Willmersdorf and around three kilometers south of the city of Peitz . To the north and east, Maus is surrounded by the Peitzer ponds . The largest of these ponds, in which carp are mainly bred and after which the municipality of Teichland is named, are the Neuendorfer pond , the Teufelsteich and the Hälterteich . Due to the surrounding pond landscape, the groundwater level is only 1–2 m below the surface of the earth, which leads to lush vegetation in the 1435 hectare district.

history

Maus was first mentioned in a document in 1482. Despite its proximity to the Peitz Fortress , the place remained a small provincial village. At the beginning of the 1990s, fewer than 300 people lived here and only in the last few years has the population doubled due to immigrants who discovered the recreational value of the place for themselves.

Mouse has belonged to the municipality of Teichland since December 31, 2000, when Teichland was founded from the previously independent municipalities of Mouse, Neuendorf and Bärenbrück .

Place name

The documented tradition of the place name started late. In 1482 is with Maust already today form of the name named to 1600 found Maußnische Teichbau mention. Handed forms from the 17th and 18th centuries are Maust and mouse .

The Lower Sorbian name was documented as Huss in 1761 . In his field names for the Cottbus district , Schwela gave Us as a name.

According to Körner, the interpretation of the name is difficult due to the lack of earlier evidence. Like Schwela, he also considers an origin from the Old Sorbian usťe 'mouth' (Polish ujście , Czech ústí ) to be possible. The M prosthesis of the German name form could have originated from 'am' or 'zum'. Geographically, this interpretation is confirmed by the location of the settlement at the confluence of the Hammergraben in the Peitzer Teiche. Körner also points out that the Lower Sorbian form of the name Hus is based on gus , Upper Sorbian hus, huso 'goose'.

Culture and sights

One of the largest contiguous block house settlements in Germany with around 50 block houses is located in Maus.

Also worth seeing is the Hammergraben, which was built in the 15th century (which is now diverted due to the nearby open-cast mine ), as well as the iron and steelworks and fishing museum in Peitz . With the end of the lignite mining, the Cottbus Baltic Sea will emerge south of the town . The remaining open pit is to be flooded from 2020 to approx. 2030 and form a 19 km² lake.

In the municipality of Teichland there is the "Teichland Adventure Park" with a summer toboggan run, maze, observation tower, Slavic grove of gods and other attractions.

The traditional excursion restaurant of the same name is located in the settlement of tussmühle . It is named after a former grain, oil and saw mill. Here you will also find a small museum about the history of the mill and a mini hydroelectric power plant operated with a water wheel in the Hammergraben. In 2011, an apartment building (7) in passive house standard was built from the main building. In 2010 the bridge and the weir were renewed. The water wheel has been re-created.

The memorial against the Kapp Putsch (1920) , which was freshly restored in 2010, is located on Bundesstrasse 168 , behind the town exit in the direction of Peitz .

In 2014 Mur hosted the big celebrations for the future Cottbus Baltic Sea.

population

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 370 for Mouse in the 1880s, of which 364 were Sorbs (98%) and six were Germans.

Web links

Commons : Mouse  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes and individual references

  1. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2000
  2. ^ A b Siegfried Körner : Book of place names in Niederlausitz - studies on the toponymy of the districts of Beeskow, Calau, Cottbus, Eisenhüttenstadt, Finsterwalde, Forst, Guben, Lübben, Luckau and Spremberg . In: German-Slavic research on naming and settlement history . tape 36 . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-05-000836-9 , pp. 191-192 .
  3. ^ Christian Gotthold Schwela : The field names of the Cottbus district . In: German Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Publications of the Institute for Slavic Studies . tape 17 . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1958, p. 213-217 .
  4. ↑ Cottbus Baltic Sea Festival in Mouse
  5. ↑ Ernst Tschernik : The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.