Meuro (Schipkau)

Meuro community Schipkau Coordinates: 51 ° 32 '52 "  N , 13 ° 55' 53"  E
Height :	119 m
Area :	11.71 km²
Residents :	743  (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	63 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	December 31, 2001
Postal code :	01994
Area code :	035754

Meuro (Sorbian Murjow ) is part of the community Schipkau in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district in Brandenburg . The mayor is Frank Priemer .

history

Meuro was first mentioned in 1474. The place name comes from the Sorbian and means something like "place on a damp meadow". The governor of the Electoral Saxon office Senftenberg Kunz von Breitenbach mentioned it together with the places Rauno / Rowna and Sauo / Sowjo, which were also mentioned for the first time, in a requested report on the state of the office. Like the surrounding villages, Meuro was for a long time an agricultural place. In addition to agriculture and animal husbandry , viticulture and beekeeping determined life in the village. The farmers from Meuro, like those from Sorno , Klettwitz and Lieske, were obliged to serve in the Senftenberg office . They had to transport manure from the sheep pens to the office's vineyards in the Hörlitzer Flur. The church, school and cemetery were in the neighboring village of Klettwitz.

The existence of the village, unchanged for a long time, changed with the lignite mining beginning in the area . At the end of the 19th century, the “ Meurostolln ” lignite mine was opened in hilly terrain south of Meuro , which later had its own briquette factory . The settlement around this factory arose around the neighboring town of Hörlitz . After the partial devastation of Hörlitz, this settlement is part of today's Hörlitz.

Meuro himself experienced an increase in population, which among other things led to the construction of his own school and a fire station .

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  Entrance to Meuro

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  Restaurant in Meuro

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  War memorial in Meuro

Meuro became known from 1958 through the opening of the large open-cast mine of the same name , which produced 342 million tons of lignite by the end of 1999 . In 1965 the site was partially demolished by the Meuro opencast mine . 20 residents were relocated. The Meuro funding area was the core region of the international building exhibition “Fürst-Pückler-Land” , which in the first decade of the 21st century initiated ideas for subsequent use for the post- mining landscape in an experimental form .

From June 1998 the EuroSpeedway Lausitz was built on areas left by the opencast mine . Furthermore, the former mining hole “ Westmarkscheide ” is currently being redesigned to “ Meuroer See ”. It is bordered to the north by the “ Westmarkscheide / Mariensumpf ” nature reserve , which now enjoys European protection as an FFH-worthy area .

After 1990, a new residential park and a commercial area were built on the border with today's district of Klettwitz, which are named " Barranmühle " and are reminiscent of the local mill. The residential park is half in Meuro and half in Klettwitz. What used to lead to one or the other specialty is now history - since 2001, Meuro and the residential park have belonged to the new large community of Schipkau.

On June 1, 1974 Meuro was incorporated into Drochow. On May 6, 1990 the place became an independent municipality again.

On December 31, 2001, Meuro merged with the towns of Annahütte , Hörlitz , Schipkau , Drochow and Klettwitz to form the municipality of Schipkau.

Population development

Population development in Meuro from 1875 to 2000
year	Residents	year	Residents	year	Residents	year	Residents	year	Residents	year	Residents
1875	322	1890	450	1910	1022	1925	861	1933	934	1939	1004
1946	1129	1950	1133	1964	693	1971	580	1981	-	1985	-
1989	-	1990	433	1991	438	1992	452	1993	482	1994	613
1995	761	1996	844	1997	886	1998	890	1999	881	2000	884

Culture and sights

The village club Meuro eV shapes the cultural life and promotes the local customs and regularly organizes events such as village festivals, Zampern, Easter bonfires, children's parties and much more. Furthermore there is the Sportclub Meuro eV, the volunteer fire brigade Meuro and the Volkssolidarität. Furthermore, the EuroSpeedway Lausitz borders directly on Meuro .

Infrastructure

The Meuro / Klettwitz industrial park is reminiscent of the previous division. Located directly on Autobahn 13 in the immediate vicinity of the Klettwitz junction, some companies started their activities at this location and have expanded to this day.

The local kindergarten is located in the old Meuro primary school.

Personalities

The German chemical engineer Rudolf Zernick (1929–1997) was born in Meuro . The district administrator of the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district, Siegurd Heinze (* 1961), lives in Meuro.

Web links

Commons : Meuro, Schipkau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information on the website of the community of Schipkau

• Meuro in the RBB broadcast Landschleicher on October 28, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Community and district directory of the state of Brandenburg. Land surveying and geographic base information Brandenburg (LGB), accessed on June 17, 2020.
2. ↑ Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin: age - origin - meaning . be.bra Wissenschaft, 2005, p. 115 .
3. ^ Günter Bachmann: The historical development of the community Sauo . VEB Lignite Combine Senftenberg
4. ↑ Werner Forkert : For a family trip to the vineyards near Senftenberg. (No longer available online.) In: Lausitzer Rundschau , Senftenberg edition. August 9, 2008, archived from the original on January 5, 2016 ; accessed on August 12, 2015 . 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.  
5. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
6. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2001
7. ↑ 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 April 19, 2015 .