Michholz

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Michholz was a colony in the village of Wolkenberg in Niederlausitz , which was completely relocated in 1989 and later dredged by the Welzow-Süd open-cast lignite mine .

location

Michholz on a measuring table from 1919

Michholz was north-west of Spremberg .

The settlement no longer exists. Today a memorial site with a memorial stone with the inscription "Michholz 1503–1989" reminds of the place. The boulder stands at a point near the former town center not far from the Dollan memorial stone .

history

The story is closely linked to the Wolkenbergs, which, as part of the Cottbus rulership , belonged to the Mark Brandenburg early on and, together with Stradow , Straussdorf and Jessen, formed an exclave within the Margraviate of Niederlausitz , which has been Bohemian since 1370 and Saxon from 1635 , including the neighboring villages of Roitz and Pulsberg belonged. It was not until 1815 in the course of the Congress of Vienna that the place was incorporated into the newly created district of Spremberg , which was part of the Frankfurt / Oder administrative district of the Brandenburg province . In 1867 only four farms were counted.

Michholz was in the Lower Sorbian settlement area. However, the proportion of Sorbian- speaking residents decreased over time. While von Arnošt Muka could count 318 Sorbian residents and only 11 German residents in the entire municipality of Wolkenberg in 1884 , Ernst Tschernik was only able to count three Sorbian residents in 1956.

Michholz was demolished in 1988/89 together with the village of Wolkenberg and the residents were relocated. There is no official number. The town hall has belonged to the city of Spremberg since 1991. The area has been recultivated again today .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Disappeared places in the old district of Spremberg - Wolkenberg. Spremberg city administration, accessed on February 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Chronicle of Lausitz. Niederlausitzer Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Landeskunde, May 12, 2014, accessed on January 28, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Ernst Tschernik : The development of the Sorbian rural population . In: German Academy of Sciences in Berlin - Publications of the Institute for Slavic Studies . tape 4 . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
  4. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995.

swell

  • Torsten Richter: Home that stays. Places of remembrance in Lusatia. REGIA Verlag Cottbus, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86929-224-3 .

See also

Portal: Lausitz  - Overview of Wikipedia content on the topic of Lausitz

Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 58.9 ″  N , 14 ° 16 ′ 5.2 ″  E