Niewitz
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Niewitz
Bersteland parish
Coordinates: 51 ° 56 ′ 11 ″ N , 13 ° 47 ′ 3 ″ E
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| Height : | 52 m above sea level NHN |
| Area : | 14.29 km² |
| Residents : | 353 (Jan. 1, 2017) |
| Population density : | 25 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | February 1, 2002 |
| Postal code : | 15910 |
| Area code : | 035474 |
 Niewitz village church
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Niewitz ( Niwica in Lower Sorbian ) is a district of the Bersteland municipality in the Dahme-Spreewald district in Brandenburg . Until it was incorporated into Bersteland on February 1, 2002, Niewitz was an independent municipality administered by the Unterspreewald office.
location
Niewitz is located in Lower Lusatia in the Unterspreewald almost ten kilometers west of Lübben . Surrounding villages are Rickshausen in the north, the Lübben district Treppendorf in the east, the Luckau districts Kaden in the southeast, Duben in the south and Karche-Zaacko and Kreblitz in the southwest, Schiebsdorf in the municipality of Kasel-Golzig in the west and Freiwalde in the northwest.
Niewitz is located on a municipal road, the nearest higher-ranking road is Bundesstraße 115 , which runs two kilometers north of the village. In the westernmost part of the Niewitz district runs the federal motorway 13 , the closest junction to Freiwalde is about four kilometers away.
The Berste , a tributary of the Spree, flows north of Niewitz .
history
Niewitz was first mentioned in 1345, even then under its current name. The place name is derived from the Lower Sorbian word nieva and means fertile farmland or fertile field .
After the Congress of Vienna , the former Saxon Niewitz came to the Kingdom of Prussia and was located in the district of Luckau . On July 25, 1952, the community was assigned to the newly formed Lübben district in the Cottbus district . After the fall of the Wall , the Niewitz community was in the Lübben district in Brandenburg . On October 26, 1992 the community joined the Unterspreewald office . After the district reform in Brandenburg on December 6, 1993 , Niewitz finally came to the newly formed district of Dahme-Spreewald . On February 1, 2002 Niewitz merged with the municipalities Freiwalde and Reichwalde to form the new municipality Bersteland . On January 1, 2013, the Unterspreewald office merged with the Golßener Land office , creating the Unterspreewald office .
Population development
| Population development in Niewitz from 1875 to 2001 | |||||||||||||
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| year | Residents | year | Residents | year | Residents | ||||||||
| 1875 | 573 | 1939 | 476 | 1981 | 398 | ||||||||
| 1890 | 585 | 1946 | 642 | 1985 | 402 | ||||||||
| 1910 | 558 | 1950 | 566 | 1989 | 416 | ||||||||
| 1925 | 483 | 1964 | 446 | 1995 | 368 | ||||||||
| 1933 | 489 | 1971 | 429 | 2001 | 397 | ||||||||
Sightseeing and tourism
- The village church in Niewitz was built around 1770. The church furnishings include a pulpit altar from the end of the 17th century.
- There is a hotel in town with over 200 beds.
Web links
- Niewitz on the website of the Unterspreewald office
- Niewitz in the RBB program Landschleicher on March 14, 2004
Individual evidence
- ↑ Unterspreewald Office - Residents' Registration Office (ed.): Population figures for the entire Unterspreewald Office (with municipalities and parts of towns and cities) as of January 1, 2017 . Schönwalde July 27, 2017 ( contact details [accessed August 6, 2017]).
- ↑ Arnost Muka : Mena ds. městow a wsow. Bautzen / Budyšin 1928.
- ↑ Bersteland municipality. In: unterpreewald.de. Unterspreewald Office, accessed on August 6, 2017 .
- ^ Niewitz in the historical index of places. Retrieved August 6, 2017 .
- ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. (PDF; 331 kB) District Dahme-Spreewald. State Office for Data Processing and Statistics State of Brandenburg, December 2006, accessed on August 6, 2017 .