Oelsig

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Oelsig on an original measuring table sheet (1847)

Oelsig is a district of the city of Schlieben in Brandenburg . The place is with an area of ​​1130 hectares about five kilometers south of the core city on the state roads 69 and 68.

history

The condition of the Oelsiger post mill in 1977.

Place name and first documentary mention

The first traces of settlement in Oelsig already existed in the Middle Stone Age . The place was first mentioned in a document in 1380 as Olzik . The place name is of Old Sorbian origin and is interpreted as a settlement on the alder wood. It is a so-called street green village . The place, which originally had twenty Hüfnerstellen, was badly damaged in the course of the Thirty Years War , so that in 1645 eighteen farms were cremated. The residents operated, among other things, peat cutting and growing hops .

As part of the National Socialist Germanization of Sorbian place names, the district administrator of the Schweinitz district had applied with the consent of the municipality in 1937 to rename Oelsig to "Erlenhain" and thus to erase the Sorbian name. Unlike in other regions , however, the renaming failed here due to the rejection of the responsible district president.

Mill history

What is remarkable for Oelsig is its mill history. The first mill has existed here since 1515. And a water mill is also known for the end of the 18th century, which appears on a contemporary map in 1781 and still existed in the 1920s. There was also a post mill in the village. Presumably it originated at the end of the 19th century. While the watermill was last shown on a map in 1935, the post mill under the owner Arno Liepack was again technically renewed and underpinned in the 1950s.

Administrative affiliation

Until 1815 Oelsig belonged to the Saxon office of Schweinitz . Saxony had to cede the Schweinitz office to Prussia on May 21, 1815. This was combined with the previously Electoral Saxon offices of Schlieben and Seyda with only minor changes in area and borders to form the new Prussian district of Schweinitz ( administrative district of Merseburg , province of Saxony ). From 1939 onwards, the district was given the uniform imperial designation Landkreis Schweinitz. In 1950 it was renamed the Herzberg district. As early as 1952, the district was divided into the two new districts of Herzberg and Jessen , and Oelsig became part of the Herzberg district. After the reunification, the district came to the re-established state of Brandenburg.

In the course of the formation of offices in Brandenburg in 1992, Oelsig formed the office of Schlieben with 15 other municipalities . On November 1, 2001, the communities of Frankenhain, Jagsal, Oelsig, Wehrhain, Werchau and the town of Schlieben merged to form the new town of Schlieben. Since then, Oelsig has been part of the town of Schlieben.

Population development from 1875 to 2000
year Residents year Residents year Residents year Residents
1875 340 1946 435 1989 251 1995 237
1890 340 1950 420 1990 244 1996 236
1910 320 1964 302 1991 243 1997 240
1925 305 1971 299 1992 240 1998 249
1933 299 1981 268 1993 233 1999 246
1939 291 1985 257 1994 238 2000 250

Culture and sights

Two buildings in the village are listed in the local list of monuments . One of them is located on the Oelsig 19 property . The house, which is a single-storey house with a jamb with a saddle roof , was built between 1860 and 1870. Another architectural monument is located on the neighboring property Oelsig 21 . This is also a residential building. This building was built around 1900 as part of a four-sided courtyard. It is a single-storey, eaves-standing house with a jamb and gable roof.

There is also a memorial to the fallen and missing villagers in the First and Second World War . The monument consists of a stele on a pedestal . The names of the fallen soldiers of the First World War are inset on the tapering part at the top and those of the Second World War at the bottom. An inscribed inscription reads: “Dedicated to your heroes who fell in World War 1914-18. Warrior Association - ud community Oelsig - fame and memory of our comrades "

The local village church was only built in 1974. It can be found a little north of the town center. However, for Oelsig a church can already be proven for the time before the Thirty Years War. In the course of the 18th century a half-timbered church was built, which was finally replaced by the current structure.

Another attraction can be found northeast of the village. This is the 42 hectare nature reserve Oelsiger Luch , a high moor up to 5 meters deep . In the north of Oelsig there is also a private tourist station which, in addition to gastronomic options, also offers guided bike and hiking tours.

literature

Sybille Gramlich, Irmelin Küttner: Elbe-Elster district part 1: The city of Herzberg / Elster and the offices of Falkenberg / Uebigau, Herzberg, Schlieben and Schönewalde. ISBN 978-3-88462-152-3

Web links

Commons : Oelsig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b The districts of the city of Schlieben on the city homepage, accessed on December 6, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c d Sybille Gramlich, Irmelin Küttner: Elbe-Elster district, part 1: The town of Herzberg / Elster and the offices of Falkenberg / Uebigau, Herzberg, Schlieben and Schönewalde. ISBN 978-3-88462-152-3 , p. 253
  3. ^ A b c Author collective of the MUG Brandenburg eV: Heimatbuch Landkreis Elbe-Elster . Herzberg 1996, p. 75 .
  4. ↑ Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin . be.bra Wissenschaft, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-937233-30-7 , p.  126 .
  5. ^ Gero Lietz: On dealing with the National Socialist place-name legacy in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Leipzig 2005, p. 176ff.
  6. ↑ Manfred Woitzik: "First come - first serve" a cultural history of mills in the Elbe-Elster district . Ed .: Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster District. Herzberg 2000, p. 201 .
  7. ↑ Formation of the offices of Vetschau, Schlieben, Angermünde-Land, Grünheide-Großräschen, Lübbenau, Unteres Dahmeland and Calau. Announcement by the Minister of the Interior of June 30, 1992. Official Gazette for Brandenburg - Joint Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg, Volume 3, Number 54, July 31, 1992, p. 968/9.
  8. ↑ Announcement of the Ministry of the Interior of September 7, 2001 formation of a new town Schlieben. Official Journal for Brandenburg Common Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg, Volume 12, 2001, Number 44, Potsdam, October 30, 2001, pp. 694/5 PDF
  9. ↑ Internet presence of the Schlieben Office , accessed on December 6, 2017
  10. ↑ Historical municipality directory 2005 for Brandenburg ( online as PDF file )
  11. ↑ The Oelsig property Oelsig 19 in the database of the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum , accessed on December 5, 2016.
  12. ↑ The Oelsiger property Oelsig 21 in the database of the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum , accessed on December 5, 2016.
  13. ^ Contribution by Reinhard Naumann (2005) to the online project Gefallenenkkmäler , accessed on December 5, 2017
  14. ^ Ordinance on the “Oelsiger Luch” nature reserve of October 7, 2002
  15. ↑ The Kupke tourist station's website , accessed on December 6, 2017

Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′  N , 13 ° 22 ′  E