Prießen
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 Prießen  
City of Doberlug-Kirchhain
 
Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 42 "  N , 13 ° 25 ′ 45"  E
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| Height : | 118 (96-120) m | |
| Residents : | 212 (December 31, 2011) | |
| Incorporation : | October 31, 2001 | |
| Postal code : | 03253 | |
| Area code : | 035327 | |
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 Location of Prießen in Brandenburg  | 
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Prießen ( Lower Sorbian : Brjazyna ) is a district of the town of Doberlug-Kirchhain in the Elbe-Elster district in Brandenburg .
Geographical location
Prießen is located on the L702 about 10 km west of Doberlug-Kirchhain between Buchhain and Dübrichen in the center of the Elbe-Elster district.
history
Local history
The place was first mentioned in 1329 as Prizin . Other spelling of the place name were 1336 Priszne , 1380 Priezin , 1386 Pryssen , 1435 Prissen , around 1435 Brewssin , 1541 Priessen , 1546 Brisen and 1683 Prisenn . The original place name is interpreted as a settlement of Priša or Pricha .
In 1329, Elector Rudolf I sold the village to the Dobrilugk Monastery , who owned the village until 1541. In 1529 there were 19 Hüfner in the village . At that time the church was a branch of Buckowien .
Incorporation
On October 1, 2001, the village was incorporated into the town of Doberlug-Kirchhain as a district.
Population development
| Population development of Prießen from 1875 to 2009 | |||||||||||||
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| year | Residents | year | Residents | year | Residents | year | Residents | year | Residents | ||||
| 1875 | 367 | 1946 | 554 | 1989 | 254 | 1995 | 216 | 2009 | 219 | ||||
| 1890 | 346 | 1950 | 479 | 1990 | 238 | 1996 | 219 | 2017 | 180 | ||||
| 1910 | 371 | 1964 | 305 | 1991 | 233 | 1997 | 215 | ||||||
| 1925 | 389 | 1971 | 303 | 1992 | 236 | 1998 | 209 | ||||||
| 1933 | 357 | 1981 | 277 | 1993 | 236 | 1999 | 207 | ||||||
| 1939 | 341 | 1985 | 257 | 1994 | 225 | 2000 | 207 | ||||||
Culture and sights
In the village, which is laid out as a rectangle, there is a listed granite square church from the 13th century on the village meadow. The steeple made of boulders is as wide as the nave. The church is equipped with a carved altar from the 15th century, a pulpit from 1592 and a baptismal font made of sandstone in the shape of a chalice.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Müller's Large German Local Book 2012: Complete local dictionary. 33. revised and exp. Ed., Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-027420-2 , online at Google Books , p. 1103
 - ^ Walter Wenzel : Niederlausitzer Ortnamesbuch, Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 2006, ISBN 978-3-7420-1996-7
 - ↑ http://www.doberlug-kirchhain.de/verzeichnis/objekt.php?mandat=49581
 - ↑ Dr. Ernst Mucke : Building blocks for local history of the Luckau district
 - ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2001
 - ^ Historical municipality directory 2005 for Brandenburg Online as a PDF file
 - ↑ List of monuments of the Elbe-Elster district of December 31, 2008 ( online as a PDF file) ( Memento of the original of April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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.