Ragow (Lübbenau / Spreewald)

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Coordinates: 51 ° 53 ′ 14 "  N , 13 ° 54 ′ 14"  E
Height : 54 m above sea level NN
Area : 7.88 km²
Residents : 519  (Jul 17, 2017)
Population density : 66 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : October 26, 2003
Postal code : 03222
Area code : 03542
Village square in Ragow with a protected oak
Ragower entrance

Ragow , Rogow in Lower Sorbian , is a district of the city of Lübbenau / Spreewald in the northern part of the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district in southern Brandenburg .

location

Ragow is located in Niederlausitz north of the Niederlausitzer Landücken nature park and on the western edge of the Spreewald . The Wudritz flows through the village and is connected to the main Spree by the Ragower boat trip .

The city of Lübben is located in the north of Ragow . In the south are Lübbenau , Zerkwitz , Krimnitz . To the west are Klein Radden and Groß Radden . A little further to the west are the neighboring districts of Dahme-Spreewald Duben and Terpt .

history

Local history

Small devices found in Ragow and in the neighboring communities indicate the presence of people as early as the Middle Stone Age (15,000–3000 BC). From the Neolithic Age (3000–2000 BC) come two eight centimeters long, cut, undrilled stone axes. In the Bronze Age (middle of the 2nd millennium BC) the area around Ragow was settled by people who are believed to have originated in the peasant cultures of the Central Danube. They are assigned to the Lusatian culture . The urn fields found indicate closed settlements. After the end of the Lausitz culture around 500 BC. The area around Ragow was relatively sparsely populated until the Sorbs immigrated from the 7th century.

Archaeological finds show that the settlement was relocated from east to west at the time of the transition from the Old Slavic to the Yugoslavian (10th century) and early German times. A transition from the Sorbian settlement to the village of Ragow cannot be proven. Since blue-gray shards were found in various places in Ragow, one can conclude that there was a settlement in the early German period (12th to 14th centuries). The plant as lines village with a Anger west of the village road and a direction perpendicular to the East Road line indicate a reestablishment.

However, the place was first mentioned in 1421 as Ragow in the Lübbenau city register. In a sales deed from 1315, villages around Lübbenau are mentioned, but Ragow is not. In this document, Bodo the elder of Ilenburg Ritter Christian, called Lange, sells the rule of Lübbenau . At that time, the territory of the village of Ragow probably belonged to the Lübbenau rulership, because the Lusitz is specified as the border in the document . This is the Wudritz that flows through the place. The place name Ragow is derived from the Lower Sorbian word Rog , which means horn, point, angle or corner . This can be related to the hallway of the place. However, according to Eichler, it is also possible that a personal name is derived from it. The regional historian Paul Fahlisch derives the place name from the Wendish god Ragowitz , as he considered an elevation next to today's Bahnhofstrasse to be his place of sacrifice. This is inconclusive, however, as the pottery found there dates from the Bronze Age (800 BC). Other place names were 1489 Ragaw and 1524 as Rago . The Lower Sorbian name variants were called Ragow in 1761 and Rogow in 1843 . Ragow has been known as part of the Lübbenau rule since 1503.

As a result of the Congress of Vienna Ragow came with the entire Lower Lusatia to the Kingdom of Prussia and belonged to the district of Calau . In 1886 a silver hoard was found while plowing by the farmhand Ernst Jank on the Ragower vineyard. The hoard dates from around 1010. It consists of 200 coins, 200 small square silver bars and jewelry.

In 1952 the places came to the newly founded district of Calau . On October 26, 2003 Ragow and the places Boblitz , Kittzlitz , Bischdorf , Groß Beuchow , Hindenberg , Groß Lübbenau , Groß Klessow , Leipe and Klein Radden were incorporated into Lübbenau / Spreewald as districts.

Ragow belongs to the Lower Lusatia church district . It has been parish to Zerkwitz since 1723 .

Population development

Population development in Ragow from 1875 to 2002
year Residents year Residents year Residents year Residents year Residents year Residents year Residents
1875 420 1933 443 1964 567 1989 539 1993 508 1997 595 2001 656
1890 436 1939 442 1971 550 1990 531 1994 522 1998 601 2002 650
1910 480 1946 660 1981 536 1991 521 1995 524 1999 615
1925 467 1950 628 1985 560 1992 512 1996 561 2000 631

Culture and sights

Listed residential building Berliner Chaussee 10

A residential building on Berliner Chaussee 10 is one of the architectural monuments of the city of Lübbenau . The Niederlausitzer Kreisel cycle path runs through the village .

The Ragower castle wall is a former Slavic fortified castle. This was destroyed in the conflict with the German colonists and not rebuilt. It was built in the 7th century and was inhabited until the 10th century.

Economy and Infrastructure

Ragow is north-west of the Spreewald motorway triangle , where the federal motorway 15 merges with the federal motorway 13 running south of the town . The state road 49 runs directly through the village. Up to 1994 there was a stop in Ragow on the Berlin – Görlitz railway line .

Since 1996 there has been a ferry port in the village, through which boat trips in the Spreewald are possible.

Personalities

literature

Web links

Commons : Ragow / Rogow  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003
  2. ↑ Brandenburg Statistics (PDF)