Rothstein (Uebigau-Wahrenbrück)

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Rothstein
Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 25 ″  N , 13 ° 25 ′ 1 ″  E
Height : 95.8 m
Area : 5.03 km²
Residents : 167  (2019)
Population density : 33 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : September 27, 1998
Incorporated into: Wahrenbrück
Postal code : 04924
Area code : 035341

Rothstein is a district of the town of Uebigau-Wahrenbrück in the Brandenburg district of Elbe-Elster and is located about six kilometers northeast of the town of Bad Liebenwerda in the Niederlausitzer Heidelandschaft nature park between the earth moraine from the Saale II Ice Age piled up in the east and the Rothsteiner Felsen at the southwest end of the town , which is about 560 million years old, making it one of the oldest rock formations in Europe . The rock made of silica sinterhorn rock is the only natural rock in the Berlin-Brandenburg area .

Until it was incorporated on September 27, 1998, Rothstein belonged to the Bad Liebenwerda district and currently has 167 residents.

history

Rothstein
Inn
Historic ladder house

Interpretation of the place name

The place takes its name from the Rothsteiner Felsen , which is located near the village and which appears there as the highest point of an underground volcanic mountain range with its reddish iron oxide colors .

Local history

The village was first mentioned in a document in 1309 and, after several changes of ownership, sold to the Liebenwerda office in 1587 . During the Thirty Years' War , like many other villages in the area, the village was completely devastated by looting. According to oral tradition, only one servant and one maid survived.

In 1835 the village had 28 houses with 137 inhabitants. There were 27 horses, 149 cattle, 355 sheep and 52 pigs.

In 1836 a school house was built in Rothstein and from 1870 onwards, simple, hand-operated shafts for lignite extraction gave the town a boost in development. In addition to mining and agriculture , the quarry on the rock, which was abandoned between the two world wars , developed as a further source of income .

In the first half of the twentieth century there were wheelwright , stove fitters , a blacksmith , a butcher , a carpenter and locksmith in the village . In 1991 the place was connected to the drinking water network, the sewage network was also completed.

Population development

Population development of Rothstein
year Residents year Residents year Residents year Residents
1836 137 1939 258 1985 230 1994 225
1875 250 1946 404 1989 233 1995 215
1890 250 1950 376 1990 234 1996 232
1910 260 1964 267 1991 223 1997 225
1925 269 1971 255 1992 221 2016 167
1933 251 1981 217 1993 222 2019 167

Culture and sights

Open-air stage in front of the Rothsteiner Felsen

The annual highlight is the Rothsteiner Felsenfest , which has been celebrated every 2nd weekend in July since 1888. The good organization, the variety of the performances as well as the charming surroundings on the rock attract thousands of visitors from near and far to the rocks every year and made it one of the largest folk festivals in the area in the second half of the 20th century. In recent years the number of visitors has fallen sharply and the festival has lost its national significance.

Since 1997 the Indian and Western meeting has been taking place on the rocks in August, which is becoming more and more popular.

At the Rothstein cemetery there is a war memorial in the form of a stele in honor of the Rothstein residents who died in the two world wars.

Personalities

  • Jürgen Bartholomäus, chairman of the Briquette Factory Louise e. V., Prize for Monument Preservation of the State of Brandenburg in 2000

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Size of the district area (status: 1995) from the collective of authors of the MUG Brandenburg eV: Heimatbuch Landkreis Elbe-Elster . Herzberg 1996, p. 120 .
  2. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1998
  3. ^ "Overview of the population and the cattle stock in 1835" in "The Black Elster - Our home in words and pictures" . No. 596 . Bad Liebenwerda 1985, p. 8 to 10 .
  4. ^ Historical municipality directory 2005 for Brandenburg Online as a PDF file
  5. ^ "Information brochure for residents and guests" published by the Uebigau-Wahrenbrück office .
  6. ^ "Information brochure for residents and guests", published by the Uebigau-Wahrenbrück office .
  7. ↑ The war memorial in Rothstein in the online project war memorials

Web links

Commons : Rothstein  - collection of images, videos and audio files