Salssen
Salssen is a desert in the former Liebenwerdaer Heide in the southern Brandenburg district of Elbe-Elster .
Local history writings assume that the village, which supposedly had town and escort rights, was about two to two and a half kilometers northeast of the community of Hohenleipisch in the immediate vicinity of the Loben moorland . Pechofenkeramik, which was found north of Lobens, strengthen this assumption.
Salssen appears in the forest sign book of 1572 as "Wüsten Dorfstatt Salssen". The place name of Salssen is probably of Sorbian origin and is derived from "Zalesno", which means "place behind the forest".
On the basis of a regional legend, which tells of a lost city with a castle and the similarity of the name of the nearby Hohenleipisch, Salssen was also associated with the legendary city of Liubusua, the headquarters of the Slavic tribe of the Lusici , and Thietmar von Merseburg mentioned in his chronicle, but this could not be confirmed. Modern archeology currently assumes that Liubusua was near Löbsal near Meißen .
Individual evidence
- ^ Rudolf Matthies: Hike through heather and moor. In: Home calendar for the Bad Kreis Liebenwerda . Ed .: Working groups of friends of nature and home of the German Cultural Association in the Bad Liebenwerda district. Bad Liebenwerda 1958, p. 92 to 98 .
- ↑ Pierre Sachse: "Die Liebenwerdaer Heide" in "Die Schwarze Elster" . No. 35/612 . Bad Liebenwerda February 1993, p. 12 to 19 .
- ^ Liubusua. Ways to solve an old research problem, in: Yearbook for Brandenburgische Landesgeschichte 54, 2003, pp. 7–50
Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ' N , 13 ° 36' E