Sedlitz (Senftenberg)

Sedlitz Sedlišćo City of Senftenberg Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 58 "  N , 14 ° 3 ′ 29"  E
Height :	107 m
Residents :	900  (Jan. 1, 2019)
Incorporation :	March 1, 1997
Postal code :	01968
Area code :	03573

Sedlitz Church

Sedlitz , Sedlišćo in Lower Sorbian , is a district of the Brandenburg district town Senftenberg in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district . It is located in Niederlausitz directly on Lake Sedlitz and Lake Großräschen .

history

Interpretation and development of the place name

The name Sedlitz has its origin in the Sorbian word szedlive (residence) .

timeline

Beginnings until the lignite was found

Sedlitz was first mentioned in a document in 1449. However, the history of the settlement goes back to the 12th century. In the course of the German expansion to the east, settlement between the Rainitza river and the Reppist-Rauno plateau was established. The Sorbian-influenced place was on a connecting path that led from Senftenberg to the old Zuckerstrasse . Until the great fire in 1882, the farming village hardly changed its structure. Agriculture, beekeeping and fishing were the main sources of income. Peat was extracted as fuel in the swampy area. The residents of Sedlitz were obliged to perform various services in the Senftenberg office. They had to cut kitchen wood and drive to the office in the winter. Together with the residents of Jüttendorf , the Sedlitzers had to help brew beer , eight Jüttendorf gardeners had to fill the first pan, and three Sedlitz gardeners were obliged to provide other services. In addition, the Sedlitzers had to hunt pigs, wolves and rabbits.

The place was known for the production of wooden Sorbian peasant clocks, the so-called serbske zegarje.

From 1770 there was a school in Sedlitz. The Sedlitz village church was inaugurated on August 3, 1823, and Senftenberg was responsible for pastoral care until the beginning of the 20th century.

From finding the brown coal

The mining of brown coal from the beginning of the 20th century changed life in the village. The works settlement of the same name was built at the “Anna-Mathilde” mine. This factory settlement was a second town center that was characterized by industry. The construction of miners' apartments increased the population from 500 in 1850 to almost 3000 in 1940. Opencast mines were built around the place . The Sedlitz opencast mine (Tatkraft opencast mine), the former Ilse-Ost mine of Ilse Bergbau AG , resulted in the first partial evastation of the place in 1962/1963. This open pit stopped the coal production in 1978. The Meuro opencast mine caused more serious devastation in 1986/1987. The former settlement on the edge of the forest and the Sedlitz-West ( Anna-Mathilde ) district had to give way to mining. 685 residents were relocated.

After the lignite was extracted, the remaining open-cast mining holes were recultivated for agricultural use, the dump areas were reforested or converted into lakes such as Lake Sedlitz . The Sedlitzer See receives navigable canals to the Geierswalder See over the Sornoer Canal and over the Rosendorfer Canal to the Partwitzer See and over the Ilse Canal to the Großräschener See .

On January 1, 1973, the devastated Sorno was incorporated into Sedlitz. On March 1, 1997 Sedlitz was incorporated into Senftenberg. Mayor is Steffen Philipp.

Population development

Population development in Sedlitz from 1875 to 1996
year	Residents	year	Residents	year	Residents	year	Residents	year	Residents
1875	532	1933	2950	1964	2772	1989	1030	1993	1109
1890	583	1939	2879	1971	2376	1990	979	1994	1099
1910	1722	1946	2972	1981	1834	1991	955	1995	1069
1925	2087	1950	3031	1985	1577	1992	1085	1996	1046

In 1880 95.6 percent of the population were Sorbs.

Attractions

Listed residential building on Senftenberger Strasse

Opposite the village church is the former Protestant school. The building was also used by the municipality council.

The houses in Bahnhofstrasse 10 and Senftenberger Strasse 12 are classified as architectural monuments in Senftenberg .

traffic

In 1870 the Grossenhain – Cottbus railway line was built with a stop in the neighboring railway village . Today's Sedlitz Ost stop was only established in 1920. It is also on the Lübbenau – Kamenz railway line .

The federal highways 96 and 169 run through the town .

Personalities

• Gerhard Lukas (1914–1998), Sedlitz-born historian, sports scientist and university professor

literature

• Werner Forkert: Senftenberg retrospectives Part II interesting facts from Senftenberg history . Bookstore "Glück Auf" GmbH, Senftenberg 2007.
• Frank Förster : Disappeared Villages - The demolitions of the Lusatian lignite mining area until 1993 . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, ISBN 3-7420-1623-7 .

Web links

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

• Official homepage of Senftenberg
• Homepage of Sedlitz
• Sedlitz in the RBB program Landschleicher on March 27, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
2. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities, see 1997
3. ↑ Brandenburg Statistics (PDF)