Seese (Lübbenau / Spreewald)

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Table sheet 2398 - Calau, 1912, section Seese
June 21, 1959 Harvest readiness day in the MTS Seese
Seese Castle on an old postcard
Seese Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection
Lucas Cranach the Elder , Caspar von Köckritz, 1540–1567, Louvre

Seese , in Lower Sorbian Bzež , was a place in the south of Brandenburg. The place name, which comes from Sorbian, means something like elder or elder place. The place was completely demolished in 1969. 385 people were relocated.

location

Seese was located in Lower Lusatia between Lübbenau in the north and Calau in the south, in the center of the later open- cast lignite mine Seese-West .

history

The first documentary mention dates from 1363 with the name Sezs. Until the middle of the 19th century it was shaped like a round village with a church and a manor. After the separation , the place developed and the shape of a round village was barely recognizable.

From 1408 to 1537 Seese was owned by the von Köckritz family , who had extensive rule in the region. The last owner from this family, Caspar von Köckritz, is counted among the pioneers of the Reformation in Lausitz. Martin Luther is said to have visited him in 1527 and preached in the church. In 1768 the Counts of Lynar bought the manor. In the middle of the 18th century, in addition to the rural population and the estate, there was a sheep farm, a hereditary pitcher, a windmill, a fish pond, a vineyard and a pine heather. At that time, the place was one of those who produced the finest wool in Niederlausitz. It came close to the quality of wool from England and Spain.

In the middle of the 19th century, the estate comprised approx. 2,360 acres including forest. When the estate districts were dissolved in 1928, the approx. 1,160 hectares of the Seese manor district to the community, as well as the areas of the Schönfeld and Vorberg manor districts and the places Mlode and Rochusthal. The community area thus increased to 1,955 ha.

In 1945 the division of feudal seats in the province of Brandenburg began as part of the land reform with the Seese manor. 18 new farms and 5 small settlements were created. In addition, 17 smallholders have already received additional land. In 1949 a machine lending station (MAS) was set up. In 1954 LPG Aufbau was founded. In 1960 the LPG Eichengrund was established.

building

There was a castle in the village , the older south-western part of which (late Gothic gable) was built in the 15th century. The younger north-eastern part was probably built in the Renaissance style in the 17th century. Old photos show an impressive three- and four-story building with towers, battlements and turrets. The different views could clearly be assigned to different architectural styles. In 1945 the castle accommodated numerous resettled families . From 1952 to 1957 the building was used as an agricultural college.

A descendant of the resident noble family, Wilhelm Graf zu Lynar , had made it possible for people who were involved in the conspiracy against Hitler on July 20, 1944 , to meet secretly at Seese Castle. The count was arrested in July 1944 and executed in September 1944. The church was originally a rectangular building without a tower from the 15th century. In the 16th century it received a small extension with an entrance and in 1713 a wooden tower was added. Count zu Lynar suggested a renovation. As a result, the church received a stone tower in the neo-Gothic style. In this context, completely new stalls and, for the first time, an organ gallery were installed. The re-inauguration took place in August 1866. About 100 years later it was demolished together with the town of Seese because of the Seese-West open-cast lignite mine .

Half-timbered houses typical of the region had been preserved until the demolition . These included B. the municipal office (aspirational, double- sided, cripple hipped roof ) and the double room (district Alte Stuben).

See also

literature

  • Documentation of relocations due to mining , archive of lost places, forest 2010
  • Lost homeland - mining and its effects on churches and parishes in Upper and Lower Lusatia , Cottbus 2007 ( ISBN 3-935826-88-5 )
  • Former village of Seese. In: Burger und Lübbenauer Spreewald (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 36). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1981, pp. 123–126.
  • Lost homeland, mining and its effects on churches and parishes in Upper and Lower Lusatia , publisher Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Horno, 2007, ISBN 3-935826-88-5

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Documentation of relocations caused by mining, Archive of Disappeared Places, Forst 2010, p. 88
  2. ↑ a b Former village Seese. In: Burger und Lübbenauer Spreewald (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 36). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1981, p. 125.
  3. ↑ a b Former village Seese. In: Burger und Lübbenauer Spreewald (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 36). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1981, p. 126.
  4. ↑ Lost Homeland - Mining and its effects on churches and parishes in Upper and Lower Lusatia , Cottbus 2007, page 23 ( ISBN 3-935826-88-5 )
  5. ↑ Lübbenau is the fulfillment of his life . In: Die Welt, November 26, 2000
  6. ↑ Lost Homeland - Mining and its effects on churches and parishes in Upper and Lower Lusatia , Cottbus 2007, page 22 ( ISBN 3-935826-88-5 )

Coordinates: 51 ° 48 '  N , 13 ° 57'  E