Slamen

Slamen Słomjeń City of Spremberg Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 13 ″  N , 14 ° 23 ′ 32 ″  E
Height :	126 m above sea level NHN
Incorporation :	January 1, 1946
Postal code :	03130
Area code :	03563

Slamen , in Lower Sorbian Słomjeń , is a residential area in the town of Spremberg in the Spree-Neisse district in the state of Brandenburg . Until it was incorporated on January 1, 1946, Slamen was an independent municipality.

location

Slamen is located in Niederlausitz and is part of the official settlement area of ​​the Sorbs / Wends . The place is located immediately to the east of the Spremberg core city and is now merged with the urban area. Other surrounding villages are Weskow in the north, Groß Luja in the northeast, Türkendorf and Graustein in the east, the loop in the southeast already in the Free State of Saxony , Trattendorf in the south and Cantdorf in the northwest.

Several higher-ranking roads run through the local area of ​​Slamen, these are the federal road 156 to Bad Muskau , the state road 47 to Neuhausen / Spree and the state road 48 to Döbern . The Berlin – Görlitz railway line runs through the town.

history

The village of Slamen was first mentioned in a document in 1421. The place name is derived from the Sorbian word słoma and describes a place where there is straw .

Slamen historically belonged to the Spremberg Rent Office . For the year 1844 there were 418 inhabitants in Slamen who lived in 82 buildings. At that time the village was parish to Spremberg and had a glue boiler . In the following time the place grew strongly. In 1867 Slamen had 728 inhabitants. The place was divided into three parts Upper Slamen with 43 farmsteads, Unter Slamen with 15 farmsteads and vineyards with 17 farmsteads and a windmill , there was a chausseegeldhebestelle on the road to Muskau. Slamen also included a colony with 16 farmsteads and a brick factory , which forms today's Spremberger residential area Slamen brick factory (Słomjeńska Cyglownja) . Slamen used to be a village with a Sorbian population, Arnošt Muka counted 1,658 inhabitants for his statistics on the Sorbs in Lusatia in 1884, of which 958 were Sorbs (58%).

After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Lower Lusatia, which was previously Saxon, and with it the village of Slamen, passed to the Kingdom of Prussia . When the new district was formed in 1816, the community came to the Spremberg district . On January 1, 1946, the place was incorporated into the city of Spremberg together with Heinrichsfeld and Kochsdorf . On July 25, 1952, the new Spremberg district in the Cottbus district was formed from the Spremberg district , to which the town of Spremberg and its districts were assigned. After the fall of the Wall , Slamen was initially in the Spremberg district in Brandenburg . After the district reform in December 1993, the place came into the newly formed Spree-Neisse district .

Population development

Population development in Slamen from 1875 to 1939
year	Residents	year	Residents
1875	1,426	1925	2,294
1890	1,680	1933	2,441
1910	2,341	1939	2,571

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin. Age - origin - meaning . be.bra Wissenschaft, Berlin 2005, p. 160 .
2. ↑ Topographical-statistical overview of the administrative district of Frankfurt ad O. 1844, p. 212 ( bsb-muenchen.de ).
3. ↑ Statistical Bureau of the Royal Government of Frankfurt a. O .: Topographical-statistical manual of the government district of Frankfurt a. O. Verlag von Gustav Harnecker u. Co., Frankfurt ad O. 1867, online at Google Books , p. 250
4. ↑ Arnost Muka: Statistika łužiskich Serbow. Wobličenje a wopisanje. , Budyšin 1884–1886, online
5. ↑ Slamen in the historical index of places. Retrieved July 11, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. (PDF; 331 KB) District Spree-Neisse. State Office for Data Processing and Statistics State of Brandenburg, December 2006, accessed on July 11, 2018 .