Steinitz (Drebkau)

Steinitz Šćeńc City of Drebkau Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′ 39 ″  N , 14 ° 13 ′ 8 ″  E
Height :	109 m above sea level NHN
Incorporation :	1st January 1973
Incorporated into:	Cathedral village
Postal code :	03116
Area code :	035602

Steinitz village church

Steinitzhof

Steinitz , Šćeńc in Lower Sorbian , is part of the municipality of Domsdorf , a district of the city of Drebkau in the Spree-Neisse district in Brandenburg . Until January 1, 1973 Steinitz was an independent municipality. The village belongs to the official settlement area of ​​the Sorbs / Wends .

location

Steinitz is located in Lower Lusatia about one kilometer south of the city of Drebkau, 20 kilometers southwest of Cottbus and 25 kilometers northeast of Senftenberg . The surrounding towns are Raakow in the north, Merkur and Jehserig in the northeast, Papproth in the east, Neupetershain and Neupetershain-Nord in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district in the southwest and Domsdorf in the northwest.

Steinitz is about one kilometer south of federal highway 169 . Immediately to the south of the village is the Welzow-Süd open-cast lignite mine , the former neighboring villages of Gribona , Kausche and Geisendorf have now been excavated. To the east of Steinitz lies the Görigker See .

history

The village of Steinitz was first mentioned in a document in 1488. The place name was spelled Steynicz at that time , comes from the Sorbian and means place where there are young dogs . In the 15th century Steinitz received a village church made of mixed masonry, similar to the church in Wolkenberg . In 1910 a three-sided courtyard was built in the village . This was used as an LPG office during the GDR era ; cattle and pigs were housed in the stables. After the fall of the Wall , the courtyard was initially unused, but has been used as a cultural center for several years.

Until the 19th century Steinitz was a Sorbian-speaking village. For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a total population of 179 in the 1880s, of which 100 were Sorbs and 79 were Germans, which corresponds to a Sorbian-speaking proportion of 56%. Ernst Tschernik had 193 inhabitants in 1954, but no native Sorbian speaker, only one resident knew Sorbian.

After the Congress of Vienna , the entire Lower Lusatia came to the Kingdom of Prussia . When the new district was formed in 1816, Steinitz came to the Calau district . On July 25, 1952, the community was assigned to the newly formed Cottbus-Land district in the Cottbus district . On January 1, 1973 Steinitz was incorporated into Domsdorf . After the reunification, Steinitz was initially in the Cottbus district and after the district reform in December 1993 it was assigned to the Spree-Neisse district . On December 31, 2001, Domsdorf was incorporated into the city of Drebkau together with Steinitz and the previously independent municipalities of Casel , Greifenhain , Jehserig , Laubst , Leuthen , Schorbus and Siewisch .

Population development

Population development in Steinitz from 1875 to 1971
year	Residents	year	Residents	year	Residents	year	Residents
1875	170	1925	185	1946	220	1971	153
1890	176	1933	186	1950	230
1910	234	1939	180	1964	170

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin: age - origin - meaning . be.bra Wissenschaft, 2005, p. 163 .
2. ↑ The Steinitzhof. In: drebkau.de. City of Drebkau, accessed on January 25, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
4. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995.
5. ^ Steinitz in the historical index of places. Retrieved January 25, 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 January 25, 2018 .