Shrub (Grossenhain)

shrub Large district town of Großenhain Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 54 ″  N , 13 ° 34 ′ 41 ″  E
Height :	131 m
Residents :	315
Incorporation :	March 1, 1994
Incorporated into:	Zabeltitz
Location of Strauch in Saxony

Strauch is a district of the Saxon town of Großenhain in the district of Meißen .

history

Schraden

Family coat of arms of the Barons von Rochow

Mitteldorfstrasse

Interpretation and development of the place name

The place name means something like settlement "on the bush" or "... in the bush".

Over the centuries there were a number of different spellings: 1403 "Struch", 1406 "Strach", 1456 "der Strauch", 1496 "zum Strauche" and 1500 "Strauch".

Local history

Strauch is a German settlement and was created as an anger village. The place was first mentioned in a document in 1403 as "Struch". The margravial fief belonged to the Grossenhain office . Hans von Köckritz, who is sitting on Elsterwerda , paid 1406 taxes on 21 hooves . At that time, Strauch belonged to the Elsterwerda rulership and had shares in the Schradenwald with the so-called " Strauch Schraden" . The Köckritze were resident in Strauch until 1699.

As early as 1500 there is said to have been a permanent house in Strauch , which Georg v. Köckritz had fieldstones built. In 1699, Adjutant General Hans Adam von Seyfferitz was enfeoffed with Strauch. He had a new manor built next to the permanent house. Lieutenant Colonel Heinrich Gottlob von Bibra bought the place in 1749 for 43,200 thalers, but sold it to Johann Friedrich von Erdmannsdorff in 1755.

Another sale took place in 1792 and Strauch came into the possession of Carl Friedrich von Rochow for 28,400 thalers . He also owned the Nedaschütz estate near Bautzen and a town house in Pirna. The chamberlain Bernhard von Rochow took over the manor in 1834 for 35,050 thalers , which at that time had a size of about 622  hectares . A short time later, he had the Stubs Castle completely changed. A staircase with a simple angled roof was added behind the castle. Rochow also had the castle park in Strauch expanded. In 1835 he had a tall gatehouse built at the entrance to the estate with two stables. On July 25, 1837, Bernhard von Rochow married Cölestine von Zeschau from Dresden. The manor in Strauch now also included the two preliminary works “Carlsborn” near Merzdorf and “Schönau” in Schraden near Hirschfeld. Giving up his grandfather's sheep breeding, Rochow had extensive pine plantings carried out on a large part of the shrub area from 1853.

Bernhard von Rochow died in 1889 at the age of 81. Rochow's eldest son Heinrich Bernhard Theodor Freiherr von Rochow inherits the manor with its lands. When he died in 1895, the property was initially leased and finally taken over by Wichard von Rochow in 1909. He had extensive renovations carried out on the castle again.

As part of the land reform , from 1945 the manor property was distributed to farmers, resettlers and farm workers. The Strauch Castle was demolished in 1949. The gatehouse with its slate-roofed tower was renewed again in 1953, but was finally demolished in 1973.

On August 19, 1958, an LPG was founded with initially four farmers and, in 1960, a kindergarten was built on the site of the former Stubs Castle. Two years later, a central water supply was built in the place.

After Strauch was incorporated into the community of Zabeltitz on March 1, 1994, it was incorporated into Grossenhain on January 1, 2010.

Heather height

The geodetic point on the Heidehöhe. In the foreground, the highest topographic point in Brandenburg is marked with a stele.

Lookout tower on the Heideberg / Strauch Berg

North of the village is located on the border of the state Brandenburg the 201.40 m high Heide height (also Heideberg) which is considered the highest topographic survey of Brandenburg. In the immediate vicinity of this point you can see an artificially piled 5 m high hill with a geodetic point, which is already on the Saxon side and reaches a height of 206.1 m. It served to create a trigonometric network of the Royal Saxon Triangulation , which was carried out from 1862 to 1890 on the territory of the Kingdom of Saxony and is considered the life's work of the Saxon professor Christian August Nagel .

In 1852, the stubber manor owner Bernhard von Rochow had a tower built here that cost 800  thalers , but was destroyed by lightning in 1862. A short time later Rochow had a new, somewhat lower, more massive tower built, which was also called the Bernhard Tower and from the 1930s had a wooden tower. This tower was destroyed in the last days of the war in 1945 and so only a few remains of the foundation can be found at the former location.

On August 15, 2009, a new 30 meter high observation tower was inaugurated in the immediate vicinity, which is already in the municipal area of the Elbe-Elster district belonging Val Gardena is located and a view far into the Saxon and the northern Schrade area allows.

population

Population development in Strauch from 1552 to 1990
year	Residents
1552	16 possessed men, 24 residents
1764	14 possessed men, 5 cottagers, 5 hooves 24 bushels each
1834	210
1871	244
1890	265
1910	330
1925	337
1939	370
1946	488
1950	453
1964	377
1990	320

Culture and sights

Village church

• Village church

The older history of the Strauch village church, which only got a bell tower in 1864, is not known. Originally the church belonged to the parish Frauenhain. From 1575 it became a branch church of Hirschfeld and finally independent in 1594. Extensive renovation work on the church took place in 1915. The Strauch church has been a branch church of Skäßchen since 1931 . The church was renovated from 1997 to 2000. Since the end of 1998 it has been used for church occasions and events again.

The Strauch church consists of three parts: the Karner , the chancel and a nave built in 1763 with high pointed arched windows. The altar of the church, in front of which there is a small tomb, dates from the 16th century.

• Bakehouse

In Strauch there is a bakery that was built during the Seven Years' War and is a listed building. Originally, two bakeries were built in Strauch at that time to bake bread for the Prussian army, which was occupying parts of Saxony at that time. The surviving bakery was restored in the 1980s and is still used today on various occasions.

• Stone bench

To the north-west of the village, in the wooded area of ​​the adjacent Schraden Mountains, there is a stone bench that was erected there in the late nineteenth century. Originally at that time you could see the village from here. However, due to the forest that has grown up in the meantime, this is no longer possible. In addition, the coat of arms of the "von Rochow" family was once on the bank .

• Brunnenhaus (under monument protection)

• Tobacco scales

There are three modern tobacco sheds on Ringstrasse on the northern edge of the municipality , which were built in the 1960s. Before that, the tobacco was dried in the bush in the barns. There are large flaps on the side walls between the reinforced concrete columns that could be opened or closed together with the help of a rope construction. On the north side, fans were attached to the left and right of the gate, which enabled artificial ventilation. The two eastern sheds have a small annex in which the tobacco leaves were prepared by the women for hanging.

Personalities

• Franz Eduard Christoph Dietrich (1810–1883), German orientalist and Protestant theologian .
• Friedrich von Erdmannsdorff (1772–1827), Prussian administrative lawyer and district president in Liegnitz (1823–1827)
• Heinrich Ludwig von Erdmannsdorf (1776–1853), forest clerk and politician
• William Hering (* 1812; † 1897), Protestant pastor and politician, worked in Strauch from 1839 to 1843.

literature

• Cornelius Gurlitt : shrub . In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 37. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Grossenhain (Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1914, p. 392.
• Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach: The Schraden. A regional study in the Elsterwerda, Lauchhammer, Hirschfeld and Ortrand area . Ed .: Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-412-10900-2 , p. 187-190 .
• Hendrik Sucher: The rulership as an ornament, the zeitgeist victim - preservation and loss of the gatehouse of the Strauch manor. In: Home calendar for the Grossenhainer care: Grossenhain city and country calendar. Gräser, Großenhain 14 (2010), pp. 106-110.
• Strauch in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Hirschfeld's community homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states. Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
2. ↑ The history of the Bernhardturm on the Strauch community homepage  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on January 11, 2009)  
3. ↑ Rosy times for the Giants of Val Gardena. In: Lausitzer Rundschau. 17th August 2009.
4. ↑ Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach (author): Der Schraden. A regional study in the Elsterwerda, Lauchhammer, Hirschfeld and Ortrand area . Ed .: Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-412-10900-2 .
5. ↑ tabaktrockenschuppen.wordpress.com ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

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