Straupitz (Spreewald)

Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Dahme-Spreewald
Office :	Lieberose / Oberspreewald
Height :	57 m above sea level NHN
Area :	21.71 km 2
Residents:	942 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	43 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	15913
Area code :	035475
License plate :	LDS, KW, LC, LN
Community key :	12 0 61 476
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Kirchstrasse 11 ; 15913 Straupitz (Spreewald)
Website :	www.straupitz.de
Mayor :	André Urspruch
Location of the municipality of Straupitz (Spreewald) in the Dahme-Spreewald district

Straupitz (Spreewald) (officially Straupitz until August 14, 2017 ), Tšupc (Błota) in Lower Sorbian , is a municipality in the district of Dahme-Spreewald ( Brandenburg ) and the administrative seat of the Lieberose / Oberspreewald office .

geography

Straupitz is located on the northern edge of the Spreewald and is separated from its network of waterways by a flood protection project (northern flooding ) .

Community structure

The inhabited parts of the municipality Buschmühle (Błotny Młyn), Gatt (Gat) and Horst (Wótšow) belong to Straupitz.

history

Church in Straupitz

The place was first mentioned in a document on April 30, 1294 when the goods Straupitz, Laasow and Butzen were awarded to Dietrich von Yhlow by the Lusatian Margrave Dietrich . The name of the place, an early form is Strupcz, means place where people of a man named Strup live or scabbed forest .

In 1567 Hieronimus von Minckwitz (landlord of Seelingstädt , Neichen , Beiersdorf and Briesen) became the owner of the Straupitz estate. He probably received it from his second wife Katharina, whose father, Caspar Burggraf von Dohna , sat on Straupitz and Königsbrück .

The priest Albin Moller , born and active in Straupitz, had the first Sorbian book printed in 1574.

Straupitz Church at its rededication in 1832

Thanks to his merits in the Thirty Years' War , the former clothier's son from the Saxon Grimma General Christoph von Houwald was given the opportunity in 1655 to acquire the market town of Straupitz as the center of a nine-town rulership. Under his and his descendants' leadership, Straupitz developed into a flourishing market town on the northern edge of the Spreewald. The old moated castle was converted into a manor house (today the school is located there), the manor complex with representative official buildings (rent office (tower building) , distillery, gardening and retirement home (villa) ) expanded. A 12 hectare landscape park was created. The new building of the church according to plans by the Prussian architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel was inaugurated in 1832.

Until the middle of the 19th century, the Straupitz population was still predominantly Sorbian-speaking ; In 1880, however, Arnošt Muka noticed that only the older ones spoke the language, while the younger ones were already monolingual in German due to the character of Straupitz as a market town and the abolition of Sorbian school lessons and worship.

In April 1945 Straupitz was captured by the Red Army . After almost 300 years of rule, the Houwald family was expropriated without compensation in 1945.

Straupitz was since 1816 in the district of Lübben (Spreewald) in the Prussian province of Brandenburg (1947-1952 in the state of Brandenburg ). From 1952 to 1990 the place belonged to the Lübben district in the GDR district of Cottbus .

On July 5, 2017, the Ministry of the Interior and Local Authority of the State of Brandenburg approved the change of the municipality name to Straupitz (Spreewald). This decision became legally binding on August 14, 2017.

Population development

year	Residents
1875	1 190
1890	1 278
1910	1 147
1925	1 106
1933	1 044
1939	963
1946	1 638
1950	1 648

year	Residents
1964	1 454
1971	1 502
1981	1 372
1985	1,327
1989	1 344
1990	1 333
1991	1 311
1992	1 312
1993	1 299
1994	1 295

year	Residents
1995	1 293
1996	1 276
1997	1 236
1998	1 217
1999	1 203
2000	1 184
2001	1 163
2002	1 132
2003	1 115
2004	1 090

year	Residents
2005	1 054
2006	1 042
2007	1 031
2008	999
2009	997
2010	988
2011	1 015
2012	993
2013	991
2014	1,000

year	Residents
2015	976
2016	952
2017	951
2018	937
2019	942

Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31 (from 1991), from 2011 based on the 2011 census

politics

Community representation

The municipal council of Straupitz consists of 10 municipal representatives and the honorary mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Party / group of voters	Seats
Fastnachtsverein Straupitz	3
Local and tourist association Straupitz	2
Voting group for Straupitz	2
FDP	1
Independent voter community Straupitz	1
Single applicant Doreen Mroos	1

mayor

1993–2015: Winfried Rekitt († 2015)
since 2015: André Urspruch (voter group for Straupitz)

In the mayoral election on May 26, 2019, Urspruch was elected for a further five-year term with 87.3% of the valid votes.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on June 8, 2016.

Blazon : "In gold on a green shield base a green deciduous tree with a full crown, accompanied on each side by three green stalks of grain."

The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Uwe Reipert from Beeskow.

Sights and culture

Windmill in Straupitz

Gutshaus Straupitz (primary school)

Monument by Albin Moller

Historic granary in Straupitz

The list of monuments of the municipality of Straupitz includes :

Straupitz village church , rebuilt from 1828 to 1832 according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in the classicism style, dominates the village and the surrounding landscape with its twin towers
Straupitz Castle , mansion, built from 1795 to 1798, has served as a school building since 1947
Holländerwindmühle Straupitz , built in 1850, unique in Europe and again producing combination of grinding, saw and oil mill
Old granary on the way to Straupitz Castle, converted into a museum
Byttnahain southeast of Straupitz, known for its old oaks. The Kaiser Wilhelm Oak has a chest height circumference of 7.39 m (2016). The Florentine oak with a chest circumference of 8.15 meters, the strongest preserved tree in Byttnahain, in the 1960s, it was still regarded as the strongest tree in the Spreewald.

Historical monuments

War memorial on the church square, which honors the villagers of the parish "Straupitz-Mochow" who died in 1864/1866 and 1870/71.
Monument to Albin Moller on the church square
Memorial plaques for victims of the two world wars and Stalinism in the anteroom of the Evangelical Church
Multiple graves for six Soviet prisoners of war , who were exhausted and emaciated shortly after their arrival with the Spreewald Railway in 1942 but died after a few days and were buried in the old cemetery (on Friedhofsweg next to the grave of the former manor)

Regular events

Every year at midsummer , June 24, which takes place in Straupitz for several years Johannismarkt instead. At this folk festival, regional dishes are offered and old handicrafts are shown. There is also a boat parade.

traffic

Straupitz lies on the national road L 44 of Lubben according Lamsfeld . The state road L 51 to Cottbus begins in the village .

Straupitz station was on the Lübben – Straupitz – Cottbus ( Spreewaldbahn ) line, on which passenger traffic was discontinued in 1967 and 1970. The branching line Straupitz – Goyatz was also closed in 1970.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Albin Moller (1541–1618), author of the first book in the Sorbian language
Ernst von Houwald (1778–1845), writer and playwright
Heinrich von Houwald (1807–1884), Prussian civil registrar
Karl von Houwald (1816–1883), administrative officer
Hermann Ferschke (1835–1903), writer, mayor and officer
Ernst von Houwald (1844–1903), Prussian nobleman
Isa Jank (* 1952), actress

Personalities associated with Straupitz

Christoph von Houwald (1601–1661), general, lord of the Straupitz class
Gustav Hofmeier (1826–1893), 1857–1863 pastor of the Straupitz village church
Brothers Lehmann , organ building workshop in Straupitz between 1857 and 1898
Fritz Julius Penschke (1857 – after 1914), author, pastor in Straupitz
Bianca Commichau-Lippisch (1890–1968), landscape and portrait painter, lived in Straupitz in the 1920s and 1930s
Karl Mörl (1921–2009), politician (CDU), member of the People's Chamber, Mayor of Straupitz
Matthias Eisenberg (* 1956), organist, has lived in Straupitz since 2012

literature

Friedrich Gottlob Siegfried Rödenbeck: Chronicle of the rule Straupitz. Meissen 1832 ( digitized version )
Günter H. Wiege: Chronicle of the family von Minckwitz line Breitenhain - Sonnewalde - Drehna. Frankfurt / Main 2001, p. 85.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Population in the State of Brandenburg according to municipalities, offices and municipalities not subject to official registration on December 31, 2019 (XLSX file; 223 KB) (updated official population figures) ( help on this ).
^ Official Journal for Brandenburg. (PDF) Change of the name of the municipality of Straupitz / Tšupc. Ministry of the Interior and Local Government, March 21, 2018, accessed March 27, 2018 .
^ Service portal of the state administration of the state of Brandenburg: Straupitz municipality
↑ Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin: Age - Origin - Meaning (= Brandenburg historical studies; Volume 13). be.bra Wissenschaft-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 393723330X , p. 165, snippet view
↑ Arnost Muka: Pućowanja po Serbach. Nakład Domowiny, Budyšin 1957, p. 70
^ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Landkreis Dahme-Spreewald , pp. 30–33
↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2015 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
^ Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.): Statistical report AI 7, A II 3, A III 3. Population development and population status in the state of Brandenburg (respective editions of the month of December)
^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
^ Moving farewell to Mayor Winfried Rekitt. In: Lausitzer Rundschau , April 20, 2015
↑ Straupitz goes into state competition with the new mayor. In: Lausitzer Rundschau, June 25, 2015
↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)
^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019
↑ Coat of arms information on the service portal of the state administration of Brandenburg .
^ Entry in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017
↑ Flyer for an exhibition "John the Baptist - Christian Roots and Customs in South Brandenburg" (summer 2008)

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-BB-1] Population in the State of Brandenburg according to municipalities, offices and municipalities not subject to official registration on December 31, 2019 (XLSX file; 223 KB) (updated official population figures) ( help on this ).

[StatBB-2] Official Journal for Brandenburg. (PDF) Change of the name of the municipality of Straupitz / Tšupc. Ministry of the Interior and Local Government, March 21, 2018, accessed March 27, 2018 .

[Dienstleistungsportal-3] Service portal of the state administration of the state of Brandenburg: Straupitz municipality

[Fischer-4] Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin: Age - Origin - Meaning (= Brandenburg historical studies; Volume 13). be.bra Wissenschaft-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 393723330X , p. 165, snippet view

[5] Arnost Muka: Pućowanja po Serbach. Nakład Domowiny, Budyšin 1957, p. 70

[6] Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Landkreis Dahme-Spreewald , pp. 30–33

[7] Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2015 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7

[8] Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.): Statistical report AI 7, A II 3, A III 3. Population development and population status in the state of Brandenburg (respective editions of the month of December)

[9] Result of the local election on May 26, 2019

[10] Moving farewell to Mayor Winfried Rekitt. In: Lausitzer Rundschau , April 20, 2015

[11] Straupitz goes into state competition with the new mayor. In: Lausitzer Rundschau, June 25, 2015

[12] Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)

[13] Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019

[14] Coat of arms information on the service portal of the state administration of Brandenburg .

[15] Entry in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017

[16] Flyer for an exhibition "John the Baptist - Christian Roots and Customs in South Brandenburg" (summer 2008)