Ossak
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Ossak
City of Sonnewalde
Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 11 ″ N , 13 ° 37 ′ 51 ″ E
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| Height : | 99 m |
| Residents : | 124 (2010) |
| Incorporation : | 1st October 1973 |
| Incorporated into: | Munchausen |
| Postal code : | 03249 |
| Area code : | 035323 |
Ossak is a formerly independent municipality, which is now part of the Münchhausen-Ossak district of Sonnewald in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg . The place is about four kilometers south of the city center on the right side of the Kleine Elster .
history
Ossak was originally built as a round , which is why it can be assumed that the village is of Slavic origin.
The place was first mentioned in documents in 1486. The place name means something like a place protected by a barrier .
In 1937 the National Socialists changed the place name from Ossagk to Ossak for ideological reasons .
On October 1, 1973, Ossak was incorporated into the neighboring town of Münchhausen , which in turn was incorporated into Sonnewalde on October 26, 2003 as part of the municipal reform in the state of Brandenburg.
Population development
In 1875 there were 222 inhabitants in Ossak. After the population had fallen in the meantime, it rose to 211 in 1946 due to the influx of displaced persons as a result of the Second World War. In 1950 it finally reached its peak with 228 inhabitants. By 2010 the number had dropped to 124.
| Population development of Ossak from 1875 to 2010 | |||||||||||||
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| year | Residents | year | Residents | year | Residents | ||||||||
| 1875 | 222 | 1933 | 183 | 1964 | 182 | ||||||||
| 1890 | 204 | 1939 | 174 | 1971 | 171 | ||||||||
| 1910 | 164 | 1946 | 211 | 2010 | 124 | ||||||||
| 1925 | 170 | 1950 | 228 | ||||||||||
Culture and sights
Due to the preserved profile of the town, Ossak is a listed building.
Since 1947, two weeks after Whitsuntide, Ossak has been going around the pond every year. At the event, which has attracted up to 2000 visitors every year since then, the participants have to cross the village pond as quickly as possible by bicycle on a narrow wooden walkway. The tradition of swimming in the pond led to a film crew from the Japanese private broadcaster Nippon TV showing up in Ossak at the end of November 2010 to make TV recordings for a documentary about the craziest festivals in the world, for which the festival was specially re-enacted by the Ossak village club .
The Ossaker war memorial commemorates five in the First World War and twenty-two in the Second World War fallen or missing villagers.
Footnotes and individual references
- ^ Münchhausen-Ossak. City of Sonnewalde, accessed on June 28, 2016 .
- ↑ Märkische Oderzeitung, August 16, 2006, p. 11
- ↑ Ulrich Knefelkamp (Ed.): Cistercians: Norm, Culture, Reform - 900 Years of the Cistercians . Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 2001, ISBN 3-540-64816-X , pp. 182 . ( Digitized version )
- ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
- ↑ a b Historical municipality directory 2005 for Brandenburg (online as PDF file)
- ↑ a b Alexander Dinger: "Japanese film crew is initiated into the art of pond driving in Ossak" in Lausitzer Rundschau on November 30, 2010
- ↑ The Ossaker war memorial project online war memorials
