Turnow
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Turnow
Turnow Turnow-Preilack municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 52 ′ 22 " N , 14 ° 23 ′ 23" E
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| Height : | 64 m above sea level NHN |
| Area : | 21.19 km² |
| Residents : | 890 (Dec. 31, 2006) |
| Population density : | 42 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | December 31, 2001 |
| Postal code : | 03185 |
| Area code : | 035601 |
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Turnow , Lower Sorbian Turnow is a municipality turnow-preilack in Spree-Neisse district in Brandenburg . Until it was merged with the Preilack community on December 31, 2001, Turnow was an independent community administered by the Peitz Office.
location
Turnow is located in Niederlausitz in the southern part of the Lieberoser Heide and is part of the official settlement area of the Sorbs / Wends . To the west is the Peitzer pond landscape . The city of Cottbus is just under 14 kilometers away. The surrounding towns are Preilack in the northeast, the city of Peitz in the southeast, the Cottbus district of Willmersdorf in the south, Drehnow in the southwest and Drachhausen in the northwest.
The federal highway 168 runs through Turnow from Cottbus to Beeskow . In addition, the state road 50 runs to Kolkwitz in the district of Turnow. In the north Turnow is surrounded by the forest areas of the Lieberoser Heide.
history
The village of Turnow emerged as a result of the construction of the Peitz fortress and was mentioned in a document in 1567 under the name "Neue Peiz". After many residents lost due to the fortification their living room, they settled shortly afterwards near the former sheep farm new about, making the Vorwerk "Tornow" was born. The place name comes from the Sorbian language and means “place where thorn bushes stand”.
In the village of Turnow there is a Dutch mill built in 1858 . It has been owned by the Dubrau family since 1892.
Turnow has always been in the Kingdom of Prussia and was part of the Cottbus district . On July 25, 1952, the community was assigned to the then newly formed Cottbus-Land district in the Cottbus district . After the reunification , Turnow was in the Cottbus district in Brandenburg until it was assigned to the newly formed Spree-Neisse district after the district reform in Brandenburg on December 6, 1993 . On December 31, 2001, the voluntary merger with the municipality of Preilack to form the municipality of Turnow-Preilack took place .
Population development
| Population development in Turnow from 1875 to 2000 | |||||||||||||
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| year | Residents | year | Residents | year | Residents | ||||||||
| 1875 | 548 | 1939 | 840 | 1981 | 840 | ||||||||
| 1890 | 848 | 1946 | 976 | 1985 | 823 | ||||||||
| 1910 | 865 | 1950 | 960 | 1989 | 811 | ||||||||
| 1925 | 818 | 1964 | 885 | 1995 | 807 | ||||||||
| 1933 | 834 | 1971 | 889 | 2000 | 890 | ||||||||
For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 836 inhabitants in Turnow in the 1880s, of which 828 were Sorbs (99%) and only 8 were Germans. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik still had a Sorbian-speaking population of 59.9%.
Personalities
In Turnow, the pastor Martin Buckwar ( Měto Bukwaŕ ; 1789–1843) was born, who campaigned for the preservation of the Sorbian language in Lower Lusatia. The Moravian missionary Maria Hartmann , b. Lobak (1798-1853), who worked in Suriname . A street and the parish hall are named after her. The teacher, folklorist and linguist Mjertyn Moń (Martin Moyn; 1848–1905) was born in Turnow as the son of a farmer. The street name Martin-Moyn-Ring and a plaque in front of the house where he was born remember him .
Web links
- Turnow in the RBB program Landschleicher on November 23, 2008
Individual evidence
- ↑ Community and district directory. In: geobasis-bb.de. Land surveying and geographic base information Brandenburg, accessed on September 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin: age - origin - meaning . be.bra Wissenschaft, 2005, p. 171 .
- ↑ Holländermühle Turnow opened. In: Niederlausitz-aktuell.de. Niederlausitz Aktuell, September 4, 2017, accessed on September 7, 2017 .
- ^ Turnow in the historical index of places. Retrieved September 7, 2017 .
- ↑ 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 September 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
- ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995.