Uckro

Uckro City of Luckau Coordinates: 51 ° 51 ′ 13 ″  N , 13 ° 36 ′ 34 ″  E
Height :	79 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	341  (Sep 9, 2014)
Incorporation :	June 1, 2002
Postal code :	15926
Primaries :	03544, 035454
Location of Uckro in Brandenburg
Uckro village church

Uckro ( Lower Sorbian Mokra ) is a district of the city of Luckau in the Dahme-Spreewald district in Brandenburg .

Geographical location

The district is located around eight kilometers west of the city center of Luckau. Paserin borders on Uckro in the north , followed by the following districts (clockwise): Pelkwitz , Langengrassau and Pitschen-Pickel . The federal highway 102 runs through the town in a west-east direction and the Berlin – Dresden railway line runs in a north-south direction .

History and etymology

Demolition of the castle ruins to obtain building material for new farmers , 1950

The name Uckro means something like wet village (Mockra) in Slavic and refers to the water-rich lowland in which the district is located. Slavs built a ring wall north of the district and can therefore be described as the first Uckro settlers. The first written mention comes from the year 1377 with the settlement by the Paserini family . At the end of the 14th, possibly also at the beginning of the 15th century, the parish built a stone church . In 1724 a manor was built outside the original area. A windmill, a sheep farm and a brick factory have survived from 1864. In 1928 the manor was combined with the community. The village experienced an economic boom when the owner of the manor, Ludwig von Uckro (until 1855 Ludwig Schlesinger), campaigned for a connection to the Berlin – Dresden railway line in 1875, creating the Luckau-Uckro station . In the course of the fighting in World War II , however, the castle burned to the ground in April 1945. In the 21st century, only a castle pond in the north of the district remained of the building. In October 1953 a German people's police officer was shot dead at the train station. More than 5,000 officers were looking for five suspicious Czechs who got off the train in Uckro while fleeing to West Berlin . Three reached their destination while two people were caught and sentenced to death in Czechoslovakia .

Culture and sights

• The village church Uckro is a stone church , which was probably built at the end of the 14th and beginning of the 15th century. In the first third of the 18th century, the parish added a baroque patronage box . Inside there is, among other things, an altarpiece that was made around 1700. It shows the Lord's Supper in the predella and the crucifixion of Christ , flanked by the birth and resurrection of Jesus Christ, in its main image, which is divided into three fields by columns of vine leaves . Above the main picture, the ascension between two angels with instruments of suffering is shown. The work created the Calauer cabinetmaker George Wolschke and the Lübbener barrel painter Michael dab .
• The monument erected in the churchyard for the Uckroers who fell in World War I is unfortunately in a deplorable condition. The names can no longer be read.
• In a farm built in 1765 there is a country and adventure museum with a farmhouse parlor, bedroom and kitchen based on historical models. It can be viewed after registering by telephone.

Economy and Infrastructure

Luckau-Uckro station

economy

Uckro is an agricultural district with an agricultural cooperative. In addition, there is a flower shop, a wage tax aid association, two restaurants and a company that makes bell ringing machines.

Education and sport

The city of Luckau maintains a day-care center and a youth club in Uckro. In addition, a sports and cultural association, the SKV Uckro, is involved . Two playgrounds and a sports field are available for sporting activities.

traffic

Bundesstraße 102 connects the district with Luckau in the east and Dahme / Mark in the west. To the north, the district road 6124 creates a connection to Pitschen-Pickel, while the district road 6133 leads south towards Langengrassau. From the train station there are connections to Rostock , Stralsund , Elsterwerda and Neubrandenburg . The regional transport company Dahme-Spreewald connects the district with line 466 to Falkenberg and Luckau.

Regular events

• Easter in the country and adventure museum
• Christmas Market

Web links

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

• Uckro , website of the city of Luckau, accessed on July 18, 2016.
• Article about Uckro in the Landschleicher broadcast , RBB website, accessed on July 18, 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Uckro , website of the city of Luckau, accessed on July 18, 2016.
2. ↑ Kai Dewes: Jewish nobility. The ennoblement of Jews in Europe in the 19th century. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-593-39775-7 , p. 200
3. ↑ Information board about Uckro on Uckroer Dorfstrasse at the corner of Paseriner Weg, July 2016.
4. ^ Marion Schulz: The criminal case of Uckro . In: Märkische Allgemeine , October 21, 2013, accessed on July 18, 2016.