Desert grove (Vetschau / Spreewald)

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Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 3 ″  N , 14 ° 7 ′ 13 ″  E
Height : 67 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 80
Incorporation : 1st January 1974
Incorporated into: Laasow
Postal code : 03226
Area code : 035604
Village church
Village church

Wüstenhain , Lower Sorbian Huštań , is a part of the village in the district Laasow in the city Vetschau / Spreewald in Oberspreewald-Lausitz in Brandenburg . Until January 1, 1974, Wüstenhain was an independent municipality.

location

Desert grove is located eight kilometers southeast of Vetschau and 15 kilometers southwest of Cottbus in Niederlausitz . The place is on the Greifenhainer Fließ . Surrounding villages are Briesen in the north, the Kolkwitz districts Wiesendorf in the northeast and Brodtkowitz in the east, the Drebkau district Casel in the south and Laasow in the west. Desert grove is located in the far north of the Lusatian Lakeland on the Gräbendorfer See .

After Wüstenhain the district road 6623 leads from Laasow or from Briesen. State road 524 runs two kilometers to the west and north of the town.

history

The place Wüstenhain, created as a dead-end village, was first mentioned in a document on July 22, 1377 under the name Wüstenhayn , at that time the place was owned by the von Bichow family . The German place name Wüstenhain suggests a clearing settlement, and is a translation of the original Sorbian name of the place, Pusty Gózd , which was later changed to Huštań . Desert grove was completely destroyed during the Thirty Years War . In 1725 the von Heynitz family acquired the Wüstenhain estate. Until 1806 the majority of was Sorbs and turning inhabited place Saxon border town to the Prussian province of Brandenburg ( district Cottbus ).

On the night of June 29, 1860, the church in Wüstenhain burned down completely after an arson attack. In 1864 a new church building was finally inaugurated. In 1898 a school was opened in Wüstenhain. The place is located in the former Lusatian lignite mining area and was intended to be excavated for the Gräbendorf open-cast mine in the 1980s and early 1990s , which is why many residents left the place. Due to the closure of the opencast mine in 1992, however, the site was preserved.

After the Congress of Vienna , Niederlausitz and with it Wüstenhain were assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia . From 1952 the place was in the district of Calau . The place Wüstenhain was merged on January 1, 1974 together with the places Briesen , Laasow and Tornitz to form the municipality of Laasow , which has belonged to the city of Vetschau / Spreewald since October 26, 2003 .

Population development

Population development in Wüstenhain from 1875 to 1971
year Residents year Residents
1875 132 1890 158
1910 129 1925 147
1933 132 1939 117
1946 173 1950 176
1964 137 1971 108

Culture and sights

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interesting facts about desert grove. (No longer available online.) In: Niederlausitzer-kreisel.de. Archived from the original on March 24, 2004 ; accessed on May 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin. Age - origin - meaning . be.bra Wissenschaft, Berlin 2005, p. 186 .
  3. ↑ Arnost Muka : Mena ds. městow a wsow. Bautzen / Budyšin 1928.
  4. ↑ Chronicle of Desert Grove. In: wuestenhain.de. Accessed May 1, 2019 .
  5. ↑ StBA Area: changes from 01.01. until December 31, 2003
  6. ↑ Brandenburg Statistics (PDF)

Web links

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