Warthebruch

Ernst Henseler : The old Warta (1872)

The Warthebruch is a swamp and moor landscape in the former Brandenburg Neumark , which is now in Poland's Lubusz Voivodeship .

history

Prussia's King Friedrich II commissioned Franz Balthasar Schönberg von Brenkenhoff to drain and reclaim the region between Küstrin and Landsberg an der Warthe . The drainage took place from 1763 to 1767 analogous to the drainage of the Netzbruch and similar to that of the Oderbruch . This created 95,201 acres of arable land for the Prussian state .

Newly founded colonist villages after the reclamation:

• Ceylon
• Charleston
• Cocceji (around 1771)
• Cocceji- Neuwalde (1774)
• Cocejj- Neudorf (1774)
• Gerlachsthal (around 1771)
• Hamshire
• Hanmerecke
• Jamaica
• Landsberger Dutch
• Lossow (1774)
• Maryland
• New America
• Philadelphia
• Raumerswalde (around 1771)
• Sagittarius concern
• Sumatra

Dike captain

• 1774: Clearing
• 1810: Carl August Senff
• 1858: Emanuel Schmolling

See also

• Ernst Henseler , painter of the Warthebruch
• Warta Estuary National Park

literature

• Erich Neuhaus: The Friderician colonization in the Warthe and Netzebruch , Landsberg an der Warthe, 1906.
• Otto Kaplick: The Warthebruch, a German cultural landscape in the east , Holzner-Verlag, Würzburg, 1956.
• Zbigniew Czarnuch, Eckart Böhringer, Piotr Chara: The Warthebruch - the story of the taming of a river . German-Polish association Educatio Pro Europa Viadrina 2015.

Web links

• News about the old Neumark - Polish view of the Warthebruch (culture portal west-east)
• The wide world in the Warthebruch. The tendency towards the exotic, the view of world history and a dash of self-irony shaped the names of numerous localities (Kulturportal West-Ost)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Pfeil, Hermann Nördlinger: Kritische Blätter für Forst- und Jagdwissenschaft , Volume 34, Nicolaischen Buchhandlung, 1854, p. 224.
2. ↑ ^{a b} About the dike / walling of the Warthebruch as well as the reclamation and drainage of the Warthebruch in the Neumark east of the Oder. In: oststernberg.de. Retrieved May 17, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Lutz Zielicke: On the history of the villages Lossow and Cocceji (Landsberg / Warthe district) and its population from its foundation in 1774 to its expulsion in 1945.
4. ↑ Secret State Archives