Wellmitz

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Wellmitz
Community Neißemünde
Coordinates: 52 ° 3 ′ 51 ″  N , 14 ° 41 ′ 59 ″  E
Height : 59 m
Area : 24.58 km²
Residents : 868  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 35 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 2001
Postal code : 15898
Area code : 033652

Wellmitz ( Wjelmice in Lower Sorbian ) is a village in the southeast of the state of Brandenburg in the Oder-Spree district . Since 2001 it has belonged to the municipality of Neißemünde as a district .

geography

Wellmitz with its slightly more than 900 inhabitants is located about 13 kilometers north of Guben and about 4 kilometers west of the Oder .

history

From the first mention to the 21st century

Evangelical Church in Wellmitz

In 1300 Welmenicz was first mentioned in a certificate issued by Margrave Diezmann for the Neuzelle monastery . In 1370, Charles IV confirmed Wellmitz in a document as the founding village for the Neuzelle monastery.

In 1846 Wellmitz received a stop on the Lower Silesian-Märkische Railway .

In 1848, on the night of April 5th to 6th, a large fire destroyed 38 farmsteads in the village, and two people were also killed. The church of that time with its two clapboard-roofed wooden towers as well as the parish and school building burned down. Arson was suspected to be the cause, but this could never be finally clarified.

From 1848 the church was rebuilt on the foundation walls of the burned down church as a neo-Gothic brick building and consecrated in 1854 . As a formerly independent municipality in the Neuzelle district , Wellmitz became part of the municipality of Neißemünde on December 31, 2001.

Acting mayor of the place is Ursula Donner.

Population development

Number of inhabitants
year 1875 1890 1910 1925 1933 1939 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996
Residents 1146 ** 1225 ** 1171 * 1202 * 1178 * 1146 1 888 *** 881 *** 881 *** 918 *** 898 ***

Sources and reference dates :

State Office for Data Processing and Statistics Brandenburg, Historical Community Directory of the State of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005 - Landkreis Oder-Spree (excluding 1939)
1 : Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990
*: on June 16 of each year; **: on December 1st of each year; ***: on December 31 of each year

Attractions

Atonement crosses on the cemetery wall
War memorial

church

Today's Protestant church is a simple brick building with an apse and is a listed building . The square west tower is 49 meters high.

Atonement crosses

On the western wall of the cemetery there are four medieval atonement crosses. According to an old legend, the four sons of a large farmer fought over their father's property in the immediate vicinity of the churchyard. During the violent confrontation, the youngest child's legs were cut off; one had his right arm cut off and the third his head. The remaining fourth son, who inherited the economy, had three stone crosses set here. According to the legend, these are provided with reliefs: one stone has no legs (only the head, torso and arms can be seen); the other has only one arm; the head is missing on the third stone. In the wall of the churchyard there is a fourth cross with a chiseled sword.
A fifth cross reported by older sources has been lost.

More Attractions

  • War memorial
  • Farmhouses from the turn of the century 1900 with facade decorations, the houses in Lindenstrasse 9 and 11 are among the architectural monuments in the municipality of Neißemünde
  • Sandstone coat of arms of Abbot Martinus (1727–1741) on the gable of the barn of the former Schmidtschen inn

traffic

Wellmitz station

Wellmitz station is on the Lower Silesian-Märkische Railway . The German Railway offers passenger hourly links with the regional express -line RE 11 via Eisenhüttenstadt to Frankfurt (Oder) and to Guben on, but not in the morning 22-6 PM.

The federal highway 112 runs past the village about two kilometers away.

Personalities of the village

  • Martinus Graff, born in Wellmitz in 1678, abbot at Neuzelle Abbey from 1727 to 1741
  • Hermann Grosse (1854–1933), prehistoric, grew up in Wellmitz

Web links

Commons : Wellmitz  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Community and district directory of the state of Brandenburg. Land surveying and geographic base information Brandenburg (LGB), accessed on June 21, 2020.
  2. ↑ Entry "Wjelmice" in the Lower Sorbian place name database on dolnoserbski.de
  3. ^ Wellmitz information from the Neuzelle administrative office, accessed on October 21, 2010.
  4. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2001
  5. ↑ State Office for Data Processing and Statistics Brandenburg, Historical Community Directory of the State of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005 - Landkreis Oder-Spree  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 372 kB) @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.mdf.brandenburg.de  
  6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Guben district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: Landkreis Oder-Spree (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum
  8. ↑ Wellmitz Suehnekreuz.de