Welsickendorf

Welsickendorf Niederer Fläming municipality Coordinates: 51 ° 54 ′ 14 "  N , 13 ° 8 ′ 26"  E
Height :	99 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	198  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Incorporation :	December 31, 1997
Postal code :	14913
Area code :	033746
Village church

Welsickendorf is a district of the municipality of Niederer Fläming in the Teltow-Fläming district in Brandenburg on the border with Saxony-Anhalt . The place belongs to the Amt Dahme / Mark . Until December 31, 1997 Welsickendorf was an independent municipality in the Niederer Fläming district .

location

Welsickendorf is located on the southern edge of the Niedere Fläming about 17 kilometers south of Jüterbog . Surrounding villages are Borgisdorf in the north, Höfgen , Werbig and Gräfendorf in the northeast, Reinsdorf in the east, the districts of Ahlsdorf and Hohenkuhnsdorf in the town of Schönewalde in the Elbe-Elster district in the southeast and Stolzenhain / Hartmannsdorf in the south, which is already part of the town of Jessen (Elster) in The district of Linda (Elster) in the southwest, which is part of Saxony-Anhalt, and the villages of Körbitz in the west, which are again in Brandenburg, and Langenlipsdorf ( Niedergörsdorf municipality ) and Hohenahlsdorf in the northwest.

The federal highway 101 runs through Welsickendorf and connects the place with Jüterbog and Herzberg .

history

Welsickendorf was probably founded around 1150/1160 as a Flemish foundation. and was first mentioned in January 1307 as Welskendorf . The place name is derived from the Slavic word Welsigke and means place where alders are . The name probably originated from the transfer of the place name of the village Welsigke in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district . The church has, in a flyer for the stone church but also the names of relatives of the Belgian city Velzeke-Ruddershove out. The place is designed as an anger village.

The village church of Welsickendorf is a late Gothic field stone building that was built in the 13th or 14th century. The half-timbered tower was added later; it was placed on top of the church in 1858. In 1406 there was an attack by citizens of Jüterbog , who sacked the place. During the Thirty Years' War the school and church burned down in 1637; but were rebuilt. The village suffered from looting and the plague . After the Congress of Vienna , Welsickendorf came to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 , where the village was in the Luckenwalde district . In 1865 and 1879 Welsickendorf were destroyed by a major fire.

In 1911 workers replaced the existing mill in the village with a new one. This "new" mill used to be near Wittenberg . During the Second World War it was destroyed in 1944, but rebuilt in 1948 and was in operation until 1982. Welsickendorf was one of the few villages in which no land reform was carried out in 1945 . On July 25, 1952, the community was assigned to the newly formed Jüterbog district in the Potsdam district . On January 11, 1962 Höfgen and on April 1, 1974 Körbitz were incorporated into Welsickendorf.

After the reunification , the community was in the Jüterbog district in Brandenburg . After the district reform in Brandenburg on December 6, 1993 , Welsickendorf was finally assigned to the newly formed Teltow-Fläming district . On December 31, 1997, Welsickendorf was merged with the communities of Borsigdorf, Graefendorf, Hohenahlsdorf, Hohengörsdorf , Meinsdorf , Nonnendorf , Reinsdorf, Riesdorf , Schlenzer , Sernow , Waltersdorf , Werbig and Wiepersdorf to form the new community of Niederer Fläming . Welsickendorf has been part of the Dahme / Mark office since January 1, 2018 .

Population development

Population development in Welsickendorf from 1875 to 1996
year	Residents		year	Residents		year	Residents
1875	331		1939	299		1981	476
1890	345		1946	441		1985	465
1910	363		1950	436		1989	519
1925	312		1964	352		1992	488
1933	307		1971	322		1996	451

Attractions

The village church of Welsickendorf was probably built in the second half of the 13th or early 14th century. Inside there is an altarpiece from 1692, which Finsterwalder cabinet maker Abraham Jäger created together with a fifth and the pulpit. A church leader from the church district of Zossen-Fläming points out that this is Jäger's first work in which the resurrection scene that originally existed in the classic sequence was replaced by the burial. All three pictures were created by the Lübben painter Michael Scharbe .

tourism

The Flaeming Skate route runs for eight kilometers through Welsickendorf.

Web links

Commons : Welsickendorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Welsickendorf on the side of the municipality of Niederer Fläming

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} districts - Höfgen. Niederer Fläming municipality, accessed on April 9, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Evangelisches Pfarramt Borgisdorf (ed.): Dorfkirche Welsickendorf , Flyer, without date, p. 2.
3. ↑ Welsickendorf. In: zeitstimmen.de. Retrieved August 2, 2017 . 
4. ^ Welsickendorf in the historical index of places. Retrieved August 2, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Historical municipality directory of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. (PDF; 331 kB) District Teltow-Fläming. State Office for Data Processing and Statistics State of Brandenburg, December 2006, accessed on August 2, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Evangelical Church District Zossen-Fläming Synodal Committee for Public Relations (Ed.): Between Heaven and Earth - God's Houses in the Church District Zossen-Fläming , Laserline GmbH, Berlin, p. 180, 2019