Werchau

Werchau City close Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ′ 40 ″  N , 13 ° 18 ′ 54 ″  E
Height :	88 m
Residents :	164  (December 31, 2011)
Incorporation :	November 1, 2001
Postal code :	04936
Area code :	035361

Werchau is a district of the town of Schlieben in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg .

location

Werchau is approx. 7.5 kilometers as the crow flies northwest of the core town of Schlieben on the L 721 , which runs from Jeßnigk to Wiepersdorf . It borders in the northwest and north on Wildenau and Wiepersdorf (both places are districts of the town of Schönewalde ), in the east on Freileben (district of the Lebusa community ), in the southeast on the district Schlieben, in the south on Jeßnigk and in the west on Dubro . The district covers an area of ​​824.6 hectares.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1346 as Werchenaw and was an electoral Saxon fief . The place name is derived from Slavic and means settlement on an elevation . According to the settlement structure, Werchau is a street green village.

In 1360 Duke Rudolf bought the village from Hans Ratzigk. In 1419 the duke lent his property to Hans von Roßtog and Heinrich von der Lochow. After the death of Heinrich von der Lochow, Jorge von Draendorff received this part of the village from Elector Ernst as a fief in 1467 . In 1529 14 hoof farmers and a Kossät lived in Werchau. In 1591 the former property of von Roßtog is in the hands of Georg Löser. At the beginning of the 17th century, the entire village was finally owned by the von Drandorf family. Georg von Drandorf died in 1671. His heirs could not hold this property and in 1690 a von Lichtenhayn family is named as the owner. Further changes in ownership are assumed for the period up to the 18th century. There is evidence of a windmill in Werchau in 1721. In 1980 there were still remains of a post mill on the Mühlenberg north of the town center; these have completely disappeared today. At the end of the 18th century the estate belonged to the von Kleist family . A Mrs. Colonel von Kleist sold it in 1814 to Friedrich von Kleist on Tzschernewitz (today Czarnowice near Gubin , Poland). In 1835 he gave his property to Wilhelm Bogislaw Kleist vom Lotz and the estate was owned by the von Kleist family until 1922. With the exception of two hoof estates , the manor had patrimonial jurisdiction over the entire place.

Until 1815 Werchau belonged to the Saxon office of Schweinitz . Saxony had to cede the Schweinitz office to Prussia on May 21, 1815. This was combined with the previously Electoral Saxon offices of Schlieben and Seyda with only minor changes in area and borders to form the new Prussian district of Schweinitz ( administrative district of Merseburg , province of Saxony ). From 1939 onwards, the district was given the uniform imperial designation Landkreis Schweinitz. In 1950 it was renamed the Herzberg district. As early as 1952, the district was divided into the two new districts Herzberg and Jessen , Werchau became part of the Herzberg district. After the reunification, the district came to the re-established state of Brandenburg. In the course of the formation of offices in Brandenburg in 1992, Werchau formed the office of Schlieben with 15 other municipalities . On November 1, 2001, the communities of Frankenhain, Jagsal, Oelsig, Wehrhain, Werchau and the town of Schlieben merged to form the new town of Schlieben. Since then Werchau has been part of the city of Schlieben.

Population development from 1875 to 2000
year	Residents		year	Residents		year	Residents		year	Residents
1875	250		1946	310		1989	187		1995	178
1890	250		1950	307		1990	186		1996	173
1910	230		1964	242		1991	188		1997	167
1925	224		1971	251		1992	189		1998	168
1933	210		1981	196		1993	184		1999	172
1939	194		1985	200		1994	180		2000	169

Church organization

Werchau was an independent parish in the Middle Ages and early modern times with a branch church in Wiepersdorf. Around 1891 it was a branch church of Wildenau. Today Werchau belongs to the Evangelical Church Community of Knippelsdorf .

Culture and sights

The list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg lists four architectural monuments for Werchau:

Werchau village church

• Village church . The church is a rectangular stone building from the 14th century. On the north side, a patronage box was added in 1783. On the west side, a strongly indented small west tower was built in 1934/5. The interior still has furnishings from the mid-19th century. The tombstone of Melchior von Drandorf is attached to the south wall of the tower.
• Werchau 13 farmhouse. The elaborate exposed brick building with a jamb under a gable roof by the middle farmer August Haase was built in 1912.
• Werchau 30 Drive-through barn of a medium-sized farm. The gable, ten-column half-timbered building with partitions made of adobe was built in 1794 according to the inscription.
• Werchau 33 Entrance barn of a small farm. The nine-column half-timbered building was built at the end of the 18th century as the rear end of a three-sided courtyard.

The former manor with a grain distillery built around 1860 is also worth seeing, even if it is not a registered monument.

For decades, one of the annual cultural highlights in Werchau has been the traditional pond sailing in June.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Müller's Large German Local Book 2012: Complete local dictionary. 33. revised and exp. Ed., Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-027420-2 , online at Google Books , p. 1494
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Internet presence of the office of Schlieben
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Sybille Gramlich / Irmelin Küttner: Elbe-Elster district part 1: The city of Herzberg / Elster and the offices of Falkenberg / Uebigau, Herzberg, Schlieben and Schönewalde 1998
4. ^ Office Schlieben (Ed.): In the Schliebener Land . 1994.
5. ↑ Home calendar for the Schweinitz district, year 1922, p. 35.
6. ↑ Formation of the offices of Vetschau, Schlieben, Angermünde-Land, Grünheide-Großräschen, Lübbenau, Unteres Dahmeland and Calau. Announcement by the Minister of the Interior of June 30, 1992. Official Gazette for Brandenburg - Joint Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg, Volume 3, Number 54, July 31, 1992, p. 968/9.
7. ↑ Announcement of the Ministry of the Interior of September 7, 2001 formation of a new town Schlieben. Official Journal for Brandenburg Common Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg, Volume 12, 2001, Number 44, Potsdam, October 30, 2001, pp. 694/5 PDF
8. ↑ Historical municipality directory 2005 for Brandenburg ( online as PDF file )
9. ↑ Schönermark, Gustav: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Schweinitz district. (Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the province of Saxony and adjacent areas; 15th issue), Halle adS, Hendel, 1891
10. ↑ Evangelical Church in Central Germany, Church District Bad Liebenwerda  ( 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.  
11. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg Elbe-Elster district as at: December 31, 2012 PDF ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

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

• Internet presence of the office Schlieben