Werchen
Werchen ( Werge, Wergen or Werchow ) is a desert of Sorbian origin in Lower Lusatia in southern Brandenburg . It is located between the towns of Staupitz and the now excavated Grünhaus and belonged to Finsterwalde until its decline . But the Wercheners were parish in Bockwitz .
history
The desert is known regionally today as the Alte Höfe . In 1309 Werchen was first mentioned in a document due to a border dispute with the monastery village of Staupitz by a judgment of Otto von Landsberg and then finally in 1584 on February 15 and June 30, in the church records of Bockwitz at the baptism of two children, in which the "master tailor Gregor from Werchen "is named as the godfather. The Öder Zimmermann card (around 1614–1634) names the field name “Im Werchen” and the scoop fountain as “Wercher Born”.
At the beginning of the 1940s there were still remains of log houses. In 2009, the growing scoop fountain and the artificially created inlet ditch as well as five remaining 500-year-old oaks , which are associated with the locations of the houses, remind of the former village.
In April 1937, the Koyne lignite mine owned by Mitteldeutsche Stahlwerke AG was about to excavate part of the "Im Werchen" corridor, on which an old, large linden tree stood, which at that time was still regarded as the Werchen village linden tree. This linden tree was felled with a previous ceremony in memory of the now deserted village and with the singing of a school class.
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- "Das Ländchen" v. 1. u. April 2, 1937
- F. Bönisch: Past and present of the Cottbus district. New partial results on Niederlausitzer Wüstungen. 1980
- Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt v. May 5, 1928
- Chronicle v. 01979 Grünewalde, Part III, 2007
- K. Weinert: Series of publications "Heimatkundliche Notes", Part I a. II, 2008
- O. Bornschein in "Heimatland" v. December 7, 1922
- Oeder-Zimmermann Land Survey 1586 to 1633
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Coordinates: 51 ° 32 '30.9 " N , 13 ° 42' 3.7" E