Wergzahna

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Wergzahna
municipality Niedergörsdorf
Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ 34 ″  N , 12 ° 47 ′ 54 ″  E
Height : 112 m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.26 km²
Residents : 105  (Dec 31, 2006)
Population density : 13 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1997
Postal code : 14913
Area code : 033741
Anger in the center of Wergzahna
Anger in the center of Wergzahna

Wergzahna is a district of the Niedergörsdorf community in the south of the Teltow-Fläming district in Brandenburg . The place was an independent municipality until December 31, 1997.

location

Wergzahna is located in the southwest of Brandenburg on the border with Saxony-Anhalt in Fläming . The town of Jüterbog is about 20 kilometers away, and Wergzahna is the westernmost part of the Niedergörsdorf community and the westernmost town in the Teltow-Fläming district. The Wergzahnas district borders in the north on the districts of the Treuenbrietzen districts of Marzahna and Feldheim in the north, on Schönefeld in the east and on the villages of Klebitz in Saxony-Anhalt in the south-east, Rahnsdorf in the south and Kropstädt in the west.

Wergzahna is on the district road 7123. The federal road 2 (Wittenberg – Treuenbrietzen) is just under two kilometers to the west and the state road 82 (Treuenbrietzen – Seyda) three kilometers east of the village.

history

Wergzahna was first mentioned in 1388 as a village with the name Werkczane , the Slavic place name means something like "settlement above Zahna", the place is about six kilometers north of the former town of Zahna . The meaning of this name cannot be clearly explained. Other sources interpret the place name as "large hay village". Wergzahna historically belonged to the Electorate of Saxony-Wittenberg and there to the Wittenberg office . As part of this office Wergzahna was after the Congress of Vienna in the Kingdom of Prussia reclassified.

The municipality Wergzahna there belonged to the district of Wittenberg in the province of Saxony . After the GDR district reform in July 1952, Wergzahna was in the Jüterbog district in the Potsdam district . After German reunification , the municipality belonged to the Jüterbog district , where it joined the Niedergörsdorf office . Wergzahna has been in the Teltow-Fläming district since the district reform in 1993 . On December 31, 1997 Wergzahna and twelve other communities were incorporated into Niedergörsdorf and the office was then dissolved.

Attractions

Wergzahna village church
  • The Wergzahna village church , a small hall with an apse , was built towards the end of the 12th century. The half-timbered west tower dates from the 1930s (built between 1934 and 1936). The windows of the church date from 1864, apart from two older arched windows on the west wall. The church is equipped with a wooden altarpiece from the late 17th century.

Population development

year Residents
1875 130
1890 130
1910 120
year Residents
1925 117
1933 131
1939 120
year Residents
1946 200
1950 208
1964 163
year Residents
1971 167
1981 134
1985 135
year Residents
1989 121
1996 111

Territory of the respective year

Web links

Commons : Wergzahna  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Community and district directory. In: geobasis-bb.de. Land surveying and geographic base information Brandenburg, accessed on April 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin. Age - origin - meaning . be.bra Wissenschaft, Berlin 2005, p. 180 .
  3. ↑ Districts - Wergzahna. Niedegörsdorf community, accessed on April 3, 2019 .
  4. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments : Brandenburg. Edited by Gerhard Vinken and others, reviewed by Barbara Rimpel. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , p. 1152.
  5. ^ Historical municipality register 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 April 3, 2019 .