Wild pit

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Wild pit
Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 16 ″  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 3 ″  E
Height : 94 m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.2 km²
Residents : 251  (2019)
Population density : 60 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : September 27, 1998
Incorporated into: Wahrenbrück
Postal code : 04924
Area code : 035341

Wildgrube was an independent municipality until 1998. On September 27, 1998, the place lost its independence. It is now a district of Uebigau-Wahrenbrück in the Brandenburg district of Elbe-Elster . From 1952 to 1993 Wildgrube belonged to the Bad Liebenwerda district . It is located about 10 kilometers north of the city of Bad Liebenwerda in the Niederlausitzer Heidelandschaft nature park . In addition to the main town, the districts Braunkohlenwerk (BKW) and Wildgrube-Bahnhof belong to Wildgrube.

Wildgrube, aerial photo (2015)

history

Village street

In 1309 the village was first mentioned under the name "Wolfsgrube" and in 1335 it was called "Wyltgrube". Around 1383 Wildgrube came into the possession of Kursachsen. The lords of Ileburg owned Wildgrube and the surrounding villages and towns and pledged it to the lords of Köckritz in 1384 . In 1516, Wildgrube fell to the electoral office of Liebenwerda and in the same year it was largely freed from compulsory labor. In 1589 3 gardeners and 14 farmers lived in the village, who cultivated 12 Hufen communal fields.

Church in Wildgrube

In the Thirty Years' War in 1637, when the Swedish troops of General Johan Banér captured Torgau in January , they moved through the Elbe-Elster-Land and Wildgrube was looted and set on fire, and the place burned down completely. After that only two old women lived here, who lived by begging .

Due to the Congress of Vienna , the place was assigned to the new district of Liebenwerda and thus Prussia in the spring of 1815 . In 1816 the place had 102 inhabitants and in 1835 there were 19 houses, 109 inhabitants, 161 sheep, 25 horses, 114 cattle and 57 pigs.

On December 1, 1871, the Cottbus - Falkenberg / Elster section of the Halle-Sorau-Gubener Railway was opened and brought an economic upswing in the region. In order to ensure the removal of the coal, a siding was later built to the briquette factory.

With the beginning of the mining era at the end of the 19th century, and especially with the construction of the Wilhelm briquette factory No. 61 in 1896 near Wildgrube, the number of residents increased considerably. In 1910 there were already 456 people living in the village and mining developed into the most important employer. Over the next 25 years the place expanded to the south and east, and the Hungerbornweg and the Lehmgrubenweg were built on. Meadows and forests became residential areas.

Memorial at train kilometer 106.7

In 1933 the local volunteer fire brigade was founded, and in the 1970s a new fire station was built in the town center . In the course of the incorporation, it was incorporated into the Uebigau-Wahrenbrück fire brigade and belongs to the Eastern unit in this. Since 2017 there is again a children's and youth fire brigade in the village. The comrades organize some events every year, such as E.g. Easter fire and summer festival.

During the Second World War , a P-51 Mustang crashed on March 7, 1945 near Wildgrube. On April 23, 1945, advancing Red Army troops liberated a death transport from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp with more than 2,000 Jewish prisoners , which has gone down in history as a Lost Train at kilometer 106.7, which is located in the Wildgrube district . A typhus epidemic that broke out on the train killed more than 500 people during and after the journey. In 1975 a memorial was erected on the railway.

In 1946 the place had 758 inhabitants due to the immigration of resettlers and temporary accommodation of refugees. A community-owned church was built in Wildgrube from 1949 to 1951, as many Christians immigrated and the place had no church until then. In 1956 there were still 600 inhabitants.

The town's first school was opened in 1811, moved twice and expanded in 1970. It had been called POS Heinz Kapelle since 1976 and was converted into a day-care center after it was closed in 1986. The children have been attending school in Wahrenbrück since 1986 .

School with extension, now daycare center

In 1991 the lignite plant was shut down and in 1996 the factory was subsequently demolished. What was left was an empty industrial area which has not yet been used again, next to it are isolated houses, some of which are still empty today. The siding, which connected the factory to the Reichsbahn network, was also dismantled.

On September 27, 1998, Wildgrube was incorporated into the city of Wahrenbrück together with the communities of Saxdorf , Beutersitz , Bönitz , Domsdorf , Kauxdorf , Marxdorf , Prestewitz , Rothstein , Beiersdorf and Winkel . On December 31, 2001, Wahrenbrück and the city of Uebigau were merged with the communities of Bahnsdorf , Drasdo and Wiederau and renamed Uebigau-Wahrenbrück .

The village club was founded on June 25, 2011. This organizes parties and takes care of the local history.

Population development

Population development of Wildgrube
year Residents year Residents year Residents year Residents
1637 2 1890 170 1971 535 1994 318
1816 102 1910 300/456 1981 396 1995 321
1823 150 1925 490 1985 378 1996 309
1835 109 1933 517 1989 350 1997 315
1841 115 1939 467 1990 334 2014 299
1843 130 1946 758 1991 333 2016 250
1854 160 1950 703 1992 322 2019 251
1875 150 1964 511 1993 325

Since the fall of the Wall , the place has had almost 30% of the population, but there have also been influx of young families, which has benefited the place a lot in recent years and has ensured that there are almost no uninhabited houses.

Waters

In the district Wildgrube is the rest of hole 120, it originated in coal mining from 1898 to 1912. Not much of the mining is visible on this pond, now beavers are native to the pond and it is mainly used for fishing. The area is bounded to the north by the Rutengraben. In the south of the district there is a very swampy forest and meadow area, which is drained through the Riecke ditch. In addition, a small ditch flows through the locality, since this drains large arable land in the east of the village, it often causes flooding of the adjacent street in heavy rain and causes many cellars to fill up. There are two ponds in the village that are used for fishing but also as extinguishing water ponds .

The entire area is drained into the Black Elster .

Infrastructure / traffic

The most important road in town is the L60, it leads from Lauchhammer via Finsterwalde through Wildgrube and ends at the B101 in the neighboring town of Beutersitz (train station) and has little traffic. There are also smaller roads such as B. K6216 (Beutersitzer Str.) And the K6219 (Domsdorfer Strasse) with very little traffic. The place is very easy to reach via the federal highway 101 , but the next motorway A13 is almost 50 km away.
The Cottbus – Falkenberg / Elster railway line also runs through Wildgrube; the next stop is in the neighboring town of Beutersitz, around 1.5 km away. A regional train stops there approx. Every 2 hours. The connection to local transport is relatively good at peak times by bus, but the place is difficult to reach in the evening or during the holiday season.

Business

The largest and oldest company in town is a bakery founded in 1911 in the town center. In addition, a tiler and a small construction company are craftsmen in the village. There is a hairdressing salon at the train station and an inn in the center that is no longer open every day. Farms and cooperatives have been around since the turn of time no longer Wildgrube. Most of the residents are workers in larger companies in the area or assembly workers.

politics

Mayor is Mr. Gisbert Eulitz. The former mayor of Uebigau-Wahrenbrück for many years is Andreas Claus, who lives in Wildgrube. From 2020 the place and the entire city of Uebigau-Wahrenbrück will belong to the Liebenwerda community.

Culture and sights

  • Village church with memorial stone "In memory of our fallen and missing from the war of 1939–1945"
  • War memorial in honor of the fallen soldiers of the First World War
  • Memorial site commemorating the lost train at kilometer 106.7
Here in the so-called snow forest at the end of April 1945, 17 dead from the train were buried in a mass grave on the instructions of the Red Army . In 1975 a memorial was set up on this site.
  • Historical washing area

Web links

Commons : Wildgrube  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Gottfried Gruber , Johann Samuel Publication : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . Leipzig (1818-1889). books.google.de
  2. ↑ Rudolf Matthies: Devastated Home . In: Working groups of the friends of nature and home of the German cultural association Bad Liebenwerda district (Hrsg.): Home calendar for the Bad Liebenwerda district . Bad Liebenwerda 1960, p. 142 to 148 .
  3. ^ M. Karl Fitzkow, Fritz Stoy : Death and Fire of the Thirty Years' War . In: District Museum Bad Liebenwerda, Working Group for Homeland Literature of the German Cultural Association District Bad Liebenwerda (Hrsg.): Yearbook for the District Bad Liebenwerda . tape 1969/70 . Bad Liebenwerda, S. 61-64 .
  4. ↑ Overview of the population and the number of livestock in 1835 . In: Die Schwarze Elster-Our home in words and pictures . No. 596 . Bad Liebenwerda 1985, p. 8-10 .
  5. ↑ lmbv.de (PDF)
  6. ↑ lr-online.de
  7. ↑ Source school chronicle of the place
  8. ↑ Changes in the municipalities of Germany, see 1998. StBA
  9. ↑ a b Historical municipality register 2005 for Brandenburg. (PDF)
  10. ↑ Dorfclub Wildgrube founded in 2011 ( Memento of the original dated August 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.brandenburg-abc.de
  11. ↑ Alexander August Mutzell: New topographic-Stattisch-Geographical Dictionary of the Prussian State .
  12. ↑ Overview of the population and the number of livestock in 1835 . In: Die Schwarze Elster - Our home in words and pictures . No. 596 . Bad Liebenwerda 1985, p. 8-10 .
  13. ^ The administrative district of Merseburg by Christian August Scharfe .
  14. ↑ Handbook of the Province of Saxony 1843 .
  15. ↑ Information brochure for residents and guests . City of Uebigau-Wahrenbrück.
  16. ↑ Handbook of the Province of Saxony 1854 .
  17. ↑ Information brochure for residents and guests . City of Uebigau-Wahrenbrück.
  18. ↑ lmbv.de (PDF)