Wormlage

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Wormlage
City of Großräschen
Coordinates: 51 ° 36 ′ 19 ″  N , 13 ° 54 ′ 10 ″  E
Height : 118 m above sea level NHN
Area : 12.44 km²
Residents : 395  (Sep 1, 2017)
Population density : 32 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 2001
Postal code : 01983
Area code : 035329
Location of Wormlages in the official atlas of 1757

Wormlage ( Lower Sorbian Wórmlag ) is a district of the southern Brandenburg town of Großräschen in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district .

geography

The place Wormlage lies in the Niederlausitz . It is the westernmost part of the city of Großräschen. To the east is the district of Barzig and the town of Großräschen. In the south, the Saalhausen district and the Schipkau districts border Drochow and Annahütte . In the north are the districts of the municipality Bronkow , Lipten and Lug . To the west of Wormlage lies the municipality of Sallgast with its towns of Dollenchen , Sallgast and Göllnitz , which is already part of the Elbe-Elster district.

Wormlage, aerial photo (2015)

history

Local history

In 1396, Wormlage was first mentioned in a transcript as Wurmluge . The name is derived from the term worm , which can mean worm or insect , and denotes a swamp where insects live. The name element -lage goes back to Lug , which is derived from the Lower Sorbian Ług Wiesenland or grass marsh . In this case, Lug is already a loan word from Lower Sorbian . The place was named in 1456 as Warmelage , 1492 as Wormlagk , 1541 as Wormligk , 1551 as Wormlugk and 1563 as Wormlag and in 1880 as Wormlag . There was a manor in the village . During the Thirty Years War in 1642 the place was devastated by Swedish troops. The manor and all buildings except for one and the tavern were destroyed. Only 28 able-bodied people lived in the village.

At the beginning of the 16th century, the von Köckritz and the von Kalkreuth family appear as owners of the Wormlage manor. In 1549 the estate was sold to the brothers Georg, Heinrich and Hans von Sahla. In 1648, Heinrich Friedrich von Lüttichau is named as the owner, whose widow sold Wormlage to Heinrich Otto von Köckritz in 1664. In 1678 Conrad von Rohr bought the estate, which remained in the family until the beginning of the following century. Before 1715, Heinrich Dietloff von Hacke was named as the owner before the property passed to the state deputy of the Guben district, Adolf Isaak von Rackel. Before Ernst Albrecht von Schönfeldt (1746–1782) was enfeoffed with the manor Wormlage, including his seats and the parish seat, in 1776, Caspar Ehrenfried von Kieckbusch (1755) and Lieutenant Colonel Johann Georg von Brandenstein appeared as owners. Ernst von Schönfeldt was married to Johanna Marie Freiin Digeon von Monteton (1752–1803) who, as a widow, married Friedrich August Wilhelm von Pannwitz (1747–1805) on Müschen in 1786 and brought the estate with her. At that time, Wormlage is said to have been a small cultural center, which is also mentioned by the great German poet Heinrich von Kleist in his letters when he reports on visits to his Pannwitz relatives in Wormlage, as his mother was the sister of the landlord. During the Pannwitz ownership period until 1885, the lynx was especially drained. Hand in hand with this went the peat cut , which was a sought-after fuel. In the middle of the 19th century the village of Wormlage consisted of 61 residential buildings with 600 inhabitants.

Wormlage belonged to the district of Calau . From 1818 to 1864 there were two windmills, a sheep farm, a brick factory and a restaurant in the village. The drainage of the surrounding area, the Lugks, brought an economic boom from 1850 onwards. In 1867 a post office was set up in the village.

After the flag inauguration of the gymnastics club on June 18, 1899, the landowner Freiherr von Schönberg donated land on the so-called Krähenberg for the construction of a sports field. The sports field was inaugurated in 1913 and had to be relocated in 1954. At the beginning of the 20th century, many Wormlager farm workers found better paid work in the surrounding, newly opened lignite mines.

On April 17, 1917, Baron von Schönberg sold the manor to Hugo Gabelmann, the general director of the Niederlausitz brown coal works . Gabelmann had the castle rebuilt and the adjacent park designed. After Gabelmann had a fatal accident during a company inspection in the overburden of the Viktoria 1 mine , he was buried in the Pusch , a wooded area behind the castle grounds.

At the end of the Second World War, the Red Army entered Wormlage on the night of April 22, 1945 . Most of the residents had already fled to the west. Eight of the forty or so remaining residents were killed. When Wormlage was captured, two houses were burned down. On May 19, 1945, most of the refugees returned to Wormlage. 69 Wormlager fell in World War II.

After the war, the lands of the manor were distributed in the land reform. The manor house was demolished in 1949.

In 1964, Wormlage was connected to the central water network. From 1992 to 2001 Wormlage was part of the Großräschen office . On December 31, 2001, the place was incorporated into the city of Großräschen.

Population development

Population development in Wormlage from 1875 to 2001
year Residents year Residents year Residents year Residents year Residents year Residents
1875 504 1933 685 1964 624 1989 471 1993 465 1997 478
1890 514 1939 641 1971 591 1990 459 1994 474 1998 469
1910 632 1946 713 1981 498 1991 450 1995 475 1999 468
1925 659 1950 719 1985 474 1992 460 1996 485 2000 475

Culture and sights

Village church

In the village there is an extensive park with ponds that belonged to the former manor house. It was reconstructed in 2000. There are also remains of two windmills in Wormlage.

The Wormlager village church, which was restored in the 1990s, is one of the architectural monuments of the town of Großräschen . The foundation stone for the church tower was laid on July 12, 1914. The small church bell was donated as early as 1917.

Since June 12, 1921, a war memorial in front of the church has been commemorating the 30 residents of Wormlage who died in the First World War .

Infrastructure

The federal road 96 runs through the village from Großräschen to Finsterwalde .

People connected to Wormlage

Hartnick (left)

The road cyclist and trainer Hans-Joachim Hartnick was born on January 12, 1955 in Wormlage. Hartnick was world champion and won the peace ride .

The writer Judith Rave worked as an educator for the children of the State Deputy von Schoenfeld in Wormlage. She died here in 1807.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wormlage district. In: grossraeschen.de. City of Großräschen, accessed April 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Götz Frhr. von Houwald : The Niederlausitz manors and their owners. Volume IV, Part II, p. 575, ISBN 3-7686-4130-9
  3. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2001
  4. ↑ Brandenburg Statistics (PDF)

literature

  • Local chronicle 600 years Wormlage (1396-1996)
  • Publication series for local history research in the Senftenberg district , issue No. 1
  • Ernst Eichler : The place names of Niederlausitz . VEB Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1975.

Web links

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