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Municipality Alt Zauche-Wußwerk
Coordinates: 51 ° 55 ′ 38 ″  N , 14 ° 3 ′ 3 ″  E
Height : 55 m above sea level NHN
Area : 23.26 km²
Residents : 175  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 8 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : October 26, 2003
Postal code : 15913
Area code : 03546
Half-timbered yard Wusswerk

Wußwerk (until 1938 Wusswergk , Lower Sorbian Wózwjerch ) is a district of the municipality of Alt Zauche-Wußwerk in the Dahme-Spreewald district in Brandenburg . Until the merger with Alt Zauche in 2003, Wußwerk was an independent municipality administered by the Oberspreewald Office.

location

Wußwerk is located in Lower Lusatia about twelve kilometers east of the city of Lübben (Spreewald) . Surrounding villages are of the municipality Neu Zauche belonging district Caminchen in the north, Neu Zauche in the east, Burg-Kauper in the southeast, which the city Lübbenau / Spreewald belonging districts Leipe and Lehde in the south, Alt Zauche in the southwest, Burglehn and Lübbener district Radensdorf in the west as well as the district of Briesensee, which in turn belongs to Neu Zauche, in the northwest.

Wußwerk is located in the northern part of the Spreewald Biosphere Reserve . The Inner Oberspreewald connects to the south . In the north, Wußwerk is surrounded by the extensive forest areas of the Briesener Luchs .

history

Wusswerk on the Urmes table sheet 4050 Straupitz from 1846

Wußwerk was first mentioned in 1340 as "Wußwerch". The place name comes from the Wendish language and means "village below a hill". The place name corresponds to the location. In the early years the population in Wußwerk lived mainly from fishing .

Until 1938 the place was officially called "Wusswergk", the spelling of the place name was then changed to today's " Wusswerk" in the course of the Germanization of place names in the Third Reich .

Before 1815 Wußwerk was in the Lower Lusatian Krummspree district of the Electorate, from 1806 Kingdom of Saxony . The place was administered there by the Neu Zauche Office. As a result of the political reorganization after the Congress of Vienna , Wusswerk came into the Kingdom of Prussia . There the community was in the district of Lübben (Spreewald) in the administrative district of Frankfurt . On July 25, 1952, Wußwerk was assigned to the newly founded Lübben district in the Cottbus district . After the reunification of the GDR , Wußwerk was initially in the Lübben district in Brandenburg . On October 1, 1992, the community joined the newly formed Straupitz Office , which was later renamed "Oberspreewald Office". After the Brandenburg district reform of December 6, 1993, Wußwerk was assigned to the Dahme-Spreewald district . On October 26, 2003, the merger with Alt Zauche to form the municipality of Alt Zauche-Wußwerk . At the same time, the Oberspreewald office merged with the neighboring Lieberose office to form the Lieberose / Oberspreewald office .

According to the opinion of the Brandenburg state parliament , Wußwerk belongs to the official settlement area of ​​the Sorbs / Wends . The municipality of Alt Zauche-Wußwerk sued this decision in May 2017.

Population development

Population development in Wußwerk from 1875 to 2002
year Residents year Residents year Residents
1875 391 1939 273 1981 189
1890 330 1946 386 1985 187
1910 255 1950 363 1989 188
1925 261 1964 257 1995 179
1933 252 1971 212 2002 184

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Lusatia, Arnošt Muka counted a population of 372 in 1884, of which 189 were Sorbs (51%) and 183 were Germans. In 1956 Ernst Tschernik had only one Sorbian-speaking inhabitant and two inhabitants with a knowledge of Sorbian out of 381 inhabitants.

traffic

Wußwerk is connected to the north-running state road 44 from Lübben to Lieberose via the district road 6115 running through the town .

From 1898, Wußwerk had a stop at the Wusswergk station on the Lübben Hauptbahnhof - Straupitz section of the narrow-gauge Spreewald Railway . In 1967 passenger traffic on the line was stopped and the tracks were dismantled.

tourism

Until about 1970 there was a boat ferry port in Wußwerk as a starting point for boat trips in the Hochspreewald. The new departure point is five kilometers south of the village on the Südfließ . The cucumber cycle path leads through the village.

Web links

Commons : Alt Zauche-Wußwerk  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Wußwerk on the side of the Lieberose / Oberspreewald office
  • Wußwerk in the RBB program Landschleicher on December 14, 1997

proof

  1. ↑ Community and district directory of the state of Brandenburg. Land surveying and geographic base information Brandenburg (LGB), accessed on June 20, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b The district of Wußwerk. In: liebeose-oberspreewald.de. Office Lieberose / Oberspreewald, accessed on October 2, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin. Age - origin - meaning . be.bra Wissenschaft, Berlin 2005, p. 186 .
  4. ↑ Wußwerk in the historical index of places. Retrieved October 2, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Eight other communities belong to the Sorbian settlement area. Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg, December 7, 2016, accessed on October 2, 2017 .
  6. ↑ The Sorbs' settlement area is expanding. (No longer available online.) Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg , December 7, 2016, formerly in the original ; accessed on October 2, 2017 .  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.rbb24.de  
  7. ↑ Five municipalities complain, others consider. Lausitzer Rundschau , May 12, 2017, accessed on October 2, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. (PDF; 331 KB) District Dahme-Spreewald. State Office for Data Processing and Statistics State of Brandenburg, December 2006, accessed on October 2, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
  10. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995.