Zasieki

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Zasieki
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Zasieki (Poland)
Zasieki
Zasieki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lebus
Powiat : Żarski
Gmina : Brody
Geographic location : 51 ° 45 ′  N , 14 ° 40 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 44 ′ 39 "  N , 14 ° 39 ′ 50"  E
Residents : 247
Postal code : 68
Telephone code : (+48) 68-343
License plate : FZA
Economy and Transport
Street : Forst (Lausitz) - Lubsko
Rail route : Łódź Forest (Lausitz)
Next international airport : Wroclaw



Zasieki (from 1945 to 1952 Barszcz , German  Skaren / Skuren , as a district of Forst until 1945 Berge ) is a village with 247 inhabitants in the Polish part of Niederlausitz in the rural municipality of Brody . It is located directly on the Lusatian Neisse , which acts as the Polish-German state border, opposite the German city of Forst and nine kilometers southwest of Brody (Pförten) in the Powiat Żarski , Lebus Voivodeship , in western Poland . Until 1945 Zasieki was the district of Forst-Berge . With over 8000 inhabitants, it served as the new town of Forst.

history

Before 1945

The village of Berge , east of the Neisse, was first mentioned in 1627. In 1897 Berge was incorporated into the town of Forst, west of the Neisse . In 1906 the city council decided on a development plan for the expansion and modernization of the new district. Up until 1921 there was next to a pedestrian bridge (also called Seufzersteg ) only a wooden bridge ( long bridge ) built in 1863 over the Neisse. In 1921 the city of Forst decided to build the new long bridge made of rammed concrete 30 m further upstream, which was completed in December 1922. The old wooden bridge was demolished. Both of the remaining bridges were blown up by the Wehrmacht at the end of the Second World War to hinder the advance of the Red Army , but have been preserved as ruins. There was another wooden bridge ( Skurum Bridge ) south of the railway tracks, this connected Skurumer Straße in Forst with the Skurum settlement of Berge. In 1934 this was replaced by a new wooden bridge, which was also blown up in 1945. In contrast to the other two bridges, this one was completely removed. Between 1926 and 1927 the architect Rudolf Kühn built seven modern residential buildings with 70 apartments on Friedrich-Ebert-Platz . In the 1930s, further suburban settlements were built in this district, including the Skurum settlement south of the railway tracks . There were also two sidings for the Forster city railway . The population of Berge is estimated between 8,000 and 10,000, depending on the source. In 1938 the construction of the Sprengchemie Forst-Scheuno of Deutsche Sprengchemie GmbH began between Forst-Berge and Forst-Scheuno (today Brożek ). The factory started operations in 1941.

  • Former footbridge to mountains

  • Ruin of the long bridge

  • Long bridge from the direction of Zasieki

  • Memorial for the gymnasts of the gymnastics club " Freie Turnerschaft Forst " who fell in World War I

After 1945

After the Second World War, the area east of the Neisse fell to Poland , the village was initially given the Polish name of the town of Forst ( Barszcz ) and the German population was expelled. The situation in the border area that was now created and technical difficulties led to problems. Among other things, the original sewage system from Zasieki was connected to the sewage treatment plant of the town of Forst by a pipe below the Neisse, so operation would only have been possible with an agreement with the German side or as an elaborate reconstruction of the sewer system. On Stalin's orders, most of the buildings, public facilities and streets, although relatively spared from war damage, were demolished in order to obtain building materials for the reconstruction of Warsaw . The demolition lasted from 1947 to 1952, only 38 houses on the outskirts south of the railway line ( Skurum settlement ) remained. The remaining village was renamed Zasieki ( Skaren ). After the political change, some existing houses were renovated. With the construction of a new bridge north of downtown Forst and Zasieki in 2002, various gas stations and a small market were established.

  • Photo montage Zasieki then and now

  • former footbridge to Forst

  • Remnant of German times that still exists

  • Cloth maker's fountain from 1922/23

  • Display board about the former district of Forst-Berge

  • Information board over the former Neisse bridges towards the forest mountains

traffic

Zasieki stop

Zasieki is located on the Łódź – Forst (Lausitz) railway line and is equipped with a stop. The RB 93 runs twice a day from Żagań to Forst and back, stopping in Zasieki. In December 2002 the German-Polish border bridge Forst-Zasieki ("Bridge of the European Union"), which is located north of Forst and Zasieki, was opened. As a result, the two villages are linked directly by road for the first time in 62 years. For several years, there have been efforts on both sides to rebuild the destroyed bridges in the urban area.

Sports

When Berge was still part of the city of Forst, there were two football teams, FC Viktoria Forst (Kronenstrasse) and FC Askania Forst (Heidestrasse), which made it into the final round of the German football championship several times . After the Second World War, both associations were dissolved, and there was no re-establishment on the German or Polish side. There was also the TS Berge-Forst gymnastics club . A season in the south-east German soccer championship and results in athletics disciplines have been handed down.

Surname

The name Berge refers to the former district of Forst until 1945, but is now sometimes incorrectly used as a translation by Zasieki . The name Zasieki , or in German Skaren or Skuren, is derived from the name Skurum , the only mountain settlement that survived after the war. The Sorbian word Skurum means something like aufrauchen or become smoke .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://bundestag.github.io
  2. ^ Zasieki Genealogy
  3. ^ Wieś Zasieki w liczbach. Retrieved October 13, 2016 (Polish).
  4. ↑ a b c d e Hans-Joachim Schulz: Settlement houses shape mountains for a few years. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . March 22, 2008, accessed October 13, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Hans-Joachim Schulz: In search of traces at the former Gut Berge. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . July 5, 2008, accessed October 13, 2016 .
  6. ↑ a b Hans-Joachim Schulz: How forest mountains once looked. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . March 6, 2004, accessed October 13, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Hans-Joachim Schulz: The old "Long Bridge". In: Lausitzer Rundschau . October 5, 2003, accessed October 13, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Hans-Joachim Schulz: The short history of the Rathenauplatz. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . March 8, 2003, accessed October 13, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Hans-Joachim Schulz: Forst was a town on the Neisse bridges. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . May 17, 2003, accessed October 13, 2016 .
  10. ↑ a b Castle asleep. Retrieved October 13, 2016 .
  11. ↑ denkmalprojekt.org
  12. ↑ Hans-Joachim Schulz: Only cobblestones are reminiscent of Berge's lifeline. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . January 19, 2008, accessed October 13, 2016 .
  13. ↑ New date for the opening of the Forst border bridge. City of Forst (Lausitz), October 22, 2002, accessed on October 13, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Athletics results at Leichtathletik-dgld.de
  15. ↑ 750 years of Forst (Lausitz) - picture of the month December 2015. City of Forst (Lausitz), November 30, 2015, accessed on October 13, 2016 .