Kolkwitz
Kolkwitz, Lower Gołkojce, is a municipality and the district of Spree -Neisse in Brandenburg ( Germany ).
Approximately 4,500 people live in the nucleus Kolkwitz. The municipality has approximately 10,000 inhabitants.
- 3.1 Municipal Council
- 3.2 Coat of Arms
- 3.3 partnerships
Geography
The municipality is located five kilometers west of Cottbus.
Community structure
A large village Kolkwitz was founded in 1993 and comprises the following places (in brackets the Lower Sorbian name):
- Babow / Spreewald ( Bobow )
- Brodt Schukowitzgasse ( Brodkojce )
- Dahlitz ( Dalic )
- Eichow ( Dubje )
- Glinzig ( Glinsk )
- Gulben ( golbin )
- Hänchen ( Hajnk )
- Kackrow ( Kokrjow )
- Small Gaglow ( Gogolowk )
- Kolkwitz ( Gołkojce )
- Krieschow ( Kśišow )
- Kunersdorf near Cottbus ( Kósobuz )
- Limberg ( Limbarg, first mentioned in 1389 )
- Milkersdorf ( Górnej )
- Papitz ( Popojce )
- Wiesdorf ( Naseńce )
- Zahsow ( Cazow )
Demographics
Forecasts of population change
Forecast age structure
History
Kolkwitz itself was first mentioned in 1300.
Policy
Municipal council
The municipal election held on 28 September 2008 led to the following distribution of seats in the municipal council of Kolkwitz:
In addition, the mayor of the municipal council belongs to.
Coat of arms
The Coat of Arms was established in 1998 by the local council and approved by the Brandenburg Ministry of the Interior on April 9, 1999.
Blazon: " From a top wavy green - silver blue split Wellenschildfuß, topped with a silver fish, gold growing in a deciduous tree. "
The deciduous tree appears already in a church seal from the late 19th century. The heraldic designed as a generic deciduous tree motif of 17 sheets, reflecting the number of districts of the municipality resist.
The tree also stands as a canting image for the community name. Kolkwitz is etymologically related to " Wall of pine surrounded " or interpreted " lying below the forest ". The two wave beams and especially the heraldic stylized fish symbolize the water-rich pond landscape of the greater community Kolkwitz, which is by the Prior trench, a historically important channel through it.
For the community reflect motifs and the color also the meadows and forest wealth of the community hall and the location of the village on the edge of the Spreewald resist with green as the main color.
The coat of arms was designed by Frank heraldist Diemar.
Partnerships
Since 1994, a partnership with the Bavarian village of Great Mehring in the district of Eichstätt, since 2006 with Torzym in Polish Lubusz Voivodeship.
Attractions
In Kolkwitz, a bunker of the GDR Air Force (1st Air Defense Division, GS -31) be visited here was the radio company of the NB- 31 in service and secured the communication engineering compounds of the former GS -31.
In the list of monuments in Kolkwitz are registered in the list of monuments of the country Brandenburg monuments. Among the late-Gothic village church Papitz. The ground monuments are listed in the List of archaeological monuments in Kolkwitz.
Traffic
Kolkwitz is on the railway lines Berlin- Görlitz ( breakpoints Kunersdorf and Kolkwitz ) and Halle- Cottbus ( breakpoint Kolkwitz South).
Clubs
In the community Kolkwitz a number of clubs are at home. For example, the SV Kolkwitz 1896 eV ( Kolkwitzer SV, KSV ) and KCC ( Kolkwitzer Carnival Club ).