Neiße-Malxetal

Neisse Malxetal (Sorbian Dolina Nysa - Małksa ) is an official belonging to municipality in the district of Spree- Neisse in Brandenburg. It is administered by the Office Döbern country.

  • 4.1 Sorbian roots
  • 5.1 Municipal Council

Geography

The municipality is located in the southeast of Brandenburg in Lower Lusatia to the Polish border, in the traditional settlement area of ​​the Sorbs / Wends. The community is located right at the Polish border between Forst ( Lausitz) in the north and Bad Muskau in the south. The nearest large town of Cottbus is located about 20 to 30 km to the northwest.

Jerischke has with his three nature reserves and a surface natural monument to a remarkable woodland. Here in 2004 opened an information center Muskau Arch. Neisse Malxetal belongs to the Office Döbern country that has its headquarters in the city Döbern. Name -giving rivers are the Lusatian Neisse and the Malxe.

History

The municipality was created on 31 December 2001, from the voluntary merger of the previously independent municipalities United Kölzig ( Lower Wjeliki Kólsk ) Jerischke ( Jarješk ), Small Kölzig ( Maly Kólsk ), Dash ( Rjašćany ) and Jocksdorf ( Kósmejce ).

Community structure

The municipality is divided according to the main statute in the districts:

  • Great Kölzig ( Lower Wjeliki Kólsk )
  • Jerischke ( Jarješk )
  • Small Kölzig ( Maly Kólsk )
  • Dash ( Rjašćany )
  • Jocksdorf ( Kósmejce )

Add to this the inhabited parts of municipalities stretchers ( Boryń ) Gosda II ( Gozda ) Pusack ( Pusak ), Raden ( Radom ) and Zelz ( Selc ).

Jocksdorf

Jocksdorf has about 180 inhabitants. A church does not exist in the village, but a war memorial. Interesting animal park where, among other marmosets, tamarins, Indian Hutaffen and rhesus monkeys is located. The first written record dates from 1787. The town's name derives from the personal name Jacob from .. " Jacob " is " Jokisch " named in the Sorbian as, ultimately resulting in Jocksdorf formed on Jockisch village.

Until the second half of the 19th century, the population Jocksdorfer Sorbian language predominantly; stipulates all under the Thirty Years' inhabitants were the arranged and took place in this century abolition of the Sorbian school lessons and the Sorbian-speaking church services in German, however, already in the 1880s. Today, the site no longer part of the Sorbian language area.

Demographics

( 31.12. of the year indicated )

  • 2007: 1836
  • 2008: 1800

History

Sorbian roots

Interesting are also the Sorbian origin of many place names. So plugged in Kölzig the Sorbian word root, Kolo ', what, wheel ' means. Or Jerischke with the root word " Jerisch " as a form of Sorbian, Gerhard '. Add Raden even the Sorbian word stem inserted for joyful, joyous and happy. Gosda is most probably due to the Sorbian- Polish word, Gospodarz ', ' Lord ', back. Stretchers includes the Sorbian ram and Zelz comes from the root word for iron, since there lawn iron mining - still good to see the red gravel, as is typical for this area.

Policy

Municipal council

The municipal council of Neisse Malxetal is composed of 12 councilors and the mayor.

  • HKF Jocksdorf / small Kölzig 3 seats
  • WG II Gosda 2 seats
  • The left one seat
  • WG Good weir United Kölzig 1 seat
  • WG Jerischke 1 seat
  • TSV 1903 United Kölzig 1 seat

(As at municipal election on 28 September 2008)

Culture and sights

In the list of monuments in Neisse Malxetal and List of archaeological monuments in Neisse Malxetal are registered in the list of monuments of Brandenburg monuments.

Personalities

  • Aemilius Wagler ( born February 23, 1817 in Dash, † September 7, 1883 in Guben ), classical scholar
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