Bernsdorf, Upper Lusatia

Berne Village ( Upper Sorbian Njedźichow ) is a small Saxon town in the district of Bautzen on the northern edge of Upper Lusatia.

Geography

The city lies within the wide forests at the extreme edge of the Upper Lusatian pond landscape about 11 km north of Kamenz, 14 km southwest of Hoyerswerda and 17 km south of Senftenberg on the highway 97 in the north and northeast, the traces of lignite mining are not to be overlooked. The site is immediately surrounded by a nearly flat large heathland.

Urban planning Bern village is still more of a fast grown industrial village, as a city with a firm, planned landscaped center.

Boroughs

At Berne Village include the districts Waldhof, Zeißholz ( Upper Sorbian Cisów ), United grave ( Hrabowa ) Straßgräbchen ( Nadrózna Hrabowka ) and Wiednitz ( Wětnica ).

History

Bern village was first mentioned in 1438. 1438 was one of the place for the Bohemian crown. Gangolf of Lüttichau acquired in 1534 Gutsherrschaft. In 1578 the estate was invested with a brew and malt house. Melchior of Loeben bought the land in 1613, which he sold in 1615 for 13,450 dollars the city Kamenz. 1639 were the Electors of Saxony rulers. 1653 bought Louis the Younger Kahle Bern village from the city Kamenz to bequeath it in 1695 to his son Georg Christoph. 1672 when the Turks invaded Poland, lived in Bern village eight Grenzhüfner, a Halbhüfner, two gardeners and four cottagers. 1695 the Elector of Saxony, interested in buying Bern village, appreciate the Gutsherrschaft to 11,737 dollars and 17 silver coins. 1731 when the empire Commercial Law presented the guilds under state supervision, Bern village got its own post office. Founded in 1773 Johann Gottlob space the local school system.

1788 Sigismund Ehrenreich of Rederns, since 1771 Lord of Bern village, build a blast furnace for bog iron ore and so laid the foundation stone for the first Berndorfer operation. 1815 Bern village was annexed by decision of the Vienna Congress Prussia. 1839 Bern counted 308 inhabitants village. 1845 laid Heinrich Friedrich Moritz Beyer, since 1816 Squire Village in Berne, with the glass manufacturing the foundation for the glass industry in Bern village. In 1848 his factory the name " Ludwig hut ". 1853 made the Berndorfer iron workers over 70 tons of castings for the Löbauer King Frederick Augustus Tower, she then mounted in nine months. In 1863 the brothers Hoffmann began in the "Old Cottage " with the glass production. 1870 founded Metallurgist Dudek in the former " Ludwig hut " the zinc white production in Bern village that was later in the GDR sole producer. 1874 extended the new railway line Kamenz- Senftenberg the local infrastructure. 1886 auctioned Uhlich penultimate owner of the iron before it was nationally owned 60 years later, what it was 44 years. After the fall of 1990, it was gradually privatized.

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia Arnost Muka identified in the 1880s had a total population of 270 inhabitants; which were 150 Sorbs ( 56%) and 120 German.

1891 held in Bern village with the tub fusion, an innovative glass technology collection. 1922 sold the industrialist Hugo Stinnes as the last lord of the 388 -year-old Gutsherrschaft a part of the goods Bern village for 1.5 million paper marks to the community Bern village. Stinnes had acquired the land for 1.2 million, but sold the capital- prone coal fields to the Clara Mine III ( Zeißholz ) prior to this sale. At the end of the Second World War, the army administration acquired large terrain surfaces in Lehmwald north of Bern village, where in addition to a branch of the Transport Corps Speer also a settlement ( transit camp ) should arise for the repatriation of Mennonites in Germany with a capacity of 4,000 inhabitants.

1954 was the start of construction of the water works and for the expansion of the drinking water network. The forest pool was expanded to the recreation area. 1955 social housing has started. 1960 Bern village developed into a major industrial center. On September 18, 1968 Bern village became a town. In 1991, the administrative community with Straßgräbchen, Wiednitz, United grave and Zeißholz was formed. It was dissolved on January 1, 2012 incorporation of the last belonging to the community.

On 1 January 1994 Zeißholz was annexed to Bern village. On 1 January 1997 was followed by large grave. Straßgräbchen joined them on 1 January 2007. On January 1, 2012 was finally the incorporation of Wiednitz.

Policy

Coat of arms

Description: Divided in blue and gold; Above, a shamrock decorated stylized golden eagle wings, below a black racing bear with knocked-out tongue.

City council

After the local elections of 7 June 2009, the city council is composed as follows:

* After the incorporation of 1 January 2012

Twinning

Since 1990, there is an official twinning with Steinenbronn in Baden- Württemberg. This community is once again twinned with Polla in Italy, with Le Roeulx in Belgium and with Quinsac ( near Bordeaux in France). Find some activities with all these communities instead, including an annual youth meeting in Polla.