Hohenbucko
Hohenbucko is an official belonging to municipality in the district Elbe- Elster in Brandenburg. The community Hohenbucko belongs since 1992 to the Office Schlieben with headquarters in the city Schlieben.
- 5.1 Structures
- 5.2 Museums
Geography
Community structure
Quarters are Hohenbucko and Proßmarke.
History
The town was first mentioned in 1346 as Hoenbockaw documented in the Meißner Bistumsmatrikel. In 1419 the place is called as Buckow at Schlieben. The name is a Sorbian- German High - mixture because situated on a hill, bucko (from Bukovina ) means beech, red beech forest.
Hohenbucko lay on an ancient trade route. The inhabitants lived from agriculture and timber industry. 1512 led the Schenk von Landsberg predatory raids against the village and let it burn down. In the Thirty Years' War the inhabitants of Hohenbucko many atrocities suffered alternately from Imperial ( 1631) and Swedish troops (1637 ). In 1634 the plague raged in place.
As of 31 December 2001, the new church Hohenbucko was formed from the communities and Hohenbucko Proßmarke.
Demographics
Municipal council
The municipal council consists of 10 community representatives.
- WG Hohenbucko 6 seats
- Individual candidate 2 seats
- SPD 1 seat
- CDU 1 seat
(As at municipal election on 28 September 2008)
Culture and sights
Structures
In the list of monuments in Hohenbucko are registered in the list of monuments of the country Brandenburg monuments.
- Village church, a rectangular Findlingsbau from the 13th century.
- Electorate of Saxony Postmeilensäule of 1750, the Post Roads from Leipzig to Frankfurt ( Oder) and Dahme to Sonnenwalde and Kirchhain went through Hohenbucko.
- Proßmarker church also fieldstone building
Museums
In the attic of the former village consuming is the " attic of memories" a private exhibition, which is reminiscent of the time the consumer shops in the GDR and presents many objects from this period.