Lindenau
Lindenau is a municipality in the southern Brandenburg Oberspreewald -Lausitz. Lindenau is part of the office outskirts.
- 4.1 Coat of Arms
Geography
Lindenau is the westernmost municipality of Upper Lusatia, on the border with Schraden. Lindenau is located on Kalmusteich, west of the town flows the Pulsnitz. To the north lies the community Tettau and the North East, the community village woman. In the southeast Lindenau adjacent to the city outskirts with Burkersdorf. South of the church Großkmehlen lies with the community part Frauwalde. In the West Lindenau borders the municipalities Großthiemig and Schraden that already belong to the Elbe-Elster district.
History
History
The place Lindenau is believed to have originated around 1200. During this time the area between the Black Elster and Pulsnitz was dehydrated and founded the village of Lindenau. In 1346 Lindenau dipped in a first document to an independent parish. 1392 belonged to the Lindenau district Milzemie. It is likely that good and in the village were founded by the Knights of Lindenau, which were part of the nobility of that Meissen, as street village. The area from the village, which refers to a Germanic branch, supports this assumption. As a coat of arms and seal served a tree ( lime tree). The name evolved from Lindenaw 1495 on Lyndenaw 1498 and 1551 to Lindenau.
By the Congress of Vienna in 1815 came Lindenau, which belonged to the electorate and later the Kingdom of Saxony until then, to the Kingdom of Prussia. The reform of regional administration in Prussia Lindenau came to the province of Silesia and here belonged to the district of Hoyerswerda. Lindenau was thus the westernmost town of Silesia. In 1881 a major fire destroyed the old Lindenau, which consisted of thatched houses. Stone farmhouses and rural youth style of the turn of the century coined after the village core.
By finding of lignite at Lauchhammer from 1900, so the associated industrialization and settlement of families from the former German eastern territories ( east of the Oder - Neisse line ) after 1945 increased population almost doubled. In 1952, Lindenau came to the newly formed county Senftenberg.
On May 19, 1974 Lindenau and woman village were incorporated by Tettau. On May 6, 1990 Lindenau was spun back out Tettau and independent community. Since 1992 it belonged to the office outskirts.
Demographics
Policy
Coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved on March 2, 2000.
Blazon: " Under blue battlements main shield in gold a blue wave bar covered by the root of a rooted black lime with green leaves. "
Culture and sights
The Protestant castle and village church was built in 1668. Was restored the church, 1908. The pulpit dates from 1635.
The Lindenau castle is located on the western edge of the community ( Unity Square ). It is built on the input side in the Renaissance style, the park side presents itself as a three-winged Baroque system. It has a gatehouse with Mansardwalmdach and roof skylights and a castle and village church. A moat surrounding the building. On the castle tower sits a baroque dome.
The castle was built in 1584 by Loth Gotthard von Minckwitz ( born February 11, 1611 Lindenau, February 9, 1678 in Dresden) probably built on the foundations of an old water castle. After the Thirty Years' War took place in 1690, the construction of the gatehouse, which gave the palace the character of a castle. The baroque garden was laid out from 1736 by the family von Gersdorff. Already in 1744 acquired the Saxon Minister Heinrich Graf von Brühl castle. In 1833, his descendants sold the building to Rochus to Lynar Ernst ( Count's line), by marriage the castle came in 1917 to the Princes Lynar. In 1920 the castle was extended by two neo-baroque wing.
In 1945 the expropriation of the royal family. The building then served as teacher training, from 1953 to 1998 it was used as a children's home. The Lindenau castle was sold to the Berlin nursing home operator companies procuro GmbH 1998, however, the proposed establishment of a seniors residence in the castle could not be realized, the building stood empty since then. Already in 2008, the owner had an early start of restoration work announced at the castle with the aim to remove the structural modifications carried out for use as a children's home and restore the original state. A 23 hectare English landscape park adjoins the castle, which was developed in its essential points to 1881.
Palace and Park are like the church to the historical buildings in Lindenau.
The ground monuments are listed in the List of archaeological monuments in Lindenau ( Upper Lusatia ).
Economy and infrastructure
Lindenau has a fully developed business park. East of the village passes the Federal Highway 13, which can be reached via the junction outskirts.
Personalities
The as " Schrade painter" has become known artist Walter Besig (1869-1950) lived until his death in Lindenau. On the occasion of his 50th death anniversary, a memorial stone was erected by the home club Lindenau. Besig is buried in the Lindenau Cemetery, his tomb is one of the monuments in Lindenau.
Literature (selection )
- Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach ( author), Institute for Regional Geography and the Saxon Academic of Sciences in Leipzig (ed.): The Schraden. An inventory of regional studies in space Elsterwerda, Lauchhammer, Hirschfeld and outskirts. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-412-10900-2.