Zeischa | |
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Ortsteil (city district) of Bad Liebenwerda | |
 Aerial view of Zeischa from the south-east | |
Location of Zeischa in Bad Liebenwerda  | |
  Zeischa  Zeischa | |
| Coordinates: 51°29′58″N 13°25′21″E / 51.49944°N 13.42250°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Brandenburg |
| City | Bad Liebenwerda |
| Elevation | 86 m (282 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 472 (31 December 2,016) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 04924 |
| Dialling codes | 035341 |
Zeischa is an Ortsteil of the spa town of Bad Liebenwerda in the district of Elbe-Elster in southern Brandenburg. The village is located about three kilometres from the town centre in the Lower Lusatian Heath Nature Park on the banks of the Black Elster River.
According to tradition, Harigsburg Castle, in the vicinity of Zeischa, which was first documented in 1391, was once a Slavic knight's stronghold that protected the crossing of the Black Elster River. Since immemorial, the inhabitants have lived from agriculture, cattle breeding and fishing. Towards the end of the 19th century, the first forest tree nurseries were established, and their fields can still be seen in the Elster valley. Around the same time, gravel extraction began north of the village, creating an 80-hectare dredging pond, part of which has been used as a recreational area since the 1960s.
Zeischa, which belonged to the district of Bad Liebenwerda before its incorporation in 1993, currently has 472 inhabitants.[1]
The former village school, constructed in 1904, and the grave of Liebenwerda mayor Elias Borßdorff, who was killed by Swedish mercenaries near Zeischa during the Thirty Years' War, are designated as monuments of the state of Brandenburg.
- ^ "Gemeinde- und Ortsteilverzeichnis des Landes Brandenburg" [Directory of municipalities and districts in Brandenburg]. geobroker.geobasis-bb.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-10-31.