Treuenbrietzen

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Treuenbrietzen
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Coordinates: 52 ° 6 '  N , 12 ° 52'  E

Basic data
State : Brandenburg
County : Potsdam-Mittelmark
Height : 59 m above sea level NHN
Area : 212.46 km 2
Residents: 7459 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 35 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 14929
Area code : 033748
License plate : PM
Community key : 12 0 69 632
City structure: 16 districts

City administration address :
Großstrasse 105
14929 Treuenbrietzen
Website : www.treuenbrietzen.de
Mayor : Michael Knape (TBV)
Location of the city of Treuenbrietzen in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district
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Treuenbrietzen is a small town in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in the southwest of Brandenburg in Fläming . It is a member of the “Cities with Historic Town Centers” working group of the state of Brandenburg.

geography

Treuenbrietzen (until the 14th century only Britzen or Vritzen, then the city was nicknamed Treuen, because the citizens did not let the wrong Woldemar into the city + probably Slav. "Brez-" "Birk (en) -" or see below "History") is located on the Nieplitz between the Fläming in the southwest and the Glogau-Baruther glacial valley in the north. In the city, the old trade route from Berlin to Leipzig and the possibly even more important one from Magdeburg via Jüterbog to the east and southeast crossed. It is located 17 km southwest of Beelitz , 23 km west of Luckenwalde , 21 km northwest of Jüterbog, 32 km northeast of Wittenberg and 20 km east of Bad Belzig .

After the regional reform in 2003 in Brandenburg, Treuenbrietzen covers an area of ​​211 km². This makes it one of the 100  largest municipalities in Germany in terms of area .

City structure

The city of Treuenbrietzen is structured as follows according to its main statute:

  • City area Treuenbrietzen with the municipal parts Lüdendorf and Tiefenbrunnen

Districts:

In addition, there are the residential areas Berliner Siedlung, Schwabeck Gasthof and Treuenbrietzen Süd.

history

From the foundation to the 19th century

Emergency money 1921: "The fake Waldemar tries to seize the city of Treuenbrietzen and is turned away at the gates."
Historic city center

Treuenbrietzen emerged from an Ascanian castle, first documented in 1208 , whose predecessor was a Slavic rampart . In 1290 it is called civitas , in 1300 the market town was surrounded by a city wall. Around 1301, the city council acquired the higher courts . In 1348 and 1349 the city remained loyal to the Wittelsbach family at the time of the appearance of the false Woldemars . This also explains the name of the city. The name is derived in an information brochure of the city from the address "the loyal citizens of Britzen" and is intended to remind of the loyalty of the citizens to their sovereign. Residential houses were built around the two churches of St. Marien and St. Nikolai , which were enclosed by a city wall with three gates from the end of the 13th century to the beginning of the 14th century. The oval floor plan with an even grid pattern of the streets and the east-west course of the main road also dates from this time.

Emergency note 1921: "In front of the Marienkirche - Luther preaches under the Luther linden tree"

The Reformation is recorded for 1537. Martin Luther came to the city to proclaim his theses and was prevented from entering the Marienkirche. Therefore he chose a linden tree in front of the church that still stands today and became known as the Luther linden tree . In the Thirty Years' War , much of the medieval buildings were destroyed. The citizens of the city built mostly hall houses on the foundations of the ruins .

The city experienced an economic boom when a garrison settled in the 17th century, which was moved to Wittenberg in 1877 . Treuenbrietzen was economically shaped by its brewery, wine growing, pottery and agriculture. Cloth making and linen weaving were added in the 18th century , which resulted in several textile factories in 1832, which existed until the end of the 19th century.

The current part of the municipality Pechüle was first mentioned in 1225 as Pechule . The name is derived from a person's name or from the nearby lake.

Since the 20th century

In 1902 the city was connected to the Belzig - Jüterbog railway line , and in 1904 a rail link to Beelitz was added. Treuenbrietzen also became known as one of the first German places in which tuberculosis hospitals were established; this happened in 1927. After many changes, conversions and changing uses (including as a military hospital ), today's Johanniter Hospital was created, which also includes a clinic for pulmonology .

Treuenbrietzener Riflemen (1924)
Church in Pechüle

During the time of National Socialism there were three armaments factories in Treuenbrietzen and the surrounding area, in which prisoners from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and prisoners of war were forced to work: the Sebaldushof plant ("Plant A"), the ammunition factory Selterhof ("Plant S") and the Plant Dr. Kroeber & Son . In 1943, 2,443 prisoners of war were housed in a central camp south of the Selterhof. In 1945, shortly before the Red Army marched in, 127 Italian prisoners of war were murdered by the Wehrmacht . In the Rietz district, three forced laborers were shot dead by a Wehrmacht commando, which has been commemorated by a plaque on a barn on Rietzer Dorfstrasse since 1975.

At the end of the Second World War , the area around the city was fiercely contested and gained notoriety through the Treuenbrietzen massacre . The Red Army shot between 30 and 166 civilians, mostly male, in the forest in the last days of April and the first few days of May. In the last days of April 1945 the Red Army occupied Treuenbrietzen, but had to withdraw again after twelve hours and was finally able to drive out the German Wehrmacht in a second offensive.

After 1945, a partial operation of the equipment control plant (GRW) Teltow and the vehicle plant Treuenbrietzen with the production of semi-trailers for W50 tractors from Ludwigsfelde were of economic importance. Agriculture was characterized, among other things, by specialized cattle breeding .

Treuenbrietzen is one of 31 cities presented by the “Cities with Historic Town Centers” working group of the State of Brandenburg and whose old town center with city walls, towers and historical buildings has been preserved largely closed. The mayor of Treuenbrietzens has chaired this state-wide working group since 2008.

Incorporations

Church in Feldheim
Field stone church in Lobbese
Church in Lühsdorf

In 1972 Lüdendorf was incorporated. Seven churches were added in 2002. Three other communities have belonged to Treuenbrietzen since 2003.

Former parish date annotation
Bardenitz December 31, 2002
Brachwitz June 1, 2002
Dietersdorf December 31, 2002
Feldheim December 31, 2002
Klausdorf 1st January 1974 Incorporation to Bardenitz
Lobbies March 31, 2003
Ludendorf January 1, 1972
Lühsdorf October 26, 2003
Marzahna March 31, 2003
Niebel December 31, 2002
Niebelhorst December 31, 2002
Pechüle 1st January 1974 Incorporation to Bardenitz
Pflügkuff 1st January 1974 Incorporation after lobbying
Rietz December 31, 2002
Schmögelsdorf July 1, 1950 Incorporation to Marzahna
Schwabeck July 1, 1950 Incorporation to Feldheim
Zeuden 1st January 1974 Incorporation after lobbying

Administrative history

Treuenbrietzen was in the Zauch-Belzig district until 1952 , became part of the Jüterbog district due to the administrative reform in the GDR in 1952 and has been part of the Potsdam-Mittelmark district since 1993 .

  • 1952: Potsdam district, Jüterbog district
  • 1993: Brandenburg, Potsdam-Mittelmark district

Population development

year Residents
1875 5 466
1890 4 909
1910 5 163
1925 5,793
1933 6 152
1939 8 373
1946 8 569
1950 8 418
year Residents
1964 7 167
1971 7 159
1981 6 468
1985 6 393
1989 6 263
1990 6 205
1991 6 160
1992 6 162
1993 6 186
1994 6 324
year Residents
1995 6 304
1996 6 237
1997 6 228
1998 6 157
1999 6 112
2000 6 037
2001 5,900
2002 7,780
2003 8 706
2004 8 590
year Residents
2005 8 475
2006 8 207
2007 8 108
2008 8 001
2009 7 911
2010 7 776
2011 7 569
2012 7 487
2013 7 406
2014 7 430
year Residents
2015 7 379
2016 7 460
2017 7 475
2018 7 405
2019 7 459

Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31 (from 1991), from 2011 based on the 2011 census

politics

City Council

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a City and Villages Citizens' Interest Association
b Treuenbrietzen Citizens' Association

The city council of Treuenbrietzen consists of 18 city councilors and the full-time mayor.

Party / group of voters Seats 2008 Seats 2014 Seats 2019
City and Villages Citizens' Interest Association 4th 5 4th
Treuenbrietzen Citizens' Association - 5 3
SPD 2 2 3
CDU 3 3 3
Alliance 90 / The Greens - - 2
The left 2 2 1
FDP 6th 1 1
Single applicant Nicole Burger - - 1
City forum Treuenbrietzen 1 - -
All in all 18th 18th 18th

The Treuenbrietzen Citizens' Association (TBV) emerged to a large extent from the former local association of the FDP, which had disbanded under nationwide attention. The former city forum was merged into the Citizens' Interest Association of City and Villages (BIV).

mayor

Mayor Michael Knape
  • since 2002: Michael Knape (TBV)

Knape ran for the mayor elections in 2001 and 2009 for the FDP, from which he left with a large part of the local association in 2012. On September 24, 2017, he was confirmed in office for a further eight years with 58.7% of the valid votes.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on January 20, 1993.

Blazon : “In silver a two-towered and square red city gate. The central building shows an open gate with a raised black portcullis. The pointed, gold-knobbed towers each have a small gate and two windows in black. A red, gold-armored eagle covered with golden clover stems hovers over the city gate. "

A historically documented document from 1311 bore the city's seal and thus the oldest known representation of the city's coat of arms, which has not changed significantly since then. The right of the city of Treuenbrietzen to use this coat of arms was confirmed by the Brandenburg Ministry of the Interior on January 19, 2004.

flag

The flag of the city of Treuenbrietzen is blue and white with two stripes. The right of the city of Treuenbrietzen to fly this flag was confirmed by the Ministry of the Interior of the State of Brandenburg on November 7, 2005.

Town twinning

Since 1990 there has been a town partnership with the municipality of Nordwalde in the Steinfurt district in North Rhine-Westphalia , and since 2010 another with the municipality of Chiaravalle ( province of Ancona ) in Italy.

Sights and culture

The list of architectural monuments in Treuenbrietzen and the list of ground monuments in Treuenbrietzen include the cultural monuments entered in the list of monuments of the State of Brandenburg.

Buildings

Saint Mary's
Brick Church Sankt Nicolai
  • The main parish church of St. Mary in the city was founded before 1217 and probably built as a cross-shaped pillar basilica from 1220 onwards. The originally planned construction with the eastern parts in a careful fieldstone technique similar to the nearby Zinna monastery began . The apse with two rows of five slender arched windows each and the final arched frieze is probably inspired by the Lehnin monastery church . The brick nave, built in the middle of the 13th century, is also based on this model in its design. The massive west tower was not built until 1452 and received its four ornamental gables at the beginning of the 16th century. The baroque organ on the west gallery is of particular importance . It was built in 1740 by Joachim Wagner and has 30 registers , which are divided between two manuals and the pedals .
  • Sankt-Nikolai-Kirche : The cross-shaped vaulted brick basilica used by the Catholic community was built in the middle of the 13th century. The building, which is stylistically somewhere between Romanesque and Gothic , has a mighty crossing tower with a Baroque tower from 1756, which stands there without comparison in Brandenburg.
Holy Spirit Chapel
  • The Holy Spirit Chapel was first mentioned in a document in 1352. After the Thirty Years War the chapel fell into disrepair. In 1936 the ruin was expanded to become a local museum that still exists today.
  • Hook booths: Former trading houses and warehouses, the origins of which go back to the 13th century.
  • The powder tower served as a powder and ammunition magazine for the Treuenbrietzen garrison until 1877. Storks have been breeding here for years.
  • The town hall is one of the oldest buildings in Treuenbrietzen. It was first mentioned in 1290 as a trading and warehouse.
  • The city wall was built in 1296–1305 by Zinna monks in exchange for water and mill rights. It is only preserved in a few places.
  • The Sabinchen memorial by the sculptor Lothar Sell was erected in 1984 as a reference to the popular morality of Sabinchen .
Bardenitz brick church
Field stone church Marzahna

City park and historical monuments

Natural monuments

Treuenbrietzen is part of the Nuthe-Nieplitz Nature Park, which was established in 1999 . Located directly on the northern slope of the Fläming terminal moraine , the region around Treuenbrietzen is a rich source area of ​​various rivers that supply water to the Nieplitz. The Nieplitz also rises in the deepest Fläming Forest south of the village Frohnsdorf , which is now part of Treuenbrietzen. Not far from the Nieplitz source , the wandering glaciers have left behind huge boulders such as the Bischofstein near Rietz, the Bismarckstein, Schneiderstein and Schäferstein on the B 2 between Treuenbrietzen and Dietersdorf or the Landwehrmannstein, which can be viewed on the signposted Steintour hiking trail , which also runs on River source passes by.

Lake in the NSG Zarth

To the east of Treuenbrietzen lies the swampy and wooded nature reserve Zarth , whose name comes from Slavic and means devil's forest . Unlike most of the nature park and unlike its nature-protected core area Nuthe-Nieplitz-Niederung with its generally open, wide landscapes and small-scale biotope changes, the NSG Zarth is an almost primeval forest-like, moist and dense forest area, which with its largely inaccessible quarry forest on the Spreewald remembers. The Bardenitzer Fließ runs past the northern border , and in the NSG itself, although already located on the edge of the ridge in the Baruther glacial valley, several rivers arise and form ponds and smaller lakes. The black alder and ash trees typical of the biotope can be found in the most humid places, and in somewhat higher altitudes a common oak - hornbeam forest, which is very rare in Brandenburg today . Around 340 types of plants have been counted, including five different types of orchid , as well as the carnation and the sweet milkweed . The European pond turtle finds the necessary clear streams and the very rare black stork the preferred hiding place in the dense forest. The specially protected NSG Zarth can and may only be crossed on a path that connects Treuenbrietzen with the southeastern village of Bardenitz . There are also lakes here as the remains of former peat cuttings.

Sabinchenstadt

Town hall with Sabinchenbrunnen

The name of the city is known, among other things, from the kitchen song " Sabinchen was a woman ", in the first stanza of which Treuenbrietzen is mentioned:

A young man came from Treuenbrietzen
,
He wanted so much to own Sabinchen
and was a shoemaker.
"

A memorial for Sabinchen was erected in front of the town hall in 1984 . Every year in June, the Sabinchen Festival takes place with a parade and the freestyle for the new Sabinchen couple.

Chamber plays

The Kammerspiele Treuenbrietzen are another building that has now become a sight of the city. The cinema with 500 seats was built in 1938. The privately run cinema was sold to VEB Lichtspiele after the end of the war . After 1989 it was managed by the trust company and gaming operations were maintained until 1992. Since marketing was not possible, the federal asset management took over the further support. Since then the house has stood idle and was left to decay.

In 2002, citizens from Treuenbrietzen and the surrounding area came together with the aim of ending the decline and reviving the cinema as a registered individual monument. The Kammerspiele were to become a cultural performance, meeting and meeting place for the citizens and remain a cinema. The Kammerspiele are now operated and administered by the Treuenbrietzen cinema support association.

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

The district of Feldheim supplies itself with energy, making it the first village in Brandenburg to be energy self -sufficient .

The Johanniter Hospital in Fläming Treuenbrietzen has 382 beds in three specialist clinics ( rheumatology , psychiatry, pulmonology ). It emerged from the Treuenbrietzen District Hospital , which existed since 1969 and was taken over and expanded by the Order of St. John in 1994 .

The Johanniter Hospital operates a nursing school with 65 training places in the village .

Forest fires and forest conversion

At the end of August 2018, after weeks of extreme drought on around 400 hectares, there were heavy forest fires that lasted for days, especially in the areas of Frohnsdorf, Tiefenbrunn and Klausdorf, southeast of Treuenbrietzen; it was reported nationwide. Therefore, as well as because of the consequences of Hurricane Kyrill in 2007, the responsible forestry office intends to gradually abandon the previous monoculture of pines and to create a mixed forest primarily with beech, birch and oak through forest conversion . The forest ecologist Pierre Ibisch from the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development is working together with eight other institutions in the “Pyrophob” (ie fire-resistant) project on 28 hectares of test area on reforestation with birch, quivering aspen, linden, hornbeam, oak and willow.

traffic

railway station

The Treuenbrietzen and Treuenbrietzen Süd train stations are on the Jüterbog – Nauen railway line . They are served by the regional train line RB 33 between Berlin-Wannsee and Jüterbog every hour (every two hours on weekends).

The railway line to Neustadt (Dosse) via Belzig , Brandenburg an der Havel and Rathenow ( Brandenburg city railway ) was discontinued in 1962.

With the Regiobus Potsdam-Mittelmark and Sabinchen Touristik Treuenbrietzen can be reached with a PlusBus and other regional bus routes.

The federal highways B 2 between Beelitz and Lutherstadt Wittenberg and B 102 between Niemegk and Jüterbog intersect in the city. The closest motorway junctions are Brück (9 km) and Niemegk (14 km) on the A 9 Berlin – Munich.

Public facilities

  • In the city there are two day care centers for children, two day care centers, a day care center, a natural day care center and a Protestant day care center.
  • The city continues to run integrative day care, the "Albert Schweitzer" primary school and the Treuenbrietzen comprehensive school.

Sports

  • On the occasion of the 112th German Hiking Day, the city presented a new wayfinding system for hikers. The city can be explored on several designated hiking trails, for example on a 20-kilometer landscape tour , a 34-kilometer stone tour or the 26-kilometer energy tour .
  • There are outdoor swimming pools in Treuenbrietzen and Dietersdorf.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Friedrich Heinrich Himmel, Martin Chemnitz and Johann Weinlob on an emergency bill , Treuenbrietzen 1921

Personalities associated with the city

Walter Nernst

literature

  • Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Mark Brandenburg and the Markgrafthum Nieder-Lausitz , Volume 1, Brandenburg 1854, pp. 541-545 ( books.google.de ).
  • Carl Nathanaël Pischon: Documented history of the Kurmärkischen city Treuenbrietzen and the surrounding area . Treuenbrietzen 1871.
  • Heimatverein Treuenbrietzen (ed.): ... heavy fighting in and around Treuenbrietzen ... (OKW report) 1945. The year between war and peace in Treuenbrietzen and the surrounding area. Elbe-Druckerei Wittenberg, after 1965. ISBN 3-9803383-4-7 . (With numerous eyewitness reports and b / w photos.)
  • Heinz Göschel (ed.), Manfred Bensing et al. (Edit.): Lexicon cities and coats of arms of the German Democratic Republic . 3rd edition Leipzig 1985.
  • Lutz Heydick / Günther Hoppe / Jürgen John (eds.): Historical leader. Sites and monuments of history in the districts of Potsdam, Frankfurt (Oder). Leipzig et al. 1987, ISBN 3-332-00089-6 .
  • Ludwig Merkle: Pious until their blissful end. Walk through the 'Sabinchenstadt' Treuenbrietzen. In: Rheinischer Merkur, No. 7 of February 15, 1991, p. 34.
  • Ulrich Gansert : Memories of Treuenbrietzen. Frankfurt am Main et al. 2004, ISBN 3-631-51391-7 .

Web links

Commons : Treuenbrietzen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Population in the State of Brandenburg according to municipalities, offices and municipalities not subject to official registration on December 31, 2019 (XLSX file; 223 KB) (updated official population figures) ( help on this ).
  2. Main statute of the city of Treuenbrietzen
  3. ^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. City of Treuenbrietzen
  4. Stadt Treuenbrietzen (Ed.): Willkommen in der Sabinchenstadt Treuenbrietzen , 2013, p. 30
  5. Klaus von Heimendahl (Ed.): The Johanniter Hospital in Treuenbrietzen. From migrant work home to specialist clinic. Be.bra Wissenschaft Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-937233-01-7 .
  6. Petra Görlich: The dead of Treuenbrietzen . In: Portal - The Potsdam University Magazine (Issue 4) . 2010.
  7. Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
  8. StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2002
  9. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003
  10. ^ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Landkreis Potsdam-Mittelmark . Pp. 26-29
  11. Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2017 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
  12. ^ Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.): Statistical report AI 7, A II 3, A III 3. Population development and population status in the state of Brandenburg (respective editions of the month of December)
  13. ^ Result of the local elections on September 28, 2008. Accessed on July 25, 2019 .
  14. Result of the local elections on May 25, 2014. Accessed July 5, 2020 .
  15. Result of the local elections on May 26, 2019. Accessed on July 25, 2019 .
  16. Cheerful change before the election. In: Märkische Allgemeine , May 14, 2014
  17. Local elections October 26, 2003. Mayoral elections , p. 31
  18. Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 74
  19. ^ Result of the mayoral election on September 24, 2017
  20. Coat of arms information on the service portal of the state administration of Brandenburg
  21. Chiaravalle website
  22. Märkische Oderzeitung, 26./27. August 2006, p. 11
  23. Treuenbrietzen (Triftfriedhof) , information on the memorial in the online project Gefallen Memorials , requested on April 24, 2018.
  24. Quoted from: Volksliederarchiv , accessed on June 7, 2012
  25. ^ Website of the Treuenbrietzen cinema support association
  26. Thomas Wachs: Feldheim is now self-sufficient with heat and electricity from renewable sources . A village defies the energy giants. In: Märkische Allgemeine . April 7, 2010 ( online [accessed March 10, 2013]).
  27. ^ Website of the Johanniter Hospital
  28. ^ Website of the nursing school
  29. https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2018/08/waldbrand-treuenbrietzen-grossendung-evakuierung.html
  30. https://www.tagesspiegel.de/themen/reportage/grossbrand-bei-potsdam-wie-das-feuer-nach-brandenburg-kam/22951870.html
  31. http://www.maz-online.de/Lokales/Potsdam-Mittelmark/Treuenbrietzen/Waldbrand-bei-Treuenbrietzen-wuetet-weiter
  32. Friederike Meier: How hurricane 'Kyrill' helped the forester. At Treuenbrietzen, city forester Dietrich Henke tries to adapt the forest to climate change. In: Neues Deutschland from May 27, 2019, p. 11.
  33. ^ Gudrun Janicke: Project fire-resistant forest. Scientists in Treuenbrietzen are researching how the ecosystem regenerates after a fire disaster. In: Neues Deutschland from July 27, 2020, p. 11
  34. Four Seasons: Pictures for the Johanniter Hospital in Fläming