Alt Placht

Alt Placht is a former manor village that today belongs to the district of Densow in the town of Templin in the Brandenburg district of Uckermark . It is the seat of a forestry and is known for a small half-timbered church .

geography

The Uckermark town of Alt Placht is located in the north of Brandenburg , roughly in the middle between Lychen and Templin in a hilly terminal moraine landscape in the Uckermärkische Seen Nature Park , which was shaped by the Ice Age . It is located in an area rich in lakes and forests, dominated by pine trees and in which little agriculture is practiced due to the poor soil. For over 100 years the seat of the forester's office (formerly Oberforsterei) Alt Placht has been here. The annual rainfall is 640 millimeters and the annual average temperature is just under eight degrees Celsius.

traffic

Alt-Placht street

The place Alt Placht is nowadays out of the way of traffic. It can be reached from the Lychen – Templin road via an approximately two kilometer long unpaved road. In the Middle Ages it was on a trade route that ran from Frankfurt (Oder) via Templin to Mecklenburg. The disused Templin – Fürstenberg railway , where the Alt Placht stop has existed since 1899, passes around a kilometer away . The tracks are now used as a trolley line, for which the former stop has been converted into a rest area. In addition, the Tour Brandenburg cycle path passes the town.

history

The village of Placht was first mentioned in 1307 as an Ascanian colonization. However, the history of settlement goes back to the time of the Great Migration . The place name probably comes from the Old Slavonic (platha = Blache ) or Polish language (plachta = Hache or cloth). At the end of the Middle Ages , the place became desolate and the district belonging to the town of Templin changed hands several times from 1608. In 1696 a manor was founded. Finally, in 1758, a great fire destroyed the village, leaving only the church standing. In 1763 the manorial estate was rebuilt and in 1773 it was divided into Alt Placht and Neu Placht, with Neu Placht being the Vorwerk . A glassworks was operated in Alt Placht between 1846 and 1869 . After further changes of ownership, the property was sold to the Prussian state in 1899 , which set up a chief forester's office there. Subsequently, the surrounding, barren soils were largely reforested.

Half-timbered church

"Little Church in the Green"

The most famous sight is the little church in the country . It is a small half-timbered church with a thatched pitched roof and a wooden church tower. She stands alone and surrounded by 500-year-old linden trees in the hallway . It was built around 1700 on the site of the old village church as a chapel for the Placht estate. During the times of the GDR , the church was left to decay and should be torn down. Due to the dilapidation, the bell was removed and re-inaugurated in 1980 in a belfry in the courtyard of the St. Elisabeth monastery in Eberswalder Straße in Berlin . Since the fall of the Wall , the Alt Placht Church Friends' Association has been taking care of the reconstruction and restoration, which is now almost complete.

literature

• Leaflet “The little church in the country. The former Gutskirche von Alt Placht in the Uckermark ”, Förderverein Kirche Alt Placht eV, around 2010

Web links

Commons : Alt Placht  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See information on the Boitzenburg Forest District. State of Brandenburg, Ministry for Rural Development, Environment and Consumer Protection, accessed on July 12, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Boitzenburg Forest District. Landesbetrieb Forst Brandenburg, accessed on July 7, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Cf. Claus-Dieter Steyer: Legacy of the Huguenots. French half-timbered houses: the “little church in the green” in Alt Placht. Der Tagesspiegel, December 24, 2004, archived from the original on September 6, 2011 ; accessed on July 9, 2020 . 
4. ↑ See information on the Fürstenberg – Lychen – Templin trolley line. 2010, accessed September 7, 2010 . 
5. ↑ See history Densow - Alt Placht. Oliver Sajons, 2010, archived from the original on February 2, 2014 ; Retrieved September 10, 2010 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b} cf. Leaflet
7. ^ Förderverein Kirche Alt Placht eV

Coordinates: 53 ° 10 '  N , 13 ° 24'  E