Bärwalde (Niederer Fläming)

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Bärwalde
Niederer Fläming municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 0 ″  N , 13 ° 16 ′ 0 ″  E
Residents : 47  (Dec 31, 2018)
Incorporation : 1st January 1979
Incorporated into: Meinsdorf
Postal code : 14913
Area code : 033744
Bärwalde (Brandenburg)
Bärwalde

Location of Bärwalde in Brandenburg

Bärwalde is a district of the municipality Niederer Fläming in the district of Teltow-Fläming in the state of Brandenburg .

geography

Bärwalde is located around 20 kilometers south-east of Jüterbog and 15 kilometers north of Herzberg in the Brandenburg town of Fläming , surrounded by arable land . The village is on the district road 7207, which connects Bärwalde with the neighboring towns of Rinow in the east and Weißen in the northwest. Meinsdorf is located north of the village. The village of Freywalde is neighboring in the southeast , and Schönewalde is a little further away to the southwest . A little south of Bärwalde, the Schweinitzer Fließ runs through a forest on the castle wall.

history

10th to 18th centuries

The Bärwalde castle ruins

From archaeological excavations it is known that it was already in 10./11. There was a Slavic rampart in the 19th century , which was later transformed into a castle. At the end of the 13th century, the Lords of Bärwalde appeared in the region; The castle was first mentioned as a fortress in 1375 . Hiltrud and Carsten Preuß rate the location of the castle in their remarks on the manor houses and mansions in the Teltow-Fläming district above the village as "an excellent strategic position" in the Middle Ages. About 500 meters from the castle is the Bärwalde castle wall , probably a predecessor of this castle. The village was founded in the 12th century and probably belonged to the Anhalt people . That could also be the reason why Bärwalde did not appear in Charles IV's land book - as is usual in the region . The Lords of Slawtitz (Slautitz) have been handed down from the year 1366. In the 15th century the Hohenzollern took over rule. For almost 400 years, beginning in 1416, the area around Bärwalde was a Brandenburg exclave in the Electorate of Saxony , usually called the Ländchen Bärwalde . After the von Slawtitz family came the von Wollenfels family in the first half of the 15th century, and the von Waldenfels family from 1451 to 1452 . With the Peace of Guben in 1462, parts of Bohemia came to Brandenburg and the exclave to the Electorate of Brandenburg - surrounded by the Archbishopric of Magdeburg until 1680 . Around 1470, the von Leipzigk family was enfeoffed with the place and thus ruled over the little country. It was divided among the five owners at the beginning of the 18th century. In 1734, the royal Prussian lieutenant general Gottfried Emanuel von Einsiedel acquired various shares in the Leipzig property, which combined the villages of Bärwalde, Weißen, Rinow, Herbersdorf, Kossin, Meinsdorf and Wiepersdorf. The Einsiedel column in Meinsdorf is a reminder of this process. After his death in 1745 his daughter Sofia Dorothea took over the villages. She kept her residence in Wiepersdorf and initially leased Bärwalde to sell it to Joachim Erdmann von Arnim for 98,000 thalers with effect from February 10, 1780 . Under his leadership, the castle was expanded into a stately home.

19th to 21st century

The exclave was only dissolved after the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and the cession of Saxony to the Prussian province of Brandenburg . The castle was demolished after the end of the Second World War to obtain building material for resettlers . A tower made of lawn iron stone, presumably from the Middle Ages, came to light. Since this building material was hardly usable for the resettlers, the tower was preserved. The ruin is in the 21st century under monument protection . In the area of ​​the ruin there is a pedunculate oak, designated as a natural monument, with a trunk diameter of 7.00 m (2016).

On January 1, 1979, Bärwalde was incorporated into Meinsdorf . This community in turn formed the new community Niederer Fläming on December 31, 1997 with others. The gradual renovation of the ruins began a year earlier; In 1998 the tower was repaired and a new roof was put on.

Population development

year Residents
1875 171
1890 159
1925 115
year Residents
1933 121
1939 123
1946 169
year Residents
1950 162
1964 115
1971 108

Territory of the respective year

Culture and sights

  • Castle ruins and manor park : ruins of the medieval former moated castle . The last “lords of the castle” until 1945 were also those of Arnims . Two long rectangular mounds of earth lying next to each other measuring 120 m × 60 m and 120 m × 45 m have been preserved from the two-part system in the 21st century. They were surrounded by wide moats.

literature

  • Hiltrud and Carsten Preuß: The manor houses and manors in the Teltow-Fläming district , Lukas Verlag für Kunst- und Geistesgeschichte, 1st edition, November 29, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86732-100-6 , p. 244

Web links

Commons : Bärwalde (Fläming)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Official Journal Dahme / Mark 3/2019
  2. Bärwalde. In: gemeinde-niederer-flaeming.de. Municipal administration Niederer Fläming, accessed on August 22, 2013 .
  3. List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: Teltow-Fläming district (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum
  4. ^ Entry in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017
  5. Natural monuments of the community, accessed on November 2, 2016
  6. Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
  7. Area changes from 01.01. until December 31, 1997. In: destatis.de. Federal Statistical Office, accessed on August 22, 2013 .
  8. Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. District Teltow-Fläming . Pp. 22-25