Bechlin

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Bechlin Church

Bechlin is a residential area in the city of Neuruppin in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district , Brandenburg . Bechlin was an independent municipality until 1974.

Geographical location

The originally independent village lies on a ground moraine plate from which meltwater has flowed off in large quantities . The federal motorway 24 runs nearby .

history

Bechlin is first mentioned in 1291 as a settlement called Borkwal . The area of ​​today's Bechlin was already inhabited in the Neolithic , as two stone axes show. A bronze reversible collar from the Iron Age was also found in the Bechlin district near Knackhorst, which belongs to the Jastorf culture . In the Bechliner Mesche there was a middle Slavic castle wall ( Hünenwall ), around 1.5 kilometers north of the town center. Today the wall has been largely removed, it had a diameter of around 70  meters and was surrounded by a moat more than 12 meters wide.

In 1315 the street village that emerged was called Bechelin. Around 1490 Bechlin belonged to the Ruppin rule of the Counts of Lindow-Ruppin, which was essentially imperial .

In 1699 the Bechliner Gut owned two brick-roofed houses, a barn, a sheepfold, a horse stable, a cowshed, four knight's hooves, three inhabited farmer's hooves, a desolate farmer's place with land, two inhabited farms , a tree and a kitchen garden with a pond, a desolate one Vineyard , two desert gardens, a pool for the rider's seat and several field pools for fishing.

Theodor Fontane visited Bechlin in June 1864 to work on the second edition of his walks through the Mark Brandenburg . He sketched the church and noted the legend around the knee in his notebook. However, Bechlin only had a short guest appearance on the hikes . Because the place was only included in the chapter "Villages and Spots in the Lande Ruppin" (Volume 1, Die Grafschaft Ruppin ), which Fontane took out again in the third edition (1875).

Attractions

  • The high medieval village church was built in the 13th century in the early Gothic style from hewn field stones with a wide west tower. It was founded by the then diocese of Havelberg during the first colonization period . The church was burned down during the Thirty Years War and parts of it were razed to the ground. It was rebuilt around 1700, and the main cornice and roof truss were rebuilt. The baroque pulpit altar was erected in 1713, the church and tower were repaired in 1781, and the tower was probably given its current shape in 1869. In 1958 the church was renovated inside.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Service portal of the state administration of the state of Brandenburg: City of Neuruppin
  2. ↑ Contribution to the statistics of the State Office for Data Processing and Statistics. Historical community directory of the State of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005 7.15 pm, Ostprignitz-Ruppin district PDF
  3. ^ Ruppiner Land (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 37). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1981, p. 111.
  4. ^ Theodor Fontane: Notebooks. Genetically critical and annotated edition. Edited by Gabriele Radecke. September 20, 2018, accessed February 2, 2020 .
  5. ↑ History of the Bechlin village church - Brief building history. Förderverein Dorfkirche Bechlin e. V., accessed on October 23, 2016 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 54 ′ 59 ″  N , 12 ° 45 ′ 55 ″  E