Beerfelde

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Beerfelde
community Steinhöfel
Coat of arms of Beerfelde
Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 50 ″  N , 14 ° 2 ′ 31 ″  E
Height : 66 m
Residents : 575  (2009)
Incorporation : December 31, 2001
Postal code : 15518
Area code : 033637
Beerfelde village church
Beerfelde village church

Beerfelde is a district of the Steinhöfel community in the Oder-Spree district in Brandenburg .

History and etymology

The place was first mentioned in a document on April 16, 1285. The margraves Otto V and Otto IV issued a certificate on that day in which the rights of Fürstenwald were confirmed. Ber (e) nvelde also appears in this document . The name is derived from the Slavic , where the first part could be derived from ber (e) , bare for "bear", while the second part could be derived from velt for "free, open field, meadow, pasture, long, terrain" can stand. Beerfelde was possibly founded by a family of the same name from near Radebeul . During archaeological investigations by Pastor Heßler at the beginning of the 20th century, however, numerous graves and foundations of a house that could be dated to the Bronze Age were found. Starting from the Lehnin monastery , Beerfelde was also looked after by the local Cistercians . A village church was built under their leadership in the 13th century.

In the Thirty Years' War Beerfelde was probably drawn also affected. From the years 1633 and 1634 it is known that four of the 50 farmers' hooves were desolate , three of the nine Kötterhöfen were fallow. After the peace treaty in 1648, Swedish riders stayed in the village in July 1649. Beerfelde recovered from the acts of war and so in 1654 only two Kötterhöfe were desolate.

It is not known whether Beerfelde was affected by the Wars of Liberation . However, a memorial to a fallen Russian officer in neighboring Gölsdorf commemorates a battle against Napoleon Bonaparte . The existence of 42 houses is recorded from 1864. There were also two farms, a manor house, a sheep farm and two farms. Despite the expansion of the road to Schönfelde in 1895, the population rose only slightly. In 1900 there were 46 houses in the village.

In 1917 the parish had to ring the bell of the village church during the First World War . It was lost in the course of a metal donation by the German people . Two years later, a census as of October 8, 1919 showed a total of 353 inhabitants who farmed 940 hectares. During the Second World War there was a satellite camp of the Sachsenhausen , Oranienburg concentration camp near Beerfelde .

Incorporation

On December 31, 2001, Beerfelde was incorporated into Steinhöfel.

Population development

year 1875 1890 1910 1925 1933 1946 1993 2000 2006
population 466 443 403 381 392 492 548 658 570

Culture and sights

In the list of monuments in Steinhöfel are the monuments of the place entered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.

The village church of Beerfelde is an early Gothic stone church from the second half of the 13th century. Inside there are the remains of an altarpiece from 1713, a pulpit from 1675 and an organ by Wilhelm Sauer .

Personalities

  • Günter Hessler (1909–1968), naval officer in the Reichsmarine and the Kriegsmarine

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chronicle of Beerfelde
  2. ↑ The place name , Chronik von Beerfelde, website beerfelde.de, accessed on August 2, 2018.
  3. ↑ 4,500 - 2,000 BC , Chronicle of Beerfelde, website beerfelde.de, accessed on August 2, 2018.
  4. ^ Cistercians and monks in our homeland , Chronicle of Beerfelde, website beerfelde.de, accessed on August 2, 2018.
  5. ↑ The Thirty Years War 1618–1648 , Chronicle of Beerfelde, website beerfelde.de, accessed on August 2, 2018.
  6. ^ Wars of Liberation 1813–1815 , Chronicle of Beerfelde, website beerfelde.de, accessed on August 2, 2018.
  7. ↑ History 1864–1935 , Chronicle of Beerfelde, website beerfelde.de, accessed on August 2, 2018.
  8. ↑ The Place of Terror: History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps, pp. 77 f. (Online at Google Books )
  9. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2001
  10. ^ The Genealogical Place Directory: Beerfelde