Bentwisch (Wittenberge)

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Bentwisch
City of Wittenberge
Coordinates: 53 ° 2 ′ 19 ″  N , 11 ° 43 ′ 32 ″  E
Height : 20 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 448  (Nov. 30, 2017)
Incorporation : December 1, 1997
Postal code : 19322
Area code : 03877
Church in Bentwisch
Church in Bentwisch

Bentwisch is a district of the city of Wittenberge in the Prignitz district in Brandenburg .

geography

The place is a good five kilometers north of Wittenberge and ten kilometers southwest of Perleberg . The structure and structure of the settlement are a good example of a rural village .

The local situation is surrounded by the Biosphere Reserve Riverine Landscape Elbe, the conservation area Brandenburg Elbe Valley and the bird sanctuary Lower Elbe Valley. Parts of the district also belong to the FFH area of Silge to the north of here .

Neighboring towns are Dergenthin in the north, Schilde und Weisen in the east, Lindenberg in the south, and Motrich and Wentdorf in the west.

history

In the first written mention of the place in 1345 he is referred to as in villis Bentewiths and in 1441 as to der Bentwich .

In 1779 Bentwisch is recorded as a noble parish village. In 1810 the previous rector and school teacher of the first department of the elementary school in Wittenberge, assistant preacher Johann Joachim Gehard Hahn, took over the local pastoral position.

Previously its own municipality, the place lost its independence on May 1, 1973 in favor of incorporation into the city of Wittenberge. On January 1, 1983, this incorporation was canceled and Bentwisch again became an autonomous community. This phase of renewed independence ended on December 1, 1997 again in favor of reintegration in Wittenberge.

Number of inhabitants
year 1875 1890 1910 1925 1933 1993 1994 1995 1996 2006
Residents 440 380 358 381 376 212 258 375 400 526

Born in Bentwisch

literature

  • Historical Gazetteer Brandenburg - Part 1 - Prignitz - A-M . Modifications made by Lieselott Enders . In: Klaus Neitmann (Ed.): Publications of the Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv (State Archive Potsdam) - Volume 3 . Founded by Friedrich Beck . Publishing house Klaus-D. Becker, Potsdam 2012, ISBN 978-3-88372-032-6 , pp. 34 ff .

Web links

Commons : Bentwisch  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Wittenberge - main office / IT service (ed.): Population figures for the city of Wittenberge. As of November 30, 2017 . Wittenberge August 13, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b City of Wittenberge - districts according to § 45 municipal constitution. In: service.brandenburg.de. Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs of the State of Brandenburg, accessed on April 12, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  4. ↑ Rainer Friedel, Edmund A. Spindler (Ed.): Sustainable development of rural areas - improving opportunities through innovation and maintaining tradition . Springer-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-16542-4 , pp. 359 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  5. ^ Neitmann (ed.): Historical local dictionary for Brandenburg - Part 1 - Prignitz - A – M. 2012, p. 34.
  6. ↑ CE Bohn: Which contains the German Empire according to its current state constitution . In: New description of the earth . tape 3 , 1779, pp. 908 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  7. ↑ Heinz Muchow: How the agricultural town of Wittenberge developed into an industrial town: the important epoch of the town's history from the 19th century to around the middle of the 20th century. BoD - Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2001, ISBN 978-3-8311-2355- 1 , p. 128 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  8. ↑ a b Bentwisch. In: The Genealogical Place Directory (GOV). Association for computer genealogy e. V., accessed on April 21, 2015 .