Blankensee (Trebbin)
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Blankensee
City of Trebbin
Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ N , 13 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ E
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| Height : | 37 m above sea level NHN |
| Residents : | 543 (2007) |
| Incorporation : | September 27, 1998 |
| Postal code : | 14959 |
| Area code : | 033731 |
 Image of the Blankensee from the Bohlensteg
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The village of Blankensee is a district of the city of Trebbin in the Brandenburg district of Teltow-Fläming .
location
Blankensee is about eight kilometers northwest of the city center of Trebbin. Neighboring villages are Glau, Schönhagen, Stangenhagen, Mietgendorf and Schiaß as well as Breite, Stücken and Tremsdorf. The Nuthe tributary Nieplitz flows through the village . The village is located in the Nuthe-Nieplitz Nature Park .
History and etymology
Early to the 14th century
The place name Blankensee is of Slavic origin. "Lanka" describes something blank and also occurs in the meaning of swampy and boggy. Traces of settlement from the 9th and 10th centuries are known from archaeological investigations. Slavic tribes built a castle and a settlement between Lake Blankensee and Grössinsee . The area around the Blankensee was conquered by the Archdiocese of Magdeburg around the middle of the 12th century . Albrecht the Bear brought in additional settlers in the form of Rhinelander, Dutch and Flemish people. They finally gave this landscape the name Fläming. The first written mention of Blankensee was in a document from Archbishop Heinrich von Magdeburg for the Zinna monastery from October 18, 1307. There a Heidenricus famulus dictus de trebin, dominus in blankense is mentioned.
In 1300 Heidenreich moved his residence from Trebbin to Blankensee Castle, which was built instead of the Slavic castle. 1317 Graf Lintow is named as the owner of Blankensee. In 1333, Blankensee married Rudolf of Saxony. 1340 which took place investiture of Duke Rudolf of Saxony by the abbess of the Quedlinburg .
15th to 21st century
In 1446 Hans von Thümen received the place. In 1815, after the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna , the previously Saxon area went to Prussia . The last owner, Arthur von Thümen auf Stangenhagen, had to sell the estate with a total of 11,000 acres of forest to the German settlement company in 1897 (1898?) For 2.25 million marks . This offered the palace and the park to the poet Hermann Sudermann for sale. The plan was to turn Blankensee into a settlement for wealthy citizens. Sudermann initially decided to lease the property. At that time, parts of the courtyard buildings had already been offered. In 1902 it was bought, whereupon Sudermann had the palace and park redesigned. He commissioned the Berlin architect Otto Stahn , who had a söller built on the park side . In 1903 a new kitchen with a gardener's house was built in the west wing, in 1904 a round temple in the park and the loggia. The work was completed with the creation of an Italian garden in 1927. Sudermann died a year later, on November 21, 1928, and the foundation he had established under the direction of his stepson Rolf Lauckner took over the business. Its purpose was to support poor writers. After the Second World War , the castle was looted - however, due to the foundation structure, there was no expropriation. Initially, refugees and resettlers were quartered in the building; some rooms used as grain storage. From 1957 to 1959, it was converted into a school, which was used by the previously disbanded school classes in Glau, Schönhagen, Stangenhagen and Mietgendorf. In 1958 the castle was listed as a historical monument. In 1973, experts discovered significant deficiencies in the east wing built in 1927 and had the component demolished. In 1975 the park of the palace was placed under monument protection. In 1985 the school moved to another, larger building near the Blankensee. The mayor moved into the castle. A kindergarten and a meeting room were created. The building was also used as a company holiday home. After the fall of the Wall , the Sudermann Foundation, together with the monument authority, transferred the property to the Brandenburg castles , which carried out a comprehensive renovation from 1994 to 1998. A new east wing in the Bauhaus style was also built according to plans by the Bonn architect Karl-Heinz Schommer . In 1995, Blankensee took second place in the nationwide competition Our village should become more beautiful - our village has the future . From 1998 to 2004 the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences used the palace. She set up a memorial room for Sudermann. With effect from September 27, 1998, the village was incorporated. Since May 2006 the castle has been open to guests as a conference and event center with a café and park. In 2007 there were 543 residents in Blankensee. In 2008 Blankensee was named the most beautiful village in the Teltow-Fläming district. In 2010, Blankensee received a European Village Renewal Award from the European ARGE Landentwicklung und Dorf renewal for special achievements in individual areas of village development.
Culture and sights
- Blankensee mansion . The building was from 1739 to 1741 on the foundations of an old German castle for the Saxon Kreishauptmann Christian Wilhelm von Thümen built. The East Prussian playwright Hermann Sudermann furnished the palace park, originally designed by Peter Joseph Lenné in 1832 , with statues that he brought back from his travels.
- Blankensee village church : The sacred building was built in the 14th century. The church building, which is kept sneaky from the outside, holds some treasures from the Baroque and Renaissance periods inside . This includes the baroque pulpit altar from 1706. The redesign goes back to the von Thümen family. The oldest piece of furniture in the church is a Venetian baptismal font from the first half of the 11th century. It once stood on the market square in Venice and served as a fountain. It came from the estate of Hermann Sudermann in the Blankenseer church. During the renovation work in 1991, an approximately four hundred year old Renaissance mural with the - not completely preserved - representation of Esther before Ahasver came to light, a motif that was popular at the time. In the church tower there are three old bells from 1400, 1406 and 1517, which are still rung today. This cultural site offers concerts all year round.
- Johannische Kirche : In 1929 Joseph Weißenberg built a church with a hall structure and double arches made of wood that is 40 meters long and 30 meters deep and offers space for around 1,000 people. The Church of the Peace City is not only a place of worship for the members of the local primitive community Friedensstadt, but also the center of the Blankensee music summer. Concerts take place here regularly from April to September. This building has been a listed building since August 2008. The Blankensee Christmas market has opened its doors here on every second weekend in Advent since 1990.
Nuthe-Nieplitz Nature Park and the Blankensee
Fields, orchards , wet meadows , smaller hills, flocks of sheep , water mills , and natural ash trees, together with a small-scale change of biotopes in the Nuthe-Nieplitz Nature Park, form a cultural landscape into which the village of Blankensee fits. The approximately 300 hectare Blankensee belongs to a smaller chain of lakes that is connected by the Nieplitz river. The lake, which is under conservation , is surrounded by an intact belt of reeds , several hundred meters wide in places , which offers waterfowl cover and breeding grounds and which attracts thousands of Nordic wild geese and cranes to rest in spring and autumn . A nature trail leads from the southern end of the village to the Bohlensteg on the northeast bank of the Blankensee. The 200-meter-long boardwalk was made barrier-free as part of the village renewal in order to give visitors a clear view of the lake, which is not accessible from the other side. Geese, ducks and railings, cormorants, herons, sometimes sea eagles and ospreys as well as the kingfisher can be observed from the jetty.
The observation tower at the Seechen pond to the north-west, just outside the village, offers a view of the flocks of birds grazing on the monster meadows, especially when birds are migrating. Cormorants , herons and occasionally sea eagles can be observed from here with binoculars . The observation tower on the Ungeheuerwiesen is also interesting for nature lovers.
The Glauer Tal game reserve with red deer , fallow deer and mouflon, as well as Icelandic horses, is located near the community .
museum
The oldest secular house from 1649 is located in the center of Blankensee. It was built in the style of a Brandenburg center-floor house , covered with a thatched roof. This house houses the farm museum, which shows the life and economy of a farming family at that time.
There are also regular special exhibitions in the museum, such as photo and art exhibitions and exhibitions of traditional handicrafts. The museum has a barn built in the same style and a museum courtyard in which tools from the agricultural sector at the time, such as an original threshing box , are exhibited.
On the third weekend in September, a museum festival based on the traditional fishing festival takes place in the museum courtyard with traditional handicrafts, country cuisine and various activities.
See also
- Nuthe-Nieplitz Nature Park , Körzin .
- to Thümener Winkel : Stangenhagen ; Tourism in Brandenburg ,
- Cycle routes in Brandenburg , list of castles and palaces in Brandenburg
Individual evidence
literature
- Festschrift 700 years Blankensee: history and stories from the village - publisher: Festival Committee of the Blankensee Municipality 2007 (available in the Farmers' Museum in Blankensee)
- Theodor Fontane: Walks through the Mark Brandenburg . Part 4. Spreeland. Blankensee. Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. - Berlin 1998 (quoted from this edition). ISBN 3-548-24381-9 .
- Angelika Fischer / Bernd Erhard Fischer: Blankensee: Sudermann's castle and park. A search for clues . (Search for clues). arani-Verlag, Berlin 1991. ISBN 3-7605-8628-7 .
- Christa Heese: Blankensee . (Castles and Gardens of the Mark). ed. Friends of the Palaces and Gardens of the Mark. German Society V., Berlin 2003.
- 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
The quote from Sudermann is taken from:
- Christa and Johannes Jankowiak: On the way to Nuthe and Nieplitz. Portrait of a Brandenburg landscape. On old tracks and new paths . Stapp Verlag, Berlin 1995. ISBN 3-87776-061-9 .
Web links
Blankensee | Christinendorf | Glau | Großbeuthen with Kleinbeuthen | Klein Schulzendorf | Kliestow | Löwendorf | Lüdersdorf | Märkisch Wilmersdorf | Schönhagen | Stangenhagen | Thyrow | Wiesenhagen