Blumenhagen (Schwedt / Oder)

Blumenhagen

Location of Blumenhagen in Brandenburg

Lindenstrasse in Blumenhagen

Blumenhagen is a village with 214 inhabitants (December 31, 2018) in northeast Brandenburg . The district of Blumenhagen is about 6 m above sea level and has an area of 3.64 km². On December 6, 1993, the previously independent municipality of Blumenhagen was incorporated into the city of Schwedt / Oder , the center of which is about five kilometers away.

The place is to the left of the lower catfish , which enters the broad Oder valley here, which is the main component of the Lower Oder Valley National Park . To the northwest of the village rise up to 58 m above sea level. The Müllerberge reaching NHN , a terminal moraine from the last Ice Age. The MX3 World Championship and the MX2 European Championship were held for the first time in 2009 on the motocross course located in the Müller Mountains .

Blumenhagen appeared for the first time in 1265 as Blomenhagen in a document confirming membership of the Vogtei Vierraden. Due to its location near the mouth of the catfish in the Oder and on the Brandenburg-Pomeranian border, Blumenhagen was often the scene of armed conflicts.

The tobacco has Blumenhagen and around a long tradition that the immigrant Huguenots is due. According to the Potsdam Edict, they also settled in Blumenhagen, which was completely destroyed during the Thirty Years' War . The Ostuckermark is one of the largest German tobacco growing areas, as evidenced by many typical tobacco barns and the nearby Vierraden tobacco museum.

Blumenhagen is located near the federal highway 2 from Schwedt / Oder to Gartz (Oder) (bypass road since 2005).

literature

Lieselott Enders : Historical local lexicon for Brandenburg, Part VIII, Uckermark , Weimar 1986, ISBN 3-7400-0042-2

supporting documents

↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office

^ MOZ article about the Motocross World Championship in Blumenhagen from July 29, 2009

Web links

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[1] Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office

[2] MOZ article about the Motocross World Championship in Blumenhagen from July 29, 2009