Brusenhagen

Brusenhagen municipality Gumtow Coordinates: 53 ° 1 ′ 53 ″ N , 12 ° 18 ′ 59 ″ E
Height :	49 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	96 (December 31, 2018)
Incorporation :	1st October 1972
Incorporated into:	Vehlow
Postal code :	16866
Area code :	033976
	South-western entrance to the village

Brüsenhagen is an inhabited part of the municipality in the Vehlow part of the municipality of Gumtow in the Prignitz district in Brandenburg .

geography

Brüsenhagen is located in the northwest of the state of Brandenburg, there in the southeast of the Perleberg district.

history

To the east-south-east, not far from the village, there is a Slavic rampart with an associated outer bailey settlement. The place was first mentioned in 1333 as Brusenhagen, later also listed as Briesenhagen or Breusenhagen among other things. At that time there was already a parish church in the village . To Brüsenhagen belong Kreuzkrug (located on today's B 103 ) and then Brüsenhagen-Berg.

In terms of architectural history, it is a dead end village with a church at the end. Originally the village belonged to the rule of Margrave Ludwig von Brandenburg , who pledged it in 1343. After several changes of ownership, the rule was divided in 1424. Half of it fell to the von Blumenthal zu Vehlow family (until 1839), whose most prominent scion is probably the Roman Catholic Bishop Georg von Blumenthal (1490–1550). The other half went to the von Klitzing zu Demerthin family (until 1872), whose family seat, Demerthin Castle , can still be admired today as a well-preserved Renaissance castle. In 1541, after the Reformation , Brüsenhagen became the daughter church of Vehlow. At that time, the rectory was already dilapidated, as evidenced by a visit. In 1678 a new village church was built .

For the year 1907, one landowner with around one hundred and fifty hectares of land, six bourgeois estates with thirty to almost ninety hectares of land, two farmers with ten hectares each and six landowners, an innkeeper, a mill owner, a teacher, three retirees and two retirees become for Brüsenhagen recorded.

The last church patron was a Herr von Blumenthal until 1945. After the end of the Second World War , 357.50 hectares were expropriated in 1946 and distributed to 26 new farmers. In 1958 the first agricultural production cooperative "Frohe Zukunft" (Type I) was founded. Two years later the second LPG "Bergauf" (Type I). In the following year the LPG "Bergauf" was merged with the LPG "Max Riemann" (Type III) in Vehlow, followed in 1968 by the LPG "Frohe Zukunft". In the same year the parish came to Kyritz-Wusterhausen, the place was incorporated into Vehlow. In 1974, Brüsenhagen was spun off from the Vehlow parish and permanently connected to the Wutike parish . At that time the nave had become dilapidated due to lack of maintenance and was demolished. The parish, however, campaigned for a narrow strip with a tower to be preserved.

On June 30, 2002, Brüsenhagen was incorporated as a district from Vehlow to Gumtow. In 2007, a large Brüsenhagen festival was celebrated in the village, for which more than 200 Brüsenhagen residents and alumni came together. Since 2010 the association “Kirche in Brüsenhagen e. V. “tried to preserve the church tower. Church tower festivals, concerts and readings are organized for this purpose. Since 2014 the winners of the “Northeast Literature Prize” have been officially announced in the church tower, along with a reading by the authors.

Culture and sights

Northwest view of the remains of the village church

The village church of Brüsenhagen is a listed half-timbered church and, as evidenced by a portal inscription, was built in 1678: "YOUR DIVINE WORD YOUR BRIGHT LIGHT / DO NOT EXTINATE US BUT FATHER 1678". It is a baroque wooden church building with plaster-free, patterned infills, the polygonal east end (the ship) was demolished in 1972 and following due to dilapidation. The remaining tower with a timber-clad half-timbering at the west end has been preserved. In the interior there was a valuable "Achatius Altar", a Gothic winged altar . It has been in the parish church of St. Marien zu Kyritz since 1978 . For the purpose of restoration, it was given to the local parish. There are also two carved figures from the beginning of the 16th century, depicting Anna herself , as well as depictions of disciples and command panels from the nave. According to the inscription, the remaining bell of two in the tower goes back to a casting from 1726. It was cast by Klagemann in Berlin in 1852 on behalf of the parish.
An old linden tree is a defining feature of the site as a natural monument. An annually recurring and breeding pair of storks has their nest in the immediate vicinity.

Economy and infrastructure, regular events

After the abandonment of a mill, school and restaurant, there are still three farms in the village,
Once a month there is a service in the room under the church tower .

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. 106 ff .

Web links

Commons : Brüsenhagen - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Brüsenhagen in the historical directory of the association for computer genealogy
Site of the support association “Church in Brüsenhagen e. V. "

Individual evidence

↑ Gumtow community - inhabited parts of the community - living spaces. In: service.brandenburg.de. Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs of the State of Brandenburg, accessed on December 29, 2015 .
↑ Historical local dictionary for Brandenburg, Hermann Böhlaus Nachf., Weimar 1997.
↑ Brandenburgisches Namenbuch, part 6: The place names of the Prignitz, Hermann Böhlaus Nachf., Weimar 1989.
↑ Susanne Gloger: The ship has to wait - The revival of the church tower in Brüsenhagen , published in Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg e. V. (Ed.): Open Churches , 2020 edition, ISBN 978-3-928918-36-7 , pp. 52 to 54.
↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities of Germany, see 2002 , accessed on February 24, 2015.
^ Website of the Northeast Literature Prize , accessed on March 4, 2015.
^ Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum (ed.): List of monuments of the State of Brandenburg - Prignitz district . D) Monuments of other genres, ID number 09160756, December 31, 2018, p. 27 ( bldam-brandenburg.de [PDF; 404 kB ; accessed on May 13, 2019]).

[1] Gumtow community - inhabited parts of the community - living spaces. In: service.brandenburg.de. Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs of the State of Brandenburg, accessed on December 29, 2015 .

[2] Historical local dictionary for Brandenburg, Hermann Böhlaus Nachf., Weimar 1997.

[3] Brandenburgisches Namenbuch, part 6: The place names of the Prignitz, Hermann Böhlaus Nachf., Weimar 1989.

[4] Susanne Gloger: The ship has to wait - The revival of the church tower in Brüsenhagen , published in Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg e. V. (Ed.): Open Churches , 2020 edition, ISBN 978-3-928918-36-7 , pp. 52 to 54.

[5] StBA: Changes in the municipalities of Germany, see 2002 , accessed on February 24, 2015.

[6] Website of the Northeast Literature Prize , accessed on March 4, 2015.

[7] Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum (ed.): List of monuments of the State of Brandenburg - Prignitz district . D) Monuments of other genres, ID number 09160756, December 31, 2018, p. 27 ( bldam-brandenburg.de [PDF; 404 kB ; accessed on May 13, 2019]).