Briesen (Friesack)

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Coordinates: 52 ° 42 '  N , 12 ° 36'  E

Location of Briesen

Briesen is a residential area in the lilac town of Friesack in the Havelland district in Brandenburg . It was the knightly seat of the von Bredow family .

Briesen is 42 m above sea level. NHN approx. 3.5 km south of Friesack on the west side of federal highway 5 at the junction of federal highway 188 between Pessin and Friesack. Briesen is connected to the surrounding area by several bus routes.

Briesen and the Bredows

Briesen was first mentioned in a document in 1337 in a document from Margrave Ludwig von Brandenburg , in which he awarded the Briesen village church the income from the Friesacker mill. However, before the end of the 14th century, the village was deserted , only the church remained.

The place owes its existence to a medieval pilgrimage chapel, which served as the center of a developing small settlement.

Between the 14th century and the 19th century served Briesen those of Bredow to Friesack, and later those of Bredow to Wagenitz exclusively economic purposes as Vorwerk and sheep farm. The Vorwerk was also often leased.

Hans Christoph von Bredow (born November 5, 1623 in Wagenitz; † June 1, 1691 in Spandau; buried on June 5, 1691 in Wagenitz), the renovator of the House of Friesack, had set himself the task of Bredower when his inheritance began in 1642 To unite estates in the little country Friesack and Friesack Castle, which he almost succeeded in doing until his death in 1691. So he left his four sons in addition to Wagenitz other goods in the country, including Briesen. When his son Wichard Friedrich (FRITZ) von Bredow (* 1659; † 1710) died in 1710, his heir was his second oldest brother, Johann Ludwig von Bredow (born December 31, 1655 in Wagenitz; † April 24, 1740 in Wagenitz). With that, the oldest sons of Hans Christoph von Bredow were now his heirs and that was the end of those of Bredow zu Friesack. With his son Johann Ludwig von Bredow , the new branch line of those from Bredow zu Wagenitz (Wagenitz House) continued and his eldest son Georg von Bredow (born February 20, 1653 in Kleßen ; † September 7, 1697 in Kleßen) is considered the Founder of the branch of the von Bredow zu Kleßen family (Kleßen House).

Between 1822 and 1825, the grandson of the founder of the Wagenitz family, Friedrich Phillip Leopold Ferdinand von Bredow (* March 4, 1787: † March 2, 1878) had one of the most beautiful Brandenburg mansions built in Briesen , probably by Karl Friedrich Schinkel . Its floor plan resembled the contours of the Iron Cross donated in 1813 . Until then, the property had never been the home of its owners. Friedrich Phillip Leopold Ferdinand von Bredow left the Bernhardinenhof in 1818, named after his wife Bernhardine Sophie Emilie, b. von Wulffen (born November 17, 1792, † December 21, 1859), as a preliminary work for Gut Briesen (now part of Brädikow ).

Friedrich Phillip Leopold Ferdinand von Bredow was a loyal supporter of Prince Wilhelm, who later became Emperor Wilhelm I. Friedrich Phillip Leopold Ferdinand von Bredow became the first representative of the von Bredow family in 1859 in the newly created Prussian mansion as the first chamber of the Prussian Landtag . Friedrich Phillip Leopold Ferdinand von Bredow was the father of Mars La Tour -Bredow Adalbert Friedrich Wilhelm von Bredow (* May 25, 1814, † March 3, 1890).

The fate of the Briesen manor complex and the castle was to be decided with the order no. 209 of the SMAD of 9 September 1947 (demolition order). According to this, former manor houses and manor buildings for the extraction of building materials for new residential and farm buildings for the farms that were created in the course of the land reform should be demolished. Briesen Castle was one of the few mansions in Havelland that fell victim to this order.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Friesack - districts according to § 45 municipal constitution - living spaces. In: service.brandenburg.de. Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs of the State of Brandenburg, accessed on October 11, 2016 .
  2. ^ A b Theodor Fontane : The little country Friesack and the Bredows - walks through the Mark Brandenburg , construction of the paperback publishing house, Berlin 2005, page 292, ISBN 3-7466-5707-5
  3. ↑ a b Andreae, A./Geiseler, U., the mansions of the Havel country, Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-931836-59-2
  4. ↑ a b c Dr. Henning v. Koss: The little country Friesack and the Bredows - A walk through six centuries, Märkische Verlagsgesellschaft Kiel, Kiel 1965, pages 125–126.