Briest (Havelsee)
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Briest
City of Havelsee
Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 31 ″ N , 12 ° 25 ′ 34 ″ E
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| Area : | 5.01 km² |
| Incorporation : | February 1, 2002 |
| Postal code : | 14798 |
| Area code : | 03381, 033834 |
 Briest
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Briest [ bʀiːst ] is a district of the city of Havelsee in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in the state of Brandenburg and is part of the Beetzsee office . In 2002 Briest voluntarily merged with the city of Pritzerbe and the communities of Fohrde and Hohenferchesar to form the city of Havelsee, to which the village of Marzahne moved in 2008 . Briest is located in the south of the city on state road 962 . The two residential areas Kaltenhausen and Kranepuhl belong to the district .
history
The area was already inhabited by people in prehistoric times. On the basis of archaeological finds, settlements in the area have been proven since the Middle Stone Age at the latest . In the area of the Pritzerber See, numerous artefacts made of bones and antlers that could be dated to the Upper Paleolithic or Mesolithic times were excavated . For example, points, bony fish hooks and a buzzing device were found. On the basis of grave finds, a first settlement in the area of the Briest district in the Bronze Age to the early Iron Age (around 1000 to 800 BC) was proven.
In his work Germania , Tacitus describes the area east of the Elbe up to the Oder as a settlement area of the Suebian tribe of the Semnones . Apart from a few remaining groups, the Semnones left their old settlement area on the Havel in the direction of the Rhine before or at the latest during the time of the migration of peoples from the 3rd or 4th century . From the 6th century onwards, Slavic tribes came from the east to the area that had been largely empty of settlement for around one hundred and fifty years after the Germans had emigrated. Remnants of the Germanic population went into the Slavic majority population. For example, silver jewelry finds in the area around Briest date from this period.
Briest is located in the very south of the city of Havelsee on the Havel. The place was first mentioned in 1294 as "Brisitz". This name is also of Slavic origin and is derived from the word breza (birch). In the Middle Ages the place was also called Wendisch Briest, which also points to the earlier Slavic settlement. In 1375 the place was described as a fishing village with 14 hooves of land owned by the Liege von Sandow. From 1463, Briest belonged to the Plaue estate or office, which was the closest place to the south, and in 1772 it went to the city of Brandenburg, whose ownership it remained until the 19th century. In 1732 nine fishermen were counted in the village. In 1933 the village had 289 inhabitants, and six years later it had 426 inhabitants. After the Second World War, land was redistributed as part of the land reform. The LPG Friedrich Engels was founded in Briest in 1953 , which was later merged with the LPG von Tieckow and von Fohrde. In 1957, the Kranepuhl brickworks and the residential area moved from the community of Fohrde to Briest.
With the First World War, armaments and the military moved into Briest. Due to the geographical conditions that allowed the large-scale layout of an airfield , the Brandenburgische Flugzeugwerke was founded near Briest in 1914 . In 1915 they were renamed the Hansa- and Brandenburgische Flugzeugwerke . Up until 1918, around 1,300 aircraft, mainly for the navy, were built in these plants under the direction of Ernst Heinkel . In addition, a flying school started work there in 1916. At the end of the First World War, aircraft production was banned and the plant was dismantled. It was not until 1929 that a further and disguised expansion took place on the site, circumventing the provisions of the Versailles Peace Treaty . From 1936, the expansion to a school air base of the Air Force began. The Arado Flugzeugwerke set up an assembly plant on the square. The Luftwaffe's flight instructor school began training operations in April 1939, which continued until shortly before the end of the war. In addition, Brandenburg-Briest was occupied by several fighter pilot units. Among other things, the elite association JV 44 was formed there from January 1945 and the square was integrated into the defense of the Reich to protect Berlin. The airfield also served as an assembly and deployment base for the newly developed Me 262 jet fighter . On April 10, 1945, the 8th US Air Force attacked the airfield. There was also destruction in the village. Nineteen days later, on April 29th, the Red Army occupied the area.
After the Second World War, the airfield was initially an internment camp of the NKVD until 1948 . From 1949, when restored, it served as a base for the group of Soviet armed forces in Germany . Were stationed to 1953 and to 1956 Jagdflieger- attack aircraft units . From October 1956 Brandenburg-Briest was used by the newly established air force of the National People's Army . Helicopter training squadron 35 (later helicopter training squadron 35), helicopter training squadron 34 (later transport helicopter squadron 34 "Werner Seelenbinder") with Mil Mi-8 and, for a short time, helicopter squadron 64 with Mil Mi-8TB and Mil Mi-24 were stationed at the airfield. The latter was relocated to the Cottbus-Nord airfield at the end of 1982 . After the dissolution of the NVA , the airfield was temporarily continued to be used by parts of the Luftwaffe Air Transport Wing 65 , but a little later withdrawn from its military use and rededicated as a special airfield . In 2009 it was deedicated and the airfield was finally closed.
Politically, Briest belonged to the then newly founded Prussian Province of Brandenburg since 1815. A year later the district of Westhavelland was founded, to which these places were affiliated. After the Second World War and the founding of the GDR in 1949, Briest was assigned to the Brandenburg district in 1952, together with all of the districts that are now part of Havelsee , which became part of the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in 1993 , and thus to the new Potsdam district , which existed until 1990.
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Attractions
The neo-Romanesque church building in Briest was made of bare bricks in 1888/89 . The village church is the only architectural monument in Briest and is no longer used for church services.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Area code search . Accessed January 18, 2015.
- ↑ Brandenburg an der Havel and the surrounding area, Sebastian Lentz, Böhlau Verlag GmbH & Cie, Cologne 2006, p. 90 ff.
- ^ Chronicle of Briest . Accessed October 16, 2013
- ↑ Brandenburg an der Havel and the surrounding area, Sebastian Lentz, Böhlau Verlag GmbH & Cie, Cologne, 2006, p. 110 f
- ↑ The municipalities of the Westhavelland district ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Accessed October 16, 2013
- ↑ Articles on the sale of the Briester Church . Accessed October 16, 2013
