Buckau Valley

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	Coordinates: 52 ° 14 '  N , 12 ° 19'  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Potsdam-Mittelmark
Office :	Ziesar
Height :	70 m above sea level NHN
Area :	39.32 km 2
Residents:	487 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	12 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	14793
Area code :	033830
License plate :	PM
Community key :	12 0 69 089
Community structure:	3 districts
Office administration address:	Friedrich-Engels-Str. 20 14793 Ziesar
Mayor :	Mike Pokorny
Location of the municipality Buckautal in the district of Potsdam-Mittelmark

Buckautal is a municipality in the west of the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in Brandenburg and part of the Ziesar office .

geography

Buckautal is about five kilometers south and east of Ziesar on the border with Saxony-Anhalt . The community is located south of the Fiener Bruch on a glacial sand . Mainly pine trees grow on the sand. The municipality extends over ten kilometers and extends from the district of Dretzen in the southwest to the district of Steinberg in the northeast. The Altengrabow military training area is near the Dretzen district . Rivers in the municipality are the Buckau , which gives it its name, with its tributaries Krummer Bach , Strepenbach , Litzenbach and Kirchenheider Bach .

Community structure

Buckau , Dretzen and Steinberg are districts of the community. In addition, there are the Birkenreismühle , Wittstock colony and Ziegelei residential areas . Five uninhabited small exclaves are surrounded by the area of ​​the town of Möckern in Saxony-Anhalt (one of them belongs partly to Buckautal and partly to the town of Ziesar).

history

In 946 Buckau was first mentioned in a document as "Bucounici". At that time, King Otto I gave the honeysuckle of the “urbs” (lat .: city) Buckau to the Moritz monastery in Magdeburg . This makes Buckau the oldest (documented) place in today's state of Brandenburg. The name “urbs” speaks for the importance of the settlement at that time. Until its dissolution in 1571, the places of today's Buckautal belonged to the bishopric of Brandenburg , the principality of the bishops of the diocese of Brandenburg , whose residence was in neighboring Ziesar.

Buckau used to have a castle warden , today only a circular spot in the Feldmark north of the village about 150 meters in diameter remains.

Buckau, Dretzen and Steinberg belonged to the Jerichow I district in the Prussian province of Saxony since 1817 and to the Brandenburg-Land district in the GDR district of Potsdam from 1952 . Since 1993 the places have been in the Brandenburg district of Potsdam-Mittelmark.

The Buckautal community emerged on March 1, 2002 from the voluntary amalgamation of the previously independent communities Buckau and Dretzen. On March 1, 2002, the Steinberg community was also incorporated.

Population development

year	Buckau	Dretzen	Steinberg		year	Buckau Valley		year	Buckau Valley
1875	295	250	193		2002	580		2015	492
1910	295	270	193		2005	529		2016	496
1939	296	281	181		2010	515		2017	489
1946	354	386	254		2011	524		2018	488
1950	543	354	251		2012	527		2019	487
1971	321	214	179		2013	518
1990	234	177	144		2014	508
1995	274	193	140
2000	312	181	131
2001	293	182	133

Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31, from 2011 based on the 2011 census

politics

Community representation

The municipal council of Buckautal consists of eight municipal representatives and the honorary mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Voter group	Seats
Heimatverein Buckau	4th
Fire Brigade Association Steinberg	3
Individual applicant Knut Vieweg	1

mayor

• 2003–2014: Hans-Christian Krieger
• since 2014: Mike Pokorny

Pokorny was elected in the mayoral election on May 26, 2019 with 87.5% of the valid votes for a further term of five years.

Attractions

Village church in Buckau

Healthy well

In the list of architectural monuments in Buckautal and in the list of ground monuments in Buckautal are the cultural monuments entered in the monuments list of the state of Brandenburg.

• The Buckau village church was built around 1200 as a Romanesque stone building with a choir and apse . The neo-Romanesque brick tower was added around 1860. Inside there is a Gothic carved altar from around 1420 and a wooden figure of the Mother of God , which was created around 1390. The step to the altar is a tombstone of Gertrudis, which is around 800 years old and is considered the oldest tombstone in the Mark Brandenburg .
• Historically, there were several watermills . Wehlers Mühle was a grain mill that operated until 1989. The birch rice mill was used commercially as a sawmill until 1990 .
• Gesundbrunnen , spring pot between Buckau and Rottstock

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The federal highway 107 between Ziesar and Wiesenburg crosses the Buckau district. The federal motorway 2 , which runs through the municipality near the Steinberg district, can be reached via the Ziesar junction (approx. 9 km away).

The Wusterwitz – Görzke railway with the Buckau (Landkr Brandenburg) and Birkenreismühle stops ran through the municipality . Passenger traffic ceased in 1973 and freight traffic in 1994.

power supply

Since 2005, Dretzen has had ten Fuhrländer FL 77 wind turbines, each with an output of 1.5 MW and a rotor diameter of 77 m, which are mounted on 111.5 m high free-standing steel lattice towers.

Web links

Commons : Buckautal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Buckautal in the genealogical directory
• "Buckautal" on the website of the Ziesar office
• Buckau village church

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population in the State of Brandenburg according to municipalities, offices and municipalities not subject to official registration on December 31, 2019 (XLSX file; 223 KB) (updated official population figures) ( help on this ).
2. ^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. Buckautal community
3. ↑ Gustav Abb and Gottfried Wentz: The Diocese of Brandenburg . First part, In: Germania sacra , Berlin and Leipzig 1929, Walter de Gruyter, p. 66.
4. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2002
5. ^ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Landkreis Potsdam-Mittelmark . Pp. 18-21
6. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2017 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
7. ^ Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.): Statistical report AI 7, A II 3, A III 3. Population development and population status in the state of Brandenburg (respective editions of the month of December)
8. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
9. ↑ Local elections October 26, 2003. Mayoral elections , p. 30
10. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 25, 2014
11. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)
12. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019
13. ↑ Frank Bürstenbinder: Baroque masterpiece discovered in Buckau / fundraising ongoing , website of the Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg eV, accessed on April 4, 2015.
14. ↑ Seeba Energy Farming: Reference list for wind turbines. Accessed on June 8, 2011.