Dierberg

Dierberg City of Rheinsberg Coordinates: 53 ° 1 ′ 27 ″  N , 12 ° 58 ′ 23 ″  E
Height :	59 m above sea level NN
Residents :	387
Incorporation :	October 26, 2003
Postal code :	16835
Location of Dierberg in Brandenburg

Dierberg is a district of the city of Rheinsberg in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district in northern Brandenburg .

Field stone church

Dierberg, a regularly laid out street village, is cut through by the Lindow-Rheinsberg street. A junction in the village also leads to Neuruppin . Tools and pottery shards from the Neolithic period were found in the Dierberger Flur . A Slavic settlement with hearths was discovered near the site. One of the ceramics recovered here was the base of a vessel with a floor mark. The medieval village (Dyreberghe 1422) suffered from constant robberies by various nobles, such as the Stargard knights in the 15th century. Around 1490 Dierberg belonged to the Ruppin rule of the Counts of Lindow-Ruppin, which was essentially imperial . Dierberg had also suffered heavy losses in the Thirty Years War . According to a national visit of 1652, 17 farms were abandoned. Only at the beginning of the 18th century are all farms inhabited again.

1422 the place is called Dyreberghe. 1515 Dyrbergh, 1525 Tirbergk, 1540 Derberge, Derberch, 1572 Dierberge. According to the name, one expected wild animals.

Dierberg belonged to Lindow Monastery until 1541. By 1764 to the Lindow office, then to the Zechlin office until 1844 and finally to the Alt Ruppin office until 1872.

On October 26, 2003, the town came to the city of Rheinsberg as part of the municipal reform of the state of Brandenburg .

church

The small stone church was built in the form of a hall in the Middle Ages. Since a renovation at the beginning of the 18th century, it has presented itself with baroque arched windows. A long eight-sided spire rises above the tower, which has a square floor plan. Inside there is a pulpit altar from 1716, a silver-gilt chalice from 1719 and two pewter candlesticks from 1743.

Personalities

• Bruno Schottstädt (1927–2000), Protestant theologian, ecumenical lecturer, founder of the Gossner Mission in the GDR and peace activist

Web links

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

• Dierberg in the RBB program Landschleicher on September 18, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003