Dippmannsdorf

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Quellbach at the mill

The street village of Dippmannsdorf is a district of the district town of Bad Belzig in the Brandenburg district of Potsdam-Mittelmark on the edge of the bustard protection area Belziger Landschaftswiesen .

The place has an unusual half-timbered church that goes back to Friedrich August Stüler . Also of interest is an extensive headwaters on the Fläminghang, the Dippmannsdorfer Paradies natural monument .

location

The village with 349 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2015) is located around eight kilometers north of the core town of Bad Belzig on the western edge of the landscape meadows or the Baruther glacial valley, directly on the slope of the terminal moraine landscape of the Hohe Fläming . It belongs to the Hoher Fläming Nature Park and is connected to the road network by the federal highway 102 . Neighboring villages are Ragösen in the north and Lütte in the south , which also belong to Bad Belzig as districts and are located on the same tree-lined avenue . The Bundesstraße 102 is here and over long stretches of the Deutsche Alleenstraße .

History and etymology

The place was first mentioned in 1385 in the Weimar City Archives as Ditmarstorph , i.e. Dietmar's village . Later documents spoke of Dytmarsdorff (1388) or Dylinsdorff (1419). Dietmar's Ort was originally laid out as a round village that fell victim to a fire in 1826. The new system took on the shape of the street village that still existed in the 21st century. The village green with an extraordinary half-timbered church is reminiscent of the former village shape. It replaced a previous building that had to be closed in 1850 due to dilapidation. The school built in 1823 suffered the same fate. It was reopened in 1853, while it was unclear for a long period whether the church should be renovated or replaced by a new building. Finally a new building was built, which was inaugurated in 1860 . In 1902 the community was connected to the Brandenburg city railway , which connected Treuenbrietzen via Belzig and Rathenow with Neustadt (Dosse) between until 1962 . In 1912 the community was connected to the electricity network. After losses in the First and Second World Wars , the number of residents increased to 697 people due to resettlers. 1951 opened a bathing establishment; 1960 a new school building. In 1985 the place celebrated its 600th anniversary. In 1992 and 1993, craftsmen built a new fire station . In 1996, the conversion of the outdoor pool into a natural swimming pond began. In 2001 the place won the silver medal in the competition Our village has a future . In the following year, the renaturation of the source area Paradise began. Dippmannsdorf was incorporated into (Bad) Belzig on December 31, 2002. In the following years, the community expanded the tourist offer: A natural playground was created, a nature trail, which was then expanded into a children's adventure trail. In 2012, work began on a beach sports facility in the natural swimming pool, which opened a year later.

Attractions

Dippmannsdorf village church

Dippmannsdorf village church

In 1840, the neighboring village of Lütte received a so-called Schinkel normal church . Twenty years later, the people of Dippmannsdorf had to replace their dilapidated church from 1705 and, like the neighboring villages, were forced to implement a simple and inexpensive construction due to the lack of funds. In 1860 they built an unusual tower-free church, which is also in the tradition of Schinkel's normal church, even if the red-glowing brick half-timbered house looks completely different from the classicist church in the neighboring village.

Because of their fast and inexpensive construction, Schinkel also designed half-timbered churches in addition to the normal church . The Schinkel schoolchildren Friedrich August Stüler and August Soller took up the theme of the rare brick half- timbered churches in the sample book of designs for churches, parish houses and school buildings . The people of Dippmannsdorf went back to pages 16 and 17 from Stüler's folios from 1852 and produced an idiosyncratic two-story hall with the abundant wood in Fläming. The basic concept of the church with its polygonal apse and horseshoe gallery corresponds entirely to the type of normal church designed by Schinkel for the village communities. The arched style envisaged there, however, was difficult to implement in half-timbering. That is why the Dippmannsdorf Church [...] has design elements that are more reminiscent of the Tudor style and its implementation in the half-timbered construction. [...] In the interior, which includes a beautiful baptismal font made of cast zinc , Gothic forms dominate. The baroque altar in the church dates from 1705 and was taken over from the previous building.

Headwaters Dippmannsdorfer Paradies

According to the final report in the 2001 national competition Our village should become more beautiful , Dippmannsdorf received a silver plaque this year for the achievements of its citizens . Among these achievements, the report particularly highlights the development of the Dippmansdorfer natural monument Paradies : The "paradise" was opened up by a careful and nature conservation-friendly route, but with the old beech stock it seems completely natural and always opens up new perspectives to the visitor in the varied relief of the nature park.

Geology and source stream

The relief energy from the glacial valley to the Fläming is very pronounced at Dippmannsdorf with steep embankment edges, with the result that in the forest area 32 (other details 54) seepage springs emerge in a narrow space, the water of which collects in two mill ponds and just above the main road within the mill site Pour again eight meters vertically downwards before they form a source stream, as the Dippmannsdorfer Bach flow through the Belzig landscape meadows and after three kilometers flow into the Temnitz ; the Temnitz in turn flows further into the Havel tributary Plane . If you look down the eight meters at the end of the mill ponds, you get a vivid idea of ​​the towering terrain that the runoff of the Vistula Ice Age melted water cut out around 21,000 years ago on the north slope of the Fläming. While the Hohe Fläming is still part of the old moraine landscape of the Saale Ice Age , the lowlands within the glacial valley are already part of the young moraine region of the Vistula Ice Age, the inland ice of which reached its maximum extent to the south in the valley.

Sources of seepage and flora

Seep spring in paradise
Confluence of the spring water in the mill pond

The groundwater outflows in Paradise are characterized by dark swampy zones , as deposits of plant residues on the outlet troughs stimulate the decomposition of the soil . Carefully laid out paths, footbridges, dams and bridges lead through the gorge and take into account the sensitive, soft, swampy soil around the seepage springs, also known as Helokrene . According to the information board, the natural monument owes its somewhat questionable name to the fact that the clear, lime-free and cool spring water [...] [creates] unique habitats. Numerous animal and plant species have found their »paradise« here. Noteworthy plants include liverworts ( Hepaticae ), gooseneck star moss ( Mnium hornum ), bitter foam herb ( Cardamine amara ), the rare wood sorrel ( Oxalis acetosella ) - and also the alternate spleen ( Chrysosplenium alternifolium ), which requires very little light in the shady spring swamp.

In the crystal clear spring water you can bathe extensively, because the Dippmannsdorfer built a bathing pond between old walls in the middle of the village. The final report in the 2001 national competition states: The organic bathing pond with its design and placement in the village is exemplary […]. It is fed from a spring and, with its extensively used reed beds, is also an important contribution to village ecology.

economy

Of the 1766 hectare total area of ​​the district, 61% is accounted for by the forest and 32% by agriculture. The village economy, traditionally characterized by agriculture, is now operated by a cooperative that is located outside the village. Natural tourism is gaining increasing importance as an economic factor, and in addition to the church buildings and the Dippmannsdorf Paradise natural monument described below, it is covered by an extensive network of well-laid out and signposted hiking trails.

literature

  • Sabine Bohle-Heintzenberg: Architecture and Beauty. The Schinkel School in Berlin and Brandenburg , Transit Buchverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-88747-121-0 Quotes on the church in Dippmannsdorf p. 158
  • Jan Feustel : Between watermills and swamp forests, a travel and adventure guide to the Baruther glacial valley , Hendrik Bäßler Verlag, Berlin 1999 ISBN 3-930388-11-1 , on the church page 160, on the headwaters "Paradise" pages 158ff

Web links

Commons : Dippmannsdorf (Bad Belzig)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information board on the village history, set up east of the church, May 2019.
  2. ^ Chronicle , Dippmannsdorf website, accessed on June 10, 2019.
  3. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2002
  4. ↑ Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg

Coordinates: 52 ° 13 '  N , 12 ° 36'  E