Ferch (Schwielowsee)

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Ferch
Schwielowsee municipality
Ferch coat of arms
Coordinates: 52 ° 18 ′ 39 "  N , 12 ° 55 ′ 47"  E
Height : 50 m above sea level NHN
Area : 35.99 km²
Residents : 1828  (Jan 31, 2016)
Population density : 51 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 2002
Postcodes : 14548, 14542, 14554
Primaries : 033209, 033205, 03327
Ferch (Brandenburg)
Ferch

Location of Ferch in Brandenburg

The village of Ferch , a few kilometers southwest of the Brandenburg state capital Potsdam , is a district of the municipality of Schwielowsee in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district .

geography

Geographical location

Schwielowsee near Ferch

Ferch is located at the southern end of the Schwielowsee on the edge of the Zauche , a hilly, wooded moraine landscape . The highest elevation of Ferch and at the same time the Zauche is 124.7  m above sea level. NHN the Wietkiekenberg .

geology

Several nature and landscape protection areas, natural monuments and numerous historical cultural landscape elements as well as a wide range of biotope types can be found here. As part of the Zauche (from slaw. Such, the dry land, i.e. above all the "Beelitzer Sander"), the area was settled relatively late. Only with the high medieval development of the country did the intensive use and transformation begin. An excellent database (six pollen diagrams as well as extensive data on the history of the landscape, settlement and use from various source collections and individual publications) enables the reconstruction of the late and post-glacial natural forest development and the changes under human influence. They are illustrated with profile sections and vegetation maps from the early, high, late medieval and mid-modern times. The modern development of Ferch could u. a. using historical maps in several specially created landscape condition maps. The area on the south bank of the Schwielowsee received its surface structure during the “Brandenburg Stadium”, the maximum extent of the inland ice of the last ice age 20,000 years ago. Due to the completeness of all geomorphological form types that were created at that time in a very small space, it is one of the eleven “noteworthy glacial landscapes” in Brandenburg that are under geotope protection. In the Ferch area, you will find all the typical landscape elements of the undulating ground moraine plates (Glindower plateau), the hilly terminal moraines (Kames, Fercher Berge), late glacial dune areas (Kaniner valley) and gently sloping sand and valley sand areas (Beelitz sand and sand terraces of the Kaniner valley ), which are interrupted by gullies and valleys. Due to the erosive effect of the ice, the "Fercher Rinne" to the south was formed with the surrounding steep edges. The Schwielowsee itself owes its creation as a glacial tongue basin to this maximum ice advance of the Brandenburg ice edge. The "Wietkiekenberg" 1.5 km southeast of Ferch is a typical compression moraine and with 125 m the highest point in Central Brandenburg. Of the soil types, brown soils from ice age meltwater sands on the "Beelitzer Sander" and in the "Fercher Mountains" occupy the largest area. Raw sand soils and brown earth from dune and valley sands are widespread in the "Kaniner Valley". Pale earths and parabroun earths from sand over boulder clay or boulder clay are limited to the "Glindower Platte" and its edges. The poorly widespread wet soils occur on river sands on the Schwielowsee shore, on peat in the area of ​​the kettle and channel bogs. The Mühlenfließ, a stream of natural origin running in the “Fercher Rinne”, is reminiscent of the watermill that was once operated on Mühlengrund Street. The numerous humid depressions and bogs in the hilly parts of the area, important geological archives for reconstructing the history of the landscape and vegetation, have increasingly dried up since the 1970s due to the neighboring wells of Potsdam's water supply and their flora and fauna are endangered. The Schwielowsee belongs with Ferch to the "Potsdam Havel and Lake District", whose scenic beauty is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Potsdam Palaces and Gardens, supplemented by the famous painters' colony around 1900 and the increasing tourist development since that time.

The vegetation

Until the state development in the High Middle Ages, the Ferch area, like many parts of Brandenburg, was subject to post-glacial vegetation development, which was mainly characterized by soils, climate and relief. Outside of the prehistoric and early historical settlement areas, the original natural forest composition prevailed. After the expansion of the red beech and hornbeam as the last immigrants among the native tree species, the oak dominated in various forest types in this period of the early Middle Ages with the most deciduous trees. Due to the nutrient supply and water balance of the soil and its relief position, ten different forest types were created. The pine-sessile oak forest took up the largest share of the area on the valley sand and plateaus, the mixed pine forest on the “Beelitzer Sander” and in the “Kaniner Tal”. On acidic sites, dry and moist pedunculate oak-birch forest as well as birch and alder forest were developed, the latter particularly in the "Fercher Rinne". The red beech and sessile oak forest populated the cool, damp, north-west exposed slopes and footprints of the "Fercher Mountains". Forests on calcareous sites, mainly dry to moist oak-hornbeam forests, were less common. Alder-ash forest only occurred in small areas in the occasionally flooded lowlands. Today's vegetation, on the other hand, is a mosaic of forests, grassland and moors, each in a different form. According to the current biotope type mapping, the sandy and dry locations, e.g. B. on the "Beelitzer Sander", distant pine forests with different hardwood admixtures of birch, oak, robinia and rarely red beech, on the wet locations along the meadow lowlands of the "Fercher Rinne" alder forests expand. There are remains of the pine-sessile oak forests. B. in the "Fercher Mountains". There are also preserved "hat oak" evidence of the former use for forest pasture and pig fattening. In the course of a forest conversion, especially in the last decade, more and more hardwood species such as English oak have been introduced. Various non-native tree species are now involved in forest development in many parts of the area. The locust tree, originally planted at the edge of the forest for fire protection, is now increasingly used as a mixed tree species. The horse chestnut, which is also planted, colonizes some more demanding locations, e.g. B. in the "Fercher Rinne", on previously bookable locations. Larch, red oak and late blooming bird cherry occur partly from planting and partly from their regeneration. In the recent past, Douglas fir has also been used for afforestation. In the 11th century, changes in the vegetation due to use were still limited to the area around the Slavic settlement of Oberferch at what is now the “old village”. After the establishment of Ferch and Kammerode, the use of the forest until the end of the High Middle Ages around 1250 led to significant changes in the distribution, structure and composition of the stands. Extensive clearing of the oak, which is in great demand as house and ship building timber, resulted in extensive impoverishment of the pine-sessile oak forest. The proportion of European beech in the forest structure also declined, although both tree species in the form of free-standing single specimens with a sweeping crown served as mast trees for the forest pasture of pigs and cattle. On the "Glindower Platte" a considerable part of the pedunculate oak - hornbeam forest with the intensive use of wood and the creation of fields on the pale and brown soils from boulder clay had been destroyed. In the "Kaniner Valley" and on the Bliesendorfer district to the west, the exposure of the soil led to large-scale sand drifts (young dune formation) and the formation of dry sand grass. The mill dams built on the Havel and later also on the Fercher Bach since about 1230 caused the groundwater to rise by about one meter, locally increased by the increased surface runoff on the deforested sites. As a result, peat formation increased in the moors, and in the edge zones of these and other small depressions as well as the bodies of water, the transitions shifted towards sites and forest types affected by groundwater. At the Schwielowsee, at the Fercher Bach and on the moors, the damp pedunculate oak-birch forest changed to a birch or alder forest and the dry to a wet pedunculate oak-birch forest. As a result of the agricultural crisis (1350–1450), the plague and the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), secondary forests, primarily made of pine and birch, emerged on the non-grazed areas of the soils that were poor in nutrients due to arable farming and litter use. Oaks in the increasingly thinned stock of the Hutewald, which emerged from the pine-sessile oak forest, were particularly promoted during the mid-modern period (1650–1750). In the secondary forests, which are rich in pine and birch, charcoal burning and tar smelling contributed to extensive forest use until the 18th century. The result of this change in vegetation caused by humans within a millennium became clear.

Cultural landscape

Two important construction phases can be identified for the village of Ferch: the time of reconstruction after the Thirty Years War and the time at the beginning of the 20th century when tourism in Ferch increased. The Thirty Years War apparently represented something like “zero hour” for the structural substance. The Hute oaks in the Ferch village and in the Fercher mountains are up to 500 years old. They represent historical cultural landscape elements that already existed before the warfare of the 17th century. The use of the meadows in the lowlands of the Mühlengrund and near Mittelbusch probably also existed before the devastation of the war. The routes are also likely to have existed before the war and have continued to be used after the resettlement. The ravines are part of the routes that were already recorded on maps before 1839. Some are ice-age drainage channels that were later taken up as path structures. In any case, ravines occur with such frequency that they are a typical feature of the Fercher landscape. In the course of the 18th century, the operation of windmills and water mills, increased drainage of lowland areas, fruit growing and the operation of brickworks took off. Almost all of these uses have left their mark on the landscape. Only the windmill near the church on Beelitzer Strasse was demolished at the beginning of the 20th century, and the tar stove on Dorfstrasse no longer exists either. The trenches in the Mühlengrund have been preserved, even if their original function is no longer given due to the lowered groundwater levels of the Potsdam waterworks. The building of the watermill has been preserved like the mill moat and the mill pond. There are also steep-edged clay pits of the brickworks south of the district of Neue Scheune (the name refers to the brick barn) and the village of Ferch. The high proportion of deciduous forest in the Fercher Mountains in the vicinity of Caputh Castle can be traced back to the 18th or the beginning of the 19th century. A beautification of the landscape through targeted planting of groups of hardwood, especially oaks, was undertaken by Peter Joseph Lenne, who redesigned the garden of Caputh Castle in 1820 as part of the implementation of the "beautification plan for the area around Potsdam". But as early as the 18th century, the oak stocks in many forest areas had declined so much that Frederick II (1740–1786) had them replanted. Fruit growing, a typical land use of the Potsdam cultural landscape, did not increase in Ferch until the beginning of the 20th century. The orchards became a widespread industry in the region, which is known for the city of Werder to this day. Orchards have been preserved on Beelitzer Strasse, in Mühlengrund and at Kammerode. Numerous remnants in the gardens on Beelitzer Strasse also ensure that this formerly typical branch of the economy is still recognizable in the landscape.

history

First mention and ownership

The place was first mentioned in 1317 as Verch . The village of Verch belonged to the Lehnin monastery at that time . However, there was a settlement there even before it was first mentioned. The name of the village Verch is probably derived from the Slavic name for height or summit (cf. Lower Sorbian wjerch ). For a place in a similar location at the far end of a lake, this can also be found, for example, in Ferchesar . Another explanation is given in a chronicle by the local writer Fritz Albert Dohnert in 1954, because the place name Fehrich appeared before 1450 . This was a name for a fishing settlement. The Cistercian monks of the Lehnin monastery built fishing huts in several places on the lake, probably also at today's Ferch. In the Landbuch Kaiser Karl IV. From the year 1375 two villages are mentioned, Verch superior and Verch inferior , a lower and an upper village. The lower village burned down completely in the 15th century and remained desolate for a long time. The former residents moved to the Upper Village. Even today there is a reference to an old village in Ferch in the area of ​​the upper village. The Slavic settlement near "Alte Dorfstelle" (Oberferch, Verch Superior), today on the path of the same name to the numerous weekend properties in the Fercher forest area, was here on the eastern slope of the "Fercher Rinne" near the "Beelitzer Sander". It can be assumed that it was in close proximity to the source of the Fercher Bach. According to the findings of the pollen analysis, the usage area extended as far as the vicinity of the Great Moor (Fercher Kesselmoor), 500 m away. Around 1375 Ferch became the property of the von Rochow family . In the same year Wychard von Rochow is mentioned as the owner of Ferch. In the 16th century, the von Rochow family divided into several lines and until 1804 the village belonged to the Golzow line of the von Rochow family. From 1804 until the 19th century, the Ferchers of the Plessower line of the von Rochow family had to pay a loan .

Medieval settlement and desert

In the southern part of the “Fercher Rinne” at the transition to the “Beelitzer Sander” at “Alte Dorfstelle” there was already a Late Bronze Age settlement, the exact date of which remains unclear. Since the end of the 10th century, the Slavic settlement of Oberferch existed in the same place. The village Unterferch (Verch Inferior), founded during the medieval development of the country in the course of the German settlement in the east, is the origin of today's Ferch, first mentioned in 1317, the name of which probably goes back to a Slavic word for hill, elevation. The land book of Emperor Charles IV from 1375 provides detailed information about the ownership structure in Havelland for the first time. At this time the landlords of the Altmark “von Rochow” had the manorial rule over Oberferch and Unterferch with their 25 hooves. It existed more or less continuously until it was expropriated after the Second World War. The entire Havelland was affected by the agricultural sales crisis (1350–1450) and a declining population in the late Middle Ages. In addition, by 1400 the low-yield arable land on sandy soils was so badly affected that it was given up in favor of extensive cultivation (pasture land). During this time, the archeologically and historically proven process of devastation of the originally Slavic settlement of Oberferch (old village center) took place. The residents probably moved to Unterferch. This amalgamation of villages, which was typical of the High Middle Ages, and the associated concentration of the population was a consequence of the "German Hoof Constitution" and the three-field economy that was introduced after the forests were cleared. The former village "Lütkendorf" was on the Feldmark and fell in 1450 in a desolate way. The desert village is located east of today's residential area “Resau”, the city of Werder and the “Ferch” municipality of Schwielowsee.

Modern times

At the beginning of the Thirty Years' War Ferch was one of the smallest villages in the Zauche, with barely more than 60 inhabitants in 1624. The imperial army also went through the Zauche in 1638/39. Kammerode and Ferch were on fire. At the end of the war in 1648 only one woman lived in Ferch. The map series SUCHODOLETZ (1679–1683) , some decades younger than that, written by the Polish nobleman and cartographer in Prussian service Samuel Suchodolec , already shows larger arable land in the area around Ferch. The oldest buildings in Ferch that are still preserved today are four cottages at Dorfstrasse 7–13, the village church and the “ Kossatenhaus ” on the corner of Beelitzer and Dorfstrasse. They were probably built after the Thirty Years War. The watermill built by the von Rochow family in Wiesengrund is also likely to date from the end of the 17th century. The 18th century brought further stabilization for Ferch. The first school building was founded in 1710, and stately brick barns and a lime kiln were built. A tar oven (already recorded by Suchodolec in 1683) and a seed kiln for forestry were operated. During this time, forestry should have played an important role in the Fercher's income. Ferch's population rose to 252 by 1772, which is also reflected in the maps of the time. On November 8, 1881, all obligations that the Fercher residents had towards the patron saint of Rochow, as well as the real taxes that had to be paid to the parish in Bliesendorf, were canceled. In 1878 the village was discovered by the painter Karl Hagemeister (1844–1933), who together with his friend Carl Schuch (1846–1903) found motifs for his landscape paintings. The seclusion at the time and the diverse nature around Ferch attracted the artists to the Schwielowsee and thus founded a painters' colony.

20th century

With the beginning of the 20th century and the connection of Ferch to the rail and road network, there was a significant expansion of settlements and a revival of tourism from Potsdam and Berlin. Forestry remained predominant, but the Ferchers opened up additional sources of income by selling and leasing fruit-growing areas. Characteristic is the change in use of the wooden shelf in Flottstelle to a bathing place that has been recorded since 1941. The development of weekend houses also increased sharply. In the war years 1942–1945, many Berliners sought refuge in Ferch from the increasing air raids. After the war, the Rochows' estate in Fercher was expropriated. Displaced persons from the areas beyond Oder and Neisse settled in Ferch, which increased the population from 896 in 1936 to 1116 in 1946. After the Second World War , the place grew strongly due to immigrants. Today it has a population of around 1700. In 1992 the former FDGB home "Pierre Semard" is demolished. Before the war, the "Kurhaus" restaurant was one of the centers of village life. In the Kurhaus, u. a. Marika Rökk, Hans Albers, Harry Piel, Emil Jannings. The Japanese delegation resided here during the 1936 Olympic Games. Today there are several single-family houses on the same spot. On December 31, 2002 Ferch merged with the neighboring towns of Caputh and Geltow to form the municipality of Schwielowsee . During the GDR era, the Deutsche Reichsbahn built and maintained a company holiday camp “Neue Scheune”. After 1990, new buildings were built on some bungalow areas from the GDR era. In the future, the village structure is to be condensed through the construction of single-family houses.

History of the districts

Kammerode

The Kammerode, mentioned for the first time in 1267, is probably one of the foundations of the town, which was initiated around 1230 after the extensive waterlogging of the Havelland by the mill jam in the city of Brandenburg. Around 1370 the village was under the control of the Burg or Vogtei Potsdam and in 1452 it was acquired by the Lehnin Monastery as a state property subject to a feudal obligation. The place name probably comes from Slav, komar and voda, d. H. Mosquito water or on slaw. Came back for stone. The place on the southwestern edge of the Glindow ground moraine plate lies in the "Kaniner Valley", which is covered by sand drifts from the high and late Middle Ages, the "Kaniner Dunes". After the Feldmark was largely deforested by 1375, Kammerode fell desolate by 1450. In the following century the Feldmark became forested again. Most of it was used as extensive pasture with sheep and in 1543 it was called Cammerodische Heide. In the course of the 18th century, the place was revived by a Vorwerk and the settlement of Büdners.

Resau

From 1872, "Resau" belonged to the manor or parish "Kammerode". The parish and manor district was merged with Ferch and then with Bliesendorf in 1928. In 1931 and 1937 Resau was a residential area of ​​Bliesendorf. Today Resau is a residential area of ​​the city of Werder in the district of Bliesendorf.

Kemnitz Heath

The southern part of the Kammeroder Feldmark came to the Kemnitz estate near Werder as the "Kemnitzer Heide". Around 1740, one of the first forester's lodges in the area was founded here, which developed into the “Kemnitzer Heide” forest workers' settlement with around 400 hectares of forest and forest land.

Infrastructure

In 1908 Ferch was connected to the Jüterbog – Nauen railway line . The Ferch-Lienewitz train station, however, is far outside the village.

Former school house
"Ferch Castle"

Local division

  • Kammerode
  • Kemmnitz Heath
  • Mittelbusch
  • New barn
  • Ferch-Lienewitz
  • Old village place
  • Sperlinglust

The villages of Kammerode, Kemmnitzer Heide, Mittelbusch, Neue Scheune and Ferch-Lienewitz were incorporated into the existing community of Ferch in 1928.

religion

Ferch is part of the "Evangelical Cross Church Community of Bliesendorf". The Evangelical Parish Office is located at Bliesendorfer Dorfstrasse 18 - City of Werder / Havel and is managed by Pastor Dr. Andreas Uecker looks after.

administration

With the district reform of 1872 Ferch was subordinated to the "Zauche-Belzig" district. With the dissolution of the old districts in the former GDR in 1952, the Ferch community became part of the "Potsdam-Land" district in the Potsdam district of the GDR. In 1990 the new federal states were re-established, the Potsdam district was completely absorbed into the state of Brandenburg. With the formation of offices in the state of Brandenburg in 1992, the previously independent municipality of Ferch merged with the municipalities of Caputh and Geltow to form the “Office Schwielowsee”, which had its seat in the municipality of Caputh. With the district reform in 1993, the Ferch community came to the Potsdam-Mittelmark district. The community Schwielowsee was created on December 31, 2002 through the voluntary merger of the previously independent communities Caputh, Ferch and Geltow. The Schwielowsee office was dissolved at the same time, and the Schwielowsee municipality was vacant. In 2003, the municipal administration moved to its new administrative headquarters in Ferch on Potsdamer Platz.

Attractions

Fercher Fischerkirche

Evangelical Church in Ferch

The listed village church in Ferch is a particularly designed church building of its kind, which has given it the name Fischerkirche. In the 17th century (probably after the Thirty Years War) it was built as a simple Brandenburg (Protestant) preacher church. A three-axis half-timbered hall with a polygonal end of the choir and west tower stands on a small elevation made of solid wood. The wooden ceiling is vaulted as a barrel and has the shape of an upside-down boat (nave). The support beam of the tower visible on the west side of the ceiling can be interpreted as the rudder of the boat. The cloud formation over the Schwielowsee, as the fishermen experienced during their work, probably served as a motif for the painting of the ceiling and represents the heavenly kingdom of God. Some clouds were provided with faces (representation of angels). The furnishings (altar, baptismal angel, gallery and stalls) come from the time the church was built. The pulpit altar in the choir is decorated with simple carvings and paintings (Christ and the four evangelists). Pulpit and sound cover hang between two twisted pillars, under which the coats of arms of the Plessow patronage families (left: Rochow, right: von Arnim) are inserted. The christening angel could be thought of as the ship's figurehead. He is let down at baptisms. In this way the salvation coming from God (from above) is symbolized. The angel holds the baptismal bowl in the shell (Zinn, 1738). It was donated by a local master craftsman. The ceiling lighting in the chancel depicts the star of Bethlehem. The death boards (crown boards, skulls) attached to the galleries and roughly crown-shaped represent a special rarity. They were attached by the relatives to commemorate those who mostly died in childhood. It was decorated with flowers on memorial days. The wisdom of the proverbs on these tablets also fits our time. History of the custom of the death's crown: The death of children and young people was perceived as particularly painful in the past centuries - certainly also because of the high child mortality rate. From this the custom for single funerals had developed: the death crowns and death wreaths for unmarried deceased as well as the death boards (crown boards) made for their presentation in the church. In the entire German-speaking area, from around the 17th century to sometimes into the 19th century, skulls were the most important attribute of the burial, understood as a wedding, of unmarried deceased of both sexes. The death crown custom was probably cultivated in all towns and villages of the Mark Brandenburg. The death crowns were mainly venerated to infants, children and young people as a replacement for the bridal crown that was missing during their lifetime. In this custom, the pagan wedding in the dead lived on, to which the early deceased still had the right to marry in death. She was led into the Christian heavenly wedding by awarding the crowns as a reward for a virtuous and virgin life. They made heavenly brides and bridegrooms out of the dead, who entered the kingdom of God directly and could intercede there for their bereaved. (Literature source: Sylvia Müller, Forgotten Monuments of Love - The Deadly Crown Usage in the Mark Brandenburg) In 1965 the church received a small organ from the Potsdam organ building company Schuke. In 1981, many wooden parts of the church were found to be heavily infested with wood-destroying pests. As a countermeasure, the church was wrapped in foil for several days and then exposed to hydrogen cyanide fumigation. For control purposes, sensitive microphones were attached so that the feeding noises of the insect larvae could be heard. The fumigation was successfully completed when the microphones no longer registered any noises. Investigations on the load-bearing wooden parts after 1997/98 showed that the stability of the church would no longer be given in the foreseeable future without extensive restoration and renovation. Funded by the German Foundation for Monument Protection, with state and federal funds, with the help of the regional church and through individual donations, the church was renovated and restored in 1999/2000 with a financial outlay of approximately DM 330,000 (approx. EUR 169,000) and also received a new tower crown . However, there was not enough money for the restoration of the pulpit altar. Its poor color condition now contrasted with the restored interior of the church. After the financing for this was secured from own resources, the restoration of the pulpit altar and z. Some of the baptismal angels began and were completed in 2003.

Fercher waterfront

With the release of the parking lot at “Haus am See” in Neue Scheune in 2014, the last construction section of the riverside hiking trail in Ferch was completed after a development period of 14 years. This means that holidaymakers and day trippers can now enjoy the uninterrupted view of the Schwielowsee from all over Ferch. The first section of the riverside path started in 1999 with the construction of the cycle path from Caputh to Ferch. The entire riverside hiking trail is 6.32 kilometers long. The total costs amount to around 1.85 million euros, of which the Schwielowsee community has invested around 536,000 euros itself. Around 1.3 million euros are funding.

Lookout tower on the "Wietkiekenberg" Ferch

Lookout tower on the Wietkiekenberg

The municipality of Schwielowsee had the BOS radio tower (spun concrete mast), which has been on the Wietkiekenberg since 2012, expanded into a viewing tower in 2014/15 with funding from the European Agricultural Fund and the State of Brandenburg . The aim of the municipality was to make the spectacular view from the second-highest elevation in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district accessible to vacationers, day visitors and citizens with the construction of the viewing platform . When visibility is good, the view can extend to the Berlin television tower , Potsdam, the city of Brandenburg “Marienberg” and the Hohen Fläming .

Other sights and cultural monuments

Bonsai garden Ferch
  • The half-timbered fishermen's church in Ferch dates from 1632. The barrel vault of this church is shaped like a boat.
  • A memorial stone at the edge of a small square at the corner of Beelitz Street / Castle Street is reminiscent of the perished prisoners of Fercher satellite camp of Sachsenhausen concentration camp .
  • At the southern tip of the Schwielowsee is the Fercher Obstkistenbühne , founded in 1992 , an open-air cabaret in the courtyard of an old farmhouse.
  • The Ferch bonsai garden on the northern edge of the village was created in 1996 on the former holiday area of ​​a Leipzig company.
  • Hans Otto Gehrcke - House in Neue Scheune with a dreamy garden right on Schwielowsee. The garden was laid out and designed by Karl Förster. A wooden bridge connects the garden, which is situated on a hill, with the lower area at the lake via a path along the banks.
  • Museum of the Havelländische painter colony. The focus of Ferch is still the last Kossatenhaus (now a museum), probably one of the oldest houses in town.
  • Watermill from 1610 in the Mühlengrund. The watermill is no longer in operation. The Mühlenbach no longer has any water. The local volunteer fire brigade was located on the site until 1969 . The “Fercher Culture Barn” has been built in the old fire station in recent years. Events from the “Kulturforum Schwielowsee” are held here all year round. The local bank and rural outpatient clinic were housed in the watermill building until 1990. Today the site is privately owned.
  • Wiesensteg - It is located on the picturesque path along the Schwielowsee. The Seeweg connects Ferch with the former “Neue Scheune” district. The Wiesensteg leads through an emerging natural alder quarry forest. The wet meadows were cultivated until 1990. There was a viewing corridor from the Mühlenwiese "watermill" to the lake. In the last few decades the area has been overgrown by alder trees. Nature takes back its habitat.
  • Millennial oak - on the Schwarzer Weg
  • Thatched fishermen's cottages (Dorfstrasse 7–13) - The fishermen's houses may have been built in the second half of the 17th century. The houses were inhabited by fishermen. There are four eaves, single-storey houses with pitched roofs.
  • Luther Armory (Burgstrasse)

Economy and Infrastructure

Today Ferch is primarily a resort. The Schwielowsee offers opportunities for water sports enthusiasts, the painters' colony will continue to be maintained.

tourism

  • Lido Ferch with beach café, beach volleyball and playground
  • open bathing area "Mittelbusch"
  • Campsite New barn with bike rental
  • Campsite “Schwielowsee Camping”
  • Berlin balloon (balloon rides)
  • Boat stands and boat rental "Burgemeister"
  • public playground on the lake meadow
  • Burgstrasse public playground
  • Kemnitzer Heide horse farm with riding arena
  • Japanese bonsai garden
  • Museum of the Havelländische painter colony
  • "Herbal Heidi"

Restaurants & Hotel

  • Numerous restaurants and hotels offer their services in the village.

traffic

  • Ferch-Lienewitz and Schmerberg train stations
Ferch-Lienewitz station

In the angle between the railway line Potsdam-Beelitz and the eastern Gemarkungsgrenze the residential places Bahnhof Ferch-Lienewitz and are Schmerberg . The Lienewitz residential area to the north-east of it, between the large and small Lienewitzsee , already belongs to the neighboring municipality of Michendorf. To the east of the station area is the heavily silted up Karinchensee , which still belongs to the Ferch district.

  • The bus company Havelbus offers a bus connection with line 607 from Potsdam via Caputh to Ferch, at times this also continues to Werder (Havel) .
  • The Ferch-Lienewitz stop on the Jüterbog – Nauen railway line is served by regional line 23.
  • In Ferch there are two landing stages for passenger ships operated by the company Weisse Flotte Potsdam . These landing stages are right next to the restaurants / hotels "Haus am See" and "Bootsklause".

Two motorways ( BAB 9 and BAB 10 ) with the Ferch and Glindow junctions and the Potsdam motorway triangle run through the Ferch district . Furthermore, the district of Ferch is crossed by the district road 6907 and the country road 90.

The European Cycle Route is an international route from Boulogne-sur-Mer in France to St. Petersburg in Russia. It touches nine European countries over more than 3000 km. The R1 runs in the area of ​​Ferch over a long distance through typical Brandenburg pine forests and crosses the motorway twice, which allows interesting views of the Potsdam motorway triangle. This is where the Havelland begins. Past Ferch, the route leads along the Schwielowsee towards Petzow - City of Werder.

societies

  • Anglerverein e. V.
  • Boat pier community Ferch-Mittelbusch e. V.
  • Chronicle Ferch
  • Fercher Carnival Club e. V.
  • Fercher ObstkistenBühne e. V.
  • Fercher Sailing Club 03 e. V.
  • Förderverein Freiwillige Feuerwehr Ferch e. V.
  • Friends of Havelländische Malerkolonie e. V.
  • Freizeit- und Feriencenter e. V.
  • Local history association Ferch
  • Interest group of the self-employed e. V.
  • Hunting horn blower Ferch
  • Ferch youth community (youth club)
  • Kleine Sterntaler Ferch e. V.
  • Kulturforum Schwielowsee e. V.
  • SV 1948 Ferch e. V. (sports club)
  • People's solidarity local group Ferch e. V.

literature

  • BRANDE, A., BÖSE, M., MÜLLER, M., FACKLAM, M. & WOLTERS, S. 1999: The Bliesendorf soil and aeolian sand transport in the Potsdam area. GeoArchaeoRhein 3: 147–161, Münster / Westf.
  • BRANDE, A., MÜLLER, M. & WOLTERS, S. 2001: Young Pleistocene vegetation and moor development. In SCHROEDER, JH (ed.):. In SCHROEDER, JH (Ed.) 2001: Guide to the geology of Berlin and Brandenburg, No. 4: Potsdam and surroundings. 2nd ext. Ed., 95-98, Berlin.
  • FISCHER, RE 1976: Brandenburg name book, part 4: The place names of the Havelland, 415 p., Weimar.
  • FISCHER, RE 2005: The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin. Age - Origin - Meaning, 223 p., Berlin.
  • FRANZ, H.-J. 1961: Morphogenesis of the glacial landscape south of Potsdam. Geographical Reports 6: 214-231, Potsdam.
  • FRANZ, M. 2006: True Stories, Vol. VI. Ferch in the Thirty Years War. Heimatverein Ferch, 70 S., Ferch.
  • GEMEINDE FERCH (Hrsg.) 1998: Landscape plan of the community Ferch. Inventory and evaluation. Landscape planning development concept, 159 p., Ferch.
  • GEMEINDE SCHWIELOWSEE (Ed.) 2002: Ferch - once and now. A journey through the history of the homeland. 160 p., Ferch, Leipzig.
  • HEIMANN, H.-D., NEIMANN, K. & SCHICH, W. (Eds.) 2007: Lehnin. In BAUCH, M. et al. (Ed.): Brandenburg monastery book. Handbook of the monasteries, monasteries and the coming to the mid-16th century, Volume 2: 764–803, Berlin.
  • KRAUSCH, H.-D. 1990: From the history of the forests around Potsdam. In RAT DES KREIS POTSDAM (ed.): Local history contributions for the Potsdam district. Potsdamer Land 1: 43-51, Potsdam.
  • KRAUSCH, H.-D. 1992: nature. Forst Lehnin. In SCHMIDT, W. (Ed.): Havelland around Werder, Lehnin and Ketzin. Values ​​of the German Homeland, Vol. 53: 8-11, 125-132, Leipzig.
  • KÜHN, D. 2002: Leitboden Companies 1: 1.000000. In: STACKEBRANDT, W. & MANHENKE, V. (Hrsg.): Atlas zur Geologie von Brandenburg, 2nd edition, 34–35, Kleinmachnow.
  • MANGELSDORF, G. 1983: Medieval desolations between the Havel and the north edge of Fläming. Publications of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History Potsdam 17: 231–291, Potsdam.
  • MÜLLER-STOLL, WR & NEUBAUER, M. 1987/88: Groundwater-influenced locations in the area of ​​the compression moraine complex “Fercher Berge” (district Potsdam, GDR). Part 1: Lakes, fens and pools. Part 2: Swamp forests and moors. Archives for nature conservation and landscape research 27: 89–106, 28: 21–41, Berlin.
  • RUBIN, M. 2007: Vegetation and landscape change in the Ferch area at Schwielowsee (Brandenburg). Reconstruction of historical forest conditions in the period 0–1750 a. Z. Diploma thesis TU Berlin, 133 pages, Berlin.
  • RUBIN, M., BRANDE, A. & ZERBE, S. 2008: Original and historical anthropogenic vegetation near Ferch (Gem. Schwielowsee, Lkr. Potsdam-Mittelmark). Nature conservation and landscape management in Brandenburg
  • Havelland around Werder, Lehnin and Ketzin (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 53). 1st edition. Self-published by the Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig 1992, ISBN 3-86082-014-1 .
  • SCHUMACHER, H., SOLMSDORF H. & HALLMANN HW 1993: The Potsdam cultural landscape - an investigation of the historical-cultural landscape potential. Workbooks of the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation 2: 1–129, Potsdam.
  • SCHROEDER, JH (Ed.) 2001: Guide to the geology of Berlin and Brandenburg, No. 4: Potsdam and surroundings. 2nd ext. Ed., Geoscientists in Berlin and Brandenburg e. V., 277 pp., Berlin.
  • STACKEBRANDT, W. & MANHENKE, V. (Ed.) 2002: Atlas zur Geologie von Brandenburg Map 5: Selected Geotopes 1: 1.000000, 38–39, 2nd edition, Kleinmachnow.
  • WANJA, G. 2007: Historical cultural landscape and landscape planning - The example of Ferch am Schwielowsee (Brandenburg). Diploma thesis TU Berlin, 132 p., Berlin.
  • WANJA, G., BRANDE, A. & ZERBE, S. 2007: Collection and evaluation of historical cultural landscapes. The example of Ferch am Schwielowsee, Brandenburg. Nature conservation and landscape planning 39: 337–345, Stuttgart.
  • WEISSE, R. 2001a: The periglacial crushed (end) moraine Wietkiekenberg. In SCHROEDER, JH (Ed.) 2001: Guide to the geology of Berlin and Brandenburg, No. 4: Potsdam and surroundings. 2nd ext. Ed., 163–165, Berlin.
  • WEISSE, R. 2001b: The Caputher Niedertau (Kames) hilly landscape in the Vistula period. In SCHROEDER, JH (Ed.) 2001: Guide to the geology of Berlin and Brandenburg, No. 4: Potsdam and surroundings. 2nd ext. Ed., 155–162, Berlin.
  • WOLFF, H. 2004: New pollen analyzes on the vegetation history of the Potsdam area. Negotiations of the Botanical Association of Berlin and Brandenburg 137: 89–106, Berlin.

Individual evidence

  1. Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. Article of the PNN u. a. about the Kurhaus
  3. ^ Article of the PNN on the use of the former FDGB property
  4. StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2002
  5. see information on the information boards on the tower and on the platform
  6. website of herbs Heidi ( Memento of the original June 24, 2016 Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on June 24, 2016  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kraeuter-heidi.de

Web links

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