Bells

Bells Municipality Plattenburg Coordinates: 52 ° 54 ′ 58 ″  N , 12 ° 5 ′ 7 ″  E
Area :	96.29 km²
Residents :	1200  (2006)
Population density :	12 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	December 31, 2001
Postal code :	19339
Area code :	038787

Glöwen is a district of the municipality of Plattenburg in the Brandenburg district of Prignitz with (2006) 1200 inhabitants.

location

Glöwen is located in the southern part of the Prignitz district on the state border with Saxony-Anhalt . The next town is Havelberg 10 km south, the district town of Perleberg 20 km northwest.

history

The name of the village, 1336 as Globene , 1343 glouen , 1678 Gläven , narrated is of Slavic origin and means head , probably within the meaning of mountain .

Village church

Glöwen was originally a round village east of today's federal highway. Since 1373 the place was under the patronage of the Havelberg bishop Dietrich , who gave it as a fief to noble families. Until the beginning of the 19th century, the local farmers were obliged to undertake appropriate labor and taxes. At the beginning of the 15th century, Bishop Otto von Rohr gave the fiefdom to the von Rohr family , from which he himself came. They were followed by the von Quitzow family at the end of the 15th century . Several other families later had patronage, including the von Jagow family . Glöwen was mainly a farming village, but there were always some noble shares. In 1811 Carl Borchmann bought a Lehnschulzengut about two kilometers west of the village, which was named Borchmannshof.

In 1837 the Chaussee to Havelberg, today's federal highway 107 , was expanded as a Poststrasse. By 1840, that are degrading Hermshof, Kublankshof and Stölkenhof first mentioned. In 1846 the Glöwen train station was opened about one kilometer south of the village center. Also in 1846 a post office was opened in the village. The population of the place increased, the church was replaced by a larger new building in the 1870s.

Memorial stone for the Glöwen subcamp

In 1907 a landowner with 323 hectares of land was named in Glöwen, plus ten farmers who owned between 55 and 165 hectares, three farmers, eleven owners who owned between 10 and 10 hectares; in addition various service providers, craftsmen, innkeepers, railway staff and others. In the 1920s, the area along the Chaussee between the village and the train station was built on. In 1928 Friedrichswalde was incorporated into Glöwen; In 1931, Glöwen included the extension north, Borchmannshof, Glöwen train station, Hermshof, Friedrichswalde, Storbeckshof, Kuhblankshof, Schwanensee and Stölkenplan.

Extensive military installations were built south of Glöwen around 1940. Forced laborers also worked here, and the Glöwen subcamp existed there in 1944/45 . After the Second World War, Glöwen remained an important location for the GDR's National People's Army . Glöwen was the seat of a training regiment for the border troops of the GDR .

In the 1946 land reform , 2172 hectares of land in Glöwen were expropriated and distributed to new farmers, the community and the forestry company. In 1953 the first agricultural production cooperative was founded in the village. In 1973 the community of Groß Leppin was incorporated into the district of Zernikow . In 1991 the community of Glöwen had 2063 inhabitants, 1680 of them in Glöwen.

Glöwen merged on December 31, 2001 with seven other communities to form the community of Plattenburg.

Attractions

War memorial

The church was rebuilt in the neo-Gothic style in the second half of the 19th century after the old 14th century church had become too small. The church was consecrated in 1877 and the apse of the old church was built into the new building. The church is a listed building. The station building is also a listed building, which has been preserved in practically unchanged form since the line was opened in 1846. The memorial for the victims of the First World War in the town center and a memorial stone for Gustav Sobottka are also listed . The regiment of the GDR border troops stationed in Glöwen was named after Sobottka.

traffic

railway station

Glöwen is on the Berlin – Hamburg railway line . The train station in Glöwen was opened in 1846. The trains of the regional express line RE2 to Cottbus via Berlin and to Wittenberge stop here every hour, extending every two hours to Wismar . A P + R area with 134 parking spaces has been available for commuters since 2015 . The Glöwen – Havelberg railway existed until 1971 ; this narrow-gauge line of the Westprignitzer Kreisbahnen was discontinued in 1967. In addition to the Glöwen train station, there was also the Glöwen Dorf stop near the town center.

In north-south direction the federal highway 107 runs through the place. The state bus 900 runs in the daily schedule in the direction of Havelberg, individual weekday bus connections connect the places in the area and run to Bad Wilsnack or Perleberg.

literature

• Historical Gazetteer Brandenburg - Part 1 - Prignitz - A-M . Modifications made by Lieselott Enders . In: Klaus Neitmann (Ed.): Publications of the Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv (State Archive Potsdam) - Volume 3 . Founded by Friedrich Beck . Publishing house Klaus-D. Becker, Potsdam 2012, ISBN 978-3-88372-032-6 , pp. 260 ff .

Web links

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

• Glöwen, Globene, glouen, Gläven in the historical gazette of the Verein für Computergenealogie

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population figures on genealogy.net, accessed on January 7, 2013
2. ↑ Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin. Age - origin - meaning. be.bra Wissenschaft verlag, ISBN 978-3-937233-30-7 , p. 64.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} State of Brandenburg, Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Planning (ed.), Berlin-Hamburg Railway, Classicist Railway Station Buildings in Brandenburg (PDF; 5.7 MB), pp. 36–38
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Glöwen on the website of the municipality of Plattenburg, accessed on January 7, 2013
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Lieselott Enders , Historisches Ortslexikon für Brandenburg, Part I, Prignitz, Volume AM, Publications of the Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv (State Archives), Volume 3. , Verlag Klaus D. Becker, Potsdam 2012, ISBN 3-883-72032- 1 , pp. 260-261.
6. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2001
7. ↑ Kirchgemeinde Glöwen ( Memento of the original from September 21, 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 January 7, 2013  
8. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: District of Prignitz (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum
9. ^ Dieter Haase: Ceremonial commissioning of the train station in Glöwen. Retrieved October 26, 2017 .