Hangelsberg

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Hangelsberg
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '38 "  N , 13 ° 55' 35"  E
Height : 40 m
Area : 40.65 km²
Residents : 1765  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 43 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : October 26, 2003
Postal code : 15537
Area code : 033632

Hangelsberg was an independent municipality until October 25, 2003, which is now part of the municipality of Grünheide (Mark) in the north of the Oder-Spree district in Brandenburg . Hangelsberg is divided into the districts of Hangelsberg Ort, Spreetal and Wulkow, and the Fürstenwalde West area .

Surroundings

Hangelsberg is framed by pine and oak forests, meadows and floodplains in which the Spree meanders. Behind the green edge of the course of the Spree, a ridge , the hill , completes the panorama of this landscape. The "hanging mountains" mentioned for the first time in 1217 are not intended to be the direct namesake of the community. Rather, this name is also derived from a small stream that was called "Hangel" in old forest records, but is also known as "Trebuser Graben" or "Trebuser Fließ" because of its origins in the Trebuser See . The ditch once led into the Spree, but is hardly to be seen today.

history

Hangelsberg's history since the 17th century

The place is first mentioned in a church book from 1644: "On the Hangelsberg", it says, "live tar burners, Heydereuther (= forester), forest workers, charcoal burners".

The tar burners supplied the wagon grease that was necessary for the wagons that traveled from 1711 on the Alte Poststrasse to Frankfurt (Oder) and beyond.

The town experienced an upswing from 1842 with the construction of the Berlin – Frankfurt (Oder) railway , which led to economic and later also tourist revitalization. The construction of a steam cutting and grinding mill in 1859 contributed to the development of the town.

The well-known Berlin mechanical engineer Friedrich Wöhlert was involved in this railway construction and later settled in Hangelsberg. Some houses in the village are still decorated with his cast iron - the cross on the church roof (above the apse ) probably comes from his workshop.

The history of the Hangelsberg Church

Hangelsberg Church

In 1927/28, with the great commitment of the then pastor Harry van Beuningen (pastor in Hangelsberg from 1915 to 1945), the Protestant church was built as a simple hall structure based on a design by the Gerstenhauer government building council from Frankfurt (Oder) . Its construction has contributed to the settlement and social history of the place.

The west-east oriented building has a small entrance porch in the west and a community room in the east, which was already attached at the time. The church was equipped with steam heating, which has now been renewed and is powered by natural gas .

The very pointed gable roof is crowned by a retracted tower top , which is completed by a weather vane restored some time ago with the year 1927.

Inside, the church is characterized by a barrel vault from the time it was built . The chancel opens in a high pointed arch and reveals the arched windows with the iconography not unusual for churches : lamb with flag of victory and triangle with eye (= symbol for God). The organ acquired in 1961 comes from the Sauer organ building workshop in Frankfurt (Oder).

The seating is largely original from the time it was built, only a few benches had to be rebuilt after the turmoil of the last days of the war.

The wooden baptism, which approximates the shape of a cup, is designed in gothic forms and is a product of the early 20th century .

The bell of the church (cast in Berlin in 1805) comes from the former Georgenkirche in Berlin (near Alexanderplatz ) and was given to the community in 1905 by a merchant Schultz from Berlin.

According to the Brandenburg State Monument Preservation Authority, the church is a “high quality testimony to the architecture of the late 1920s in the immediate vicinity of Berlin. As a whole, the style, which does not hide its historical echoes between the practicality of the architecture of this construction period and the traditional and playful forms, the building exemplarily reflects the contradicting and divergent style situation of the time of origin ”.

politics

Community representation

The Hangelsberg local advisory board consists of 5 people. (Status: local elections from May 25, 2014)

Breakpoint

Hangelsberg train station (now the stopping point) was opened in October 1842. The station building was finally shut down in 2003. Previously, ticket sales, waiting areas etc. were gradually discontinued. Hangelsberg is currently a stop on the RE 1 on the Berlin – Frankfurt (Oder) railway line . Since February the former reception building has belonged to the "Historischer Bahnhof Hangelsberg eV" association, which wants to gradually renovate it and fill it with life again.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Community and district directory of the state of Brandenburg. Land surveying and geographic base information Brandenburg (LGB), accessed on June 21, 2020.
  2. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003
  3. ↑ Heiner Hein: excursion to sky goats and Germanic peoples. On the way on the former Poststrasse near Hangelsberg / Unique bird world . In: Berliner Zeitung . July 9, 1992, Brandenburg. Hikes in the surrounding area.
  4. ↑ Announcement of the final result for the election of the local advisory board for the Hangelsberg district of the Grünheide (Mark) community on May 25, 2014 (PDF; 99 kB), accessed on April 29, 2017
  5. ↑ www.bahnhof-hangelsberg.de Association of Historic Hangelsberg Station

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