Holy grave

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 9 '  N , 12 ° 21'  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Ostprignitz-Ruppin
Height :	75 m above sea level NHN
Area :	207.64 km 2
Residents:	4370 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	21 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	16909, 16928
Area code :	033962
License plate :	OPR, KY, NP, WK
Community key :	12 0 68 181
Community structure:	14 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Am Birkenwäldchen 1a 16909 Heiligengrabe
Website :	www.heiligengrabe.de
Mayor :	Holger Kippenhahn (WG Heiligengraber Land)
Location of the community of Heiligengrabe in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district

Heiligengrabe is a municipality in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district in Brandenburg .

geography

The community is located in the east of the Prignitz , near the state border with Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . With an area of ​​206.31 km², it is one of the largest municipalities in Germany .

Community structure

Rundling Jabel

Rundling Glienicke

The municipality of Heiligengrabe includes the following districts, inhabited parts of the municipality and places to live:

Districts

Blandikow , Blesendorf , Blumenthal , Grabow near Blumenthal , Heiligengrabe, Herzsprung , Jabel , Königsberg , Liebenthal , Maulbeerwalde , Papenbruch , Rosenwinkel , Wernikow , Zaatzke

Inhabited parts of the community

Dahlhausen, Glienicke, Horst

Living spaces

Buchhorst, Friesenhof, Ganzow, Hoheheide, Kattenstiegmühle, Kuckucksmühle, Natteheide , Techow, Volkwig, Waldhof, Wernikow expansion, Wüsten-Barenthin

history

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To DDR -times was in a FDJ - summer camp .

On October 26, 2003 the places Blandikow, Blesendorf, Blumenthal, Grabow bei Blumenthal, Jabel, Liebenthal, Maulbeerwalde, Papenbruch, Rosenwinkel, Wernikow and Zaatzke were incorporated into Heiligengrabe. On December 31, 2004, Herzsprung and Königsberg, who successfully defended themselves against incorporation into Wittstock / Dosse , were added.

Population development

year Residents 1875 323 1890 285 1910 305 1925 377 1933 843 1939 829 1946 1 132 1950 1 313

year Residents 1964 1 088 1971 1 015 1981 994 1985 981 1989 1 025 1990 1 019 1991 987 1992 967 1993 975 1994 954

year Residents 1995 934 1996 923 1997 959 1998 983 1999 971 2000 945 2001 927 2002 929 2003 4,638 2004 5 190

year Residents 2005 5 087 2006 5 046 2007 4,968 2008 4,862 2009 4,756 2010 4 693 2011 4 603 2012 4 510 2013 4,505 2014 4 480

year Residents 2015 4,441 2016 4 426 2017 4 385 2018 4 399 2019 4,370

Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31 (from 1991), from 2011 based on the 2011 census

politics

Community representation

Since the local elections on May 26, 2019, the municipal council of Heiligengrabe has consisted of 16 municipal representatives and the full-time mayor:

Party / group of voters	Seats
Voting Community Heiligengraber Land	6th
Citizens' list Blumenthal-Grabow-Rosenwinkel	3
Alternative group of voters in the community of Heiligengrabe	2
Free voter community Prignitz-Ruppin	2
Voting group Lebens (t) raum village between Jäglitz and Glinze	1
The left	1
CDU	1

mayor

• 1998–2003: Reinhard Preuss
• 2003-2007: Egmont Hamelow
• since 2007: Holger Kippenhahn

Kippenhahn was elected in the mayoral election on March 15, 2015 with 56.3% of the valid votes for a further term of eight years.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on September 5, 2006.

Blazon :

"In green over a silver tip to the head of the shield, topped with a bricked red stepped gable, in the round opening of which a red Jerusalem cross floats, a silver stone grave at the top right and an ax and a hammer crossed diagonally at the top left ."

- The service portal of the state administration Brandenburg

Town twinning

The partner municipality is Fahrenbach in Baden-Württemberg .

Attractions

Buildings

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Heiligengrabe

The monastery Stift zum Heiligengrabe from the 13th century is considered the best preserved monastery complex in Brandenburg and has been classified as a monument of national importance since 1998. It received special support under Kaiser Wilhelm II. Among other things, the burial chapel was painted in a neo-Gothic style, and the Kaiser donated a large colored church window. This Kaiser window comes from the church painter and mosaicist August Oetken . It shows the abbess Adolphine von Rohr and the emperor handing over the splendid abbess baton newly donated by the latter .

The village church Wernikow was built between 1245 and 1253 and is therefore one of the oldest churches in historic Prignitz . Inside there is an altarpiece from around 1722. During renovation measures in 2011, a consecration seal from the 13th century was found. The monument conservator and building historian Gordon Thalmann describes this as "one of the most spectacular finds of recent north-east German church and state research."

In the district of Jabel there is a village church in the style of the Prussian agricultural school with a remarkable plank truss construction .

The Blumenthal observation tower , which was built between 2003 and 2004, is located in the Blumenthal district . It is the highest wooden observation tower in Germany.

In Blumenthal-Horst, on the grounds of the Burghof estate, there is the ruinous north wing and a polygonal stair tower of the renaissance castle built around 1534 , which fell into disrepair since the 17th century. The baroque manor house built in 1752, the restored inspector's house and remnants of the landscape park created around 1860 have been preserved . Inside the manor chapel, built in 1688, is the tomb of Hans Carl Montang von Blumenthal, who died at the age of five, a work by Johann Gottfried Schadow from 1794. The buildings of the agricultural school built in the 1950s are partly used by Gut Burghof. The “Förderverein Burgbau im Landschaftspark zu Horst e. V. ”tries to preserve the ensemble, which dates back to five centuries.

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  Heiligengrabe Monastery, inner courtyard of the abbey

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  Heiligengrabe Monastery, west wing

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  Heiligengrabe village church

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  Church in Blumenthal

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  Church in Grabow

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  Manor house in Grabow (architect: Paul Schultze-Naumburg )

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  Church in Jabel

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  Church in Koenigsberg

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  Church in Papenbruch

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  Art Nouveau manor house in Mulberry Forest

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  "Gut Burghof" with inspector's house in Blumenthal-Horst

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  Manor house in Blumenthal-Horst

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  Gutskapelle in Blumenthal-Horst

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  Castle ruins in Blumenthal-Horst

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  Former agricultural school in Blumenthal-Horst

Historical monuments

• Memorial plaque for the victims of the death march by concentration camp prisoners at the junction of Dorfstrasse / Fretzdorfer Strasse in the Herzsprung district
• Memorial stone for anti-fascist resistance fighters (collective graves for ten and seven prisoners of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp ) in the cemetery in the Herzsprung district
• Memorial stone from 1985 in the cemetery of Herzsprung for three Allied parachutists who were shot by Volkssturm men after their plane was shot down in the last weeks of the Second World War .

Natural monuments

• Three-brother areas with a chest height of 8.83 m (2016).
• Oak at the old sheep farm with a chest height of 7.31 m (2016).
• Oak in the field with a chest height circumference of 7.48 m (2016).

Economy and Infrastructure

Established businesses

• Kronotex , manufacturer of MDF boards and laminate floors
• Agricultural machinery group Claas , sales company and area spare parts warehouse

traffic

Heiligengrabe is on federal highway 189 between Pritzwalk and Wittstock . The state roads L 144 ( Blumenthal - Herzsprung ) and L 145 ( Kolrep - Wittstock) also lead through the municipality. The closest motorway junctions are Pritzwalk and Herzsprung on the A 24 (Hamburg – Berlin).

The regional express line RE 6 ( Prignitz-Express , Wittenberge - Berlin Gesundbrunnen ) of the DB Regio Nordost stops in Heiligengrabe and Liebenthal . In the districts of Rosenwinkel and Blumenthal there are stops on the Pritzwalk – Neustadt (Dosse) line , which is served two to three times a day by the regional line RB 73 of the Hanseatic Railway (HANS).

education

There are three primary schools and one high school in Heiligengrabe:

State schools

• Nadelbach primary school
• Blumenthal primary school

Independent schools

• Community school in the Stift zum Heiligengrabe monastery - primary and secondary school (recognized substitute school)

Sports

In May 2008, Heiligengrabe was named Brandenburg's “Sportiest Community” by the state government of Brandenburg, as every fifth inhabitant is active in a sports club.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Georg von Blumenthal (1490–1550), bishop
• Friedrich Hermann Lütkemüller (1815–1897), organ builder
• Wilhelm Lütgert (1867–1938), Protestant theologian

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. 335 ff .
• Wolfgang Dost : Between Jäglitz and Glinze. From Blumenthal, Heiligengrabe, Zaatzke and other villages . Edited by the municipality of Heiligengrabe, Geiger, Horb am Neckar 2014, ISBN 978-3-86595-582-1 .

Web links

Commons : Heiligengrabe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the community of Heiligengrabe
• Monastery Stift zum Heiligengrabe

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population in the State of Brandenburg according to municipalities, offices and municipalities not subject to official registration on December 31, 2019 (XLSX file; 223 KB) (updated official population figures) ( help on this ).
2. ^ Services offered by the state administration
3. ↑ ^{a b} StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003 and 2004
4. ^ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Landkreis Ostprignitz-Ruppin . Pp. 14-17
5. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2017 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
6. ^ Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.): Statistical report AI 7, A II 3, A III 3. Population development and population status in the state of Brandenburg (respective editions of the month of December)
7. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
8. ↑ Results of the municipal elections in 1998 (mayoral elections) for the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district ( memento of the original from April 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Local elections October 26, 2003. Mayoral elections , p. 29
10. ↑ Mayor and socialist. In: Neues Deutschland , April 17, 2007
11. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 74
12. ^ Result of the mayoral election on March 15, 2015
13. ↑ Coat of arms information on the service portal of the state administration of Brandenburg
14. ↑ The spectacular reliquary find of Wernikow ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2019 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. , (PDF), article by Gordon Thalmann, published on the website of the Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg, accessed on January 13, 2019. 
15. ↑ ^{a b c} Entry in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017
16. ^ List of all schools in the Brandenburg school portrait
17. ↑ Heiligengrabe “Sportlichste Gemeinde” 2008. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 9, 2016 ; Retrieved March 2, 2009 . 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.