Helle (Gross Pankow)

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Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 4 ″  N , 12 ° 2 ′ 1 ″  E
Height : 39-77 m
Residents : 308  (Jan. 1, 2016)
Incorporation : December 31, 2002
Postal code : 16928
Area code : 03395
Helle (Brandenburg)
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Location of Helle in Brandenburg
Church in Helle
Church in Helle

Helle is a district of the community Groß Pankow (Prignitz) in the district of Prignitz , Brandenburg . The districts of Groß Langerwisch and Neudorf belong to Helle. A total of 308 residents live in the district, but only 37 of them live in Helle itself. The village of Helle is a typical round in an agricultural landscape.

geography

Geographical location

The Groß Pankow district of Helle is located in the historic Prignitz countryside south of Putlitz and west of Pritzwalk . In terms of its natural surroundings, Helle is in the North Brandenburg plateau and hill country .

The western border of the Helle district follows the Stepenitz . In the extreme southwest the Dömnitz flows from the right , which forms the southern border of Helle. A tributary of the Dömnitz, the Kümmernitz , which marks part of the border in the north with its tributary Elsbaek , also flows through the district .

The lowest point of the district is in the southwest at the confluence of Dömnitz and Stepenitz at about 39 meters above sea level, the highest point at about 77 meters in the east on the border with the Pritzwalker district of Schönhagen.

structure

In addition to Helle with 42 inhabitants, Helle also includes the districts of Groß Langerwisch with 215 inhabitants and Neudorf with 35 inhabitants. Klein Langerwisch is a named place to live in Helle.

Protected areas

The approximately eight hectare Bergsoll nature reserve, a wetland, is located in the Helle district. Helle also has a share in the Stepenitz nature reserve along the river of the same name. The whole district is also embedded in the extensive landscape protection area "Agricultural Landscape Prignitz-Stepenitz".

history

The oldest surviving documentary mention of Helles comes from the year 1472, when Busse Gans zu Putlitz provided his illegitimate son Alard with a two-hoofed farm. The relationship between the Alard family, established in Helle, and those with Putlitz lasted for generations.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, subjects from Helle and neighboring villages protested against the noble gentlemen Gans zu Putlitz for services to be rendered, for example in 1688 with the authorized representative Joachim Giesel, the village chief of Kuhbier .

In the middle of the 18th century the field mark Langerwisch was desolate . At that time, Frederick the Great ordered desert areas to be repopulated, which gave rise to the disintegration of ownership over Langerwisch. After that, the greater part belonged to von Rohr , who built a small colony and the Groß Langerwisch estate, and Gans zu Putlitz, who established the Klein Langerwisch suburb and small colony.

At the time of the GDR , the VEG Tierzucht Groß Langerwisch with a population of several thousand sheep was located in Groß Langerwisch . Pigs were bred in Neudorf.

On January 1, 1957, Groß Langerwisch was incorporated into Helle. On December 31, 2002, the community of Groß Pankow (Prignitz) came into being through the merger of several previously independent communities, including Helle.

Culture and sights

Today's church in Helle is the third church building at this point. It was designed by Georg Büttner in the Heimat style and built in 1913. It combines elements of the Florentine Renaissance and Baroque with the medieval forms of the previous building. The winged altar dates from 1485.

The list of architectural monuments in Groß Pankow (Prignitz) also includes the estate in Groß Langerwisch with the late classicist manor house built around 1830, a barn and the adjacent park.

Two prominent long-distance cycle paths lead through Helle. The Tour Brandenburg is considered the longest cycle path in Germany, while the geese tour along the Stepenitz in the footsteps of the noble gentlemen Gans zu Putlitz runs through the Prignitz.

East Germany's first Icelandic horse stud is located in Helle . A forest sports field near the mouth of the Elsbaek into the Kümmernitz is used for equestrian sports.

traffic

In Groß Langerwisch there is a stop on the Pritzwalk – Putlitz railway line . School traffic is operated on it by the Potsdam Railway Company. The line was threatened with closure several times at the beginning of the 21st century , and on August 1, 2016, the line was finally closed.

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. 341 f .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Population figures . Groß Pankow (Prignitz) community, accessed on February 9, 2013 (Helle, Neudorf and Groß Langerwisch).
  2. ↑ Main statute of the community Groß Pankow (Prignitz) from 10.06.2014. (PDF; 96.1 KB) Community of Groß Pankow (Prignitz), June 10, 2014, accessed on March 23, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Ordinance on the “Bergsoll” nature reserve. State government of Brandenburg, January 5, 2011, accessed on February 9, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Ordinance on the “Stepenitz” nature reserve. State government of Brandenburg, July 23, 2004, accessed on February 9, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Ordinance on the landscape protection area "Agrarlandschaft Prignitz-Stepenitz". State government of Brandenburg, December 15, 2008, accessed on February 9, 2013 .
  6. ↑ a b c Lieselott Enders : The Prignitz - History of a Kurmärkischen landscape from the 12th to the 18th century . 1st edition. Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH, Potsdam 2000, ISBN 3-935035-00-4 .
  7. ↑ a b State Office for Data Processing and Statistics State of Brandenburg (Ed.): Contribution to statistics - Historical municipality register of the State of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005 - Prignitz district . tape 19.12 . Potsdam 2006, p. 34 ( statistik-berlin-brandenburg.de [PDF; 397 kB ; accessed on December 28, 2018]).
  8. ↑ a b Der Landschleicher: Helle. Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, February 12, 2012, accessed on February 9, 2013 .
  9. ↑ The Church in Helle. Evangelical Church District Perleberg-Wittenberge, accessed on February 9, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Helle. Groß Pankow (Prignitz) community, accessed on February 9, 2013 .