Kastaven (desert)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kastaven , 1299 Carstauel , is a desert north-east of Himmelpfort ( Oberhavel district , Brandenburg ). The medieval village was part of the initial equipment of the Himmelpfort monastery in 1299 and fell into desolation at the beginning of the 15th century. Today the district belongs to the areas of the cities of Fürstenberg / Havel (Oberhavel district) and Lychen ( Uckermark district ). Today there are two localities with this name; the inhabited part of the municipality Kastaven in the Retzow district and the Kastaven residential area in the Himmelpfort district, but neither are on or in the immediate vicinity of the old village.

Geographical location

Kastaven was east of the narrow land bridge between the Great and Small Kastavensee , about 700 m west of the Sähle residential area . There a cemetery and the remains of a portal from a medieval stone church mark the old village site. The old village is now in the Himmelpfort district (part of the town of Fürstenberg / Havel), 68 m above sea level.

history

In the year 1299 the place was first mentioned in the deed of foundation for the monastery Himmelpfort ("Carstauel cum suis pertinentiis"). He was then by Albrecht III. together with five other villages for the (initial) furnishing of the monastery. As early as 1286 the margrave had given the villages of Klein Kastavel and Dabelow to the Johanniter Commandery Mirow in Mirow ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). The field mark of Klein Kastavel seems to have merged into the field mark of Dabelow early on. In any case, the Kastaven described here has no distinguishing addition (e.g. large).

The interpretation of the name is difficult. Sophie Wauer in the Brandenburg name book favors a derivation from an old Polish basic form * Karstavel to * karstavrau, full of leaves, smallpox. Since there are three lakes with this name in the vicinity ( Großer Kastavensee , Kleiner Kastavensee and Oberkastavensee ), it cannot be decided whether it is an original place name or a transferred water name.

1342 Kastaven is mentioned as a church village. In the 1st half of the 15th century the village was robbed and devastated by captains from Fretzdorf and Rheinsberg and Havelberg-episcopal followers from Zechlin and Wittstock . The village was probably abandoned afterwards and not rebuilt. 1574 tilled Kossäten of Rutenberg the fields on the Feldmark Kastaven. In the border dispute with the Mecklenburg princes, the villages and desert field marks Beenz, Linow, Rutenberg, Retzow and Kastaven von Mecklenburg are claimed because they belonged to the Land of Stargard. In 1709 there was evidence of a heather for the first time on the Kastaven field. It was 1 km southwest of the old village. In 1727 a tar furnace was built in the eastern part of the Feldmark. In 1729 this tar stove was first called the soul , from which the name of today's living space Sähle emerged . The Heidevorwerk was dissolved in 1835 and initially used as a mutton barn. In 1865 the forester's house Kastaven was built, today's Kastaven residential area, which belongs to Himmelpfort.

Church conditions

Kastaven was a church village (1342), as evidenced by the remains of a stone church from the 13th century on the old village site. It was the daughter church of St. Johannis in Lychen and thus still reflects the relationship of dependency to the main church of Lychen .

literature

  • Lieselott Enders : Historical local dictionary for Brandenburg. Part VIII: Uckermark. Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1986, ISBN 3-7400-0042-2 , pp. 488-490.
  • Heinz-Dieter Heimann, Klaus Neitmann, Winfried Schich: Brandenburg monastery book: Handbook of the monasteries, monasteries and coming to the middle of the 16th century. Volume 1, Be.Bra-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-937233-26-0 , pp. 612-624.
  • Sophie Wauer: Brandenburg name book. Part 9: The place names of the Uckermark. Verlag Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1996, ISBN 3-7400-1000-2 , pp. 141/142.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adolph Friedrich Johann Riedel : Codex Diplomaticus Brandenburgensis A. First main part or collection of documents on the history of spiritual foundations, noble families, as well as the towns and castles of the Mark Brandenburg, XIII. Band, Die Uckermark: Lychen, Zehdenik, Templin, Angermünde, Chorin Monastery; Uckermark documents. Berlin, Reimer 1857 Online at Google Books

Web links

Coordinates: 53 ° 12 ′ 55 ″  N , 13 ° 14 ′ 13 ″  E