Kienitz

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Kienitz
Letschin municipality
Coordinates: 52 ° 40 ′ 27 ″  N , 14 ° 26 ′ 28 ″  E
Height : 10 m
Residents : 573  (2006)
Incorporation : October 26, 2003
Postal code : 15324
Area code : 033478
Kienitz (Brandenburg)
Kienitz

Location of Kienitz in Brandenburg

Kienitz is a district of the municipality Letschin in the Märkisch-Oderland district in Brandenburg , located on the Oder on the eastern edge of the Oderbruch .

history

Foundation of the town in the 13th century and further development

Kienitz, which emerged from a fishing village , was first mentioned in a document in 1234 as "Terra Chinz". From 1571 to 1722 Kienitz was owned by the von Pfuel family . Since the Oderbruch was drained by the order of the Prussian King Frederick the Great , the main source of income for the residents has been agriculture . The Oderbruch became a new home for many settlers from different countries.

Monument to the Soviet Army in Kienitz
Oderarm in Kienitz
Hafenmühle

In the early morning hours of January 31, 1945, advance divisions of the Soviet 5th Shock Army and the 2nd Guards Panzer Army crossed the Oder and formed a bridgehead, which they expanded further. Kienitz was the first place in what was later to become the GDR to be captured by Soviet troops. In 1970, a memorial with a T-34 tank was erected in the town on the occasion of this event . As a result of the fighting for the place, numerous houses as well as the church and the rectory were destroyed.

Until 1945 there was a ferry to Hälse (since 1945 Porzecze in Poland) on the other bank of the Oder. The aim was to restore the ferry connection, but this has not yet been achieved.

The former harbor mill was revived as a café.

Incorporations

Kienitz consists of the two parts of the municipality Kienitz Dorf and Kienitz Nord, whereby Kienitz Nord did not develop from a previous landowner until after the Second World War through the land reform .

On October 26, 2003, Kienitz was incorporated into Letschin.

population

year 1875 1890 1910 1925 1933 1946 1995 2000 2006
population 2267 1911 1568 1531 1364 1019 617 575 573

church

Bike path church in Kienitz (2013)

The church of Kienitz was built from 1829-1832 on the foundation walls of a previous brick building and plastered . In an essay by the local history researcher Dieter Mehlhardt it was stated in 1998: [The church was a] "stately plastered hall building with arched windows and a pointed west tower , which was extensively renovated in 1894". In the tower with a hexagonal floor plan hung a peal from three church bells . These had to be delivered for gun production during the First World War , as did the tin pipes for the organ . In the 1920s the church received two cast steel bells made in the Apolda workshops .

Because Kienitz was the first place west of the Oder, at the end of the Second World War the German Wehrmacht and the Red Army fought fiercely in and around the village. The church building and the neighboring rectory fell victim to German artillery fire and sank to rubble. In 1949 the parish received unexpected help from home and abroad: a bishop from Switzerland , a church representative from Sweden and one from Germany appeared in the village and gave the Roder family of pastors donations for the reconstruction. So the architect Gustav Gebhardt from Berlin could be won to create plans for a reconstruction. The Otto Arndt company took over the practical work on site. With this help, a new village church was built with a flat roof on the tower, the nave was divided into two floors and thus offered an apartment for the pastor's family and a community hall. The eastern part of the building was preserved as a ruin and has served as a memorial against war and destruction ever since.

The church became famous through the work of the pastor's wife and painter Erna Roder . In order to raise money for the maintenance of the church, she has been painting pictures since the 1980s that show the church itself and motifs from the area and sold it. The pictures she created earlier also contributed to making the coloring as possible according to the original plans.

Sons and daughters of Kienitz

Personalities associated with Kienitz

Web links

Commons : Kienitz  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Kienitz in the RBB program Landschleicher on August 5, 2018

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leopold von Ledebur: Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy . Rauh, 1856, p. 196.
  2. ↑ Fritz Kohlase: Küstrin demise in 1945
  3. ^ Again the ferry from Kienitz to Hälse . In: Märkische Onlinezeitung , April 10, 2008.
  4. ↑ Ferry projects threaten to fail . In: Märkische Onlinezeitung , April 7, 2010.
  5. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003
  6. ^ The Genealogical Place Directory: Kienitz
  7. ↑ Bärbel Kloppstech: Church door is always open. , In: Märkische Oderzeitung , 2006; Retrieved November 3, 2015.