Kleßen
Kleßen is a district of the municipality of Kleßen-Görne in the Havelland district in Brandenburg .
location
The small town is west of the city of Friesack . To the southwest of the village lies the Kleßener See .
history
Kleßen is one of the oldest places in the area. A first, but only indirect, documentary mention comes from the year 1230. In that year a Johann von Cletsim was mentioned as a witness in a trial in Kyritz . The Kleßen estate belonged to a von Kleßen family and then to the von Greaves family. It is assumed that a knight's court, possibly also a castle, existed in the place early on. In 1642 the existence of a tower and a wall was mentioned.
In 1352 the fiefdom was withdrawn from the von Grieben family because of infidelity and transferred to Peter von Bredow . With a short interruption, this family owned the estate until 1932 in the 17th century. The Kleßen village church was built in 1698 . Today's Kleßen Castle was built between 1723 and 1730 .
In 1806 the place was pillaged by French troops. In 1889 Theodor Fontane visited Kleßen. At the end of the Second World War , the palace temporarily housed the headquarters of a general of the German Wehrmacht.
After a severe structural decline in the time of the GDR , the castle was renovated from 1993 and thus preserved.
In 2002, Kleßen was merged with Görne further south to form the municipality of Kleßen-Görne.
Buildings
Kleßen Castle is characteristic of Kleßen . To the west of this is the Kleßen village church . Immediately to the east of the church is the old schoolhouse, which houses the toy museum in Havelland .
Personalities
Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm von Bredow (1763-1820) was landlord on Kleßen from 1796 and died here. The nationalist politician Hermann Ehrhardt (1881–1971) acquired the Kleßen estate in 1933. In the course of the Röhm Putsch , he hid in the surrounding forests. The politician Siegfried Lietzmann (* 1951) was head of the LPG Kleßen from 1975.
literature
- Marie Luise Rohde, Klessen , Palaces and Gardens of the Mark, Issue 107, 2009, ISBN 978-3-941675-07-0 .
Web links
- Kleßen in the RBB program Landschleicher on May 22, 2005
Coordinates: 52 ° 44 ' N , 12 ° 30' E