Kleßen

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Kleßen Castle
Village church
Toy museum

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In 1352 the fiefdom was withdrawn from the von Grieben family because of infidelity and transferred to Peter von Bredow .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

Web links

Commons : Kleßen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Kleßen in the RBB program Landschleicher on May 22, 2005

Coordinates: 52 ° 44 '  N , 12 ° 30'  E