Kleinzerlang

Kleinzerlang City of Rheinsberg Coordinates: 53 ° 11 ′ 8 ″ N , 12 ° 54 ′ 41 ″ E
Height :	60 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.3 km²
Residents :	210 (Sep 30, 2004)
Population density :	49 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	October 26, 2003
Postal code :	16831
Area code :	033921
Location of Kleinzerlang in Brandenburg

Kleinzerlang is a district of the city of Rheinsberg and is located in the far north of Brandenburg in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district . The Prebelow settlement also belongs to this district .

geography

The place is located in the greater Mecklenburg Lake District , in the Stechlin-Ruppiner Land nature park, and is embedded in the 48,200-hectare nature reserve Ruppiner forest and lake area . Kleinzerlang is 12 km from Rheinsberg.

Kleinzerlang is located on a peninsula, 75% enclosed by glacial lakes and the Hüttenkanal . The place is bordered by an important waterway crossing. In the middle of the Kleiner Pälitzsee is the fictitious zero kilometer for the Rheinsberg-Zechliner waters in a south-westerly direction. To the northwest, it continues with the Müritz-Havel waterway to Hamburg or the North Sea . To the east, the water hiker can take the Obere Havel waterway to Berlin / Potsdam and to the northeast to the Havel spring lakes.

The area is characterized by the typical terminal moraine landscape of the Mecklenburg Lake District with moors , sand areas, heather areas and deep pine forests with beech or Douglas fir stands. The region is made accessible by hiking, riding and cycling trails, including the Kleinzerlang Nature Active Park.

Local history

Oldest finds

The stretch of land between Großer Prebelowsee , Canower See and Großer Pälitzsee was already settled in the Neolithic Age (3000–1700 BC). From the subsequent Bronze Age (1700–600 BC), among other things, shards of vessels tell of settlements on the west bank of the Pälitzsee. After that, the area was uninhabited. Only in the 6th century AD did the Slavs immigrate and find good conditions for agriculture, cattle breeding and fishing.

The Slavs were also the namesake of the place, which was first mentioned as Luetcken Scharlanck . Schar means ditch that flows through a valley ( Lanke ). Plague years, recurring robber baron looting and wars were the reason that at the end of the 15th century Luetcken Scharlanck, like many other small, unfortified places, had disappeared.

Resettlement as a colonist village

Kleinzerlang was temporarily part of the Ruppin circle , but was given to the Prignitz before 1799 . In a letter dated January 6, 1751, Frederick II gave his consent to the proposal " what the civil servant Stropp zu Zechlin presented in a very submissive manner because of the development of a certain desert field, known as Kleinzerlang ... ". And he ordered the General Management " to make the order that the matter must be regulated and brought about with the same by means of a formal contract ". With that, the highest authority issued the instruction to create a village, so that the letter is regarded as the founding deed of Kleinzerlang.

Importance of the waterway

With the construction of the canal and the Wolfsbruch lock in 1876–81, the Rheinsberg lake area was connected to the Müritz-Havel waterway. This enabled the region's abundance of wood to be better marketed. Long wood rafts dominated the water for decades.

When the entrepreneur Rudolf Schneider converted a Mecklenburg tug into the first passenger steamer for the Rheinsberg waters in 1902, the first summer visitors came to Kleinzerlang. The location on the water with access to the Mecklenburg lake landscape and the extensive forests in the area increasingly attracted those seeking relaxation to this village. The hall of the innkeeper Volkmann (today “Büdnerhaus”), built in 1903, became a popular destination.

Kleinzerlangen water thieves

With the completion of the Hüttenkanal and the Wolfsbruch lock in 1876, a dispute between Mecklenburg lake residents and the Brandenburg lock keeper began for almost twenty years. The neighbors in the north feared that the frequent sluicing down to Rheinsberg in the 50–70 cm higher lake would run out of water for the mill operation or the raftsmen and fishermen.

An amicable agreement was initially reached at the state government level. A pumping station was built at the lock in order to constantly fill a large storage basin with its own water below the canal. However, it was too time-consuming for the lock master. When he saw a barge approaching, a club the size of an arm got stuck between the lock gates, the trough filled with the "foreign" water. Mecklenburg police officers noticed this water theft and there were repeated reports. The dispute could only be settled when a surveyor noticed that a Brandenburg stream flows as far as Müritz in Mecklenburg near Wittstock / Dosse . That was the natural way out, the neighbors got their balance water! A large square depression can still be seen today from the complicated pumping station at the Wolfsbruch lock.

Incorporation

On October 26, 2003, Kleinzerlang was incorporated into Rheinsberg.

Architectural and natural monuments

Kleinzerlang village church

The village church was built in 1895/96 according to a design by Ludwig von Tiedemann and given a new roof in 1993.

In front of the church there is an oak with a plaque , the oldest tree in the village. It was planted in 1813 on the occasion of the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig . The mighty "Peace Oak" at the Heideweg junction is marked as a natural monument with the "owl".

The townscape is shaped by the historical layout of the farms from the time of the new settlement in 1752 south of the Dorfstrasse and the Büdner properties north of it. Since the founding years, three urban villas have interrupted the height of the Büdner and Bauernkaten , built by the Behnfeldt family of manufacturers. Both types of construction characterize important historical stages of development in the history of the village.

The Wolfsbruch lock (construction began in 1876), built according to the traditional Finow barge, is a technical monument .

The old avenue along the Dorfstrasse stretches from the sluice to the Pälitzsee shore with the lido.

Economy and Infrastructure

State-approved resort

On July 23, 2004, the village was awarded the title “ State Recognized Resort ” as an extension of this title to the core city of Rheinsberg. The place is not counted separately in the census of the state of Brandenburg .

to bathe

Kleinzerlang has a natural lido on the Kleiner Pälitzsee with an approx. 1.5 hectare sunbathing and play area.

Running park

In addition to the Wolfsbruch lock and the access to the Wolfsbruch Marina , the “Natur-Aktiv-Park Kleinzerlang” begins with currently two designated routes for runners, hikers and Nordic walkers. The routes are around 4.5 km and 5.5 km long and lead over forest and field paths on slightly hilly terrain. The routes are integrated into the Stechlin running park.

Tourist infrastructure

Precise Resort Marina Wolfsbruch : Hotel, holiday homes and marina

literature

Historical Gazetteer Brandenburg - Part 1 - Prignitz - N-Z . 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 978-3-88372-033-3 , pp. 1037 ff .

Web links

Kleinzerlang (official website)
kleinzerlang-brandenburg.de (private site)

Individual evidence

[1] StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003

[2] Press release from the Brandenburg Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy from September 9, 2016