Lehnin Monastery (municipality)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 19 '  N , 12 ° 43'  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Potsdam-Mittelmark
Height :	56 m above sea level NHN
Area :	200.97 km 2
Residents:	10,894 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	54 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	14797
Primaries :	03382, 033835, 033207 (Göhlsdorf)
License plate :	PM
Community key :	12 0 69 306
Community structure:	14 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Friedensstrasse 3 14797 Lehnin Monastery
Website :	www.klosterlehnin.de
Mayor :	Uwe Brückner (independent)
Location of the municipality of Kloster Lehnin in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district

Post office Lehnin

Historic oven in Emstal

Torfstichsee Emstaler hose

Kloster Lehnin [ ləˈniːn ] is a municipality in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in Brandenburg (Germany).

geography

Lehnin Monastery is located in the west of Brandenburg, 20 kilometers southeast of the city of Brandenburg an der Havel , around 30 kilometers southwest of Potsdam and around 60 kilometers from Berlin . It is located on both sides of the federal highway 2 between the districts of Göhlsdorf (on the federal highway 10 (western Berlin ring)) and Reckahn.

The municipality covers most of the Zauche as well as parts of the Havelniederung and the Planetales . The mostly canalised Havel tributary Emster has its source in the municipality .

The community borders in the northwest on the city of Brandenburg an der Havel. Further surrounding communities are Groß Kreutz (Havel) in the north, Werder (Havel) in the east, Beelitz in the southeast, Planebruch and Golzow in the south and Wollin in the west.

Community structure

According to its main statute, the municipality of Kloster Lehnin consists of 14  districts (each with a local mayor), two municipality parts and other residential areas.

• Damsdorf with the Bochower Plan residential area
• Emstal (until 1937: Schwina )
• Göhlsdorf with the extension of the residential area
• Grebs
• Krahne with the Rotscherlinde part of the municipality
• Lehnin with the residential areas Forsthaus Rädel, Großheide, Heidehaus, Kaltenhausen and Mittelheide, the main town and with 3,106 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2014) the largest district of the community
• Michelsdorf
• Nahmitz with the Akazienhof, Doberow and Heidehof residential areas
• Networks with the Am See residential area
• Prützke
• Rädel with the Gohlitzhof residential area
• Reckahn with the living space Meßdunk
• Rietz with the Rietzer Berg residential area
• Trechwitz with the Trechwitz settlement

history

The village of Lehnin as the core of today's municipality sees the year 1180 as its founding date, when the Ascanian Otto. I , the second Margrave of Brandenburg , the name-giving Cistercian - Kloster Lehnin founded. That is why the 825th anniversary was celebrated in 2005. However, only the monastery existed in 1180 and for a long time afterwards. The actual establishment of the village or patch Lehnin took place in 1415 from a market that the monks set up in front of the monastery walls. The place experienced a larger expansion in 1667 with the settlement of 13 craftsmen and their families. The reason for this was probably the frequent stay of the elector . In 1750 there are 104 fireplaces occupied , 1800 152 . However, Lehnin lost its market rights to Werder (Havel) in 1733 and was only able to regain it in 1855.

Until its dissolution in 1571, the village of Rietz belonged to the Brandenburg bishopric , the principality of the bishops of the Brandenburg diocese .

In 1943, the so-called General Representative for Chemistry (GebeChem) moved into several buildings of today's Luise-Henrietten-Stift and had seven more barracks built on the site for his authority. The authority coordinated the interests of the war economy with those of the Wehrmacht and SS and from here distributed concentration camp prisoners and forced laborers to the chemical industry. The monastery is a diaconal institution of the Evangelical Church , which moved into the monastery grounds in 1911 and has built a widely ramified, exemplary helping and healing institution in the old monastery walls and various new buildings.

On April 23, 1945, the Red Army also occupied Lehnin during the Battle of Berlin .

From 1982 to 1990 about 500 paratroopers of the NVA were stationed at Lehnin . The airports in West Berlin were their primary target in the event of war or intervention . In mid-October 1989, by order of Erich Honecker , who as chairman of the National Defense Council of the GDR had the formal authority to act against the Monday demonstrations, the association was moved to Leipzig, but remained in the barracks. Today the Bundeswehr maintains a military training area there .

Incorporations

Manor house and fire station in Krahne

The municipality of Kloster Lehnin was created on April 1, 2002 from the voluntary amalgamation of the municipalities of Emstal , Göhlsdorf , Grebs , Krahne , Lehnin , Michelsdorf , Nahmitz , Netzen , Prützke , Rädel , Reckahn and Rietz of the Lehnin office at the time and the Damsdorf municipality of the Emster office -Havel . On October 26, 2003, the previously independent municipality of Trechwitz (former Emster-Havel Office) was also incorporated by means of state law .

Population development

year Residents 2002 11 391 2003 11 863 2004 11 815 2005 11 700 2006 11 566

year Residents 2007 11 398 2008 11 195 2009 11 129 2010 11 089 2011 10 732

year Residents 2012 10 724 2013 10 669 2014 10 682 2015 10 720 2016 10 903

year Residents 2017 10 848 2018 10,871 2019 10,894

Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31, from 2011 based on the 2011 census

politics

Community representation

The community council consists of 20 community representatives and the full-time mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Party / group of voters	Seats
SPD	6th
CDU	5
Free citizens and farmers	3
The left	2
Tree friends Lehnin Monastery	2
AfD	1
Leisure and youth club Trechwitz	1

The AfD had three seats, two of which remained vacant because the party had only nominated one candidate.

mayor

• 2002–2016 Bernd Kreykenbohm (independent)
• since 2016 Uwe Brückner (List Association SPD / Free Citizens and Farmers)

After the formation of the community, the then district director Kreykenbohm was elected full-time mayor on April 23, 2002 by the community council for the remainder of his term of office until July 2, 2008. In the mayoral election on March 16, 2008, he was confirmed in his office with 84.3% of the valid votes. On March 20, 2016, Brückner was elected as his successor for a term of eight years with 72.1 percent of the valid votes (took office: July 2016).

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on February 21, 2003.

Blazon : "In a Blue rooted elfblättrige golden oak covered by a leaping silver stag."

Today's coat of arms of the community - golden oak on a blue background, in front of it a jumping deer in silver - is the stylization of a drawing in the monastery church that goes back to the founding legend of the monastery, a dream of Otto I , in which deer and oak play a role . More information here .

flag

The flag consists of three longitudinal stripes in a ratio of 1: 2: 1 in the colors blue - white - blue with the municipal coat of arms in the central stripe when hung on a cross piece of wood.

Town twinning

A partnership has existed between Kloster Lehnin and the Belgian city ​​of Tervuren in Flanders since 2003 .

Cloister of the Lehnin monastery

Sights and culture

In the list of architectural monuments in Lehnin Monastery and in the list of ground monuments in Lehnin Monastery are the cultural monuments entered in the list of monuments of the State of Brandenburg.

Buildings

Church in Damsdorf

• Monastery Lehnin with the monastery church St. Marien in the district Lehnin, main attraction of the community
• Reckahn district: Manor of the Rochow family (called Reckahn Castle ) with the Rochow Museum, Reckahn old manor , baroque village and castle church , school museum , Slavic castle wall
• Memorial to the writer Willibald Alexis from 1914 in the Lehnin district in front of the cemetery on Pushkinstrasse. The bronze plaque with the relief medallion of Alexis was created by the sculptor Paul Matzdorf . The large memorial stone with a plaque is the starting point for the Willibald-Alexis-Weg. It was established because Lehnin is the local background for The Trousers of Herr von Bredow , one of Alexis' most famous novels.
• War memorial for those killed in the First World War in the Netzen district in front of the church
• Soviet memorial from 1971 in the district of Kaltenhausen No. 75/77, next to it a VVN memorial stone calling for the defense of peace
• The Krahne village church is a neo-baroque hall church that was expanded in a cross shape in 1904 under the direction of the architect Ludwig von Tiedemann .
• The village church of Göhlsdorf is a neo-Romanesque church that was built between 1865 and 1867 using the field stones from a previous building. The existing tower was included in the new building.
• The village church Michelsdorf is a Romanesque stone church from the 12th century. Inside are the remains of a painting from 1946.

• Churches
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  Göhlsdorf

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  Krahne

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  Gears

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  Trechwitz

Natural monuments

The blue stone is a large boulder with a bluish-green color in the pine forest about two kilometers east of the village of Krahne. This was previously used as a quarry .

Regular events

Every year on the last weekend in September, an international pumpkin festival with colorful and sometimes strange pumpkin decorations is celebrated in the Lehnin district for two days . There is also: Parade, market, stands, reading, concert, competitions and a pumpkin exhibition.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

In addition to agriculture, shipping on the Emster, Emsterkanal and Havel also played an economic role. The opening of clay and clay deposits enabled brickworks to be built in the 19th century that employed day laborers . As in Glindow and Deetz , the brick was shipped via the Havel waters to Berlin , Potsdam , Brandenburg an der Havel to Hamburg . From 1878, the local economy, initially unsuccessfully, sought to run the planned railway line from Brandenburg to Jüterbog via Lehnin. 1899 took place then the light railway connecting the Lehniner Kleinbahn AG Nahmitz and Damsdorf after Grosskreutz .

In the 1960s the brickworks were closed and in 1967 the small railroad stopped operating. As part of the FDJ's “Havelobst” youth project, fruit growing in the Lehnin area was expanded from 1982 onwards . Since the German reunification , tourism has become an increasingly decisive economic factor; The attraction is next to the monastery, the scenic surroundings.

The largest industrial company in Kloster Lehnin is the tobacco product manufacturer Grand River Enterprises (Deutschland) GmbH in the Rietz district. Several billion cigarettes have been produced annually in Rietz since 2006. The company is a spin-off from an Indian founded company in Canada. 290 people are employed in Kloster Lehnin.

In 2010/11, the Reckahn solar park with an output of almost 38 MWp was installed in the community.

traffic

With the Regiobus Potsdam-Mittelmark and Fritz Behrendt , the municipality of Kloster Lehnin can be reached with four PlusBus and other regional bus routes.

Lehnin lies on the national roads L 86 between Golzow and Grosskreutz and L 88 between Brandenburg and Beelitz . The closest motorway junctions are Netzen and Lehnin on the A 2 . The Werder motorway triangle is located in the municipality.

Lehnin Monastery is located on the European long-distance hiking route E11 from Scheveningen in the Netherlands to Goldap in Poland .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Wilhelm Klebitz (around 1533–1568), theologian and mathematician
• Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger (1816–1890), theologian and pedagogue , wrote the text of the Christmas carol "Sweeter the bells never ring"
• Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell (1855–1931), politician, Prussian Minister of the Interior 1914–1917
• Bernhard Hannstein (1869–1942), coffee plantation owner in Guatemala
• Karl Weber (1885–1945), politician ( NSDAP ), member of the Prussian state parliament
• Gerhard Hurte (1906–1976), painter and preservationist in Dresden and Kiel
• Roland Kaiser (1943–1998), actor and voice actor
• Waltraud Kretzschmar (1948–2018), handball player
• Thilo Götze Regenbogen (1949–2015), artist
• Christiane Ziehl (* 1950), actress
• Siegfried Lietzmann (* 1951), politician ( LDPD , FDP )
• Vollrad Kuhn (* 1956), politician ( Alliance 90 / The Greens )
• Heilgard Asmus (* 1958), Protestant theologian
• Wolfgang Schmidt (* 1966), murderer of 6 people and 3 attempted murders

Rochow's mansion in Reckahn (so-called Reckahn Castle )

Personalities associated with the community

• Arnold von Monnickendam, Abbot von Lehnin from 1456 to 1467
• Christiane Louise von Rochow , née von Bose (1734–1808), manor owner, social reformer
• Friedrich Eberhard von Rochow (1734–1805), landlord in Reckahn, educational and agricultural reformer
• Robert von Loebell (1815–1905), father of Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell, owner of the von Lehnin manor from 1846 to 1870; put an end to the devastation of the monastery and started its reconstruction in conjunction with the Prussian royal family
• Oskar Schwartz (1886–1943), major general in the Wehrmacht in World War II
• Manfred Ewald (1926–2002), sports functionary in the GDR
• Andreas Kuhnert (1951–2019), pastor in Netzen , member of the state parliament (SPD)
• Helmut Schliesing (* 1953), politician (SPD), 1990–2002 Lord Mayor of Brandenburg an der Havel ; lives in Rietz

literature

• Marie-Luise Buchinger, Marcus Cante: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Brandenburg. Potsdam-Mittelmark district 14.1 = Nördliche Zauche: communities Groß Kreutz, Kloster Lehnin, Michendorf, Schwielowsee and city Werder (Havel) as well as Gollwitz and Wust (city Brandenburg an der Havel) . Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft , Worms 2009. ISBN 978-3-88462-285-8
• Havelland around Werder, Lehnin and Ketzin (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 53). 1st edition. Self-published by the Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig 1992, ISBN 3-86082-014-1 .
• Sebastian children, Haik Thomas Porada on behalf of the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography and Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig (ed.): Brandenburg an der Havel and surroundings. A geographical inventory in the area of ​​Brandenburg an der Havel, Pritzerbe, Reckahn and Wusterwitz (=  Landscapes in Germany. Values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 69 ). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-412-09103-3 .
• Stephan Warnatsch: History of the Lehnin Monastery 1180–1542 . Lukas Verlag, January 2000, ISBN 3-931836-45-2

Web links

Commons : Kloster Lehnin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lehnin community
• Luise-Henrietten-Stift Lehnin
• Rochow Museum
• Lehnin military training area at www.streitkraeftebasis.de
• Romanesque routes in Berlin and Brandenburg - Kloster Lehnin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population in the State of Brandenburg according to municipalities, offices and municipalities not subject to official registration on December 31, 2019 (XLSX file; 223 KB) (updated official population figures) ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Main statutes for the non-governmental municipality of Kloster Lehnin from October 29, 2008 PDF
3. ^ Service portal of the state administration - municipality of Kloster Lehnin
4. ↑ Gustav Abb and Gottfried Wentz: The Diocese of Brandenburg . First part, In: Germania sacra , Berlin and Leipzig 1929, Walter de Gruyter, p. 69.
5. ^ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Evangelisches Diakonissenhaus Berlin Teltow Lehnin History of the Lehnin Monastery.
6. ↑ Honecker's Elite Force - The Paratroopers . mdr, April 28, 2009
7. ↑ Formation of a new, non-governmental municipality, Kloster Lehnin. Announcement of the Ministry of the Interior of March 15, 2002. Official Journal for Brandenburg - Joint Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg, Volume 13, 2002, Number 13, Potsdam, March 27, 2002, p. 403 PDF
8. ↑ Fourth law on the state-wide municipal area reform concerning the districts Havelland, Potsdam-Mittelmark, Teltow-Fläming (4th GemGebRefGBbg) of March 24, 2003. Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Brandenburg, I (Laws), 2003, No. 05, p 73
9. ^ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Landkreis Potsdam-Mittelmark . Pp. 18-21
10. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2017 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
11. ^ Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.): Statistical report AI 7, A II 3, A III 3. Population development and population status in the state of Brandenburg (respective editions of the month of December)
12. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
13. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 74
14. ↑ Lehnin Monastery: Brückner new mayor . In: Märkische Allgemeine , March 20, 2016
15. ^ Result of the mayoral election of March 20, 2016
16. ↑ Coat of arms information on the service portal of the state administration of Brandenburg
17. ↑ Final spurt for solar parks in open space . In: Potsdam Latest News , July 28, 2011. Retrieved January 22, 2016.