Stick war
The so-called stick war between Berlin and Spandau took place in August 1567. The Brandenburg Elector Joachim II. Hector had a kind of maneuver between Berliners and Spandauers carried out to amuse the people . The Berliners and Cöllner proceeded with full equipment, but armed only with short clubs or poles, against ordered Spandauer, which gave the event the name of a club war .
The spectators - including the elector - first experienced a kind of boat parade on the Havel , in which boats decorated with wreaths of flowers and pennants converged on each other. Those who were playfully pushed into the water were all “rescued” unharmed. Fighting was to take place for three days, so the water battle was then continued on land as an open field battle.
Even if it had previously been agreed that the Berliners should win the "battle", the Spandau residents developed so much ambition after a playful start to the event that they did not want to accept the defeat that was intended for them. They lured the Berliners into an ambush and hit them with their clubs. The elector did not like this at all, which is why he ordered cannons to be set up (which, however, were not loaded) and finally intervened in the action himself, whereby his horse was also injured by blows from the clubs and consequently threw him off.
The Elector Joachim II. Hector was so angry about the outcome of the Baton War that he had the Spandau Mayor Bartholomäus Bier locked up in a fortress for a few months.
Theodor Fontane describes the events in Volume 3 "Havelland" of the walks through the Mark Brandenburg under the chapter heading The Sea Battle in the Malche and gives in detail passages by the Brandenburg chronicler Nicolaus Leuthinger from his long-missing Scriptorum de rebus Marchiae Brandenburgensis ... , the 1729 by Johann Christoph Müller and Georg Gottfried Krause was published. According to Leuthinger, the sea battle took place on the Great Malchesee. This body of water north of the Spandau Citadel is now known as Krienicke, while Großer Malchsee today means the northernmost bay of Lake Tegel .
literature
- Chronicle Berlin . 3rd updated edition. Gütersloh, Munich 1997. ISBN 3-577-14444-0
- The stick war . In: The Stralauer Fischzug. Legends, stories and customs from old Berlin. Verlag Neues Leben Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-355-00326-3 ; P. 45f
- Felix Escher : Spandau in the shadow of the fortress . In: Slavic castle, state fortress, industrial center. Studies on the history of the city and district of Spandau. Wolfgang Ribbe (Ed.), Colloquium-Verlag, Berlin 1983, p. 176 ISBN 3-7678-0593-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Theodor Fontane : The sea battle in the Malche. In: Walks through the Mark Brandenburg in 8 volumes , Volume 3 Havelland . Edited by Gotthard Erler u. Rudolf Mingau, Aufbau Verlag Berlin 1997, pp. 176-182, ISBN 978-3-7466-5703-5