Kyritz

Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Ostprignitz-Ruppin
Height :	42 m above sea level NHN
Area :	157.38 km 2
Residents:	9260 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	59 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	16866
Area code :	033971
License plate :	OPR, KY, NP, WK
Community key :	12 0 68 264
LOCODE :	DE KYR
City structure:	Kyritz and 10 districts
; City administration address :	Marktplatz 1 ; 16866 Kyritz
Website :	www.kyritz.de
Mayoress :	Nora Görke (independent)
Location of the city of Kyritz in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district

Kyritz is a town in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district in northwest Brandenburg with around 9,300 inhabitants. It goes back to Slavic roots, was repopulated from the middle of the 12th century by the Rhine region, Holland and Flanders and was a member of the Hanseatic League . After the Thirty Years War , the deserted city was repopulated from the west. In the 18th century it became a Prussian garrison town.

geography

The city is located in the historic Prignitz landscape in northwest Brandenburg. The natural border between the Kyritzer Platte in the west and the Dossiederung in the east, where the nearby chain of lakes is located, runs through Kyritz . The Wittstock-Ruppiner Heide connects to the easternmost district of Teetz .

Neighboring cities, offices and municipalities are Heiligengrabe in the north, Wittstock / Dosse and the office Temnitz in the northeast, Wusterhausen / Dosse in the east, the office Neustadt (Dosse) in the south and the municipalities Plattenburg in the southwest and Gumtow in the west.

Kyritz is popularly known as "an der Knatter". The rattle of the Jäglitz side arm was named after the numerous rattling water mills . Today the rattle is piped up and only one of the five watermills still has the building.

City structure

The city of Kyritz is divided into the core city with the residential areas Blechern Hahn, Feldsiedlung, Grünstelde, Heinrichsfelde , Karl-Friedrichshof, Karnzow, Köhnsbau, Rüdow, Stolpe, Waldkolonie and Wolfswinkel, and the other into ten districts, namely Berlitt , Bork , Drewen and Gantikow , then Holzhausen with the residential areas Vollmersdorf, Kötzlin and Lellichow , finally Mechow and Rehfeld with the residential areas Klosterhof and Wilhelmsgrille, and Teetz-Ganz with the residential areas Teetz and Ganz

history

prehistory

The human settlement of the Prignitz can be traced back to the time before 7000 BC. Prove. A total of over 3500 sites are known there (as of 2018). In the post-glacial Mesolithic , hunters and gatherers came to the glacial valley of the Elbe , followed by rural cultures such as can be seen in the Mellen megalithic grave or in the prince's grave of Seddin from around 800 BC, which is more than two thousand years younger . Chr.

Germanic peoples (born around Chr. To 6th century), Slavs (from 7th century)

At the turn of the ages, Tacitus named Semnones and Lombards . After their departure, Slavs lived in the region from the 7th century . Their settlement chambers existed mainly on the Elbe, Havel , Stepenitz and Dosse .

Attempts to convert the Slavs by force began around 800, and under Otto I the Prignitz was incorporated into the Havelberg Missionary Diocese . But with the Slav uprising of 983 , the attempts at Christianization ended abruptly and the Slavs, here the Dossans , successfully defended themselves against all attempts at conquest for a century and a half.

In 948, the Gau Chorizi was first mentioned in a document, which Kyritz may have given the name. Southeast of Kyritz, in Wusterhausen, a Slavic ring wall with a diameter of 100 m (together with the outer bailey) from the 11th century can be identified, which was probably subordinate to a kind of regional prince of the Dossans and for some time beyond the middle of the 12th century was used by the German conquerors. Slavic swords were also discovered near the town church there. In November 2014, the human remains of a 50- to 60-year-old man were discovered on Kyritzer Schulenburg-Strasse, which were dated between 981 and 1057. The grave of a toddler in Prinzenstrasse, discovered in 2018, dates from around 1100 and, due to its time, must have belonged to a Slavic settlement. The body of the toddler was oriented to the west-east, there is probably an entire burial ground there.

Wendenkreuzzug (1147), fiefdom, ascent to the Hanseatic city (before 1229 to after 1417)

With the Wendenkreuzzug ended the independence and pagan culture of the Slavs in 1147 , settlers from the west of the Roman-German Empire came to the region. Like the other conquered Slavic territories, the Prignitz was divided into terrae , including a domain around Kyritz. After Helmold von Bosau , the Slavs gradually "disappeared"; instead, around 1158 new settlers were recruited from the Rhine , but also from Holland , Zealand and the Flemish regions. Around 450 farming villages were created in Prignitz. In 1229 a "Johann von Plote" appears in a document as the owner of Kyritz. In 1237 Kyritz received the Stendal town charter from the Lords of Plotho , more precisely from a Johann and his brother Konrad. This family, who sat at Kyritz Castle, held all sovereign rights, including over the still small town, but probably only in the form of a fief . The Kyritzers were allowed to choose a Vogt from among their number , a kind of trustee for the fiefdoms. In many cases these fiefs fell back to the Margrave of Brandenburg . Monasteries were founded for proselytizing. Within the Kyritz walls, consisting of a tower-occupied city wall with three gates and upstream ramparts and ditches, a Franciscan monastery was built at the end of the 13th century (at least before 1303), which existed until the Reformation .

Entries in the Council Bible on late medieval events

Parish Church of St. Mary

Memorial plaque to the Kyritz chronicler and Franciscan Mathias Döring († 1469) and to his monastery. Döring complained to the sovereign about the activities of the knights in the vicinity of the city and worked on a chronicle until 1464, the continuation of which he left to another hand.

The city, which was conveniently located on the pilgrimage route Berlin – Wilsnack , achieved far greater independence in the first half of the 14th century. In the course of this development it became a member of the Hanseatic League at an unknown point in time , whereby the connection to their trade network via the Jäglitz river to Havelberg - the city had the rights to it confirmed by its lord at the time in the middle of the 13th century - and the Havel took place. Membership in the Hanseatic League results from Rostock's request to various cities on January 6, 1359 to appear in Lübeck for the next day trip . In addition to Kyritz, Perleberg , Pritzwalk and Havelberg were also Hanseatic cities in Prignitz . Around this time the parish church of St. Marien and the city wall were built in Kyritz. The church and the remains of the city wall - the Holzhausener Tor was recently excavated - still exist today. A Franciscan monastery was also built at the end of the 13th century - one of three in the Diocese of Havelberg, along with Neubrandenburg and Gransee - which was excavated from 2016. It was initially an unadorned granite building, but it was rebuilt in the 14th century with bricks in the late Gothic style.

Although two men appear as representatives of the city in the document from 1237, these representatives were first referred to as "consules" in 1329. The striving for self-determination of the cities was also evident in two meetings in Spandau in 1349. There, letters of alliance were passed, dated January 26th and April 6th of that year, and in which the cities self-confidently as “wy Stede der Marke to Brandenburch ”, no longer as councils, as before. 35 cities in the Mittelmark , Altmark , Uckermark and Prignitz were involved. From Prignitz these were the cities of Havelberg, Sandau , Kyritz, Pritzwalk and Freyenstein after Perleberg . In 1381 the knight Bassewitz attacked the town (not secured). In 1411 he was caught and beheaded (not secured). The sword with which he was (allegedly) executed is exhibited in the town hall today (see Bassewitzfest Kyritz ). The destruction went so far that at the end of the 15th century around 40% of the villages were desolate. In 1417 Kyritz was mentioned for the last time as a Hanseatic city.

In 1488 Kyritzer beer was first brewed with the name "Mord und Mansschlag". This beer is produced today by the Neuzelle monastery brewery . Cloth making also grew in importance and became one of the two most important crafts in the city.

Reformation, Pest (1626), agricultural town, garrison town (1718–1806)

The wings of the Achatius altar in the parish church, which were built around 1450, come from the Büsenhagen village church. The corresponding essay is from 1683, the predella is baroque.

With the Reformation, the Franciscan monastery was abandoned to become the seat of the St. Spiritus Hospital in 1552. After the fire in St. Mary's Church in 1622, which was only restored between 1709 and 1714, the monastery church served as the town's parish church. The east wing was rebuilt in baroque style in 1757. But in 1781 the church was sold to an innkeeper for demolition, whereupon he largely demolished the building by 1790. Today only the east wing of the enclosure with the north wall of the monastery church remains .

But the craft tradition still flourished, such as the brewing trade. In 1610 there were around 300 breweries and 300 cloth makers in the city. The very wealthy city had to be at the military disposal of the sovereign. In addition, regular inspections took place, such as in 1578 together with the city of Pritzwalk.

In 1626 more than 800 Kyritzers died of the plague . The Thirty Years' War led to an extensive depopulation of the Prignitz; in 1641 only 373 farmers are said to have lived there. Settlers were recruited again, again from the Atlantic areas, but also from the Palatinate . The town church fell victim to a town fire and was only rebuilt between 1709 and 1712. In 1739 and 1740 the city wall, which had become militarily useless, was laid down, followed by the Holzhausener Tor in 1760, the Rüdower Tor in 1792, and finally the Wusterhausen Tor in 1806. The Gothic town hall, which had stood in the middle of the rectangular market square, burned down in 1674, the new building burned down in 1825 as well. But not only individual buildings burned down several times, but several times almost the entire city. Severe fires raged in 1622, 1634 and 1636 during the Thirty Years War, but also in 1674, 1820 and finally in 1828.

Half-timbered houses were built in the 17th and 18th centuries , which still shape the city center today. The emerging postal system led to the expansion of corresponding roads and paths. In the process, the city sank into an agricultural town , losing its character as a drapery and brewing town in favor of a garrison town (1718 to 1806). So it had to carry the billeting of Prussian troops ( Yellow Riders , part of a cuirassier regiment ), like a large number of other cities. The number of people billeted could be extremely large, which was an overwhelming burden for smaller cities. So from 1791 a separate hospital building was planned in Kyritz for the cuirassier regiment No. 2, which in its strength still determined by King Friedrich II. A total of 37 officers, 70 non-commissioned officers, 12 trumpeters, 720 cuirassiers , plus 7 lower staff (clerks, craftsmen) , 5 company fielders, 10 flag smiths (farriers) comprised, a total of 861 men. In fact, the building was constructed from 1792 to 1793. The corresponding correspondence has been handed down and it sheds a bright light on the economic condition of Kyritz. The two existing "hospital buildings", one of which was so dilapidated that it had to be propped up, were sold for co-financing - however, they only brought in 185 thalers. The construction department determined the construction costs for the military hospital. These amounted to 2729 thalers, 8 groschen and 6 pfennigs. It was found that the town's finance department was in such “bad shape” that it could not contribute anything to the costs; the municipality lived practically only from the sale of wood; Nor had she ever received rent from the users of the old barracks. She was only able to raise the sum of 200 thalers for building the city wall by pledging a piece of land. In total, the city, which had been badly hit by hail the year before, owed 2,067 thalers.

French rule (1806–1814) until the Weimar Republic

Postcard from around 1900, a section of the Jägelitz is shown

From 1806 to 1814 the city was under French occupation. On April 8, 1807, Napoleonic soldiers shot the Kyritz chamberlain Johann Carl Friedrich Schulze and the local merchant Carl Friedrich Kersten at the gates of the city in order to set an example.

The Peace Oak, planted in 1814, in 2006

To commemorate the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig , the Kyritzers planted four oaks on the market square in 1814, one of which is still known today as the "Peace Oak". In 1817 Kyritz became the district town of the newly established district of Ostprignitz (until 1952). Their seat was the later Gasthof Schwarzer Adler on the market corner (Friedrichstrasse, today Maxim-Gorki-Strasse). After a fire on October 12, 1820, the building was converted into a hotel, and in 1930 a cinema was built there.

The town church was rebuilt in 1848, and a telegraph station was added to the post office, which was built in 1805 . In 1866 today's high school was built, and in 1873 the starch factory northeast of the city was founded by the merchant Conrad. It became one of the most important industries in the area. After a fire, a new town hall was built in 1879, as did numerous towns in the region. The burned down structure was itself a replacement for the town hall, which had already burned down twice. With the connection to the Neustadt-Meyenburg railway line , Kyritz regained access to the world market in 1887, and the Kyritz-Breddin and Kyritz-Perleberg small railroad connections were completed in 1896. The post office was relocated to the train station. This connection also strengthened local tourism . The hospital was opened in 1910 and a bathing establishment in 1925. In 1929 a youth hostel was built on Untersee . It was not until 1930 that the city received a sewer system and a central water supply network. In order to pass the Abitur, the students had to go to Perleberg or Pritzwalk, or attend a private school, because around 1900 there was only one city school in Kyritz, otherwise a higher private girls 'school and a private boys' school.

Several Jewish families had lived in Kyritz since the 18th century at the latest . At that time there was already a Jewish cemetery (in front of the Holzhauser Tor), but it was abandoned in the 19th century. As a result, a new cemetery was created in the north of the city. In 1814, 13 Jewish families and in 1853 one synagogue can be found in the city . From 1892 a prayer room in the private house of the merchant Theodor Calmon in today's Prinzenstraße was used as a synagogue.

As the war memorial inaugurated in 1923 shows, 150 Kyritzers died during the First World War . The local hospital, inaugurated in 1910, became a reserve hospital. With the expansion between 1926 and 1928, the number of beds increased from 60 to 94, a maternity hospital, a children's ward and a public bath were built.

End of the Weimar Republic and the Nazi era (1928–1945): Nazi stronghold, persecution of Jews

The Ostprignitz district was one of the first in Germany in which the National Socialists were able to achieve major electoral successes. In the 1930 Reichstag elections , the NSDAP received 48.9% of the votes, the highest percentage in all of Brandenburg. This was preceded by an early and strong radicalization of the farmers, which culminated in an "emergency rally" organized by the Landbund in 1928 against the agricultural policy of the Reich government on the market square in Kyritz with 5000 to 6000 participants, during which the windows of the tax office were destroyed. The NSDAP had started in 1927/28 to adapt its propaganda to the rural rural population; In 1928 the NSDAP Reich Propaganda Leader Joseph Goebbels spoke at a party rally in Kyritz . From 1928 the members of the Landbund stepped out of this organization and joined the NSDAP, such as the temporary district administrator of the Ostprignitz district and later SS brigad leader Martin Wendt from Zernitz , who was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag from 1933 to 1945 .

Shortly after the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Theodor Calmon fell victim to anti-Semitic violence . The windows of his household goods store were broken and he was forced to leave town in 1935. Two stumbling blocks have been remembering him and his daughter since 2017 . In 1938 the Jewish cemetery was destroyed. At least seven of the city's sons and daughters (Lotti Bieber, Martin Bieber, Henny Goldberg, Albert Löwenberg, Helene Salinger, Else Schueftan and Leopold Stein) were persecuted as Jews and murdered in the Auschwitz , Sobibor and Theresienstadt concentration and extermination camps and in the Riga ghetto . In 1945, 48 Jewish prisoners who were to be transferred by the SS from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to Theresienstadt were killed in an air raid near Kyritz and buried in Zernitz. The Hamburg- born Jewish lawyer Theodor Steigerwald and his wife were hidden by the Dräger family in Kyritz from 1942. After the liberation he was briefly appointed police chief of Kyritz and Ostprignitz.

After 1945: land reform (from 1945), district town (1952), incorporations, district of Ostprignitz-Ruppin (1993)

On September 2, 1945, Wilhelm Pieck announced the land reform in the Gasthof Zum Prignitzer , at that time in the cinema of the Hotel Schwarzer Adler on the market corner (formerly Friedrichstrasse, today Maxim-Gorki-Strasse). This speech "initiated the land reform in the Soviet occupation zone (SBZ) of Germany". “The city of Kyritz was chosen for the rally because there were five to six goods in its vicinity. In September 1945, a total of 65 large farms were managed in the Ostprignitz district, in which Kyritz was located, but often only poorly because of the war losses. ”Their owners were called“ Junkers ”, whose“ quick and ruthless expropriation ”demanded Pieck. Land units with a size of 20 ha and more with employees were already affected. The expropriation of 100 hectares or more was enforced, even with sand farmers, whose land often consisted of wasteland. In the province of Mark Brandenburg 41% of the land went into the hands of a state fund, in the Soviet occupation zone it was 35%. About 30% of the expropriated land later went to the state- owned companies .

In 1952 Kyritz became the district town of the Kyritz district in the Potsdam district (from 1990 in the state of Brandenburg ). The district building, built from 1864 to 1866 and expanded in 1912, remained the seat of the district administration until 1992. Since 1993 it has housed the tax office for the newly formed Ostprignitz-Ruppin district . In 1960 the Heinrichsfelde agricultural airport was founded. The Kyritz Festival with sailing regatta and boat parade took place for the first time in 1970.

On July 1, 1973 Mechow was incorporated. Gantikow joined on May 1, 1974. As a result of the district reform, Kyritz came to the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district with the district town of Neuruppin in 1993 . On December 31, 2002, the communities of Bork- Lellichow , Holzhausen, Kötzlin, Rehfeld-Berlitt and Teetz-Ganz were incorporated. On October 26, 2003, the Kyritz office was dissolved. Drewen was incorporated into the city of Kyritz.

In 2010, the nationwide first memorial was unveiled, dedicated to "the victims of forced collectivization in the so-called Socialist Spring in the GDR". On August 30, 2010, Deutsche Telekom put Germany's first LTE transmission mast into operation in Kyritz .

On September 26, 2018, the city council declared Kyritz a "wolf-free zone".

Population development

year	Residents
1875	4,666
1890	5 086
1910	5 171
1925	5 368
1933	5,782
1939	6 077
1946	8 679
1950	8 962

year	Residents
1964	8 470
1971	9 483
1981	10 137
1985	10 200
1989	10 077
1990	9 927
1991	9 702
1992	9 659
1993	9 845
1994	9 759

year	Residents
1995	9 640
1996	9 658
1997	9 582
1998	9 236
1999	9 193
2000	8 976
2001	8 897
2002	10 343
2003	10 427
2004	10 259

year	Residents
2005	10 158
2006	10 018
2007	9 901
2008	9 793
2009	9 681
2010	9 537
2011	9 303
2012	9 236
2013	9 152
2014	9 140

year	Residents
2015	9 100
2016	9 192
2017	9 375
2018	9 303
2019	9 260

Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31 (from 1991), from 2011 based on the 2011 census

politics

City Council

Local elections 2019

Turnout: 51.0% (2014: 42.1%)

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18.5%

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Remarks:

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^e Kyritz Land voter group

town hall

The city council of Kyritz consists of 18 city councilors and the full-time mayor. Since the local elections on May 26, 2019, the seats have been distributed among the individual parties and voter groups as follows:

Party / group	Seats
CDU	4th
LEFT	4th
Voting group Kyritz makes	3
SPD	3
Kyritz Land Voting Group (KLW)	2
Alliance 90 / The Greens	2

mayor

2003-2010: Hans-Joachim Winter (CDU)
since 2010: Nora Görke (independent, nominated by the SPD)

Görke was confirmed in office for another eight years in the mayoral election on November 4, 2018 with 69.9% of the valid votes.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on July 6, 2005.

Blazon : “In silver, a red city wall with a closed gate and four pointed, gold-knobbed towers with open windows; covered with a green shield with a golden lily ”.

Town twinning

Werne , Germany ( North Rhine-Westphalia )
Svalöv , Sweden
Wałcz , Poland
Bailleul , France

Kyritz is a member of the New Hanseatic League .

Sights and culture

Buildings

The town hall, postcard, around 1900

City parish church of St. Marien , originated in the 12th century, three-aisled Gothic stepped hall from the 15th century, which looks older due to the field stone plinth walls, post-Gothic reconstruction in 1710, historicist redesign in the 19th century. In 1848, a neo-Gothic facade with a double tower was built according to plans by Stüler in place of the burnt down tower .

The organ, built in 1873, comes from Adolf Reubke's organ building workshop in Hausneindorf in the Harz region. It has 40 registers, distributed over 3 manuals and pedal. The dispositional changes that were made over the years could be reversed in 1995 during a general cleaning and partial restoration. The organ is the only Reubke organ still preserved in its size and at the same time the largest romantic organ of the 19th century in the state of Brandenburg.

Church with stepped gable in the Berlitt district (restored with funds from the German Foundation for Monument Protection )
Half-timbered houses No. 28 (plastered), 36 and 44 in Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Straße
City wall , in the 13th / 14th Century built. In the middle of the 18th century, the former 11 meter high wall began to be grinded . It was later rebuilt in the east and south, but a little lower. With the help of the building, an attack by the robber baron Kurt von Bassewitz was successfully repelled in 1381.
former Franciscan monastery Kyritz on Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Straße
Fountain "Bassewitzsage" (by Jan Witte-Kropius) on the market square
Dossespeicher Kyritz , a reservoir built for irrigation
Untersee island opposite the bank of the forest colony on Untersee

Monuments

Schulze-Kersten monument on the church square
Cenotaph from 1955 for the victims of fascism in Rosenpark on Bahnhofstrasse
Monument with a bronze plaque "To the victims of forced collectivization in the so-called socialist spring 1960 in the GDR" on a two meter high boulder. It was unveiled in April 2010 by representatives of the German Farmers' Union in the presence of the Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt, Wolfgang Böhmer .
Memorial stone "Seesteig am Brückenbrink" on the Untersee

Half-timbered house in Bachstrasse 44
Church in the Berlitt district
Town house at Bachstrasse 36
Schulze-Kersten monument on the church square
Memorial stone "Seesteig am Brückenbrink" on the Untersee
"NOTHING" on the market square
Bahnhofstrasse

Economy and Infrastructure

Shamrock composite

The city of Kyritz, the Neustadt (Dosse) office , the Wusterhausen / Dosse municipality and the Gumtow municipality have joined together in a cooperation agreement to form the clover leaf network .

Established businesses

The KMG Klinikum Kyritz is one of the largest employers in the state of Brandenburg.
The starch factory, which today belongs to the Emsland Group , has existed since 1873 .
In June 2009 the Polish AG BIOETON SA founded the new company BEK Bioeton Kyritz GmbH together with the shareholders of the bankrupt BDK Biodiesel GmbH.
Alutrim Europe GmbH is a manufacturer of real metal trim parts for the automotive and consumer goods industries.
REO is a medium-sized specialist for inductive and electronic solutions.
Kyritzer fruit juices is a family business and the oldest cider factory in the Prignitz-Ruppiner Land.

traffic

Kyritz train station

Rail transport

The Kyritz station on the Neustadt – Meyenburg railway line was opened in 1887. It is served hourly on weekdays by the regional train line RB 73 Neustadt (Dosse) - Pritzwalk of the Hanseatic Railway (HANS). Before Kyritz got its own train station, the Zernitz train station, which was closed in 1995, served as a connection to the city on the Berlin – Hamburg line since 1846 .

In the HUB 53/12 ° project, a logistics center for rail freight transport is being set up as a municipal initiative of the cities of Güstrow , Pritzwalk and Neuruppin as well as the Kleeblatt network with Gumtow , Kyritz, Neustadt (Dosse) and Wusterhausen / Dosse . A first measure is the purchase of the Neuruppin - Neustadt (Dosse) rail line.

Bus transport

Kyritz can be reached with a PlusBus and other regional bus routes through the Ostprignitz-Ruppiner local public transport company. City traffic runs almost every hour on weekdays and only between April and October on weekends.

Road traffic

Kyritz is located on federal road 5 between Perleberg and Nauen , on federal road 103 from Pritzwalk , which ends in Kyritz, and on state road L 14 between Wittstock / Dosse and Großderschau .

education

Carl-Diercke-Schule Oberschule Kyritz
Goethe Elementary School Kyritz
High school "Friedrich Ludwig Jahn" Kyritz
Lindenschule Kyritz School with the special educational focus on "learning"

Personalities

Trivia

Kyritz an der Knatter is the hometown of the fictional detective and comic figure Nick Knatterton (actually Nikolaus Freiherr von Knatter) of the comic artist Manfred Schmidt .

Part of the plot of the comedy Pension Schöller by Wilhelm Jacoby and Carl Laufs takes place in Kyritz .

The carnival hit "Today is carnival in Knieritz an der Knatter" by Ernst H. Hilbich supposedly refers to Kyritz, there is no actual place with this name.

literature

Historical Gazetteer Brandenburg - Part 1 - Prignitz - A-M . 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 978-3-88372-032-6 , pp. 460 ff .
Historischer Heimatverein Kyritz und die Ostprignitz eV (ed.): History of the city of Kyritz from the settlement up to 1950. Kyritz, 3rd, revised edition 2012.
City Council of Kyritz, Festival Committee for the 750th Anniversary Celebration, Chronicle Working Group (ed.): City Chronicle. 750 years of the city of Kyritz. Kyritz 1986.
Jürgen Spönemann: Kyritz. Cityscape under slow motion. Bäßler, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-930388-75-2 .
Annett Dittrich, Kerstin Geßner: "Hostes super murum." The medieval gate system in the Holzhausener Strasse of Kyritz, district of Ostprignitz-Ruppin. In: Archeology in Berlin and Brandenburg. 2011, pp. 118–121.
Edeltraud Pawelka, Torsten Foelsch, Rolf Rehberg: Cities of Prignitz. Sutton, Erfurt 2004, pp. 29-40.

Web links

Commons : Kyritz - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Kyritz - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Wikisource: Kiritz in the Topographia Electoratus Brandenburgici et Ducatus Pomeraniae (Matthäus Merian) - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

↑ 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 ).

^ Service portal of the state administration of the state of Brandenburg: City of Kyritz

↑ Antje Reichel: Social and cultural history of the Prignitz , in: Wolf-Dietrich Meyer-Rath: The churches and chapels of the Prignitz , Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2016, p. 8-13, here: p. 8.

↑ André Reichel: History-rich soil reveals more secrets , in: Märkische Allgemeine, June 29, 2019.

^ André Reichel: Grave field under the crossroads , in: Märkische Allgemeine, 23 July 2018.

↑ Antje Reichel: Social and cultural history of Prignitz , in: Wolf-Dietrich Meyer-Rath: The churches and chapels of Prignitz , Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2016, p. 8-13, here: p. 9 f.

^ Adolph Friedrich Johann Riedel : The Mark Brandenburg in 1250 , Part 1, Berlin 1831, p. 227.

^ Sascha Bütow: Streets in the river. Shipping, river use and the long changes in the transport infrastructure in the Mark Brandenburg and Niederlausitz from the 13th to the 16th century , Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2015, p. 226.

↑ Klaus Krüger : On the alliance policy of the city of Havelberg in the late Middle Ages , in: Leonhard Helten (Hrsg.): The Havelberger Dombau and its radiation , Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2012, pp. 45–58, here: p. 45.

↑ Stadtarchäologie (Kyritz, Weberstrasse) .

↑ Hans Gressel: The city of Kyritz. Development, constitution and economy up to the city order 1808/09 , Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Berlin 1939, p. 29.

↑ Klaus Krüger : On the alliance policy of the city of Havelberg in the late Middle Ages , in: Leonhard Helten (Ed.): The Havelberger Dombau and its radiation , Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2012, pp. 45–58, here: p. 52; In 1359 Lenzen was also a Hanseatic city.

↑ Wolf-Dietrich Meyer-Rath: The churches and chapels of the Prignitz. Paths into a Brandenburg cultural landscape , Lukas Verlag, 2016, p. 121.

↑ Edeltraud Pawelka , Torsten Foelsch, Rolf Rehberg: Cities of Prignitz , Sutton, Erfurt 2004, pp. 30, 33.

↑ Hans Gressel: The city of Kyritz. Development, constitution and economy up to the city order 1808/09 , Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Berlin 1939, p. 90.

^ Antje Reichel: Social and cultural history of the Prignitz , in: Wolf-Dietrich Meyer-Rath: The churches and chapels of the Prignitz , Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2016, here: p. 11.

↑ Edeltraud Pawelka, Torsten Foelsch, Rolf Rehberg: Cities of Prignitz , Sutton, Erfurt 2004, p. 30.

↑ Jürgen W. Schmidt : The establishment of a new hospital building in Kyritz 1791 to 1795 , in: Mitteilungen des Verein für Geschichte der Prignitz 12 (2012) 137–143.

↑ Edeltraud Pawelka, Torsten Foelsch, Rolf Rehberg: Cities of Prignitz , Sutton, Erfurt 2004, p. 8.

↑ Edeltraud Pawelka, Torsten Foelsch, Rolf Rehberg: Cities of Prignitz , Sutton, Erfurt 2004, p. 39.

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↑ Edeltraud Pawelka, Torsten Foelsch, Rolf Rehberg: Cities of Prignitz , Sutton, Erfurt 2004, p. 33.

↑ Edeltraud Pawelka, Torsten Foelsch, Rolf Rehberg: Cities of Prignitz , Sutton, Erfurt 2004, p. 40.

^ Rainer Pomp: Farmers and large landowners on their way to the Third Reich. The Brandenburg State Federation 1919-1933 , Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2011, p. 213.

^ Rainer Pomp, farmers and large landowners on their way to the Third Reich. The Brandenburg State Federation 1919-1933 , Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2011, p. 313.

^ Rainer Pomp: Farmers and large landowners on their way to the Third Reich. The Brandenburg State Federation 1919-1933 , Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2011, pp. 199f.

^ Siegfried Kuntsche: Five times Kyritz - a protocol , in: Neues Deutschland , September 3, 2005.

^ Rainer Pomp: Farmers and large landowners on their way to the Third Reich. The Brandenburg State Federation 1919-1933 , Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2011, p. 303.

^ Siegfried Kuntsche: Five times Kyritz - a protocol , in: Neues Deutschland , September 3, 2005.

^ Rainer Pomp: Farmers and large landowners on their way to the Third Reich. The Brandenburg State Federation 1919-1933 , Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2011, p. 302.

^ André Reichel: Commemoration of the Jewish Calmon Family , in: Märkische Allgemeine , November 9, 2017.

↑ Alexander Beckmann, "Stolpersteine" in Prinzenstrasse , in: Märkische Allgemeine , March 15, 2017.

↑ Thomas Kubetzky: Journeys into the Unknown - evacuation transports from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945 , in: Habbo Knoch and Thomas Rahe (eds.): Bergen-Belsen - Neue Forschungen , Wallstein, Göttingen 2014, p. 167 ff.

↑ Matthias Anke: Survived the Nazi era in the Kyritz hiding place , in: Märkische Allgemeine , 09.05.2019

^ Wilhelm Pieck : Junkerland in peasant hands. Speech on democratic land reform, Kyritz, Sept. 2, 1945 . Published by the Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin Institute at the Central Committee of the SED. Dietz, Berlin 1955, again in: Arnd Bauerkämper: 100 key sources on the history of Berlin, Brandenburg and Prussia. Source: »Junkerland in peasant hands« - Speech Wilhelm Pieck in Kyritz 1945 , pp. 2, 7 ( PDF ).

↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .

↑ Changes in the municipalities of Germany, see the corresponding years of the StBA.

^ Jens Blankennagel: Memorial reminds of LPG compulsion , In: Berliner Zeitung , March 2, 2010

↑ The city wants to be a "wolf-free zone". Retrieved September 28, 2018 .

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