Lüsse (Bad Belzig)

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Feldsteinkirche Lüsse, 13th century

The village of Lüsse is a district of the district town of Bad Belzig in the Brandenburg district of Potsdam-Mittelmark . The place is in the nature park Hoher Fläming . Its area is seven square kilometers, on which 136 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011) live.

The village has one of the most impressive medieval stone churches in Hohen Fläming . The building with retracted choir and apse dates from the first half of the 13th century. Also noteworthy is the Lüsse glider airfield , which has developed into one of the most popular places for glider flying in recent years due to its excellent thermals and was the venue for the world championship in this sport in 2008.

Location and natural space

Baitzer Bach on the outskirts
Meadow near Lüsse

Lüsse is located in Belziger Vorfläming around four kilometers east of Bad Belzig on the federal highway 246 . The neighboring village of Neschholz follows three kilometers to the west on the same road , which, like its southern neighbor Kuhlowitz, also belongs to Bad Belzig. The Baitzer Bach rises in the Kuhlowitz district , which is a good two kilometers away, and flows past Lüsse down the valley to the northern neighboring village of Baitz and near the Belziger landscape meadows into the Glogau-Baruther glacial valley. In the glacial valley, the near-natural and partially natural river flows into the Belziger / Fredersdorfer Bach, which in turn feeds its water over the tarpaulin and Havel to the Elbe .

In the Middle Ages, the Baitzer Bach represented a swampy lowland, which is now drained. The village begins on the eastern bank of the stream below the wooded Heideberg (96 m), on the eastern slope of which a forest path leads from Lüsse to Baitz. Halfway along the pine-lined path was the Wiesenau desert , the name of which is reminiscent of the former and now privatized forester's house Wiesenau. The desert was part of the Baitz district.

Story, name

Watermill

The name of the village may be reminiscent of the former swampy and lake-rich surroundings. Because the original Slavic name Luzov could mean a place where there are puddles or pools . The origin of Luza = Seedorf is also possible . Reinhard E. Fischer , however, considers an etymological derivation from the personal name Lusov to be more likely. The first written mention can be found in a document from 1251 in which a Wilhelmus de Lusowe is listed as a witness in Belzig. Another indirect document from 1251 records a hynricus plebanus in Lusowe .

In 1387 Frau von Thümen received the village of Lüsse with all rights as a property. The von Thümen family was one of the most influential medieval families in the region. She sat mainly in the triangle between Nuthe , Nieplitz and the village of Gröben , what Fontane called Thümenschen Winkel . Although the village went to the Bailiwick of Belzig in 1426 and later to the Raben office , the family retained a proportion of the income from Lüsse until 1822, most recently the uplifts from a farm. Like Lüsse and the Belzig region, the Thümensche Winkel was also Saxon until the Congress of Vienna in 1815 . In addition to the von Thümens, the von Oppen family was entitled to payments from Lüsse. This old aristocratic family from Brandenburg was resident in the Belziger area for centuries and has maintained the representative manor of Oppen in Fredersdorf since 1719 .

Steeple

Records from 1591 name 24 hooves, including parish hooves , for the village . There were also six hooves from the deserted village of Seedoche.

Incorporation

Lüsse was incorporated into (Bad) Belzig on December 31, 2002.

Feldsteinkirche Lüsse

The village church of Lüsse is a well-preserved Romanesque hall church made of field stone masonry from the first half of the 13th century. It shows the characteristic staggering of the choir, nave and tower components and shapes the townscape. Inside there is an altarpiece from the end of the 17th century.

Lüsse Special Airfield (EDOJ)

To the south-east of the village is the special Lüsse landing site , which is primarily used for glider operations. Excellent thermal flight conditions have enabled various large flights and even some flights over 1,000 kilometers. The approximately 1,100 meter long runways on grass stretch from Kuhlowitz to the southwest of Neschholz.

Personalities

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Theo Engeser and Konstanze Stehr, Ev. Lüsse village church online
  2. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2002
  3. ↑ Kerstin Henseke, Lautlos von Wolke zu Wolke , MaerkischeAllgemeine.de of August 10, 2005.

literature

  • Reinhard E. Fischer, Brandenburg name book. Part 2. The place names of the Belzig district , Böhlau Verlag 1970, quoted from Engerser / Stehr p. 2
  • Theodor Fontane, Walks through the Mark Brandenburg . Part 4. Spreeland. Based on the edition of Ullstein Verlag 1998, Frankfurt / M., Berlin. ISBN 3-548-24381-9 For the “Thümenschen Winkel” see introduction to the chapter “Blankensee”, page 456 of the mentioned edition

Web links

Commons : Lüsse  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Romanesque routes in Berlin and Brandenburg - Dorfkirche Lüsse

Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′  N , 12 ° 39 ′  E