Lütte (Bad Belzig)

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The village of Lütte is a district of the district town of Bad Belzig in the Brandenburg district of Potsdam-Mittelmark on the edge of the bustard protection area Belziger Landschaftswiesen .

The place has one of the so-called Schinkel normal churches from 1840, which were built in rural areas of Prussia in the first half of the 19th century to save costs with minor deviations. In addition, the place on the western edge of the Baruther glacial valley is characterized by its scenic location directly below the slope of the terminal moraine landscape of the Hohe Fläming .

Old barn in Lütte

General data

The village with 455 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011) is about six kilometers north of the core town of Bad Belzig. It belongs to the Hoher Fläming Nature Park and is connected to the road network by the federal highway 102 . Neighboring villages are Dippmannsdorf in the north and Schwanebeck in the south , which as districts also belong to Bad Belzig and are located on the same tree-lined avenue . The Bundesstraße 102 is here and over long stretches of the Deutsche Alleenstraße .

Signpost in Lütte

There are no connections to localities to the east, as the adjacent landscape meadows are free of settlement. Beyond the glacial valley on the edge of the Zauche , the village of Freienthal from the municipality of Planebruch is around eight kilometers away . To the southeast, in the immediate vicinity, after about three kilometers, follows the district of Fredersdorf , which pushes itself on the edge of a small forest area deep into the Belziger landscape meadows and thus into the glacial valley. Even to the west up the Fläming, the area around Lütte remains free of settlements for a long time, until the Werbig district follows after around ten kilometers . The geographical center of the GDR was halfway along the Verlorenwasser, just behind the refuge in Weitzgrund .

At the edge of the village there is a disused station of the single-track Brandenburg city railway , which between 1904 and 1962 connected Treuenbrietzen via Belzig and Rathenow with Neustadt (Dosse) . Trains running on the section between Belzig and Brandenburg an der Havel stopped in Lütte for another 38 years . This section of the route was discontinued on December 14, 2003.

Incorporation

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

Gallows Mountain

Fläming sand and glacial valley panorama

Typical Flämingweg , here to the Galgenberg
View from the mountain
On the gallows mountain

The path from Lütte (approx. 45 meters above sea level) up to the 118 meter high Galgenberg conveys a typical picture of the sandy, gentle hill waves in the Hoher Fläming Nature Park and its light mixed oak and pine forests, which are supplemented by beech forests on the higher precipitation levels. The mountain lies close to the slope and offers a view over the barren grassland of the landscape meadows in the glacial valley with streams glistening in the sun and dead-straight melioration ditches , which are occasionally interspersed with green kinks and, depending on the season and the type of cultivation, brown, deep green or bright yellow arable fields Pasture areas are interrupted. Field mosaics with alternating strips of grain, peas, lupins, rapeseed, clover and potatoes, which are contractually stipulated in the nature conservation ordinance Belziger Landschaftswiesen of May 24, 2005, in particular for the protection of the great bustard ( Otis tarda ), provide a loosening up of the image .

The view over the approximately eight kilometers wide valley opens up an idea of ​​the enormous meltwater flow of the gradually fading Vistula Ice Age , which cut out towering terrain such as the Galgenberg on the northern slope of the Fläming around 21,000 years ago. While the Hohe Fläming is still part of the old moraine landscape of the Saale Ice Age , the lowlands within the glacial valley already belong to the young moraine region of the Vistula Ice Age , the inland ice of which reached its maximum extent to the south in the valley. Today the Temnitz and the Plane cross this part of the glacial valley, while the Temnitz absorbs the waters of the Fläming slopes, which reach the Elbe via the Plane and the Havel . Approximately two kilometers north of the Galgenberg follows above the neighboring village the natural monument Dippmansdorfer paradise , a through-way, bridges, dams and bridges serviced source region 32 seepage (Helokrene) on the Flaming slope.

This is how the farmers in Lütte judge

Until the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the glacial valley formed the border between the Kingdom of Saxony and the Mark Brandenburg . The Flämingdörfer and thus also the Lütter were Saxon. In their capital Dresden there is said to have been a picture of the two delinquents who named the mountain after the legend and hung there on the gallows: the shepherd von Lütte and his dog. The shepherd had herd driven onto the forbidden slopes of the Witches Mountain, where the sheep promptly perished in a damp clover field. The angry peasants then erected the gallows and - first of all - hung up the shepherd. The dog followed after sitting by the corpse of its master day and night and howling and could not be removed from there. However, since the killing of a dog was considered a serious crime at the time, the farmers were allegedly imprisoned for killing the innocent animal. According to Jan Feustel's description , the missing picture in Dresden bore the line of text according to matching chronicles: This is how the farmers in Lütte judge.

Schinkel's model church

A picture from the very highest point

Since their financial resources were limited, the Lütter resorted to the so-called normal Schinkel church for the necessary new construction of their now listed church in 1840 , which was built in the arch style in rural areas of Prussia and smaller towns to save costs according to a general template by Karl Friedrich Schinkel . The Flämingdörflers laid out the cemetery around their simple, economical classicistic arched structure .

Village church from 1840: Schinkel's normal church

While the villages and communities were usually only able to allow themselves minor deviations in the buildings during construction, there were clear differences in the originally just as Prussian simple furnishings over time. As soon as they were able to do so, some villages equipped their places of worship with a magnificent winged altar, for example . The Lütter were very lucky with the equipment, because according to Jan Feustel they received a special showpiece on the highest instructions , a picture from the Berlin museum magazine [...], an Italian »birth of Christ« from the 16th century.

Patriotic village pastor

With the gift, the “highest point” expressed its gratitude for a patriotic address that the village pastor had given in 1863 on the 50th anniversary of the Hagelberg Battle and which His Majesty had heard. On the Hagelberg , which is about five kilometers west of Bad Belzig, the highest elevation in Fläming and also within the North German Plain , the old and new Hagelberg memorials commemorate this battle of August 27, 1813, in which Prussian troops with Russian support Trouble of the Napoleon- friendly Belziger attacked a French bivouac camp that they had come across by accident.

Personalities

The music group of the Leisegang siblings, which began in 1979 as a combo and has been known as the germination time since 1982, was in the 543-strong village of Lütte .

swell

  • Various information on the landscape and history are based on the information boards of the nature park administration ( Hoher Fläming nature park ) in Dippmannsdorf.

literature

  • Jan Feustel : Between watermills and swamp forests. A travel and adventure guide to the Baruther Urstromtal , Hendrik Bäßler Verlag, Berlin 1999 ISBN 3-930388-11-1 , to the Galgenberg / quote page 157, to the church / quote page 160
  • Peter Schmidt: One church for all provinces - Schinkel's normal church in "arch style" , in Die Mark Brandenburg Heft 42, Berlin 2001. ISSN  0939-3676

Web links

Commons : Lütte  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2002

Coordinates: 52 ° 12 '  N , 12 ° 36'  E