Great Behnitz

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Great Behnitz
City of Nauen
Coordinates: 52 ° 34 ′ 46 ″  N , 12 ° 43 ′ 55 ″  E
Height : 37 m
Residents : 563  (Dec. 31, 2002)
Incorporation : October 26, 2003
Postal code : 14641
Area code : 033239
Estate of the Stobers, formerly the estate of the Borsigs

United Behnitz is a district of the town of Nauen in the district Havelland the country Brandenburg .

geography

The district of Groß Behnitz is located southwest of Nauen on the east bank of the Groß Behnitzer See, which was formed in the Ice Age Beetzseerinne .

history

Groß Behnitz was first mentioned in a document in 1173 . The place was in the changing ownership of various nobles and was finally used extensively for agriculture under the Counts of Itzenplitz .

Gut Groß Behnitz

Gut Groß Behnitz around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection
Former distillery on the Groß Behnitz estate
Lodging house

Peter Alexander von Itzenplitz (1768–1834), district administrator of the Havelland district, had a manor house built above the Groß Behnitzer See around 1800 . In 1866, after mismanagement and indebtedness , the estate was sold to Albert Borsig (1829–1878), the son of August Borsig (1804–1854). Under his leadership, an extensive ensemble of brick structures and a model agricultural operation with the most modern technologies emerged, which in 1923 reached a size of 2,700  hectares .

The baroque manor (Dorfstraße 24) included two tower houses in the Italianized villa style of the 1870s used as farm buildings, the distillery consisting of two buildings and a chimney (with iron lattice windows and columns), the forge with a house and workshop as well as stables with a workers' house. The entrance is a two-winged, wrought-iron gate, the red brick pillars of which bear the early classicist emblems of the former Oranienburg Gate by Carl von Gontard . Albert Borsig had them brought from Berlin to Groß Behnitz in 1867/1868 after the gate of the Berlin customs wall was torn down.

Both Albert Borsig and his grandson Ernst Borsig (1869–1933), as members of the Dendrological Society, were interested in botany and enriched the park with valuable and rare trees and plants.

Ernst von Borsig junior (1906–1945) took over the estate from his father in 1933 and ran it until the end of the Second World War . He joined the Kreisau Circle , which met several times on the estate during the war.

The Groß Behnitz manor house was demolished in 1946/1947 after a roof fire. The Agricultural Production Cooperative (LPG) used the rest of the estate until 1990, after which it was finally neglected. Since then, the preservation authorities have been trying to preserve the buildings.

In 2000, an investor acquired part of the von Borsig family's former estate and established an economic use in the form of a hotel business aimed at cultural tourism .

Military history

From October 7, 1969 to October 7, 1986, the NVA barracks of Missile  Department 1 (abbr .: RA-1) was located in Groß Behnitz . These barracks bore the honorary name Rudi Arndt and the cover name Ogarok (German spelling of the Russian word Огарок = "candle stub "). The Missile Department 1 was subordinate to the 1st Mot.-Rifle Division (abbr .: 1. MSD) in Potsdam-Eiche , which had the cover name Morena (German spelling of the Russian word Морена = "moraine").

Incorporation

On October 26, 2003, Groß Behnitz was incorporated into Nauen.

politics

The honorary mayor and member of the city council of Nauen is Wolfgang Jung (LWN).
(Status: local election on September 28, 2008)

Culture and sights

Burial place of the industrial family Borsig

Church with the burial place of the Borsigs

Behind the village church there is a grave complex built for the family from 1866 (with the graves of Albert Borsig and Ernst von Borsig , who was ennobled in 1909 , 1869–1933). In 2003/04 the morgue built in 1922 was restored after a storm caused an old oak tree to fall on it. The financing included a. a donation from a Munich-based member of the von Borsig family and funds from the German Foundation for Monument Protection .

Train station with a classical reception building

The train station, built in the 1870s, has a classicist reception building, goods shed, water tower, line keeper's house and signal box. The station was on the rail link planned in the 1860s from Hanover to Berlin , which was run via Groß Behnitz on the basis of a donation from the Borsig family (15.5  hectares of land and 10,000 talers).

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the district

Associated with Groß Behnitz

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Gotthilf Frosch (1776–1834), preacher and country school reformer in Groß Behnitz from 1814 to 1825
  • Ernst von Borsig junior (1906–1945), from 1933 to 1945 landlord at Gut Groß Behnitz, resistance fighter against National Socialism, member of the Kreisau Circle

Web links

Commons : Groß Behnitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens Wegener: The estate in Groß Behnitz is now called Stober . Published on December 18, 2015 in Märkische Allgemeine . Accessed December 31, 2015.
  2. ^ A b Martin Rink, Rüdiger Wenzke: location database of the National People's Army, the border troops of the GDR and the Soviet (Russian) armed forces in the GDR. Military History Research Office, accessed on June 17, 2016 ( online , search terms → district: Potsdam, location: Groß Behnitz).
  3. ↑ Martin Rink, Rüdiger Wenzke: Location database of the National People's Army, the border troops of the GDR and the Soviet (Russian) armed forces in the GDR. Military History Research Office, accessed on June 18, 2016 ( online , search terms → Abbreviation: MSD, District: Potsdam).
  4. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003