Legde / Quitzöbel

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Legde / Quitzöbel
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Legde / Quitzöbel highlighted

Coordinates: 52 ° 55 '  N , 11 ° 58'  E

Basic data
State : Brandenburg
County : Prignitz
Office : Bad Wilsnack / Weisen
Height : 24 m above sea level NHN
Area : 41.74 km 2
Residents: 601 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 14 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 19336
Area code : 038791
License plate : PR
Community key : 12 0 70 241
Office administration address: Am Markt 1
19336 Bad Wilsnack
Website : www.amt-badwilsnack-weise.de
Mayor : Wolfgang Milstrey ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Legde / Quitzöbel in the Prignitz district
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The municipality of Legde / Quitzöbel is located in the Prignitz district in the state of Brandenburg . It is administered by the Bad Wilsnack / Weisen office.

geography

Legde / Quitzöbel is located south of Bad Wilsnack on the Elbe , north of the state border with Saxony-Anhalt .

Community structure

Legde / Quitzöbel includes the inhabited parts of the municipality Legde, Lennewitz, Quitzöbel and Roddan as well as the residential area Wehrwarthaus.

history

Legde / Quitzöbel was created on March 31, 2002 from the voluntary amalgamation of the previously independent municipalities of Legde and Quitzöbel.

Legde and Quitzöbel belonged to the Westprignitz district in the province of Brandenburg since 1817 and to the Perleberg district in the GDR district of Schwerin from 1952 . Both places have been in the Brandenburg district of Prignitz since 1993.

Legde

Church in Legde

In the first historical mention in 1274 Legde is mentioned in connection with a border dispute between Legde and Roddan.

Lennewitz

The first written mention of Lennewitz comes from 1310 as Leneuiz . The name is Slavic and is derived from the personal name Len , which means slacker .

Quitzöbel

Quitzöbel was the ancestral seat of the von Quitzow family from Brandenburg . The first written mention as Quitzhovel comes from 1310. The Middle Low German name means Quitzow's hill . In the 17th century the place became the property of von Bülow . Later, the von Gansauge and then von Jagow families became owners of the settlement.

On 6./7. In March 1830, Quitzöbel, Legde and Lennewitz were completely flooded after several dam breaks on the Elbe caused by ice drifts and ice jams. The damage was considerable.

On February 1, 1974 Quitzöbel was incorporated into Legde. On May 1, 1990, the place became an independent municipality again.

Quitzöbel Castle , built in 1754, was mentioned by Theodor Fontane in his work Five Castles . The castle still exists today and was first expropriated after 1945 and then given various uses, including a. as a school and apprentice dormitory. It was empty after 1990 and has been privately owned since 1999.

Population development

year Legde Quitzöbel year Legde /
Quitzöbel
year Legde /
Quitzöbel
1875 515 659 2002 756 2018 608
1910 421 561 2005 721 2019 601
1939 450 616 2010 656
1946 673 749 2011 634
1950 642 763 2012 623
1971 454 458 2013 606
1990 583 343 2014 625
1995 536 323 2015 619
2000 472 303 2016 595
2001 452 299 2017 604

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

politics

Community representation

The Legde / Quitzöbel municipal council consists of eight municipal representatives and the honorary mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Party / group of voters Seats
Legde-Quitzöbel free voter group 6th
Individual applicant Stephan Frank 1
AfD 1

mayor

  • 2003–2014: Wolfgang Milstrey (CDU)
  • since 2014–2019: Hartmut Zippel (Free Voting Group Legde-Quitzöbel)
  • since 2019: Wolfgang Milstrey (CDU)

Milstrey was elected in the mayoral election on May 26, 2019 with 52.8% of the valid votes for a term of five years.

Quitzow monument in Legde for Dietrich von Quitzow, who was slain here in 1593

Attractions

  • Church and rectory in Ledge
  • Quitzow monument in Legde, under the monument the horse is said to have been buried by Mr. von Quitzow
  • Church in Lennewitz (built in 1909 in Art Nouveau style), the plans came from the Berlin architect Georg Büttner , the decorations from the art painting company Otto Linnemann from Frankfurt am Main .
  • Brick church in Quitzöbel, built at the beginning of the 16th century

See also: List of architectural monuments in Legde / Quitzöbel

Economy and Infrastructure

The building materials industrialist Kurt Glass has been running a wellness hotel in Legde since the 1990s.

traffic

Legde / Quitzöbel is located on the L 10 state road between Bad Wilsnack and Havelberg .

Personalities

literature

Web links

Commons : Legde / Quitzöbel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. 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 ).
  2. ^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. Legde / Quitzöbel municipality
  3. StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2002
  4. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Potsdam and the City of Berlin, year 1830, 14th issue of April 2, 1830, p. 67 online at Google Books
  5. Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
  6. Erik Lorenz , Robert Rauh : Quitzöbel. The ruined castle , in: Fontane's five castles. Old and new stories from the Mark Brandenburg. be.bra verlag 2017, pp. 180–226.
  7. Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Prignitz district . Pp. 22-25
  8. Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2017 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
  9. ^ Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.): Statistical report AI 7, A II 3, A III 3. Population development and population status in the state of Brandenburg (respective editions of the month of December)
  10. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
  11. Local elections October 26, 2003. Mayoral elections , p. 31
  12. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 25, 2014
  13. Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)
  14. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019
  15. Märkische Oderzeitung , October 13, 2006, p. 9
  16. Märkische Oderzeitung , 14./15. Oct. 2006, p. 11