Lenzen (Elbe)
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Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ' N , 11 ° 28' E |
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| State : | Brandenburg | |
| County : | Prignitz | |
| Office : | Lenzen-Elbtalaue | |
| Height : | 19 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 96.19 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 2071 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 22 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 19309 | |
| Area code : | 038792 | |
| License plate : | PR | |
| Community key : | 12 0 70 244 | |
| LOCODE : | DE LEZ | |
| City structure: | 9 districts | |
| Office administration address: | Kellerstraße 4 19307 Lenzen (Elbe) |
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| Mayor : | Thomas Cheek | |
| Location of the city of Lenzen (Elbe) in the Prignitz district | ||
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Lenzen (Elbe) is a town in the Prignitz district in the state of Brandenburg . It is the seat of the Lenzen-Elbtalaue office , which also includes the municipalities of Cumlosen , Lanz and Lenzerwische .
geography
The city is located in the extreme northwest of Brandenburg on the border with Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Lower Saxony between the biosphere reserves Elbe-Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Elbe-Brandenburg river landscape . In the urban area the Alte Elde flows into the Löcknitz . The Elbe flows along the southern city limits. To the northeast of the city lies the Rudower See , which is fed by the Nausdorfer Canal , among other things , and flows into the Löcknitz via a drain in the southwest (the so-called “flood”).
- landscape
City structure
The following nine inhabited districts belong to Lenzen (Elbe):
In addition, there are six places to live in the town: Alt Eldenburg , Klein Sterbitz , Leuengarten , Rudow , Sterbitz and Ziegelhof .
history
Slavic inhabitants settled in the area around Lenzen since the 7th century. In the 9th century the Linon tribe was mentioned several times in Saxon texts . Lenzen ( Lunzini ) castle was first mentioned in September 929 , when Saxon troops under the leadership of Count Thietmar and legate Bernhard conquered the castle in the Battle of Lenzen . Since 983 it was again under Slavic control after the Slavic uprising. The Abodrite Prince Gottschalk founded one of the first monasteries east of the Elbe there in the 11th century . In 1066 he was murdered in Lenzen,
Since the late 12th century at the latest, the castle has been the center of a land of Lenzen ( terra ), a small dominant and administrative unit. A stone castle tower was built around 1200. Since 1219 the area was owned by the Margraves of Brandenburg . It was lent first to the Counts of Schwerin , then to those of Dannenberg . In 1227 the Danish king Waldemar II was imprisoned in the castle. Around 1237 the settlement was by Margrave Otto III. various privileges, such as the Salzwedel town charter.
In 1319 the castle and the land of Lenzen went to the bishop of Havelberg , after which the owners changed several times. In 1382 the von Quitzow family first acquired the castle, which they used as a starting point for raids into the area. A stone city wall was built around 1400. Since 1484, Lenzen has been the seat of an official governor of the Electorate of Brandenburg .
Tragic events were u. a. Major fires in 1558 and 1703, which almost completely destroyed the city, waves of plague between 1566 and 1638, which killed around 2000 people, and the Thirty Years' War with equally high human and material losses. After the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, Lenzen became an important traffic junction for the postal routes between Berlin and Hamburg ("Alte Hamburger Poststrasse") and Magdeburg-Hamburg, which met in Lenzen.
In 1651 the Dutch admiral Arnold Gijsels van Lier (1593–1676) was appointed bailiff in Lenzen , who was too high for his achievements in dyke building, the creation of order and cleanliness, the anti- witch burns and the introduction of regular school visits for the children of the official villages Honor came.
The Lenzen office was a royal Prussian domain office. In 1719 the elector added the rule of Eldenburg , which had been withdrawn from the von Quitzow family . In 1769 the official seat was moved from Lenzen Castle to Eldenburg Castle and the office was renamed Amt Eldenburg . In 1872 the office was dissolved.
In 1807/08, the Lenzen post office gained great importance due to its location on the border with Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Hanover . The city's economic role was largely forfeited from 1819 to 1828 when the water tariff was relocated to Wittenberge and the land tariff to the Chaussee between Berlin and Hamburg, today's B 5 . Lenzen had belonged to the Westprignitz district in the Prussian province of Brandenburg since 1817 . In 1874 Lenzen received a rail connection on the Wittenberge – Buchholz line , which was no longer served in 1945 due to the destruction of the Dömitz Elbe bridge . In 1948, the tracks on the East German side were dismantled and taken to the Soviet Union as reparations .
With the dissolution of the states in the Soviet occupation zone , Lenzen came to the Ludwigslust district in the Schwerin district in 1952 . In June 1952 and after the Wall was built in 1961, numerous families, including business people, small craftsmen and farmers, were forcibly evacuated from Lenzen within a few hours. From 1961 the border installations on the inner-German border were continuously expanded. All residents received a note in their identity cards every six months; non-residents could only reach the city via the access roads blocked with barriers after having applied for and approved a pass . Authorization was usually only given to first-degree relatives. Since September 1, 1972, the city of Lenzen was no longer part of the restricted area .
On June 25, 1969, there was a serious gas explosion in a natural gas well near Lenzen, in which one man died and six were seriously injured, whereupon these wells were stopped.
After the borders were opened in 1989, a provisional ferry service was set up across the Elbe with a bus connection to Gartow. It was not until the fall of the Wall in 1990 that the ferry connection to Pevestorf was reestablished, making it possible to cross the Elbe. Lenzen now belonged to the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
After a referendum held in 1991 , the city and the surrounding communities came back to the State of Brandenburg on August 1, 1992, as they had been before 1952, and were incorporated into the Perleberg district, before it became part of the new district on December 6, 1993 as part of the Brandenburg district reform Prignitz rose.
Lenzen is a member of the “Cities with Historic Town Centers” working group of the state of Brandenburg . The old town has been gradually renovated since 1995.
Due to its location on the Elbe, the city has often had to fight floods in its history. Until recently, the “ Böse Ort ” was a critical section of the dike during the Elbe floods in 2002 . The river makes an arc of about 90 ° at this previous bottleneck, so that the water pressure was not on the side of the dike, but on the front. From September 2005 to August 2009 the dike was moved further into the hinterland, giving the Elbe 430 hectares more floodplain and creating alluvial forests .
- Incorporations
Bäckern came to Lenzen on July 1, 1961. Gandow followed on July 22, 1965. Nausdorf was incorporated on April 1, 1971. The places Eldenburg and Mellen were incorporated into Lenzen (Elbe) on October 26, 2003.
Village church in Mellen
Large stone grave in Mellen
Listed homestead in Seedorf
Kastanienallee in Breetz
Entrance to Breetz
Population development
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Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31 (from 1991), from 2011 based on the 2011 census
politics
City Council
The city council assembly of the city of Lenzen consists of 12 city councilors and the honorary mayor:
| Party / group of voters | Seats |
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| Citizens for citizens Lenzen | 4th |
| CDU | 4th |
| SPD | 1 |
| Free voters - New Lenzen | 1 |
| Individual applicant Torsten Wagner | 1 |
| Single applicant Sabine Döpel | 1 |
(As of: local election on May 26, 2019 )
mayor
- 1998–2003: Sabine Kühn (SPD)
- 2003–2019: Christian Steinkopf (CDU)
- since 2019: Thomas Wange (Citizen for Citizen Lenzen)
Wange was elected in the mayoral election on May 26, 2019 with 61.5% of the valid votes for a term of five years.
Town or municipality partnerships
Attractions
Hauptwache with town hall
The first town house in Lenzen fell victim to the city fire of 1558. It was said that "... all documenta and obligationibus were completely corrupted and turned to ashes" . The newly built town halls were also destroyed in the town fires of 1652 and 1703. Today's town hall was built in 1713 “more graceful than before” . Around 1756 a tower clock was commissioned, which as a special feature only has one hand that only shows the hours. (See: Rathausuhr in Lenzen ). In 1994 the building was extensively renovated.
Town hall and one-hand clock
Blunt tower
The Stumpfe Turm, on which the remains of the 3 to 4 meter high city wall, which consisted of field and brick, can still be seen, was the gate tower of the Bergtor, one of the Lenzen city gates. At this and the other gates, the Sea Gate and the Heath Gate, customs were levied. The Blunt Tower was reached via two bridges, across the flood and the moat, each with a front gate and drawbridge . An iron cubit used to be attached to the tower as a measure of length in the city. The city gate was locked at night. From 1700 the city walls fell into disrepair and the mountain gate was demolished in 1758. After the roof of the tower collapsed, the tower was called the Blunt Tower . The Blunt Tower was built on an octagonal plan as a round tower. The two other city gates of the city fortifications, See- and Heidetor, no longer exist.
Prussian postal milestone
The Prussian post milestone on the old Hamburg Poststrasse was built on the market square in 1803/04. This is where the main postal rates from Berlin to Lenzen and from Magdeburg to Lenzen met. The main mail course from Lenzen to Hamburg was run jointly. The milestones showed the postilion and travelers the distance of one Prussian mile. A Prussian mile was 7.53248 kilometers. The transport of people and mail was calculated according to miles.
Lenzen Castle
The castle dates from the beginning of the 2nd millennium. It was expanded during the baroque period . During the GDR era, a veterans home was housed here. It was donated by the last owner to the nature conservation organization BUND and is now a museum, hotel, conference and visitor center. The 24 m high castle tower houses the exhibition and can be climbed as a lookout tower .
Figure group Lenzener fools freedom
On the Burgplatz at the entrance to Lenzen Castle stands the group of figures with bronze figures depicting the city's history of Lenzener Fools' Freedom by the painter and sculptor Bernd Streiter (* 1962). Events are represented with seven scenes: Eulenspiegel, dung in the alleys, the art of writing, architecture, Sunday rest, jurisdiction and floods.
Other structures
- St. Katharinen Church with a on Hans Scherer d. J. , completed by Arp Schnitger in 1708 and rebuilt by Gottlieb Scholtze after severe damage in 1759 using the preserved parts
- Old sexton's house
- Great stone grave of Mellen
- Former border tower at the harbor southwest of the city, which is used as a lookout tower
traffic
The federal highway 195 runs through Lenzen between Dömitz and Wittenberge . The state road L 13 connects Lenzen with Karstädt . An Elbe ferry runs between Lenzen and Pevestorf in Lower Saxony and offers the possibility of crossing the river on the bridge-free section between Dömitz and Wittenberge.
Thanks to the ARGE prignitzbus, Lenzen can be reached with a PlusBus and other regional bus routes.
The Wittenberge-Buchholz railway and thus the station Lenzen (Elbe) have been shut down since the 1947th
Regular events
- Annually during Mardi Gras: Session carnival of the Lenz Carnival Association in several sessions.
sons and daughters of the town
- Caspar Movius (1610–1671), church musician and composer
- Samuel Stryk (1640-1710), lawyer
- Johann Friedrich Wedding (1759–1830), metallurgical director, born in Seedorf
- Elise Lensing (1804–1854), patroness, friend and later mistress of Christian Friedrich Hebbel
- Hermann Graebke (1833–1909), local writer
- Ernst Breest (1843–1918), Protestant clergyman and theologian
- Walrab Freiherr von Wangenheim (1884–1947), politician (DHP, NLP), born in Eldenburg
- Thea Woost (1931–2012), politician (SPD), member of the Hamburg Parliament
- Beate Meffert (* 1947), computer scientist and university professor
- Caterina Muth (* 1958), politician (Die Linke)
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. 495 ff .
- Lutz Mohr : The battle of Lenzen 929th Germans against Slavs . In: Carbuncles Combat. The annual special on military history… Wald-Michelbach No. 3/2007, pp. 6–7.
Web links
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 Brandenburg. City of Lenzen (Elbe) municipality
- ↑ Susanne Schrammar: Gorleben salt dome: Warning of new risks on dradio.de from September 20, 2010, accessed on March 20, 2011
- ↑ 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
- ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003
- ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Prignitz district . Pp. 22-25
- ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2017 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
- ^ 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)
- ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
- ↑ Results of the local elections in 1998 (mayoral elections) for the district of Prignitz ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Local elections October 26, 2003. Mayoral elections , p. 31
- ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)
- ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 16, 2019
- ^ City of Lenzen (Elbe) (ed.): Silent city guide. Lenzen (Elbe) in twenty stations. Prospectus, 4th edition 2014.
- ^ City of Lenzen (Elbe) (ed.): Silent city guide. Lenzen (Elbe) in twenty stations. Prospectus, 4th edition 2014.
- ↑ Lenzen (Elbe): Prussian post milestone on the market square. Plaque.
- ↑ Burg Lenzen ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Prignitz eV tourism association
- ↑ City of Lenzen (Elbe) (Ed.): The Lenzener fool freedom. Prospectus 2010.
- ↑ The Lenzen Organ on nomine.net
- ↑ Lenzen-Prevestorf on the website of the BUND project office Green Belt
- ↑ Kerstin Beck: 70 years and not a bit quiet. In: "Märkische Allgemeine", January 14, 2018.
Parts of the municipality: bakers | Breetz | Eldenburg | Gandow | Mellen | Bog | Nausdorf | Rambov | Seedorf - Places: Alt Eldenburg | Klein Sterbitz | Leuengarten | Rudow | Death | Brick yard
Bad Wilsnack | Mountains | Breese | Cumlosen | Gerdshagen | Groß Pankow (Prignitz) | Gülitz-Reetz | Gumtow | Halenbeck-Rohlsdorf | Karstädt | Kümmernitztal | Lanz | Legde / Quitzöbel | Lenzen (Elbe) | Lenten wipes | Marienfließ | Meyenburg | Perleberg | Pirov | Plattenburg | Pritzwalk | Putlitz | Rühstädt | Triglitz | Wise men | Wittenberg