Letschin

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Coat of arms of the Letschin municipality
Letschin
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Letschin highlighted

Coordinates: 52 ° 38 '  N , 14 ° 22'  E

Basic data
State : Brandenburg
County : Märkisch-Oderland
Height : 8 m above sea level NHN
Area : 142.21 km 2
Residents: 3975 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 28 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 15324
Primaries : 033475, 033478 (Groß Neuendorf, Ortwig), 033473 (Sophienthal)Template: Infobox municipality in Germany / maintenance / area code contains text
License plate : MOL, FRW, SEE, SRB
Community key : 12 0 64 274
LOCODE : DE LTX
Community structure: 10 districts
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Bahnhofstrasse 30a
15324 Letschin
Website : www.letschin.de
Mayor : Michael Böttcher (Free Voting Association Letschin)
Location of the municipality Letschin in the district of Märkisch-Oderland
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Letschin is a municipality in the Märkisch-Oderland district in Brandenburg . Today's municipality was created in 2003 through the merger of eleven formerly independent municipalities that had already merged to form the Letschin office .

geography

The municipality of Letschin is located in the Oderbruch and borders in the northwest and north on the Barnim-Oderbruch office , in the east on the Polish district of Myślibórz , in the southeast and south on the Golzow office and the city of Seelow , in the south-west and west on the Neuhardenberg office .

Community structure

View of the former spinner village Rehfeld, now part of Sophienthal

According to its main statute, the Letschin municipality is divided into ten districts:

  • Ortwig with the inhabited parts of the municipality Ortwig and Ortwig Graben
  • Sietzing with the inhabited parts of the municipality Klein Neuendorf, Posedin and Sietzing
  • Sophienthal with the inhabited parts of the municipality Sophienthal, Sydowswiese and Rehfeld
  • Steintoch with the inhabited districts of Steintoch, Vossberg and Wollup

In addition, there are the residential areas expansion, Basta, Bieruthof, Busch, Drei Kronen, Fuchsberge, Fuchsberge expansion, Gieshof, Graben, Groß Neuendorfer Loose, Kienitzer Loose, Kruschke, Letschiner Loose, Louisenhof, Neubarnimer expansion, Ortwiger Loose, Prenkeberg, Spadille, Vorwerk Mehrin , Wilhelmsauer Loose and Zelliner Loose.

history

Memorial and Peace Oak, planted in 1814 to commemorate the victims of Letschin in the Wars of Liberation
Memorial to the Letschin war victims

Letschin was first mentioned in a document in 1336. As originally a purely agricultural village, which had to struggle with labor , wars and floods, Letschin developed into a community of supra-local importance. Traders and craftsmen settled there. Johann Gottlieb Koppe introduced the cultivation of sugar beet from around 1830 and built a sugar factory. Thus the farmers had a stable income, which had a positive effect on Letschin. Chausseen were built and railway lines to Wriezen ( Fürstenwalde – Wriezen railway ) , Seelow , Frankfurt (Oder) and Eberswalde ( Eberswalde – Frankfurt (Oder ) railway ) opened.

Letschin received market justice in 1863 and was given a small-town character with shops, restaurants, hotels, ballrooms, schools and a printing house.

In 1905, the community erected a memorial for King Friedrich II of Prussia as a thank you for the draining of the Oderbruch that he had initiated, based on a design by Hans Weddo von Glümer . After the Second World War, the residents of Letschin saved the statue from being melted down and stored it. In 1990 it was put up again.

Since the place was in the battle for Berlin in the Second World War in the main battle line, it was badly destroyed in April 1945. Residential buildings, businesses and shops as well as the ship of the Protestant church fell victim to the fighting. While Letschin was part of the district of Lebus , today's district of Zelliner Loose belonged to Neumark until 1945 , which since then has largely belonged to Poland.

Letschin belonged to the district of Lebus in the province of Brandenburg since 1816 and from 1952 to the district of Seelow (until 1990 in the GDR district of Frankfurt (Oder) , 1990–1993 in the state of Brandenburg ). Since the district reform in 1993 , the city has been in the Märkisch-Oderland district .

Incorporations

The communities Solikante and Wilhelmsaue were incorporated on February 1, 1974. Sophienthal and Steintoch have belonged to the Letschin municipality since December 31, 1997. On October 26, 2003, the municipalities of the former office of Letschin Gieshof-Zelliner Loose, Groß Neuendorf, Kiehnwerder, Kienitz, Neubarnim, Ortwig and Sietzing followed.

Population development

year Residents
1875 3 555
1890 3 140
1910 3 180
1925 3 185
1933 3 249
1939 3 023
1946 2,876
1950 3,460
1964 2,771
1971 2,657
year Residents
1981 2 432
1985 2 407
1989 2,454
1990 2 450
1991 2 406
1992 2,348
1993 2,343
1994 2 290
1995 2 287
1996 2 299
year Residents
1997 3 198
1998 3 150
1999 3,085
2000 3 042
2001 2,983
2002 2 900
2003 5 057
2004 4 898
2005 4,785
2006 4 710
year Residents
2007 4 605
2008 4,516
2009 4 399
2010 4,329
2011 4,215
2012 4 164
2013 4 132
2014 4 100
2015 4035
2016 4 003
year Residents
2017 3,967
2018 3,987
2019 3,975

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 community council consists of 16 community representatives and the full-time mayor (as of: local election on May 26, 2019).

Party / group of voters Seats
Free voter community Letschin (FWL) 7th
SPD 4th
We in the Oderbruch (WiO) 2
CDU 2
The left 1

mayor

  • 2003-2005: Jutta Lieske (SPD)
  • since 2005: 00Michael Böttcher (Free Voting Association Letschin)

Böttcher was elected mayor of Letschin on February 13, 2005. In the mayoral election on January 13, 2013, he was confirmed in his office for a further eight years with 89.7% of the valid votes.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on June 4, 1998.

Blazon : “In silver on a green ground, a green oak stump with a golden snake wound around it, with three leaves on both sides; on it a gold-armored red rooster with a raised right foot. "

Sights and culture

Buildings

See also: List of architectural monuments in Letschin

Tower of the Evangelical Church in Letschin
Half-timbered church in Sietzing
Soviet memorial on the former village green of Letschin
  • Evangelical Church, built in 1812, defines the appearance of Letschin. As a result of the Napoleonic Wars that lasted until 1815 , it could initially only be carried out without a tower. In 1815 Karl Friedrich Schinkel was commissioned to design a tower which was built in 1818/1819 according to his plans. The church and many buildings by the Letschiner master builder Carl Schüler were destroyed in the Second World War. The ruin of the nave was demolished in 1972/1973. The 37 meter high Schinkel church tower, which is a listed building, was restored in 2002/2003.
  • Half-timbered church in the Sophienthal district, destroyed in 1945. With donations and the help of local craftsmen, a new church was built based on the original model. With its half-timbered walls made of glowing red brick, it looks like a small version of the church in Dippmannsdorf . The first service took place on May 28, 2006 after Bishop Wolfgang Huber inaugurated the church.
  • Pharmacy that Theodor Fontane's parents ran in Letschin
Monument to Frederick the Great.
Memorial stone at Von Haerlem-Blick
  • Memorial stone for the Oberdeichinspektor von Haerlem at Von Haerlem-Blick on the Oderdeich near Sophienthal
  • Memorial to the Letschiner victims of the German Wars of Unification , later rededicated as a memorial to the victims of all wars from the German Wars of Unification to the Second World War
  • Jewish cemetery in Groß Neuendorf
  • Old school in Letschin, today you can find offices and the Oderbruch coworking there

Exhibitions and museums

  • Old forge in Groß Neuendorf
  • Letschiner Heimatstuben House Birkenweg
  • Railway museum at Letschin station (signaling technology, model railways, historical agricultural machinery)

traffic

Letschin is on the L 33 state road between Wriezen and Gorgast .

The station Letschin is located at the Eberswalde-Frankfurt (Oder) on which the Niederbarnimer Railway operated line RB 60 Eberswalde - Frankfurt (Oder) wrong (course book number 209.60.).

Personalities

Honorary citizen

2017: Helmut screw (* 1937), firefighter

Sons and daughters of the church

Personalities associated with Letschin

  • Louis Henry Fontane (1796–1867), pharmacist in Letschin from 1838, father of Theodor Fontanes
  • Theodor Fontane (1819–1898), writer, often stayed with his family in Letschin, where he also completed part of his apprenticeship as a pharmacist; his crime novella Unterm Birnbaum , which has been filmed several times, is in Letschin
  • Erna Roder (1916–2007), painter, lived in the Kienitz district, died in Letschin
  • Helmut Krüger (* 1926), church musician, worked at the churches of Groß Neuendorf , Kienitz and Ortwig . He published the experiences he gathered there in 1967 in the book Small Choir - Very Big .
  • Hermann Klenner (* 1926), lawyer, university professor, mayor of Letschin in the late 1950s
  • Christiane Wartenberg (* 1948), visual artist, lives in the Ortwig district
  • Peter Käks (* 1950), weightlifter, lives in Letschin

Web links

Commons : Letschin  - 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. ↑ Note. Office Letschin originally consisted of 12 municipalities, but Altbarnim became the Office of Barnim-Oderbruch in 1997 .
  3. ↑ Main statute of the Letschin municipality of November 20, 2008. (PDF)
  4. ^ Service portal of the state administration of the State of Brandenburg - Letschin municipality
  5. ↑ Landkreis Königsberg (Neumark) municipality register Germany 1900
  6. ↑ Contribution to the statistics of the state enterprise for data processing and statistics, historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005, 7.15 pm district Märkisch-Oderland. (PDF)
  7. ↑ Merger of the municipalities Letschin, Sophienthal and Steintoch (Amt Letschin) to a new municipality Letschin. Announcement of the Minister of the Interior of November 10, 1997. Official Gazette for Brandenburg Common Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg, Volume 8, Number 48, December 3, 1997, p. 950.
  8. ↑ Formation of a new municipality, Letschin, announced by the Ministry of the Interior of April 4, 2002. Official Gazette for Brandenburg Common Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg, Volume 13, Number 18, May 2, 2002, p. 501/2 (PDF)
  9. ^ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Landkreis Märkisch-Oderland . Pp. 26-29
  10. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2015 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
  11. ^ 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)
  12. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
  13. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 74
  14. ^ Result of the mayoral election on January 13, 2013
  15. ↑ Coat of arms information on the service portal of the state administration of Brandenburg
  16. ↑ a b Eva Börsch-Supan : Churches as “monuments” of the wars of liberation . In: Uwe Michas u. a .: Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Architect, painter, furniture designer, stage designer and art philosopher (= Die Mark Brandenburg, vol. 61). Großer, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-910134-24-9 , pp. 17-23, here p. 18.
  17. ↑ Helmut screw is an honorary citizen . In: Märkische Oderzeitung , April 9, 2017
  18. ^ Fontaneseite, detailed biography , accessed on July 9, 2017.
  19. ^ Fontaneseite, detailed biography , accessed on July 9, 2017.