Letschin
coat of arms | Germany map | |
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Coordinates: 52 ° 38 ' N , 14 ° 22' E |
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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) | |
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 |
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Mayor : | Michael Böttcher (Free Voting Association Letschin) | |
Location of the municipality Letschin in the district of Märkisch-Oderland | ||
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
According to its main statute, the Letschin municipality is divided into ten districts:
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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
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
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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
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 |
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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: Michael 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
- 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 by Hans Weddo von Glümer from 1905
- 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
- Gustav Haake (1838–1905), member of the Reichstag ( German Reich Party )
- Paul Hinze (1906–1945), resistance fighter
- Helmut Jachnow (* 1939), Slavist , born in Kienitz
- Monika Herz (* 1951), pop singer
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
- Homepage of the Letschin municipality
- Förderverein Wilhelmsaue e. V.
- Homepage of the railway association
- School homepage
- Sophienthal in the RBB program Landschleicher on July 12, 2009
- Coworking Oderbruch in the old school in Letschin
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 ).
- ↑ Note. Office Letschin originally consisted of 12 municipalities, but Altbarnim became the Office of Barnim-Oderbruch in 1997 .
- ↑ Main statute of the Letschin municipality of November 20, 2008. (PDF)
- ^ Service portal of the state administration of the State of Brandenburg - Letschin municipality
- ↑ Landkreis Königsberg (Neumark) municipality register Germany 1900
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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)
- ^ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Landkreis Märkisch-Oderland . Pp. 26-29
- ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2015 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
- ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 74
- ^ Result of the mayoral election on January 13, 2013
- ↑ Coat of arms information on the service portal of the state administration of Brandenburg
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Helmut screw is an honorary citizen . In: Märkische Oderzeitung , April 9, 2017
- ^ Fontaneseite, detailed biography , accessed on July 9, 2017.
- ^ Fontaneseite, detailed biography , accessed on July 9, 2017.