MTS houses (Martinskirchen)

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The MTS houses in the making in Martinskirchen (1955).

The former MTS houses are a listed building ensemble in the Martinskirchen district of the small town of Mühlberg / Elbe in southern Brandenburg in the Elbe-Elster district . Here you can find them in the main street in the immediate vicinity of the local historic palace complex from the 18th century . In local monument directory are listed under the entry number 09,135,427th

Building description and history

The MTS houses are four two-story apartment buildings with a pitched roof that were built between 1954 and 1957. Although LPG Progress was only founded in Martinskirchen in October 1952 , which initially farmed 206 hectares of agricultural land, a machine and tractor station , or MTS for short , had already moved into the castle or what is now the former manor in 1949 . In addition, a building with a dining room and a large kitchen was built near the castle in the early 1950s and was designed to cater for 250 people.

Another architectural monument in Martinskirchen is the local village church in addition to the MTS houses and the palace complex . An atonement cross in their neighborhood is also registered as a ground monument.

Web links

Commons : MTS-Häuser (Martinskirchen)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b c Database of the Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2017 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. , accessed November 24, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bldam-brandenburg.de
  2. ↑ M. Karl Fitzkow : Stone on stone - this is how the new house grew. In: Working groups of the friends of nature and home of the German cultural association Bad Liebenwerda district (Hrsg.): Home calendar for the Bad Liebenwerda district . Bad Liebenwerda 1959, p. 151 .
  3. ↑ Original caption of the file: Bundesarchiv Bild 183-33350-0001, Martinskirchen, Construction of residential buildings by MTS.jpg from the Federal Archives on Wikimedia Commons , accessed on November 24, 2018

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 19.9 ″  N , 13 ° 12 ′ 16.1 ″  E