Petkus (Baruth / Mark)

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Petkus
City of Baruth / Mark
Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′ 14 ″  N , 13 ° 21 ′ 22 ″  E
Height : approx. 137 m above sea level NN
Residents : 482  (Apr. 24, 2014)
Incorporation : December 31, 2001
Postal code : 15837
Area code : 033745
Petkus (Brandenburg)
Petkus

Location of Petkus in Brandenburg

Petkus [ ˈpɛtˌkʊs ] is a district of the city of Baruth / Mark in the Teltow-Fläming district in Brandenburg , Germany.

geography

Petkus is located around 50 kilometers from the southern border of the city of Berlin and around twelve kilometers southwest of Baruth, directly on the Golmberg , the highest point in the Lower Fläming . The Lochow residential area is part of the location . Neighboring towns of Petkus are (clockwise, starting from the west) Charlottenfelde (district of Petkus), Ließen and Merzdorf (also districts of Baruth) as well as Damsdorf (district of Steinreich ) and Wahlsdorf (district of the city of Dahme / Mark ). Petkus is located on the federal highway 115 between Baruth and Jüterbog, which runs in an east-west direction .

history

13th to 17th centuries

Petkus village church

The village of Petkus was first mentioned in 1229 as Teodericus de Petecose and at that time it belonged to the Archdiocese of Magdeburg . Over the place names Peteccz (1376 and 1387), Beitkus (1422), Betko (1529) and Petkes (1532), the name Petkus has been used since 1821, popularly known as Pekkes until recently . Presumably it was a Slavic settlement that went from the diocese to the Schlieben family as a fief . From there, the irregular square village came into the possession of the Saxon King Rudolf I in 1326 and was thus an exclave of the Duchy of Saxony-Wittenberg . Under Maurice of Saxony Petkus came after the Schmalkaldic War for Kurkreis , later Wittenberg circle. From 1587 Petkus came into the possession of the von Hake family , who took it over in 1675.

18th and 19th centuries

The last owner from this noble family to which Petkus belonged, Carl Gottfried von Hake, had to sell it in 1782 to the Prussian major Friedrich Leopold von Thümen , who died on December 13, 1816 in Petkus. The place belonged to  the Kingdom of Saxony until 1815 - as the northernmost place in the office of Schlieben - and came to Prussia with the Congress of Vienna and the dissolution of the exclaves . Leopold's niece was married to Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Lochow . He bought the estate in 1816 and moved with his family from Lübnitz to Petkus in 1821. The marriage had ten children. Two daughters and Ferdinand Heinrich Ewald von Lochow stayed in Petkus. Ferdinand took over the estate with the lands in Liepe and Kaltenhausen in 1847 and in the same year married Eva Agnes Auguste, a born von Schlieben. Kaltenhausen was initially an independent village, which was first mentioned in 1368 as Kaldenhusen owned by the Archdiocese of Magdeburg. In contrast to Petkus, it belonged to Brandenburg from 1680 after the Reformation . For a long time, the state border between Saxony and Prussia was located between Petkus and Kaltenhausen. This should have gone through the middle of the hall of an inn. In 1863 the place was incorporated into Petkus. In 1858, under Ferdinand's direction, a manor was built on the edge of the Angers . After the early death of her husband in 1865, Eva Agnes Auguste took over the management of the estate and in 1876 handed it over to her son Ferdinand von Lochow (1849–1924). He had to pay off his six siblings according to a testamentary obligation. In order to increase the income from the estate, he began researching rye in 1881. He bred the Petkus seed rye , which became known across Europe from 1891. Ferdinand campaigned for the establishment of an agricultural association in 1882, which was followed a year later by a horse breeding association and in 1890 by a dairy cooperative.

20th and 21st centuries

Ferdinand von Lochow continued to campaign for a connection of the place to the Jüterbog-Luckenwalder Kreiskleinbahnen in 1900. Workers' apartments were built and in 1920 an electricity supply company was built. After his death, his son Ferdinand took over the estate in 1924. The seed cultivation was continued in an independent GmbH under the management of Walter Laube, landowner in Riesdorf . Ferdinand died in 1931 and his wife took over the business until 1945. After the end of the Second World War , the family was expropriated and the estate and the Petkus seed breeding company were converted into a VEG . From then on, the manor house was used as a branch of a vocational school in Jüterbog , which was converted into an independent company vocational school in 1951 and headed by VEG Petkus in autumn 1954. On January 2, 1971, Charlottenfelde was incorporated into Petkus.

After the fall of the Wall , the Treuhandanstalt took over the management of the property. The vocational school was shot down. In 1991 Lochow-Petkus GmbH, based in Bergen in the Celle district in Lower Saxony, acquired the breeding station. The von Lochow family acquired the manor house and a large part of the arable land.

On December 31, 1999, the previous communities of Ließen, Merzdorf and Petkus merged to form a new community of Petkus. On December 31, 2001, Petkus was incorporated into the city of Baruth together with Dornswalde , Klasdorf , Paplitz and Schöbendorf .

Culture and sights

Peace Mill Petkus (monument), 2014
Telecommunication tower "Petki" in Petkus, 2014
  • The village church of Petkus is a stone building from the 13th century, which was supplemented by a brick west tower in the second half of the 16th century .
  • The old Petkus manor, built in 1858 in Mitschurinstrasse, and the manor park with Ferdinand von Lochow monument are listed. Both the manor house inhabited by the von Lochow family, as well as the manor and the old park of the complex were restored according to the earlier model. The Petkus manor house, built in 1936 and completely renovated, on Merzdorfer Straße is located directly on Flaeming-Skate and is operated as a hotel.
  • On the outskirts of Wahlsdorf there is a post windmill built in 1835 , the Petkus Peace Mill . In 1950 it was converted into a Paltrockmühle with a compass rose and louvre blades. It has since been restored by its owner and is wind and grind.
  • There is also a 106 meter high telecommunications tower built in the 1960s at the southern exit of Petkus .
  • The 220 km long skater route of the Teltow-Fläming district leads through Petkus .
  • The volunteer fire brigade and the Petkuser sports club regularly organize festivals for the general public with the aim of enriching cultural and sporting life.

Sons and daughters

literature

  • Hiltrud and Carsten Preuß: The manor houses and manors in the Teltow-Fläming district , Lukas Verlag für Kunst- und Geistesgeschichte, 1st edition, November 29, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86732-100-6 , p. 244

Web links

Commons : Petkus (Baruth / Mark)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Formation of a new community from the communities Ließen, Merzdorf and Petkus - announcement of the Ministry of the Interior of December 20, 1999 . In: Minister of the Interior of the State of Brandenburg (Hrsg.): Official Journal for Brandenburg - Common Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg . 11th year, no. 1 . Brandenburg University Printing and Publishing Company Potsdam, Potsdam January 11, 2000, p. 2 ( brandenburg.de [PDF; 248 kB ; accessed on July 4, 2015]).
  2. ↑ Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2001. StBA
  3. ↑ Information. (PDF) State of Brandenburg, Ministry of Infrastructure and Agriculture