Plattenburg

This article describes the community of Plattenburg; for the castle there see Plattenburg (castle) .

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	Coordinates: 52 ° 58 '  N , 12 ° 2'  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Prignitz
Height :	32 m above sea level NHN
Area :	202.02 km 2
Residents:	3274 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	16 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	19339
Primaries :	038796 (Viesecke), 033982 (Hoppenrade), 038787 (Glöwen)
License plate :	PR
Community key :	12 0 70 302
Address of the municipal administration:	Dorfstrasse 52A 19339 Plattenburg
Website :	www.plattenburg.de
Mayoress :	Anja Kramer
Location of the community of Plattenburg in the Prignitz district

Hoppenrade manor house, around 1860

Plattenburg is a municipality in the Prignitz district ( Brandenburg ). The municipality of Plattenburg came into being in 2001 through the voluntary amalgamation of eight municipalities that previously belonged to the office of Plattenburg , which existed from 1992 to 2001 . The name of the office and the municipality was given by the Plattenburg moated castle in the municipality .

geography

The municipality of Plattenburg borders the city of Perleberg and the municipality of Groß Pankow (Prignitz) in the north, the municipality of Gumtow in the east, the cities of Kyritz and Neustadt (Dosse) in the southeast, the state of Saxony-Anhalt in the south and the west the Bad Wilsnack / Weisen office .

Community structure

According to its main statute, the municipality of Plattenburg is divided into eight districts with 14 municipal parts and eight residential spaces:

• Bendelin with the community part Zichtow and the residential area Karlsruhe
• Glöwen with the districts of Groß Leppin, Storbeckshof and Zernikow as well as the residential areas Friedrichswalde and Stölkenplan
• Hoppenrade with the municipality of Garz
• Kleinow with the municipal parts of Burghagen , Ponitz and Uenze as well as the residential areas Kleinower Ziegelei and Neu Kleinow
• Kletzke with the district of Plattenburg ,
• Krampfer with the community part Groß Gottschow and the residential area Kahlhorst
• Netzow with the municipal parts of Klein Leppin and Söllenthin and the Schwanensee residential area
• Viesecke with the community parts Groß Werzin and Rambow as well as the residential area Klein Welle

history

The municipality of Plattenburg was created on December 31, 2001 from the voluntary amalgamation of the previously independent municipalities of Bendelin, Glöwen, Hoppenrade, Kleinow, Kletzke, Krampfer, Netzow and Viesecke. These communities were previously under the administration of the office of Plattenburg. The history of the municipality is the history of the eight present-day districts until 2001.

Office of Plattenburg

On July 31, 1992, the Minister of the Interior of Brandenburg gave his approval for the formation of the office of Plattenburg. At the time the office was established, August 10, 1992 was set. The office had its seat in Kletzke and consisted of the communities Bendelin, Glöwen, Kleinow, Kletzke, Krampfer, Netzow, Viesecke and Hoppenrade, which at that time belonged to the districts Perleberg and Pritzwalk . Gudrun Hoffmann became the official director and became mayor of the municipality of Plattenburg after the office was dissolved. With the voluntary amalgamation of the official municipalities to form the new municipality of Plattenburg on December 31, 2001, the office of Plattenburg was dissolved.

Population development

year Residents 2001 4165 2005 3977 2010 3712 2015 3413

year Residents 2016 3412 2017 3325 2018 3297 2019 3274

Territory of the respective year, from 2011 based on the 2011 census

politics

Community representation

In addition to the full-time mayor, the municipal council has 16 members. After the local elections on May 26, 2019, these are divided into parties and groups as follows:

Party / group	Share of votes	Seats
Voting group volunteer fire brigade and village association Plattenburg	18.3%	3
Kleinow / Uenze voter group	14.9%	2
Free voters Pro Prignitz	14.1%	2
Active for Plattenburg / Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen	13.2%	2
CDU	11.6%	2
Voting group Krampfer / Groß Gottschow	10.2%	2
Voting group of farmers' association Kletzke	08.8%	2
LEFT	06.8%	1

Mayoress

• 2002–2012: Gudrun Hoffmann
• since 2012: Anja Kramer

Kramer was elected in the mayoral election on September 23, 2012 with 65.2% of the valid votes for a term of eight years.

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms was approved on January 28, 2002.

Blazon : "In silver, a brick red stepped gable crowned with a cross and pierced by three (1: 2) open Gothic windows."

Sights and culture

Church in Kletzke, one of the oldest and most important churches in the region

The list of monuments in Plattenburg includes the monuments entered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.

Architectural monuments

The Plattenburg , which was first mentioned in 1319 and is a stop on the pilgrimage from Berlin to Wilsnack , now houses a museum, serves as a registry office and offers rooms for seminars and exhibitions. It is considered the oldest moated castle in northern Germany.

On the site of the Hoppenrade Vorwerk , which was sold privately by the diocese of Havelberg in 1803 and dates back to 1729, the classicist Hoppenrade manor and manor house was built in 1830 and an accompanying park around 1847. Known as the “Pearl of Prignitz” from 1900, the facility was redesigned and expanded in the 1920s. It has belonged to the municipality of Plattenburg since 1995; the landscape park has been looked after by a development association since then in order to preserve the area, which was protected as a garden monument in 1998, as a cultural asset and recreational area for the public.

The Plattenburg

→ Main article : Plattenburg (castle)

Plattenburg

The mighty brick buildings of the upper and lower castle are grouped around two separate courtyards. To the south of this is the spacious area of ​​the outer bailey, which is surrounded by another, the outer moat. The buildings of the lower castle lean against the strong defensive wall surrounding the lower courtyard, which was originally built as a free-standing circular wall with battlements and a Gothic archway. Double moats and ramparts provided additional protection. The building complex, which was built over several centuries, comprised stables, gatehouse, farm building and drawbridge on the outer bailey, bakery and brewery, storage and stable building, dungeon, gatehouse, archive, miner's house (also washing and rolling house) and drawbridge on the lower castle as well as palas, Keep and servants' and kitchen house on the upper castle. Several major renovations and new constructions from the 16th to the 19th century gave the castle its current architectural face.

Burchard von Saldern (1568–1635) had the castle renewed around 1600 in the late Renaissance style and above all redesigned the living and festive rooms in the palace. These generous changes in the bishop's wing are among the most beautiful and important handicrafts in interior decoration during the Renaissance in Prignitz. Above all, the masterful and extraordinarily high-quality carpentry work give the residence courtly elegance. Equally remarkable are the stonemasonry and plastering work , which are rich in shapes and which may well be considered the work of the Magdeburg generation of sculptors around Sebastian Ertle and Christoph Dehne.

The knight's hall has four lavishly stucco groined vaults above a sandstone central column and, as an excellent ornament, contains a splendid fireplace with a crest adorned top in the best Renaissance forms. A sandstone staircase with six lion figures holding the handrails leads to the richly carved Renaissance door from 1609.

Historical monuments

In the Bahnhofstrasse in the Glöwen district there is a memorial from 1947 that commemorates 800 Jewish men and women who had to work under the toughest conditions in a satellite camp of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in the armaments production of Dynamit AG (DAG) from August 1944 to April 1945 . According to recent research, five to seven prisoners died.

In front of the “Knappenhaus” at the Plattenburg Castle, a memorial stone erected in 1995 by the Perleberg District Association of the BdV commemorates the victims of flight and expulsion from the eastern German territories after the Second World War . The area of ​​the Plattenburg was one of the central collection points of the Westprignitz district for refugees and displaced persons from East and West Prussia , East Brandenburg, Pomerania , the Warthegau , the Netzedistrikt and Silesia in 1945 and in the following years .

traffic

The federal highway 5 between Perleberg and Kyritz runs through the municipality in a west-east direction and the federal highway 107 Pritzwalk - Havelberg in north-south direction .

Plattenburg is part of the Berlin-Brandenburg transport association . The regional express RE 2 Wismar- Berlin- Cottbus stops every hour at Glöwen station on the Berlin-Hamburg line . A P + R area with 134 parking spaces has been available for commuters since 2015 . Glöwen is also connected to local public transport in the neighboring district of Stendal in Saxony-Anhalt . Regular buses and on-call buses from Stendalbus run from the Glöwen / Bahnhof and Glöwen / Schule stops .

Personalities

• Heinrich Gravenhorst (1823–1898), beekeeper, inventor of the Gravenhorst'schen Bogenstülpers, lived from 1884–1887 on Gut Storbeckshof
• Siegfried von Saldern (1843–1913), lord of the major at Plattenburg, knighthood director and member of the Reichstag
• Conrad von Saldern (1847–1908), diplomat, born in Plattenburg

supporting documents

literature

• Lieselott Enders (arrangement), Klaus Neitmann (ed.): Historical local dictionary for Brandenburg, part I, Prignitz. 1123 S., Potsdam, Verlag in Potsdam, 2012 (publications of the Brandenburg State Main Archives) ISBN 978-3-941919-91-4 (in the following abbreviated Enders & Neitmann, Historisches Ortslexikon für Brandenburg, Prignitz with corresponding page number)
• Torsten Foelsch: Nobility, castles and mansions in Prignitz. A contribution to the art and cultural history of a Brandenburg landscape, Leipzig, Perleberg 1997
• Torsten Foelsch: The von Saldern'sche picture collection on the Plattenburg - history and fate of an art collection in the Prignitz. In: Announcements of the Association for the History of Prignitz , Vol. 10, Perleberg 2010
• Torsten Foelsch: The Plattenburg in Prignitz. In: The Mark Brandenburg. Journal for the Mark and Brandenburg, Issue 84, Berlin 2012, pp. 18-25.
• Torsten Foelsch: Plattenburg. In: Palaces and Gardens of the Mark, ed. by Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger, Berlin 1993 (1st edition), 2012 (4th revised and extended edition)
• Theodor Goecke / Paul Eichholz / Friedrich Solger / Willy Spatz: The Art Monuments of the Province of Brandenburg , Part I, Vol. 1, The Art Monuments of the Westprignitz District, Berlin 1909
• Otto Grotefend : Documents from the von Saldern family. Two volumes, Hildesheim 1932 and 1938.
• Jan Peters: Märkische Lebenswelten. Social history of the Plattenburg-Wilsnack rule, Prignitz 1550–1800. In: Publications of the Brandenburg State Main Archive, Vol. 53, Berlin 2007
• Richard Rudloff: Plattenburg and the von Saldern family. In: Prignitzer Volksbücher, No. 64/65, Pritzwalk 1926

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. ↑ Main statutes of the municipality of Plattenburg from October 27, 2008 PDF
3. ^ Municipality of Plattenburg on the service portal of the state administration
4. ^ Formation of the office of Plattenburg. Announcement of the Minister of the Interior of July 31, 1992. Official Gazette for Brandenburg - Joint Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg, Volume 3, No. 62, August 25, 1992, pp. 1054/5
5. ^ Formation of a new community in Plattenburg. Announcement of the Ministry of the Interior of December 14, 2001. Official Gazette for Brandenburg - Joint Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg, Volume 12, No. 52, December 27, 2001, p. 901 PDF
6. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2017 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7 Excel
7. ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. December 19, Prignitz district, pp. 26–29 PDF
8. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
9. ↑ Local elections October 26, 2003. Mayoral elections , p. 31
10. ↑ Anja Kramer new mayor. In: Schweriner Volkszeitung , September 23, 2012
11. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 74
12. ^ Result of the mayoral election on September 23, 2012
13. ↑ Coat of arms information on the service portal of the state administration of Brandenburg
14. ^ Dieter Haase: Ceremonial commissioning of the train station in Glöwen. Retrieved October 26, 2017 . 
15. ^ Johann Heinrich Christoph Gravenhorst in: German Biography

Web links

Commons : Plattenburg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the municipality of Plattenburg
• Garz in the RBB program Landschleicher on June 7, 2015
• Viesecke in the RBB program Landschleicher on May 15, 2005
• Kleinow in the RBB program Landschleicher on October 16, 2016