Plessow

Plessow City of Werder (Havel) Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 9 ″ N , 12 ° 52 ′ 40 ″ E
Height :	33 m
Incorporation :	March 14, 1974
Incorporated into:	Roach
Postal code :	14542
Area code :	03327
Location of Plessow in Brandenburg

Plessow is a small district of the city of Werder (Havel) west of the city area, separated by the Great Plessower See . Plessow, in turn, belongs to the Plötzin district of Werder. The village was first mentioned in a document around 1179.

history

Many generations before it was first mentioned in a document, Slavic settlers settled on the headland in the lake and built a village that they called pleso . This name stands for expanse of the water / open place of the water from an ancient Slavic language. Together with German colonists, their descendants built a village and a wooden church inland. Plessow was probably owned by the von Rochow auf Golzow family since 1290 . The parish was united with that of Plötzin by the Bishop Heidenreich of Brandenburg in 1287 and the Plessower Church thus became a branch church. The wooden church structures were lost due to fire. In the land book of Emperor Charles IV of 1375, the Plessow property is given as 12 hooves. Until 1520, when Hans VII. Von Rochow (1467-1520) divided his property between four sons, Plessow remained in the administration of the headquarters in Golzow. It was not until 1529 that Plessow was run under Hans X. von Rochow as a manor and an independent manor. The other three sons formed the lines Golzow , Reckahn and Gollwitz . From then on, Hans XIII., Who had the first massive patronage church built, led the regime in Plessow. He fought as a Protestant in the Huguenot Wars and took possession of his father's estate at the end of the 16th century. His son Hans XIV, in turn, continued the estate business after his death. Structural activities by those from Rochow on Plessow are not reported until 1624.

In the village, the church, the manor house and two farmsteads with stables and a cottage garden are on the list of architectural monuments in Werder (Havel) . To the north of the former estate, the street Zum Weinberg branches off from Plessower Hauptstrasse to the east . The name is another reference to the earlier viticulture in this area.

Mansion

Gut Plessow around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

The manor house

Village church in Plessow

Following the general trend in the 18th century, Friedrich Ludwig V von Rochow decided to build a castle or manor house in keeping with his own possessions. Parts of the existing predecessor structures were to be added to the extension. Previous structures are reported from 1624. Hans XIV. Von Rochow left the following: Quote Ao 1624, 1625, 1626 I built the Thorhaus . The current side wing probably corresponds to the gatehouse mentioned above. During restoration work, after the removal of old, superimposed layers of plaster, a former gate passage that had already been bricked up in the middle of the building became visible on both sides. The following references cited confirm the assumption of an earlier residential building. After my house collapsed in 1628, I started to build the new house in 1629 and built on it in 1630, 1631 and 1632. ... In 1633 I had four large hallways (insert wooden floors) and in 1634 I had Hans Ernst because of my little son make the doors to the other floor and bring in the table, ledge, stool, benches and beds, and leave the small room hallway too. This residential building had a floor area of around 283 m² and was two thirds the size of today's manor house. It was probably built on the remains of the foundations of the previous building that had collapsed. As was customary at the time, the foundations were made of field stones and are over one meter thick. They date from the middle of the 16th century and are among the oldest surviving parts of the building. In 1648 Hans XIV. Von Rochow acquired the Stülpe estate in exchange for the Neuendorf estate. Hans Ernst I., his son took over Plessow in 1660, the other son took over the property in Stülpe. In 1787, Friedrich Ludwig V. von Rochow (1745–1808) took over the inheritance in Plessow from the Stülper sideline, since the grandson of Hans Ernst I remained without an heir. Plessow awaited him as a ruin. He had an almost dilapidated half-timbered house demolished. Friedrich Ludwig V von Rochow began building the castle-like mansion, which was to be more than 100 m² larger than the previous building. Two large rooms were added on the ground floor and a large hall above. The old gatehouse was built as a residential building. Extensive renovations were carried out between 1850 and 1870. The roof was redesigned, dormer windows were installed and the hall vaulted. Fireplaces were installed in almost all rooms and parquet replaced the floorboards. Various stucco cornices were created to decorate the rooms. A representative vestibule with cast iron columns was created. The ceiling of the ballroom received neo-baroque decorative details. With the death of Friedrich Ludwig VII. Von Rochow in 1914, the entire property of Plessow went to his nephew Hans Wichard von Rochow , who in turn was the owner of the goods in and around Stülpe, according to the Fideikommiss foundation documents still available in the Teltow-Fläming district archive (Luckenwalde) . In the 1920s, the upper floor was expanded on the side wing. After 1945, minor renovations took place. The mansion was briefly inhabited by war refugees. From 1948 to 1951 a business school of the then state of Brandenburg was housed in the manor house. Until the end of 1963, the property was used as a training facility for the Ministry of Foreign Trade of the GDR . In the former mansion of the aristocratic family with the spacious area belonging to it, the GDR customs school was located from 1964 and the GDR customs administration college from 1965 until the fall of the Berlin Wall, which received the status of an institute with a university character from 1981 . Today it is an office of the Education and Science Center of the Federal Finance Administration .

Village church

The church in its current form was built between 1866 and 1870 under the direction of a master builder from the Stülerschule . It is a single-nave neo-Gothic field stone building in the Tudor style with an indented west tower and polygonal choir . Anthracite- colored broken field stones as well as dark red friezes and soffits stand in contrast to the supporting pillars, stepped gables, pinnacles and the tower, which is converted into an octagon above the high basement, made of yellow bricks that are typical for the region . The 28 meter high tower houses two bronze bells that are rung by hand. The half-hour and full-hour chimes are performed electronically. The von Rochow crypt was located below the tower until 1948. In the church there is a sandstone epitaph from 1660 with the relief-like representation of Hans von Rochow, who died that year, in armor and coat of arms decoration. Above the west gallery is a green and gold organ front from 1748. The instrument has ten stops and comes from a student of Joachim Wagner .

Sons and daughters

Hans von Rochow (1824–1891), politician, member of the Prussian manor house, born on Gut Plessow

literature

Genealogical handbook of the nobility , noble houses A Volume VIII, page 404, volume 38 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1966, ISSN 0435-2408

Andreas Kitzing: A memorial stone for love , in: " Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung ", Teltow Fläming edition, from November 27, 1998, page 19

Adolf Friedrich August von Rochow (ed.): News on the history of the family von Rochow and their possessions , Berlin 1861, page 143f., Page 159f., Page 172f., Page 180f. ( diglib.hab.de )

Walter von Leers (ed.): The pupils of the Knight Academy of Brandenburg aH 1705-1913 , self-published by the Association of former pupils of the Knight Academy of Brandenburg , Ludwigslust 1913, page 16, page 29, page 110, page 168
Hans Joachim Helmigk: Märkische manors from old times , Berlin 1929, page 125 f., Page 169
The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin, age-origin-meaning, Brandenburg historical studies, Volume 13, be.bra Wissenschafts verlag Berlin-Brandenburg 2005, ISBN 3-937233-17-2 .

Web links

Commons : Plessow - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Material on Gut Plessow in the Duncker Collection of the Central and State Library Berlin (PDF; 240 kB)

Individual evidence

^ Slavic names ( Memento from September 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel: Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis: Collection of documents, chronicles and other sources for the history of the Mark Brandenburg and its rulers ( Latin ), Volume 8. FH Morin, 1847.
↑ Dirk Diether Rohders: Zöllner - Report East-West . BoD - Books on Demand, 2005, ISBN 9783833421525 , pp. 36, 57.

[1] Slavic names ( Memento from September 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

[2] Adolph Friedrich Riedel: Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis: Collection of documents, chronicles and other sources for the history of the Mark Brandenburg and its rulers ( Latin ), Volume 8. FH Morin, 1847.

[3] Dirk Diether Rohders: Zöllner - Report East-West . BoD - Books on Demand, 2005, ISBN 9783833421525 , pp. 36, 57.