Pritzwalk

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Pritzwalk
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Coordinates: 53 ° 9 '  N , 12 ° 11'  E

Basic data
State : Brandenburg
County : Prignitz
Height : 63 m above sea level NHN
Area : 167.47 km 2
Residents: 11,879 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 71 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 16928
Area code : 03395
License plate : PR
Community key : 12 0 70 316
LOCODE : DE PRK

City administration address : 		Marktstrasse 39
16928 Pritzwalk
Website : www.pritzwalk.de
Mayor : Ronald Thiel
Location of the city of Pritzwalk in the Prignitz district
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Pritzwalk is a small town in the Prignitz district in the north-west of Brandenburg .

geography

The Dömnitz , a tributary of the Stepenitz, flows through the city .

City structure

Districts

Alt Krüssow , Beveringen , Buchholz , Falkenhagen , Giesensdorf , Kemnitz , Mesendorf , Sadenbeck , Schönhagen , Seefeld , Steffenshagen , Wilmersdorf

Living spaces

Expansion, Biesterholz, Birkenfelde, Bölzke, Eggersdorf, Hainholz, Hasenwinkel, Ilenpuhl, Kammermark, Kathfelder Mühle, Kiebitzberg, Könkendorf, Koppel, Kuckuck, Langhof, Mittelmühle, Neu Falkenhagen, Neu Kemnitz, Neu Krüssow, Neuhausen, Neuhof, Sarnow, Schönhagener Mühle , Streckenthin, Vossberg, Wegemühle

history

Pritzwalk around 1650

Finds from the Neolithic Age (3000 to 1800 BC) indicate the prehistoric settlement of two pre-Germanic tribes (with large stone graves and individual graves). Germanic tribes settled until the Germanic mass migration (4th to 6th centuries) and then Slavic tribes, especially the small tribe of the Brizans . The missionary work of the Slavs took place since 948 by the diocese of Havelberg , which was subordinate to the archbishopric of Magdeburg . As a result of the German-Slavic battles and finally the Wendekreuzzug in 1147, the village became part of the Mark Brandenburg founded in 1157 and thus part of the Holy Roman Empire formed in the 10th century . Around 1200 the place belonged to the domain of the noble family of the Gans Noble Lords of Putlitz , who are the founders of the place mentioned for the first time in 1256 under the name Prizwalk . In 1256 Pritzwalk received town and market rights from the Ascanian dynasty and the construction of the town church St. Nikolai began.

Parish Church of St. Nikolai

The patronage of St. Nikolaus suggests an early merchant settlement on the old trade route to the Baltic Sea ( Wittenberge - Stettin ) on a north-south connection to Mecklenburg. In the 14th century Pritzwalk became a member of the Hanseatic League and independent city (Immediatstadt) with extensive self-government, with alliance rights and jurisdiction. A city wall made of field stones with defensive towers and gates was built. Pritzwalk developed into a hub of trade routes and received the margravial customs privilege in 1364. In the 15th to 17th centuries Pritzwalk suffered heavily from wars and the plague as well as the decline of the Hanseatic League. Between 1539 and 1638, the city was ravaged nine times by the plague. There were also, especially in the years 1414 to 1438, armed conflicts with the close neighbor of the Mark Brandenburg.

It was not until the 18th century, with the support of the Prussian economic development agency under Friedrich Wilhelm I and Friedrich II, that there was a renewed economic upturn and Pritzwalk became a center for cloth and beer production. In 1780 Pritzwalk had 1627 inhabitants with 72 cloth makers and 20 linen weavers.

After the great fire on November 1, 1821, which destroyed almost the entire city, the city recovered. In 1830 Pritzwalk again had 78 cloth makers, including Christoph Wilhelm Draeger. Industrialization began in 1851 with the expansion of the cloth factory, brothers Ludwig and Max Draeger (sons of Christoph Wilhelm Draeger and his wife Marie) and the commissioning of the first steam engine in Pritzwalk, initially at Schützenstrasse 24 and in 1858 with the new building at Meyenburger Tor, where The Huth lager brewery was founded in the neighborhood in 1862. Emil Quandt joined the Draeger brothers company in 1878 and, after his marriage in 1880 to Hedwig Draeger, the daughter of Ludwig Draeger, became its owner in 1896. As a supplier of uniform cloths, the company grew rapidly - especially in connection with the two world wars - until the Quandt family was expropriated in 1945.

At the end of the 19th century, Pritzwalk developed into a traffic junction with two railway lines: In 1884 the Perleberg – Pritzwalk – Wittstock line was opened by the Prignitzer Eisenbahn AG and in 1887 the Neustadt – Meyenburg railway was opened by the Prussian State Railway . On April 15, 1945, an air raid on the station area and the resulting explosion of an ammunition train resulted in numerous victims.

At the end of 1945 and beginning of 1946, 12 young people were arrested by the Soviet secret service NKVD and sentenced by the military tribunal on charges of werewolf . The death sentence was carried out immediately for an 18-year-old, five perished in the Soviet special camp in Sachsenhausen . The fate of the other young people is partly unknown. The group was rehabilitated by the Russian Attorney General's Office in the 1990s .

In 1969 a new phase of industrialization was opened with the establishment of the Pritzwalk cogwheel factory.

Administrative history

Pritzwalk had belonged to the Ostprignitz district in the Prussian province of Brandenburg since 1817 , and in 1952 it became the district town of the Pritzwalk district in the GDR district of Potsdam until it became part of the Prignitz district in 1993 .

Pritzwalk was enlarged by Schönhagen in 1993, by Giesensdorf at the end of 2001 and by a further ten communities at the end of 2002. With the incorporation in 2002, the Pritzwalk-Land office was dissolved at the same time .

Already on July 1, 1950 and January 1, 1974, there were incorporations in the area of ​​today's town of Pritzwalk.

Former parish date annotation
Alt Krüssow December 31, 2002
Beveringen December 31, 2002
Bölzke 1st January 1974 Incorporation to Kemnitz
Buchholz December 31, 2002
Falkenhagen December 31, 2002
Giesensdorf December 31, 2001
Kemnitz December 31, 2002
Koekendorf July 1, 1950 Incorporation to Wilmersdorf
Mesendorf December 31, 2002
New Krüssow July 1, 1950 Incorporation to Wilmersdorf
Sadenbeck December 31, 2002
Sarnow 1st January 1974 Incorporation to Buchholz
Schönhagen December 6, 1993
Seefeld December 31, 2002 previously part of the community of Klein Woltersdorf
Steffenshagen December 31, 2002
Wilmersdorf December 31, 2002

Population development

Population development of Pritzwalk from 1875 to 2017 according to the adjacent table
year Residents
1875 5,760
1890 6,369
1910 8,018
1925 8,453
1933 8,738
1939 8,923
1946 9.416
1950 9,958
year Residents
1964 9,867
1971 10,742
1981 12,404
1985 12,368
1989 12.306
1990 12,070
1991 11,794
1992 11,628
1993 11,737
1994 11,527
year Residents
1995 11,317
1996 11,150
1997 11,069
1998 10,954
1999 10,913
2000 10,768
2001 10,905
2002 13,875
2003 13,681
2004 13,481
year Residents
2005 13,336
2006 13,252
2007 13,072
2008 12,929
2009 12,737
2010 12,598
2011 12,236
2012 12.164
2013 11,982
2014 11,909
year Residents
2015 11,922
2016 12,050
2017 12,009
2018 11,924
2019 11,879

Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31 (from 1991), from 2011 based on the 2011 census

politics

City Council

The city council of Pritzwalk consists of 22 city councilors and the full-time mayor. Since the local elections on May 26, 2019, the seats have been distributed as follows:

town hall
Party / list Share of votes Seats
Voting group "Free Voters - Pro Prignitz" 18.7% 4th
The left 16.6% 4th
SPD 16.5% 4th
CDU 15.2% 3
FDP 12.9% 3
Voting group "Citizens' vote for Pritzwalk" 09.3% 2
AfD 06.9% 1
Voting group of district farmers' association Prignitz 03.9% 1
total 100% 22nd

The turnout was 49.4%.

mayor

Wolfgang Brockmann (FDP) was mayor of the city from 1990 to 2018.

Ronald Thiel (non-party) was elected as his successor for a term of eight years on September 24, 2017 with 54.5% of the valid votes.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on January 7, 1994. It dates from the 14th century.

Blazon : “In silver, a leafy and rooted green linden tree, in whose crown a red eagle soars; a striding black wolf in front of the trunk. "

The so-called Märkische Adler is the heraldic animal of Brandenburg and symbolizes the independence of the city and its direct subordination to the margraves. Wolf and linden tree in the talking coat of arms are interpreted as symbolizing the city name of Slavic origin: "Pritz-walk" (according to recent research incorrectly translated as "go away, wolf"), whereby these could symbolize paganism (wolf) and Christianity (linden tree).

flag

The city's flag is striped green and red (1: 1) and has the city's coat of arms in the center.

Town twinning

There is a partnership with the Lower Saxony city of Winsen (Luhe) .

Sights and culture

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

Buildings

Church in Sarnow
  • Town hall (built in 1840)
  • St. Nikolaikirche (medieval brick hall building with neo-Gothic tower from 1882)
  • Remains of the city wall with semicircular tower (Middle Ages)
  • Bismarck tower (yoc 1905)
  • Quandt Mausoleum (built 1925–1927)
  • Former Draeger Brothers (Quandt) cloth factory (built 1870–1940)
  • Villa of the former brewery (today "Haus der Wirtschaft")
  • Kathfeld Mill
  • Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe-Gymnasium Pritzwalk (built in 1905):
The building in Giesensdorfer Weg was built in 1905 as a girls 'and boys' school. After an extensive reconstruction in the 1990s and a design of the school grounds, it shines again in its old splendor. The roof was re-covered in 2006.
  • former district court (built around 1900)
  • former agricultural bank / polyclinic (built around 1900)

Museums

  • The Pritzwalk Museum, sponsored by the Society for Local History Pritzwalk and Environment eV, is located at Meyenburger Tor 3a. In 2018 the former city and brewery museum in the former office of the brewery was expanded to include rooms from the former Draeger cloth factory and has since been called the Pritzwalk Museum Factory . The focus is on the history of industrialization in rural areas in its social, technical and ecological dimensions as well as the general history of the city since the earliest traces of human settlement in the region. The museum emerged from the Heimatmuseum founded in 1954 by Albert Guthke (1900–1981), which in turn emerged from the Heimatstube with collections by Max Petschelt (1866–1945) and Wilhelm Rühe (1882–1951) and holdings from the Heimatmuseum, which was destroyed in 1945 has taken over in the monastery Stift zum Heiligengrabe .
  • The Mühlenmuseum Kathfelder Mühle, under the same sponsorship, presents the technology of a grain mill from the 1930s as a technical monument. The exhibition provides information about the history of the watermills in and around Pritzwalk.

Historical monuments

Memorial to the fallen of the First World War

Parks

The city's defenses (city wall with trenches and ramparts in front of it), dating from the Middle Ages, were demolished in the late 19th century and replaced by parks. These are largely preserved to this day and enclose the city center.

Culture

The cultural program is largely shaped by the town of Pritzwalk's cultural center. This was handed over to its destination on April 21, 1959. Since then, numerous music and dance events have been held. As part of the renovation work, which began in 2003, a modern cinema with 102 seats was set up on the upper floor.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

In the city of Pritzwalk there are two industrial areas, several industrial areas and an industrial park . The south industrial area is well connected by the B 189 bypass . In addition to the local transport company, some car dealerships, wholesalers and small businesses have settled there. The ZWP Zahnradwerk Pritzwalk GmbH, a two-wheeler dealer, a tire service and other companies are located in the eastern industrial park.

The Falkenhagen business park has also belonged to the city of Pritzwalk since the municipal reform. There are mainly industrial companies such as Glatfelter and EOP Biodiesel AG. E.ON has built a pilot plant ( power-to-gas ) there for the production of hydrogen from wind power. The plant is now owned by Uniper SE , which was spun off from E.ON SE in 2016 .

traffic

Water tower at the train station

Pritzwalk is on the federal highways B 103 ( Meyenburg - Kyritz ), B 107 (Pritzwalk - Havelberg ) and B 189 ( Perleberg - Wittstock ). The closest motorway junctions are Meyenburg and Pritzwalk on the A 24 Berlin – Hamburg. A bypass road around Pritzwalk was completed at the end of 2007 to relieve the city center. It begins behind Kemnitz, crosses the B 103 and B 189 and ends at the B 103 in the north of the city.

The Pritzwalk station, opened in 1886, is the junction of the Wittenberge – Wittstock (Dosse) and Meyenburg – Neustadt (Dosse) railway lines . It is served by the regional express line RE 6 Wittenberge - Berlin Gesundbrunnen ( Prignitz Express ) and the regional train lines RB 73 Pritzwalk– Neustadt (Dosse) and RB 74 Pritzwalk – Meyenburg. The trains of the RB 73 also stop at the Sarnow and Bölzke stops , those of the RB 74 at the Pritzwalk Hainholz and Falkenhagen Gewerbepark Prignitz stops .

Passenger traffic to Putlitz on the Pritzwalk – Suckow line, used exclusively for school trips on the VGP 70 line , was operated by the Potsdam Railway Company in cooperation with the Putlitz-Pritzwalker Railway Support Association. The termination of this connection was initially planned for December 2012. After the city of Putlitz agreed to contribute € 10,000 to secure the route, railway operations were extended until the 2014 timetable change. In return, the bus traffic to Putlitz was thinned out slightly. With effect from July 31, 2016 the traffic was finally stopped.

education

There are several schools and training centers in Pritzwalk.

  • The Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Schule Pritzwalk is a primary school, which among other things offers a flexible school entrance phase (FLEX). Since the 2008/09 school year it has been located in the former comprehensive school building in the east of the city.
  • Herbert Quandt Primary School Pritzwalk.
  • At the Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe-Gymnasium there has been an Abitur education since the 1950s. The grammar school has placed its emphasis on mathematics and science education. The cooperation with partners from business and society is intensified. For the 2008/09 school year, all-day operation was set up in an open form. For the 2009/10 school year, the conditions improved further with the construction of a new cafeteria and two classrooms for the creative area. At the same time, the entire building was networked so that modern communication is possible from every classroom.
  • The Freiherr-von-Rochow-Oberschule Pritzwalk (former secondary school) is an all-day school and was refurbished with subsidies to improve learning conditions. One focus of the training at the Freiherr-von-Rochow-Schule is the multimedia use of computer technology in all areas of teaching as well as practical learning.
  • The school with the special educational focus “learning” Pritzwalk (special needs school) was renovated in 2008/09, which improved the learning conditions and environment.
  • Department II of the Prignitz Upper School Center offers various courses with a focus on business, administration and agriculture.
  • The KMG Bildungsakademie gGmbH runs a school in Pritzwalk for training nurses and geriatric nurses. The practical training takes place in KMG facilities throughout Prignitz.
  • Bildungsgesellschaft mbH Pritzwalk was founded in 1991 to promote vocational training. Today, in addition to training the disadvantaged at school, she also takes care of the promotion of talented young people in cooperation with the Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences.

Medical supplies

The KMG Kliniken plc operates in Pritzwalk a clinic with a focus on surgical, gynecological and geriatrics.

On site there are specialists in eye diseases, gynecology, skin diseases, ENT, children as well as general practitioners and dentists.

freetime and sports

The Pritzwalker Hainholz on the northern edge of Pritzwalk is a local recreation area with a forest swimming pool, forest and adventure training garden, petting zoo and skate park. The Prignitzer Eisenbahn GmbH set up a stop in Hainholz from June 1st to September 18th. The Pritzwalk-Sommersberg airfield and the Pritzwalk-Kammermark glider airfield are available for sightseeing flights and other aviation activities, especially on weekends .

In the district of cuckoo were Prignitzer Kuckuck Kickers home, the club to which temporarily many Brazilian substitute football player.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Gerhart Bollert (1870–1947)
Kathrin Menges (* 1964)

Personalities associated with Pritzwalk

literature

  • Lieselott Enders (. Ed): Historical gazetteer for Brandenburg - Part 1 - Prignitz - N-Z . In: Klaus Neitmann (Ed.): Publications of the Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv (State Archive Potsdam) - Volume 3 . Founded by Friedrich Beck. Publishing house Klaus-D. Becker, Potsdam 2012, ISBN 978-3-88372-033-3 , pp. 677 ff .
  • Tourist Association Pritzwalk e. V. (Ed.): Pritzwalk. Illustrated book. Stadt-Bild-Verlag, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-942146-15-9 .

Web links

Commons : Pritzwalk  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Prizwalck in the Topographia Electoratus Brandenburgici et Ducatus Pomeraniae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

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. ^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. City of Pritzwalk
  3. ↑ Albert Guthke: Pritzwalk - Vorzeit and German early. In: 700 years of the city of Pritzwalk. Pritzwalk City Council, 1956, pp. 5–9.
  4. ↑ Johannes Schultze: From the time when Pritzwalks was founded. In: 700 years of the city of Pritzwalk. City Council of Pritzwalk, 1956, pp. 10-12.
  5. ^ Gerhard Kellermann: The industrialization of cloth production in Pritzwalk. In: 700 years of the city of Pritzwalk. City Council Pritzwalk, 1956, pp. 20-25.
  6. ↑ Rotraut Pelzer, Susanne Pelzer: From the manufacture to the monopoly. On the development of the cloth industry in Pritzwalk. In: 700 years of the city of Pritzwalk. City Council Pritzwalk, 1956, pp. 20-25.
  7. ↑ Benno Prieß: Shot at dawn . Self-published, Calw 2002. Co-editor: State representative for the documents of the State Security Service of the GDR. ISBN 3-926802-36-7 , p. 222.
  8. ↑ a b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states. Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
  9. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2001
  10. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2002
  11. ↑ Historical municipality register of the State of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Prignitz district , pp. 26–29.
  12. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2017 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
  13. ^ 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)
  14. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
  15. ↑ Brockmann says neither yes nor no . In: Märkische Allgemeine , November 24, 2016.
  16. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 74
  17. ^ Result of the mayoral election on September 24, 2017
  18. ↑ Lieselott Enders : On the coat of arms of the city of Pritzwalk. In: 700 years of the city of Pritzwalk. Pritzwalk City Council, 1956, pp. 17-18.
  19. ↑ Coat of arms information on the service portal of the state administration of Brandenburg
  20. ↑ Walter Casimir: Thoughts of a friend from home about the name Pritzwalk. In: 700 years of the city of Pritzwalk. Pritzwalk City Council, 1956, pp. 17-18.
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  22. ↑ pritzwalk-info.de
  23. ^ Albert Guthke: Seven years of the Pritzwalk district home museum. In: Pritzwalk and Prignitz. Publication of the local history museum in Pritzwalk. 1961, pp. 140-156.
  24. ↑ lbv.brandenburg.de: PDF (3 MB)
  25. ↑ E.ON builds a prototype for generating electricity from hydrogen. ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: steckdose.de , November 14, 2011, accessed on November 16, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.steckdose.de
  26. ↑ spiegel.de May 7, 2019: The delayed energy revolution
  27. ↑ Michael Beeskow: Rail traffic to Putlitz before the end - passenger transport will be discontinued in December / further timetable changes from August 6th . In: Märkische Allgemeine . Potsdam August 1, 2012 ( online ( memento from January 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) [accessed on January 3, 2016]). Rail traffic to Putlitz before the end - Passenger transport will be discontinued in December / Further timetable changes from August 6th ( memento of the original from January 6th, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.maerkischeallgemeine.de
  28. ↑ Prignitz district (ed.): Further maintenance of the Putlitz - Pritzwalk route . Press release. Perleberg November 9, 2012 ( online ( memento from January 5, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ) [accessed January 3, 2016]). Further maintenance of the route Putlitz - Pritzwalk ( memento of the original from January 5, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wp11171176.server-he.de
  29. ↑ Prignitzer Cuckoo Kickers. (No longer available online.) Www.rodgaufussball.de, February 19, 2010, archived from the original on October 12, 2013 ; Retrieved October 11, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rodgaufussball.de