Ragosen (Bad Belzig)

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Ragosen
City of Bad Belzig
Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 26 "  N , 12 ° 34 ′ 46"  E
Height : 43 m above sea level NN
Residents : 609  (Jan 1, 2012)
Incorporation : December 31, 2002
Postal code : 14806
Area code : 033846

The street village Ragösen is a district of Bad Belzig with 609 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2012). It is 11 kilometers north of the district town of Bad Belzig in the Hoher Fläming Nature Park . In the center of the village is a church that was extensively reconstructed in 1910.

Church in the center of the village

General data, naming

The village of Ragösen borders the terminal moraine landscape of the High Fläming in the west . To the east are the Belziger landscape meadows and the Baruther glacial valley . In the north the Bullenberger Bach flows through the colony of the same name belonging to Ragösen, to the east the Temnitz . Neighboring villages are Dippmannsdorf in the south, Groß Briesen in the west and Golzow in the north . The place is accessible by the federal highway 102 running from Bad Belzig to Brandenburg an der Havel. Between the districts Ragösen and Dippmannsdorf there is a disused station of the single-track Brandenburg city railway .

Ragösen is mentioned for the first time in 1323 in a document from Duke Rudolf I as "villa Rogosene" . There, a farm with 4 hooves of land has to pay taxes to the new hospital in Belzig and the local Katharinenkapelle. The place name is of Slavic origin. He is a derivative of the Sorbian word "rogoschj", which as much as reeds or cattails means.

history

middle Ages

Border stone erected around 1580 near Ragösen.

Around the middle of the 12th century, the Belz counts , who came from the area of ​​the lower Saale, had established an extensive aristocratic rule, to which Ragösen also belonged. After the death of the last Belz count, the Wittenberg dukes took over their possessions. The changed political conditions led to new borders. Ragösen was now in the extreme north of the enlarged Duchy of Wittenberg, only two kilometers from the border with Brandenburg. The Archdiocese of Magdeburg also bordered the Duchy in the north. This location of Ragösens often had a devastating effect on the residents, because the frequent armed conflicts over territorial gains resulted in constantly changing alliances between the Duke of Saxony , the Margrave of Brandenburg and the Archbishop of Magdeburg. The result was troop movements through Ragösen, combined with harassment and looting. At the end of the late Middle Ages, several villages near Ragosen were abandoned. The causes are not known. The inhabitants of the desolate places settled partly in Ragösen. As a result of the population growth, the Ragösen parish was built around 1500 and the first church around 1571.

Customs collection office

The border between Saxony and Brandenburg in the area Brück - Ragösen - Groß Briesen was particularly controversial. Agricultural and forestry uses crossed the border on both sides and often led to arguments. In 1452 the Duke of Saxony and the Margrave of Brandenburg agreed to clarify the problem. At around the same time, an escort center (secondary toll collection point) was set up in Ragösen. The customs office proved to be very lucrative for the Saxon Elector and also enabled the castle-like expansion of Eisenhardt Castle in Belzig . After renewed border disputes, they began to be stone-laid (setting of boundary stones) around 1580. For this purpose, processed sandstones with the coat of arms of Saxony and Brandenburg were placed on almost the entire northern border of Saxony.

Bullenberg Colony

Mill pond

In 1582, Elector August von Sachsen sold the grinding mill located at the confluence of the Briesener Bach and Polzbach rivers together with the Bullenberg sheep farm to Ernst von Thümen on Klein Briesen. This was the first time that the “Forwergk am Bolenberg” was mentioned in a document. This Vorwerk developed into a settlement core in the immediate vicinity of Ragösens. In 1823 the Bullenberg colony was incorporated into Ragösen.

Thirty Years' War

The villages of Ragösen and Bullenberg also suffered from the effects of the Thirty Years' War . Of the original 170 inhabitants of Ragösens, only 90 survived this war. Construction of the village began in 1640 and the dilapidated church was repaired in 1649. But just 20 years later, a lightning strike destroyed the tower and damaged the church. In 1669/70 the damage could be repaired. In 1702 a new grinding mill was built in Bullenberg.

18th century

The 18th century begins again with hardship and misery for the residents of Ragösens. The Saxon Elector Friedrich August I became King of Poland in 1697. Because of a dispute over Polish areas on the Baltic Sea, war broke out with Sweden. The Swedes invaded Saxony in 1706. When the Swedes approached, Ragösener residents fled across the border to Prussia.

Modern

After the Wars of Liberation in 1813 and the provisions of the Congress of Vienna , Saxony had to cede almost half of its territory to Prussia. The Belzig office also belonged to the ceded areas, and Ragösen became Prussian.

In both world wars , many people from Ragös lost their lives. A memorial in the corner and memorial plaques in the church remind of the fallen and admonish the living. After the war ended in 1945, the population of Ragösens rose to 1,100 due to the influx of people who had become homeless.

Incorporation

Ragösen was incorporated into (Bad) Belzig on December 31, 2002.

Sights and culture

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2002

literature

  • Karl Backhaus: History of the village of Ragösen in the district of Zauch-Belzig. 1902.
  • Friedrich Bamberg: History of the village of Ragösen in the district of Zauch-Belzig supplemented and continued. Friedrich Bamberg 1939.
  • Author collective: Ragösen - contributions to history. Part 1. 1993.
  • Helmut Bessel u. a .: Ragösen - contributions to history. Part 2. 2002.
  • Reinhard E. Fischer : Brandenburg name book. Part 2. The place names of the Belzig district. Böhlau, Weimar 1970.
  • Bernd Meyer: Ragösen - Contributions to History Part 3. Streiflichter from five centuries. 2010.
  • Bernd Meyer: Ragösen - contributions to geology. Formation of our native landscape in the Ice Age. 2011.

Web links

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