Ragow (Ragow-Merz)

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Ragow
Community Ragow-Merz
Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′ 43 ″  N , 14 ° 18 ′ 2 ″  E
Height : 47 m above sea level NN
Area : 17.29 km²
Incorporation : June 1, 2002
Incorporated into: Ragow-Merz
Postal code : 15848
Area code : 03366
Ragow (Brandenburg)
Ragow

Location of Ragow in Brandenburg
Village pond in Ragow
Village pond in Ragow

Ragow ( Lower Sorbian Rogow ) is part of the municipality of Ragow-Merz , a municipality in the Oder-Spree district ( Brandenburg ), which is administered by the Schlaubetal Office. Ragow was an independent municipality until the merger on June 1, 2002 with Merz.

geography

Ragow is located 4.5 km northeast of Beeskow , just under 10 km southwest of Müllrose and just under three kilometers west-southwest of Merz . The district of Ragow borders in the north on the district of Neubrück , in the east on the city of Müllrose and the district of Merz, in the south over a short distance on the city of Beeskow and the district of Oegeln , in the west again on the city of Beeskow and the Radinkendorf district .

In the west, the boundary of the district is formed by the Spree . Further noteworthy flowing waters are the Karauschgraben in the north, which leads to and from the Karauschsee, which is now silted up , and flows into the Spree. The Ragower main ditch runs in the south of the district. The only larger spring is worth mentioning, the Helenenquelle (location:) northeast of the town center. The center is at 51  m above sea level. NHN . The highest point in the district is the Great Schwarzberg at 97.8  m above sea level. NHN , the Kleine Schwarzberg west of it reaches 71.9  m above sea level. NHN . The lowest point of the district is the mean level of the Spree at just under 42  m above sea level. NHN . The Spitzberg in the northern part of the district reaches 56.1  m above sea level. NHN . World icon

The Ragower Ablage and Försterei Schwarzheide residences are located in the Ragow district or in the Ragow district. Historically, the Ragower Mühle residential areas (as an exclave) and the Ragow Sheep Farm (or Mutton Stall), which no longer exist, belonged to Ragow. Around the middle of the 19th century there was a hunting lodge southeast of the Karauschsee, which is now almost silted up.

history

In the confirmation of the boundaries of the city of Beeskow on February 12, 1344 by the Brandenburg Margrave Ludwig , the place is mentioned as Rogow for the first time. The name is derived from an old Polish basic form * Rogov- Horn, headland, angle, or after a personal name * Rog . Rogov refers to a settlement on a horn or an angled place, or is to be interpreted as the village of a Rog. The spelling of the name changes from ze Rogow in 1344, via Bewden to Rago (1490), zcu Ragow (1521), until Ragow became the only spelling in 1652 . According to the village structure, it is a street perch village with an estate.

Ice cellar, the rest of the old knight's seat
Palace complex in the park
Coat of arms of the von Witte at the castle
church
Epitaph of pipe
Grave slab from pipe

In 1393 Johann von Bieberstein zu Sorau and Beeskow donated interest, grain and seven free hooves in Ragow and Görzig to the town church, the hospital and the St. Nicholas chapel of Beeskow.

In 1399 the city council of Beeskow pledged annual interest of 8 Schilling Groschen to Peter Richter zu Ragow, who had granted them a loan of 16 Schilling Groschen. In 1403 the city council of Beeskow took out a new loan of 16 shock groschen from Peter Richter and had to pledge an annual interest of 8 schilling groschen for it. In 1412 Peter Richter auf Ragow granted the city council of Beeskow a further loan of 11 shock groschen against an annual interest rate of 5½ Schilling groschen.

In 1455 the local rule over Ragow had passed to that of Span. At that time, Wenzel von Bieberstein zu Sorau and Beeskow had to compare the altarists of the Siechenhospital outside the city of Beeskow with the von Span brothers in Ragow because of a dispute.

In 1457, Wenzel von Bieberstein enfeoffed the unnamed wife of Nickel von Span auf Ragow with 15 shock groschen and further income as personal items.

In 1461 Wenzel von Bieberstein sold the village of Ragow with all its accessories, a lake and the fishing in the Spree to the Lubusz canon Niklas von Streumen and his brothers and enfeoffed them. In 1463, Wenzel von Bieberstein agreed to the pledge of interest of 2 shock groschen per year to the cathedral chapter in Lebus against a loan of 20 shock groschen in the village of Ragow by the von Streumen brothers.

According to Petersen, a V. Streumen is said to have sat in Ragow in 1496 . In 1508 Heinrich von Streumen's widow and Valentin von Streumen owned Ragow with the knight's seat and the Mixdorfer Mühle (today Ragower Mühle ). When the Mixdorfer Mühle was acquired by the von Streumen has not yet been clarified. The owner (s) of the Ragow and Oegeln manors, not named, had to serve the rulership with 1½ horses in 1518 (= provide horses in case of war).

In 1521 Valte Strewme (Streumen) had his knight's seat on Ragow. He was the son of Heinrich d. Ä. von Streumen, who had died before 1508. He could have already owned Oegeln at that time or acquired Oegeln in the following years. Before / around 1542 the presumed son of Valentin, Heinrich the Elder, was in any case. Jü. von Streumen owner of Ragow and Oegeln.

In 1542 Joachim, Melchior and Leonhardt sold the goods they had inherited from their father Georg, the villages of Pretschen and Wittmannsdorf to Friedrich the Elder. J. von Streumen zu Trebatsch; his brother Heinrich d. Jü. from Streumen on Ragow and Oegeln. This Heinrich died in 1553, leaving his two underage sons Friedrich and Heinrich and four unmarried daughters. In 1554 Friedrich von Streumen zu Pretschen gave his consent that the mayor and council of the city of Beeskow could divert the water from the "lazy fen" into his ponds near Ragow.

In 1577 Georg von Rohr (1508–1596), son of Kersten the Elder, bought Ä. von Rohr and Anna von Peccatel von Schrepkow, the manors Ragow and Oegeln for 14,300 thalers from a Hans von Streumen. At that time, Georg von Rohr was the governor of the state of Lebus and Hofmeister to Flecken Zechlin from Brandenburg . At that time the Ragower manor house White House was mentioned as one of the best stone houses in the district (demolished in 1984). Georg von Rohr married Hippolyta von der Groeben, daughter of Hans von der Groeben auf Meseberg and Anna von Treskow in 1557. The couple had the son Kersten d. Jü. and the daughter Sabine (around 1560-1620), who was married to Georg von Bredow on Löwenberg and Hoppenrade. The son Kersten was heir to Ragow and Oegeln. Kersten d. Jü. von Rohr was born in 1559. he was from 1597 to 1599 governor of Lebus. He also owned a share of Lindenberg (district of Groß Pankow, Prignitz district) from 1596 to 1617 and Krieschow (district of Kolkwitz, Spree-Neisse district) from 1599 to 1615 . Around 1585 he married Eva von Holzendorf, who died before 1609. He was then married to Sophia von Holzendorf for the second time. The two marriages produced 15 children. Kersten von Rohr died in 1622. In 1626 the seven sons of Kersten von Rohr divided up their father's inheritance. The father had formed seven lots , which were distributed among the seven sons Kersten, Hans Adam, Georg, Wulf, Ehrenreich, Caspar Ernst and Otto. Four of the lots consisted of knightly seats or real estate, three of the lots consisted of money. The four brothers who received one of the lots with real estate had to pay the other three brothers with money, so that each of the seven sons received real estate or money of 3,500 thalers.

  • 1st lot: half of the village Ragow with the knight's seat and half of all uses and rights, four two-hoofed farmers, four single-hoofed farmers and six kossati. Value: 10,000 thalers. This lot fell to Kersten von Rohr.
  • 2. Lot: the other half of Ragow with a place to build a new knight's seat, half of all uses and rights, four two-hoofed farmers, four single-hoofed farmers and six kossas. Value: 8,000 thalers. This lot fell to Hans Adam von Rohr (1594–1661). He sold his share to Georg and Kersten von Rohr. The construction of the new knight's seat was delayed, also as a result of the Thirty Years War. This was not yet built in 1661, a modest half-timbered house was not built until 1672, which was also not quite finished.
  • 3rd lot: the village of Oegeln with a knight's seat and accessories. Value: 6,000 thalers. Georg von Rohr (1588–1641) took over this lot
  • 4. Lot: the Freihaus in Beeskow. Value: 500 thalers. The Beeskower Freihaus fell to Wulf von Rohr.
  • 5th-7th Lot: 3,500 thalers in cash. Ehrenreich, Caspar Ernst and Otto were compensated with money.

Through this division of the estate, Ragow was divided into two parts until 1741. The two parts are mentioned in the literature Ragow A (the old knight's seat that Kersten von Rohr received) and Ragow B (the new knightly seat that Hans Adam von Rohr received).

Kersten von Rohr and his entire family had died of the plague in the catastrophe of the Thirty Years' War. his brothers Georg and Wulff (from the first marriage of the elder Kersten) and his stepbrother Otto (from the second marriage) had also died, so that in 1641 a new division of the estate took place. In the (overall) fief of 1644, in addition to the three surviving brothers (Hans Adam, Caspar Ernst and Ehrenreich), the sons of Georg, Christian Ewald and Georg Ernst as well as a son of Wulf, Wolf Joachim are named. Then received:

  • Hans Adam: Ragow A (about two thirds), Wolf Joachim received about one third from Ragow A and the Freihaus in Beeskow.
  • Caspar Ernst: Ragow B
  • Ehrenreich: Oegeln

The sons of the late brother Georg, Christian Ewald and Georg Ernst were compensated with money. They settled in Wilmersdorf .

The Ragow A

The old knight's seat had fallen to Hans Adam in the inheritance from 1641. Hans Adam von Rohr (* around 1594, + before 1661) had married the widow Ursula Catharina von Zabeltitz von Hänchen around 1635 , who was married to Heinrich von Burgsdorf auf Müllrose for the first time. Mülverstedt recorded an agreement on January 16, 1635 for 500 thalers of marriage money. This agreement was confirmed again on July 31, 1640. The couple had the daughters Sabina Elisabeth, who married Wolf Friedrich von Schierstedt auf Dörnitz in 1672, and Anna Margaretha, who was married to Wolf Friedrich von Burgsdorf, and the sons Kersten (1645-1730), Wolf Ehrenreich (1651-1691) and Hans Adam (* 1675, early +). Hans Adam is named in the Landreiter report of 1652 as a co-owner of Ragow. Hans Adam died in 1661. At first the widow continued to farm alone, later together with her sons.

Wolf Joachim had received a share from Ragow A and a free house in Beeskow. In 1667 the brothers von Oppen zu Krausnick and Groß Köris pledged the village of Giesensdorf and all its accessories to him for 4,400 thalers for 40 years. However, the contract was canceled only two years later. Wolf Joachim was married to Barbara Sophie von Maltitz, with whom he had a daughter. After his death in 1685, his share fell to Kersten and Wolf Ehrenreich von Rohr, who owned the greater part of Ragow A. In 1679, while still alive, he had a tombstone made for himself, which is placed at the church in Ragow. There is a gap on the tombstone for the date of death, but this was not filled in later.

In 1691 the estate was to be divided again. But before the division came about, Wolf Ehrenreich died leaving his five-year-old son Adam Ehrenreich. He came under the tutelage of his uncle Kersten. In 1712 Ragow A was then divided between Kersten and his nephew Adam Ehrenreich. Kersten, however, sold his stake to his nephew in 1714, so the division of Ragow A did not last long.

In 1722 Adam Ehrenreich sold Ragow A to Georg Philipp von Rohr, a son of Christian Ewald von Rohr, who had settled in Wilmersdorf. Georg Philipp had married Hedwig Sophie von Rohr, the daughter of Joachim Ernst von Rohr on Ragow B. Georg Philipp probably had difficulties raising the money. In any case, Adam Ehrenreich remains the patron saint of the Ragow Church until 1737. In 1737 Georg Philipp sold Ragow A to Karl Friedrich von Barfus, with whom the two parts of Ragow are reunited. Only four years later in 1741 Karl Friedrich von Barfus died in Ragow and was buried in the crypt in the Kossenblatter Church.

The manor Ragow B

In the 1641 division of the estate, Caspar Ernst had received the new knight's seat, which was not yet ready at the time (or had been destroyed again at the age of thirty). Caspar Ernst is named as a co-owner of Ragow in the Landreiter report of 1652. Even in 1661 this was not (again) built, a modest half-timbered house was not built until 1672, and that was not quite finished either. Caspar Ernst was a constable sergeant in Brandenburg. Around 1642 he married Hedwig Gertrud von Schellenberg von Wiesau in the Principality of Sagan . She brought the Wiesau estate there into the marriage. The marriage had seven children. Caspar Ernst died early in 1663. Five of the seven children were still underage at that time. At first the widow continued to farm before the inheritance settlement was made around 1675. Of the five sons, two had fallen into military service. The eldest son Kersten Sigismund received the new knight's seat and half of the subjects, the middle Joachim Ernst the other half of the subjects and the youngest Hans Baltzer a house in Ragow and 800 thalers, which however remained in the fief. The eldest son Kersten Sigismund, however, had moved to Wiesau in 1671 and entered the service of Count Promnitz. As early as 1671 he exchanged Wiesau for Liebsgen ( Lipsk Żarski ). Finally, he sold the new knight's seat Ragow B on April 20, 1710 to his brother Joachim Ernst for 6,018 thalers, 8 groschen and 8 pfennigs. Joachim Ernst von Rohr was electoral Brandenburg district administrator in the Beeskow-Storkow district. In 1678 he married Sophie Elisabeth von Blumenthal, daughter of Eustachius Albrecht von Blumenthal and Barbara Elisabeth von Schlieben auf Horst . The marriage resulted in three children, Hedwig Sophie, who married Georg Philipp von Rohr and the sons Ernst Albrecht and Adam Sigismund. The latter was mentally handicapped. Joachim Ernst von Rohr died in 1717, heir was Ernst Albrecht. He had married Catharina Hedwig von Göllnitz in 1710. The couple had seven children, all of whom, apart from their daughter Charlotte Sabine and son Joachim Balthasar, died early.

On July 5, 1737, King Friedrich Wilhelm I bought Merz and Ragow B for 53,000 thalers. He also acquired the right of first refusal for the other half of Ragow. But already on November 12, 1737 he left Merz and Ragow B to Karl Friedrich von Barfus, from whom the king had coerced the small rule of Kossenblatt with his castle for the same price. Karl Friedrich von Barfus had already acquired the other half of Ragow (Ragow A) in 1737. The Ragow and Merz property now became Allodium.

The reunited Gut Ragow (after 1741)

The two estate shares Ragow A and B as well as Merz now formed a large estate, Karl Friedrich von Barfus had appointed the war commissioner Johann Christian Pech and the chamberlain Carl Wilhelm Löwenberger von Schönholz to heirs of his property to protect the relatives of his mother, with whom he did not get along to be excluded from inheritance. Johann Christian Pech left the entire property to his co-heir, but he also had to take over the debts. In the end he received only 4,200 thalers from his co-heir, of which 4,000 thalers remained as a mortgage on the property. Only 200 thalers of bad luck were paid out in the end.

In 1743, Curd Wilhelm Löwenberger von Schönholz was solely owned by Ragow and Merz. Karl Friedrich von Barfus had the right to hunt at high altitude on his Ragow and Merz estates. This right had been withdrawn from Schönholz by the tax authorities. On the other hand, he took legal action against the tax authorities. He died in Frankfurt / Oder in 1753, but was buried in Ragow. His son Heinrich Wilhelm died only three years later and so the only daughter Louise Dorothea inherited the two estates. She was married to Carl Otto Christoph von Schwerin (1716–1766) since 1751. The marriage remained childless. The widow sold Ragow and Merz on July 19, 1780 to Major Friedrich Wilhelm Felix von Schwerin . She died on December 28, 1787. Both spouses were buried in the crypt in the church of Ragow. Friedrich Wilhelm Felix von Schwerin sold Ragow and Merz on March 29, 1790 for 105,000 thalers to the then Colonel and later Lieutenant General Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Graf von Schmettau .

Count von Schmettau sold Ragow and Merz in 1803 to the war council Wilhelm Hagemann, the former bailiff and general leaseholder of the Oranienburg office , who paid the very high sum of 200,000 thalers for it. Wilhelm Hagemann died in 1821 (or 1819?). From 1811 (until 1816) he was also the district administrator of the Beeskow-Storkowischen district on an interim basis. He was succeeded by his son-in-law, Oberregierungsrat Karl Ferdinand Becker, who had married the eldest daughter Wilhelmine of the War Councilor Hagemann. Karl Ferdinand Becker died in 1831. In 1837 his widow became the used . Secret Upper Government Councilor Wilhelmine Becker, b. Hagemann called in Ragow. Her second marriage was to Major August von Zschüschen, from whom she divorced in 1843. In 1852/53 she sold Ragow and Merz for 301,100 thalers to Count Florence Bernhard von der Schulenburg.

Bernhard von der Schulenburg had the knight's seat in Ragow expanded from 1852 onwards. From 1874 to 1881 Bernhard von der Schulenburg was district deputy and member of the district committee of the Beeskow-Storkow district. He was also a member of the State Railway Council of Prussia in 1882. In 1874 he had the estate in Ragow run by an inspector Baltzer. In 1879 a distillery is already listed under the heading of industrial plants .

In 1887, Count Bernhard von der Schulenburg sold the Ragow and Merz estates to the Royal Prussian Chamberlain and Rittmeister Hans Karl Adalbert von Witte (1848–1929). He was the son of Gustav Adolf Wilhelm von Witte auf Falkenwalde (today Wierzchlas ), knighthood director and judge judge, and the Adelaide Countess von Nostiz. Gustav Adolf Wilhelm's father, Ernst Wilhelm Witte, was raised to the nobility on January 8, 1816. He married Helene Riebeck von Weißenfeld on September 29, 1885. In 1896, the handbook of real estate in the German Empire lists a steam grinder next to the pre-existing distillery . Total assets, including the property of of Wittes was estimated in 1912 to between one and two million Reichsmark , calculated on the basis of dissipated assets and income tax . The only son Horst Wilhelm Karl (* 1886) of Hans von Witte died in 1918 in the First World War . In 1929 the manor had an area of ​​1450 hectares , of which 368 hectares were arable, 78 hectares were meadows, 956 hectares were forest and 49 hectares were unland . The property tax net amount was 9987 marks.

Hans von Witte died in 1929 and bequeathed Ragow to his daughter Marie Luise. This was since 1909 with the tenant of the estate Dietloff von Arnim , District Administrator a. D. married. In 1930, however, she divorced him. She was the owner of the estate until 1945 and was expropriated in the 1946 land reform.

Village history

In 1461 there was a Vorwerk, a mill (Ragower Mühle an der Schlaube) and a vineyard in the village. In 1576 there were 19 farmers, 11 cottagers and 2 cottagers in Ragow. Around 1600 there were 28 farmer's hooves and 2 knight's hooves. The Ragower Mühle was a two-speed watermill. A second watermill on the Schlaube (today's Mixdorfer Mühle) was a cutting mill. A shepherd, a blacksmith and a shepherd lived in the village next to farmers and cottagers. In 1626 there were 9 two-heapers, including the Kruger, and a farmer who gave the pastor interest and rent, but his services were available to the rulership. There were also 8 Einhüfner, including the Schulze and 13 Kossaten (yards). One position under the Kossatenhöfe was vacant, one belonged to the tailor and one position had already been reserved for the purchase and installation of a second knight's seat.

In the Thirty Years' War Ragow almost went under, all farmers were killed or fled. Of the 9 two-hoofed farm estates before the war, including two leased parish hooves, five were completely desolate , a farm had been turned into a manorial dairy, the children of a landlord lived in a second farm, a housekeeper in a third and a fourth Farm a winemaker. Of the ten single-hoofed farms before the war, one farm was turned into a sheep farm, a househusband sat on a second farm and a kossat on a third farm. All 28 farmer's hooves had been pulled to the two manors. Of the 12 cottages before the war, seven were desolate; a Kossät was sitting on a desert farm.

The village itself was rebuilt after the Thirty Years War in its old form, but much smaller. In 1692 only one farm (occupied by one farm) and seven farms were reoccupied from the original 30 farms and farms (before the Thirty Years War). Three other farm positions were occupied by housebuilders or Büdners. There were also two shepherds, a shepherd, a water mill and a blacksmith. Until 1978 the village blacksmith , the village church with the church cemetery, the sexton's house , which was used as a school in later years, and an inn were located on the village green . The watermill on the Schlaube had two gears, one of which was a cutting gear. The district was divided into three fields. The land was very wet and the yield was poor ( they harvested the third grain ). Also the meadow wax was bad, the occupied Hufenhof earned six loads of hay that Kossäten two load of hay. The wood that they were allowed to take from the Müllros Heide just about covered the need. Since the rulers ran a sheep farm, they were not allowed to keep sheep.

Ragow on the Urmes table sheet 3851 Beeskow from 1846

1708, did in fact re a farmer gable and eleven Kossätengiebel also a miller who pay the rent to the landlords had a blacksmith, four pairs of house people and two shepherds. In 1719 the Ragower mill on the Schlaube is described as a grinding, cutting and tampering mill. In 1745 there were two farms, a sheep farm and a sub-forester's farm ( hullier farm ) in Ragow. The number of kossas had risen to 16. The Ragower mill on the Schlaube in Saxony was a grinding, groats and cutting mill. The Schmettausche map series from 1767/87 shows the Vorwerk Karausch at Karauschsee, which is otherwise not mentioned in the literature. It is missing in the original table sheet 3751 from 1844, but the Ragow sheep farm is entered a little further to the east; it is very likely that the two settlements are identical. The Schmettausche Kartenblatt shows the vineyard mentioned several times north of Ragow. The vineyard is no longer drawn in the Urmes table sheet, but the Luch to the north is called Weinbergsluch. Peat mining took place there. In the Schmettauschen map series from 1767/87 the (sub) forester Schwarzheide is already present (as sub forester ). But the Ragower filing is still missing, which is only entered in the Urmes table sheet ( Fischerhaus there ). The Ragower Försterei, on the other hand, is in the Merz district. It is still missing in the Schmettauschen map series, but is present in the original table sheet.

Another significant increase in population took place until 1775. 15 Kossäts, 27 Büdner and others are now mentioned; Ragow had a total of 193 inhabitants at that time. There were 37 fireplaces in the village , including three in apartment buildings. By 1801 the population had risen to 231 people. Bratring now names 18 whole cottages and 11 residents, including a wheel maker, a blacksmith and a Krüger, a total of 32 fireplaces. The forester named under Ragow was responsible for 375 acres of forest and 6 acres of vineyards.

1837 belonged to Ragow (village and manor) the Etablissements Ragower Ablage, Forsthaus and Vorwerk Ragower Försterei, the Ragower Watermill and the Ragower Vorwerk or Hammelstall (Ragower Schäferei). A total of 34 residential buildings were registered in Ragow. Around the middle of the 19th century, the parish and manor districts emerged. While the parish comprised only 869 acres, the manor counted 5406 acres. Of the parish's 869 acres, 9 acres were homesteads, 50 acres in garden land, 395 acres in arable land, 62 acres in meadow, 127 acres in pasture, and 226 acres in forest. The manor's 5406 acres were divided as follows: 17 acres of homesteads, 37 acres of garden land, 1,544 acres of arable land, 202 acres of meadow, 112 acres of pasture, and 3,494 acres of forest.

In the middle of the 19th century there was a distillery , 2000 semi-processed sheep , as well as a cattle breeding of the Oldenburg breed in town. In 1858 there was a public building in the district, 23 residential buildings and 42 farm buildings including a steam grain mill. In the manor district there were 8 residential buildings and 19 farm buildings including a distillery. Not included are the Karauschsee hunting lodge, the Ragower sheep farm or mutton barn and the Ragower Mühle exclave. A residential building and 5 farm buildings belonged to this residential area.

In 1872 there were 11 residential buildings with 156 inhabitants in the area of ​​the Ragow manor. In the Vorwerk Hammelstall, 12 people lived in the only residential building there. In the Ragower watermill there were 13 people and in the Ragower Ablage three people each in a house.

On July 8, 1893, a telegraph auxiliary office opened in the post office in Ragow . Von Witte was re-elected as Deputy Head of the Merz District.

In 1900 there were 22 residential houses in the municipality and 11 houses in the manor district. In 1931 the number of houses had already risen to 41 houses. In 1939 there was one large farm with over 100 hectares, three farms with 20 to 100 hectares

After the Second World War, 1427 hectares were expropriated and divided up in the land reform. 40 farm workers and landless farmers received 346.5 hectares, 4 poor farmers received 19 hectares, 21 resettlers received 166 hectares and one worker or employee 0.5 hectares. 400 hectares were ceded to the communities of Bornow and Kohlsdorf and the town of Beeskow, and to the Committee for Mutual Farmers Aid 15 ha. The provincial administration kept the majority of the former property with 462 ha. The Soviet headquarters in Beeskow reserved 5 hectares, and 5 hectares of forest were given to an old farmer.

In 1953, the first formed LPG type I. A year later, a LPG type III was founded. In 1960 LPG Type I had 23 members from 15 companies and cultivated 173 hectares of usable area. The LPG type III had 70 members from 37 companies and cultivated 407 hectares of usable area. In 1969 the LPG Type I and the LPG Type III were connected.

Population growth from 1774 to 2018
year 1774 1801 1818 1837 1858 1871 1895 1910 1925 1939 1946 1950 1964 1971 1981 1991 2001
Residents 193 231 199 232 293 352 311 234 314 279 356 416 344 295 255 246 330

Communal history

In the late Middle Ages, Ragow belonged to the Lower Lusatian rule Beeskow , which was pledged to the Bishop of Lebus Dietrich von Bülow by Ulrich V. von Bieberstein in 1518, together with the rule of Storkow that followed to the west . The Lower Lusatia (the former Margraviate of Lusatia) and thus also the Beeskow and Storkow lords were in turn fiefs of the Bohemian crown. However, the area between the Spree in the west and the Oder in the east still belonged to the state of Lebus and not to the margraviate of Lausitz around 1200 . The southern border ran roughly south of Neuzelle to Niewisch am Schwielochsee . Around 1250 the area fell to the Lausitz region . The last evidence of this original affiliation to the Lebus region was the church affiliation of the villages Ragow, Merz and Oegeln to the diocese of Lebus in the late Middle Ages.

After the male line of Bieberstein became extinct in 1551, the fief nominally fell back to the Bohemian crown, but initially remained with the Bishop of Lebus as a pledge. In 1555/56 the pledge came from the Bishop of Lebus to the Brandenburg Margrave Johann von Küstrin , who ruled Beeskow until his death in 1571. After the death of Johann von Küstrin in 1575, the Brandenburg Elector Johann Georg was enfeoffed with the Beeskow rule, which now (together with the Storkow rule) became part of the Mark Brandenburg . However, the Beeskow and Storkow lordships remained nominally a Bohemian fiefdom until 1742.

The Beeskow-Storkowische Kreis gradually emerged from the Beeskow and Storkow dominions in the 17th century . In 1816, however, the two (earlier) lords were separated. The (former) rule of Beeskow was combined with the Krumspree district to form the district of Lübben- (Beeskow), the (former) rule of Storkow was combined with the Teltow district to form the Teltow-Storkow district . The district of Lübben- (Beeskow) was assigned to the administrative district of Frankfurt an der Oder, while the district of Teltow-Storkow remained with the administrative district of Potsdam . In 1835 this district division (and the separation of the two previous dominions) was reversed and the two former dominions were combined to form the Beeskow-Storkow district . In the course of the 19th century, the municipality and the manor district of Ragow developed. The municipality of Ragow only covered 246 hectares, while the Ragow estate comprised 1468 hectares.

In 1874 administrative districts were established in the province of Brandenburg. Head of the District No. 22 Merz, to which each municipality and manor district Merz, Ragow and Oegeln belonged, was the Rittmeister a. D. Bernhard von der Schulenburg. His deputy was the inspector Baltzer in Ragow. Before 1898, the Ragower Mühle exclave was attached to the Schernsdorf community . In 1928 the municipality and manor district Ragow were combined to form the rural municipality of Ragow. In 1929 parts of the disbanded manor district of Müllrose Forst were incorporated into the rural community of Ragow. In 1931, the rural community of Ragow had the residential areas Ragower Ablage, Forsthaus Schwarzheide and the forest workers' farms Neuhaus and Schwarzheide. At that time, the district covered 1729 ha.

In a first district reform in 1950 in the former GDR, the Beeskow-Storkow district was dissolved. From 1950 to 1952 Ragow belonged to the Fürstenwalde district. In a second district reform in 1952, the Beeskow district was newly formed; it was much smaller than the former Beeskow-Storkow district. Ragow now moved to this new district of Beeskow. The Beeskow district was renamed the Beeskow district after the fall of the Wall . It went up in 1993 in the new Oder-Spree district. In the course of the community reform in 1992 in the state of Brandenburg, offices were created to administer the many small communities. Ragow together with ten other communities and the city of Müllrose formed the office of Schlaubetal . On June 1, 2002, Ragow and Merz merged to form the municipality of Ragow-Merz. The Ragow-Merz municipal council consists of nine members who elect a chairman and two deputies from among their number. Ragow therefore no longer has its own local authority. The chairman of the Ragow-Merz municipal council is currently (2018) Werner Gröschke.

Church affiliation

Ragow was a daughter church of Merz in 1600 and 1897. In 1625, 1750 and 1837 Oegeln was churched in Ragow. Two Pfarrhufen belong to the parish, the patronage belonged to the landowner. Ragow belonged to the diocese of Lebus. The prelate of the Lubusz cathedral chapter Martin Schulz ( Martini Sculteti ) was entitled to the bishop's tithing of 28 hooves amounting to four groschen per hoof.

Monuments and sights

The state of Brandenburg's list of monuments for the Oder-Spree district has three

Soil monuments

  • No. 90937 Merz Flur 2 / Ragow Flur 1: a settlement from the Roman Empire
  • No. 90735 Neubrück Flur 11 / Ragow Flur 6: a Neolithic settlement
  • No. 90889 Ragow Fluren 1 and 2: the village center of modern times, the village center of the German Middle Ages
  • No. 90895 Ragow Fluren 1 and 2: a settlement from prehistory, a settlement from the Neolithic
  • No. 90894 Ragow Corridor 1: a Neolithic settlement

Architectural monuments

  • No. 09115386 Dorfstrasse 49 Ragow village church. The Ragow village church is a rectangular, late medieval field stone building. The extension in the east, which serves as a sacristy and crypt , was not built until the 18th century. In the second half of the 19th century, a small extension was made on the west side and the roof tower was built from brick and half-timbered houses . The church, which has been a listed building since 1984, was renovated from 1993 to 1995.
  • No. 09115181 Parkstrasse 1, 2 Manor complex with manor house, manager's house, horse stable and manor park with hereditary burial, ice cellar, orchard, gardening and enclosure ditch. This was designed as a two-storey, simply structured plastered building , with a hipped roof and a transverse rectangular tower . Under Hans von Witte another expansion took place in 1887 and 1900. The approximately 100,000 m² park was divided in 1998. Since then, one fifth has been owned by Edith von Heydebrand and the Lasa , the remaining four fifths are owned by the municipality of Ragow. This had its part renovated in 2001 and 2002.

Infrastructure

traffic

The federal highway 87 , which connects Beeskow and Frankfurt (Oder) , runs through Ragow . The place can be reached by public transport using the Oder-Spree bus , line 442, in the Berlin-Brandenburg transport association, which connects to Beeskow. The nearest train station is in Beeskow, on the Frankfurt (Oder) –Königs Wusterhausen railway line .

education

There are schools in Beeskow available.

societies

Companies

In the local industrial park there is a larger agricultural technology company, in the village the seat of a suckler cow husbandry and beef company .

tourism

Ragow benefits from the favorable traffic situation on the B 87 . Popular excursion destinations in the Schlaubetal Nature Park can be easily reached from here . There is a private llama and alpaca breeding facility in the village next to the park of the former castle . There is a riding school in the park.

Nature reserves

The small Karauschsee nature reserve and a large part of the Schwarzberge and Spreeniederung nature reserve are located in the district .

literature

  • Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus : Land book of the Mark Brandenburg and the Markgrafthum Nieder-Lausitz in the middle of the 19th century; or geographical-historical-statistical description of the Province of Brandenburg, at the instigation of the State Minister and Upper President Flottwell. Second volume. 650 p., Printed and published by Adolph Müller, Brandenburg 1855. Online at Google Books (hereinafter abbreviated to Berghaus, Landbuch, Vol. 2 with corresponding page number)
  • Paul Rogalla von Bieberstein (Eds. Albert Hirtz, Julius Helbig): Documentary contributions to the history of the noble lords of Biberstein and their goods. VII, 498 p., Association for local history of the Jeschken-Isergau, Reichenberg in German Bohemia, 1911 Online University of Regensburg (hereinafter abbreviated to Hirtz & Helbig, documentary articles with the corresponding number of pages)
  • Carl von Eickstedt: Contributions to a newer land book of the Brandenburg brands: prelates, knights, cities, fiefdoms, or Roßdienst and fiefdom. Verlag der Creutz'schen Buchhandlung, Magdeburg 1840 Online at Google Books (hereinafter Eickstedt, Landbuch with corresponding page number)
  • Ludwig Gollmert: History of the family of Schwerin. Part 2: Biographical news about the gender of Schwerin. 1878 urn: nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-333719 Online at Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf (hereinafter abbreviated to Gollmert, history of the family of Schwerin, vol. 2 with corresponding page number)
  • George Adalbert von Mülverstedt (Hrsg.): Collection of marriage foundations and personal commemorative letters of knightly families of the provinces of Saxony, Brandenburg, Pomerania and Prussia . 360 p., Magdeburg, E. Baensch 1863 Online at Google Books (in the following abbreviated to Mülverstedt, marriage foundations and Leibgedingsbriefe with the corresponding page number)
  • Carl Petersen (Ed. Wolfgang de Bruyn): The history of the Beeskow-Storkow district. Neuenhagen, Findling, 2002 ISBN 3-933603-19-6 (new edition of the 1922 edition) (hereinafter Petersen, history of the Beeskow-Storkow district with corresponding page number)
  • Joachim Schölzel: Historical local dictionary for Brandenburg. Part IX Beeskow-Storkow. 334 p., Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1989 ISBN 3-7400-0104-6 (hereinafter Schölzel, Historisches Ortslexikon, Beeskow-Storkow, with corresponding page number).
  • Siegmund Wilhelm Wohlbrück : History of the former diocese of Lebus and the country of this taking. Second part. 545 p., Berlin, self-published by the author, 1829 (hereinafter abbreviated to Wohlbrück, Diocese of Lebus, vol. 2 with corresponding page number)

Source edition

Individual evidence

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