Retzow

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Retzow (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 37 '  N , 12 ° 41'  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Havelland
Office :	Friesack
Height :	35 m above sea level NHN
Area :	14.84 km 2
Residents:	514 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	35 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	14641
Area code :	033237
License plate :	HVL, NAU, RN
Community key :	12 0 63 256
Office administration address:	Marktstrasse 22 14662 Friesack
Website :	amt-friesack.de
Mayor :	Heinrich Stumpp
Location of the municipality of Retzow in the Havelland district

Retzow is a municipality in the Havelland district in Brandenburg (Germany). It belongs to the Amt Friesack , based in the city of Friesack .

geography

Retzow is about 13 kilometers west of Nauen and 23 kilometers east of Rathenow in the Havelländischen Luch and on the northern edge of the Ribbeck Heath .

Community structure

Retzow has no officially designated districts, inhabited parts of the municipality or places to live .

history

Retzow, still written Vresowa in 1289 , is assigned to Slavic origin.

The first verifiable written mention of Retzow comes from February 17, 1269 as Rizzowe . When Maurice William Heffter 1840 mentioning is Rizzowe the "village Riez assigned," but what refute other works. The document mentioned by Heffter (Copiar. Antiq. P. 35 sq.) Is, however, the document that is available to the Brandenburg Cathedral Archives in two different versions. The first document dated February 17, 1269 can be found in the Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis - Part 1, Volume 8, and the second version (U. 653) contains the mention of the parish of the village Retzow (Rizzowe) nor the mention of the branch Pessin and Selbelang ( Selewelanc).

Retzow belonged to the Westhavelland district in the Prussian province of Brandenburg since 1817 and to the Nauen district in the GDR district of Potsdam from 1952 . The community has been in the Havelland district in Brandenburg since 1993.

Population development

year Residents 1875 537 1890 540 1910 562 1925 642 1933 573 1939 503 1946 1000 1950 966

year Residents 1964 696 1971 675 1981 554 1985 573 1989 569 1990 563 1991 584 1992 569 1993 577 1994 582

year Residents 1995 588 1996 603 1997 600 1998 587 1999 586 2000 586 2001 600 2002 606 2003 602 2004 591

year Residents 2005 585 2006 580 2007 573 2008 571 2009 562 2010 568 2011 552 2012 527 2013 529 2014 518

year Residents 2015 518 2016 511 2017 509 2018 514 2019 514

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

politics

Community representation

The community council of Retzow consists of eight community representatives and the honorary mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

• Rural community of voters: 8 seats

mayor

• 1998–2003: Walter Runge (SPD)
• since 2003: Heinrich Stumpp (rural electoral community)

In the mayoral election on May 26, 2019, Stumpp was elected unopposed with 76.8% of the valid votes for a further five-year term.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In silver, a striding, looking red lynx over a diagonal, double blue- grafted red shield base ."

The coat of arms was designed by the municipal heraldist Jörg Mantzsch in 2014 and approved by the Brandenburg State Archives on April 15, 2014, following a decision by the municipal council on March 6, 2014. With its symbolism, it ties in with the place name. The term “place of a rys” or “place where lynxes occur” is derived from the old Polish basic form Rys'ov. If a personal name is adopted, it is derived from rys = lynx (cf. Old Polish personal name Rys, old Czech Rys or Old Russian personal name Rysik). This root can still be found in the Slavic languages ​​today (lynx = pысь / ru., Ryś / Polish, pись / uk, Pис / bul.). Furthermore, the adjectives derived from "rys" also have the meaning Sorbian rysy = fox red, Czech rysý = reddish. *) This derivation explains the Retzow coat of arms with the symbol of a lynx, which is carried in red on a silver shield - in addition to the historical coincidence of the name, traditional Brandenburg colors.

A special feature is the geography of the municipality, which is characterized by a continuous ascent / descent (over 8 meters); In addition, the place has two ponds that have an inflow and outflow. For this reason, the base of the shield was bevelled to the right and grafted blue twice. The so-called grafts are symbolic of the two ponds in Retzow.

The colors of the community are: red and white

flag

The flag has two stripes in the colors red and white with the coat of arms in the middle.

Attractions

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

• Late Gothic church, a brick building from around 1500 in two sections
• Bredow's manor house, built in a country house style

Manor house of the von Bredow family

View of Retzow

Today's “manorial house” was approved as a new building in 1870 by the district administrator of the Westhavelland district instead of the previous building .

The manor house was built in the tradition of the late classical style as a simple two-story plastered building with a gable roof .

In the period from 1900 to 1909, the then owner Ernst von Bredow (1865–1909) had the house on the street front extended in the style of historicism with neo-baroque elements. The center of the facade was given a tower-like porch with a grooved base, which extended over two floors and was crowned by an oversized helmet with a lantern.

In the years that followed, the mansion was transformed again in terms of its structural structure and its use. The tower-like porch with its roof structure was removed and thus almost returned to its original shape from 1870. Its use changed from a residential building to a school building, today it sleeps a deep sleep and is waiting to be used again.

traffic

The state road 99 runs through the municipality between the federal road 5 and Brandenburg an der Havel .

The nearest train stations are Paulinenaue on the Berlin – Hamburg line ( Regional Express line RE 2 Wismar – Berlin – Cottbus) and Buschow on the Berlin – Stendal line (RE 4 Rathenow – Berlin – Jüterbog ).

From September 20, 1901 to April 1, 1961, Retzow was a stop on the Rathenow-Senzke-Nauen district railway .

literature

• Almut Andreae, Udo Geiseler: The mansions of the Havelland , 2001, ISBN 3-931836-59-2

Web links

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

• Information about the church ( Memento from July 14, 2007 in the web archive archive.today )

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. Retzow community
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis - Part 1, Volume 8, pages 168/169 from 1847
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Wolfgang Schößler: Regesta of the documents and records in the Brandenburg Cathedral Monastery Archive, Part 1: 948 - 1487, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-8305-0189-7
5. ^ ^{A b c} Moritz W. Heffter: History of the spa and capital of Brandenburg from the earliest to the most recent times, Verlag von Ferdinand Riegel, Potsdam 1840, page 197
6. ^ Lieselott Enders , Historisches Ortslexikon für Brandenburg, T. 3: Havelland. Weimar 1972 - Publications of the Brandenburg State Main Archives, Volume 11
7. ^ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. District Havelland . Pp. 22-25
8. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2015 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
9. ^ 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)
10. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
11. ↑ Results of the local elections in 1998 (mayoral elections) for the Havelland district ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2018 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. 
12. ↑ Section 73 of the Brandenburg Local Election Act
13. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019
14. ↑ Jörg Mantzsch : The coat of arms of the municipality of Retzow, documentation on the approval process , deposited with the Friesack office in 2014 (report: Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv)
15. ↑ Jörg Mantzsch : The flag of the municipality of Retzow, documentation on the approval process , deposited with the Friesack office in 2014 (report: Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv)