Rubbed (Beelitz)

Rubbed City of Beelitz
Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′ 29 ″  N , 13 ° 2 ′ 19 ″  E
Height :	39 m
Area :	14.1 km²
Residents :	307  (March 6, 2015)
Population density :	22 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	December 31, 2001
Postal code :	14547
Area code :	033204
Rubbed in the Nuthe-Nieplitz Nature Park
Rieben village church

Rieben is a district of the town of Beelitz in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in the state of Brandenburg . The street village with its 307 inhabitants is located on the L73 between Michendorf and Luckenwalde .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1362.

In autumn 2011 49 skeletons were recovered south of the village church, most of them from the early modern period. For reasons of cost, only limited anthropological studies were carried out. Of the 33 adults, 7 adolescents and 9 children, 19 were female and 15 were male. The sex of 15 skeletons could not be determined. The average height was 160.9 cm. It was a coincidental, non-representative section of the population of early modern rubbers. Teeth and dentures were all in very poor condition. The exposure to dental caries was comparatively high. Numerous diseases could be detected in the skeletons, but these were not systematically recorded and only presented as individual cases. It was age-related degeneration of the joints and vertebrae, indications of malnutrition, infections of the upper respiratory tract and healed bone fractures.

In the 1960s there were several LPGs around the Riebener See . On several hectares of area were ducks and pigs fattened . In addition, there was intensive agricultural use of the adjacent areas. Duck fattening ended in the 1980s, and from 1991 the intensive use of the land fell sharply. Like the village, the lake is now part of the Nuthe-Nieplitz Nature Park .

coat of arms

Blazon : "In the shield, which is diagonally divided from green to blue by a silver wavy bar, three leafed golden reeds at the top, a fish placed upwards at the bottom."

Justification for the coat of arms: The fact that the Riebener See has been renatured and represents a particularly valuable biotope for fish and birds underlines its importance for the village and its inhabitants. The lake is represented by a blue area bordered by a wavy line and reeds and occupied by a fish. The fish is not only symbolic of the biodiversity in the lake, but also (Slavic) speaking for the word "Ryba". The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Ismet Salahor from Frankfurt and included in the German local coat of arms under the number 58BR at the HEROLD on February 9, 2018.

Large nature conservation project Riebener See

Through the intensive use of agriculture, significant amounts of liquid manure and chemical fertilizers ended up in the lake until 1991 . With the elimination of these fertilizers, the body of water developed into a eutrophic, clear-water shallow lake, which is comparatively rare in Brandenburg. In a major nature conservation project by the State Environment Agency, the lake and its surrounding areas have been carefully renatured . Among other things, the office developed a six-kilometer circular path that leads from the village green to the lake and across the fields back to Rieben. From the village green you come in a south-easterly direction to a near-natural forest area on which a pig fattening facility previously stood. South of the 12.8 high Kolberg, the path leads to an extensive pasture on which suckler cows are kept. The area was previously used as an intensive field with liquid manure irrigation. In a north-easterly direction you come to a boardwalk with an observation post. The only view of the lake is at the former weir. If you follow the path, you come to a dry sand lawn that was previously overgrown with wood, and then to an extensive sheep pasture, which was also used as an intensive field. In a north-westerly direction, the visitor reaches the renatured lake drain with a ford and a pedestrian bridge. This is followed by a near-natural mixed forest that replaces a pine forest. The approximately 26 hectare duck fattening facility will be used in 2015 as a near-natural forest development as well as for another extensive sheep pasture. From this pasture, the circular route leads back to the village along the country road.

Attractions

The Rieben village church was built in the Romanesque neo-Gothic style between 1817 and 1820. In 1896 the parish expand the church hall and managed to an organ. After plaster was used in the renovation of the church in the 1970s, which damaged the building, the community renovated the sacred building in the years 2006 to 2012. The renovation concept envisaged both ecclesiastical, communal and social use.

economy

Rieben is the seat of a pasture farm that has around 300 hectares of arable land . Part of the area is managed within the framework of a state-wide regulated nature conservation agreement together with the landscape development association Nuthe-Nieplitz-Niederung and the nature park. There are also other farms and an inn with a guesthouse.

literature

• City of Beelitz (ed.): Asparagus city of Beelitz - city with brains . 1st edition. inixmedia north / east, 2014, p. 42 .

Web links

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

• Page about Rieben on the website of the city of Beelitz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Beelitzer Nachrichten, Volume 26, No. 3, Page 9 on yumpu.com, accessed on January 28, 2018
2. ↑ Rieben project. In: anthropologie-jungklaus.de. Retrieved June 4, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Information on the local coat of arms received directly from the coat of arms designer
4. ↑ Nuthe-Nieplitz Nature Park: Riebener See circular hiking trail . State Environment Agency Brandenburg, flyer, no date
5. ↑ Landschafts-Förderverein Nuthe-Nieplitz-Niederung (ed.): Land in Sicht , Issue 21/2019, pp. 6 to 9.