Rogäsen

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Rogäsen
community Rosenau
Coordinates: 52 ° 19 ′ 19 ″  N , 12 ° 21 ′ 19 ″  E
Height : 35 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 264  (2012)
Incorporation : December 31, 2001
Postal code : 14789
Area code : 033832
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Rogäsen is a small village about eight kilometers north of Ziesar and 20 kilometers west of Brandenburg an der Havel . Today the place belongs to the Brandenburg municipality of Rosenau in the Wusterwitz district in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district and lies between the Karower Platte and Fiener Bruch landscapes, which were formed during the Ice Age . Northeast of the village is the 67.8 meter high Friedensberg in the Karower Platte. The Steinbach rises in the plateau north of Rogäsens and flows off to the west.

history

Castle and church in Rogäsen around 1860,
Alexander Duncker collection

The name of the village is of Wendish origin. Rogäsen, derived from a Polabian basic form Rogoz'n , means: "A place where cattails grow. The place was also written Ragoesen in the 14th century; in the 16th century it changed to Roggesen or Rogesen. The Wends migrated from the 7th . century in the region a. the village is so during or created by this wave of settlement. It was over 500 years owned by the family of Werder . the manor Rogäsen was 1421 first mentioned. Rogäsen was at the old military road Brandenburg-Magdeburg . There was A post station on the estate with a team change. Evidence is that Frederick the Great had to make a stop on his return from a troop display of the Magdeburg garrison in Rogäsen because a wheel of the carriage had broken. Friedrich stayed until the repair was finished. on the estate of the family of Werder. After that, the then district received Hans Dietrich von Werder that the king commissioned land improvement (drainage) of Fiene r break . In addition, the wooden Fiener dam leading through the break was paved.

This successful redesign prompted the king to appoint von Werder to Berlin as a secret finance councilor. In order to be able to spend the night appropriately, the king supported the construction of a mansion. The von Werder family owned the castle with fields and forests until 1848. Then the castle was auctioned off because of the insolvency of the von Werder family. The then District Administrator Gustav Graf von Wartensleben became the new owner of the manor and the manor house. On September 30, 1928 was Gutsbezirk Rogäsen associated with the rural community Rogäsen.

In 1851, after a fire in the school and the subsequent work for a new building, the Rogäsen rune stone was discovered. Its inscription has not yet been deciphered, and its age has not been determined. It is in the Jerichower Land District Museum in Genthin .

economy

Rogäsen is the headquarters of the Rogäsen eG agricultural cooperative. The heart of agriculture is milk production. The nearby Fiener Bruch is used for pasture farming. A waffle factory is located in a former steam dairy at the former train station in Rogäsen, west of the town center (on the former routes from Wusterwitz via Rogäsen to Görzke and from Rogäsen to Karow ) .

church

Ruins of the Rogäsen Church

The village church Rogäsen is the oldest architectural monument in Rogäsen. It was built from field stones at the beginning of the 13th century . In later centuries a tower tower was built with a bell with two bells and an apse was created.

The Rogäsener Church was a patronage church . As the church patron , the lord of the castle was responsible for maintaining the church from his own resources. The Rogäsen Church is a partial ruin. During the GDR era , the structural condition of the building deteriorated and repairs were largely lacking. As a result, services were discontinued in the early 1970s. In 1978 the roof of the church was demolished and the interior was removed. A reconstruction is sought.

In the eastern choir , the altar was in front of the round arch, which is still clearly visible. The floor was covered with square stone slabs. On both sides of the church there were benches, on the top on the south side a box for the patron of the church and on the north side a box for the employees of the manor. The nave was covered with carpets and an organ was on a western gallery . Pictures depicting the biblical story were hung on the walls and the names of the Rogäsen men who had died in various wars were named on blackboards.

The extensive renovation and reconstruction of the church ruins has been underway since July 2015.

manor

South view of the manor house

The Rogäsen Manor (also known as the manor house or castle ) was built in 1780 on the foundations of a previous building. It has a simply structured facade with a balcony and a coat of arms relief above the main entrance. The castle is surrounded by a park of around 25,000 square meters. Until 1945 the castle and the property belonging to it belonged to the von Wartensleben family. Even before the Red Army reached Rogäsen, the Countess von Wartensleben had fled to relatives in West Germany. Following a decision by the Soviet occupying power , after the Second World War, as part of the land reform, the countless family property in Rogäsen was expropriated without compensation.

After 1945, a Soviet headquarters was initially housed in the palace before refugee families from the former eastern regions were quartered there. From 1957 on, the rooms were used for school lessons, and then also as a kindergarten . From 1993 the municipality was looking for potential buyers for the castle in order to prevent further deterioration. In 1997 the castle and part of the park were sold to Berlin business people who promised to create jobs in the community and to keep the castle. However, these obligations were not fulfilled and in 2000 the castle was sold to the König family. Frau König is the granddaughter of the Countess von Wartensleben, a daughter of the last owner of the palace. In 2013 the castle with outbuildings and park was sold to another private owner.

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. Müller's Large German Local Book 2012: Complete local dictionary. 33. revised and exp. Ed., Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-027420-2 , online at Google Books , p. 1168
  2. Reinhard E. Fischer : Brandenburgisches Namenbuch Part 2 The place names of the Belzig district . Hermann Böhlaus successor Weimar 1970. (p. 92 name explanation for Ragösen, north of Belzig = same etymological root)
  3. Ernst Wernicke: Descriptive representation of the older art monuments of the districts Jerichow. Halle ad Saale 1898
  4. Administrative region of Magdeburg (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Government of Magdeburg . 1928, ZDB -ID 3766-7 , p. 224 .
  5. S. Children, HT Porada (ed.): Brandenburg an der Havel and surroundings. 2006, p. 277.

Web links

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