Schäpe

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Schäpe
City of Beelitz
Schäpe coat of arms
Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ′ 35 ″  N , 12 ° 53 ′ 59 ″  E
Height : 44 m
Area : 11 km²
Residents : 155  (March 6, 2015)
Population density : 14 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 2001
Postal code : 14547
Area code : 033204
Schäpe (Brandenburg)
Schäpe

Location of Schäpe in Brandenburg

Schäpe is a district of the town of Beelitz in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in the state of Brandenburg .

geography

The place is located 28 kilometers southwest of the state capital Potsdam off the B 246 between Beelitz and Brück on the western edge of the Nuthe-Nieplitz nature park .

History and etymology

Schäpe was first mentioned on August 9, 1342 as Scheep in a document from Margrave Ludwig . The name probably comes from Slavic and means place where Schindmarus, Klepper are . The first five settler families were of the Catholic faith. They were supported by monks from the Mauritius monastery in Magdeburg in the reclamation of the land, who had sponsored the village. Experts suspect that the first houses were where the building numbers 6, 8, 11 and 21 including the playground are located in the 21st century. The Reformation reached the place in 1539. In 1634 two more families moved to Schäpe, which developed into an irregular alley village . In the years 1770 to 1771 they built a school and a church together. In 1772 the farmers in Schäpe grew the potato for the first time by order of the Prussian government ; a year later, Frederick the Great had mulberries planted for silkworms in this place . There was an economic boom, so that shortly before the end of the 18th century in 1797 the first restaurant opened in the village.

In 1824 lightning struck the church and destroyed the sacred building . Three years later the parish erected a new building on its foundations based on a design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel , which was supplemented with a tower 37 years later. On April 22, 1833, the place was almost completely destroyed in a fire. So that this could not happen again, the residents dug a fire trench. However, he could not prevent that on May 31, 1882 another good third of the place was devastated by fire. The Schäper then gradually rebuilt all the buildings up to 1902 and replaced the clay framework with thatched roofs with more massive structures made of masonry . In 1834 Schäpe was connected via a road to Salzbrunn. In 1844 a new school building was built. In 1920 the police seized some carbines and ammunition in the roof of the church in the course of the Kapp Putsch . On November 20, 1923, the place was connected to the electricity network - the school was illuminated. With effect from June 1, 1933, the volunteer fire brigade was founded. During the Second World War , the place was seriously affected: six barns and five stables were completely destroyed at the end of the fighting, six houses, one stable and the church were badly damaged. The school in Schäpe closed on July 4, 1969 - the children have been going to class in Beelitz ever since. In 1978 a funeral hall was built.

Until it was incorporated into Beelitz on December 31, 2001, Schäpe was an independent municipality that belonged to the district of Zauch-Belzig in the 19th and 20th centuries until its dissolution . In 2010, a support association was founded to promote the renovation of the church. In 2014 Schäpe received its own coat of arms. In 2015 a museum opened in an old forge showing the local history of Schäpe.

coat of arms

Schäpe coat of arms
 Blazon : “In front a silver figure in red, consisting of four rods adjoining above and below, in the middle circularly intertwined, the two outer ones curved inwards in the middle, the two inner ones cross each other from above and below in an arched manner the middle, are bent upwards or downwards at the edge of the figure and connected in a semicircle, so that two almond-shaped loops inclined upwards or downwards are created, with a rising silver horse at the back. "
Reasons for the coat of arms: In relation to the historical roots of the village, the combination of the background colors red - white (or silver) was used and is thus based on the colors of the Mark-Brandenburg region.

The horse is related to the place in several respects: The name Schäpe comes from Slavic and means “place where Schindmarus or Klepper are”. While horses used to work in agriculture to the point of exhaustion, today they play a major role in horse breeding, equestrian sports and tourism. With around 200 animals there are more horses than inhabitants in the village. The horse is supposed to symbolize the will and strength to ascend. The four-strand, interwoven ornament stands for solidarity. It can be found in the Schinkel Church on almost all column capitals . There the four strands awaken associations with the four evangelists, the four currents of paradise, the four cardinal points, the four seasons, the four elements. But they could also be seen as rows of asparagus, which also make up Schäpe.

The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Ismet Salahor from Frankfurt and was added to the German local coat of arms at the HEROLD on October 31, 2014 under the number 35BR.

Culture and sights

Schäpe village church

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Bundesautobahn 9 ( Berlin - Munich ) crosses the district from the southwest to the northeast. The Beelitz junction leads to the B 246 , which crosses Schäpe in a west-east direction. From the Schäpe stop on Wittbriezener Straße there is a bus connection with line 647 to Beelitz, which is served several times a day.

Established businesses

In particular, there is a farm that sells asparagus on a farm, a car dealership, an advertising studio, a riding school and several tourist accommodations .

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Beelitzer Nachrichten, Volume 26, No. 3, Page 9 on yumpu.com, accessed on January 28, 2018
  2. ↑ State of Brandenburg, Ministry for the Environment, Health and Consumer Protection (MUGV) ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2010 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. (PDF; 926 kB) Map of the Nuthe Nieplitz Nature Park with precise boundaries. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mugv.brandenburg.de
  3. ↑ Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin , Volume 13 of the Brandenburg Historical Studies on behalf of the Brandenburg Historical Commission, be.bra Wissenschaft verlag, Berlin-Brandenburg 2005, p. 149, ISBN 3-937233-30-X , ISSN  1860-2436 .
  4. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Zauch-Belzig. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  5. ^ Short chronicle of Schäpe , Schäpe website, accessed on May 4, 2016.
  6. ↑ Information on the local coat of arms received directly from the coat of arms designer
  7. ↑ Preparation for the smallest museum in Brandenburg , Schäpe website, accessed on May 4, 2016.