Schwanebeck (Bad Belzig)

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Field stone church with half-timbered roof turret, probably from the 14th century

The Angerdorf Schwanebeck is a district of the district town of Bad Belzig in the Brandenburg district of Potsdam-Mittelmark .

It lies on the edge of the Belziger Landschaftswiesen nature reserve and is part of the Hoher Fläming Nature Park . Schwanebeck also has a medieval stone church and looks back on a past as a health resort . The “townscape” is shaped by the Belziger / Fredersdorfer Bach, which runs right through the village next to the village street.

Location and natural integration

The village with 273 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011) is at the exit of the valley that the Belziger / Fredersdorfer Bach cut into the Fläming Heights down to the bustard protection area Belziger Landschaftswiesen in the Baruther glacial valley . Upstream to the south, the federal road 102 connects the village with the core town of Bad Belzig, about three kilometers away , to which Schwanebeck, as a former official village, was already historically connected, while many of the villages that are now part of Bad Belzig have only recently been incorporated. One of the younger parts of Bad Belzig is Schwanebeck's north-western neighboring village of Lütte , which is also on Bundesstraße 102, which is part of Deutsche Alleenstraße here and over long distances .

The direct northern neighbor Fredersdorf , only about a thousand meters away , is the only one of all the peripheral villages of the landscape meadows to have pushed a piece into the glacial valley, which is otherwise free of settlement in the meadow area. The village of Benken from the municipality of Wiesenburg / Mark is the closest neighbor to the west and, at over ten kilometers as the crow flies, a considerable distance away, as the Fläming Heights are only sparsely populated. The road distance is considerably longer, as the only connection is via the center of Bad Belzig. To the east, a small country road connects Schwanebeck with the Brücker village of Baitz , which houses the nature protection station and bird sanctuary of the Belziger landscape meadows.

Its affiliation to the Hoher Fläming Nature Park underscores the exposed landscape of the village between the wooded Fläming Heights and the glacial valley moor, which is rare for Brandenburg .

history

Fashion name Swanebeke

Belziger / Fredersdorfer Bach in the middle of the village

The village was first mentioned in writing in 1379 as Swanebeke , i.e. Schwanenbach ( beke stands for Bach in general in Middle Low German ). Schwanebeck is considered by many historians to be the fashionable name for the founding of villages or renaming of villages taken over by the Slavs during the time of the German state expansion to the east. The founding of the village was probably much closer to the expansion of the Margraviate of Brandenburg , which the son and grandson of Albrecht the Bear , the founder of the march, promoted in the late 12th and 13th centuries through a clever settlement policy. This is supported by an indirect written mention of Schwanebeck as early as 1333.

However, the Ascanian margraves and their successors from the houses of Wittelsbach , Luxembourg and Hohenzollern could not hold all territories in the ensuing internal German disputes, so that many parts of Fläming fell to Magdeburg , later Dresden , and became Saxon or Electoral Saxon . Until the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the glacial valley formed the border between the Kingdom of Saxony and the Mark Brandenburg.

Amtsdorf

All roads lead to office

Whether Märker, Saxony or Prussia - the dry, barren surroundings of their town, built on the middle Fläminghöhe, prompted the Belziger at all times to seek out moist meadows for their cattle and hay. These were found down in the glacial valley, so this is where the term Belziger Landschaftswiesen originated. Furthermore, this is the reason for the early connection of Schwanebeck to Belzig as an official village, because in this way the Belziger secured sovereign influence directly on the meadows. Between 1550/52 and 1872 the Vogtei or the Amt Belzig exercised the upper and lower jurisdiction in Schwanebeck.

spa

Around four kilometers to the north in the neighboring village but one, 32 springs seep from the Fläminghang in the natural monument Dippmansdorfer Paradies , which are accessible with a network of paths, footbridges, dams and bridges and which are still an attraction today. In Schwanebeck, the Flämingwasser provided an attraction - although it no longer existed - 300 years earlier. A 1692 discovered ferrous and 1715 found with sulfur offset Solequelle ensured the status of health resort , which was very welcome already at this time for economic reasons. The now lost altar bible reported in a dedication about the healing water , in 1715 in Schwanebeck “God the Lord let many sick and infirm people come to their health”.

The well system with the still flowing spring water later gave way to a trout farm, which has now been closed. For several years now, Schwanebeck has been able to feel as a health resort again, albeit no longer with the strength of its own healing springs, but through its integration as a district in the town of Bad Belzig. Because the city of Bad Belzig has been a state-recognized health resort since 1995 . Thanks to new facilities such as the SteinTherme with a brine spring or the expansion of the spa park and the historic pulmonary sanatorium in the country house style to create a modern rehabilitation clinic, the city center was also awarded the title of health resort with mineral springs in 2002 .

Incorporation

Schwanebeck was incorporated into (Bad) Belzig on October 26, 2003.

Attractions

Field stone church , probably from the 14th century

The medieval stone church Schwanebeck from the 14th century with a half-timbered roof tower has two figures of female saints from around 1430/40.

literature

  • Jan Feustel , Between watermills and swamp forests, A travel and adventure guide to the Baruther glacial valley , Hendrik Bäßler Verlag, Berlin 1999 ISBN 3-930388-11-1 , to the health resort and the church, pages 161f

Web links

Commons : Schwanebeck  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Theo Engeser and Konstanze Stehr, Schwanebeck village church
  2. ↑ Jan Feustel , Between Watermills and Swamp Forests , page 162
  3. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003

Coordinates: 52 ° 11 '  N , 12 ° 38'  E