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Stadtstelle is an inhabited district in the municipality of Prötzel in the Märkisch-Oderland district in Brandenburg .

Location and surroundings

Stadtstelle is located on the L337 road between Tiefensee and Prötzel . The hamlet with some homesteads and holiday homes is south of the road and is framed by deep forests of the "Blumenthals", a large wooded area, and fields to the south.

Coordinates: 52 ° 39 '  N , 13 ° 55'  E

Market stone / sacrificial stone city center

history

A number of myths and unsubstantiated claims have grown up around the history of the place.

Not far from today's settlement there is an unusually shaped flat boulder that has always stimulated the imagination of the people. It is often said that this stone was the focus and sacrificial stone of a " holy grove of the Semnones ", a Germanic tribe that settled between the Elbe and the Oder . Even Theodor Fontane dealt in his walking tour through Mark Brandenburg with this stone. This thesis was strongly doubted by the historian Rudolf Guthjahr in his doctorate in 1934 (see literature).

In the Landbuch der Mark Brandenburg in 1375 a town with the name Blumenthal is mentioned as one of the localities of the State of Barnim . The flat stone is said to have been in the center of the town and was known as the market stone or also the mark stone . Today nothing can be seen of the city, although Mayor Grüvel from Kremmen claims to have found man- high stone walls in 1689 , as did Johann Christoph Bekmann around 1750, Johann III Bernoulli around 1777.

Theodor Fontane visited the place in 1863 and was then convinced that a town had stood here.

Many theses are assumed to be the cause of the extinction of the place. Armed conflicts with the Pomoran tribe or with the Hussites are mentioned, but the spread of the plague is also suspected.

Today only the name of the hamlet Stadtstelle indicates that there was supposed to be a town a little further south. The settlement area of ​​the former city of Blumenthal is now a desert , only the surrounding forest and a small forest settlement north of the road still bears this name.

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