Stangenhagen

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Stangenhagen
City of Trebbin
Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ′ 35 ″  N , 13 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 40 m above sea level NHN
Area : 9.2 km²
Residents : 180  (Jan 15, 2011)
Population density : 20 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : September 27, 1998
Postal code : 14959
Area code : 033731
Stangenhagen (Brandenburg)
Stangenhagen

Location of Stangenhagen in Brandenburg

Map of Stangenhagen am Blankensee
Village street
Pfefferfließ and Stangenhagen
Even today almost impenetrable: the Stangenhagen / Blankensee marshland

Stangenhagen is a district of the town of Trebbin in the Teltow-Fläming district in Brandenburg (Germany). The place has 180 inhabitants on an area of ​​9.2 km² and is located on the federal highway 246 between Beelitz and Trebbin. Until the Brandenburg municipal elections on September 27, 1998, Stangenhagen was an independent municipality. Neighboring villages are Blankensee , Schönhagen, Ahrensdorf, Hennickendorf, Rieben , Zauchwitz and Körzin .

Stangenhagen was formerly a Saxon enclave in the middle of Prussia , and its inhabitants were among the Must Prussians . Due to its central location in the Nuthe-Nieplitz nature park , Stangenhagen is geared towards cautious tourism in its village development on the basis of a local sustainability strategy .

history

Property of the Lehnin monastery

Finds in the village center of Stangenhagen suggest an early settlement that goes back to the Neolithic Age. Other early traces of settlement date from the Bronze Age . When the resident Teutons left the area during the migration of peoples in the 4th and 5th centuries , Slavs moved in in the 7th century . It is very likely that there was a Slavic castle in today's Stangenhagen . In order to connect this castle with the Trebbin and Beelitz castles , the Slavs cut through the then impassable swamp with a wide dam. Slavic rule in the region ended with the founding of the Mark Brandenburg by Albrecht the Bear in 1157.

The Stangenhagen area was first mentioned in 1216. In 1318 a feudal man of Bailiff Arnold von Trebbin , the knight Ludolf , donated the village to the Cistercian monastery Lehnin . The monastery Lehnin and the Kloster Zinna possessed the south of the later Fontane called Thümenschen angle various other lands that were relatively km far from the monasteries located around 40 and give an indication of what a great influence exercised these monasteries. As a result of a marriage, Stangenhagen and the neighboring Blankensee fell to Saxony in 1332 .

Stangenhagen and the family of von Thümen

Geographically, Fontane meant with the "Thümenschen Winkel" the area in the triangle between the rivers Nuthe and Nieplitz with the village of Gröben at the northern tip of the triangle and a line Stangenhagen – Trebbin as the southern boundary, which today corresponds to the course of federal road 246 in the area. In the center of the triangle formed in this way are the 93 meter high Glauer Berge . With its northern tip Gröben, the area is around ten kilometers south of Berlin . The namesake of the "angle" came from the von Thümen family .

Coat of arms of DV Thümen, 1663

In the Beelitz church register, a Herr von Thümen is named as the best man for the year 1281, but the great time of the Thümen family in this region of the Mark began in 1446, when the electoral Brandenburg council Hans von Thümen was enfeoffed with Stangenhagen, Schönhagen and Blankensee . The Thümens then ruled the "Winkel" for centuries. Various stories and legends have grown up around the work of the von Thümen in their fiefdom. For example, it is certain that a Thümener was one of ten Teltow knights on April 18, 1539 , who committed to the Lutheran Reformation even before the “official” introduction to the Mark . Twenty years later, the first half-timbered Protestant church was built in Stangenhagen in 1559 .

As a result of the Thirty Years' War and the raging plague in 1639 , the village was depopulated, but was repopulated from 1640. In 1727 a new church was built and from this point in time the village also had a school house. The only surviving, now partially dilapidated, half-timbered house in the village dates from around 1740.

In 1902 Viktor von Thümen sold the last possessions in Stangenhagen - like Blankensee Castle - out of financial need. The family's Stangenhagen Castle, which once stood at the end of the village green, was demolished after 1945.

While Fontane saw the residence of the family in Blankensee, located on the lake of the same name and across from Stangenhagen, Christa and Johannes Jankowiak derived from the family coat of arms that the von Thümens originally ruled from Stangenhagen. Because the coat of arms shows "a sloping picket fence covered with a bar, ..." . The only castle that was protected by a palisade fence was in Stangenhagen - hence the name component Stangen in the place name Stangenhagen , where the component hagen stands for cherished , protected .

According to another derivation, the Slavic name Körzin , "place where tree stumps, sticks are", translated as Stangenhagen and Stücken - the three villages are neighboring.

Saxony in the middle of Prussia

The text on a stone slab from 1727 on the south wall of the village church describes Christian Wilhelm von Thümen as “Bestalten Hauptmann… Sr. Königl. Mayst. in Pohlen and Churfl. Passage to Sachßen " , that is, from August the Strong , for the villages of Blankensee, Stangenhagen, Schönhagen, Graefendorf, Ketzin, Glau, Miethgen-, Ahrens- and Löwendorff. The country was Saxon - in the middle of Prussia and the Mark Brandenburg. Since the Thümens also owned "Prussian" land, they served two masters, so to speak, which was not free from entanglements, for example in desertions from one country to the other. “That was, as one can imagine,” writes Theodor Fontane, “in the days of Friedrich Wilhelm I a matter of“ importance ” [importance] every deserter knew about it, and no matter how uncomfortable the Thümensche Winkel was for the king, it was so comfortable for the refugee. "

During the Napoleonic campaign against Prussia in the Fourth Coalition War from 1806 to 1807, Stangenhagen was also occupied by the French. As a Saxon enclave and thus on the side of Napoleon, it did not have to suffer from the occupation.

Only after the defeat of Napoleon and the subsequent Congress of Vienna , which ended in 1815 and reorganized the borders, did the "Saxon Thümenland" - against the will of the population - become part of Prussia and from 1818 belonged to the Jüterbog-Luckenwalde district . The population, also known as New Prussia or Must Prussia , fought back with passive resistance , for example by not accepting Prussian money for some time. In addition, leaflets were circulating asking Napoleon to take up the fight against the "black Prussian bird" on the side of Saxony:

Wait, black bird, wait, soon Bonaparte will be back.
What you have stolen, he will repeat to us.

In 1885, half of Stangenhagen was destroyed by fire.

Economy and today's development

House of the thümenschen pig master
Pfefferfließ and new lake
Boardwalk through the swamp, bird watch tower

In the Middle Ages, a brewery gained some importance for a time. Between the 18th and 20th centuries, the village owned a water mill, a windmill and a brick factory. Otherwise the economic life in the village was determined by fishing, agriculture and cattle breeding, in particular also by Thümenschen pig breeding . At the passage to the Pfefferfließ, the big old half-timbered house of the last Thümenschen pig master, who lived here at the end of the 19th century, is currently in ruins.

The German settlement bank left part of the land that it had bought from Viktor von Thümen in 1902 together with the castle, to farmers and former farm workers. In 1919 a power supply cooperative was established for the village, and in 1922 the residents founded a volunteer fire brigade in Stangenhagen.

Today's village consists mainly of smaller settlement houses from the period after 1945, which were built for new farmers and around 60 refugees who came on a trek . "The expropriated property in Stangenhagen was divided up, the manor house was demolished and the material obtained was used for the houses of the new farmers," report Christa and Johannes Jankowiak.

During the time of the German Democratic Republic , agriculture was at the center of the village's economic life. In 1959 the first agricultural production cooperative was founded in Stangenhagen and the village was the first in the Luckenwalde district to be organized as a fully cooperative. Between 1967 and 1991 agriculture in the village was intensively promoted through the drainage work of a pumping station.

After the pumping station was switched off, many arable land had been flooded again since 1991, which forced the village to rethink. At the beginning of the 21st century, the municipality set a new economic focus on near-natural tourism , which should make positive use of the floods and renaturation. It is not known to what extent this change has effects - the population has stagnated for several years.

Renaturation and bird paradise

Pumping station and new bog formation

When the pumping station in Stangenhagen started its work in 1967, the moor that had grown over centuries was destroyed in around 25 years. The moor had its origin in the lowlands and extensive bodies of water that had formed between Pfefferfließ and Blankensee when the last Ice Age glaciers melted. Rifts , which are still left today in remnants, and reeds led to thick deposits and allowed the bog to grow by around 1 millimeter per year. With the drainage of bagged peat soil to 1981 starting at around 32 centimeters and until 1991 had fen places up to a meter in height lost.

After the pumping station was switched off in 1991, the water very quickly flooded meadows and pastures and new, smaller shallow lakes such as the Swan Lake formed between Stangenhagen and the Riebener See . The moor returns in small steps. A parallel renaturation takes place in the bird sanctuary Rietzer See near Netzen , municipality of Kloster Lehnin .

This creates another sight in the Nuthe-Nieplitz Nature Park, which is characterized by great biodiversity and which the community is carefully trying to use for tourism.

Bird observation tower and circular route

The protected, water-rich area has made a wide variety of animal species, especially rare bird species, at home again. For ornithologists and nature lovers, the community built a bird watch tower on the edge of the floodplain next to the lower Pfeffer river. Part of the young swamp can be crossed on a fifty-meter-long plank path, which, like the observation tower, is part of an approximately one-hour circular route. The path leads past the half-timbered house of the last Thümenschen pig master and offers views into and out of the hedge biotope , animals hidden in the reed beds as well as the Pfefferfließ, the remains of Elsbruch and the characteristic rows of poplar trees of the Lower Fläming along the Nieplitz.

View from the bird observation tower to new lakesView from the bird observation tower to Pfefferfließ
Views from the bird observation tower to Pfefferfließ (right) and new lakes

For more pictures and excerpts from the ordinance of the Upper Pfefferfließ nature reserve, which has only existed since 2003, see Pfefferfließ .

Flora and fauna

The water birds and waders cormorant and lapwing , the birds of prey red kite and sea ​​eagle and the songbirds black woodpecker and wren live in the vicinity of Stangenhagen . The fire-bellied toad, which is strictly protected throughout Germany, can also be found here. In autumn and spring, migrating cranes and gray geese rest in the meadows and pastures within the area . White storks and gray herons as well as swamp irises and swan flowers can be found throughout the nature park .

Development concept: Another lake

Pfefferfließ- / Nieplitztal between Stangenhagen and the Blankensee

The development concept of the community from 2003 provides for traffic calming with the construction of a bypass road, the design of the Anger and a network of footpaths. As can be read on the community board, a further concept considers “Stangenhagen as a recreational location with careful development of the natural and protected environment.” The focus of this project is a new lake, the future Stangenhagener See with a heaped sandy beach and bathing area. According to the diagram, the Pfefferfließ is expected to be dammed for this purpose below the current thoroughfare in an easterly direction to the Nieplitz. This means that the Pfefferfließ would no longer flow into the Nieplitz immediately before the Blankensee, but rather into the newly created Stangenhagener See.

See also: Fauna-Flora-Habitat Guideline , Biosphere Reserve , Tourism in Brandenburg

Attractions

The village church of Stangenhagen is a hall church from 1727 with a patronage of the von Thümen . In addition to a wooden pulpit altar , the church furnishings include three paintings from the end of the 16th and 17th centuries. Century showing scenes from the New Testament .

literature

  • Theodor Fontane : Walks through the Mark Brandenburg , Volume 4 ( Spreeland ) "An der Nuthe" - Blankensee
  • Christa and Johannes Jankowiak: On the way to Nuthe and Nieplitz. Portrait of a Brandenburg landscape. On old tracks and new paths . Stapp, Berlin 1995. ISBN 3-87776-061-9 . (In addition to the assignments made directly in the text, the quote on the destruction of the peatland is also from this book)
  • Carsten Rasmus, Bettina Klaehne: Hiking and nature guides in the Nuthe-Nieplitz Nature Park. Hikes, bike rides and walks. KlaRas-Verlag, Berlin 2001. ISBN 3-933135-11-7

Web links

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  1. Main statute of the city of Trebbin from February 18, 2009 ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2015 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; 45 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / st-trebbin-v4.dakomani.de
  2. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1998