Stepenitz (Marienfließ)
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Stepenitz
Community Marienfließ
Coordinates: 53 ° 19 ′ 5 ″ N , 12 ° 8 ′ 29 ″ E
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| Height : | 68 m above sea level NN |
| Residents : | 400 |
| Incorporation : | December 31, 2001 |
| Postal code : | 16945 |
Stepenitz is a district of the Marienfließ community in Brandenburg in the Prignitz district with around 400 inhabitants. Until December 30, 2001 the village formed an independent municipality. The administrative business of the municipality is carried out by the Meyenburg office , to which five municipalities have come together to rationalize their business. The place is named after the Elbe tributary Stepenitz , the upper course of which flows past the place as a largely undeveloped and natural stream.
Monastery and place
The place is particularly important because of the oldest Cistercian convent in Prignitz, the Marienfließ monastery from 1231 . Knight Johann Gans zu Putlitz donated the monastery on the one hand to secure the border to Mecklenburg - monastic soil was generally spared from armed conflicts. On the other hand, the monastery created security for the daughters of the noble families in the Prignitz. Under the name Marienfließ Abbey , the Evangelical Church today uses the area with its park as an old people's and nursing home for diaconal elderly care.
In connection with the monastery, Stepenitz was first mentioned in a document in 1246 . The Angerdorf today has a kindergarten with after-school care, the volunteer fire brigade , a youth center and a sports center. In addition to the monastery and agriculture, two construction companies are economically important.
Two memorial stones in the village commemorate the victims of the death march from Sachsenhausen concentration camp to Schwerin in April 1945: in the center of the village and in front of the Marienfließ Evangelical Monastery .
Natural space
In terms of landscape, Stepenitz is charmingly embedded in forest and heathland, which on the course of the Stepenitz contain bank breaks and smaller alder breaks and sections similar to alluvial forests . The nature reserves " Marienfließ " and " Quaßliner Moor " belong to the area of the village. The ordinance on the Quaßliner Moor nature reserve of October 11, 1999 specifies the protection purpose:
The area is characterized by a richly structured brook valley interspersed with sandy hills in the Meyenburger Sander. The area, which is partially located in meltwater valleys that were preformed during the Ice Age, contains a large number of unaffected spring areas closely interlinked with different types of biotope such as spring meadows, alder forests, remains of wet meadows and dry birch forest areas.
The Marienfließ nature reserve finds another characterization in its ordinance:
Protection purpose ... is the preservation and development of large-scale, largely unused and nutrient-poor open-land biotopes in the area of the Parchim-Meyenburg sand areas, which are characterized by extensive gorse heaths (Genisto-Callunion) in various forms as well as large-scale poor grasslands, such as carnation grass, ostrich and silver grass lawns.
The “Stepenitz” nature reserve also covers parts of the local area. The nature reserve named after the river covers large parts of the river and some of its tributaries.
literature
- Historical Gazetteer Brandenburg - Part 1 - Prignitz - N-Z . Modifications made by Lieselott Enders . In: Klaus Neitmann (Ed.): Publications of the Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv (State Archive Potsdam) - Volume 3 . Founded by Friedrich Beck . Publishing house Klaus-D. Becker, Potsdam 2012, ISBN 978-3-88372-033-3 , pp. 852 ff .
Web links
- Stepenitz in the historical directory of the association for computer genealogy
- Office Meyenburg, district Stepenitz
- Stepenitz in the RBB program Landschleicher on December 25, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2001
- ↑ Ordinance on the “Quaßliner Moor” nature reserve of October 11, 1999. Accessed on October 7, 2012 .
- ^ Ordinance on the "Marienfließ" nature reserve of July 29, 1999. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 7, 2012 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ordinance on the “Stepenitz” nature reserve of July 23, 2004. Accessed on October 7, 2012 .
