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Coat of arms of Uetz couples

Uetz-Paaren is a district of the Brandenburg state capital Potsdam . The double village is about 13 kilometers northwest of the city center. The two parts of the municipality Uetz and Paaren are spatially separated by the wetland of the Wublitz , there is no direct connection. The shortest route between the individual locations is four kilometers. Uetz-Paaren has 420 inhabitants and an area of ​​13 km².

history

Favored by the protected natural location, there were first settlements on the site of today's Uetz as early as the Neolithic . When the motorway was being built, a Bronze Age settlement was uncovered. The present-day town was probably founded by Slavic fishermen, after Albrecht the Bear conquered the Mark Brandenburg in 1157, arable farmers followed around 1180 and established the alley village of Uetz.

The first documented mention of a settlement comes from 1313 as Vzzytz . At that time a church and a parish already existed and the village should have had between 90 and 100 inhabitants, a mention in 1354 spoke of uz . In the same year, 1354, the village of Paaren was first mentioned in a document. The land book of Emperor Charles IV from 1375 gives detailed information about the social structure of the village at that time: 15 of the 35 (tax) hooves belonged to the knight's court, two to the pastor and 18 to the farmers, who paid the usual taxes to landlords and the church contributed (lease, interest and Bede ). In 1370 the rich citizen Thomas from Brandenburg bought the Ritterhof from those von Bardeleben. He also took over the jurisdiction and the right of patronage over the church, but the vassal services (military journey) remained with the von Bardeleben. In addition to the farmers ( Hufner ) there were nine kossas who lived on a small piece of land and fishing from the Wublitz. They paid small taxes (chickens and chicken money) and were still called Wenden in 1391 because of their origin and way of life . In addition, the landlord received: ten shillings from the jug and one shilling for the plow field, 18 bushels of rye from the mill , and three talents from the fish service in the Wublitz.

Around 1460, the manor passed to the Brandenburg noble family von Hake for over 330 years , to which the two hooks in the local coat of arms are reminiscent. In 1797, Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, who later became King Friedrich Wilhelm III. the Paretz estate . The Uetzer Gut was also acquired by the king in 1832; like the neighboring Paretz and Falkenrehde estates (acquired by the Potsdam magistrate in 1803) it remained a royal casket (personal property of the Hohenzollern) until 1945. In order to reach his new country estate more quickly, a ferry was set up across the Wublitz, a dam was built through the wetland between Uetz and Paretz and the road to Paretz was laid. The ferry house in the Swiss style with ornate wooden decorations was built. In 1833 the king in Sweden had a wooden house built and built on the Mühlenberg. It was canceled in the fall of 1899 because it was dilapidated. On the Hasselberg north of the Wublitz, a round tree with six linden trees was laid out for a tea party. The avenue in the direction of Paretz also dates from the 1830s.

The Brandenburg poet Schmidt von Werneuchen (1764–1838) describes the rural idyll of the place in his poem Der Sonntag in the village of Uetz (excerpt):

How lovely are you, you beautiful village of Uetz,
Today in your gardens apple blossom veins,
Your little Gothic church, your Fischer Kietz ,
Your parsonage, your farmhouses ...
The horses are harnessed for the return trip,
The cowherd drives from the field through the streets,
You most beautiful place in the whole Havelland,
Who could ever leave you unmoved!

Even Theodor Fontane describes the village and especially his conversation with the boatman in his walking tour through Mark Brandenburg (Part Three: Havelland).

In the autumn of 1903, the construction of a dam through the Wublitz began, which could not be completed until 1905: The heaped sand sank again and again into the swampy subsoil. In the middle there was a drawbridge for shipping traffic, which was opened to traffic on August 13, 1905 and was named von Wilms-Brücke after the then district administrator of the Osthavelland district . The ferry was abandoned. This road connected the place with the Chaussee Potsdam - Nauen (today: B 273 ) and is still the most important traffic route. In the course of construction work on the motorway (today A10 ), a second dam was built through the Wublitz in 1938. During the construction of this dam, 340,000 m³ of sand were heaped up. Since the moor is 24 to 30 m deep here, the sand for the motorway embankment was blown into the moor in order to find a firm hold on the muddy ground. According to a report by the village teacher, these explosions are said to have been the largest civilian explosions to date in Germany and were filmed by Ufa .

The upper course of the Wublitz was also cut off by building canals ( Nauen-Paretzer Canal from 1913 , Havel Canal from 1951 ). As a result, this section of the Wublitz silted up very heavily and today nothing is reminiscent of the former lake-like character and the abundance of fish.

Origin of name

The name Uetz is of Slavic origin and probably means place where people of a man named Uch live .

politics

Administrative affiliation

On January 1, 1961, the places Uetz and Paaren were merged into a new municipality. In the course of the administrative reform, the municipality of Uetz-Paaren was forcibly incorporated into Potsdam as a district on October 26, 2003 . A corresponding lawsuit against it was rejected by the state constitutional court.

In the church organization of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia, the place is not yet unified. Uetz belongs to the parish Töplitz or to the Protestant parish Alt- Töplitz (city Werder (Havel) , district Potsdam-Mittelmark ), while couples are counted in the parish Fahrland.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Uetz couples
 Blazon : “In gold one made of a silver wave shield base, in it three blue wave beams, growing continuous black boat side wall, covered with three golden threads, growing behind it a blue-clad ferryman in natural colors with golden hair, holding a golden ferry pole in both hands at an angle, above left and right with a black hook each, the left one turned to the left. "
Justification of the coat of arms: The ferryman reminds of the ferry service established in the 18th century across the Wublitz, symbolized in the base of the wave shield. The two black hooks come from the coat of arms of the Brandenburg aristocratic family von Hake , who were lords of the Paretz manor from ~ 1460 to 1797. The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Frank Diemar .

Attractions

Neo-Gothic church in Uetz

economy

An important economic factor in the village is the riding center with the Kleiner Immenhof riding school .

Sons and daughters of the place

  • Karl August Friedrich Hollmann (born December 31, 1776 - † May 27, 1858). The Hollmannsche Wilhelminen Amalienstiftung to support civil servant widows and daughters was founded in 1829 on Koppenplatz in Berlin by the Berlin merchant Karl Friedrich August Hollmann, cloth and silk merchant.
  • Peter Christian Friedrich Witte (born March 16, 1822 - † November 27, 1902), a street in Berlin-Wittenau and a primary school are named after him.

literature

  • Theodor Fontane: Walks through the Mark Brandenburg. Third part: Havelland. Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-7466-5703-2 .
  • Gerd Heinrich: Brandenburg culture atlas. 2nd Edition. Scantinental, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-00-019684-6 .
  • Johann Heinrich Lehnert: The life of Friedrich Wilhelm III. King of Prussia in Paretz. Märkischer Verlag, Wilhelmshorst 2001, ISBN 3-931329-29-1 .
  • Sabine Rakitin: For whom no hour strikes. In: Märkische Oderzeitung Journal. 20./21. May 2006, p. 1.

Web links

Commons : Uetz pairs  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003
  2. ^ Judgment of the Land Constitutional Court of Brandenburg
  3. ↑ Parish Töplitz
  4. ^ Parish parish Fahrland

Coordinates: 52 ° 28 '  N , 12 ° 56'  E