Vogelsang (Zehdenick)

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Vogelsang
City of Zehdenick
Coordinates: 53 ° 2 ′ 1 ″  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 27 ″  E
Height : 52 m
Area : 25.94 km²
Residents : 104  (December 31, 2004)
Population density : 4 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 2001
Postal code : 16792
Vogelsang train station
Vogelsang train station

Vogelsang is a district of the town of Zehdenick in the Oberhavel district ( Brandenburg ). The place arose around 1725 from a Vorwerk, which had been established by converting a fence post at the Großer Wildzaun in the Zehdenicker Heide. Vogelsang was only raised to an independent municipality in 1929, and lost its independence in 2001 when it was incorporated into the city of Zehdenick. After the Second World War , the district was an important military base for the Soviet armed forces until 1994 .

geography

Alley on the outskirts of Vogelsang

Vogelsang is located in the north-eastern part of the urban area of ​​Zehdenick in the natural area of the Schorfheide . The federal road 109 from Zehdenick to Templin runs through the village. According to the village shape, it is a street village. Vogelsang has a share in the Kleine Schorfheide nature reserve . Vogelsang is 52 m above sea level. The small Mahnkopfsee lies on the eastern edge of the district . The north-eastern and northern boundary of the markings is formed by Schulzenfließ , Templiner Gewässer and Havel . The districts Bergluch and Deutschboden in the eastern part of the district belong to the district of Vogelsang .

The district borders on Tornow and Barsdorf in the north (both places are districts of the city of Fürstenberg / Havel ), in the east on Röddelin , Hammelspring , Storkow and Grunewald (all places are districts of the city of Templin), in the south on Wesendorf (district of the city of Zehdenick ), in the southwest to the core town of Zehdenick and in the northwest to Burgwall , another district of the city of Zehdenick.

history

Early modern age

Around 1660, the Great Elector began to rebuild the so-called "Great Wild Fence" from the Havel to the Oder, which was laid out in the middle of the 16th century and which was destroyed or dilapidated in the Thirty Years' War , to prevent the game from migrating to Mecklenburg or moving to the north to prevent lying cultivated land. To maintain this fence, a total of 12 fence-setting points were created along the game fence. Schulze von Ziethen took on one position for a fee, the rest were re-established by clearing the large forest area.

In 1704, Martin Krause's fence was first mentioned. At that time the area belonged to the official area of ​​the Zehdenick office . In 1718 this estate comprised 27 acres of fields and gardens (1 acre of 400 square rods). 4 to 6 cows were kept on 2 acres of meadow by the Hammelspringer Bridge. Around 1725, Martin Krause's fence post was converted into a Vorwerk. By clearing more heathland areas it now had 125 acres of arable land, 34 acres of meadow and 1 acre of garden (180 square rods acres). It was not until 1736 that the name Vogelsang appeared for the new settlement, probably an old field name. The name is to be interpreted as "a wooded area in which there are many songbirds".

As early as 1745, the Vorwerk also functioned as an inn. In 1755 8 cows, 4 head of guest cattle, 250 sheep, pigs and poultry were kept on the farm. In 1761 the Vorwerk was given a long lease to the Berliner Feige und Tröster. Due to poor economic management, the Vorwerk was sold to the Lehnschulzen Bahlke from Hammelspring in 1765. He had new Büdner houses built and planned the establishment of a mulberry plantation at the Hammelspringer bridge. The latter does not seem to have been realized, however, because it was not until 1803 that Planteur Pritzkow actually set up a mulberry plantation there. In 1775 there were already 5 Büdner (families) living next to the Vorwerk; Vogelsang already had a total of 27 residents.

19th century to World War II

In 1801, Dahm was the owner of the Vogelsang Vorwerk. In 1804 there was not only the mulberry plantation at the Hammelspringer Brück, but also a silk building house . In 1850 the Vorwerk and the colony became free property. In 1851, the construction of the road from Templin to Zehdenick began by the "Templin-Zehdenicker Chausseebau-Gesellschaft". The route led through Vogelsang, near Vogelsang a road house was built, in which the road money was collected. In 1852 the long-term lease of the economic inspector Daniel Ludwig Lieseberg on Vogelsang, valued at 9,324 Reichstaler, 21 groschen and 8 pfennigs, was publicly auctioned. In 1859 the Chausseehaus in Vogelsang was a stopping point for the coaches of the Oberpostdirektion, which now run regularly. In 1861 there were two ship owners with 2 sailing ships in Vogelsang. In 1882 Vogelsang was incorporated into the Forst Zehdenick estate. At that time the Vorwerk had a size of 66 hectares. In 1888 the Löwenberg-Zehdenick-Templin railway was opened. Vogelsang had a train station.

The Vogelsang forestry department was established by 1907, and a royal forester and a royal assistant forester did their job. In 1929 the Forst Zehdenick estate was dissolved and the new Vogelsang community was formed from parts. In 1931 there were 31 residential buildings in Vogelsang.

Time of socialism

Lenin relief next to a decaying café house, 2015
Former sports hall on the GSSD site, 2015
Abandoned military buildings on the former GSSD site, 2015

In the north of Vogelsang, an important location for the Group of the Soviet Armed Forces in Germany (GSSD) was established after the Second World War . The Vogelsang barracks was a new building site, planned, built and fully paid for by the GDR. Information according to which the location was established according to captured German documents is not proven and can be regarded as a false report. In addition to the staff of the 25th Panzer Division of the 20th Guard Army , the 162nd Panzer Regiment, the 803rd Motorized Rifle Regiment (came from Drögen, after the staff of the 25th PD and most of the associated TT had left), the 1702nd Fla Missile regiment as well as the tactical missile division belonging to the large unit. In addition, a support message center (STNZ) of the basic network of the GSSD was located on the site. This STNZ had nothing to do with the structures of the rest of the property and was not involved in the processes of the 25th PD. At times, more than 15,000 Russian soldiers and civilians lived in the "military town", which, next to Wünsdorf, was the most extensive built-up Russian property.

Between 1959 and 1960, the type R-5 nuclear missiles were also stationed there, aimed at France and Great Britain , among others . The R-5M systems stationed in April 1959 were a response to the military-strategic conception of " Massive Retaliation " from 1957. The main content of the conception was to place US American medium-range missiles under the command of the NATO commander-in-chief. The systems Thor and Jupiter were stationed in Europe. The R-5M systems stationed in Vogelsang were aimed at the Thor systems in England. The systems in Bulgaria targeted Jupiter in Turkey.

SS-12 nuclear missiles were stored in Vogelsang between 1983 and 1988 . This task was taken over by a mobile rocket technology base, of which only the field post number 55543 was known. The security is said to have been made for the 152nd missile brigade.

After the Second World War, VEB Vereinigte Holzindustrie Neuruppin and its part of the company settled in Vogelsang.

Since the German reunification

Since the withdrawal of the Russian troops in 1994, the huge area has been fallow. As part of conversion measures, the buildings will be gradually demolished and the site renatured. Due to the large amount of ammunition leftovers in the ground, entering the cordoned-off areas can be life-threatening.

Until 2011, the station was operated with EZMG interlocking technology, after which it was controlled by the Neuruppin electronic interlocking .

Population development

year Residents
1774 027
1790 026th
1801 022nd
1817 032
1840 058
1858 087
1925 145
1939 183
1946 217
1964 185
1971 158
1981 122
1991 108
2000 095

literature

  • Carsten Dräger: "From the Vogelsang school chronicle". Series in “Neues Granseer Tageblatt” of the “Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung” (32 parts).
  • Erwin Buchholz: The former large game fence from the Havel to the Oder: from the history of the Schorfheide. Journal of Forestry and Hunting, 1937 (1): 1–24, Berlin, 1937.
  • Lieselott Enders : Historical local dictionary for Brandenburg, Part VIII, Uckermark . 792 pp., Weimar 1986, ISBN 3-7400-0042-2 .
  • Fritz Röhnisch: The large wild fence and the settlement of the Schorfheide. Templin district calendar, homeland yearbook for 1992: 50–52, Templin 1991.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tourist office of the FVV Zehdenick eV
  2. Natural spatial structure of Brandenburg according to Scholz. State Office for Environment, Health and Consumer Protection , March 19, 2015, accessed on November 7, 2015 .
  3. ^ Sophie Wauer: Brandenburgisches Namenbuch. Part 9. The place names of the Uckermark. 391 pp., Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Successor, Weimar 1996 ISBN 3-7400-1000-2 (p. 246)
  4. ↑ Ortschafts = directory of the government = district of Potsdam according to the latest district division from 1817, with a note of the district to which the place previously belonged, the quality, number of people, confession, ecclesiastical circumstances, owner and address, along with an alphabetical register. Berlin, Georg Decker Online at Google Books (without page numbers)
  5. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Potsdam and the City of Berlin, year 1851, supplement to the 5th issue (January 20, 1851), p. 1 ff. (Separate pagination) Online at Google Books (p . 1 ff )
  6. Königlich Preußischer Staats-Anzeiger, No.76 of March 28, 1852, p. 423 online at Google Books
  7. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Potsdam and the City of Berlin, year 1859, supplement to the 40th issue (October 7, 1859), p. 8 (separate pagination) Online at Google Books (p. 8)
  8. ^ Ghost town in the Brandenburg Forest. on: einestages.spiegel.de , July 2, 2012.
  9. a b c Vogelsang Garrison / Гарнизон Фогельзанг. on: heimatgalerie.de
  10. ^ A Soviet missile base in Germany that spy planes never saw. In: BBC Magazine. October 25, 2012. (English)
  11. www.55543.ru, accessed July 17, 2013
  12. Enders (1986: pp. 1041-1042)
  13. State Office for Data Processing and Statistics State of Brandenburg Historical community directory of the State of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005 19.7 Oberhavel district PDF

Web links

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