Vorwerk Wedding
The Vorwerk Wedding was an agricultural property ( Vorwerk ) that existed from the middle of the 17th century to the middle of the 19th century. The Vorwerk formed the first settlement core of the later Berlin district of Wedding and thus of today's districts of Wedding and Gesundbrunnen .
location
The Vorwerk was at a junction of the roads to the north. On today's street map, this would be just north of Nettelbeckplatz between Reinickendorfer , Weddingstraße and Pankstraße and thus, contrary to what the name suggests, in the district of Gesundbrunnen and not in Wedding.
Emergence
The first forerunner of the Vorwerk was created in 1601, when the electoral chief chamberlain and privy councilor Count Schlick of Passau and Weisskirchen acquired fifty fields and meadows north of Berlin and ran an intensive cattle farming and sheep farm there. According to contemporary reports, Wedding was home to the largest sheep.
Shortly afterwards, Elector Joachim Friedrich took over the estate and converted it into an outbuilding. Joachim Friedrich enlarged the lands of the Vorwerk in 1635 and 1648. In 1648 it came under the administration of the Mühlenhof Office as crown and state property, which administered the electoral properties in the Berlin area.
Long lease and purchase by Berlin
In 1722 Friedrich Wilhelm I , meanwhile King in Prussia and Margrave of Brandenburg, gave up the direct management of the property. The site was put under long lease and leased to Berlin citizens. In 1817, the city of Berlin finally acquired the Vorwerk. Since Berlin also owned large areas of forest, heather and moorland in the area, a large part of the land in Wedding was owned directly by Berlin. The city took advantage of the changing framework conditions caused by the Stein reforms by promoting development and earning money. They parceled out the land and sold the individual parcels mainly to craftsmen, gardeners and small merchants. All the properties were sold as early as 1827. The Vorwerk Wedding no longer existed.
Remarks
- ↑ a b c d Karin Mahlich: On the settlement history of Wedding . In: Helmut Engel , Stefi Jersch-Wenzel and Wilhelm Treue (eds.): Geschistorlandschaft Berlin. Places and events . Wedding, No. 3 . Nicolai, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-87584-296-0 , pp. XII-XIV .
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '46.1 " N , 13 ° 22' 13.2" E