Werder (Havel)

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Werder (Havel)
Map of Germany, position of the city of Werder (Havel) highlighted

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '  N , 12 ° 56'  E

Basic data
State : Brandenburg
County : Potsdam-Mittelmark
Height : 31 m above sea level NHN
Area : 117.05 km 2
Residents: 26,412 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 226 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 14542
Primaries : 03327, 033202
License plate : PM
Community key : 12 0 69 656
City structure: 8 districts

City administration address :
Eisenbahnstraße 13-14
14542 Werder (Havel)
Website : www.werder-havel.de
Mayoress : Manuela Saß ( CDU )
Location of the city of Werder (Havel) in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district
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Werder (Havel) is a city with around 25,000 inhabitants in the Brandenburg district of Potsdam-Mittelmark in the agglomeration of Berlin . As a state-recognized resort , Werder is also known nationwide for the spring tree blossom festival , which is one of the largest folk festivals in Germany.

geography

Aerial photograph of Werder (Havel) (summer 2006)

The city is located around 10 km and 40 km southwest of the city centers of Potsdam and Berlin in the northeast of the Zauche landscape, which was shaped by the last Ice Age . The core city is on an island in the 700 to 1400 m wide Havel at 38 m above sea level. NHN. The name of the city is derived from this, because Werder means - similar to Werth or Wörth  - island in the river . Werder is also surrounded by the Havel lakes Schwielowsee , Glindower See , Großer Plessower See and Großer Zernsee .

District Petzow, Lenné Castle Park, Schwielowsee in the background

City names

The legal designations of the city of Werder and settlement designations indicate for the years 1317, 1330, 1375 oppidum , 1459 stat , 1474 Flecken (Bleke) , 1542 civitas , otherwise Städtlein (1580), Mediatstadt (1768), Stadt (1801).

City structure

In addition to the core city of Werder, according to the main statute, there are the following districts and places to live:

Incorporations

The place Petzow was incorporated on January 1, 1926. On January 1, 1957, the then independent community of Göttin was incorporated into the community of Neu-Töplitz. On March 14, 1974, Alt-Töplitz, Leest and Neu-Töplitz merged to form the new municipality of Töplitz. At the same time, Plessow was incorporated into the community of Plötzin. By a referendum, Bliesendorf joined the city of Werder (Havel) on December 31, 1998. On December 31, 2000, the municipality of Plötzin was incorporated into the city of Werder. On December 31, 2001 Glindow , Kemnitz and Phöben were incorporated. Derwitz and Töplitz followed the wishes of the incorporation of 26 October 2003. Golm , which both the inhabitants and cherished the town of Werder, was not complied with and triggered a big argument between the advocates, the Ministry of Interior, and the city of Potsdam from that Golm was finally allowed to accept. With the new district, Werder could have carried the title University City (the University of Potsdam , several Max Planck Institutes and Fraunhofer Institutes are located there).

history

Werder probably emerged from the merging of a handicraft local market town with the adjoining church. A formal founding of the city or the granting of city rights has not been documented, nor is there any walling. The small town (oppidum) Werder is first mentioned in a document in 1317 (1375 Werder, 1450 Wehrder, 1580 Werder). On the Havel Island, among other things, finds of Slavic shards are known on the Mühlenberg on the southwestern bank of the Werder and 3.5 km north-northwest of Werder on the western bank of the Havel, in the south of Werder a Slavic castle wall is assumed (the latter without archaeological evidence). The Kietz in the Fischerstrasse area was probably the old fishing settlement.

Holy Spirit Church and post mill
Part of the island at the end of April for the tree blossom festival

middle Ages

Lithograph from 1881

On August 26, 1317, the vir strictuus Sloteko, truchess of Margrave Waldemar von Brandenburg , and his two brothers, the milites Richardus and Zabellus, sold the small town (oppidum) Werder along with 46 Hufen fiefdom in the direction of Zauche at the behest of their liege lord for 244 marks less a quarter mark of minted Brandenburg silver to the Cistercian monastery Lehnin . The confirmation document of the margrave does not represent the first mention of the city of Werder. Rather, the town, which is presumably equipped with a wooden bridge, is already mentioned in a certificate from Waldemar dated April 5, 1317. The two documents fit in with the state development of the Lehnin monastery, which is also reflected in the purchase of the village of Leest along with the interest levy in Werder in 1339, the transfer of ownership of the village of Phöben to the monastery on November 15, 1343 or the comparison between abbot and Monks von Lehnin and the von der Groeben brothers dated October 18, 1352.

The gradual development to a local craft market is reflected in the statutes of the guild of shoemakers and tanners of the old town of Brandenburg from April 30, 1424, where shoe sales are in the market towns of Rathenow , Ziesar , Potsdam , Ketzin , Lehnin , Briesen (Mark) , Werder and Pritzerbe is limited. The Elector and Margrave Friedrich II. Of Brandenburg , who had confirmed a comparison between the Lehnin monastery and the knight Georg von Waldenfels on September 20, 1459 (on Thursday St. Matheus evening) in Werder , then allowed the Lehnin monastery on October 21 1459 to hold a fair in Werder on the Sunday Laetare during Lent or on the Sunday immediately before the Martinsfest . Even if one cannot speak of a town charter , the entries on Werder in the land book of Charles IV from 1375 and as a parish of the provost of Brandenburg in the register of the diocese of Brandenburg from 1459 show that the town gradually gained sovereign and ecclesiastical status.

Nevertheless , their tariffs were pledged several times by the sovereign to the new town of Brandenburg due to financial difficulties . A weakening of the sovereign is also evident in disputes with the local nobility. In a kind of wisdom , the mayors , councilors and municipality of Werder reached a settlement with the von Hake brothers , who obviously also officiated as Schulzen , and the farmers of Geltow on December 5, 1474 about seeds , cattle pastures , rights of way , grain transport , river use , Fishing and others. In another border dispute on July 19, 1533, a certain Bastian Tesickendorf zu Werder wanhrachtigk is mentioned in the midst of several servants of the abbot von Lehnin. Whether it is about the pastor or - which is also possible - the equally literate sexton and teacher concerns, has the absence of further evidence remain open.

secularization

The Werder parish was visited by the Chancellor of the Margraves of Brandenburg , Johann Weinlob , just two years before the secularization of the Lehnin Monastery in 1540 . According to this, the Holy Spirit Church was subordinate to the Abbot von Lehnin as landlord and the Lords of Rochow as patron saints , that is, the pastors were appointed with the consent of the latter and levied by the former. Associated with the parish church was the church of St. Andreas in Geltow as the second benefice (commenda) . If one follows the contemporary register of the annual expenses at the town hall , there was a chaplain and a sexton in addition to the pastor . The latter also worked as a town clerk and schoolmaster , lived in the school house and lived on the taxes of his students, the yarn people and the parishioners. More extensive than elsewhere was the equipment of heiliggeistkirche: For rectory included two hooves , eight meadows , a garden with three tuns hay , a fishery , a pound of candle wax , the grain tithe , but not the meat tithe of 200 communicating believers who Totfall -, the marriage and childbed contributions as well as an annual banquet . From the deserted Feldmark Zernow (probably located near the Zernsee ), at the instigation of those of Rochow, no more taxes have been received for fourteen years. The pastor's inventory showed u. a. a Braupfanne , a brewery pool, two clamping beds, seven bowls and seven old cans of tin from. Church property had fallen from three to two goblets and from five to three godparents , what remained were a monstrance made of gilded brass and three meadows (including one with the name Marien horne ), 10 instead of 13 pounds of wax, a vineyard , three pieces of land (on the Mountains) , a piece of flat field (located in front of the heather) , five pieces of Beiland in Petzow (Im Petzouschen feldt) and several interest rates . Töplitz , Schmergow , Glindow , Petzow and Phöben are named as neighboring parishes . During a further visitation in 1541, all the village pastors of the Lehnin monastery received the evangelical catechism , so that a transition from Werder to Lutheran teaching can be assumed at this point at the latest.

Thirty Years' War

During the Thirty Years' War the city was sacked by Swedish troops in 1637 and 1641 .

Second World War

During the Second World War, a small satellite camp of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp was set up on March 20, 1943 . These prisoners, as well as prisoners of war who were housed in the Lichau cellar on Friedrichshöhe and on a Havel boat, had to do forced labor . Before and during the war there was an airfield in the north of the city, which, together with facilities in Wildpark West, served as Air War School III for aviation training until it was relocated to Oschatz in Saxony in May 1944. After the war, settled in this area Red Army down ( Group of Soviet Forces in Germany ) , the times of the GDR were stationed until the final withdrawal in 1992 there. In early 1945 at the end of the war, the railway bridge, Baumgartenbrücke and Strengbrücke were blown up.

Soviet occupation

In the early 1950s, an active opposition group of young people formed against the GDR regime and the Soviet occupation power. A Soviet military tribunal handed down 8 death sentences , 7 of which were carried out by shooting in the Lubyanka in Moscow (1952). Seventeen other youths were sentenced to 10 to 25 years in a forced labor camp. Another group of 6 youths followed with several years' imprisonment. 1997/99 the rehabilitation of all convicted took place by the Russian military prosecutor.

After 1990

After 1990, the city ​​center including the island city was declared a redevelopment area. This was followed by the renovation or restoration of a large part of the existing building fabric. All main roads that are in the care of the city have been rebuilt and repaired. Almost the entire city is connected to the central sewage network. A modern gas heating plant supplies the residents with district heating.

Werder is a member of the “Cities with Historic Town Centers” working group of the state of Brandenburg.

In the years of the GDR , several residential areas were built in the city using prefabricated panels. These include the Jugendhöhe (1980), which is located on the central Werders hill, and the Wachtelwinkel residential area (1979) in the immediate vicinity of the city center. Both were completely renovated a few years after the fall of the Wall. Originally there were street names such as Straße der DSF , Straße der Jugend and Hanns-Beimler-Straße at Jugendhöhe . In 1990 all streets there were named after classical musicians. City names were used in the Wachtelwinkel, such as Hamburg , Mainz . Siegburg , Oppenheim (see twin cities) and Cologne .

The apartment blocks of the former flight school from the time before the Second World War, also called the aviation settlement by the population , which were later used by the Soviet army as accommodation for the soldiers and their families, have been completely reconstructed and offer a quiet on the northern edge of the city area Living environment. In this quarter there are especially apartments for officials and condominiums. The pre-war buildings on Bernhard-Kellermann-Strasse and the new buildings at the end of Brandenburger Strasse were also restored.

In addition to the city's many reconstruction measures, there are also new residential parks in the city. Some expanded existing areas, such as the residential area on Wachtelberg, which added the Wachtelwinkel. Just like this area, the Scheunhornweg and the area around Adolf-Kärger-Straße , which are located directly on the banks of the Havel, are equipped with many spacious green areas and small ponds.

Evening view of the island city, autumn 2007

Quite early in the 1990s, a district with row houses based on the Danish model was built between Kemnitzer Strasse and Elsebruchweg . Not far away, opposite the Jugendhöhe, a new quarter with semi-detached houses and terraced houses was built. Here the streets are named after birds. Following Kemnitzer Strasse, you will pass the Finkenberg residential area, where social support was a priority. In the south of the city, at the Werder-Park shopping center , single houses and smaller apartment blocks were built. The street names are closely linked to the fruit growing that used to be carried out on the site. Smaller, newly built house colonies are opposite the New Cemetery and in the Kesselgrund.

To the north of the train station is the residential and commercial area Havelauen , which was inaugurated in 1995. In addition to some businesses, such as the Havelbus transport company , mail order companies and some smaller office representatives for larger companies, semi-detached houses have also been created here. The street names on the former airfield are derived from aviation pioneers such as Otto Lilienthal , or they refer to water. After the development of the area initially stalled, the new district has been experiencing an upswing since around 2011. After 2011, the area came into the focus of property developers. In addition to individual house developments, larger residential complexes and a shopping center have also been built, the old barracks buildings have been renovated and around 200 exclusive condominiums have been built on the artificial harbor basin.

The continuing attractiveness of Werder and the expectation of further immigration are evidence of major projects that have already started, with the focus on waterfront locations. In addition to RIVA-Maritim, another block area with exclusive condominiums and a health center is to be built in the Havel floodplains. In the center of Glindow, around 100 exclusive rental apartments are being built under the name “Glindower Seevillen” on around 2.5 hectares directly on Glindow Lake .

In 2017 the city celebrated its 700th anniversary.

The foundation stone for the large family pool "Blütentherme" was laid back in 2011. After the failure of the project and several years of construction stoppage, it was announced in 2018 that the completion of the building would require a further 30 million euros. The costs for the public sector, which had risen to a multiple of the original amount, led to the questioning of the meaningfulness of the project and to the first public petition in Werder (Havel), which wanted to achieve transparency and local participation. A few days after the citizens' initiative “StadtMitGestalter” had successfully collected their signatures, the mayor signed contracts with Schauer & Co GmbH, which is to complete and operate the thermal bath. The municipal supervisory authority then declared the petition for citizens to be inadmissible, which the association “Mehr Demokratie e. V. “sharply criticized. The citizens' initiative organized itself in an association and entered the 2019 local elections as an independent group of voters with the topics of transparency and citizen participation.

A study by the Contor Regio Institute found Werder (Havel) to be the most up-and-coming city, with a population of around 20,000 to 75,000 in all of Germany.

Legends and tales

The students of the University of Frankfurt an der Oder claimed in 1598: Vinum de Marchia terrra - transit guttur tamquam serra , or in German: Märkischer Erde Yields go through the throat like a saw . What was meant was the sour wine that thrived in the marrow. Nevertheless, the court medical officer of the Great Elector, Johann Elsholtz, determined around a hundred years later: Wines from Werder are those that do not grow on a rough limestone base, but on clear sand hills and are therefore only light wines, but not a coherent acidity, but rather have a pleasant atmosphere (...) .

Theodor Fontane , on the other hand, saw the residents of Werder with a critical eye when he found out during the hikes through the Mark Brandenburg : They are very superstitious, especially experienced in ghost sight, have a gruesome language, bad child rearing, bad customs and do not think much about the arts Sciences. But hard work and a frugal life cannot be denied to them. They rarely get sick and, given their way of life, they are very old (...) all these features (...) were understandably incapable of turning Werder into a magnificent building. It had its location and its church, both beautiful, but God had given them the location and the Lehnin monks had given them the church.

Administrative affiliation

Werder belonged to the district of Zauch-Belzig from 1817 to 1952 (until 1947 in the Prussian province of Brandenburg , 1947-1952 in the state of Brandenburg ). 1952–1993 the city was part of the Potsdam-Land district (until 1990 in the GDR district of Potsdam , 1990–1993 in the state of Brandenburg).

On the occasion of the regional administration reform in the state of Brandenburg in 1993 Werder came to the newly formed Potsdam-Mittelmark district with the district town of Belzig . The proximity to Potsdam and the concept of decentralized concentration made Werder, although it is the most populous municipality in the district, out of the running as the seat of the district administration.

The Werder office was created on July 31, 1992 , in which initially seven smaller communities (Bliesendorf, Glindow, Grube, Golm, Kemnitz, Phöben, Plötzin and Töplitz) of the Potsdam-Land district in the vicinity of the city of Werder were combined into an administrative association were. The administrative business of these communities was taken over by the city of Werder (Havel), the mayor of the city was also the official director of the Werder office. The municipalities belonging to the office were integrated into either the city of Werder (Havel) or the state capital Potsdam over the course of the next eleven years; the Werder office was dissolved again in 2003.

Population development

Population development of Werder from 1875 to 2017 according to the table below
year Residents
1875 4,578
1890 5,914
1910 6,757
1925 7,473
1933 8,796
1939 11,314
1946 11,310
1950 10,828
1964 9,785
1971 9,765
1981 10,687
year Residents
1985 10,843
1989 10,656
1990 10,652
1991 10,809
1992 10,822
1993 10,766
1994 11,145
1995 11,619
1996 12,055
1997 12,502
1998 13,383
year Residents
1999 14,055
2000 15,115
2001 19,967
2002 19,963
2003 22,341
2004 22,611
2005 22,874
2006 23,015
2007 23,145
2008 23,129
2009 23.004
year Residents
2010 23,017
2011 23,297
2012 23,506
2013 23,838
2014 24 347
2015 24 856
2016 25 345
2017 25,695
2018 26,184
2019 26,412

Territory of the respective year, from 2011 based on the 2011 census

Shortly after the political change in 1990, around 10,300 people lived on 26 km². In 1992, 10,822 people lived in the city of Werder itself, while in the rest of the official area there were 8,259 inhabitants. Six years later, the total population was 22,464 citizens, of whom 13,383 were residents of the city. Due to the excellent location to Potsdam and Berlin , which experienced an increase in importance due to the government move, the population continued to grow. As a result of the municipal area reform, some municipalities became part of the city, while for others the affiliations changed. As a result, after the reform in October 2003, 22,500 inhabitants lived on 116 km² of the municipality.

politics

City Council

The City Council's Assembly (SVV) of the City of Werder has consisted of 32 (2014: 28) members and the full-time mayor with the following distribution of seats since 2019:

Local elections 2019
Turnout: 60.8%
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40
30th
20th
10
0
31.3%
11.9%
11.7%
10.1%
9.7%
8.8%
7.1%
3.8%
3.3%
1.3%
FBW f
SMG g
BBT h
Kruger
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f Free citizens of Werder
g StadtMitGestalter
h Citizens' Federation of Töplitz
Party / group of voters Voices 2014 Voices 2019 Seats 2014 Seats 2019
CDU 47.4% 31.3% 13 10
SPD 15.2% 11.9% 04th 04th
Green 06.0% 11.7% 02 04th
The left 12.8% 10.1% 04th 03
AfD 04.3% 09.7% 01 03
Free citizens of Werder - 08.8% - 03
CityWithDesigner - 07.1% - 02
Citizens Association Töplitz 03.6% 03.8% 01 01
FDP 01.9% 03.3% 01 01
Individual applicant Ingo Krüger - 01.3% - 01

In five committees, appointed citizens discuss details for specific projects with city councilors from the SIA. There is a main committee chaired by the mayor, the economic and financial committee and the audit committee. The committee for social affairs, education, culture and sport is responsible, among other things, for the schools supported and located by the city. The Committee for Urban Development, Building and Housing, which has a decisive influence on the development of the cityscape, has a special role to play.

Depending on the size, between three and nine volunteer politicians come together in the eight local councils to discuss the interests of the districts and to later submit suggestions, opinions and criticisms to the city.

Mayoress

The mayor of Werder is Manuela Saß from the CDU. She was elected to office for the first time in the mayoral election on September 14, 2014 with 64.9% of the vote. Saß replaced the long-time mayor Werner Große , who filled the office from May 1990 to 2014 and had already held the position of deputy in the 1970s.

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coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on March 26, 1993.

Blazon : “The coat of arms of the city of Werder (Havel) shows a shield , split, silver, at the front a gold-armored red half eagle at the split, at the back three green shamrocks by stake. The shield is covered by a three-tower, sandstone-colored wall crown. The shape of the shield is rectangular in the late Gothic style and rounded at the bottom. "

flag

The city's flag is striped green, white and red and has the city coat of arms in the center.

Town twinning

Culture and sights

Museums

The fruit growing museum on the island provides information about the history of fruit growing in Werder.

What many consider to be the only remaining brick factory in the Glindow district is now a museum . The ceramic artists association Burned Earth is committed to events there. The ring kiln , which is fired with coal dust , is still used today to burn works of art or custom-made bricks.

Since 2008, the “Kunst-Geschoss” city gallery has been located in the Schützenhaus Werder building on Uferstrasse 10, which houses changing exhibitions on 230 square meters. The gallery is curated by the artist Frank W. Weber. Every year around 6000 visitors visit the gallery. In 2014, on the 100th anniversary of the poet's death, the “Christian Morgenstern Literature Museum” was opened in the renovated observation and museum tower of the Bismarckhöhe. Morgenstern is said to have written his gallows songs on the Werderan Galgenberg or performed them privately on trips to the Galgenberg.

Historical monuments

Memorial plaque at the Carl von Ossietzky School
  • Memorial from 1975 on the New Cemetery on Kemnitzer Strasse for Soviet soldiers, concentration camp prisoners , prisoners of war and forced laborers , 20 of whom are named. Next to it is a memorial for the victims of fascism , which was moved here from a central point in the city after 1989.
  • Commemorative plaque from 2004 for seven young people from Werder who were executed in Moscow in 1952 in the Carl von Ossietzky secondary school: names of the five men and two women. Text continues: "Many unnamed people were stolen valuable years of their lives through forced labor and prison".
  • Memorial from 2008 on the island cemetery for a resistance group against Stalinism (1952), see picture .
Old Town Hall

Buildings

Churches

Maria Meeresstern Church in Werder (Havel)
  • The island town of Werder with its small streets, old fishermen's houses and the post windmill , can only be reached on land via the bridge over the Föhse, the narrow western arm of the Havel, which has been renewed several times, has two church buildings. The Evangelical Holy Spirit Church with adjoining cemetery was built in 1734 at the instigation of Friedrich Wilhelm I in place of an older church, probably from the 13th century, on its field stone base . In the first half of the 19th century, frequent repairs to the roofs prompted considerations to build a new church. In 1852 August Stüler drew two designs in neo-Gothic forms. After a building site investigation carried out in 1854, it took another two years for the old church to be demolished. The new church was built from 1856 to 1858, including the lower part of the tower, in the neo-Gothic style. The tower was increased to 45 meters.
  • The Catholic Church of St. Maria Meeresstern , named after the Latin title of the Mother of God, Stella maris , was built in 1905/1906 in the neo-Romanesque style with a 35 meter high tower.
  • The village church of Bliesendorf was built in 1847/1848, including a previous building from 1727.
  • The Glindow village church was built in 1852/1853 according to plans by August Stüler .
  • The village church of Kemnitz is a small rectangular late Gothic building made of field stone and bricks. The church was renovated in 1704 and after a fire in 1747 in 1755. The building was increased and the window openings changed like arches. the building is covered with a hipped roof and has a boarded half-timbered roof tower. The interior is kept simple with a horseshoe gallery, probably from 1798 with later additions and a pulpit altar probably around 1756. In 2001/2002 the church was renovated and the outer walls provided with a reddish lime mud.
  • The Phöben village church is a plastered rectangular hall building from 1758, which was expanded before 1875 to include the apse and the retracted west tower. The windows and the plaster structure have also been changed. The polygonal pulpit is probably from 1856, while the short horseshoe gallery on Tuscan columns is from the construction period. The church was extensively renovated in 2003-2005.
  • The neo-Gothic village church in Plessow was built from field stones and bricks in the 19th century.
  • The core of the village church Plötzin was built in the 13th century. The simple building structure of the rectangular church is deceptive; it was originally a church with a nave , retracted choir and apse . In the south wall of the ship, the original round-arched community portal with accompanying arch has been preserved, but it is now blocked.

Other structures

  • The old town hall on the Mühlenberg, the highest point in the island town, was built in 1879 through the conversion of an old half-timbered school; it was renovated in 1992–1995. The fruit-growing museum has been located in the adjacent former city prison, which was built in 1896 from the old morgue at the cemetery.
Loin house
  • The Lendelhaus (Am Markt 21) is named after FW Lendel, who has been producing fruit wine, juices and jams on the premises since 1916. The house was built in 1789 as a city palace for the Petzow manor Kaehne. The brick buildings of the factory are from the 19th century.
  • In the city center on the central Plantagenplatz is the former executioner's house, which is now used as a café. The city administration is housed in a representative industrial villa from the 1920s.
  • Several historic village churches are worth seeing in the districts.
  • The four historic excursion restaurants Bismarckhöhe (Hoher Weg 150), Friedrichshöhe (Hoher Weg 80), Wachtelburg (Potsdamer Str. 35) and Gerlachshöhe (Hoher Weg 69) - named after the previous owner, the painter Ferdinand August Gerlach - were built at the end of the 19th century Century, when the Berliners drove “to Werder to see the trees in bloom”. This finally resulted in today's tree blossom festival.
  • The castle Zolchow was a fortified lowland castle from the late Middle Ages in the Great Plessower lake near the hamlet of Kemnitz, whose remains have been preserved.

Regular events

The most important festival of the year is the tree blossom festival , which is celebrated on May 1st . It always starts on the last weekend in April. On Friday before the weekend is on the tree blossoms ball the tree blossoms queen crowned. Only women over the age of 18 are allowed to compete, who have to prove their knowledge of the city and fruit growing in several tests. On the Saturday of the first weekend, the newly crowned queen opens the tree blossom festival after the traditional parade, during which the clubs and the city present themselves. While the hustle and bustle dominates in the city center, the outskirts of the center and the city - in the gardens and on the fruit growers' plantations - have a cozy atmosphere. A jury awards the Golden Jug award to the best fruit wine producers . The locally produced fruit wine is known for its tasty aroma, which is more reminiscent of fruit juice, and its often underestimated effect when it is over-indulgent that it exerts on its consumers. The numerous guests of the festival, who can only buy this fruit wine in plastic bottles during the flower festival for safety reasons, will be bid farewell on the last Sunday at 10 p.m. with a large fireworks display.

Individual districts organize their own local or village festivals each year, which also attract many guests from the surrounding area. The cherry and brick festival in Glindow is particularly well-known, along with the tree blossom festival.

The weekly market takes place in the city every Friday . The stands are mainly distributed across Unter den Linden , which is right in the center.

The Schützenverein Werders also organizes a festival every year that attracts visitors beyond the city limits.

Due to the large expanses of water in the area around the city, the water festival has been held for several years . With dragon boats , races are held on the Föhse and the water sports clubs present themselves.

The mill festival takes place regularly at the post mill on the island.

Cultural institutions

Cinema Scala Kulturpalast , formerly Fontane Lichtspiele

Economy and Infrastructure

The mill in September 2015

Resident companies (selection)

A selection of companies that are known beyond the city limits:

Werder is best known for its fruit growing . The city owes him one of the largest folk festivals in Germany, the Tree Blossom Festival. The monks of the Cistercian monastery in Lehnin already cultivated fruit here. Mostly cherries, apples and strawberries are grown. But vegetables, especially tomatoes, are also grown in the greenhouses. Two larger companies are currently selling the region's products: on the one hand, "Werder Frucht", which mainly sells juices and the fruit itself, and on the other, " Werder Feinkost ", which specializes in the production of ketchup, fruit wines and spreads. But even during the GDR era, when many LPG and other cooperatives controlled the growing of the plants, the products from Werder were more than popular. In addition to being used as so-called " Bückware ", several top hotels (e.g. the "Neptun" in Rostock ) were supplied with specialties from the area . Ever since the beginning of industrialization , which brought about faster transport options, fruit and vegetables were transported by steamboat across the Havel to Berlin, which was developing ever faster.

Werder (Havel) has an above-average quota of self-employed and tradespeople and almost full employment.

In addition to the traditional food and luxury food manufacturers, the local switchgear factory produces switchgear, especially for the railway industry. Since the beginning of 2004, the production facilities of the Alexander Schuke company , a large, internationally active organ building company , have been in the Havelstadt.

Brick production was important up until the beginning of the 20th century, especially in Glindow , and the products were shipped by barge directly to the up-and-coming cities.

wine growing

Old vineyard on Töplitz
Red wine nature trail on the Werderaner Wachtelberg

Along with fishing, viticulture is one of the city's oldest trades. In the first half of the 18th century, wine was grown in Werder on an area of ​​more than 100  hectares . The grape varieties at that time were " Weißer Elbling ", " Weißer und Roter Schönedel " and the " Rotfranke ". However, more and more red wine than white wine is said to have been grown.

On the island, wine was grown on Mühlenberg and Gottesberg. The vine leaves were previously used to wrap fruit, especially apricots and peaches. The fruit could be transported gently in the fruit bee . In 1887 two vineyards were reported. With the last vines freezing to death in the winter of 1955/56, the wine-growing period in Werder ended for the time being. It was not until 1985 that the Gärtnerische Produktionsgenossenschaft (GPG) began "fruit production" on the Werderaner Wachtelberg with the creation of a vineyard on an area of ​​4.8  hectares . Today around 30,000 vines grow there on an area of ​​almost seven hectares. As part of the Federal Horticultural Show in Potsdam , educational wine trails were laid out on the Wachtelberg. Today 38 red and 40 white wine varieties grow here.

The most important vineyards in Werder today include the Werderaner Wachtelberg as well as the Wachtelberg in Phöben and the Werderaner Galgenberg , the yield of which has been pressed directly in Werder again since 2012.

In 2007 the old vineyard on the Werder island of Töplitz was also revived with the Töplitz winery .

Brewing

In 1784 there were already 21 brewers and two brewery servants in Werder. Rasenack's first Werder brewery was built in the immediate vicinity of the community center on the market on the island. In 1854 there were four large breweries in Werder. Werder beer was touted everywhere as a “health beer” and it was also delivered far beyond Werder's borders, especially to Berlin. In 1896 the four breweries merged under the name “United Werdersche Breweries”, from which the “Brauereigenossenschaft Potsdam Werder, Zentrale Werder a. H. “was. She had to file for bankruptcy in 1909. Since the end of 2014 there has been a Werdersche brewery again in the Kemnitz district.

traffic

Land transport routes and waterways around Potsdam and Werder
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Magdeburg main station

Werder is on the Berlin – Magdeburg railway line with the regional express line RE 1 of the DB Regio with Berlin (journey time to Berlin Hauptbahnhof about 40 minutes), Frankfurt (Oder) , Eisenhüttenstadt or Brandenburg , Genthin and Magdeburg every 30 minutes connected. There were plans to extend the S-Bahn from Potsdam to Werder. As preliminary work, bridgeheads have already been built next to the existing Havel bridge directly in front of the train station.

The Regiobus Potsdam-Mittelmark connects Werder with two PlusBus and other regional bus routes. Among other things, it goes to the state capital Potsdam as well as to Beelitz, Lehnin, Kemnitz, Glindow and Bliesendorf .

The city of Werder is affected in the north by the Lower Havel waterway with the Sacrow-Paretz Canal . The Potsdam Havel , also a federal waterway, flows through the city . Passenger shipping companies offer excursion lines on the Havel lakes in the area as well as regular boat connections to and from Potsdam during the season.

Werder can be reached by car from Potsdam or Brandenburg via Bundesstrasse 1 , one of the most important east-west connections. Werder can be reached from the motorway via several exits. These include the Glindow (AS 20, south of the city center), Groß Kreutz (AS 22, located to the west) and Phöben (AS 23, in the north of the city). They are all part of the Berliner Ring ( A 10 ). The Werder motorway triangle (AS 21) connects this with the A 2 in the direction of Magdeburg.

Church on the island in September 2015
The inside of the church

From 1895 to 1926 a horse-drawn tram ran from the train station to the market square in Werder, with a branch to Glindow .

Public facilities

Church in Plötzin

More than ten kindergartens, including the Anne Frank integration day care center, which are both publicly and privately owned, take care of the youngest residents. Due to the strong population development, particularly through projects in the "Havel meadows", there were supply shortages in 2015. With the construction of a new kindergarten in Damaschkestrasse by the municipal property company HGW and several new private kindergartens, the offer is being significantly expanded. There are several after-school care centers for school children in the city. There are also several meeting places for young and old such as youth clubs and senior facilities. Community centers in the districts (e.g. Kemnitz, Plötzin ) are also available to citizens and associations for private and public events.

The city's own library has been in a new building for several years with an expanded range of media.

Many individual general practitioner and dentist practices provide medical care. A joint surgical practice is located in the local medical center with a pediatrician , ophthalmologist , dentists , speech therapy practice and other specialists. One of four pharmacies is directly attached to this . It continues the tradition of the island's eagle pharmacy . There are health food stores in the individual districts and many physiotherapy practices .

The Werder police station is part of the Brandenburg protection area .

The German Post AG has a branch in the branch of a supermarket. There is also a small distribution center that supplies the villages with letters and parcels.

State institutions

The Plessow office of the Education and Science Center of the Federal Finance Administration is located in the Plessow district.

Educational institutions

The city has two primary schools in its center , which are named after Franz Dümichen (primary school I), a former mayor of the city, and after Karl Hagemeister (primary school II), a well-known landscape painter.

Primary school I received its current name in 1997, as the secondary school or secondary school , which is located on the same site in the center of the city, also bore the name Carl von Ossietzky . Primary School II is located in the “Jugendhöhe” residential area and has a slightly larger capacity than its counterpart in the city center.

In addition to the inner-city primary schools, there are two other, much smaller facilities in the Glindow and Töplitz districts .

The city also has a general special school , the only such facility in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district . Not far from this school is the Ernst-Haeckel-Gymnasium .

The city's upper school center , which has a branch in Groß Kreutz , also has a boarding school where the students can stay.

The Freie Schule am Zernsee offers the students in the area an alternative form of teaching based on Rudolf Steiner's pedagogy. On September 1, 2012, the school was renamed the Christian Morgenstern Waldorf School .

For adults, the community college Potsdam-Mittelmark in Werder , which is in Adolf-Damaschke-Str. 60 across from Werder train station, courses in social, cultural, language and health areas.

freetime and sports

Two field sports halls with spectator seats are available on school grounds for sports clubs in Werder. For many other sports there are several places of activity in the city, such as B. smaller gyms, a regatta course with a length of 1500 m, a large sports field (Arno-Franz sports field) , a tennis facility and two sports centers.

Europe's largest indoor riding arena, a polo club and an 18-hole golf course and club are located in the Phöben district.

In the district of Bliesendorf, the largest as well as the first German cricket facility with a pitch pitch is being built on almost 30,000 m² (the only such facility in continental Europe besides Amsterdam). Initiated and built by the Northeast German Cricket Association (NOCV - located in Werder), the future “DCB performance center of the NOCV” is the sporting home of the “Havelländischer Cricket Club Werder e. V. ".

Many sports clubs, for example for rowing , sailing , windsurfing , water hiking , fishing can use the water diversity in the area.

The football club Werderaner FC Viktoria 1920 plays in the Brandenburgliga in the 2016/17 season . Furthermore, the FSV Eintracht Glindow plays in the regional league. There is also a tennis club "TC Werder Havelblick", a local history club, a dog sports club, the historic vineyard club , the Werder carnival club , a shooting club, the bowling club (KV Werder), the Werderaner VV 1990 e. V. and the Werderaner archers.

The Werderobst panorama trail is an approximately 15 km long educational trail that leads from Groß Kreutz over the Zauche plateau to Petzow. In particular, the importance of fruit growing for the region is pointed out on several display boards.

Glindow district, brickwork museum

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities associated with Werder

literature

in alphabetical order by authors / editors

  • Jürgen Angelow : History and Landscape. The Kemnitz manor in Brandenburg. be.bra-Verlag, Berlin 2000 (= individual publication of the Brandenburg State Main Archives 1).
  • Author collective: local history contributions . various years from the 1980s.
  • Marie-Luise Buchinger, Marcus Cante: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Brandenburg. Potsdam-Mittelmark district 14.1 = Nördliche Zauche: communities Groß Kreutz, Kloster Lehnin, Michendorf, Schwielowsee and city Werder (Havel) as well as Gollwitz and Wust (city Brandenburg an der Havel) . Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2009, ISBN 978-3-88462-285-8
  • Roland Fröhlich: At the Arctic Circle of viticulture. The Werderaner Wachtelberg . Vacat Verlag, 2001, ISBN 978-3-930752-17-1 .
  • Dieter Heckmann and contemporary witnesses: 100 years of the Catholic Church Maria Meeresstern in Werder an der Havel, 1906–2006. Catholic Propstei St. Peter and Paul Potsdam with Maria Meeresstern a. d. Havel 2006, 2nd expanded edition 2013.
  • Andreas Kitschke : Churches in Potsdam. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1983, 1st edition.
  • Andreas Kitschke: The Holy Spirit Church in Werder (Havel). Ev. Berlin-Brandenburg Church - Potsdam Church District, Werder Parish District . Kunstverlag Peda, Passau o. J. (= 2007).
  • Andreas Kitschke: The churches of the Potsdam cultural landscape . Lukas Verlag for Art and Spiritual History, Berlin 2016.
  • Günter Nagel: Mill imports to Werder and Saalow . In: Die Mark Brandenburg , issue 53. Marika Großer Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-910134-32-4

Web links

Commons : Werder  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  3. ^ City of Werder (Havel) service portal of the state administration
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  5. Incorporation of the Bliesendorf community into the city of Werder (Havel). Announcement of the Ministry of the Interior of December 22, 1998. Official Gazette for Brandenburg - Joint Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg , Volume 10, Number 5, February 9, 1999, p. 70.
  6. Incorporation of the community of Plötzin into the city of Werder (Havel). Announcement of the Ministry of the Interior of December 12, 2000. Official Gazette for Brandenburg Common Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg, Volume 12, 2001, Number 2, Potsdam, January 10, 2001, p. 43, brandenburg.de (PDF)
  7. ^ Incorporation of the communities Glindow, Kemnitz and Phöben into the city of Werder (Havel). Communication from the Ministry of the Interior of December 14, 2001. Official Gazette for Brandenburg - Joint Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg, Volume 12, 2001, Number 52, Potsdam, December 27, 2001, p. 901, brandenburg.de (PDF)
  8. ^ Incorporation of the Derwitz community into the city of Werder (Havel). Announcement of the Ministry of the Interior of February 20, 2003. Official Gazette for Brandenburg Common Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg, Volume 14, 2003, Number 9, Potsdam, March 5, 2003, p. 275, brandenburg.de (PDF)
  9. Incorporation of the municipality of Töplitz into the city of Werder (Havel). Announcement of the Ministry of the Interior of April 30, 2002. Official Journal for Brandenburg - Joint Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg , Volume 13, 2002, Number 22, Potsdam, May 29, 2002, p. 561, brandenburg.de (PDF)
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  12. Riedel's Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis , Series A, Volume 9, Berlin 1856, p. 231 f., No. CVIII: Mention is made of waters from the bridge of the town of Werder to Paretz , in which the Lehnin monastery has two weirs. Here the local fishermen are only allowed to fish with the so-called puverde or the so-called vloch . See Baldur Martin, Klaus-Peter Meißner, Klaus Froh (eds.): Werder (Havel). 700 years of local history . Volume 1. Werder 2014, pp. 99-106.
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  15. Riedel's Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis , Series A, Volume 9, Berlin 1856, p. 302, No. CCXII.
  16. Riedel's Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis , Series A, Volume 9, Berlin 1856, p. 303, No. CCXIII, given in Cölln on the Spree. See Baldur Martin, Klaus-Peter Meißner, Klaus Froh (eds.): Werder (Havel). 700 years of local history . Volume 1. Werder 2014, pp. 138–141. On the date of the comparison cf. Hermann Grotefend: Taschenbuch der Zeitrechnung des Deutschen Mittelalter und der Neuzeit , Hanover 13th edition 1991, p. 30 and p. 151, plate 4: It is about the eve of the Holy Day.
  17. ^ The land book of the Mark Brandenburg from 1375 , ed. by Johannes Schultze (Brandenburg Land Books 2 = Publications of the Historical Commission for the Province of Brandenburg and the Reich Capital Berlin, Series 1, Volume 8/2), Berlin 1940, pp. 72, 75, 218: However, without naming taxes or services.
  18. Riedel's Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis , Series A, Volume 8, Berlin 1847, pp. 418-420, No. CDLXIII, esp. P. 419. Similar: Ibid., Pp. 457–459, No. DI: Matriculation of the Brandenburg Archdeaconate District (around 1500), esp. p. 458. See Baldur Martin, Klaus-Peter Meißner, Klaus Froh (eds.): Werder (Havel). 700 years of local history . Volume 1. Werder 2014, p. 142 f., Where the Propstei is mistakenly awarded to the city of Brandenburg.
  19. Riedel's Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis , Series A, Volume 9, Berlin 1856, p. 126 f., No. CLIX, p. 166 f., No. CCXVI; Volume 10, 1856, pp. 428-431. See Baldur Martin, Klaus-Peter Meißner, Klaus Froh (eds.): Werder (Havel). 700 years of local history . Volume 1. Werder 2014, pp. 133-138.
  20. Riedel's Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis , Series A, Volume 10, Berlin 1856, pp. 333-335, No. CCXXXVII. See Baldur Martin, Klaus-Peter Meißner, Klaus Froh (eds.): Werder (Havel). 700 years of local history . Volume 1. Werder 2014, pp. 143–146.
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  30. Initiative wants to have a say in the further construction of the Blütentherme. Accessed January 30, 2019 .
  31. Therme: More than 2,600 signatures for transparency. Accessed January 30, 2019 .
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  42. ^ Result of the local elections on May 25, 2014
  43. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
  44. ^ Result of the mayoral election 2014
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