Wittbrietzen

Wittbrietzen City of Beelitz
	Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 51 ″ N , 12 ° 58 ′ 31 ″ E
Height :	47 m above sea level NN
Area :	15.8 km²
Residents :	498 (March 6, 2015)
Population density :	32 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	December 31, 2001
Postal code :	14547
Area code :	033204
Location of Wittbrietzen in Brandenburg

Wittbrietzen is a district of the town of Beelitz in the district of Potsdam-Mittelmark in the state of Brandenburg . The village is located around 27 kilometers southwest of the state capital Potsdam .

Etymology and history

The name Brietzen comes from the Slavic word "bryzna", which means something like " birch ". The prefix "Wyt" or "Wit" means something like "white". The white birch can also be found in the town's coat of arms.

The place was founded in the 13th century at the foot of a wooded sand area as a street perch village , which rises between the lowlands of the Nieplitz and the Pfefferfließ . Diverse landscapes of hills, meadows, forests and smaller rivers surround the place. Settlers built a stone church in the period from 1226 to 1250 . Wittbrietzen was first mentioned in a document from Duke Rudolf I in 1337 as Wytbryzzen. The land book of Emperor Charles IV of 1375 stated an agricultural area of 32 Hufen for the place . In the period from 1450 to 1523 the village belonged to the domain of the von Schlieben . They enlarged the place by 34 hooves of a desolate , southern village of Vixdorf . Wittbrietzen belonged to Saxony until 1523, after which it came under the rule of the von Flanß family . During this time, the Reformation was introduced in 1525 . In the years 1631 and 1634 the plague raged in the place. In 1681 Adam Ehrenreich von Flans sold the district to Prussia . Friedrich II settled a total of 16 new farmers in 1763, as a result of which the number of inhabitants in the village doubled. Among other things, this led to a considerable renovation of the church in 1847. In 1885 craftsmen built a new school building. In 1926 a trombone choir was founded.

On April 23, 1945, the Second World War ended with the entry of the Red Army into Wittbrietzen . In 1953 the LPG Neues Leben was founded , which in 1980 was expanded to include an in-house restaurant "Am alten Krug". It was converted to consumption in 1985 and opened a year later. After the fall of the Wall , an agricultural company took over the building and set up a country butcher's shop there. In 2001 Wittbrietzen came to the city of Beelitz. The latter acquired the property in 2010 and opened a community shop with a community office and meeting place.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Frank Diemar .

Attractions

Wittbrietzen village church

The village church is a late Romanesque stone church that was built between 1226 and 1250. In 1847 the sacred building was considerably rebuilt.

Culture and sport

The culture & football club was launched in December 1990 with a total of 37 members. Equestrian sport was added in 2000. In 2011 the KFV had more than 120 members and organized cultural and sporting events in Wittbrietzen.

Personalities

Adam Christoph von Flanß (1664–1748), Prussian Field Marshal General

Web links

Commons : Wittbrietzen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Brief portrait of Wittbrietzen on the website of the city of Beelitz
Wittbrietzen (unofficial site)

Individual evidence

↑ Beelitzer Nachrichten, Volume 26, No. 3, Page 9 on yumpu.com, accessed on January 28, 2018
^ Wittbrietzen - Where community is lived , website of the city of Beelitz, accessed on March 24, 2018.
↑ Johannes Schultze (Hrsg.): Das Landbuch der Mark Brandenburg von 1375 (= Brandenburg Land Books . Volume 2; Publications of the Historical Commission for the Province of Brandenburg and the Imperial Capital Berlin . Volume VIII, 2). Commission publisher von Gsellius, Berlin 1940, Czucha. Wytbritzen, pp. 211–212 ( digitized version in Potsdam University Library ).

^ Place name and chronicle , website Crossing Media Stefan Müller, Wittbrietzen, accessed on March 20, 2018.

↑ Presentation by Simone Spahn (head of Wittbrietzen): Bürgerladen Wittbrietzen - the need is the goal , published on the Forum Netzwerk Brandenburg, accessed on March 26, 2018.

↑ Wittbrietzen Culture and Football Association.Retrieved on July 12, 2011.

[EWZ-1] Beelitzer Nachrichten, Volume 26, No. 3, Page 9 on yumpu.com, accessed on January 28, 2018

[2] Wittbrietzen - Where community is lived , website of the city of Beelitz, accessed on March 24, 2018.

[3] Johannes Schultze (Hrsg.): Das Landbuch der Mark Brandenburg von 1375 (= Brandenburg Land Books . Volume 2; Publications of the Historical Commission for the Province of Brandenburg and the Imperial Capital Berlin . Volume VIII, 2). Commission publisher von Gsellius, Berlin 1940, Czucha. Wytbritzen, pp. 211–212 ( digitized version in Potsdam University Library ).

[4] Place name and chronicle , website Crossing Media Stefan Müller, Wittbrietzen, accessed on March 20, 2018.

[5] Presentation by Simone Spahn (head of Wittbrietzen): Bürgerladen Wittbrietzen - the need is the goal , published on the Forum Netzwerk Brandenburg, accessed on March 26, 2018.

[6] Wittbrietzen Culture and Football Association.Retrieved on July 12, 2011.