Wustrau old frieze sack

Wustrau old frieze sack Fehrbellin parish Coordinates: 52 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ N , 12 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ E
Height :	39 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	1146
Incorporation :	October 26, 2003
Postal code :	16818
Area code :	033925
	Wustrau Castle

Wustrau-Altfriesack is a district of the municipality of Fehrbellin ( Ostprignitz-Ruppin district ) in the north of Brandenburg .

Stake god

geography

Wustrau-Altfriesack is located on the banks of the Bützsee and Ruppiner See in the Ruppiner Land . The district includes the districts of Altfriesack, Wustrau and Zietenhorst . It is crossed by the state road 164. The Kremmen – Meyenburg railway line runs northeast of the municipality.

history

Altfriesack was originally a fishing village, which was first mentioned in a document in 1421. The medieval town center is located on an island in the connection between the Ruppiner See and the Bützsee to the south. In the southern part of the island was in the Middle Ages the castle wall Altfriesack probably a cultic center of the Slavic tribe of Zamzizi . In the Neues Museum Berlin is the Altfriesacker Götze, the figure of a Slavic stake god , which was found in Altfriesack.

The first written mention of a fulling mill in Wustrau came from the year 1418. The village itself was first mentioned in a document in 1462. It fell victim to a fire in the Thirty Years War . Wustrau already belonged to a quarter of a Jacob von Zieten in 1590 and in 1766 it became completely owned by Zietenscher. There are reports of viticulture on the vineyard from the 18th century. Theodor Fontane was impressed by Wustrau on his hikes through the Mark Brandenburg , he saw “clean farmhouses that show prosperity”.

Around 1490, Wustrau and Altfriesack belonged to the Ruppin rulership of the Counts of Lindow-Ruppin, which was essentially imperial .

Altfriesack and Wustrau formed the municipality of Wustrau-Altfriesack in 1974. On October 26, 2003, Wustrau-Altfriesack was incorporated into Fehrbellin.

Culture and sights

Museums

The Brandenburg-Prussia Museum was opened in Wustrau in 2000 . The 500-year history of Brandenburg-Prussia under the Hohenzollerns is shown on 350 m² .

Buildings

Wustrau Castle

Wustrau village church

Ice cellar

Bascule bridge and Altfriesack lock

The cavalier house was built in 1690. The old manor house was the birthplace of Hans Joachim von Zieten in 1699 , one of the most famous equestrian generals in Prussian history and a close confidante of Frederick the Great ; he was buried in the Wustrauer Friedhof in January 1786 after he had died at the age of 86, only a few months before the old Fritz.

The first castle in the rural-baroque style was built between 1747 and 1750. Wustrau Castle was given its current shape in the last third of the 19th century under Count Albert-Julius von Zieten-Schwerin . The associated landscape park was created around 1830. From 1750, an ice cellar belonged to the estate, in which the ice brought in from the lake in winter (covered with straw and peat) was stored until summer. The ice cellar is decorated with herms created by Friedrich Christian Glume , which were restored between 1991 and 2003.

During the Second World War , the castle was temporarily the seat of the SS military management and the central SS command post. It is said that the Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück concentration camps were last administered from here . At the end of the war, SS chief Heinrich Himmler had his command post here for a short time. The last owner until 1945 was Anni von Schwerin (1893–1961), since 1918 married to Hans-Ulrich von Oertzen .

After 1945 the castle was looted, then nationalized and used as emergency shelter. A vocational and high school was housed from 1950 to 1975. From 1981 the GDR Ministry of Justice operated a training facility in the castle, the Institute for Further Education. For this purpose, two guest houses that have been preserved to this day were built in the park. After the German reunification , the further education institution of the justice of the state of Brandenburg found a home in the castle until 1993. Since then it has been the second conference site of the German Judges Academy .

Village church

The village church of Wustrau , a stone building of late Gothic style, houses the epitaph for the hussar general Hans Joachim von Zieten as well as some medieval art objects. The church was redesigned in Baroque style in the 18th century and in 1883 a neo-Romanesque choir niche and a vestibule on the north side were added. The church belongs to and serves a congregation of the United Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg-Schlesische Oberlausitz.

Other structures

The mill building on the Wustrauer Mühlenrhin was given a visible facade in the Art Deco style in 1918, but has been robbed of its original interior. The vaults of the former Weinmeisterhaus in Wustrau have been preserved. The rectory in Wustrau dates from 1740. The Constanze house , built in 1908 on the Anger von Wustrau, was named after Constanze Countess Zieten-Schwerin and served as a social leisure facility. It now houses a café.

The skipper's chapel is located in the part of the castle park that is not open to the public . The sea battle memorial on the Wustrau waterfront was created by Matthias Zágon Hohl-Stein . An aviator memorial in Wustrau is dedicated to "the pioneers of Germany's air reputation Joachim von Schröder and Erich Albrecht † 19.12.1929".

In 1787, a wooden bascule bridge over the Rhinkanal, built based on the Dutch model, was opened in Altfriesack . The bascule bridge was replaced by a steel structure in 1927 and completely renewed in 1994. Like the Altfriesack lock and the lock house, it is a listed building.

Regular events

In summer, the Wustrau summer theater , also known as the lake festival, plays on the Wustrau waterfront . The “sea battle” is reminiscent of the same one that the sons of those of Zieten and those of the Knesebeck devised in 1785 as a military amusement in the summer months.

Sons and daughters (selection)

Hans Joachim von Zieten (1699–1786), Prussian general

traffic

The Wustrau-Radensleben stop is on the Kremmen – Meyenburg railway line and is served by the RE 6 line for local rail transport.

Web links

Commons : Wustrau-Altfriesack - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wustrau-Altfriesack on the website of the municipality of Fehrbellin
Material on Wustrau Castle in the Duncker Collection of the Central and State Library Berlin (PDF; 224 kB)
Theodor Fontane: Notebooks. Genetically critical and annotated edition. Edited by Gabriele Radecke. Göttingen 2018. Notebook A1, sheet 25r ff .: Wustrau

Individual evidence

^ Theodor Fontane: Walks through the Mark Brandenburg . Volume 1. Hertz, Berlin 1862, chapter: Wustrau , pp. 3–13, here p. 4.
^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003.
↑ Stefanie Krause: Palaces and Gardens of the Mark, WUSTRAU, ed. by Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger with the assistance of Christine Herzog, H. 111, Berlin 2010.
↑ Stefanie Leibetseder: Friedrich von Zieten (1765-1864) and his efforts to beautify the country in the circle Ruppin, in: Regional Development through horticulture. Garden art and horticulture as topics of the Enlightenment, (= WORK BOOKS OF THE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING OF THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN, 78), ed. by Sylvia Butenschön, Berlin 2014, pp. 201–217.

[1] Theodor Fontane: Walks through the Mark Brandenburg . Volume 1. Hertz, Berlin 1862, chapter: Wustrau , pp. 3–13, here p. 4.

[2] StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003.

[3] Stefanie Krause: Palaces and Gardens of the Mark, WUSTRAU, ed. by Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger with the assistance of Christine Herzog, H. 111, Berlin 2010.

[4] Stefanie Leibetseder: Friedrich von Zieten (1765-1864) and his efforts to beautify the country in the circle Ruppin, in: Regional Development through horticulture. Garden art and horticulture as topics of the Enlightenment, (= WORK BOOKS OF THE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING OF THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN, 78), ed. by Sylvia Butenschön, Berlin 2014, pp. 201–217.