Baruth/Mark

Baruth / Mark is a town in the Teltow -Flaming in Brandenburg ( Germany ).

  • 5.1 City Council
  • 5.2 Mayor
  • 5.3 Coat of Arms
  • 6.1 Baruther Glashütte
  • 6.2 Structures
  • 6.3 parks
  • 6.4 Wildlife Park Johannismühle
  • 6.5 Sports
  • 7.1 traffic
  • 7.2 Established businesses
  • 7.3 Public bodies
  • 7.4 Education

Geography

Baruth / Mark includes parts of the Low Flämings and the Baruth glacial valley. It lies in direct proximity to the Spreewald and is located approximately 40 kilometers from the southern border of the city of Berlin, located at the intersection of highways 96 and 115

Neighboring communities

Baruth / Mark bordered by the communes ( clockwise starting from the north ): Am Mellensee, Zossen, Teupitz, Half, Rietzneuendorf- Staakow, Golßen, stone kingdom, Dahme / Mark, Niederer Flaming, Nuthe- glacial valley.

Boroughs

The city is divided into the following districts:

  • Baruth / Mark with the community part small Ziescht
  • Dornswalde
  • Great Ziescht with the community part Kemlitz
  • Horstwalde
  • Klasdorf with the community town of Glashütte
  • Did
  • Merzdorf
  • Mückendorf
  • Paplitz
  • Petkus with the community part Charlottenfelde
  • Radeland
  • Schöbendorf

History

Baruth / Mark was first mentioned in 1234 and was then only in the possession of the Ernestine dukes of Saxony, before it got to the Albertine line of Saxony under Maurice of Saxony. In 1537 the house Solms -bought dominion Sonnenwalde ( Lower) and Pouch ( Bitterfeld ), and when the offing a division of inheritance, -won the Counts of Solms 1596 rule Baruth from Trebbiner Amtshauptmann Hans von book, which they by the Lords of Schlieben had taken over. 1596 Baruth was acquired by Imperial Count Otto zu Solms - Sonnenwalde and 1615 for independent Solms- Baruth County. Since 1616 Baruth / Mark possesses the so-called Magdeburg rights. With Vienna Decision of 1815, the city was assigned to Prussia. It belonged then, from 1815 to 1946, the district Luckenwalde in the Prussian province of Brandenburg.

Glassworks was established in 1716 as a glass -making community and remained almost untouched until today. Since 1983, the entire community part Glashütte is a listed building. Here, a tradition continued - the first time a glassworks near Baruth in a document of the monastery Dobrilugk ( Doberlug ) was mentioned in 1234.

Incorporations

The place small Ziescht was incorporated on 1 April 1974. On December 31, 1997 four municipalities were added, on 31 December 2001 a further five.

Demographics

Forecasts of population change

Forecast age structure

Policy

City Council

The city council of Baruth consists of 16 councilors at the following distribution of seats:

  • LOB: 6 seats
  • LEFT: 4 seats
  • CDU: 3 seats
  • SPD: 3 seats

(As at municipal election 2008)

Mayor

On June 16, 2002 Peter Ilk of the LOB ( list districts Baruth Association ) was elected in a runoff election with over 60 % as mayor. On 30 May 2010 he was re-elected without Tenderers with 94 % of votes in favor for another eight years.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on 19 December 2001.

Blazon: Divided by silver left oblique bar from green to red; above a golden twin- peaked gave church with a goal and two windows in black; below a golden glass vessel. The left bar is covered with 12 black pine trees.

Culture and sights

In the list of monuments in Baruth / Mark, and the list of ground monuments in Baruth / Mark are registered in the list of monuments of the country Brandenburg cultural monuments.

Baruther Glashütte

Main article: Museum Village Baruther Glashütte

In 1716, a glassworks was in a wooded dune area in Baruth glacial valley between the villages of Klasdorf, Friedrichshof and Dornswalde, built with associated glass -making community, which today belongs to Baruth village glassworks. In the glass hut amongst white lampshades were made in the 19th century, which attracted at the first World 's Fair in Paris because of its even distribution of light sensation.

The glass production ceased in 1980. Today Glassworks is a Grade II listed village with over 30 buildings and a living museum village.

The museum Baruther Glashütte is a special Museum of Industry and the history of glass. The monument of the hut from 1861 there is a permanent exhibition on the cultural and technical history of glass in general and the history of Baruther glassworks in particular. At a small glass tank, visitors can experience dealing with hot glass. The Burger exhibition dedicated to the life and work of the 1866 born in Glashütte equipment blower Reinhold Burger. Burgers important invention is suitable for everyday use thermos. In 1903 he applied for a patent on the support of the evacuated cavity between the inner and outer cylinder. Equipped with a sturdy casing could begin its triumphant as a consumer the thermos.

The museum village, various commercial enterprises have settled, so a Filzerei, a pottery, a factory and a museum inn hostel with natural swimming pond.

Structures

  • Church of St. Sebastian

The first Church of St. Sebastian in Baruth was ordained in 1346. The present brick building - a late Gothic hall church - represents a new building from the second half of the 15th century or the first half of the 16th century

The church burned in 1595 and 1671 completely. With the reconstruction of the church was begun in 1672 by the Count Baruther. The expansion of the church continued until the year 1909.

Since the Counts and Princes of Solms- Baruth married both Protestant and Catholic, the Church of St. Sebastian from both denominations was shared.

In the stained glass windows of St. Sebastian, on the right side of the organ loft, a succinct in glass Red Cross catches the eye. This Red Cross has to do not only with the Imperial Commissioner Solms- Baruth the volunteer nursing in the Field ( † 1920), but also points also to the British royal family to which the Counts and Princes of Solms repeatedly stood in family relationships.

  • Baruth Castle from the 17th century
  • Peace mill " Petkus ", completely restored in the district Petkus, from 1837 to 1940 as a post mill in operation since 1950 Paltrockmühle with compass rose and shutter blades, wind and mahlgängig.
  • 106 meters high, erbauter in the 1960s telecommunications tower in the district Petkus at 51 ° 58'46 " north latitude and 13 ° 20'57 " east longitude

Parks

After a plan of Peter Joseph of 1838, the princely Count Solms- Baruth family put on their new Castle Garden Park in Baruth in the English style.

The new plant of the park made ​​after the construction of a new castle in the Orangery buildings of the old castle required. At about the same time Solms- Baruth built a castle on his manor chasuble, which was externally the same style.

Wildlife Park Johannismühle

Main article: Wildlife Park Johannismühle

In the district Klasdorf is the deer park, founded in 1997, which houses over an area of ​​about 100 ha of mainly native and formerly native animals in its diverse forest, meadows and ponds. The plot was until 1994 under Soviet administration and served as a special hunting ground of the Commander in Chief of the Soviet Armed Forces in Germany.

Sports

  • Sports club spruce Baruth / Mark V. ( football, gymnastics, bowling, table tennis, volleyball)
  • Riding and Driving Club Baruth / Mark V. ( Baruther Stables)
  • Petkuser Sports Club - Petkuser SV (est. 1924 - football, volleyball, bowling, table tennis)

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

  • The city is situated on the main highway 13 junction Baruth / Mark.
  • Through the city extend the federal highway 96 in the direction of Berlin Bautzen and the federal highway 115 in the direction of Jiiterbog Cottbus.
  • Baruth is on the railway line between Berlin and Dresden, the circulating here Regional Express line RE 3 ( Schwedt / Oder / Stralsund Berlin Elsterwerda ) stops at stations Baruth / Mark and Klasdorf ( Glashütte / Johannismühle ).
  • About 3.5 nautical miles southeast of Baruth is the VOR / DME Klasdorf. Arrivals and departures to / from the south to Berlin- Schönefeld airport pass through this VOR.

Established businesses

  • Klenk Holz AG
  • Pfleiderer AG
  • Classen GmbH
  • Fiberboard GmbH
  • In Baruth / Mark Brandenburg, the mineral water is bottled Urstromquelle
  • Unitherm Baruth GmbH, biomass power plant for the production of thermal and electrical energy
  • ZHB wood recycling, production of thermal and electrical energy
  • In 2007, the house operation WaBau built nor a pure water plant and an industrial wastewater treatment plant

Public institutions

  • WABAU, for water supply and disposal

Education

The school center Baruth glacial valley combines the elementary school and the high school Free Baruth / Mark under one roof. The elementary school also offers a refuge. The Free High School Baruth in sponsorship of the ASG was founded in the academic year 2006/2007 and has moved Baruth / Mark in the school center of the city.

Personalities

  • Gottlob Johann Christian Kunth (1757-1829), politician and educator, educators Humboldt brothers
  • Johann Georg Lehmann (1765-1811), surveyor and cartographer
  • Johann Gottlob Nathusius (1760-1835), entrepreneur
  • Frank -Dietmar Richter ( b. 1944 ), Forstmann
  • Feodora zu Solms (1920-2006), athlete
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