Buckautal
Buckautal is a municipality in the west of the district Potsdam- agent Mark Brandenburg and part of the Office Ziesar.
Geography
Buckautal is about five kilometers to the south and east of Ziesar on the border with Saxony- Anhalt. Buckautal located south of Fiener break on a glacial Sander. On the sand mainly pines grow. The place is over ten kilometers long stretched community, ranging from district Dretzen in the south west to the hamlet of Stone Mountain in the northeast. Southwest of Buckautal, the district Dretzen is the large military training area Altengrabow.
The municipality consists of the villages of Buckau, Dretzen, colony Wittstock and Steinberg
History
In the year 946 Buckau is first documented as " Bucounici ". Emperor Otto I then gave the honey tithe of the " urbs " (Latin: City ) Buckau the Moritz monastery in Magdeburg. This Buckau is the oldest ( mentioned in documents ) place of today's federal state of Brandenburg. The term " urbs " speaks for the former importance of the settlement. Buckau had formerly a castle warden, he is today but only a circular spot in the field mark north of the village diameter of about 150 meters left. The church today Buckautal was on 1 March 2002 from the voluntary merger of the previously independent municipalities Buckau and Dretzen. On March 1, 2002, the municipality Steinberg was incorporated.
Attractions
In the list of monuments in Buckautal and in the list of ground monuments in Buckautal are registered in the list of monuments of the country Brandenburg cultural monuments.
- Romanesque stone church dating back to 1200 in Buckau
- Oldest grave stone Brandenburg in Buckau
- Wehler mill ( water mill) and 1989 grain mill in Buckau
- Fresh spring, a source pot between Buckau and Rottstock
Transport links
The Federal Highway 2, which leads near the local part Steinberg by the municipality is to reach beyond the Ziesar connection (about 9 km). Federal highway 107 crosses the district Buckau the community.
Energy supply
In Dretzen houses since 2005, ten wind turbines of the type of transit countries FL 77 each with 1500 kW power and 77 meter rotor diameter, mounted on 111.5 -meter-high free-standing steel lattice towers.