Oberbarnim

The municipality is located in the district Oberbarnim Mark- or country in Brandenburg.

It was created on December 31, 2001, from the voluntary merger of the previously independent municipalities Bollersdorf / Pritzhagen, monastery village and Grunow. The formerly independent municipality Ihlow was incorporated on 26 October 2003.

Community education and name dispute

The three municipalities Bollersdorf, Grunow and monastery village decided in 2001 the merger of the municipality märkische Switzerland. After confirming this community merger by electoral vote of the citizens concerned and subsequent signature of the mayor raised the neighboring town of Buckow ( Märkische Switzerland ) and the community Waldsieversdorf objection to the new community name, which stands for the common region and the Office. As a compromise, the new town name was changed to Oberbarnim.

This place name leads to some confusion, because the municipalities belonging to the Office and the märkische Switzerland region, which is established as a tourist destination since 1890. The territories of Bollersdorf and Pritzhagen are part of the Brandenburg Switzerland. Here you will find the emblem of the Brandenburg Switzerland, the root of spruce, but overturned during the storm Kyrill. In the southeast the designated as a nature reserve Stobbertal completes the municipality.

Today's region Oberbarnim in more northerly district of Barnim located around the town of Eberswalde. From 1818 to 1952 Oberbarnim was the name of the district of the same name, which largely corresponded to the later circle Eberswalde. True is the local name if the geological boundaries are considered. So is the line between (top ) and the Barnim plateau Lebuser between the municipalities and Buckow Bollersdorf. Due to boundary layer created during the last ice age, a typical landscape, which is called märkische Switzerland today.

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Bollersdorf

Bollersdorf is a place of 400 inhabitants. The first written record dates from 1375 as Boldewinstorff. In the Middle Ages, the town belonged to the Cistercian monastery Friedland. West of the town is the Boller villages stone, a granite stone with about 18 m circumference. This makes it the largest boulder of Brandenburg Switzerland. Worth seeing is more the village church Bollersdorf, a Gothic stone church from the 15th or early 16th century.

Pritzhagen

The village Pritzhagen to which the living space Tornow heard on the northern shores of the Great Lake Tornow was first mentioned in 1300 as prouesthagen. In 1412 it was listed as Probsthagen and 1608 as Prizhagen. According 's Brandenburg book of names the name of Probsthain, a district of Saxony Belgern - Schildau was transferred. This place was again called as Provesteshagen 1201 and was owned by the monastery Lauter near Halle (Saale ), so that the first part of the name is traced back to pastor. The Annex - hagen is explained with Hag. The history of Anger village had been shaped by centuries of noble families such as the Mark of Itzenplitz, von Oppen and Reutz. End of the 18th century drove in particular the injection Hagen Gutsherrin Helene Charlotte of Friedland, which became known as "Woman of Friedland ," the development progress.

The stone church on the village green dates back to the 14th/15th. Century. The rectangular building has changed a lot in the 18th century and has a recessed square west tower, which was created in 1841 to replace the wooden tower. The brick and plaster altar table probably dates back to the 18th century, the wooden altarpiece with lateral Akanthuswangen to the years 1730/40. The left of the altar is a wooden baptism, and the pulpit is taken woodenly. While the village itself lies on the Barnim plateau, the southern part of the injection Hagen district falls in strong relief Barnim southern slope from the Stobbertal. In the slope, deep V-shaped valleys ( valleys ) as the Wolf's Glen have cut the Kleiner Tornowsee or silver throat over the Great Tornowsee. On Stobber, which forms the border with Buckow, is the 1375 first-mentioned injection Hagen mill, which is the oldest restaurant of Brandenburg Switzerland.

Klosterdorf

As Clostertorp the village was later than 1241 in the possession of the monastery Zinna. According to Country Book of Charles IV had the place in 1375, although 70 hooves, but lay desolate. Only in 1471 can be traced new residents. In Kreuzanger village there are many well-preserved Feldsteinbauten, including the stone church from the 13th century. The four-part church, a building full type consists of a transverse rectangular west tower, a ship of the same width and a slightly recessed choir with apse east final.

Grunow

Grunow was, as far as known, was first mentioned in 1315 in a Strausbergerplatz certificate in the name of Councillor Conrad de Grunow. 1375 is the land book for the village at 62 feet. The unusual location of the stone church from the 13th century on the eastern edge of the modern village indicates that Grunow temporarily desolate fell and something was rebuilt shifted to the west. The village church has Grunow in masonry remarkable chess pieces and a one-time, according to Matthias Friske in the region stone with a Jerusalem cross. As today's living space, the former Vorwerk Ernsthof belongs to Grunow.

Ihlow

The 1000 year old village Ihlow counts 170 inhabitants. The late Romanesque church of Ihlow, one of the oldest religious buildings in the Oberbarnim, was built around 1240. In the renewed after 1945 tower a cast around 1300 bell hangs. Restoration work in the interior have been uncovered in the choir remains of old red chalk drawings. Another attraction in Ihlow is the old Manor House ( built in 1760, major renovations in 1900 ). In GDR times, the church office, a sister station, the nursery, a restaurant and an HO - grocery store were housed there. Following an interim use as a seminar and recreation center, it is not used since 31 December 2009.

Attractions

See list of monuments in Oberbarnim with the value entered in the list of monuments of the country Brandenburg historical buildings that opened in 2012 on the part of Upper Barnim Feldstein route touches and are explained on information panels.

Personalities

• Erna Wazinski (* 1925 in Ihlow † 1944), Nazi victims, defense worker