Plattenburg

Plate castle is a municipality and district Prignitz (Brandenburg). Factor was the name which is in the municipality Wasserburg castle plate. The community board castle was built in 2001 by the merger of eight communities that previously belonged to the existing 1992 to 2001 Office disk castle. This office was not the legal successor of the older Electoral Brandenburg Office disk castle and had a different territorial blank.

• 4.1 Historical Monuments
• 4.2 monuments

Geographical location

The community board castle is bordered to the north by the city pearl mountain and the town of Gross Pankow ( Prignitz ), to the east by the municipality Gumtow, on the southeast by the towns Kyritz and Neustadt ( Dosse), to the south by the state of Saxony -Anhalt and on the west by the office Bad Wilsnack / ways.

Structure of the community

The community board castle is divided according to the main statutes in eight districts with 14 parts of the municipality:

• Bendelin with the community part Zichtow,
• Glöwen with the community parts of the United Leppin, Storbeckshof and Zernikow
• Hoppenrade with the community part Garz,
• Kleinow with the parts of the municipality Burghagen, Ponitz and Uenze,
• Kletzke with the community subpanel castle,
• Krampfer with the community part of Great Gottschow,
• Netzow with the parts of the municipality Klein Leppin kettle holes and thin,
• Viesecke with the community parts of the United Werzin and Rambow.

Add to this the Places: Northern Expansion, Feuerherdshof, Friedrichswalde, Kahl Horst, Karlsruhe, small wave, Kleinower Brickyard, New Kleinow, Swan Lake and Stölkenplan.

History

The community board castle was only on 31 December 2001 from the voluntary merger of the previously independent municipalities Bendelin, Glöwen, Hoppenrade, Kleinow, Kletzke, Krampfer, Netzow and Viesecke. These communities were previously under the administration of the Office disk castle. The history of the community is thus the story of the eight districts today.

Official plate castle

The Minister of the Interior of Brandenburg was on 31 July 1992 its approval for the formation of the Office disk castle. At the time of the conclusion of the Office August 10, 1992 has been set. The Office was based in Kletzke and consisted of the municipalities Bendelin, Glöwen, Kleinow, Kletzke, Krampfer, Netzow, Viesecke and Hoppenrade which at that time belonged to the circles pearl mountain and injection Walk. Office Director was Gudrun Hoffmann, the mayor of the municipality board castle was after the dissolution of the Office.

With the voluntary merger of the official communities belonging to the new community board castle of December 31, 2001, the Office disk castle was dissolved.

Demographics

The population of the territory of present-day plate castle stagnated from the late 19th century until the end of World War II. Then the refugees from the former eastern territories of Germany brought a significant population boost. Since the 1950s, the population falls continuously. The forecasts predict a further significant decline in population. Here, in 2030 as many seniors in plate castle to live like citizens of working age.

Forecasts of population change

Forecast age structure

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on 28 January 2002.

Blazon: " Argent, a brick red stepped gables crowned with a cross and pierced by three (1:2) Gothic windows open. "

Culture and sights

In the list of monuments in plate castle are registered in the list of monuments of Brandenburg monuments.

Historical monuments

Monument of 1947 in the Bahnhofstrasse the district Glöwen to 800 Jewish men and women who had to work in a satellite camp of Sachsenhausen concentration camp in armaments production of Dynamit AG ( DAG) from August 1944 to April 1945. The Jewish prisoners were particularly distressed. According to recent research from five to seven prisoners died.

Before the " miner's house " on the plate reminds a castle in 1995 by BdV district association pearl mountain, erected memorial stone to the victims of flight and expulsion in 1945 from the eastern areas of Germany. Plate castle was 1945 ff one of the central collection points of the circle Westprignitz for refugees and displaced persons from East and West Prussia, East Brandenburg, Pomerania, the Warthegau, the Netzedistrict and Silesia.

Monuments

Originally from the period around 1200, 1319, first mentioned plate castle, stop on the pilgrimage route from Berlin to Wilsnack, is now home to a museum that serves as a registry office and offers rooms for seminars and exhibitions. It is considered the oldest moated castle in northern Germany.

On the site of the 1803 from the Diocese of Havel mountain to privately sold, dating from the 1729 Barbican Hoppenrade 1830 was the classicist manor and manor house Hoppenrade and around 1847 belonging to the park. From 1900 known as the "Pearl of the Prignitz ", the facility was remodeled in the 1920s and expanded. It belongs since 1995, the commune plate castle; the landscape park is since that time cared for by a development association in order to obtain the 1998 protected as a garden memorial site as a cultural and recreational environment for the public.

The plate castle

The voltage applied in a wooded area at the Karthane of the Margrave of Brandenburg in 1200 water castle was first mentioned in 1319 when it was sold to the Havelberger bishop. As a result of the Reformation and the secularization of ecclesiastical goods they came back in 1548 in the possession of the ruler, but then finally in 1560 to the family of Saldern, which was until 1945 rooted here.

At two separate courtyards lying to group the mighty redbrick building in the Upper and Lower Towns. South of it the spacious grounds of the bailey joins, which is surrounded by another, the outer moat. The buildings of the lower castle are inspired by the surrounding the lower court strong defensive walls, which was originally built as a freestanding ring wall with battlements and Gothic archway. Additional protection is offered double moats and ramparts. The resulting in several centuries of buildings included stables, gate house, outbuildings and drawbridge on the outer bailey, baking and brewing house, storage and stables, dungeon, gatehouse, archive, Knapp House ( also wash and roll house) and drawbridge on the lower castle and palace, keep and household and kitchen house on the upper castle. Several intrusive conversion and new construction from the 16th to the 19th century gave the castle its present architectural face.

Burchard of Saldern (1568-1635) built the castle in 1600 to renew the style of the late Renaissance and remodel primarily residential and party rooms in the palace. These large changes in the bishop's wings are among the most beautiful and important craft services of interior decoration of the Renaissance in Prignitz. Especially give the masterful and exceptionally high-quality joinery residence courtly elegance. Also remarkable are the rich in forms Masonry and Stukkateurarbeiten which may well be regarded as works of Magdeburg sculptor generations to Sebastian Ertle and Christoph Dehne.

The Knights' Hall has four elaborately stukkierte groin vault over a sandstone central column and contains as excellent jewelry a magnificent fireplace with wappengeschmücktem best essay in Renaissance forms. A sandstone staircase with six figures of lions which support the handrails, leads to the richly carved Renaissance door of 1609.

Finally, under Adolf Friedrich von Saldern (1802-1862) there were 1861 to 1865 according to plans by Friedrich August Stüler to rebuilding the premises of the Upper Castle, the castle still shape. The focus of the work, the redesign of the Knight's hall and some surrounding space, the renovation of the residential wing as well as the construction of a new tower stood. This was a floor lower than the present and has been increased until 1883, after a fire by Baurat Wilhelm Martens by a structure its present form.

From the late 1950s to 1991, the upper castle was used as a children's holiday home, the buildings of the lower castle fell into decay, parts of the fore-castle were demolished immediately after 1945. Only in 1991 put under the direction of a society promoting extensive restoration and repair work to continue until today ( 2012). Even the castle garden could be reconstructed. Today, the castle is privately operated hostel as a conference and event venue and as a museum and restaurant culture an important touristic center in the Prignitz dar.

Traffic

By municipality plate castle run in east-west direction the main road 5 Hamburg-Berlin and in North-South direction the federal highway 107 injection Walk- Genthin. Plate castle is located in the traffic group Berlin -Brandenburg. On Glöwen station on the Berlin- Hamburg train every hour keeps the Regional Express ( Wismar ) Wittenberg -Berlin- Ludwigsfelde DB Regio AG. In addition Glöwen is connected to the public transport of the adjacent district of Stendal in Saxony- Anhalt. It run from the bus stops Glöwen / train station and Glöwen / school buses and call buses of the regional transport company West Saxons.

Personalities

• Siegfried of Saldern (1843-1913), Heir to disk castle, knights director and member of the Reichstag