Sonnenberg

Sonnenberg is a municipality in the northern part of the Upper Havel in Brandenburg and is part of the Office Gransee and communities.

Geography

The district Schulz village located in the Natural Park Stechlin - Ruppin country. The municipality has five districts:

• Baumgarten
• Rauschendorf
• Rönnebeck
• Sonnenberg
• Schulz village

In the southern part of the community of Salchowsee, the Kirchsee, the Small and the Large Dölschsee and Huwenowsee, which are connected by trenches.

History of the community

The community Sonnenberg was newly formed on September 27, 1998, the merger of the former municipalities Sonnenberg and Baumgarten. On 26 October 2003, the former municipalities Rönnebeck and Schulz village were ( here the battle of Schulz village was to be held in 1316 ) than districts incorporated into the community Sonnenberg.

History

Sonnenberg was mentioned as Sunnenberg 1318 for the first time. 1524 was like almost all the villages in the county of Ruppin desolate and was at that time at least partially the monastery Lindow. After the Reformation it came into the possession of the von Bredow in Rheinberg and was rebuilt from 1581. During this time, the massive stone church of the place was. 1687 Sonneberg was owned by the Lords of Zernikow. In the following century it fell as Kammergut ( state domain ) to the kings of Prussia, and in 1857 managed as such. Today the village is a typical street village.

Demographics

Policy

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of ten members.

(As at municipal election on 28 September 2008)

Community partnerships

The Office Gransee and the communities maintain a cooperative relationship with the powiat Siemiatycki in north-eastern Poland.

Culture and sights

In the list of monuments in Sonneberg (Brandenburg) are registered in the list of monuments of the country Brandenburg monuments Sonnenberg.

The former Prussian manor castle noise village in the district of noise village was built in 1723 by Hermann Graf von Wartensleben, reshaped in the 19th century neo-Renaissance and 1921 destroyed by fire. 1923 was rebuilt as a two-story baroque castle.