Ziethen, Brandenburg
Ziethenstraße is a municipality on the northeastern edge of the district Barnim, on the border with Uckermark. It was formed February 1, 2002 from the neighboring villages wholesale Ziethenstraße and Kleinziethen.
History
Here were French Protestant refugees, called Réfugiés or Huguenots, a new home in Brandenburg. In 1686 the first 16 refugee families were settled ( from Hainaut in present-day Belgium ) in Kleinziethen. The location must have at that time already exists, however, was largely deserted. Emerged in both villages gradually colonists communities, each with a church and a preacher, school and teacher.
The immigrants brought from France with fine fruit and vegetables and resulted in Uckermark a growing tobacco. The latter in particular was a much more profitable business than the cereal production of the native population. Your thereby possible economic rise and its privileges were regarded by the locals with great suspicion. The bailiffs of the surrounding communities attempted to curtail the privileges of the Huguenot families. In contrast, however, the Ziethener were able to successfully defend themselves.
The parishes of small and large - Ziethenstraße to this day survive French Reformed Church District of the Evangelical Church of Berlin -Brandenburg -Silesian Upper Lusatia.
Attractions
In the list of monuments in Ziethenstraße and in the list of ground monuments in Ziethenstraße are registered in the list of monuments of the country Brandenburg cultural monuments.
- French Reformed Churches
- Wholesale Ziethenstraße
- Kleinziethen
- Chapel in the cemetery Kleinziethen
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
Ziethenstraße is located on the main road 198 west to reach over it in 6-9 kilometers from the junction Joachimsthal on the highway 11 east at the same distance the city Angermuende. There is also the nearest railway station.