Heiligengrabe

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Heiligengrabe
Church in Grabow
Church in Grabow
Coat of arms of Heiligengrabe
Coat of arms
Location of Heiligengrabe within Ostprignitz-Ruppin district
Heiligengrabe is located in Germany
Heiligengrabe
Heiligengrabe
Coordinates: 53°09′N 12°21′E / 53.150°N 12.350°E / 53.150; 12.350Coordinates: 53°09′N 12°21′E / 53.150°N 12.350°E / 53.150; 12.350
CountryGermany
StateBrandenburg
DistrictOstprignitz-Ruppin
Subdivisions14 Ortsteile
Government
 • Mayor (2015–23) Holger Kippenhahn[1]
Area
 • Total232.30 km2 (89.69 sq mi)
Elevation
75 m (246 ft)
Population
 (2020-12-31)[2]
 • Total4,379
 • Density19/km2 (49/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
16909
Dialling codes033962
Vehicle registrationOPR
Websitewww.heiligengrabe.de

Heiligengrabe is a municipality in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district, in Brandenburg, Germany.

Geography[]

The municipality counts 13 villages (Ortsteil): Blandikow, Blesendorf, Blumenthal, Grabow bei Blumenthal, Herzsprung, Jabel, Königsberg, Liebenthal, Maulbeerwalde, Papenbruch, Rosenwinkel, Wernikow and Zaatzke.

Architecture[]

Herb garden, Convent building and Blood Chapel

Abbey[]

Heiligengrabe Abbey (literally in English: Holy Sepulchre; formerly also known as Techow) was founded here as a Cistercian nunnery in 1289 by Heinrich, Bishop of Havelberg and the Margrave Otto of Brandenburg, initially for 12 nuns. It held an important relic in the form of a Bleeding Host which, so it was said, had been violated in a host desecration by a Jew.

The nunnery acquired considerable wealth and estates in the area, partly through the revenue from pilgrims to the Bleeding Host, and partly through donations from the noble families round about, especially when one of their daughters entered the convent. Among the nuns of local great houses were members of the families Gans zu Putlitz, von Quitzow, von Rohr, von Winterfeld and von Blumenthal. Some of the abbesses were great characters. The Abbess Henriette von Winterfeldt had a quarrel with the Duke of Mecklenburg, who refused to pay a debt to the abbey. So she borrowed a large artillery piece and declared war on Mecklenburg, bombarding it across the nearby frontier. At the time of the Lutheran Reformation, Abbess Anna von Quitzow would have nothing to do with the new denomination, and refused to pay tax.

After the Reformation the prior function of the nunnery, to provide sustenance for unmarried women mostly from local noble families, wasn't to be given up with its secularisation. So the formerly Roman Catholic nunnery turned into a Lutheran women's convent (German: das Stift, more particular: Damenstift (in German), literally in English: Ladies' foundation), with its conventuals now called secular canonesses (Stiftsdamen). The canonesses of nobility were obliged to show sixteen quarterings in their arms before being permitted to enter.

  • Abbey

  • Convent building

  • Blood Chapel

  • Interior of the Blood Chapel

Other infrastructures[]

In Heiligengrabe is the Blumenthal Observation Tower.

Demography[]

  • Development of population since 1875 within the current Boundaries (Blue Line: Population; Dotted Line: Comparison to Population development in Brandenburg state; Grey Background: Time of Nazi Germany; Red Background: Time of communist East Germany)

  • Recent Population Development and Projections (Population Development before Census 2011 (blue line); Recent Population Development according to the Census in Germany in 2011 (blue bordered line); Official projections for 2005-2030 (yellow line); for 2017-2030 (scarlet line); for 2020-2030 (green line)

Heiligengrabe: Population development
within the current boundaries (2020)[3]
YearPop.±% p.a.
1875 6,413—    
1890 6,295−0.12%
1910 6,135−0.13%
1925 6,314+0.19%
1939 6,029−0.33%
1950 9,659+4.38%
1964 7,201−2.08%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1971 6,783−0.85%
1981 5,817−1.52%
1985 5,624−0.84%
1990 5,534−0.32%
1995 5,245−1.07%
2000 5,335+0.34%
2005 5,087−0.95%
YearPop.±% p.a.
2010 4,693−1.60%
2015 4,441−1.10%
2016 4,426−0.34%
2017 4,385−0.93%
2018 4,399+0.32%
2019 4,370−0.66%
2020 4,379+0.21%

Gallery[]

  • Church in Blumenthal

  • View tower in Blumenthal

  • Palace grounds in Blumenthal-Horst

  • Rundling Glienicke

  • Church in Glienicke

  • Rundling Jabel

  • Church in Jabel

  • Church in Jabel

  • Church in Königsberg

References[]

  1. ^ Landkreis Ostprignitz-Ruppin Wahl der Bürgermeisterin / des Bürgermeisters, accessed 2 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Bevölkerung im Land Brandenburg nach amtsfreien Gemeinden, Ämtern und Gemeinden 31. Dezember 2020". Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg (in German). June 2021.
  3. ^ Detailed data sources are to be found in the Wikimedia Commons.Population Projection Brandenburg at Wikimedia Commons

External links[]

Media related to Heiligengrabe at Wikimedia Commons

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