Heiligengrabe | |
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 Church in Grabow | |
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Location of Heiligengrabe within Ostprignitz-Ruppin district  | |
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  Heiligengrabe  Heiligengrabe | |
| Coordinates:53°09′N12°21′E / 53.150°N 12.350°E /53.150; 12.350 | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Brandenburg |
| District | Ostprignitz-Ruppin |
| Subdivisions | 14Ortsteile |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2023–31) | Karl-Friedrich Schült[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 232.30 km2 (89.69 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 75 m (246 ft) |
| Population (2023-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 4,445 |
| • Density | 19.13/km2 (49.56/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 16909 |
| Dialling codes | 033962 |
| Vehicle registration | OPR |
| Website | www.heiligengrabe.de |
Heiligengrabe is amunicipality in theOstprignitz-Ruppin district, inBrandenburg,Germany.
The municipality counts 13 villages (Ortsteil): Blandikow, Blesendorf, Blumenthal, Grabow bei Blumenthal, Herzsprung, Jabel, Königsberg, Liebenthal, Maulbeerwalde, Papenbruch, Rosenwinkel, Wernikow and Zaatzke.
From 1815 to 1945, Heiligengrabe was part of thePrussianProvince of Brandenburg. From 1952 to 1990, it was part of theBezirk Potsdam ofEast Germany.
Heiligengrabe Abbey (literally in English:Holy Sepulchre; formerly also known as Techow) was founded here as aCistercian nunnery in 1289 by Heinrich,Bishop of Havelberg and the MargraveOtto of Brandenburg, initially for 12 nuns. It held an importantrelic in the form of a BleedingHost which, so it was said, had been violated in ahost desecration by aJew.
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 familiesGans zu Putlitz,von Quitzow,von Rohr, von Winterfeld andvon 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 theLutheranReformation, 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 aLutheran 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 showsixteen quarterings in their arms before being permitted to enter.
In Heiligengrabe is theBlumenthal Observation Tower.
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