{"id":21964,"date":"2022-09-11T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T09:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/?p=21964"},"modified":"2022-09-02T10:23:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T08:23:59","slug":"ribbeck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/germany\/brandenburg\/havelland\/ribbeck\/","title":{"rendered":"Ribbeck – where once stood the pear tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Was Theodor Fontane aware that his pear tree had helped the small village of Ribbeck in Havelland to become incredibly famous?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Ribbeck is located about 9 kilometres northwest of Nauen in the Havelland region of Brandenburg. It is a small village with just under 350 inhabitants and especially in summer there are times when there are almost more visitors than residents in Ribbeck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Ribbeck\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The first documentary mention of the village is found in the land register of 1375 by Emperor Charles IV. However, the von Ribbeck family is already mentioned in church documents around 1237. From 1374 the von Ribbeck family was feudal lord of the village. The last lord of the manor was Hans Georg Karl Anton von Ribbeck (5 July 1880 – 15 February 1945). He was a convinced monarchist and Nazi opponent. In 1944 he was sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he was killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pear tree<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The small town became famous through a poem by Theodor Fontane entitled “Herr von Ribbeck aus Ribbeck im Havelland”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had to learn the poem at school back then and unfortunately not more than a few lines have remained in my memory. If you feel the same way, you should watch the video in which a member of the von Ribbeck family reads the poem aloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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