Archaeological finds suggest that people lived in the area of ​​today's Brodowin as early as the Bronze Age. “Brodewin” was first mentioned in a document in 1258. It is probably a settlement on the island of Gotteswerder in the Brodowinsee. The Brandenburg margraves donated “Brodewin” to the Cistercian monastery Lehnin (southwest of Potsdam) with the condition that a new monastery be named To build “Mariensee” on the Pehlitzwerder in the Parsteiner See. In 1273 the order broke off the construction and chose a place further west, in “Koryn”. The Chorin Monastery continues to attract visitors from all over the world. The huge stone foundations of the abandoned “Mariensee” monastery remained on the Pehlitzwerder. Today's village Brodowin was founded by Dutch and German farmers who had brought the Ascanians (a Swabian-Franconian dynasty) to the sparsely populated Uckermark. In 1335, Brodowin belonged to the land of the Chorin Monastery. In 1542 the monastery was secularized and the elector moved into possession. In 1557 Brodowin had a feudal mayor, a pastor, 10 full farmers and 19 small farmers, including 7 potters. In the 17th century, the Thirty Years' War and the plague almost completely depopulated Brodowin. Things only picked up again when Huguenots, Protestant refugees from France, settled in the devastated Brodowin around 1691, and a devastating conflagration struck Brodowin in August 1848. Numerous farms and the church on the village green were destroyed. King Friedrich Wilhelm IV then donated a new church building, which he entrusted to the renowned master builder Friedrich August Stüler. So in 1853 little Brodowin got its landmark, the neo-Gothic brick church on the village green. During this time, numerous “three-sided courtyards” that still exist today were built. Some farmers who had lived on the Anger before the fire settled in the newly founded Brodowin district of Ziegenberg. The first nature reserve in Brandenburg, the Plagefenn, was established in 1907 at the instigation of the head of the Chorin forestry, Max Kienitz. It is located around the Großer and Kleiner Plagesee south of Brodowin and consists of an area of ​​around 178 hectares of moor, forest and lake landscape. Its core zone is a total reserve, which is left to its natural development protected from human influences. As a sign of the resistance of Christians against National Socialism, the secret confessional synod of the “Confessing Church” (BK) of the Mark Brandenburg took place on November 10, 1937 fed up in the Church of Brodowins. The Confessing Church was an opposition movement of Protestant Christians against the alignment of the teaching and organization of the German Evangelical Church (DEK) with National Socialism.
The BK reacted to the attempts to align itself first with a demarcation of its teaching, organization and training, later also with political protests.
Since December 1935, the work of the Confessing Church was forbidden, but could continue in secret.
The state tried to suppress the professing church through laws and ordinances. Violators were severely punished. The Confessional Synod of the ecclesiastical province of Mark Brandenburg and Grenzmark discussed the difficult situation in secret on November 10, 1937 in Brodowin.
Confessional circle synods were held before the synod in Brodowin. In order not to be discovered by the Gestapo, the synod took place in the remote church in Brodowin. The secrecy could be the reason that today there are no more documents about their convocation, agenda, participants, speakers and reports. But they could also have been destroyed in the war.
Only the following four resolutions are still pending:
1. Further development of the Confessing Churches
2. Collection question
3. Word to the youth
4. Letter to the Evangelical Upper Church Council and Consistory.
The work of the Confessing Church had been banned since December 1935, but could continue in secret.
The state tried to suppress the professing church through laws and ordinances. Violators were severely punished. The Confessional Synod of the ecclesiastical province of Mark Brandenburg and Grenzmark discussed the difficult situation in secret on November 10, 1937 in Brodowin.
Confessional circle synods were held before the synod in Brodowin. In order not to be discovered by the Gestapo, the synod took place in the remote church in Brodowin. The secrecy could be the reason that today there are no more documents about their convocation, agenda, participants, speakers and reports. But they could also have been destroyed in the war.
Only the following four resolutions have been passed:
1. Further development of the Confessing Churches
2. Collection question
3. Word to the youth
4. Writing to the evang