Old Schwerin

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 31 '  N , 12 ° 21'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Mecklenburg Lake District
Office :	Malchow
Height :	84 m above sea level NHN
Area :	44.56 km 2
Residents:	568 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	13 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17214
Area code :	039932
License plate :	MSE, AT, DM, MC, MST, MÜR, NZ, RM, WRN
Community key :	13 0 71 001
Office administration address:	Alter Markt 1 17213 Malchow
Website :	www.alt-schwerin.de
Mayor :	Franc Heinrihar
Location of the community Alt Schwerin in the Mecklenburg Lake District

Alt Schwerin is a municipality in the west of the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). It is administered by the Malchow Office based in the city ​​of the same name .

Geography and traffic

Alt Schwerin is located on the Tauchowsee, between Drewitzer (also called Alt Schweriner See ) and Plauer See .

The districts of Glashütte, Jürgenshof, Mönchbusch, Ortkrug, Wendorf and the island of Plauer Werder belong to Alt Schwerin.

Alt Schwerin has a train station on the Parchim – Malchow railway line . Trains only run here on certain occasions.

history

Surname

The name is said to be related to the Polish zvěŕ for wild animal or zvěŕin for game enclosure, zoo or horse stud . Speculations about the origin of the place name from the Slavic god Svarog ( Swarzyn, place of Svarog ) cannot be proven.

Deviating from this, it was derived from the old Germanic swaran (defend, stem related to swear ), which could only have been reinterpreted later by immigrating Slavs in the sense of zvěŕ .

At the beginning of the 19th century the place was "usually called the village of Schwerin".

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1289. Originally it was a farming village. In the 14th century to the end of the 17th century, the family v. Gamm named as the owner of the Alt Schwerin estate. Especially after the Thirty Years War , the place changed to a manor village. In 1720 the local Wangelin family managed to buy the whole place. The manor house was then built around 1733 under the Danish Lieutenant General Christian Friedrich von Wangelin (1682–1755). But the family had to leave the place as early as 1786. Numerous changes of ownership followed; It was bought by Captain Ernst Friedrich August von Flotow in 1787, Chamberlain Theodosius von Levetzow in 1792 , Count Lüttichau in 1798 , Chief Hunting Officer Kaspar Heinrich von Sierstorpff in 1802 , and Chamberlain Ernst Werner von Raven (1763-1836) in 1804 . The next owner was the Rostock lawyer Ludwig Friedrich Schulze in 1840, but by 1841 it was Ernst Mierendorf, in 1846 Friedrich Greffrath and in 1869 the domain councilor Josua Klockmann. In 1901, it was bought by the Berlin wholesale merchant Johann Schlutius, who had already acquired Karow , Hahnenhorst, Grüner Jäger , Jürgenstorf, Werder and Leisten .

The two large field stone cottages on Dorfstrasse were built in the 19th century. In 1899 Johannes Schlutius took over the estate. In 1901 the last Mecklenburg glassworks was closed in Alt Schwerin. In 1945 the goods in Alt Schwerin and Jürgenshof were expropriated without compensation. Alt Schwerin has been a tourist-oriented village since the 1960s, as evidenced by the Agroneum (Agricultural History Museum), three hotels, two campsites, restaurants and bike paths in the Nossentiner / Schwinzer Heide nature reserve .

politics

coat of arms

Blazon : "In red two flails crossed diagonally over a four-spoke silver wheel with a quartered rim." The coat of arms was designed by Karl-Heinz Steinbruch from Schwerin . It was approved on April 18, 2006 by the Ministry of the Interior and registered under the number 300 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Justification of the coat of arms: In the coat of arms, the flails and the wheel symbolize the most important source of income for the inhabitants, traditional agriculture. The wheel is not only intended to point out agricultural technology, but also the tradition of craft and trade. The tinging of the national emblem is based on the colors of almost all of the noble owners of Alt Schwerin, including the colors of those of Wangelin, who have a shield split in red and silver.

flag

The flag was designed by Dieter Kurth from Malchow , drawn by Karl-Heinz Steinbruch from Schwerin and approved by the Ministry of the Interior on March 22, 2007.

The flag is striped lengthways with red, white and red. The red stripes each take up one sixth, the white stripe two thirds of the height of the flag cloth. In the middle of the white stripe is the municipal coat of arms, which takes up half the height of the flag. The relation of the height of the flag cloth to the length is like 3: 5.

Official seal

The official seal shows the municipal coat of arms with the inscription "GEMEINDE ALT SCHWERIN".

Culture and sights

→ See also the list of architectural monuments in Alt Schwerin

• Gothic village church Alt Schwerin , a church hall in brick building from the 14th century; neo-Gothic west tower made of field and brick from 1866 with eight-sided spire ; 18th century burial chapels .
• Baroque mansion from 1773. The single-storey, eleven-axis brick building with basement and mansard roof is located in the middle of a park and is now used as a senior citizens' home. The wrought-iron entrance gate to the park (which is now in the Agroneum) received a special prize at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 and originally came from Vollrathsruhe .
• The Agroneum , an agricultural history museum , shows the development of Mecklenburg agriculture.
• A granite cross stands in a forest on the connecting road to the neighboring village of Sparow . It probably dates from the 19th century. It is unclear whether this was a marker for the Sparower, who had to come to Alt Schwerin to visit the church, or whether it was an atonement cross . According to oral tradition, a farmer was robbed and murdered at this point, who only brought butter from a barter transaction.

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  Village church Alt Schwerin

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  North shore of the Plauer See

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  Butterkreuz on the Sparower Kirchsteig

Personalities

• Christian Friedrich von Wangelin (1682–1755), royal Danish lieutenant general and chief of the Oldenburg National Infantry Regiment.
• Christian Zander (theologian) (1791–1872), theologian and educator.
• Ernst Sellin (1867–1946), theologian and biblical archaeologist.
• Ludwig Hoffmann (* 1943 in Jürgenshof), politician, Lord Mayor of the city of Wernigerode.

literature

• Torsten Pöschk: “Here is my own reason; who died to me… “: The design of baroque manor houses, courtyards and gardens of the nobility in Mecklenburg-Schwerin in the context of the internal power conflict in the 18th century. Books on Demand, Norderstedt, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8423-7436-2 ; P. 129ff.
• Gustav Hempel : Geographical-statistical-historical manual of the Mecklenburg country , 1st part. Edmund Frege, Güstrow 1837; P. 315, digitized version .
• Friedrich Schlie: The art and historical monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin: Stick and stone , Volume 5: The district court districts of Teterow, Malchin, Stavenhagen, Penzlin, goods, Malchow and Röbel . Bärensprung, Schwerin iM, 2nd edition 1902, DNB 368136221 ; Reprint: Stock and Stein, Schwerin, 1993, ISBN 3-910179-09-6 ; P. 416f: "The estate and church village Alt-Schwerin".
• Volker Reetz: Alt Schwerin "Uns Hüsung" Part 1 From Slavic Settlement to 1949 and Part 2 From 1949 to the Present Editor: Agricultural History Museum Alt Schwerin, 1987
• Agricultural History Museum Alt Schwerin Agricultural History Museum Alt Schwerin, accompanying booklet , 1976
• Author collective at the district museum of the district of Neubrandenburg, Waren Müritz Alt Schwerin, a Mecklenburg village , 1962.

Web links

Commons : Alt Schwerin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website Alt Schwerin
• District of Mecklenburg Lake District: Agroneum - Museum Alt Schwerin. Retrieved July 14, 2015 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistisches Amt MV - population status of the districts, offices and municipalities 2019 (XLS file) (official population figures in the update of the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ^ Ernst Eichler : City name book of the GDR. Leipzig 1988, p. 252
3. ^ Hans-Dietrich Kahl : Schwerin, Svarinshaug and the Sclauorum ciuitas of Prudentius of Troyes. In: Contribution to the urban and regional history of Eastern and Northern Europe. Wiesbaden 1971, pp. 49-125
4. ^ Gustav Hempel : Geographical-statistical-historical manual of the Mecklenburg country ; P. 315.
5. ^ Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the land constitutional hereditary comparisons (1775) ; P. 383f, digitized
6. ^ Yearbook of the German Nobility. Vol. 2, 1898, p. 820 Digitized by Ernst Werner von Raven (1763–1836)
7. ↑ Hans-Heinz Schütt: On shield and flag - the coats of arms and flags of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and its municipalities . Ed .: production office TINUS; Schwerin. 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814380-0-0 , pp. 308/309 .
8. ↑ ^{a b} main statute § 1 (PDF).
9. ↑ Information board on site