Oertzenhof (Woldegk)

Oertzenhof City of Woldegk Coordinates: 53 ° 31 ′ 5 "  N , 13 ° 34 ′ 23"  E
Height :	101 m above sea level NHN
Postal code :	17349
Area code :	03967

Oertzenhof, on the right in the background the station building

Oertzenhof is a district of the town of Woldegk in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Most of the village arose when the railway line from Güstrow via Neubrandenburg to the Prussian border near Strasburg with the Oertzenhof station was built in the 1860s . The station reception building and some buildings in its vicinity, which form a uniform ensemble with the station, are under monument protection.

location

Oertzenhof is located at the intersection of the railway line from Bützow via Neubrandenburg to Strasburg with the road from Woldegk to Friedland, about seven kilometers north of Woldegk on the northern foothills of the Helpter Mountains . The place Helpt is about two kilometers south of the train station.

history

Listed former dairy

Reception building

The name Oertzenhof comes from the widespread noble family Oertzen , who owned a number of goods in the Friedland area . In the time before the railway was built, Oertzenhof is only mentioned as the location of a dairy on a hill.

In 1863 the Prussian railway line from Stettin to Strasburg went into operation. The Mecklenburg side was also interested in an east-west connection. In 1864 the line from Güstrow to Neubrandenburg was put into operation, and on January 1, 1867 it was extended to the border near Strasburg. Railway stations were built in Sponholz and Oertzenhof between Neubrandenburg and Strasburg . Oertzenhof was already approached daily by work trains from Neubrandenburg a few months before the end-to-end route was completed in June 1866; freight trains were planned for the autumn harvest.

By ordinance of December 7, 1866, the post and customs office to be set up at Oertzenhof station, the last Mecklenburg station before the state border, was added to the list of customs offices on the Mecklenburg border after communication with the Grand Ducal Mecklenburgisch-Strelitz government and vote in the state parliament . Customs control ceased to exist as early as 1867, as a customs union was introduced with the establishment of the North German Confederation . The Großherzoglich-Mecklenburgisch-Strelitzschen-Post-Anstalten announced that from December 25, 1866 the Post-Expedition in Oertzenhof would also mediate the traffic with the Prussian post offices. On May 1, 1867, a telegraph station was set up at Oertzenhof station.

Oertzenhof developed into a local transport hub. Personal post courses connected Friedland and Woldegk to the station, but there were also connections to Neustrelitz with a connection to Feldberg . In the 1880s, the construction of a railway from Oertzenhof to Woldegk was planned. But that did not happen, instead the city of Woldegk received a connection to a railway line from Neustrelitz to Strasburg past Oertzenhof a few years later .

The name was used as a railway and post office location to identify other places in the area, so a number of texts mention Helpt (near Oertzenhof) or Badresch (near Oertzenhof) . The place itself remained relatively small, however, in the Mecklenburg local lexicon of 1930 Oertzenhof is only mentioned as a Vorwerk von Helpt.

During the GDR era, Oertzenhof was the seat of a district enterprise for agricultural technology. A grain store was also set up. As the successor to the agricultural engineering company, there is still (as of 2013) a vehicle operation in the village, in the former dairy there is a branch of the Meissen beekeeping company.

Oertzenhof became part of the city of Woldegk on May 25, 2014 as part of the incorporation of the municipality of Helpt.

buildings

Listed water tower

railway station

Loading work in the station

Oertzenhof is on the Bützow – Szczecin railway line . The station building on the south side of the track system is a two-storey building in the east and three-storey in the west, made of brick from the time the station was built. The eastern part is set back a little compared to the wider western part, both on the road side and on the track side, so that the floor plan is approximately the shape of a "T". The building is no longer used for railway purposes and is empty. The building, like the station building of the Neubrandenburg train station, was designed by the Saxon architect Richard Steche, who was employed by the Friedrich-Franz-Eisenbahn from 1863 to 1867 .

After the 1990s, most of the railway systems were dismantled. What remains are three continuous tracks, of which the northern one belongs to a private company. Oertzenhof is still used for freight traffic via this track, mainly building materials and agricultural goods. Oertzenhof is a stop on the lines Bützow - Neubrandenburg - Pasewalk - Ueckermünde and Lübeck - Bützow - Neubrandenburg - Pasewalk - Szczecin. Both lines run every two hours and overlap so that Oertzenhof is served almost every hour.

The station building was auctioned in summer 2012. It is a listed building, as is the water tower to the east of it. The comparatively small tower has been unused for years and has already been destroyed, especially in the roof area.

environment

Several buildings on the paved station forecourt date from the time the station was built and are made of brick in a similar style. These include a farm building (No. 25) with several outbuildings, a residential building (No. 27) and the former post office (No. 28/29). Some of them are empty, some are used as residential buildings. All of these buildings are listed, including a former railway dwelling further to the west (No. 30/31.)

The building of the former dairy is also under monument protection, today used by a beekeeping company. It is located on the Chaussee west of the train station, on the north side of the railroad tracks.

To the east of the station there is a railway settlement made up of one to two-story residential buildings with outbuildings. It was supposed to be included in the area of ​​the listed station ensemble in 1996, but there was no corresponding announcement.

Web links

Commons : Oertzenhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gustav Hempel: Topographical-historical description of the Meklenburger country. Second, increased edition of the second part of Hempel's geographical-statistical-historical handbook. Printed and published by the Hinstorffschen Hofbuchhandlung , Wismar / Schwerin 1852, p. 487.
2. ^ Archives for regional studies in the Grossherzogthümen Mecklenburg and revue of agriculture, sixteenth year. Verlag der Hofbuchdruckerei AW Sandmeyer, Schwerin 1866, p. 416.
3. ^ Government Gazette for the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Year 1866, No. 53, p. 332.
4. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Postal Department. Berlin 1866, p. 265.
5. ^ Government Gazette for Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Verlag der Hofbuchdruckerei of Dr. FW Bärensprung, No. 17, Schwerin 1867, p. 117.
6. ^ Daniel Zander : Material for regional studies of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Verlag der Barnewitzschen Hofbuchhandlung, Neustrelitz 1889, p. 19.
7. ↑ Oertzenhof. In: Mecklenburgisches Ortverzeichnis 1930, cities and towns in the states of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg Strelitz. Boldt Publishing House, 1930.
8. ↑ Railway station under the hammer. In: Nordkurier. June 15, 2012.