Damgarten
Damgarten is a district of Ribnitz-Damgarten and was an independent border town in Pomerania until 1950 . Damgarten forms the eastern part of Ribnitz-Damgarten and is located east of the Recknitz River at its confluence with the Ribnitz Lake .
history
The city emerged from a border castle and the neighboring village of "Damgor" ("Dam" means "oak", "Gora" means "mountain", Damgarten means oak mountain), which lay east of the swampy Recknitz lowland. Prince Jaromar II of Rügen is considered to be the founder of Damgarten . The transition over the Recknitz to Ribnitz in Mecklenburg was also called the Mecklenburg Pass or Pass, as the pass bridge is located there.
Damgarten received its Lübisches law in 1258 from Rügen prince Jaromar II.
Damgarten was repeatedly taken and (partially) destroyed, so u. a. 1271, 1295, 1368, 1628, 1638 and 1759. Damgarten survived the Second World War almost unscathed. The city burned down almost completely at least twice: in 1571 and 1695.
Until the end of the Thirty Years War in 1648, the Recknitz between Ribnitz and Damgarten formed the border between the Duchy of Pomerania and the Duchy of Mecklenburg . Thereafter until 1815 between Swedish Pomerania and Mecklenburg. In 1809, when the irregulars under Major Ferdinand von Schill passed through, there were occasional skirmishes with the Mecklenburg regiments loyal to Napoleon. After 1815, Swedish Pomerania and Damgarten fell to the Kingdom of Prussia and belongs to the Pomerania province .
Damgarten has had a rail connection on the Stralsund – Rostock railway line since 1888 .
Between 1895 and 1965 the trains of the narrow-gauge Franzburger Kreisbahnen ran from Damgarten station (today Ribnitz-Damgarten Ost ) via Barth to Stralsund . Other stations in Damgarten were at the port and the city forest. The former railway line parallel to the Templer Bach and in the north of Damgarten next to the Saaler Chaussee is now used as a cycle path and is still clearly visible.
In 1935, as part of the armament of the Wehrmacht, the Pütnitz air base was built near Damgarten . After the Second World War, the Pütnitz airfield was one of the most important locations for the Soviet air forces stationed in the GDR . Until 1994, the 16th fighter division of the group of the Soviet armed forces in Germany was stationed in Damgarten.
On July 1, 1950, Damgarten was merged with the neighboring Ribnitz against the votes of the representations of both cities to form the town of Ribnitz-Damgarten.
Culture and sights
- Evangelical Church Bartholomäuskirche in Damgarten: The choir dates from the 13th century, the nave from the 15th century and the church tower from 1886/87.
- Sexton's house by the church
- Amber Manufactory
- Town hall from 1930
- The oldest profane house in the city is next to the town hall at 7 Schillstrasse; it was built around 1700.
- Half-timbered house from 1769 in Stralsunder Straße 29 (Matheus).
- Technology Museum Pütnitz
- Damgarten tower, FlN "Jaromarsturm", abandoned ground monument
Personalities
→ Personalities after the merger of the cities in 1950 see Ribnitz-Damgarten # Personalities
Born in Damgarten
- Alfred Piper (1814-1892), Prussian politician
- Hans Dietrich von Zanthier (1856–1925), lawyer, Prussian district administrator and politician
- Hermann Bendix (1859–1935), pedagogue, cantor and composer
- Walter Ewert (1895–1975), German cantor, teacher, local researcher and monument curator
- Werner Hacker (1897–1955), school teacher, local researcher and writer.
- Ilona Buchsteiner (1944–2003), modern and agricultural historian
- Helma Fehrmann (1944–2010), theater worker
- Klaus Behling (* 1949, author)
Associated with Damgarten
- Egon Krenz , SED politician, came to Damgarten as a refugee from Kolberg and went to school here
literature
- Karl Anklam : Chronicle of the city of Damgarten: of the development and nature of our city . Ribnitz-Damgarten 2008 [arr. v. Ursula Fehling].
- Gustav Kratz : The cities of the province of Pomerania - an outline of their history, mostly according to documents . Berlin 1965, pp. 105-107 ( full text ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Gottfried Philipp Gengler : Regesta and documents on the constitutional and legal history of German cities in the Middle Ages , Erlangen 1863, pp. 695–698 .
Coordinates: 54 ° 15 ' N , 12 ° 28' E