Klein Belitz

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 56 '  N , 11 ° 58'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Rostock
Office :	Bützow-Land
Height :	11 m above sea level NHN
Area :	39 km 2
Residents:	846 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	22 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	18246
Area code :	038466
License plate :	LRO, BÜZ, DBR, GÜ, ROS, TET
Community key :	13 0 72 053
Office administration address:	Am Markt 1 18246 Bützow
Website :	www.buetzow.de
Mayor :	Friedemann Preuss ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Klein Belitz in the Rostock district

Klein Belitz is a municipality in the Rostock district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). The community is administered by the Bützow-Land office , based in the city of Bützow .

geography

The community of Klein Belitz is located between Bützow and Rostock . The predominantly flat area from the Warnowtal to Neukirchener Plage , a protected wetland area, barely reaches 20 m above sea level. NN.

Klein Belitz is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Satow in the north, Bröbberow in the northeast, Schwaan in the east, Vorbeck in the southeast, Bützow in the south, Bernitt and Penzin in the west and Jürgenshagen in the northwest.

The districts belong to the municipality:

• Boldenstorf - mentioned as Boldewinestorp in 1284
• Friedrichshof - a settlement near the Warnow from the 18th century
• 1270 together with small Belitz as - United Belitz Belitz mentioned
• Neukirchen - oldest part, already in 1232 in a document of the monastery Rühn called
• Passin - first mentioned in 1236, later a ducal domain
• Reinstorf - mentioned as Reynersdorp in 1248
• Selow - first mentioned in 1248

history

Belitz, whose name suggests a Slavic settlement, appears for the first time in a document in 1270. The last owner of the Klein Belitz estate was Carl-Friedrich von Langen , who won two gold medals in dressage at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.

Groß Belitz was incorporated on July 1, 1950. On August 1, 2001, Klein Belitz merged with Selow to form the new municipality of Selow, which was renamed Klein Belitz the following day.

Attractions

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  Chapel in Passin

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  historic farmhouse ( Fachhallenhaus ) in Passin

The local museum in Klein Belitz, which was set up in the warehouse , the village church in the Neukirchen district (with cross vaults and late Romanesque chancel) and the small half-timbered chapel in the Passin district from the 17th century are well worth seeing . The classicist Klein Belitz manor (from 1825), formerly owned by the Barons von Langen , is for sale.

See also : List of architectural monuments in Klein Belitz

Village church in Neukirchen

Altar in the Neukirchen village church

The Neukirchen village church is a field stone building from the 13th century. The tower has four shield gables and an eight-sided helmet . It houses two bells that were probably cast in the Middle Ages. There is a sundial on the south side. The interior furnishings include a wooden baptismal font from the 17th century, pulpit and altar from 1728, a crucifix from the 13th century and a plaque that has been listing the pastors since 1568. In the choir there are two window paintings depicting Saints Peter and Paul. The stone wall surrounding the churchyard was restored in 1995. In the churchyard there are wrought iron grave crosses from the 18th and 19th centuries. In May 2007 the daughter of the new pastor found nine gold coins from the 15th century, some of which were wrapped in linen. After the ownership issue has been clarified, these belong to the parish, but are kept in a safe place.

In the village church there is a historic organ from 1768, built by the organ builder Paul Schmidt (Rostock).

Economy and Infrastructure

Agriculture and small handicraft businesses shape the area, in Klein Belitz there is a school and a day-care center.

The connecting road from Bützow to Rostock or Bad Doberan runs through the community . The districts of Neukirchen and Reinstorf are close to the Kröpelin motorway junction ( A 20 ). The next train stations are in the nearby towns of Bützow and Schwaan .

Personalities

• Heinrich Gustav Plitt (politician, 1777) (1777–1841), councilor in Lübeck
• Carl-Friedrich von Langen (1887–1934), rider, Olympic champion in individual training

Web links

Commons : Klein Belitz  - Collection of Images

• Church district Neukirchen ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Chronicle of the Passin district ( Memento from December 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• Neukirchen district

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. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
3. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2001
4. ↑ Zerniner Employment Initiative (ZEBI) e. V. (Ed.): Village and town churches in the parish of Güstrow . Edition Temmen, Bremen / Rostock 1997, ISBN 3-86108-443-0 , p. 48
5. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Tug of war for Marie's treasure - kirche-mv.de (article in Schweriner Volkszeitung from August 3, 2007)
6. ^ The gold treasure is coming back - Schweriner Volkszeitung, June 25, 2008