Richtenberg

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Richtenberg (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 54 ° 12 '  N , 12 ° 53'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Western Pomerania-Ruegen
Office :	Franzburg-Richtenberg
Height :	13 m above sea level NHN
Area :	15.62 km 2
Residents:	1303 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	83 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	18461
Area code :	038322
License plate :	VR, GMN, NVP, RDG, RÜG
Community key :	13 0 73 076
Office administration address:	Ernst-Thälmann-Str. 71 18461 Franzburg
Website :	www.amt-franzburg-richtenberg.de
Mayor :	Karldiether Wegner
Location of the city of Richtenberg in the Vorpommern-Rügen district

Richtenberg is a town in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany). The country town is administered by the Office Franzburg-Richtenberg with its seat in the city of Franzburg . Richtenberg and Franzburg form a basic center for their surroundings .

geography

Geographical location

Richtenberg, the smallest town in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , is located in the middle between Barth , Stralsund , Grimmen and Tribsees in the immediate vicinity of the country town of Franzburg. The flat, undulating, wooded area of ​​the Western Pomerania Plain shows only a few differences in altitude (up to 38 m above sea level ). Richtenberg lies between the wetland of the Richtenberger See and the two forest areas Schuenhagener and the Abtshagener forest. The city is about 22 km from Strelasund .

City structure

The city of Richtenberg consists of the places Richtenberg and Zandershagen.

Neighboring communities

The neighboring communities of Richtenberg (clockwise) are: Stadt Franzburg , Wittenhagen , Gremersdorf-Buchholz and Millienhagen-Oebelitz .

history

Older story

Richtenberg was first mentioned in the founding document of the Neuenkamp Monastery (today Franzburg ) from November 8, 1231. It is the oldest documented place in the region. In the deed of foundation of the Rügen prince Wizlaw I , the monastery was granted a local salt spring in addition to the patronage of the Richtenberg church .

In 1231 the place was still called Richeberg , then Rikenberg (1242), Rychenbergk (1352) and around 1508 Richtenberghe . The name could have been based on the Low German riko for rich , but also the old Polish Rikenbrega for lakeside . In 1297 Richtenberg was first mentioned as an oppidum , i.e. an urban settlement. In the middle of the 13th century, the inhabitants of the small, very elongated settlement built an early Gothic parish church from field and brick at the highest point of the place. Richtenberg was assigned to the Neuenkamp monastery until the secularization of 1535 and then remained a ducal Pomeranian official town for a long time.

Richtenberg in the Stralsund Illuminated Manuscript , 1615

Richtenberg in Swedish military maps, 1760

Recent history

During the Thirty Years' War the city was occupied and sacked by imperial and then Swedish troops. In 1648 the city fell to Sweden in the Peace of Westphalia . During the Great Northern War , Richtenberg was looted and partly destroyed by the Russian " Muscovites " in 1711, especially the church . From 1721 Richtenberg belonged to the Franzburg-Barth district in Swedish Pomerania . In 1763 the Andreas Daniel Saß distillery settled in the village and produced here until 1948.

From 1815 the Pomeranian city ​​became Prussian . In 1818 it belonged to the newly formed Franzburg district. In 1820 it had 1195 inhabitants. Wallstrasse, today's waterway, was built around 1826. Soon 94 people died from a cholera epidemic . The town hall was built in 1895. From 1928 Richtenberg belonged to the newly organized district of Franzburg-Barth . From 1900 Richtenberg had a train station on the Stralsund – Tribsees railway line, which was dismantled in 1945 . The memorial for 16 fallen soldiers of the Soviet Union was erected around 1950 .

After the fall of the Wall , the historic town center was fundamentally renovated from 1991 onwards as part of the urban development subsidy. The Richtenberger See (between Richtenberg and Franzburg), which was drained in 1936 and threatened to silt up at the time, became a body of water again as part of ecological compensation measures for the construction of the A 20 on an area of ​​128 hectares. The flooding has been largely completed since 2012.

From 1952 to 1994 Richtenberg belonged to the Stralsund-Land district (until 1990 in the GDR district of Rostock , 1990–1994 in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). In 1994 the city was incorporated into the North Western Pomerania district. Since the district reform in 2011 , it has been in the Vorpommern-Rügen district .

Population development

year Residents 1990 1884 1995 1716 2000 1594 2005 1427 2010 1350

year Residents 2015 1362 2016 1325 2017 1295 2018 1288 2019 1303

Status: December 31 of the respective year

politics

City council

Richtenberg's city council consists of ten members and the mayor. Since the local elections in 2019, it has been composed as follows:

Party / group of voters	Seats
Richtenberger Citizens' Alliance	8th
CDU	1
SPD	1

mayor

The long-time mayor Karldiether Wegner was confirmed in the mayor election on May 26, 2019 with 75.5% of the valid votes for a further term of five years.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was registered under the number 46 of the coat of arms of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Blazon : "In blue, a floating, day-lit silver tower with a shingle-covered red pointed roof, golden knob, open gate and two windows."

Sights and culture

City parish church of St. Nikolai

See also : List of architectural monuments in Richtenberg

Buildings

• Parish Church of St. Nicholas on the Clusenberg from around 1220. Consisting of Field and brick three-nave church with three Jochen combines Romanesque and Gothic style elements with a Gothic vault
• Town hall, building from the Wilhelminian era from 1895
• Marketplace, elongated, triangular area with a Soviet memorial
• Rectory at Lange Straße 2 from around 1800
• War memorial (1866, 1870/71 and First World War) in the churchyard

• Hellberge landscape protection area

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  Soviet memorial

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  Rectory at
  Lange Strasse 2

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  Memorial stone at the church

Culture

• Cinema of the National Association Cinema Communication Mecklenburg-Vorpommern .

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

Richtenberg was shaped during the existence of the GDR by the VEB Mühlenwerke, Sonne (spirits production) and metal processing as well as some craft businesses. The latter were largely active at the Stralsund shipyard. Today there is an industrial area with craft and service companies.

traffic

Richtenberg is on the national roads L 192 between Steinhagen and Tribsees and L 212 to Velgast . The closest motorway junction is Tribsees on the A 20 ( Rostock - Uckermark triangle ) about 20 kilometers away.

The nearest train stations are Wittenhagen on the Berlin – Stralsund line and Velgast on the Stralsund – Rostock line .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Johannes Holtfreter (1901–1992), embryologist
• Gert Prokop (1932–1994), writer
• Rudi Wegner (1923–1995), Rear Admiral of the People's Navy of the GDR

Personalities associated with Richtenberg

• Heinrich Bandlow (1855–1933), writer, teacher in Richtenberg
• Hellmuth Heyden (1893–1972), pastor in Richtenberg

Footnotes

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. ↑ Regional Spatial Development Program Vorpommern (RREP) 2010 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Central local structure with regional, medium and basic centers, accessed on July 12, 2015 
3. ↑ Main statute of the city of Richtenberg, § 1
4. ↑ Joachim Wächter : Development of the German settlement and the Christianization of the Western Pomerania area up to the beginning of the 14th century . In: Contributions to the history of Western Pomerania; The Demminer Kolloquien 1985-1994 , p. 119., Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 1997, ISBN 3-931185-11-7
5. ↑ Population development of the districts and municipalities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Statistical Report AI of the Statistical Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
6. ↑ ^{a b} Mayors in Franzburg-Richtenberg are firmly in the saddle. In: Ostsee-Zeitung , May 29, 2019.
7. ^ Main statute of the city of Richtenberg, § 6

literature

• Wolfgang Fiedler: The work of August Oetken in Sankt Nikolai Richtenberg. An example of the importance of archives for monument protection in: Pomerania. Journal of Culture and History. 45 (2007), pp. 33-38.
• Klaus-Peter Zoellner: A Chronicle of the City of Richtenberg. In: Greifswald-Stralsunder Jahrbuch , Volume 6, VEB Hinstorff-Verlag, Rostock 1966.
• Gustav Kratz : The cities of the province of Pomerania: Outline of their history, mostly according to documents . Berlin 1865, pp. 325–326. ( Full text )

Web links

Commons : Richtenberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the office