Swaan

Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Rostock
Office :	Swaan
Height :	2 m above sea level NHN
Area :	38.29 km 2
Residents:	5017 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	131 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	18258
Area code :	03844
License plate :	LRO, BÜZ, DBR, GÜ, ROS, TET
Community key :	13 0 72 095
LOCODE :	DE CWN
; City administration address :	Horse market 2 ; 18258 Schwaan
Website :	www.schwaan.de
Mayor :	Mathias Schauer
Location of the city of Schwaan in the Rostock district

Schwaan is a town in the Rostock district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). It is the seat of the Schwaan Office , to which six other municipalities belong, and forms a basic center for its surroundings .

geography

Geographical location

Schwaan lies on the lower Warnow and the Beke between Rostock and Güstrow . The slopes to the east and west of the Warnow barely reach 50 m above sea level. NHN , the area becomes flatter to the north towards the Baltic Sea.

Schwaan is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Bröbberow in the north, Benitz in the northeast, Wiendorf in the east, Rukieten in the southeast, Kassow and Vorbeck in the south and Klein Belitz in the west.

City structure

The following districts belong to Schwaan:


Bandow Tachev village	Tachev Court Letschow

history

From the 13th century until today

The name Schwaan comes from Old Slavonic and means: živŭ = alive or zvati for to call . A derivation from the locator name Svan od. Zvan ie place of Živan, Svan, Zvan is quite possible.

Treasure find from Schwaan, Archaeological Museum Groß Raden

The area on the Warnow was originally settled by Slavs , which can still be seen today from the place and field names. For the first time, Schwaan was documented as a town in 1276. A church was mentioned in a document as early as 1236. Both the former castle and the place "[...] Schwan an der Warnow" are considered the ancestral seat of the von Schwan family, attested since 1202 .

In 1765 a great fire destroyed the entire city except for the Paulskirche and a mill. Therefore, today the cityscape is determined by town houses built afterwards, especially in the classical style. Schwaan was a country town in Mecklenburg and as such one of the towns in the Wendish district that were represented on the Mecklenburg regional parliaments of the 1523 estates until 1918 . Even before 1771 there were Jews living in the village who set up the Jewish cemetery . From the 1880s the number of Jewish citizens steadily decreased until the small community dissolved in 1915. The seven Jews who still lived here during the Nazi era in 1937 were driven into emigration or suicide. Three people were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered there. The cemetery was built over in the 1960s. In 1988 a memorial was erected on the former site of the cemetery.

Schwaan was a small agricultural town and market for the surrounding communities of the office of Schwaan. The construction of the Hagenow – Schwerin – Rostock railway line by Schwaan (1850) brought about an economic boom. The town hall was built just five years later in a neo-Gothic style. In 1928 the first German river bathing establishment was opened on the Warnow . Between 1890 and 1930 Schwaan had a reputation as an asparagus town far beyond its borders. The city was especially valued as a destination for the Rostock people. In 1911 a lung sanatorium was built, which was later expanded into a tuberculosis and rehabilitation clinic. Today it is used as the Waldeck specialist clinic for rehabilitation purposes.

Lift bridge over the Warnow from 1928 (meanwhile removed)

New Warnow Bridge from 2015

During the Second World War , Schwaan was not destroyed by bombs. The Schwaaner lift bridge over the Warnow, built in 1928 , was blown up on May 1, 1945, and its damaged lift section was renewed by 1950. The bridge was a technical monument and a symbol of the city. It was replaced by a permanent bridge structure in 2015 due to its dilapidation. The steel hub portals were already removed in August 2009.

Since 1991, the historic city center has been thoroughly renovated as part of the urban development funding.

From 1952 to 1990 Schwaan was in the circle Bützow of the GDR - district Schwerin , then in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. In 1994 the city was incorporated into the Bad Doberan district. Since the district reform of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2011 , Schwaan has been part of the Rostock district .

Incorporations

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent communities Letschow and Niendorf were incorporated. On January 1, 1999, Bandow was incorporated.

Population development

year	Residents
1990	5540
1995	5174
2000	5527
2005	5363
2010	5087

year	Residents
2015	4972
2016	4959
2017	5029
2018	5022
2019	5017

Status: December 31 of the respective year

The strong increase in the population in 2000 is due to the incorporation of Bandow in 1999.

religion

Evangelical-Lutheran parish Schwaan with the St. Pauls Church
Catholic parish of St. Josef , which is incorporated into the St. Antonius parish of Bützow.

St. Paul Church
St. Joseph Church

politics

town hall

City council

The city council, the municipal parliament of the city, consists of 17 members and the mayor.

Party / list	Seats 2014	Seats 2019
Independent voters Schwaan (UWS)	6th	6th
CDU	4th	3
LEFT	4th	3
Green	3	2
Voting Association Schwaaner-Sportler-Vereinigung (SSV)	-	2
SPD	-	1

coat of arms

The coat of arms was established on April 10, 1858 by Friedrich Franz II , Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. In its current form, it was awarded by the Reich Governor in Mecklenburg on September 14, 1940 and registered under the number 218 of the coat of arms of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Blazon : "In blue a right-turned silver swan with a golden beak and golden feet and a golden crown around the neck."

The coat of arms was redrawn by Hans Schweitzer from Berlin .

Town twinning

Since 1990 there has been a partnership with Loxstedt , located south of Bremerhaven in Lower Saxony .

Sights and culture

Art museum in the watermill

War memorial for the fallen from 1870/71

Buildings and monuments

St. Paulus Church , one of the oldest town churches in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, built in the 13th century, altar and furnishings from 1828/29, organ from 1861
St. Joseph Church , 1948 from an old firehouse emerged
Town hall, built in 1780 as a Raths-Session-Haus, in 1865 heightened and extended in the neo-Gothic style
Art museum in the watermill, exhibits works of Mecklenburg art. Particular attention is paid to works by the painters Franz Bunke , Rudolf Bartels , Peter Paul Draewing (all Schwaan) and Alfred Heinsohn (Hamburg). These four artists founded the only artist colony in Mecklenburg in Schwaan around 1890, the Schwaan artists' colony .
Pharmacy museum with old pharmacy equipment, Markt 8
War memorial for the fallen from 1870/71 on the market square, erected in 1895. On the front there is a relief medallion of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV , created by the sculptor Hermann Hultzsch . The monument is crowned by an iron cross . The memorial for the fallen of the First World War at the train station has also been preserved.
Memorial stele from 1988 on the former Jewish cemetery in Lindenbruchstrasse, commemorates the “good place” of the Jewish community

Culture

Schwaan Art Museum, Mühlenstrasse 12
Pharmacy Museum, Markt 8
Cinema in the AUZ from 2012 of the association Bürger für Schwaan and the mobile cinema Filmklub Güstrow and Filmkommunikation Landesverband Mecklenburg-Vorpommern with regular cinema programs and various special and educational events.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Schwaan street is on the L 13 state roads between Bad Doberan and Weitendorf , L 142 to Güstrow and L 143 to Bützow . The closest motorway junctions are Laage on the A 19 (Rostock – Berlin) 16 km away and Bad Doberan on the A 20 ( Lübeck - Stettin ) 10 km away.

Rail The Schwaan station is on the Güstrow – Schwaan and Bad Kleinen – Schwaan – Rostock lines . He is from the regional express line RE1 ( Hamburg - Schwerin - Rostock operated every two hours). The S2 line of the Rostock S-Bahn runs every hour to Güstrow and via Rostock to Warnemünde . A new bus station was built at the station in 2015/2016 .

Long-distance cycle paths The Berlin-Copenhagen cycle path runs through Schwaan and connects the city with Rostock in the north and Güstrow in the south.

Airport East of Schwaan is 14 km away from the Rostock-Laage regional airport with scheduled connections to Munich, Cologne-Bonn and Stuttgart as well as charter connections to the Mediterranean region.

Seaport The seaport of Rostock can be reached in about 40 km away.

Education and Social

Prof. Franz Bunke School ( regional school with elementary school), Rudolf-Breitscheid-Str. 16
Day care centers Warnowkrümel , Schwaanen-Kinder , St.Josef (Catholic day care center)
ASB nursing home An der Beke, John-Brinckman-Str. 17th

Sports

The largest sports club in the city is the Schwaaner SV (in the GDR BSG Traktor Schwaan).

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Zacharias Scheffter (1568–1626), classical philologist, pedagogue and headmaster
Johann Christoph August Gottfried Erdmann (1801–1883), Lutheran pastor and parliamentarian
Ludolph von Wrisberg (1823-1894), member of the Reichstag
Wilhelm Harms (1850–1933), Low German writer
Franz Bunke (1857–1939), painter, from 1927 honorary citizen of the city
Rudolf Bartels (1872–1943), painter
Franz Schlosser (1872–?), Officer and administrative officer in Cameroon
Peter Paul Draewing (1876–1940), painter
Wilhelm Kruse (1887–1960), sculptor
Hans Bernitt (1899–1954), educator and writer
Fritz Moeller-Schlünz (1900–1990), landscape painter and singer
Hanne-Lore Kuhse (1925–1999), opera singer, honorary citizen of Schwaan
Walter Schöler (1928–1994), educational scientist
Wolfdietrich Barmwoldt (* 1941), seaman and educator
Monika Krause-Fuchs (1941–2019), sexologist
Alfred Pingoud (1945–2015), biochemist
Hans-Georg Jaunich (* 1951), handball player
Wolfgang Maibohm (* 1951), volleyball player and coach
Hartmut Grimm (1953–2017), musicologist

Personalities associated with Schwaan

Adolf Pries (1851–1930), mayor from 1879 to 1887
Gustav Bergmann (1890–1973), mayor from 1925 to 1932

literature

Schwaan - "like a breath of dreamy mind". City of Schwaan. [Texts: Heiko Brunner ...] Redieck & Schade, Rostock 2005, ISBN 3-934116-41-8 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ 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 ).

↑ Regional Spatial Development Program Central Mecklenburg / Rostock 2011 Central locations and perspective development, planning region MMR, accessed on July 12, 2015.

↑ § 2 of the main statute of the city of Schwaan

^ Paul Kühnel: The Slavic place names in Meklenburg. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 46, 1881, p. 130.

↑ August Rudloff: The Meklenburgische Vogtei Schwaan. Article 8. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology, Schwerin. Volume 61, 1896, pp. 255-256

^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (ed.): New general German nobility lexicon . Volume VIII, Voigt, Leipzig 1859, p. 381 u. ö .; (Digitized via Google books )

↑ Bernd Kasten: Persecution and deportation of the Jews in Mecklenburg 1938-1945. Schwerin 2008, ISBN 978-3-940207-16-6 .

^ Fritz Luckmann: Schwaan in old views. Volume 2, European Library, 1997, ISBN 90-288-6437-7 , p. 62.

↑ Waldeck Specialist Clinic

↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1999

↑ Population development of the districts and municipalities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Statistical Report AI of the Statistical Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)

↑ Schwaan parishes

↑ City representatives and representative committees - schwaan.de ( Memento of the original from December 27, 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. @1@ 2
↑ Preliminary final result of the city council election on May 26, 2019
↑ Mecklenburg stage | Berlin - Copenhagen. Retrieved April 4, 2017 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-MV-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 ).