Zerrenthin

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 30 '  N , 14 ° 5'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Vorpommern-Greifswald
Office :	Uecker-Randow valley
Height :	22 m above sea level NHN
Area :	14.42 km 2
Residents:	454 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	31 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17309
Area code :	039743
License plate :	VG, ANK, GW, PW, SBG, UEM, WLG
Community key :	13 0 75 149
Office administration address:	Lindenstrasse 32 17309 Pasewalk
Website :	www.amt-uecker-randow-tal.de
Mayor :	Uwe Meinherz (independent)
Location of the municipality of Zerrenthin in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district

Zerrenthin is a municipality in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald in eastern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany). The community belongs to the Uecker-Randow-Tal district with its seat in the nearby town of Pasewalk .

geography

Zerrenthin lies on the northern edge of a terminal moraine arc that stretches from Pasewalk to Löcknitz between Uecker - and Randowtal . The flatter area of ​​the Ueckermünder Heide begins north of Zerrenthin . The community is about seven kilometers east of Pasewalk.

history

Zerrenthin was first mentioned as "Sarnotino" in 1216 in a document that notes that the church property belongs to Eggesin . At that time Eggesins owned the Grobe Monastery on Usedom . 150 years later, the monastery gave up the estate because of its remote location.

Zerrenthin was originally a Uuckmarket village and belonged to the Mark Brandenburg . With in 1818 in the Kingdom of Prussia carried out basic administrative reform, the reorganization of the provinces, counties and districts, belonged Zerrenthin so then from 1818 to 1950 for the district of Prenzlau in the administrative district of Potsdam in the Prussian province of Brandenburg . It was not until the GDR district reform in 1950 that it was added to the newly formed ( Western Pomerania ) Pasewalk district in the state of Mecklenburg . Due to the dissolution of the federal states and the formation of the districts in the GDR in July 1952 , Zerrenthin and the Pasewalk district now belonged to the Neubrandenburg district until 1990 .

Between 1937 and 1956 , the later writer Irma Harder , born in the nearby village of Polzow , lived and worked . Lankow (* 1915 † 2008) in Zerrenthin. In 1937 she married the middle farmer Adalbert Harder, with whom she ran a farm in Zerrenthin. After the death of her husband in 1946, she continued to run the farm. At the same time, she began to write plays for an amateur drama group she founded and to write first stories. In these, she presented a realistic picture of everyday village life in a simple style, as she experienced it during her time as a farmer. Her books “ Im Haus am Wiesenweg ” (1956) and “ Die Frau vom Ziegelhof ” (1984) are based on her experiences and life in Zerrenthin. In 1956 she left Zerrenthin and went to Potsdam as a freelance writer.

The ancestors of the former South African swimmer Charlène Lynette Grimaldi , b. Wittstock (* 1978), who has been Princess of Monaco since her marriage to Prince Albert II in 2011 , come from Zerrenthin and lived there from 1807 to 1861. Her great-great-great-grandfather Christian Friedrich Wittstock was a farm worker and lived with his wife Christine in Zerrenthin, which around 1807 counted a total of 17 whole farmers, 5 whole cottagers, 7 Büdner and 28 residents as well as a forge, a jug and a total of 55 fireplaces. Charlène's great-great-grandfather Martin Gottlieb was born in the village in 1840 and baptized in August of the same year in the Zerrenthiner Feldsteinkirche, as can be seen from the entry in the church baptismal register that has survived to this day. Her great-great-grandparents, Martin Gottlieb and his wife Louise Wittstock, emigrated to South Africa in 1861 with Gottlieb's parents and eight other siblings from Zerrenthin via Hamburg on board the ship “ San Francisco ” . The Wittstocks lived there in the early years as day laborers or looked for diamonds.

The old train station of Zerrenthin.

War memorial for the 32 soldiers from Zerrenthin who died in the First World War in the churchyard of the Zerrenthin church.

Zerrenthin combined community center.

In November 1862, Zerrenthin, like the other places on the railway line, was connected to the Prussian railway network by the Berlin-Stettiner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft via the Pasewalk-Löcknitz-Stettin railway line . The line was then officially opened in November 1863 the following year. Zerrenthin has had a volunteer fire brigade since 1911 . During the First World War from 1914 to 1918, 32 soldiers from Zerrenthin were killed. A war memorial in the churchyard of the village church in Zerrenthin reminds of them to this day . In 1923 the sports club "Fortuna" Zerrenthin eV was founded.

In 1972 a new prefabricated school building was built in Zerrenthin on the outskirts towards Wetzenow, and until 1990 the “ Clara Zetkin ” polytechnic school was located there. The POS in Zerrenthin served as the central school location for the surrounding villages. With the German reunification in 1990, the school was initially converted into a primary and secondary school, later into a primary and secondary school. Classes continued there until around 1998, when the school was closed and finally demolished around 2003. Only the gym and the adjoining building, in which the elementary school was previously housed, are still standing today and are used by the local associations.

In 1990, with German reunification, the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was rebuilt for the second time after 1945. As a result of the district reform in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 1994, the three GDR districts Pasewalk , Ueckermünde and Strasburg formed the new district of Uecker-Randow , to which Zerrenthin belonged until 2011. As a result of another district reform in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2011 , Zerrenthin has since been part of the newly formed district of Western Pomerania-Greifswald .

In 2003 a new combined community center was built in Zerrenthin. Here you will find a bowling alley and a larger room for parties, celebrations or meetings as well as the new premises of the Zerrenthin volunteer fire brigade. The old fire station not far away has been abandoned and is for sale. In 2011, Zerrenthin first celebrated the 100th anniversary of the volunteer fire brigade, while in 2013 the 90th anniversary of the sports club "Fortuna" Zerrenthin eV was celebrated. In 2016, Zerrenthin will celebrate its 800th anniversary, in memory of the first mention of the place in 1216.

Population development

Population development of Zerrenthin from 1910 to 2017

year Residents source 1910 699 1933 610 1939 649 1990 527 1995 499 2000 525 2005 496 2010 482 2014 458 2017 469

politics

Community representation

In the 2014 local elections, there were 6 seats to be awarded. Due to a lack of applicants, only 4 seats could be awarded. All of these seats are occupied by the CDU . The remaining two remain unoccupied.

Mayor since 1945

• 1945 Willi Handt
• October 1945 August Rüh
• October 1945 Albert Rähmer
• November 1945 Mr. Fleischer
• March 1946 Mr. Zidorn
• March 1946 Mr. Fleischer
• April 1946 Albert Rähmer
• September 5, 1946 Emil Delkus
• September 1950 Mr. Braun (from Blumenhagen)
• December 23, 1950 Margarete Graßmann
• 1951 Gerhard Winter
• 1952 Margarete Graßmann
• 1953 Mr. Ott
• 1956 Hulda White
• ? Mrs. M. Durow
• 1958 Otto Giese
• 1959 Mr. Ott
• 1963 Mr. Ehlert
• 1969 Christel Fordinal
• 1973 Ernst Brosinski ( SED )
• ? Elfriede Habeck (SED)
• 1983 Wilfried "Charlie" Braun (SED)
• May 1988 Claudia Breitkopf, b. Nüske ( CDU )
• 1989 Angela Herzfeld, married. Slide (independent)
• 1992 Erich Belz (independent)
• 2004–2011 Heike Lemke ( CDU )
• since November 2011 Uwe Meinherz (independent)

coat of arms

Blazon : "Divided, above in silver a steeple-roofed church tower with an open gate, on the spire a golden knob with a black high cross, below in blue a golden raised three-mountain, topped with an eight-spoke black wagon wheel, raised by two turned golden ears." The coat of arms and the flag were designed by the Zerrenthiner Marcel Guderjan . It was approved by the Ministry of the Interior on October 26, 2015 and registered under the number 359 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Reasons for the coat of arms: The main elements of the coat of arms are the conspicuous pointed helmet of the church tower , as a widely visible symbol of Zerrenthin as well as the grain ears and the wagon wheel that represent the rich farmers who settled here in the 17th century.

flag

Flag of the municipality of Zerrenthin

The flag is evenly striped lengthways in blue and white. In the middle of the flag is the municipal coat of arms, two thirds of the height of the blue and white stripes. The height of the flag cloth is related to the length like 3: 5.

Official seal

The official seal shows the municipal coat of arms with the inscription "GEMEINDE ZERRENTHIN * LANDKREIS VORPOMMERN-GREIFSWALD".

Culture and sights

Attractions

→ See also the list of architectural monuments in Zerrenthin

Church tower of the Zerrenthin church.

Church Zerrenthin as seen from the southeast.

• The village church of Zerrenthin dates from the 13th century. Your nave is a field stone building to which a wider, rectangular west tower is attached. Extensive remnants of a wall painting cycle have been preserved. The church was restored in the early 1990s.
• War memorial for the 32 soldiers from Zerrenthin who died in World War I in the churchyard of the Zerrenthin village church.

societies

The following associations exist in Zerrenthin:

• Sports club "Fortuna" Zerrenthin eV
• Fishing Association Zerrenthin eV
• Automobilverein Zerrenthin eV
• OSC Nord-Ost eV

• Zerrenthiner Equestrian Association eV

Transport links

The municipality of Zerrenthin has its own train station on the Bützow – Szczecin railway line and is the stopping point for regional trains. From Lübeck to Stettin, diesel railcars of the DB class 628 run by Deutsche Bahn in both directions every 2 hours . The federal road 104 leads from Lübeck via Schwerin , Neubrandenburg and Pasewalk, among other things, through Zerrenthin and further via the Linken border crossing to Szczecin in Poland, about 35 kilometers away .

Personalities

• Albert Höft (1893–1980), German politician, Minister for Expellees in Lower Saxony a. D.
• Irma Harder , b. Lankow (1915-2008), German writer

literature

• Lieselott Enders : Historical local dictionary for Brandenburg. Part 8: Uckermark. Böhlau, Weimar 1986, ISBN 3-7400-0042-2 ( publications of the State Archives Potsdam 21).
• Hans Moderow : The evangelical clergy of Pomerania from the Reformation to the present. Part 1 The administrative district of Szczecin . Szczecin 1903

Web links

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

• Evangelical Parish Zerrenthin

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. ↑ Charles's Roots. Ancestors come from Zerrenthin. In: n-tv online . June 19, 2011, accessed April 18, 2014 . 
3. ^ Office Uecker-Randow-Tal. Zerrenthin municipality.
4. ↑ Günter Schrom: Who will buy the old fire station and siren in Zerrenthin? In: Nordkurier Online . January 28, 2013, archived from the original on April 21, 2014 ; Retrieved April 19, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Municipal directory Germany 1900. Prenzlau district.
6. ^ ^{A b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Prenzlau district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
7. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Population on December 31. according to communities and districts. (No longer available online.) In: SIS-Online - Statistisches Informationssystem. Statistical Office MV, archived from the original on December 26, 2017 ; Retrieved December 25, 2017 . 
8. ↑ 2014 election results
9. ↑ Main Statute, Section 1, Paragraph 2 (PDF)
10. ↑ ^{a b} main statute § 1 (PDF).