Altentreptow

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 42 '  N , 13 ° 15'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Mecklenburg Lake District
Office :	Treptower Tollensewinkel
Height :	13 m above sea level NHN
Area :	52.82 km 2
Residents:	5262 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	100 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17087
Area code :	03961
License plate :	MSE, AT, DM, MC, MST, MÜR, NZ, RM, WRN
Community key :	13 0 71 004
City structure:	7 districts
City administration address :	Rathausstrasse 1 17087 Altentreptow
Website :	www.altentreptow.de
Mayor :	Volker Bartl ( CDU )
Location of the town of Altentreptow in the Mecklenburg Lake District

Altentreptow (  [ altn̩ˈtreːpto ] , until 1939 Treptow an der Tollense ) is a small town in the Treptower Tollensewinkel district in the northeast of the Mecklenburg Lake District in the Vorpommern part of the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany). The place represents a basic center .

geography

Geographical location

Altentreptow is 15 kilometers north of Neubrandenburg and 45 kilometers south of Greifswald . The Tollense River flows through the city.

City structure

The districts of Buchar , Friedrichshof , Klatzow , Loickenzin , Rosemarsow , Thalberg and Trostfelde belong to Altentreptow .

history

The Tollensetal near Altentreptow was already settled in the Bronze Age. Archaeological finds testify to this.

Surname

The name was first mentioned as Trybethowe (1175), then Trebutowe (from 1191), Tributowe (1245) and finally from 1254 as Treptow . In 1295 it was called Antiquum Treptow or Olden Treptow and in the seal from around 1300 was Tribetowa .

The name is of Slavic origin: Treptow is derived from a name interpretation of the Slavic word drowka and means little wood . According to another interpretation, the place name came from the old Polish Trebotov , derived from the personal name Trebota . This stereotypical interpretation of personal names is questionable. The following interpretation is possible: the old Slavic root word Treb has the meaning sacrifice (altar) or flat crusher .

The place Treptow an der Rega in Western Pomerania was renamed Trzebiatów in Polish after the Second World War .

Slav period

After the Germanic population withdrew at the time of the Great Migration, the Slavs settled on the Tollense and built a castle there to guard the crossing. It is said to have been on a natural hill west of the river. In the course of Christianization, the temple was demolished and a first wooden church, later the Petrikirche, was built. It has not been proven whether the temple was protected by a rampart or whether it was located on the monastery mountain north of the village.

middle Ages

Town hall on the market square, in the background the parish church of St. Petri

In 1165 Casimir I is said to have signed a document in a simple wooden church in Trebethowe . He founded a nunnery, which only stood on the Klosterberg from 1173 to 1239, then moved to Klatzow and finally to Verchen in the second half of the 13th century .

The first documentary mention of a town comes from June 18, 1245, when Treptow was granted town charter. The city's magistrate was also mentioned for the first time in 1286. In 1292 the addition of Alt zu Treptow an der Tollense was added to differentiate itself from the town of Treptow an der Rega . In 1295 the city, the country and the bailiwick came to the Szczecin line of the Griffins when Pomerania was divided . Altentreptow had had a feud with Neubrandenburg since 1316, and after ten years there was a reconciliation. In the 14th century there were several territorial disputes between Pomerania and Brandenburg, in which Treptow also played an important role.

The Gothic St. Petri Church dates from the beginning of the 14th century and the hall choir from the 15th century. Around 1450, the three gates were built along with the city wall, of which the Brandenburg Gate still exists in its entirety and the Demmin Gate only in the passage area. The large mill, built around 1340, burned down in 1995.

During archaeological investigations on the Klosterberg in 2011 under the direction of Felix Biermann , 28 buried people were recovered from a small part of the densely occupied cemetery. The burial area was assigned to the Marienkapelle and was mainly used in the 15th century. The random, non-representative sample of the population at that time was examined anthropologically . Most of them were elderly people with a very high disease burden, especially of the spine. Because of the low exposure to dental caries , it was concluded that the population was rather wealthy. The Klosterberg presumably served as a burial place for the inmates of the St. Jürgen Hospital, which was 400 m west of the mountain outside the city in front of the Demminer Tor. The good building equipment of the Marienkapelle also makes its function as a local pilgrimage destination likely. Numerous finds, such as sophisticated belt fittings and buckles as well as a scallop shell as a sign of the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela , attest to a certain prosperity of the people buried there. Pilgrims are believed to have been buried in the cemetery. The average height of the men of 1.72 m and the women of 1.58 m was within the normal range.

Altentreptow 1615

15th to 17th centuries

During the Stettin inheritance dispute in the 15th century, the city was set on fire, with half the city and the Altentreptow town hall burning down with all the documents.

Altentreptow 1618 ( Lubinsche map )

Treptow was affected by other serious city fires: 1527, 1569 and 1698.

The imperial troops billeted themselves in the city during the Thirty Years' War , were driven out by the Swedes, returned and looted the place. After that, Treptow burned twice more and was ceded to Prussia after the Peace of Stockholm in 1720, which continued to fight (e.g. 1759) with Sweden for the Pomeranian territories.

18th to 19th century

In the 18th century the city was totally impoverished by the constant wars. In order to gain new building and garden land, the city wall was removed. In 1725 the Royal Post Office was built on Demminer Strasse.

The following century saw a positive development through the new construction of the Tollensemühle (burned down in 1996) and the construction of the large half-timbered granary (still used today for markets, especially Christmas markets). In 1869 a new town hall was built. In addition to agriculture, cloth weavers and spinning mills had also settled, as well as a steam brickworks, an iron foundry and a beer brewery.

The connection to the Berlin Northern Railway took place in 1878 and 1887, following the little train east to Demmin, which had 1945 cease operations and as reparations reparations to the Soviet Union was dismantled. In addition, a school, a bank, a hospital, a kindergarten (1879) and a new post office (1895) were inaugurated. A dairy cooperative was founded in 1888 (new building from 1995). At the end of the 19th century, the defining building at Bahnhofsstrasse 15 was built as a station hotel, which served as a hospital after 1945 and was further expanded.

The city made further progress in 1916 when it was connected to the power grid. In the following years numerous new buildings were erected or renovated.

Modern times

Mauerstraße at Demminer Tor

Until January 26, 1939, the official name of the city was Treptow a. Tollense or shortened Treptow a. Great.

From 1960 to 1985 a large residential area with 1,049 prefabricated apartments was built . In the mid-1960s, the old elementary school in Oberbaustraße was converted into a nursing home and the zoo was opened in 1972.

After the political change , the historic town center with the Kleine Tollense and the town hall was fundamentally renovated as part of the urban development subsidy. The residential area was also renovated and redesigned. In 2002 the realization of the renaturation of the Kleine Tollense in Altentreptow was praised by the state building award. A modern hospital with 108 beds was inaugurated on the Klosterberg in 2001. Between 1990 and 2018, Altentreptow lost around 32% of its population with around 2,500 people in the course of the general demographic change in Germany and the economic restructuring that was affecting rural areas.

From 1952 to 1994 Altentreptow was the district town of the district of the same name (until 1990 in the GDR district of Neubrandenburg , then in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania). In 1994 the city was incorporated into the Demmin district. Since the district reform in 2011 , the city has been in the Mecklenburg Lake District

History of the districts

Thalberg: Landowners were u. a. the families of Dr. Schrader (from 1812) and von Bülow (1843–1933). It was relocated in 1933. Fritz Reuter began working as a writer in the 19th century manor house .

Population development

Population development of Altentreptow from 1798 to 2017 according to the adjacent table

year Residents 1740 1.611 1777 1,650 1798 1,906 1816 2,592 1820 2,386 1838 3,458

year Residents 1850 4,188 1862 4,206 1889 4,364 1908 4,429 1925 4,500 1937 5,500

year Residents 1990 7,819 1995 7,284 2000 6,828 2005 6,274 2010 5,771 2015 5,382

year Residents 2016 5,310 2017 5,308 2018 5,307 2019 5,262

Status: December 31 of the respective year (from 1990)

politics

City council

The city council of Altentreptow consists of 17 members and the mayor. Since the local elections on May 26, 2019, it has been composed as follows:

Party / list	Seats
Altentreptower voter community	9
CDU	5
The left	2
SPD	1

mayor

• 1992–2012: Sybille Kempf (CDU)
• since 2012: Volker Bartl (CDU)

Bartl was elected in the mayoral election on April 22, 2012 for a term of nine years.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In silver on green ground, in which three silver streams unite in front of a black gate opening, a red castle with a wide tinned and pointed-roofed gate building, two tinned and pointed-roofed round towers with two black pointed arched windows on top of each other, the roofs covered with golden weather vanes ; the roof of the gate building climbs on the left a golden armored red griffin with a folded tail. " The coat of arms was redrawn in 1996 by Lothar Herpich from Neubrandenburg and registered under the number 25 of the coat of arms of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Justification of the coat of arms: In the coat of arms designed after the seal of the SIGILLVM CIVITATIS ANTIQE TREPTOW CIS TOLLENSAM from the 15th century, the castle symbolizes a fortified, well-fortified city. The natural courses of the river represent the Tollense and its tributaries, one of which once divided the city into the old and new towns. The red griffin is intended to indicate that Treptow belongs to the former Duchy of Pomerania.

flag

The flag was approved by the Ministry of the Interior on July 6, 1995.

The flag is striped lengthways in red, white and green. The red and green stripes each take up a quarter, the white stripe takes up half the height of the flag cloth. In the middle of the white stripe is the city coat of arms, which is four ninths of the height of the flag. The length of the flag is related to the height as 5: 3.

Official seal

The official seal shows the city coat of arms with the inscription "STADT ALTENTREPTOW".

Town twinning

• Meldorf (Schleswig-Holstein)

Sights and culture

Attractions

→ See: List of architectural monuments in Altentreptow

Brandenburg Gate

• Historic old town with the canalized Kleine Tollense, the market and the city gates. The half-timbered houses at Oberbaustraße 26 (1663 and 1823) and the old school in the riding arena from 1804 are remarkable
• St. Petri Church , stately brick Gothic building from the 14th and 15th centuries, restored by Friedrich August Stüler in 1865 , hall nave with four bays from the 14th century, hallway from the first half of the 15th century, square west tower the 14/15. century
  • Carved altar with 40 figures of saints from the second half of the 15th century
  • Window with stained glass by Alexander Teschner and Louis Müller
  • Buchholz organ from 1812, expanded by Barnim Grüneberg in 1865
• St. Jürgen's Hospital Chapel in front of Demminer Tor from the 15th century
• Loickenzin Church
• City gates Brandenburg Gate (around 1450) and Demminer Tor (around 1450)
• Fritz Reuter House: Fritz Reuter lived and worked in the city from 1850 to 1856 as a teacher, painter, poet and from 1853 to 1856 as a city councilor and in 1856 as the chief editor of a weekly newspaper
• Town hall from 1869
• Half-timbered mill store from 1844, corner of Fritz-Reuter-Straße / Mühlenstraße
• Klosterberg with the culture and sports center as well as the gymnasium with the monument to Fritz Reuter, who created this place in 1850
• Großer Stein am Klosterberg, also called Bismarck Stone , the largest still existing boulder on the north German mainland weighing around 360 tons
• Schusterstein (near Rosemarsow) , another boulder weighing around 121 tons
• Cenotaph for the victims of fascism on the Klosterberg, removed in 1990, commemorative plaque in the home room
• The Tollense floodplain.

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  Evangelical Petrikirche

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  Open carved altar of St. Peter's Church in Altentreptow (2nd half of the 15th century)

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  Mill store on the Tollense with Christmas decorations

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  Demminer Tor

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  Big Stone

Culture

• Club cinema of the State Association of Film Communication Mecklenburg-Vorpommern with regular cinema programs . From 1914 there was a movie theater with 250 seats in Kaiserstraße.
• Altentreptow Music School, founded in 1991, expanded to Demmin in 1992. It has existed as the Altentreptow / Demmin music school since 1994 and is sponsored by a registered association.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

• Dairy cooperative from 1888 with the new building from 1995 and production of cheese and dairy products from around 320 million kg of milk per year. Today the company is part of the Humana Dairy Union .
• Medium- sized metal construction, logistics, craft and construction companies

traffic

In Altentreptow, the state roads L 35 cross between Jarmen and Neubrandenburg (until 2005 federal road 96 ) and L 273 between Stavenhagen and Friedland . The closest motorway junction is Altentreptow on the A 20 between Rostock and Neubrandenburg (about 6 km east of the city).

The Altentreptow station is on the Berlin – Stralsund railway line . It is served by the regional express line RE 5 ( Stralsund- Berlin- Wünsdorf -Waldstadt). In the first half of the 20th century, Altentreptow was the terminus for the two main lines of the Demminer Bahnen . The narrow-gauge lines , which included a 220 meter long viaduct over the Tollense , were dismantled in 1945 and transported to the Soviet Union as reparations.

There are connections to the surrounding villages with the regional buses of the MVVG .

education

• Elementary school "Am Klosterberg", Karlsplatz 7
• Cooperative comprehensive school (KGS) Altentreptow, grammar school with regional school , Pestalozzistraße 1
• Lea-Toll-Schule, school with a special focus on learning, Poststrasse 1
• School with a special focus on intellectual development, Westphalstraße 3
• Music school Altentreptow / Demmin based in Altentreptow

Medical institutions

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer Clinic Altentreptow with a focus on orthopedics and internal medicine

Sports

• Football: FSV 90 Altentreptow
• Boxing: SG construction Altentreptow
• Handball: HV Altentreptow
• Judo: JC94 Altentreptow

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Altentreptow

• Johann Christoph Droysen (1773–1816), field and garrison preacher
• Karl Held (1830–1870), Protestant theologian
• Richard Schröder (1838–1917), legal scholar
• Karl Adam (1849–1916), Low German author
• Wilhelm Hentschel (1874–1928), local poet
• Albert Grzesinski (1879–1947), politician (SPD), Prussian Interior Minister 1926–1930
• Manfred Schmidt (1929–2005), politician (CDU)
• Ilse Kaschube (* 1953), canoeist
• Barbara Borchardt (* 1956), politician (Die Linke)
• Bodo Krumbholz (* 1958), politician (SPD)
• Thomas Kuzio (* 1959), glass artist
• Olaf Burmeister (* 1960), actor
• Christine Wachtel (* 1965), track and field athlete
• Grit Kalies (* 1968), physical chemist and writer
• René Bobzin (* 1973), cook

Today's districts

• Benigna Schultzen (17th century – after 1711), accused in a witch trial, born in Klatzow
• Burghardt Arndorfer (* 1948), politician (CDU), born in Loickenzin

Personalities associated with Altentreptow

Altentreptow

• Fritz Reuter (1810–1874), writer, lived in Treptow
• Ernst Flügel (1844–1912), composer, teacher in Treptow
• Otto Wangemann (1848–1914), organist and singing teacher in Treptow
• Theo Malade (1869–1944), doctor in Treptow
• Erna Kaiser (1917–2010), 1940–1978 midwife in Altentreptow, 1995 honorary citizen of the city
• Sybille Kempf (* 1945), Mayor of Altentreptow 1992–2012
• Hartmut Mechtel (* 1949), writer, local editor in Altentreptow
• Sebastian Zbik (* 1982), boxer, started boxing in Altentreptow

Today's districts

• Fritz Peters (1819–1897), farmer and specialist author, lived in Thalberg

literature

• Gustav Kratz : The cities of the province of Pomerania. Outline of their history, mostly according to documents . Berlin 1865, pp. 520-523 ( full text )
• Ruth Flemming-Manleitner: Treptow ad Tollense - Altentreptow . art.media Verlag, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-9810366-0-3 .
• BIG-Städtebau (publisher): Altentreptow - 10 years of urban development funding. Stralsund 2001
• Sybille Kempf: Altentreptower Stadtgeschichten Heft 1: Pharmacy “To the Prussian Eagle” and Richard Schroeder - A son of our city . Altentreptow 2017.

Web links

Commons : Altentreptow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature about Altentreptow in the state bibliography MV

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. ↑ Regional Spatial Development Program Mecklenburg Lake District (2011) , Regional Planning Association, accessed on July 12, 2015
3. ↑ ^{a b} Ernst Eichler and Werner Mühlmer: The names of the cities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Ingo Koch Verlag, Rostock 2002, ISBN 3-935319-23-1
4. ^ Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . Part II, Volume 1, Anklam 1865, p. 25 ( online )
5. ^ Project Altentreptow, cemetery on the Klosterberg. In: anthropologie-jungklaus.de. Retrieved June 4, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Bettina Jungklaus : Sick people and pilgrims: Anthropological research results on the late medieval skeletons from the monastery mountain in Altentreptow . In: State Office for Land Monument Preservation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Archaeological State Museum (Hrsg.): Bodendenkmalpflege in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Yearbook . tape 59 , 2011, ISSN  0947-3998 , p. 161-188 .
7. ↑ Statistical Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Population of the districts, offices and communities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania June 30, 2016. (PDF) November 27, 2017, accessed January 16, 2018 . 
8. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Prof. Dr. Erich Keyser: German city book - manual urban history . In: Union Druckerei GmbH Stuttgart (Ed.): Northeast Germany . tape 1 . W. Kohlhammer Verlag / Stuttgart - Berlin, 1939, p. 253 .
9. ^ ^{A b} Heinrich Berghaus: Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen, Part 2, Volume 1 . Dietze, 1865, p. 27 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
10. ↑ Population development of the districts and municipalities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Statistical Report AI of the Statistical Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
11. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
12. ↑ Introduced. In: Kreisanzeiger des Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district , October 6, 2012.
13. ↑ Hans-Heinz Schütt: On shield and flag production office TINUS, Schwerin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814380-0-0 , p. 279/280.
14. ↑ ^{a b} main statute § 1 (PDF).
15. ↑ The 20th century. German Literature Lexicon, Volume XVI. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2011, p. 558.
16. ^ Obituary for the death of Mrs. Erna Kaiser. In: Amtskurier Altentreptow, March 15, 2010, p. 2.