Altwigshagen

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 42 '  N , 13 ° 50'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Vorpommern-Greifswald
Office :	Torgelow-Ferdinandshof
Height :	10 m above sea level NHN
Area :	28.64 km 2
Residents:	384 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	13 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17379
Area code :	039777
License plate :	VG, ANK, GW, PW, SBG, UEM, WLG
Community key :	13 0 75 004
Office administration address:	Bahnhofsstr. 2 17358 Torgelow
Website :	www.altwigshagen.de
Mayoress :	Gerlinde Foy
Location of the municipality of Altwigshagen in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district

Altwigshagen is a municipality in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald in eastern Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and belongs to the Torgelow-Ferdinandshof office .

Geography and traffic

The community is located on the northern edge of the Friedländer Große Wiese in flat undulating terrain. Altwigshagen is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Ducherow in the north-west and north, Lübs in the east, Ferdinandshof in the south and Galenbeck in the south-west.

Many car travelers from the south in the direction of Usedom are familiar with Café 70 on the B 109 ( Berlin - Greifswald ), as it was one of the few rest houses on this busy route long before the political change. The main line Berlin – Stralsund runs past Altwigshagen , the next train station is in Ferdinandshof .

Districts

The districts belong to the municipality:

Altwigshagen Borckenfriede Charlottenhorst

Demnitz Finkenbrück Wietstock

history

Altwigshagen

Altwigshagen was founded as a manor settlement over 700 years ago, making it the oldest municipality in the Torgelow-Ferdinandshof office. It was an old fiefdom of the von Schwerin family , but then came into the possession of the von Borcke family , who were mainly based in Western Pomerania. In the Altwigshagen church there are still two epitaphs of the family from 1689 and 1747. The latter belongs to Georg Heinrich von Borcke (1686–1747), a Prussian lieutenant general.

The village has been able to keep its calm character. Worth mentioning are the listed buildings in the town center and the swimming lake at the castle park.

Charlottenhorst

Charlottenhorst was first mentioned in a document in 1812. It was laid out as a Vorwerk to Gut Putzar.

Charlottenhorst is located on the Großer Landgraben and the Lübkowsee, both of which form the border between Mecklenburg and Pomerania.

According to MTB 1880 ( measuring table sheet ), the place only consisted of the Vorwerkshof at the time. This no longer exists today, the place became a living space.

Finkenbrück

The part of the municipality Finkenbrück was set up as a Prussian-Western Pomeranian customs station, later as a post office.

Wietstock

The place was first mentioned in a document as "Wizoch" in 1236. Wietstock is a Slavic foundation, as the name ("Wizoch" = the high village) shows.

→ See: Wietstock local article

politics

Community representation

The Altwigshagen municipal council has 6 members.

Party / constituency	percent	Seats
Flat share Altwigshagen	63.11	4th
Wietstock flat share	27.70	2

(Status: 2014 local elections)

Coat of arms, flag, official seal

The municipality has no officially approved national emblem, neither a coat of arms nor a flag . The official seal is the small state seal with the coat of arms of the region of Western Pomerania . It shows an upright griffin with a raised tail and the inscription "GEMEINDE ALTWIGSHAGEN * LANDKREIS VORPOMMERN-GREIFSWALD".

Attractions

• The towerless church of Altwigshagen is a plastered building made of field stone that was extensively rebuilt in the second half of the 17th century. The west gable was later covered with boards.
• St. Magdalena Church in Wietstock was built at the end of the 16th century on a rectangular ground plan made of field stone. The four buttresses at the corners are characteristic. The half-timbered roof turret dates from the 18th century.
• In 1997 the Altwigshagen home and spinning room was set up in the former school . The rural life of the past is described here. In addition to the topic of traditional sheep farming, there are demonstrations in spinning. There are also short courses in spinning and felting.
• Altwigshagen manor in need of renovation, community park overgrown.
• Tower hill Altwigshagen, Schlossberg , built over with the manor house
• Wietstock Manor was built around 1920.
• Wietstock tower hill

→ See also the list of architectural monuments in Altwigshagen

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  Altwigshagen Church

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  Altwigshagen manor house

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  St. Magdalena Church (Wietstock)

Personalities

• Georg Heinrich von Borcke (1686–1747), Prussian lieutenant general, most recently in command of Breslau
• Friedrich Ludwig Christian August von Borcke (1791–1862), Prussian lieutenant general, most recently in command of Berlin

Web links

Commons : Altwigshagen  - Collection of images

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. ^ Hubertus Neuschäffer: Western Pomerania's castles and mansions. Verlag Husum, 1993, p. 20.
3. ^ ^{A b} Manfred Niemeyer: Ostvorpommern . Collection of sources and literature on place names. Vol. 2: Mainland. (= Greifswald contributions to toponymy. Vol. 2), Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, Institute for Slavic Studies, Greifswald 2001, ISBN 3-86006-149-6 . P. 145
4. ↑ Vorwerk Charlottenhorst https://www.kleks-online.de/editor/?element_id=199857&lang=de
5. ^ Official Journal Torgelow-Ferdinandshof, Volume 10 Number 6, June 11, 2014, ISSN  1860-2797
6. ↑ Main Statute, Section 1, Paragraph 2 (PDF).