Goods (Müritz)

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 31 '  N , 12 ° 41'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Mecklenburg Lake District
Height :	73 m above sea level NHN
Area :	158.39 km 2
Residents:	21,057 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density :	133 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17192
Area code :	03991
License plate :	MSE, AT, DM, MC, MST, MÜR, NZ, RM, WRN
Community key :	13 0 71 156
City administration address :	Zum Amtsbrink 1 17192 Waren (Müritz)
Website :	www.waren-mueritz.de
Mayor :	Norbert Möller ( SPD )
Location of the city of Waren (Müritz) in the Mecklenburg Lake District

Waren (Müritz) is a medium-sized town and health resort in the Mecklenburg Lake District in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with over 21,000 inhabitants . It is the seat of the Lake District Office in Waren , to which twelve municipalities belong, and the city itself is free of office . Waren is one of the 18 medium-sized centers , the eighth largest in terms of population and the second largest city in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania by area.

Waren, which emerged from a Slavic settlement in the early 13th century , was expanded by Westphalian settlers as part of the Deutsche Ostsiedlung and was the royal seat of the princes of Werle for eight decades . It belonged to Mecklenburg-Schwerin for centuries . The city recovered only slowly from numerous city fires, epidemics and the aftermath of the Thirty Years' War .

Today Waren is the main town on the Müritz and a center of the Mecklenburg Lake District holiday region . The largely well-preserved old town with many historical buildings , the NaturErlebnisZentrum Müritzeum , the festival of the Müritz saga , the city harbor and the regional nature are important sights. In addition to tourism, the food industry and mechanical engineering are also important branches of the economy . The world market leader for large ship propellers Mecklenburg Metallguss is based in Waren. In addition, the city is a regionally important transport hub as well as a training and vocational school location.

geography

Aerial photograph (2014)

Geographical location

Waren is located on the Müritz , the largest inland lake located entirely in Germany with an area of ​​117 km², on the Kölpinsee , the Tiefwarensee , the Feisnecksee , the Melzer See and the Waupacksee . The Herrensee is located in the middle of the city .

City structure

The following districts belong to the city of Waren (Müritz):

Old Falkenhagen Eldenburg Eldenwood Jägerhof	New Falkenhagen Rügeband Schwenzin Warehouse

The city itself can be divided into the districts of Altstadt, Ecktannen and Cameroon, then Nesselberg and Papenberg as well as Waren-Nord, -Ost and -West and finally Werdersiedlung. In addition, there is the settlement beyond the railroad tracks.

climate

Monthly average temperatures and precipitation for Waren (Müritz) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 2 3 6th 10 16 19th 21st 21st 18th 13 8th 4th O 11.8 Min. Temperature (° C) −2 −1 1 4th 8th 12 14th 14th 11 7th 3 0 O 6th Precipitation ( mm ) 37.1 26.3 36.4 38.7 55.6 65.7 57.8 56.8 43.5 35.1 44.3 43.0 Σ 540.3 Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 1 2 4th 6th 8th 8th 8th 7th 5 3 2 1 O 4.6 Water temperature (° C) 2 2 3 5 9 14th 17th 17th 15th 11 7th 4th O 8.9 Source: http://www.sonnenlaender.de/deutschland/klima-deutschland/klimatabellen-Waren/

Waren lies in the climatic transition area between the oceanic maritime climate and the continental climate. The microclimate is mainly influenced by the Müritz. As a result, the annual temperature cycle is weakened both when it warms up in spring and when it cools down in autumn. In Waren, the lowest February temperature in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is registered as a long-term average of −4 ° C (Jeschke et al. 1980). The areas east of the Müritz are in the rain shadow of the Mecklenburg lakes and are characterized by lower amounts of precipitation.

history

Surname

Were as Virunum in the Magna Germania

Waren is mentioned as Virunum by the Alexandrian geographer Claudius Ptolemy around 150 AD (along with Gnoien , Bützow and some other settlements that cannot be reliably assigned) and is therefore said to be one of the first mentioned places in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The lore of goods begins with the land ( terra ) Warne 1218, 1298; However, the city name initially has the same form: 1230, 1273, 1278, 1288, 1292, 1399. Only since the 16th century have the forms of goods and truths appeared. The name is most likely to be derived from Old Polish Varin (a) as a place with boiling, flowing water, a spring. But it could also go back to the Germanic tribe of the '' Warnen '' ( Variner or Varinnae ), especially since the name was previously written as Wahren, Warne or in Latin Warnae. In 1914 the place was named Waren (Müritz) . Müritz comes from the Wendish word Morcze = small sea. or 'place by the sea'

Early history

In the Mesolithic period , hunters and gatherers stayed near the Stinthorst , as archaeological evidence has shown.

Neolithic , and therefore rural, settlement can be attested to near Eldenburg with its “flint manufactory”. The first finds, a battle ax made of hornblende, "a wedge and a narrow chisel made of flint", were made public in 1841/44. In 2007, during archaeological investigations in advance of a construction project in Vietzen near Rechlin at the southern end of the Müritz, a skull from around 2900 BC was discovered. Discovered that had two holes of a trepanation .

Around 1800 BC There was an early Bronze Age settlement on the Nesselberg (not far from the water tower on the Nesselberg ), where house pits, a "flint ax 8.5 cm long" and part of the paths in 2009 could be proven. The parallel wagon tracks are among the earliest evidence of the use of carts or wagons in Mecklenburg. From around 900 BC A place of sacrifice at Lake Melzer comes from the 4th century BC .

Around the birth of Christ, the Lombards and Semnones settled on Lake Müritz. They partially left this area in the 2nd century. Those who remained mingled with immigrating Slavs who later lived as Müritzer, a tribal group of the Obodrites , around settlement centers such as the castles of Vipperow or Malchow . A well-preserved rampart on an island in Feisnecksee dates from this time . This also included a larger settlement, as well as a Slavic settlement west of the city on today's parcel of Alt-Waren. Settlement finds in the old town of Waren show another Slavic settlement, such as a presumed Kietz , a service settlement in front of the later water gate on the Müritzufer. The remains of a house in Langen Strasse can be dated to around 1220. Ceramic finds, which were found in a corridor between Georgenkirche and Mühlenstraße and in the street itself, also indicate a Slavic settlement from this period. There must have been several houses there. Apparently there was a smooth transition between the Slavic settlement and the emerging city, to which Westphalian settlers contributed, and the original population was integrated in an unrecognizable way.

City rights and royal seat (13th - 15th centuries)

Dominions of Mecklenburg around 1300

The Georgenkirche (left) and the Sankt-Marien-Kirche (right) seen from the Müritz

The city was founded before 1273 on the trade route from the Land Stargard to Wismar near a castle and a Slavic village by settlers from Westphalia . The Georgenkirche was mentioned in that year: Nikolaus , Prince of Werle, confirmed the possessions of the Broda Monastery in his country on April 23, 1273 , including the right of patronage over the "ecclesia Warne", the church of Waren. The city was probably founded earlier, as a Johannes von Warne appeared in a contract as early as 1243 . The original city, which may have been privileged around 1225, was in any case in the area around the Georgenkirche on the Alter Markt (old town). Controversial, however, is the mention of a "terra (as the Slavic districts were called in the German documents in the Latin language) Warne" and their tithe levies in a document dated March 15, 1218. The monastery rulers of Broda tried with the document, which was predated to April 24, 1230 to fight for patronage rights over several villages in order to secure influence, services and taxes. A field stone choir at the Marienkirche is likely to date from this early period.

Nikolaus' rule Werla was divided after his death in 1277, whereby goods came to Werle-Güstrow. After an inheritance dispute in the form of protracted feuds, Waren was awarded the contract of October 31, 1294 to Nicholas II , who reunited the divided house after 17 years.

Since 1292 Waren was referred to as civitas , which may be considered a reference to city ​​rights , and from 1331 as oppidum (smaller town). In 1306 the city received the fishing rights on the Müritz, whereby a Magister Arnold "Scholemester tho Warne" had drawn up the certificate. On April 13, 1292, Nikolaus II granted the settlement ownership of the Wahrenschen Wold east of the Müritz. At the end of the 13th century Waren had perhaps 600 inhabitants.

On December 2, 1316 there was a renewed division of the Werle rule in Werle-Parchim, -Güstrow and Goldberg. Goods came to the Güstrow part of the country. During this time, the coat of arms was created, which has been incorporated into today's coat of arms.

The first town hall was located on the Alter Markt (today: Alter Markt 14). A little later the new town (Marienkirche) was built, which was united with the old town around 1325. The craftsmen's settlement merged around the Georgskirche and the castle settlement. The focus was now on the New Market, which connected the old and new town. A city ​​wall was built around the city and a municipal water mill was built.

With the inheritance agreement of 1347 between Nicholas III. and his brother Bernhard II von Werle-Güstrow, Waren became the residence of the House of Werle-Waren. Röbel , Wredenhagen and Penzlin became the most important places in the small state. Bernhard II resided in Waren from 1347 until his death in 1382. Werlesche Castle is said to have stood south of the Marienkirche (Burgstrasse). With the death of Christoph in a battle against the Brandenburgers near Pritzwalk , the rule of Werle expired . With the end of the following Werle-Güstrow line through the death of Wilhelm , the land fell to the Dukes of Mecklenburg in 1436 . With this, the city lost the status of a residential city after almost a century. Since the Werl family had offered their area to the Margrave of Brandenburg in 1415, but the Werlian goods came to Güstrow in 1426 and then to Mecklenburg ten years later, the Brandenburgers had to be compensated in Mecklenburg in 1442 through cash payments, the return of pledges and the granting of a contingent inheritance right. So Waren became a state town in Mecklenburg and was represented as such on state parliaments until 1918 as part of the towns in the Mecklenburg District .

Little changed at first in the city regiment, which was run by city citizens alongside nobles. The craftsmen had succeeded in participating, in particular the nine privileged crafts of the shoemaker, woolen weaver and tailor, the baker and bone cutter, the shopkeeper, blacksmith, furrier and fisherman. Two of their elders sat on the council, and they had a say in the election of the mayor, who could not get into office against their will.

Reformation and Thirty Years War (16th - 17th centuries)

Descent from the Cross, 16th century, originally in Federow southeast of Waren, since 1975 in the Marienkirche

In May 1524, the Reformation was preached in Waren for the first time. But this was not without controversy. In 1533 the council asked the Duke of Mecklenburg not to send any more preachers, because they feared new "bloodshed, harm and bitterness". There are also enough preachers of the old doctrine who lead unsavory lives. During a church visit in January 1542, however, it was found that the Reformation had been carried out in a laudable manner. From 1547 Duke Johann Albrecht I pushed through the Reformation throughout Mecklenburg.

Goods began to decline in the middle of the 16th century. The city was devastated about ten times by the great city fires of 1568, 1656, 1671, 1678, 1692 and twice in 1694, and above all by the Thirty Years War , which made this process permanent and irreversible.

The fire of 1568 destroyed the city almost completely, so that even of the two churches only the surrounding walls could withstand. In 1580 the city was hit by river fever, also known as Spanish rhinitis , and in 1583 by the plague . At the same time, the burdens grew, for example through the Turkish tax levied in the Burg, Fischer, Altentor and Neuentor districts.

In 1625 the plague raged again. The Thirty Years War only hit Waren in his ninth year. After Neubrandenburg surrendered without a fight to the imperial troops under Colonel Arnim in 1627 , Waren was also occupied. The city had to raise 500 thalers a month. The whole of Mecklenburg became a theater of war and in March 1631 goods were plundered by Tilly's troops on the march from Neubrandenburg to Magdeburg . When the Swedes withdrew to Western Pomerania in 1637, they were followed by imperial troops under General Gallas, as well as units from Brandenburg and Saxony. Croatian mercenaries on their way from Parchim to Neubrandenburg burned 72 of the approximately 200 houses in Waren in July 1637. The city was hit by the plague for the third time. Nevertheless, about 1000 people lived there at the end of the war.

By 1699, city fires had destroyed Waren six times alone; after the fire of 1699, the city practically had to be rebuilt. Now an urban brick factory has been built in order to be able to replace the thatched half-timbered houses with brick houses. Barns were no longer allowed to be maintained within the urban area. Every citizen had to keep resources ready for fire fighting.

Reconstruction, economic boom (18th century to 1918)

The Marienkirche was consecrated again in 1792

new town hall

Lion pharmacy

Some recovery was evident not only in the restoration of the city, which took nearly a century to complete, but also in education. Pastor Hermann, who took office in 1764, gave the school tremendous support. He had previously taught in the Halle orphanage and advocated a pietistic direction. Latin lost its importance in favor of German, new teaching methods were introduced, and in 1775 a free school for the poor was established. A second teacher was hired for the girls' school. After all, a krautkrämer, a kind of pharmacist, had already settled in Waren in 1599, and a second pharmacy followed later. In 1725, Lewin Andreas Warnecke was the first doctor to open a practice.

The ruins of St. Mary's Church, which burned out in 1637, received a new roof in 1739. But it could not be consecrated again until 1792. A new town hall was also built. The first town hall stood on the old market and then in the middle of the new market. Today's town hall on Neuer Markt was built from 1791 to 1797 and expanded in 1857.

These structural measures could only be carried out when the city had recovered from the Northern War (1700–1721), in which the citizens of Waren had to dig for the siege of Wismar , and from the Seven Years' War (1756–1763), with its billeting and hunting down potential recruits from Prussian recruits caused considerable damage.

Since 1736, Jewish residents have been recorded in Waren (after the Sternberg host-abuse trial , all Jews were expelled from Mecklenburg). 1752 is reported by Rabbi Lebh Peiser from Waren. In 1785 ten Jewish families lived in Waren, in 1811 31 families are mentioned by name. The Waren Synagogue was built in 1795/96. It was located in the rear building on Langen Strasse and the corner of Kleine Wasserstrasse. At its peak in 1845, the Jewish community had 162 members (3.1% of the total population). After that the number steadily decreased; In 1900 there were only 55. From 1855 to 1857 Rabbi Dr. Moses Engelbert (1830–1891) worked in goods.

In 1806, battles took place in and around the city between Prussia (led by Blücher ) and the invading French under Napoleon . On October 31, 1806, the 20,000 men of the troops united with York marched through Waren. York's troops fought retreat with French units under Bernadotte west of Waren and at Nossentin . The French abolished the legal differences between the citizens and the rest of the inhabitants of the city, so that everyone could now be addressed equally with “citizens” (citoyen). On February 22, 1813, the Jews of Waren were granted all civil rights by ducal decree, but after the French withdrew most of the changes in rights were reversed.

The canalization of the Elde (1798–1803 and 1831–1837) and the construction of the Bolter Canal (1831–1837) brought about an economic boom in the city, the population of which rose from 3,022 to 5,258 between 1810 and 1850. In 1839 a trade school was established. In 1845 the first bathing establishment opened on the Müritz. In 1862 the Birkenstädt brewery was founded in today's Müritzstraße at the city harbor, but it ceased operations in 1920. The grammar school was founded in 1869 , initially as a Progymnasium (today: Richard-Wossidlo-Gymnasium ). In 1848/49 the Malchow –Waren– Neubrandenburg road was built and with the connection to the Waren – Malchin railway from 1879, Waren developed into a transport hub . 1885 was Mecklenburg Southern Railway from Parchim goods found to Neubrandenburg, 1886, the Lloyd Railway from Neustrelitz via goods to Rostock opened. But all of these measures came very late in comparison to the developed regions of the empire, so that Mecklenburg as a whole was considered "backward".

Revolution of 1848, Mayor Schlaaff (1866–1899), dominance of tourism (around 1900–1937)

→ Main article : Revolution in Mecklenburg (1848)

In 1848 serious unrest broke out in Waren and the surrounding area. 800 to 1000 insurgents from 18 communities and from Waren moved in two groups to Torgelow in order to force the hated landowner Behr to improve their living conditions. In Waren itself there were demonstrations against the council and the mayor. Regular troops were moved there, so there were no further reforms.

However, Mayor Wilhelm Christian Ludwig Schlaaff , who headed the office from 1866 to 1899, was able to carry out a series of reforms in 1867 on the basis of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's accession to the Zollverein , freedom of trade and, above all, the adoption of the laws of the Reich from 1871. In 1856 the connection to the telegraph network was made, in 1863 the gasworks started operations. The first city hospital was opened in 1871. After Schwerin, Waren became the first town in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to put a waterworks into operation (1898).

Up until the time around 1900 a catching-up industrial development could be observed, even if this was largely limited to the agricultural sector, the importance of tourism increased strongly around this time. This became the most important branch of the economy until the mid-1930s. On the one hand, writers such as Theodor Fontane contributed to this, but also the fact that the rail link to Berlin accelerated and simplified travel immensely.

Interwar period, Kapp Putsch, rise to the rank of district town

Rittmeister Stephan von le Fort (1884–1953) from Gut Boek gathered a number of Freikorps fighters around him in 1920 and during the Kapp Putsch on March 17, 1920 declared the city of Waren under siege. On March 18, 1920, he and his cousin, Reichswehr Lieutenant Peter Alexander von le Fort, had the city bombarded with a cannon and three machine guns from the Galgenberg, with five dead and eleven seriously injured. After the coup was suppressed, both fled to Munich and Austria and their family property was confiscated by the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz . On the back of the Waren town hall , a bullet hole can still be seen today in memory of the bombardment.

The city has been collecting a visitor's tax since 1920. On December 3, 1920, Waren became the county seat of the district of Waren . On November 11, 1925, the office Röbel was added to the office goods. In 1925 the city received electric light and the port reached its economic peak: 188 arriving and 208 departing ships handled a total of 22,330 tons of goods.

In 1927 the following larger companies were active in the city: Naschkatze dairy , Piechatzek machine factory and iron foundry (today Mecklenburg Metallguss ), Steinborn steam sawmill , Thiele and Buggisch mill , Natura milk export company , a potato flake factory, Strubelt steam sawmill, gas station and a fish processing company. There were 14 construction businesses, a roofing felt factory, five mills, two cement stone factories and the large Rosengarten fishery.

time of the nationalsocialism

Memorial stone for the synagogue

In the official election on November 1, 1931, the National Socialist German Workers' Party became the strongest party. From April 1, 1932, she appointed the governor (district administrator) and from December 1932 the mayor.

During the time of National Socialism , the Jewish citizens residing in Waren were persecuted, expelled and murdered in concentration camps. The Jewish community, which had 162 members in the mid-19th century, shrank to nine members by April 1938. The old synagogue had already been sold to master carpenter Wilhelm Zelms as a workshop in January 1936, so that it was not destroyed by the National Socialists (this only happened in 1950 during renovation work). However, in the November pogrom of 1938, the two remaining Jewish shops and their goods were destroyed. In 1942 no more Jews lived in Waren. The Jewish cemetery was also desecrated and destroyed. The last burial took place in the already destroyed cemetery in 1939. In April 1941, the Mecklenburg State Ministry granted "the authorization to close and level the Jewish cemetery". A memorial has been there since 1967.

From 1936 the Dürener Metallwerke (supplier for the military aircraft industry) built a factory in goods, the Mecklenburgische Metallwarenfabrik m. b. H. Waren (Memefa), which belonged to the Quandt Group . Several thousand prisoners of war as well as women and men from the countries occupied by Germany had to do forced labor there under inhumane conditions . To create company apartments for the German employees, the Westsiedlung was built from 1936 to 1941 , for which the Berlin architect Günther Paulus (1898–1976) apartment houses (in Thomas-Mann-Straße, Friedrich-Engels-Platz, Clara Zetkin-Straße), Double houses and the so-called Werkmeisterwohnhaus designed. As a result, the population grew by over 4,000. In Warenshof, the "naval camp" was built as a barracks settlement (training for the naval intelligence service). Tourism on the Müritz was stopped as early as 1937, as the area was reserved for the war economy.

During the Second World War , a naval hospital was set up in the Kurhaus Müritzhöhe . In the last months of the war, the elementary school on Denkmalstrasse, the grammar school and the Hotel Warener Hof also became emergency hospitals. On May 1, 1945, the Red Army occupied the city without a fight. The war had cost Warener his life in 1450; although there was no fighting, an additional 300 suicides were added in April and May.

Soviet occupation zone

In October the Soviet military commander appointed Friedrich Dethloff (KPD) as mayor. The Soviet NKVD office at Kietzstrasse 10, the “House of Terror”, was known for tough interrogation and torture. At the end of the year there were over 6000 displaced persons from the German eastern regions in the city, so that 19,872 people were counted in the city, of whom only 13,779 had lived there before the war. 30.6 percent of the population were refugees. By the spring of 1946 there was a typhoid epidemic that killed many people. The facilities of the Memefa and the Thiele and Buggisch steam mill were dismantled as reparations and brought to the Soviet Union. The Rostock – Neustrelitz railway line as well as the Malchow – Karow and Möllenhagen –Neubrandenburg sections were shut down and the tracks were removed.

GDR (1945–1990)

During the GDR era, it was possible to achieve a certain level of prosperity under completely changed production conditions. During the administrative reform of 1952 , the GDR was divided into 14 districts and districts, which led to increased centralization while the old national borders were dissolved. As the administrative seat of the Waren district, goods belonged to the Neubrandenburg district, along with 13 other districts .

In 1963 the city celebrated its (allegedly) 700th anniversary, but there was no source evidence for the founding year 1263. The city hoped to get economic help from it, as it was apparently due to all cities that were 600 or 700 years old and older.

In the 1970s, larger parts of the historic old town were sacrificed to large-scale traffic planning and demolished. This loss caused a particularly large number of residents in Waren to be aware of the need to preserve the remaining, often centuries-old buildings in the old town. Long before the inner-German borders were opened, a citizens' movement “Save the Old Town” emerged in Waren, whose work played a major role in the preservation of today's city center. The interventions rejected by the inhabitants were based on the idea of ​​a backwardness of the region, which was to be overcome by industrialization. The “ironworks” and the pasta factory in Waren were modernized accordingly and plants for corrugated cardboard, for meat processing as well as a large bakery and the Müritzmilchhof were built. The Waren-West district was built to accommodate new workers for these factories.

As early as 1954 a conflict arose between industrial use and tourism, because in that year Waren was elevated to a climatic health resort. Numerous children from the country recovered there in the central pioneer holiday camp in La Pasionaria . A spa administration already existed in 1955. Nevertheless, agriculture, then industry, remained a priority in the planning, so that tourist infrastructures were only partially built.

At the urging of Gerhard Grüneberg , Secretary for Agriculture and Forestry in the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED , the state hunting area Nossentiner Heide (red deer) was established in 1962 , into which the state forestry operations Güstrow, Parchim, Malchow and Waren (Müritz) were integrated.

One of the four central nuclear missile depots of the group of Soviet armed forces in Germany was located near Waren .

On October 8, 1989, the Waren group of the New Forum came into being , on October 16, after a series of demonstrations, there was also a rally in Waren for the first time, when 300 citizens with candles moved from the Georgenkirche to the Marienkirche. Their motto was: "Hope learns to walk".

After 1990

City Harbor (2005)

After the turning point and the peaceful revolution in the GDR , the historic town center between the Müritz and the Tiefwarensee was redeveloped as part of the urban development subsidy and the townscape with the three churches, town hall, old and new market and the stores were improved. Since May 1, 1999 Waren has been a "state-approved climatic health resort", and since June 2012 the city has also been given the health resort title of Heilbad . It is Sole promoted and sold as a brine of salt.

The blocking of the Specker Horstes as state hunting area and domicile of the chairman of the Council of Ministers Willi Stoph has been lifted. The national park made a major contribution to economic development, which with the help of appropriate structures made tourism the essential basis of the local economy again. The national park goes back to the initiative of the Deputy Environment Minister of the GDR, Michael Succow , who at the last meeting of the Council of Ministers before its dissolution on September 12, 1990 achieved that almost 5000 km² of the national territory were placed under protection with the GDR national park program .

In 1994 the districts of Waren and Röbel / Müritz were merged to form the district of Müritz . Waren remained the seat of the district administration. Since the district reform in 2011 , the city has been in the Mecklenburg Lake District .

Population development

Population development from 1900 to 2016 according to the table below

year Residents 1900 8,848 1910 9,182 1919 9,203 1925 10,363 1933 11,622 1937 14,236 1939 15,538 1945 * 19,218 1950 20,594 1970 21,332 1977 23,057 1983 24.101 1987 24,300

year Residents 1990 24.102 1995 22,364 2000 22,044 2005 21,415 2010 21,051 2015 21,153 2016 21,367 2017 21,210 2018 21,061 2019 21,057

* December 1st
from 1990: as of December 31st of the respective year

politics

Allocation of seats in the city council

5

5

3

2

4th

6th

3

5 5 3 2 4th 6th 3 

A total of 28 seats

• Left : 5
• SPD : 5
• Greens : 3
• MUG : 2
• FDP : 4
• CDU : 6
• AfD : 3

City council

The result of the election for the city council of Waren on May 26, 2019 is shown in the diagrams below and on the right:

Local elections 2019

 %

20th

10

0

19.9%

17.7%

16.7%

12.7%

8.8%

14.0%

7.5%

2.8%

CDU

SPD

left

FDP

Green

AfD

MUG ^g

Otherwise. ^H

Remarks:

^g Müritz group of companies

^h NPD 0.5%, the party 0.9%, individual applicants 1.4%

mayor

• 1994–2013 Günter Rhein (SPD)
• since 2013: Norbert Möller (SPD)

Möller was elected in the mayoral election on September 22, 2013 with 56.7% of the valid votes for a term of seven years.

coat of arms

Entrance to the Waren town hall , above the city's coat of arms

Blazon : "In gold on green hill, washed by blue waves, a crenellated red circular wall with an open gate and two lateral towers, each with a shamrock windows, battlements, pitched roof and knob; between the towers on the wall a forward looking, golden crowned, striding black bull with silver horns, surmounted by a forward-facing blue pot helmet with two peacock feather rosettes in natural colors attached to crossed green sticks. " The coat of arms was established on April 10, 1858 by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, redrawn in 1993 by Hans-Frieder Kühne from Barsbüttel as part of the flag approval and registered under number 44 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Reasons for the coat of arms: The coat of arms is based on the seal image of the SIGILLVM CIVITATIS WARNE - first handed down as an imprint in 1344 - and was determined in its current form in April 1858. It combines an urban symbol, a symbol of rule and images with landscape reference points. While the round wall with an open gate and two side towers refers to a fortified city with market rights, the ornate pot helmet, the coat of arms of the Lords of Werle, and the half bull indicate the prince as lord of the city. The waves and the hill symbolize the location of the city on the Müritz.

Historical coat of arms

	Blazon : "In gold on green ground, washed by silver waves, a crenellated red brick wall with a gate and two pointy roofed side towers between which the front half emerges a hersehenden, golden crowned, border black bull on the wall." The coat of arms was designed by Prof. Hans Herbert Schweitzer from Berlin . It was awarded on October 1, 1943 by the Reichsstatthalter in Mecklenburg.
	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms lost its validity soon after the end of World War II.

flag

The flag is evenly striped lengthways in blue, yellow and red. In the middle of the yellow stripe, overlapping two thirds of the blue and red stripes, is the city coat of arms, tinged according to 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 WAREN (MÜRITZ)".

Town twinning

The city of Waren maintains city partnerships to exchange experiences. Joint projects are being developed, guests from some of the partner cities participate in the design of the Müritz Festival with information stands and cultural contributions. In return, Waren is present at similar partner events. In 2005, a city twinning working group was founded in the city council, which organizes on-site guest care and is responsible for conceptual work, project planning and budget planning.

• City partnerships exist with the cities of Springe in Lower Saxony and Schleswig in Schleswig-Holstein.
• International twin cities are Rokkasho in the north of Japan's island of Honshū , Magione in Umbria , Italy , Suwałki in the northeastern Polish Podlaskie Voivodeship and Gorna Orjachowiza in northern Bulgaria.

Sights and culture

Tiefwarensee

Müritzeum , directly on the Herrensee in Waren (Müritz)

Water tower with a height of 35 m on the Nesselberg (tower built in 1897, converted in 1963)

Former post office

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Waren (Müritz)

There are nature parks around Waren such as the Nossentiner-Schwinzer Heide or the Müritz National Park . On the Damerower Werder, which belongs to the municipality of Jabel, there is also a show enclosure for bison .

In the historic town center of Waren (Müritz) there are many restaurants, cafes and bars and several shopping streets.

Müritzeum

The Müritzeum is the modern nature experience center in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. It shows the largest freshwater aquarium landscape for domestic fish in Germany - with more than 40 species of fish - as well as an interactive, multimedia exhibition on the nature of the Müritz region, the Müritz National Park and the Mecklenburg Lake District. The forest exhibition area is well worth seeing, with an insight into the UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site of the German Beech Forest - Serrahn and the first national natural monument Ivenacker Eichen. The interactive exhibition on the subject of bird life takes up a large space. The experience of nature is complemented by a garden around the Herrensee, with a playground and relaxation areas.

Churches

• St. Georgen Church from the beginning of the 14th century: three- aisled basilica with a four-bay nave as a brick Gothic building , covered by a ribbed vault . The square west tower dates from 1414. A fire raged in 1699, but the building was not refurbished until the middle of the 19th century. Altar , pulpit and double gallery were created in the neo-Gothic style.
• St. Marien Church : Rectangular, single-nave brick building in the east of the old town. The so-called new town was founded around them. The west tower with its very conspicuous tower structure was built at the beginning of the 14th century; the structure dates from 1790/92. The rectangular field stone choir goes back to the remains of the castle chapel of the now defunct Waren castle ( Große Burgstraße ), which dates back to the beginning of the 13th century. The windows of the sacristy are in the Romanesque style. On the altar is a crucifixion group with Mary, Mary Magdalene and John, erected in 1909. It was carved by the Tyrolean sculptor Ingenuin Demetz.
• The Catholic Holy Cross Church was consecrated on September 15, 1929

• Churches in goods
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  Sankt-Georgen-Kirche seen from the Müritz

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  Sankt-Marien-Kirche seen from the Müritz

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  Holy Cross Catholic Church

More buildings

• Old fire station (one-storey brick building, 19th century) and old market
• Old Town Hall (two-story brick building with arcades - former court arbor - on the east gable, 15th century) and old market
• Brewery Müritz
• Citizens and administrative center
• Main building Richard-Wossidlo-Gymnasium
• Kietzspeicher
• Löwenapotheke (two-storey half-timbered building, around 1800, with the “Haus des Gastes”), Neuer Markt 21
• Müritzeum
• New Town Hall ( Tudor Gothic , mid-19th century) with bullet hole from the Kapp Putsch 1920 and Neuer Markt
• Castle vineyard
• City port with the old port stores

Historical monuments

• Memorial complex with a wooden sculpture from 1994 by the sculptor Sven Domann on the Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse / corner of Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Strasse to commemorate the Christian resistance of the " White Rose "

• Memorial from 1947 and 1950 Am Kietz for 224 female concentration camp prisoners who became victims of forced labor
• Memorial stone at the cemetery (on the B 192) for the expellees from the German eastern regions
• Memorial stone on the southern bank of the Tiefwarensee in memory of the Waren synagogue
• Memorial stone from 1945 in the cemetery on the graves of Soviet soldiers and forced laborers
• Memorial plaque on today's Volksbank (Kietzstrasse) for the torture by the Soviets after 1945
• Commemorative plaque from 1994 at the headquarters of the European Academy Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania for slave laborers and prisoners of war from eight European countries who had to do slave labor in the armaments production of the Memefa
• Commemorative plaque from the 1960s at 19 Feldstrasse for the communist resistance fighter Hermann Gatzke, who was sentenced to high prison terms for his resistance
• Memorial plaque from the 1960s at Papenbergstrasse 12 for communist city councilor Paul Rachow, who was murdered in Neuengamme concentration camp in 1945
• Memorial with plaque on Papenberg on the road to Neubrandenburg for the Jewish cemetery that was desecrated by the Nazis in 1938 . On the surrounding wall a travertine stele by the sculptor Walter Preik for the Jewish victims of fascism

Müritz saga

The Müritz saga is a cycle of plays, the fictional acts of which take place in the Müritz region. The fabrics are complemented by sagas, stories and legends of the region. Each part has a self-contained plot. However, the parts build up loosely on one another. The pieces are specially designed for the open-air stage in Waren, which is located on the area around the romantic amphitheater on the Mühlenberg and was rebuilt and redesigned after 2006. The natural stage was restored, the visitor seats were renewed and a building for the sound engineering and direction was built. In the summer of 2009, a catering house was built in a medieval style. The theater now has 1200 seats.

The author of the Müritz saga was the film and television director Roland Oehme from 2006 to 2013 . Wolf R. Kuhl has been the author of the Müritz saga since 2014. The first part of Time of Hope had its premiere in 2006 on the open-air stage. Another part has followed annually since then. The director is the actor and director Nils Düwell. In addition to trained actors, residents of the Müritz region take part on the stage.

Culture

Cinema House Eight : 2014 after 20-year break a small cinema with the help of the National Association Cinema Communication Mecklenburg-Vorpommern furnished. It is located in the socio-cultural center of the culture and art association. The operator Kulturverein Waren promotes cultural and social life in the region.

Regular events

• Since 2002, the Müritz Sail has been taking place every year in May , in which inland sailors and ocean sailors take part and more than 50,000 visitors flock to the city.
• Every year on the last weekend in July, the triathlon in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania takes place in Waren.
• The Müritz swimming has been taking place since 1969 over a distance of 1950 meters in the northern part of the Müritz , in which several hundred swimmers take part every year.
• The Müritz run has been part of sporting events since 2001 . Every year in August national and international athletes meet to take part in the various competitions around the Müritz. The Müritz run is the event with the largest number of participants in the region (2013 with 1103 participants).

Economy and Infrastructure

Germany's first geothermal power plant in the megawatt output range for heat supply has been located on Papenberg since 1984 .

Companies

Mecklenburg metal casting (2014)

• Mecklenburg Metallguss (MMG), which in February 2006 delivered the world's largest propeller ever made
• Möwe Teigwarenwerk GmbH
• Fischerei Müritz Plau GmbH - Müritz fishermen and fish department store

traffic

Reception building of Waren (Müritz) train station

The federal motorway 19 passes the city in a distance of 30 km. Waren is connected to the motorway via federal highways 192 and 108 .

In September 2013, a bypass was voted on. It was discussed whether a bridge should be built over the Tiefwarensee. The critics of this project won the referendum by almost 60 percent. In March 2014, after a closed meeting, the city administration announced that the plans for the bridge over the Tiefwarensee were not yet off the table despite the rejection.

Waren (Müritz) is on the Berlin – Rostock railway line ( Lloydbahn ). An Intercity Express train pair on the Rostock – Berlin – Munich line has been stopping here since 2007 . Regional Express Line 5 runs every two hours, these trains always have a scheduled stop of 5 to 10 minutes in Waren. With a direct connection to and from Berlin, the regional train (RB 15) runs on the Mecklenburgische Südbahn branch line to the island town of Malchow .

The Mecklenburg-Vorpommersche Verkehrsgesellschaft operates a city ​​bus network for local public transport . Lines 2 and 3 are in use every day. The surrounding area in the Mecklenburg Lake District can be reached by regional buses . Of particular importance are a regional bus line with regular traffic to Neubrandenburg or Röbel / Müritz ( datBus ) and the tourist bus line to the Müritz National Park . Both lines are seasonally equipped with trailers for bicycle transport .

The Berlin-Copenhagen cycle route runs through Waren and connects Waren not only with Denmark and Berlin, but also with Rostock and Neustrelitz.

Public facilities

Evening marina (2018)

• Office lake landscape goods
• District court and land registry office Waren (Müritz)
• Tax office goods
• City administration
• Lauenburg Waterways and Shipping Office, Waren branch
• Water Police Inspection

education

• Vocational school with a technical college
• Elementary schools
  • Primary school on Papenberg
  • Käthe Kollwitz Elementary School
• Elementary schools with an orientation level
  • Arche School, Protestant elementary school with orientation level
• Regional schools
  • Friedrich Dethloff School
  • Regional school Waren / West
• Richard-Wossidlo-Gymnasium as a campus gymnasium
• Special educational support center “Pestalozzi” Waren
• Nationwide training center Waren / Grevesmühlen

freetime and sports

The Müritz offers numerous opportunities for swimming, sailing and windsurfing. There are four bathing beaches and a well-developed network of paths. The city has a three-screen cinema, a bowling alley and a bowling alley. North-eastern outskirts runs around the Tiefwarensee of the Ice Age Trail Tiefwarensee . The Waren air sports club maintains the Waren / Vielist airfield in neighboring Vielist .

Personalities

→ Main article : List of personalities of the city of Waren (Müritz)

Johann Albrecht II (1590–1636), Duke of Mecklenburg, as well as Heinrich Christian Pries (1798–1866), mayor and honorary citizen of the city and member of parliament are among the most important personalities who were born in Waren . Even Johann Carl Heinrich Dreyer (1723-1802), legal scholars and politicians, but also the botanist Johann Friedrich Peter Dreves (1772-1816) and the writer Henriette Bissing (1798-1879) also reached outside Warens considerable importance or were honorary citizen the city.

Among the personalities who worked in goods, the member of the Frankfurt National Assembly Carl Bandelow (1804–1869) stands out; He is said to have been a landowner in goods from 1835. The poets, like Martha Fritsch (1860–1917), Theodor Fontane's only daughter and editor, are also of national importance. She spent the last years of her life in Waren; likewise Ernst Hamann (1862–1952), a local poet, who spent his youth and school years in Waren. Richard Wossidlo (1859–1939) was an honorary citizen and folklorist . From 1886 to 1922 he was a teacher at the town's high school.

The actor Klausjürgen Wussow , known for his role as Professor Brinkmann in the series Die Schwarzwaldklinik , attended Richard-Wossidlo-Gymnasium from 1946 after his military service. One of his classmates was Heiner Müller , who is considered one of the most important German-speaking playwrights of the second half of the 20th century.

Web links

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

Wikivoyage: Goods  - Travel Guide

• Literature about goods (Müritz) 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. ↑ Main statute of the city of Waren (Müritz), § 1
3. ^ Georg Waitz: Research on German history. Dieterich, 1877, p. 474.
4. ↑ Jürgen Kniesz: Waren (Müritz). A tour of the city (history). Sutton, Erfurt 2011, p. 23.
5. ^ Scientific treatises of the Geographical Society of the German Democratic Republic 1 (1957), p. 199.
6. ↑ Ulrich Schoknecht : The Mesolithic “Stinthorst” residential area near Waren. In: Bodendenkmalpflege in Mecklenburg 1957. 1959, pp. 7–24.
7. ↑ So named by Robert Beltz: Stone Age finds in Mecklenburg. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity 63. 1898, 1–88, here: p. 14.
8. ↑ First in the yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity, 6 (1841), p. 80, then three years later in: GCF Lisch : First report on the antiquarium from 1834 to 1844 that became the grand-ducal-Meklenburg antiquarium in Schwerin Increases as a continuation of the Friderico-Franciscei. Schwerin 1844, p. 7.
9. ↑ Head operations 5000 years ago: cranial openings detected. ntv, October 21, 2011.
10. ^ Ground monument maintenance in Mecklenburg. 1961 yearbook, p. 293.
11. ↑ ^{a b c} Jürgen Kniesz: Waren (Müritz). A tour of the city (history). Sutton, Erfurt 2011, p. 8.
12. ↑ This and the following according to Jürgen Kniesz: Waren (Müritz). A tour of the city (history). Sutton, Erfurt 2011, p. 10.
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16. ↑ ^{a b} Jürgen Kniesz: Waren (Müritz). A tour of the city (history). Sutton, Erfurt 2011, p. 14.
17. ^ Michael Buddrus , Sigrid Fritzlar: Jews in Mecklenburg. 1845 - 1945. Paths and fates. A memorial book. Volume 1. Ed .: Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Berlin / State Center for Civic Education Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Schwerin 2019, ISBN 978-3-9816439-9-2 , p. 604.
18. ^ Jews in Mecklenburg.
19. ^ Renate Krüger : Mecklenburg ways of a country. (PDF; 129 kB).
20. ↑ * Michael Buddrus , Sigrid Fritzlar: Jews in Mecklenburg. 1845 - 1945. Paths and fates. A memorial book. Volume 1. Ed .: Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Berlin / State Center for Civic Education Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Schwerin 2019, ISBN 978-3-9816439-9-2 , p. 227.
21. ^ Klaus-Dieter Alicke: From the history of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. http: //www.jüdische-gemeinden.de/index.php/gemeinden/uz/2040-waren-mueritz-mecklenburg-vorpommern
22. ↑ * Michael Buddrus , Sigrid Fritzlar: Jews in Mecklenburg. 1845 - 1945. Paths and fates. A memorial book. Volume 1. Ed .: Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Berlin / State Center for Civic Education Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Schwerin 2019, ISBN 978-3-9816439-9-2 , p. 227.
23. ↑ Bernd Kasten: Persecution and deportation of the Jews in Mecklenburg 1938-1945. State Center for Political Education Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania a. a., Schwerin 2008, ISBN 978-3-940207-16-6 , pp. 77-78.
24. ↑ Jürgen Kniesz: Waren (Müritz). A tour of the city (history). Sutton, Erfurt 2011, p. 20.
25. ↑ The farmers 'and forest workers' villages in the nature park and its surroundings. (= From culture and science 7/2012), 2012, p. 71.
26. ↑ Thomas Balzer, Siv Stippekohl: Atlas of new beginnings. Stories from 25 years of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Christoph Links, Berlin 2015, p. 248.
27. ^ Arnulf Müller Helmbrecht : As a western official in the east. In: Michael Succow, Hans Dieter Knapp, Lebrecht Jeschke (ed.): Nature conservation in Germany: retrospectives - insights - outlooks. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2012, pp. 71–80, here: p. 75.
28. ↑ Population development of the districts and municipalities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Statistical Report AI of the Statistical Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
29. ↑ Waren (Müritz) - Final result of the election of the city council on May 26, 2019 , accessed on September 23, 2019
30. ↑ One who went out to love goods. on www.wir-sind-mueritzer.de
31. ↑ Main statute of the city of Waren (Müritz), § 9
32. ^ Result of the mayoral election on September 22, 2013
33. ↑ ^{a b} Hans-Heinz Schütt: On shield and flag - the coats of arms and flags of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and its municipalities . Ed .: production office TINUS; Schwerin. 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814380-0-0 , pp. 327-329 .
34. ↑ ^{a b} main statute § 2 (PDF).
35. ↑ Official website of the St. Georgen Church.
36. ↑ Official website of St. Marienkirche Waren.
37. ↑ Ev.-luth. Parish Waren / St. Marien (Hrsg.): St. Marienkirche zu Waren (Müritz). Peda-Kunstführer 111, 2nd edition, Kunstverlag Peda, Passau 2003, ISBN 3-930102-14-5 , p. 12.
38. ↑ Kulturverein-waren.de
39. ^ Stadtwerke Waren: The first German geothermal energy.
40. ^ Newspaper article , accessed on May 6, 2014.
41. ↑ Timetables and details of city bus transport in Waren (Müritz).
42. ↑ Mecklenburg stage | Berlin - Copenhagen. Retrieved April 5, 2017 .