Balm (Benz)
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Balm
Benz municipality
Coordinates: 53 ° 56 ′ 39 ″ N , 14 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ E
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| Incorporation : | July 1, 1950 |
| Incorporated into: | Neppermin |
| Postal code : | 17429 |
| Area code : | 038379 |
 Golfpark Balmer See
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Balm is a district of the municipality of Benz on the Baltic Sea island of Usedom .
Geography and traffic
Balm extends along the south bank of Lake Balmer , a bay in the eastern part of the backwater . In the east lies the Benz district of Neppermin , in the south the municipality of Mellenthin . The Mellenthiner Os nature reserve is located between Balm and Mellenthin . In front of the Balmer coast is the island of Balmer Werder , which, together with the southeastern island of Böhmke, belongs to the nature reserve islands Böhmke and Werder . The Mellenthiner Os extends in the northeast to the Cosim peninsula , where it ends in an active cliff on the backwater.
The place is on the district road 35, which crosses the federal road 111 in Neppermin and continues to Benz. There is no direct connection to the rail network. The closest stop on the Usedomer Bäderbahn is Schmollensee ( Züssow – Wolgaster Fähre – Swinemünde line ).
history
Numerous traces of a Germanic settlement from the Roman Empire were found in the area around Balm . The heyday of this settlement will be in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD before it was probably abandoned in the 3rd century AD. During excavations, indications of lime kilns and iron smelting were found. The dead were buried in tree coffins in individual graves.
Balm was first mentioned in 1236 as "Bialdab" and "Baldem". The Slavic name is interpreted as "beautiful oak" with later names also as "white oak". In 1270, the Grobe monastery received the tithe from Balm and five other villages in exchange with the Camminer cathedral chapter for the village of Damerow near Naugard .
The painter Lyonel Feininger , who frequently explored the area around Benz and Neppermin during his stays in Usedom, captured the village square of Balm on a color lithograph in 1910.
To the west of the place on the west of the Mellenthin Os was the Vorwerk Karlsruh, which belonged to the Mellenthin estate. At the same time, on the east side of the Os north of Balm, there was a brickworks directly on the shore of Lake Balmer, which was operated with clay from a local pit.
In the GDR era, there was a relatively attractive holiday complex in the area of today's golf course. The village school of Balm was closed in the late 1970s.
On July 1, 1950, Balm was incorporated into the Neppermin community. On May 22, 2004, Neppermin was incorporated into the Benz community.
Tourism and sightseeing
Due to its location in the Usedomer Achterland, bathing tourism, which characterizes the coastal towns, passed Balm. Due to its scenic location, however, the place is an attractive destination for “gentle” individual tourism . In the east of the village there is a 120 hectare golf course opened in 1998 with an attached golf hotel.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dirk Schleinert : The history of the island of Usedom. Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2005, ISBN 3-356-01081-6 , pp. 14-15.
- ↑ Manfred Niemeyer: Ostvorpommern I . Collection of sources and literature on place names. Vol. 1: Usedom. (= Greifswald contributions to toponymy. Vol. 1), Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, Institute for Slavic Studies, Greifswald 2001, ISBN 3-86006-149-6 . P. 5
- ^ Hermann Hoogeweg : The founders and monasteries of the province of Pomerania. Vol. 2. Leon Saunier, Stettin 1925, p. 339.