Balow

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 16 '  N , 11 ° 43'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Ludwigslust-Parchim
Office :	Grabow
Height :	33 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.83 km 2
Residents:	323 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	25 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	19300
Area code :	038752
License plate :	LUP, HGN, LBZ, LWL, PCH, STB
Community key :	13 0 76 003
Office administration address:	Berliner Strasse 8a 19297 Grabow
Website :	www.gemeinde-balow.de
Mayoress :	Kriemhild Kant
Location of the municipality of Balow in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district

The municipality of Balow belongs to the Grabow district in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany).

geography

Balow borders the communities Möllenbeck , Zierzow , Prislich , Karstädt and Dambeck and is located in the sparsely populated southern area of ​​the Ludwigslust-Parchim district on the state border with Brandenburg . The Tarnitz runs west of the village, and the Löcknitz runs east . The federal motorway 24 can be reached in 13 kilometers via the Parchim junction . The next train station on the Hamburg – Berlin route is in Grabow .

history

The place, originally a Slavic Sackplatzdorf , was first mentioned in 1341 in a letter about the purchase of grain. Balow had been an estate village since the 13th century. In 1736 a fire destroyed the village church, which was rebuilt in 1774. Even after the Second World War , the community was dominated by agriculture, the collectivization since the 1950s led to the formation of large farms with a total usable area of ​​1006 hectares.

politics

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 state of Mecklenburg. It shows a looking bull's head with torn neck fur and crown and the inscription "GEMEINDE BALOW".

Attractions

→ See also the list of architectural monuments in Balow

• Balow village church from 1774; Nave with pilasters in late renaissance style ; free-standing half-timbered bell tower, baroque pulpit altar .
• Gutshaus Balow: Single-storey half-timbered house from the 18th century with a central gable and a half-hipped roof .

Village church

Web links

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

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, Section 2, Paragraph 2