Banzkow

This article describes the municipality in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. On the cathedral scholastic and provost see Heinrich Banzkow .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 31 '  N , 11 ° 31'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Ludwigslust-Parchim
Office :	Crivitz
Height :	38 m above sea level NHN
Area :	52.29 km 2
Residents:	2771 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	53 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	19079
Primaries :	03861, 03868
License plate :	LUP, HGN, LBZ, LWL, PCH, STB
Community key :	13 0 76 005
Community structure:	4 districts
Office administration address:	Amtsstrasse 5 19089 Crivitz
Website :	www.gemeinde-banzkow.de
Mayor :	Ralf Michalski ( The Left )
Location of the municipality of Banzkow in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district

Banzkow is a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). It is administered by the Crivitz Office , based in Crivitz .

geography

View of Banzkow from the west

Banzkow is 15 kilometers south of Schwerin . The Stör waterway flows through the community . This connects the Schweriner See over the Müritz-Elde waterway with the Müritz and the Elbe . The Banzkower lock in the course of the canal regulates the water level of the Schwerin lake next to the weir at its northern outlet . The lock is bypassed by the Mühlengraben. The New Canal branches off from here. In the northwest, the terrain reaches heights of up to 56.2  m above sea level. HN . The community is located in the Lewitz nature reserve . The wetland Mirower Torfmoor is located south of the village of Banzkow .

The districts of Banzkow, Goldenstädt , Jamel and Mirow belong to the community .

history

Banzkow was first mentioned on October 31, 1300 as Bancekowe . Other forms of the name are Banscekowe (1327) and Bantzekowe (1350). The name refers to the Slavic locator of the place and means place of Bąček .

Lock in the course of the Stör waterway

There has been a water mill in Banzkow since 1337 , which is still evident today in the Mühlengraben , a branch of the Stör waterway. In 1534 a bridge was built over the Stör. An important trade route to Hamburg, which is still called the Hamburg freight route today, used to run along this route . Customs duties were levied for crossing the sturgeon. The main lock, completed in 1566, was rebuilt several times and rebuilt in 1926. Until 1856, the operator of the lock was the water miller, who needed the water accumulation and the drainage over the mill ditch to operate his mill. The water wheel stood still while ships were being locked.

Banzkower Mill from 1874

The abundance of wood meant that Banzkow became known as a village of carvers and turners. Originally, Banzkow belonged to the Count of Schwerin , from 1433 on to the state domain. Until the 16th century, the Zarrentin monastery also had various rights. In 1760 a post mill was built in Banzkow, in 1872 the neo-Gothic brick church . The gallery Dutch windmill , immortalized in the coat of arms today, dates from 1874. The church was designed by Theodor Krüger on the site of a previous building and consecrated in 1875.

The Banzkow Carnival Club "Grün-Gold" e. V. (BCC) was founded in 1953 and is therefore the third oldest carnival association in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (in the KLMV ).

On June 29, 2007, during a festive evaluation of the competition "Our village has a future - our village should become more beautiful" in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Prime Minister Harald Ringstorff presented representatives of the Banzkow community with the first prize worth 30,000 euros. In the national competition “Our village has a future”, in which a total of 3,625 municipalities participated, Banzkow was able to win one of eight gold medals. The award was presented in January 2008 at the Green Week in Berlin by the then Federal Minister Horst Seehofer . In the same year Banzkow organized the "State Harvest Festival". Banzkow won the silver medal in the Europe-wide competition Entente Florale Europe in 2010.

Banzkow was the seat of the Banzkow office from 1992 to 2013 , which was dissolved by a merger on January 1, 2014. The newly formed Crivitz Office operates a citizens' office in Banzkow.

The district Mirow was first mentioned in 1270. Low German hall houses and the neo-Gothic church have been preserved in its townscape. The village street is accompanied by a handsome avenue of lime trees.

politics

Municipal council and mayor

The municipal council (including the mayor) consists of 12 members. The election to the municipal council on May 26, 2019 had the following results:

Party / applicant	percent	Seats
The left	39.6	5
Free voter community BA / MI / JA / GO	23.9	3
CDU	21.0	3
Individual applicant Klüver	13.0	2

Mayor of the community is Ralf Michalski (Die Linke), he was elected with 76.6% of the vote.

previous mayor	Period
Heinrich Vick, Hermann Müller	1950
M. Kaiser	1951
Johann Damm	1951 - March 1953
Erich Winkler	March 1953 - April 1956
Bruno noon	April 1956 - July 1959
Willi Cammin	July 1959 - April 1965
Heinrich Vick	April 1965 - May 1969
Gerda Koltermann	May 1969 - December 1979
Karl Friedrich Böthfuer	September 1978 - March 1984
Wilfried Brocker	April 1984 - December 1991
Gertlinde Kral	January 1992 - June 1992
Solveig Leo	June 1992 - June 2009
Irina Berg	June 2009 - May 2019

coat of arms

Blazon : "In green over a golden wave shield foot a golden Dutch windmill, accompanied on both sides by a golden linden leaf." The coat of arms was designed by the Schwerin heraldist Karl-Heinz Steinbruch . It was approved on August 2, 2000 by the Ministry of the Interior and registered under the number 220 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Justification of the coat of arms: A windmill was chosen as a central component of the coat of arms, as the existence of several mills has been proven since the Middle Ages and the gallery Dutch windmill, which still exists today, is the town's landmark. The sturgeon waterway is symbolized by the corrugated shield base and the linden leaves refer to the linden-lined passage through the district of Mirow.

flag

The municipality does not have an officially approved flag .

Official seal

The official seal shows the municipal coat of arms with the inscription "GEMEINDE BANZKOW".

Incorporations

At the same time as the local elections that took place in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on June 7, 2009, the formerly independent municipality of Goldenstädt was incorporated into Banzkow with the hamlet of Jamel.

Attractions

Mirow village church

Pasture fence sculpture

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Banzkow

• Dorfkirche Banzkow : Neo-Gothic hall church made of brick from 1875 according to plans by Theodor Krüger with a single-nave , four-bay nave with stepped gable , retracted choir (architecture) with 5/8 end and the west tower with octagonal top and pointed helmet .
• Village church Mirow : Neo-Gothic brick building from 1842 on the field stone base of the previous church from the 13th century according to plans by Ludwig Bartning with a west tower from 1883, which used to have a pointed helmet.
• Goldenstädt village church : Gothic , simple hall construction as a fortified church , probably from the 13th century.
• Banzkower Mühle : Galerieholländermühle from 1874; The symbol of the village contained in the coat of arms.
• Lock from 1950 in the Stör waterway from 1711.
• Störtal-Museum-Banzkow from 2000 in the basement of the trendy hotel.
• Low German hall houses in Banzkow and Mirow.
• Forsthof Jamel from 1860; today a holiday home and cultural venue.
• Lewitz landscape protection area .
• Entrances to Banzkow from 2007: the entrances to the town were designed together with architecture students from Wismar. A stylized pasture fence with a gate handle that spans the road from the direction of Mirow and from the direction of Hasenhäge is a door hinge . The pasture fence conveys the connection between the village's history and livestock farming and pasture farming, while the door hinge points to the art of blacksmithing. A model of a chip card reader was set up from the Sukow direction, symbolizing the newer part of Banzkow. The driveway from the direction of Plate is decorated by an open village gate, which should indicate the village center with its old farms.

traffic

Landesstraße 72 (formerly Bundesstraße 106 ) runs through the southwest of the municipality. The federal motorway 14 runs directly through the municipality, but can only be reached via the Schwerin-Ost junction (18 km away) until the planned Schwerin-Süd junction is set up. The Wöbbelin junction of the federal motorway 24 , which runs south of the municipality, is about 13 kilometers away. The Schwerin – Parchim railway , from which Ostseeland-Verkehr GmbH trains run to Parchim and Rehna , runs a little north of the municipality . There is a train station in Plate .

Web links

Commons : Banzkow  - 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. ↑ § 2 of the main statute (PDF; 347 kB) of the municipality.
3. ^ Paul Kühnel: The Slavic place names in Meklenburg . In: Yearbooks of the Association for Meklenburg History and Antiquity . Yearbooks of history. tape 46 , 1881, ISSN  0259-7772 , p. 23 ( online [accessed June 5, 2015]).
4. ^ Burkhard Fellner: Fascination Lewitz. A natural paradise in Mecklenburg. 2nd revised and expanded edition. Fellner, Neustadt-Glewe 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811338-0-6 , p. 98.
5. ↑ Carnival associations of the Parchim district, Ludwigslust-Parchim district youth association, accessed on February 19, 2018
6. ^ Final report "Our village has a future 2007" - Federal Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection
7. ↑ Press release of September 24, 2010 on entente-florale-deutschland.de, accessed on July 25, 2015.
8. ↑ Official result of the municipal representative election on www.amt-crivitz.de
9. ^ Official result of the mayoral election on www.amt-crivitz.de
10. ↑ 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. 187/188 .
11. ↑ ^{a b} main statute § 1 (PDF).
12. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 2nd to December 31st, 2009 .