Barkow (Barkhagen)

Barkov Barkhagen municipality Coordinates: 53 ° 27 '53 "  N , 12 ° 10' 46"  E
Incorporation :	June 13, 2004
Postal code :	19395
Area code :	038735
Location of Barkow in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Barkow is a district of the municipality of Barkhagen in the east of the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The Müritz-Elde waterway and the B 191 run through Barkow .

history

Barkow was first mentioned on April 13, 1274. On July 1, 1950, the previously independent community of Altenlinden was incorporated. On June 13, 2004, the two communities Barkow and Plauerhagen merged to form today's Barkhagen community.

Attractions

→ Main articles : Barkow village church  and list of architectural monuments in Barkow

• Pfarrhof Barkow (seat of the state trombone factory Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
• Cemetery oak in Barkow, dying 630-year-old English oak , deleted from the list of protected natural monuments in 2016.
• Victory oak between the syringe house and the war memorial, planted on December 2, 1895 “to commemorate the great times of 1870/71”; What is meant is the battle of Loigny and Poupry on December 2, 1870, in which the German troops were commanded by the Duke of Mecklenburg.
• Elde with a lock in Barkow

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  Rectory

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  War memorial 1914–1918

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  Manor house Barkow

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  Gouged cemetery oak

Personalities

• Helene Dolberg (1881–1979), painter, born in Barkow
• Heinrich Zander (1800–1876), pastor and ornithologist in Barkow
• Martin Huss (* 1960), state trombonist

literature

• Barkow parish: A small chronicle 1274–1999. 725 years of Barkow. 1999

Web links

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