Benz (near Wismar)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 55 '  N , 11 ° 35'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Northwest Mecklenburg
Office :	Neuburg
Height :	31 m above sea level NHN
Area :	22.58 km 2
Residents:	654 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	29 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	23970
Area code :	038426
License plate :	NWM, GDB, GVM, WIS
Community key :	13 0 74 004
Community structure:	5 districts
Office administration address:	Hauptstrasse 10a 23974 Neuburg
Website :	www.amt-neuburg.de
Mayor :	Dietmar Hocke
Location of the municipality Benz in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg

Benz is a municipality in the northeast of the district of Northwest Mecklenburg in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). The municipality is administered by the Neuburg office with its seat in the municipality of the same name .

geography

The community of Benz east of the Hanseatic city of Wismar is located in a slightly hilly, wooded area.

Benz is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Neuburg in the north, Züsow in the east, Neukloster in the southeast, Zurow in the south and Hornstorf in the west.

The districts of Gamehl, Goldebee , Kalsow and Warkstorf belong to Benz .

history

Benz was founded by the Holy Spirit Foundation in Wismar ; the other today's districts were originally manors. The seat of the former parish was in Goldebee (first mentioned in 1321). Until 1385 there was a moth of the knight Heinrich von Bülow called Grotekop on the Preensberg ; it was destroyed in a punitive action by Lübeck against Mecklenburg nobles because of these committed street robberies. The name Preensberg indicates the family of the Knights of Preen as the previous owner. This place was probably already settled in Slavic times. Preensberg as a district has been devastated since 1970 and was then cleared.
The municipality is still dominated by agriculture.

A modern nursing home was built in Kalsow .

Gamehl was the headquarters of the von Stralendorff family for over 600 years . In 1860 Franz von Stralendorff (* 1805; † 1883) had today's Gamehl manor built in neo-Gothic style.

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent community Goldebee was incorporated.

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 off neck fur and crown and the inscription "GEMEINDE BENZ • LANDKREIS NORDWESTMECKLENBURG".

Attractions

• Neo-Gothic mansion at Schloss Gamehl from 1860 based on plans by Heinrich Thormann for Franz von Stralendorff ; Hotel since 2008
• Goldebee village church of brick Gothic from the 15th century with a classicistic west tower from 1848 without a spire
• Hall house in the district of Kalsow
• Old thatched roof houses in Benz and Kalsow
• Manor house in Warkstorf from around 1695 to 1750 as a two-story, heavily rebuilt brick building with a central projectile and a half-hip roof

See also : List of architectural monuments in Benz

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  Village church in Goldebee

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  Gamehl manor house

Transport links

The B 105 ( Wismar - Rostock ) runs between the districts of Benz and Kalsow . The Wismar junction ( A 20 / A 14 ) is about six kilometers from Benz. The Kalsow stop is on the Wismar – Rostock railway line .

Web links

Commons : Benz  - Collection of Images

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. ^ Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . Schwerin 1898, p. 336 ( digitized version in the Internet Archive [accessed on July 22, 2015]).
3. ↑ Main Statute, Section 1, Paragraph 3