Blankenberg

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Blankenberg (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 46 '  N , 11 ° 43'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Ludwigslust-Parchim
Office :	Sternberg lake landscape
Height :	20 m above sea level NHN
Area :	21.33 km 2
Residents:	378 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	18 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	19412, 19417 (white jug)
Area code :	038483
License plate :	LUP, HGN, LBZ, LWL, PCH, STB
Community key :	13 0 76 011
Community structure:	5 districts
Office administration address:	Am Markt 1 19406 Sternberg
Website :	www.blankenberg-in-mv.de
Mayor :	Ralf Kähler
Location of the municipality of Blankenberg in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district

Blankenberg is a municipality in the north of the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). It is administered by the Sternberger Seenlandschaft office based in the town of Sternberg .

Geography and traffic

Tempziner lake

Blankenberg is located between Brüel and Warin in the northern part of the wooded, hilly Sternberg lake landscape . The municipality borders on the Groß Labenzer See in the east, the Glammsee in the north and the Tempziner See in the west. Larger lakes in the municipality are the White Lake , the Rübensee , the Karpfensee and the Harmsee . The largest flowing water is the Brüeler Bach with its tributaries Tönnisbach and Radebach. The highest point of the municipality is the Kreyenberg south of Penzin at 67.2  m above sea level. NHN .

The distance to the Hanseatic city of Wismar is about 25 kilometers, to the state capital Schwerin about 30 kilometers. Blankenberg is connected to the Baltic Sea A 20 ( Lübeck - Kreuz Uckermark ) via the Zurow connection, which is 10 kilometers away . The federal highway 192 runs through the village . The Blankenberg (Meckl) Station is located on the Bad Kleinen-Rostock railway and in 1998 set railway Wismar-Karow .

Districts

The districts of the community are Blankenberg, Friedrichswalde , Wipersdorf, Weisse Krug and Penzin.

history

Village church in Penzin

At Blankenberg there was a Slavic castle complex at the southern end of the Glammsee on the Tönnisbach .

Blankenberg is first mentioned as a farm in 1340. In 1391 the place was sold to the Antonite Order in Tempzin Monastery . After the Reformation (1550), the area was given to Joachim Krause on Varchentin, who was a ducal councilor in his time. The area then belonged to the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin until the Second World War . After 1945 the village was initially part of the state of Mecklenburg , then from 1952 to 1990 part of the Schwerin district .

Penzin was first mentioned in a document in 1287. The name comes from the Old Slavic name pąk referring to the locator , i.e. place of Pęča .

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent municipality of Friedrichswalde was incorporated.

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 a torn off neck fur and crown and the inscription "GEMEINDE BLANKENBERG • LANDKREIS LUDWIGSLUST-PARCHIM".

Attractions

Mausoleum and bronze stag in Friedrichswalde

See also : List of architectural monuments in Blankenberg

• The Friedrichswalde hunting lodge from 1860, with the mausoleum of the owner family and a life-size bronze statue of a deer by the sculptor Louis Tuaillon , has been converted into a hotel
• Old forester's house Weisse Krug near Blankenberg.
• Village church in Penzin from the 14th century; Classicist conversion with ridge turrets . Pulpit from the 17th century

literature

• Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . The district court districts of Hagenow, Wittenburg, Boizenburg, Lübenheen, Dömitz, Grabow, Ludwigslust, Neustadt, Crivitz, Brüel, Warin, Neubukow, Kröpelin and Doberan. III. Tape. Schwerin 1899, p. 395–398 ( digitized from the Internet Archive [accessed July 29, 2015]).

Web links

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

• Literature about Blankenberg in the state bibliography MV

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. ↑ § 1 of the main statute (PDF; 166 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. 105 ( online [accessed July 29, 2015]).
4. ↑ Main statute, § 1, paragraph 1