Crivitz

This article describes the German city. For the US community, see Crivitz (Wisconsin) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 34 '  N , 11 ° 39'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Ludwigslust-Parchim
Office :	Crivitz
Height :	41 m above sea level NHN
Area :	75.48 km 2
Residents:	4859 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	64 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	19089
Area code :	03863
License plate :	LUP, HGN, LBZ, LWL, PCH, STB
Community key :	13 0 76 025
City structure:	6 districts
City administration address :	Amtsstrasse 5 19089 Crivitz
Website :	www.amt-crivitz.de
Mayoress :	Britta Brusch-Gamm
Location of the town of Crivitz in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district

Crivitz is a town in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). It is the administrative seat of the office Crivitz , to which another 16 communities belong. The place is a basic center .

geography

Location and surroundings

Crivitz is around 20 kilometers east of Schwerin and around 21 kilometers northwest of Parchim .

Larger areas in the urban area are forested, for example the Bürgerholz forest area with Lake Militzer in the south, the Forst Gädebehn forest area in the west and Eichholz in the east . The highest point in the city is also located in Eichholz , at over 87.8  m above sea level. NHN .

In the north, the Warnow flows through the city. Crivitz itself is located on the small Crivitz Lake of the same name . In the north the city borders on the Barniner See and the Warnow. The Amtsgraben , which runs from Militzer See over Crivitzer See into Barniner See, flows through the urban area .

City structure

Crivitz consists of the following districts:

Augustenhof Badegow Basthorst	Crivitz Gädebehn Kladow	Muchelwitz Radepohl Wessin

history

City view with lake (postcard from 1913)

The Warnow near Gädebehn

Surname

The name Crivitz comes from Slavic and, according to the old Polish form Krivica, means something like crooked or curved; so Crivitz is the "place on the bend". Possibly the location of the city on the peninsula (lake curvature) on Lake Crivitz is meant, or perhaps just the curved road structure at that time. Around 1273 the place name Kriwitz or Kriwicz and in the city seal of 1329 Criwisc was written.

middle Ages

A Slavic castle from the second half of the 12th century was located on the peninsula very early on . The city was probably founded in 1251 by the Counts of Schwerin around the castle that existed at that time. The city was first mentioned in a document in 1302. In 1357 Crivitz fell to the dukes of Mecklenburg . Crivitz developed into a typical country town in Mecklenburg and was represented as such on state parliaments until 1918 as part of the towns of the Mecklenburg district .

Modern times

During the Second World War , a barrack camp for Soviet prisoners of war who had to do forced labor was built on the site of the cemetery of the Jewish community on Trammer Weg . There were also Polish forced laborers in the village. At least 31 of those detained were killed. Towards the end of the war, prisoners of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp were driven by SS men on a death march through the vicinity of Crivitz, with at least 41 of them losing their lives.

During the GDR era, the Ministry for State Security (MfS) set up a command center on today's B 321 opposite the Waldschlößchen (alternative command center of the Schwerin district administration). The barbed-wire-fenced object Waldschlößchen housed shooting ranges, underground bunkers, an arms store and a remote broadcasting station. In the course of the turnaround , the Crivitz Political Citizens' Initiative was founded, which achieved the handover of the property to the National People's Army through vigils at the beginning of January 1990 . During this time there were also prayers for peace in the church and demonstrations with up to 600 participants in Crivitz .

From 1952 to 1994 Crivitz belonged to the Schwerin-Land district (until 1990 in the GDR district of Schwerin , 1990–1994 in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). In 1994, the city was in the district of Parchim integrated, the 2011 with the district Ludwigslust to district Ludwigslust-Parchim merged.

On January 1, 2014, the offices of Banzkow , Crivitz and Ostufer Schweriner See merged to form the current office of Crivitz. Crivitz is the official seat.

After German reunification , the historic city center was fundamentally renovated from 1991 with the help of urban development funding.

History of the districts

Basthorst manor house

Basthorst: The estate was owned by the von Schack family in the 19th century . The manor house was built in 1824 and was considerably redesigned in neo-baroque style around 1910 . After 1945 the company academy of the health system of the Schwerin district was here . A hotel and restaurant has been located here since 1994.

Radepohl: The estate was owned by the Ritter von Mallin (1337), Elderhorst zu Bissendorf (18th century) families, possibly von Stralendorff and Georg Froriep (until 1945). The core of the ruinous manor house is said to date from the 17th century.

Wessin had belonged to the Warnow region since 1230. The fortified church of Wessin from the end of the 13th century was first mentioned in 1391. The place was u. a. Owned by the von Restorff families (14th to 17th centuries), von Wenkstern (from 1670), von Sperling (from 1688), von Passow (from 1723) and von Barner (from around 1800).

Incorporations

Since January 1, 2003, the formerly independent municipality of Gädebehn has belonged to the city of Crivitz. On January 1, 2011, the previously independent municipality of Wessin with the districts of Badegow and Radepohl was incorporated into Crivitz.

Population development

year Residents 1990 4528 1995 4392 2000 4681 2005 4871 2010 4672

year Residents 2015 4887 2016 4880 2017 4872 2018 4892 2019 4859

Status: December 31 of the respective year

religion

The historic town church of Crivitz is the center of the Evangelical Lutheran parish . An Evangelical Free Church Congregation , which is part of the Brethren movement by tradition , also has a community center in Crivitz. It also includes the Elim senior citizens' home . The Roman Catholic parish celebrates its services in a backyard church that was created in the 1970s through the conversion of a stable building.

politics

City council

The city council consists of 15 members and the mayor as chairman. The local elections on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following composition:

Party / applicant	percent	Seats
Crivitzer voter community (CWG)	53.9	8th
CDU	28.8	5
Individual applicant Hans-Jürgen Heine	07.4	1
The left	05.4	1

mayor

• since 2014: Britta Brusch-Gamm (Crivitzer constituency)

Brusch-Gamm was confirmed in office in the mayoral election on May 26, 2019 with 75.4% of the valid votes.

coat of arms

Blazon : “In silver a red cloverleaf arch, on it three red domed towers with three windows next to each other, the middle one stronger and with a paw cross, the outer one with a knob; including a triangular sign divided by red and gold, accompanied on both sides by a red rose. " The coat of arms was established on April 10, 1858 by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, redrawn in 2000 and registered under the number 215 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Reasons for the coat of arms: The coat of arms is based on the seal image of S (IGILLVM) DE CRIWISZ CIVITATIS - first handed down as an imprint in 1322. With the domed towers standing on the cloverleaf arch, it is intended to mark Crivitz as a fortified, well-fortified city. The divided shield, the coat of arms of the Counts of Schwerin, refers to the counts as city founders and city lords. The florets are decorative in nature.

Historical coat of arms

	Blazon : "In red between two erect, averted, looking back silver lindworms, a continuous golden double hook." The coat of arms was designed by Prof. Hans Herbert Schweitzer from Berlin . It was awarded on September 2, 1940 by the Reichsstatthalter in Mecklenburg.
	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms lost its validity soon after the end of World War II.

flag

Crivitz City Flag

The flag was approved by the Ministry of the Interior on February 26, 2001.

The flag is evenly striped lengthways in red and yellow. In the middle of the flag, two thirds of the height of the red and yellow stripes, is the city coat of arms. The relation of the height of the flag cloth to the length is like 3: 5.

Official seal

The official seal shows the city arms with the inscription "STADT CRIVITZ".

Town twinning

• Bönningstedt in Schleswig-Holstein
• Crivitz in Wisconsin , USA
• Seaford in East Sussex , England

Attractions

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Crivitz

City Church

Memorial for the fallen in 1914/18 by Wilhelm Wandschneider

• City church , medieval three-aisled hall church , late Gothic brick building (late 14th century) with a squat west tower
• Basthorst Castle
• City center / market square
• Former synagogue at Fritz-Reuter-Straße 13, abandoned in 1922, since then used as a residential building
• Gymnasium am Sonnenberg, completed in 1996, received the "Architecture Prize Facing Bricks and Clinker" and the " State Building Prize Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 1998"
• Wessin village church , brick-Gothic stone church
• Arboretum southwest of Lake Crivitz between the official moat and the railway line
• Crivitz castle wall , ground monument
• Great stone grave in Radepohl
• Grave complex with a memorial stone in the cemetery for 31 victims of forced labor , including several children
• Grave complex with a memorial stone from 1945 in the cemetery for 41 victims of the April 1945 death march (renewed in 1975)
• Chapel of the death march of the inmates of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp with a Pietà by Wieland Schmiedel
• Memorial stone from 1950 for the victims of the death march on Weinbergstrasse, renewed in 1961 by Wieland Schmiedel
• Memorial stone from 1950 for the victims of the prisoner columns caused by Allied bombing at the exit to Schwerin, in the direction of Crivitz expansion, gravel pit, renewed in 1961 by Wieland Schmiedel
• Memorial stone for the victims of the death march on the Crivitz-Schwerin road (junction to Sukow )
• Memorial stele from 1996 at the city church along the route of the death march as one of 52 steles by Wieland Schmiedel

Economy and Transport

hospital

In 2001, the clinic operator Mediclin took over the majority of the shares in the necessary care hospital on Crivitzer See, a basic and standard care provider with 74 beds and clinics for surgery and orthopedics, for internal medicine, for gynecology and obstetrics, for anesthesiology and intensive care medicine as well as for radiology.

traffic

The federal road B 321 runs through the urban area of ​​Crivitz between Schwerin and Parchim . It is used as a bypass around the city proper. The B 392 to Goldberg begins in Crivitz . The nearest motorway junction is about eleven kilometers from Schwerin-Ost on the A 14 ( Wismar - Schwerin junction ).

Since 1888 Crivitz has had a train station on the Schwerin – Parchim railway line . It is served by the regional train line RB 13 of the Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn GmbH Rehna - Schwerin - Parchim .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Heinrich Rathke (* 1928), former regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg , pastor in Crivitz

sons and daughters of the town

• Friedrich Cleemann (1770–1825), local history researcher
• Ulrich von Barner (1786–1846), Prussian lieutenant general
• Carl Laser Ladewig (1855–1926), politician ( Liberal People's Party )
• Johannes Maybaum (1864–1932), state school supervisor
• Ernst Krüger (1867–1926), politician ( DVP )
• Carl Friedrich Hansen (1875–1957), decorative painter
• Hans Werner Ohse (1898–1991), pastor
• Edwin Bergner (1903–1980), Director of the Buchenwald National Memorial and Memorial
• Kurt Dunkelmann (1906–1983), General Director of the Rostock Neptun shipyard
• Ernst Lehnhardt (1924–2011), physician
• Georg Ihde (* 1943), politician (FDP)
• Karla Mügge , b. Roffeis (* 1958), volleyball player
• Lutz Dettmann (* 1961), writer
• Christian Halbrock (* 1963), historian
• Torsten Schmitz (* 1964), boxing trainer and former amateur boxer
• Ute Steppin , b. Oldenburg (* 1965), volleyball player
• Christoph Schulze (* 1965), politician (SPD or BVB / Free Voters)
• Heiko Mathias Förster (* 1966), conductor
• André Keil (* 1967), sports journalist
• Dirk Oldenburg (* 1967), volleyball player
• Armin Kremer (* 1968), rally driver
• Matthias Breitkreutz (* 1971), soccer player
• Ralph Ertel (* 1972), singer
• Stephan Möller-Titel (* 1977), actor
• Anna Frenzel-Röhl (* 1981), actress
• Maria Heinig (* 1981), singer
• Kevin Wölbert (* 1989), speedway driver
• Janine Völker (* 1991), volleyball player
• Sarah Scheurich (* 1993), boxer

Personalities associated with Crivitz

• Erwin Lademann (1923–2015), writer, lived in Crivitz
• Wieland Schmiedel (* 1942), sculptor, lives in Crivitz
• Eberhard Otto (* 1948), founder of the real estate company Otto & Zapf Wohnland in Crivitz
• Andreas Katz (* 1954), politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), lives in Crivitz
• Anne Sewcz (* 1958), lived in Crivitz

Others

• A special feature is the naming of a 6.1 kilometer Mars crater after the city, based on the suggestion of the scientist Stephan Gehrke, who was born in Crivitz. Crivitz lies within the much larger Gusev crater , in which the American Mars rover Spirit landed in 2004 .

• In the US state of Wisconsin is the municipality of Crivitz , named in 1883 by Frederick John Bartels, who was born in Crivitz.

Web links

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

• Office of Crivitz
• BStU , topic: The Stasi bunker at the "Waldschlößchen"
• NDR report from December 17, 2014 about the Waldschlösschen ( Memento from April 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

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. ^ Regional Spatial Development Program West Mecklenburg (2011) , Regional Planning Association, accessed on July 12, 2015
3. ^ Main statute of the city of Crivitz. § 2 paragraph (1). City of Crivitz, January 1, 2020, accessed December 23, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Ernst Eichler and Werner Mühlmer: The names of cities in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Ingo Koch Verlag, Rostock 2002, ISBN 3-935319-23-1
5. ^ "Object: Waldschloesschen, Crivitz, D", with pictures. Research group 'bildo: research' in the communication design course at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (HTW), accessed on November 29, 2009 . 
6. ↑ The Stasi bunker at the "Waldschlößchen" - the "alternative control point" of the former Schwerin district administration of the MfS (BStU)
7. ↑ Peaceful Revolution 1989/1990 - A review from Crivitz. (PDF; 5 MB) In: All about Crivitz. No. 10/2009. Amt Crivitz, October 30, 2009, p. 15 , archived from the original on March 27, 2014 ; accessed on September 17, 2015 . 
8. ↑ StBA Area: changes from 01.01. until December 31, 2003
9. ↑ Population development of the districts and municipalities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Statistical Report AI of the Statistical Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
10. ↑ Official result of the election for city council on May 26, 2019
11. ^ Official result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019
12. ↑ ^{a b} 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. 191/192 .
13. ↑ ^{a b} main statute § 1 (PDF).
14. ↑ List of hospitals entitled to the security surcharge
15. ^ Stephan Gehrke: Crivitz on Mars. (PDF; 1.84 MB) (No longer available online.) In: Mars Society Newsletter. Edition October 8 , 2002, p. 13 , archived from the original on April 23, 2016 ; accessed on September 17, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.