Dümmer (municipality)

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 35 '  N , 11 ° 12'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Ludwigslust-Parchim
Office :	Stralendorf
Height :	51 m above sea level NHN
Area :	31.36 km 2
Residents:	1506 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	48 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	19073
Area code :	03869
License plate :	LUP, HGN, LBZ, LWL, PCH, STB
Community key :	13 0 76 036
Community structure:	3 districts
Office administration address:	Dorfstrasse 30 19073 Stralendorf
Website :	duemmer-mv.de
Mayoress :	Anke Gräber
Location of the municipality of Dümmer in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district

Dümmer is a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is administered by the Stralendorf Office , based in the Stralendorf municipality.

geography

Dümmer is about 14 kilometers southwest of Schwerin and 16 kilometers north of Hagenow on the Dümmersee , through which the Sude flows.

Dümmer is surrounded by the neighboring communities Gottesgabe in the north, Grambow and Zülow in the northeast, Stralendorf in the east, Warsow and Schossin in the southeast, Hülseburg in the south, Wittendbod in the west and Perlin in the northwest.

The districts of the municipality are:

• Dümmer (with Dümmerhütte, Dümmerstück, Dümmerstück Hof, Kowahl)
• Parum (incorporated on June 13, 1999)
• Walsmühlen (incorporated on January 15, 1973)

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  Entrance to Dümmer from the east

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  Dümmersee

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  Dümmersee with castle island

history

Barrows and urn fields testify that people lived again and again near the Dümmer See in the millennia after the Ice Age. B. Slavic settlers, the Obotrites . The place name also comes from the West Slavic language Polabisch , in which the word “düm” stands for family and house.

Dümmer was first mentioned in the Ratzeburg tithe register in 1230. In the case of Walsmühlen, it is assumed that a mill built on the Sude gave its name. The name of the Dümmerhütte settlement is explained by the glassworks that have been located in Dümmer since 1645 . Parum was first mentioned in 1194. The first school in Dümmer was opened in 1710. On March 6, 1719, a battle between Mecklenburg and Hanoverian troops took place in the district during the Great Northern War , with the Mecklenburg troops being led by the later Prussian General Field Marshal Kurt Christoph von Schwerin .

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent communities Dümmerhütte and Dümmerstück Hof were incorporated.

In 1968 a local recreation area was created on the Dümmersee.

politics

The municipal council elected in 2019 is composed as follows:

• “Citizens for our community”: 6 seats
• CDU : 1 seat
• Individual applicant Herrmann
• Single applicant Rolof
• Single applicant Schmidt

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

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  Dorfstrasse 35

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  Dorfstrasse 39b

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  Stücker Str. 10

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  Forsthof (from the west)

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  Forsthof (from the southeast)

Attractions

Village church in Parum

See also : List of architectural monuments in Dümmer

• The Parum village church is a Gothic brick church with a fieldstone base, the nave of which was built around 1450. The building in the Parum district was expanded around 1770 with the wooden tower and around 1870 with a new choir and the transept in the neo-Gothic style . The interior is also neo-Gothic.
• The Schlossberg in Schleusenholz, east of Dümmer, is a medieval castle . According to tradition from the 14th century, it was built by vassals of the Ratzeburg monastery . Because of its proximity to the county of Schwerin , it was of particular importance. The mountain, which is overgrown by a forest today, and the ditch surrounding it is designated as a ground monument , recognizable by a sign.

Transport links

The next connection to the federal motorway 24 is in Wittenburg , 13 kilometers away.

Web links

Commons : Dümmer (municipality)  - collection of images

• Municipality of Dümmer on the website of the Stralendorf Office

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. ↑ Reading version - main statute of the municipality of Dümmer. (PDF; 22 kB) Dümmer community, December 12, 2011, accessed on February 4, 2016 . 
3. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1999
4. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
5. ↑ Final results of the 2019 local elections. Accessed July 9, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Main Statute, Section 2, Paragraph 1
7. ↑ Zerniner Employment Initiative (ZEBI) e. V. and START e. V. (Ed.): Village and town churches in the Parchim parish . Edition Temmen, Bremen / Rostock 2001, ISBN 3-86108-795-2 , p. 130