Dam (Parchim)

dam City of Parchim Coordinates: 53 ° 26 ′ 22 " N , 11 ° 45 ′ 18" E
Height :	42 m above sea level NHN
Area :	17.88 km²
Residents :	500 (Dec. 31, 2012)
Population density :	28 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	May 25, 2014
Postal code :	19374
Primaries :	03863, 03871
Location of dam in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Damm is a district of the town of Parchim in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany).

Geography and traffic

Dam lies in the flat Elden lowlands about six kilometers northwest of Parchim . The Müritz-Elde waterway flows through the district . North of the Elde, northwest of Malchow, there is a large forest area with the Malchow Forestry Farm. There are no significant surveys in the local area. Only in the extreme northeast do the heights exceed 60 m above sea level. NHN .

Damm lies south of federal highway 321 and north of federal highway 191 . The federal motorway 24 (approx. 17 km) can be reached via the Parchim junction. Schwerin-Parchim Airport is to the east of the district .

Districts

The former community included:

dam
Malchow
Möderitz
New Matzlow

history

The place name is probably derived from the Slavic word dąbŭ for oak . So dam means oak place .

Damm was first mentioned in a document in 1249. In 1991 there were 419 inhabitants in the municipality.

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent communities of Malchow and Möderitz were incorporated.

On May 25, 2014 Damm was incorporated into the district town of Parchim .

Attractions

Village church embankment

Eldeniederung : The area extends between Damm and Matzlow-Garwitz and consists of an alder forest with extensive reed areas and gray willow bushes . It is the habitat for a species-rich small bird fauna and has flat moor vegetation in places .
Gothic stone village church from the 14th century in Damm
Farm in Malchow
Architectural monuments

Institutions

Hunting school and the office of the State Hunting Association Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania e. V.

Personalities

Bernhard Korupp (* 1927 in Dorf-Malchow; † 2006), farmer and politician (LDP)

Web links

Commons : Damm (Eldetal) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ § 1 of the main statutes ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (PDF; 556 kB) of the community @1@ 2

^ Paul Kühnel: The Slavic place names in Meklenburg. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 46, 1881, ISSN 0259-7772 , pp. 3-168, here p. 37.

↑ Heinrich Gottfried Gengler (ed.): Codex iuris municipalis Germaniae medii aevi. Regesta and documents on the constitutional and legal history of German cities in the Middle Ages. Enke, Erlangen 1863, pp. 696-698 .

↑ StBA: Area changes from January 1st to December 31st, 2014

[1] § 1 of the main statutes ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (PDF; 556 kB) of the community @1@ 2

[2] Paul Kühnel: The Slavic place names in Meklenburg. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 46, 1881, ISSN 0259-7772 , pp. 3-168, here p. 37.

[3] Heinrich Gottfried Gengler (ed.): Codex iuris municipalis Germaniae medii aevi. Regesta and documents on the constitutional and legal history of German cities in the Middle Ages. Enke, Erlangen 1863, pp. 696-698 .

[4] StBA: Area changes from January 1st to December 31st, 2014