Zechlin village

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Zechlin village
City of Rheinsberg
Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ′ 21 ″  N , 12 ° 46 ′ 48 ″  E
Height : 65 m above sea level NHN
Incorporation : October 26, 2003
Postal code : 16837
Zechlin village (Brandenburg)
Zechlin village

Location of the village of Zechlin in Brandenburg
Zechlin village church

The village of Dorf Zechlin is a district of the city of Rheinsberg in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district in northern Brandenburg . It has about 450 inhabitants and is considered a resort.

geography

The village is located about one hundred kilometers northwest of Berlin and about ten kilometers from the center of Rheinsberg. The village has an area of ​​16 square kilometers and is around 64  m above sea level. NN .

The village of Zechlin is located on the Braminsee . The Großer Zechliner See is located nearby .

history

The name of the place Zechlin is probably derived from the Slavic word cêglu for single or from the Slavic locator Cêgola .

Zechlin was first mentioned in a document in 1237. The village was badly damaged in the Thirty Years War .

The village church was built in 1549 or earlier and greatly enlarged in the 19th century.

Incorporations

On October 26, 2003, the village of Zechlin was incorporated into Rheinsberg.

Rail and bus transport

From 1926 on, the railway line from Rheinsberg to Flecken Zechlin was extended and opened on May 15, 1928. Dorf Zechlin was connected to the line with the Kagar-Dorf Zechlin train station . In the 1930s, around five trains a day ran from Zechlin Flecken via Rheinsberg to Löwenberg (Mark) with connections to Berlin and back. At the weekend in summer there were direct trains to and from Berlin. The line was dismantled after the Second World War and the rails were shipped to the Soviet Union as reparations. The station building still exists.

Sons and daughters of the place

literature

  • Historical Gazetteer Brandenburg - Part 1 - Prignitz - N-Z . Modifications made by Lieselott Enders . In: Klaus Neitmann (Ed.): Publications of the Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv (State Archive Potsdam) - Volume 3 . Founded by Friedrich Beck . Publishing house Klaus-D. Becker, Potsdam 2012, ISBN 978-3-88372-033-3 , pp. 1026 ff .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 156.
  2. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003
  3. ^ Official course book for the Reich with long-distance connections, summer 1934. Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft, Oberbetriebsleitung Ost Berlin, Berlin 1934.