Eixen

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 54 ° 10 '  N , 12 ° 43'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Western Pomerania-Ruegen
Office :	Recknitz-Trebeltal
Height :	19 m above sea level NHN
Area :	55.98 km 2
Residents:	766 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	14 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	18334
Area code :	038222
License plate :	VR, GMN, NVP, RDG, RÜG
Community key :	13 0 73 022
Office administration address:	Karl-Marx-Strasse 18 18465 Tribsees
Website :	www.eixen.info
Mayor :	André Bonitz (A list for Eixen / ELFE)
Location of the municipality of Eixen in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen

Eixen is a municipality in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen . The community is located southeast of Ribnitz-Damgarten . Since February 13, 2004, the community has belonged to the Recknitz-Trebeltal district with its seat in the city of Tribsees .

Geography and traffic

Eixen is about seven kilometers northeast of Bad Sülze and a good eight kilometers north of Tribsees. The federal motorway 20 can be reached via the connections Tribsees (approx. 15 km) and Bad Sülze (approx. 14 km). In the south, the Recknitz borders on the municipality. The Lower Recknitztal nature reserve is located here . The only notable lake in the municipality is the Eixener See .

Districts

• Bisdorf
• Ravenhorst (old and new Ravenhorst)
• Spiekersdorf
• Leplow
• Forkenbeck
• Kavelsdorf
• Stormsdorf
• Living
• Eixen

history

Bronze Age traces were revealed with the discovery of the harness depot in Stormsdorf .

After a short affiliation to the Principality of Rügen , Eixen fell to the Duchy of Pomerania in 1326 .

After the Thirty Years War until 1815, the area belonged to Swedish Pomerania and then to the Prussian province of Pomerania . The community was part of the Franzburg-Barth district until 1952 and then belonged to the Ribnitz-Damgarten district in the Rostock district until 1994 .

The community of Eixen in its current size has existed since June 13, 1999. The communities of Eixen, Kavelsdorf and Ravenhorst merged to form the large community of Eixen. Since February 15, 2004 the community has belonged to the Recknitz-Trebeltal district, previously the community belonged to the Bad Sülze district .

Eixen and Bisdorf were first mentioned in a document in 1248, when Prince Jaromar II of Rügen gave the area to the Bishop of Schwerin . The district of Eixen was named after the founder, knight Henricus de Ecse . He came from the village of Eichsen , which is today Mühlen Eichsen . In 1322 Kavelsdorf was mentioned as Kaboldesdorf . Forkenbeck was founded by the knight Arnoldus de Vorkenbeke (from the Westphalian village of Forkenbeck) in the 13th century. It was first mentioned in 1226.

Forkenbeck was mentioned after 1226 when Knight Arnoldus de Vorkenbeke from the Westphalian village of Forkenbeck (in Münster ) settled here. The estate was then owned by the von Hagens (until 1370) and von Behr and von Behr-Negendank (until the 20th century) families until it was relocated in the 1920s. In 1952 the LPG Rosa Luxemburg was established , which later merged with the LPG Eixen . The single-storey manor house dates from around 1800.

St. Catherine's Church in Leplow

Kavelsdorf: Presumably there was a castle here in the early Middle Ages with a location in the churchyard. In 1301 Prince Nicolaus II von Werle gave the Knight von Kabold a hoof here. The estate is said to have belonged to the Rüze family in the 14th century, later to the Oertzen and more recently to the Behr-Negendanck .

Leplow: The single-storey Leplow manor house with a central gable was built in 1850. After 1945 apartments, a community room and a small shop were set up here.

Ravenhorst: The single-storey manor house was built between 1806 and 1830 as a half-timbered building. The last landowners were the von Behr-Negendank family . It has been owned and inhabited by the municipality since 1945.

Spiekersdorf: The manor house is a half-timbered building with a central projection from the 18th century.

politics

The mayor of the municipality, André Bonitz, who had been in office since 2009 until then, joined the Pirate Party at the beginning of May 2012 . This made Eixen the first municipality in Germany in which the Pirate Party had a mayor. Since the 2015 local elections, Andre D. Bonitz has again represented the Eixen community as a non-party mayor.

coat of arms

The municipality's coat of arms was approved by the Ministry of the Interior on June 26, 2017 and registered under the number 363 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Blazon : "Above a golden corrugated shield base, in it black deer antlers with grind, in blue a rooted golden oak with 9 golden fruits, on it in a heart shield in green a golden, silver-armored eagle."

Justification of the coat of arms: Since the now rare lesser spotted eagle can be found in the municipality, it was chosen by the municipal council as a coat of arms. The oak symbolism relates to the place name. Nine acorns on the coat of arms symbolize the nine districts of the municipality. The deer antler stands for hunting tradition and school and the wave shield base refers to the lakes in the municipality. The symbols used appropriately reflect the landscape and folk etymological features of the community.

Attractions

See also : List of architectural monuments in Eixen

Village church in Eixen

• St. George's Church (Eixen)
• Katharinenkirche (Leplow)
• Ravenhorst estate with handicraft workshops
• Leisure and recreation area Eixener See
• Lookout tower on Lake Eixen
• Kavelsdorf tower hill
• Eixen fishing ponds
• Spiekersdorfer Seefest: The pond is on fire

Art walks

Since 2016, the St. George's Church in Eixen has been part of the digital educational offer of the North Church with two modules . In the form of travel reports from village and town churches, art and cultural-historical background information about sacred art in the Baltic Sea region is conveyed.

Web links

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

• Literature about Eixen in the state bibliography MV
• Eixen on the website of the Recknitz-Trebeltal district
• Website about the municipality of Eixen
• Digital church tour a look. Module 3 Iconography of Adult Education in the Northern Church , accessed on March 16, 2018.
• Digital church tour familiar and foreign. Episode 7 of Adult Education of the North Church , accessed on March 16, 2018.

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. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1999
3. ^ Robert Klempin, Gustav Kratz: Matriculations and directories of the Pomeranian knighthood. Berlin 1865.
4. ↑ Manor Kavelsdorf. In: Manor houses and castles in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Year ?, OCLC 724992924
5. ↑ Pirate becomes mayor in Western Pomerania. In: Welt online. May 4, 2012.
6. ↑ Eixen: With your own coat of arms into the future . In: Ostsee-Zeitung . June 26, 2017.