Fincken

Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Mecklenburg Lake District
Office :	Röbel-Müritz
Height :	70 m above sea level NHN
Area :	34.86 km 2
Residents:	513 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	15 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17209
Primaries :	039922, 039924
License plate :	MSE, AT, DM, MC, MST, MÜR, NZ, RM, WRN
Community key :	13 0 71 034
Office administration address:	Marktplatz 1 ; 17207 Röbel / Müritz
Website :	amt-roebel-mueritz.de
Mayor :	Erich Nacke ( CDU )
Location of the community Fincken in the Mecklenburg Lake District

Fincken is a municipality in the west of the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It is administered by the Office Röbel-Müritz based in the city of Röbel / Müritz .

geography

The municipality of Fincken is located in the Mecklenburg Lake District in a hilly area that is 96 m above sea level in the Eckerberg . NN reached the highest point. The Finckener See, through which the Elde flows, is located in the municipality . The city of Röbel is 12 km away.

Fincken is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Fünfseen in the north, Leizen in the north-east, Bütow in the east, Eldetal in the south, Wittstock / Dosse in the south-west, Ganzlin in the west and Altenhof in the north-west.

Fincken includes the districts of Dammwolde, Fichtental, Jaebetz , Käselin, Knüppeldamm and Marienhof . In Dammwolde there is the remarkable church Dammwolde .

history

East Frisian houses in the Knüppeldamm district

In 1310 Fincken was first mentioned in a contract between the rule Werle and the counts of the Mark Brandenburg . The owners of the village included the Grambow (noble family) , the Pritzbuer (noble family) , Petersdorff (noble family) and Blücher (noble family) . At times there was a glassworks in today's Knüppeldamm district.

The Fincken church dates from 1748. It is probably the only church in the Mecklenburg regional church that was leased to the community by the Protestant parish. Financing was successfully sought for the preservation of the building structure and, as a result, the ceiling of the church was the first to be repaired in 2009.

In 1935, at the time of National Socialism , Fincken and other places in the area (especially Knüppeldamm, Dammwolde and Jaebetz) were settled with farmers from East Frisia . Many of their houses on the road to Zepkow have been preserved. The wooden construction of the upper floor with the bricked ground floor is characteristic.

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent municipality of Käselin was incorporated. With effect from January 1, 2010, the municipality of Jaebetz was incorporated into Fincken.

politics

coat of arms

Blazon : “In gold, a red round barn with a flat black conical roof, black framework in the upper part of the wall and a closed black gate between two small black arched windows in the lower part of the wall; including three (2: 1) striding blue finches, each with a golden eye. "

The coat of arms was designed by the graphic artist Werner Schinko from Röbel . It was approved on July 10, 2000 by the Ministry of the Interior and registered under the number 212 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Justification for the coat of arms: In the coat of arms, reference is made to the community name using the finches. The round barn built over a massive plinth in ornamental framework reflects a testimony to the history of rural economic buildings. The building, erected in the 18th century as a riding arena, is seen today as a characteristic of the village.

flag

The municipality does not have an officially approved flag .

Official seal

The official seal shows the municipal coat of arms with the inscription "GEMEINDE FINCKEN".

Attractions

Round barn

Half-timbered church Dammwolde

Former mansion in Fincken

The former manor house in Fincken is worth seeing. The estate was owned by the von Priegnitz family before 1400; in the 15th century it was acquired by the von Grambow and then again by the von Priegnitz family. From 1759 until the estate was relocated in 1930, the von Blücher owners of the estate. The manor house was built in 1801 under the influence of the Berlin building school. A hall-like extension in the Tudor Gothic style was built on the park side between 1850 and 1860. The landscape park with mausoleum was laid out in the first half of the 19th century. Used as a company holiday home in the GDR era, it has been renovated in the meantime and from 2010 it has been operated as a hotel together with the Kavaliershaus. It is now empty and for sale. Recommended for an emergency backup program. The round barn was a horse stable from the 18th century and is now a community center after renovation.
A few hundred meters east of Fincken, a large boulder was exposed during the construction of the motorway (A 19). The area around Fincken is accessible by hiking trails.
Half-timbered church in the Dammwolde district

traffic

Near Fincken crosses the Federal Highway 198 the Bundesautobahn 19 (Witt Stock-Rostock) with the connection point Roebel . Fincken had a stop on the Ganzlin – Röbel railway line . Passenger traffic on the route ceased in 1966. The line was closed in 2012 and dismantled in January 2013. The next train stations with passenger traffic are in Malchow (Mecklenburg) and Wittstock / Dosse .