New Kaliss

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 11 '  N , 11 ° 17'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Ludwigslust-Parchim
Office :	Dömitz-Malliss
Height :	18 m above sea level NHN
Area :	34.05 km 2
Residents:	1962 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	58 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	19294
Area code :	038758
License plate :	LUP, HGN, LBZ, LWL, PCH, STB
Community key :	13 0 76 103
Community structure:	4 districts
Office administration address:	Goethestrasse 31 19303 Dömitz
Website :	www.neukaliss.de
Mayor :	Burkhard Thees ( FDP )
Location of the municipality of Neu Kaliss in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district

Neu Kaliß is a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It is administered by the Office Dömitz-Malliß , based in the city of Dömitz .

geography

Geographical location

Neu Kaliß is located in the southwest of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on the edge of the Elbe-Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania river landscape biosphere reserve in the immediate vicinity of the city of Dömitz. In the southeast, Neu Kaliss borders the state of Brandenburg over a short distance . The Elde Canal , which is part of the Müritz-Elde waterway, flows through the municipality . Although the Alte Elde runs further southeast in the direction of Löcknitz , a branch of the Elde Canal is also designated in the village. A significant part of the municipality is covered by extensive coniferous forests. New Kaliss lies at an altitude of 18  m above sea level. NHN . The highest point is with the Karrenberg and 33  m above sea level. NHN in the south-eastern municipality on the border with Brandenburg.

Community structure

The districts of Neu Kaliß, Heiddorf, Kaliss and Raddenfort belong to the community.

history

From the 15th century to the present

The place Kaliss is mentioned for the first time in 1431. He gained local fame as a post station on the Hamburg-Berlin route. The post forge building existed until the 1940s. The construction of the Elde Canal from 1568, which connected the Elde with Dömitz and thus created a navigable connection to the Elbe, was an important prerequisite for the industrial and commercial settlement in the area. In 1755 an iron foundry was built two kilometers west of the village, which processed the lawn iron ore found in this area into wrought iron. However, the quality of the iron was so poor that production was stopped again in 1770. A leather factory opened in the buildings in 1771. Around 1800 a tannery , fulling mill, oil and grain mill moved in.

The renaming of the place in Neu Kaliss took place in 1843 with the amalgamation of parts of the place Kaliss, Findewirunshier and the paper mill.

From 1952 to 2011 Neu Kaliß belonged to the Ludwigslust district (until 1990 in the GDR district of Schwerin , then in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). Since the district reform in 2011 , the municipality has been in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district .

In 2007 the place was voted the most beautiful village in the former Ludwigslust district.

Papermaking

Former watermill and today's hydroelectric power station

Schoeller & Bausch paper mill (before 1913)

In 1799 the first paper mill was built in the village, which also used the water power of the canal. In 1871 Felix Heinrich Schoeller and Theodor Bausch from Düren founded the Felix Schoeller & Bausch fine paper factory . This was the first time that paper was produced by machine in Mecklenburg. The excellent quality of the paper with the Mecklenburg bull's head as a watermark achieved a great reputation on the German market. The company was one of the leading paper manufacturers in Germany early on, and it was soon exporting its fine and specialty papers to distant countries. After the First World War , wood and straw pulp were used instead of rags for paper production. After the Second World War , which the factory survived unscathed, the machines were dismantled in 1946 and brought to the Soviet Union with 650 freight wagons as reparations . It was not until 1951, after Viktor Bausch and his staff rebuilt the factory despite the scarcity of materials , that paper production could be resumed. Shortly thereafter, the factory was expropriated and made public . After Rudolf Bausch, Viktor Bausch's brother and managing director of the company, was kidnapped by the NKVD in 1945 after a denunciation by the NKVD to special camp No. 9 Fünfeichen (where he died in 1946), Viktor and the remaining members of the Bausch family had to go to Neu Kaliss leave. Production was continued in the following decades until the fall of the Berlin Wall in the VEB Feinpapierfabriken Neu Kaliss. In 1990 the company was privatized and acquired by the Melitta group of companies in 1992 . This shut down the old systems and built a completely new plant in the village by 1995.

Bascule bridge and lock "Find Wirunshier"

Find us here

The former watermill was built in 1851 on the island formed by the Müritz-Elde-Wasserstraße and Alte Elde. The Slavic name of the place mentioned for the first time in 1496 was Vinzire . As early as 1815, ten colonists were settled here on the orders of the Grand Duke. The name was popularly reinterpreted as Find Wirunshier . According to a legend, it originated from the saying "Oh, we will find ourselves here" by two brothers who were both trained millers and who happened to meet again here after years. The mill, the nearby bascule bridge and the lock were also given the name “Find Wirunshier”. The mill survived the Second World War without further damage. The owner couple, Markurth, were expropriated, arrested and imprisoned in the Stasi prison in Bautzen in the early 1950s . The mill, which was closed in 1992, is now a hydroelectric power station and, according to its own statements, generates one gigawatt hour of electricity per year, which is sufficient to cover the electricity needs of the entire community.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent communities of Heiddorf, Kaliss and Raddenfort were incorporated.

Population development

year Residents 1990 2090 1995 2153 2000 2222 2005 2081 2010 1965

year Residents 2015 1974 2016 1968 2017 1969 2018 1969 2019 1962

Status: December 31 of the respective year

politics

Community representation

Election of the municipal council 2019

 %

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

49.2%

27.6%

13.3%

9.9%

FDP

CDU

WGK ^c

left

Gains and losses

compared to 2014

 % p

 14th

 12

 10

   8th

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

  -8th

-10

-12

-14

-13.2  % p

+ 13.7  % p

+ 0.2  % p

-0.7  % p

FDP

CDU

WGK ^c

left

Remarks:

^c Kaliss community of voters

The municipal council has 12 members and the honorary mayor (status: local election on May 26, 2019).

Party / list	Seats
FDP	6th
CDU	3
Kaliss community of voters	2
The left	1

mayor

• since 1999: Burkhard Thees (FDP)

Thees was confirmed in the mayoral election on May 26, 2019 with 93.3% of the valid votes in his office without an opponent.

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 torn off neck fur and crown and the inscription "GEMEINDE NEU KALIß".

Attractions

See also : List of architectural monuments in Neu Kaliss

• Johanneskirche, a brick church built in Art Deco style in 1928 , is therefore unique in Mecklenburg. The chancel has been preserved in the original English red color .
• Bausch-Park, park at the former paper mill. The basic structures of the park around the former villas of the Bausch family with their old trees have been preserved. All buildings and the park are under monument protection. The ensemble is unique of its kind in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
• Reuterstein between Kaliß and Malk Göhren , built in 1885 in memory of the Low German poet Fritz Reuter , who is said to have pondered the meaning and direction of his life here at a fork in the road after his release from imprisonment in Dömitz
• Find us here, nature trail with old agricultural equipment

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  Old storage building near the watermill

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  Villa Viktor in Bausch-Park

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  Johanneskirche

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  Former Felix Schoeller & Bausch paper mill

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  Reuterstein

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  Neu Kaliss cemetery

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Neu Kaliß Spezialpapier GmbH of the Melitta group of companies produces special papers and nonwovens for industrial use and is a processor and marketer of paper products.

traffic

Station building on the former railway line

Neu Kaliß is on the B 191 federal road between Dömitz and Ludwigslust . The closest motorway junction is Grabow on the A 14 ( Wismar - Magdeburg ).

The Neu Kaliß stop was on the Ludwigslust – Dömitz railway line , which was discontinued in 2001 and replaced by bus connections. The railway tracks leading through the town were dismantled in the following years. Until 1945 the districts of Heiddorf and Raddenfort were connected to the Malliss – Lübenheen railway line , which came out of the main line at Malliss .

Shipping on the Elde Canal on the Müritz-Elde waterway, which is designated as a federal waterway, is made possible by two locks in the municipality.

education

The Viktor Bausch Primary School is located in Neu Kaliss.

Sports

The SV Rotation Neu Kaliß plays in the district upper league West Mecklenburg in the 2019/20 season.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Gerhard Schoeller (1886–1970), paper manufacturer
• Viktor Bausch (1898–1983), entrepreneur in the paper industry
• Wilfried Parge (1918–1963), politician (CDU) and journalist, born in Raddenfort
• Günter Scholdt (* 1946), literary scholar
• Gitta Schweighöfer (* 1954), actress, born in Heiddorf
• Sigrun Wodars (* 1965), track and field athlete and Olympic champion
• Daniela Krien (* 1975), writer

Personalities associated with Neu Kaliss

• Viktor Bausch (1860–1923), general, buried in Neu Kaliss
• Erika von Hornstein (1913–2005), writer, wife of the entrepreneur Viktor Bausch, lived in Neu Kaliss

Web links

Commons : Neu Kaliss  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ↑ § 2 of the main statute (PDF; 102 kB) of the municipality
3. ↑ ^{a b} If trees could tell - The Bausch-Park, Neu Kaliss, Ludwigslust district garden tour
4. ^ State and digital revolution, Josef Morgenthal
5. ^ Hans-Joachim Schröder: Interview literature on life in the GDR. De Gruyter, Berlin 2001, p. 150.
6. ↑ Got under the skin. In: Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung , April 17, 2019.
7. ↑ Population development of the districts and municipalities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Statistical Report AI of the Statistical Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
8. ^ Result of the election for municipal council on May 26, 2019
9. ↑ More leeway for communities. In: Schweriner Volkszeitung , August 18, 2016.
10. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019
11. ↑ Main Statute, Section 1, Paragraph 2
12. ↑ Johanneskirche Neu Kaliss on www.dorfkirchen-in-mv.de
13. ↑ Reuterstein on www.meck-pomm-hits.de
14. ↑ Tradition for the future at www.melitta-group.com
15. ↑ Viktor-Bausch-Grundschule on www.lehrer-in-mv.de