Galenbeck

This article describes the municipality of Galenbeck in the Mecklenburg Lake District, a district of the municipality of Ritzerow in the same district also bears the name Galenbeck.

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 37 '  N , 13 ° 42'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Mecklenburg Lake District
Office :	Friedland
Height :	15 m above sea level NHN
Area :	93.56 km 2
Residents:	1057 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	11 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17099
Primaries :	039607, 039772
License plate :	MSE, AT, DM, MC, MST, MÜR, NZ, RM, WRN
Community key :	13 0 71 037
Office administration address:	Riemannstrasse 42 17098 Friedland
Website :	Galenbeck on friedland-mecklenburg.de
Mayor :	Jörn Steike
Location of the community of Galenbeck in the Mecklenburg Lake District

Galenbeck is the easternmost municipality in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It is administered by the Friedland Office , located in the Friedland City Administration.

geography

The municipality of Galenbeck is very diverse. The north-eastern part of the Galenbecker See and the Friedländer Großer Wiese is a former moor area and is only 6 m above sea level. NN. South of the Galenbecker lake, as well as the surrounding shore area completely protected is, rises the Endmoränenbogen the wooded Brohm mountains up to 153 m above sea level. NN - a height difference of a few kilometers that is rare in northern Germany.

Galenbeck is surrounded by the neighboring communities Boldekow and Ducherow in the north, Altwigshagen and Ferdinandshof in the northeast, Wilhelmsburg and Heinrichswalde in the east, Strasburg (Uckermark) in the southeast, Schönhausen in the south and Friedland in the northwest.

Community structure

The municipality, which is very large in terms of area, became on January 1, 2003 from the previously independent municipalities:

• Kotelov
• Schwichtenberg
• Wittenborn

educated. In addition to these former communities, Galenbeck also includes the following districts:

Friedrichshof Galenbeck Klockow

Luebbersdorf Pipe jug Sandhagen

history

Galenbeck belonged to Mecklenburg-Strelitz until the early 20th century .

Galenbeck

In 1277 the village was first mentioned in a document as Golenbeke , in 1392 "stede to Golenbeke". In the 13th century, the Brandenburg margraves had a border castle built to Pomerania on the west bank of Lake Galenbeck. The place arose around the Galenbeck Castle , which was located here and belonged to the von Rieben (or Riepen) family from 1408 until the expropriation in 1945 . The castle, which today only exists as a ruin, is located in the immediate vicinity of the former estate, 200 m southwest of the church on the edge of the marshy shores of Lake Galenbeck. The village church of Galenbeck was built at the end of the 14th century. In addition to the remains of the destroyed castle, the von Rieben family built the mansion as a half-timbered building in 1712.

In August 1760 Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher was taken prisoner after a battle with Prussian hussars. He was imprisoned in the Galenbeck manor house, where he signed his certificate of transfer to the Prussian Army.

On July 1, 1950, Galenbeck was incorporated into the municipality of Wittenborn.

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  Galenbeck Manor

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  Ruins of Galenbeck Castle

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  Church in Galenbeck

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  Tanzlinde in Galenbeck

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  Galenbeck Lake

Friedrichshof

The district consists of a main street and a few single-family houses and the former estate northeast of the Brohmer reservoir . The estate belonged to von Rieben from 1749 to 1831 .

On July 1, 1950, Friedrichshof was incorporated into the municipality of Wittenborn.

Klockow

Klockow Church

It was first mentioned in 1288. Gut Klockow belonged to the von Rieben family from 1470 to 1679 , and then to the von Oertzen family . August von Oertzen (1777-1837) was Minister of State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. In 1838 the von Bülow family bought the estate. After the death of his parents, Carl von Bülow had a new mansion built. This was built in the neo-Gothic style around 1853 according to plans by the Wismar architect Heinrich Thormann . The three-storey central projection to the courtyard front is distinctive. Later, the manor temporarily served as a rectory.

Kotelov

The village, laid out as Angerdorf , appears for the first time in documents as Coytlowe in 1382 - the early Gothic village church of Kotelow already existed at that time. From 1466 to 1670 Kotelow belonged to the von Rieben family . Thereafter ownership passed to von Oertzen . Arndt Heinrich von Oertzen built the baroque manor house around 1773. The von Oertzen family remained owners until 1945. It was renovated until 2008 and has since been used as a hotel and registry office under the name Jagdschloss . The Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival was first held in 2009 in the Kotelow Hunting Lodge.

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  Kotelow village church

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  Kotelow Manor

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  Gatehouse of the Kotelow estate

Luebbersdorf

Church in Lübbersdorf

The Lübbersdorf manor house was built in the 17th century in the Renaissance style on the walls of an old castle for the von Lübbersdorf family. In 1839 extensions were made. The estate was owned by Wilhelm von Oertzen around 1846. Another renovation took place in 1891. The estate was owned by the von Oertzen family until 1927, after which the estate was relocated. From 1927 the manor house was used as a nursing home for the elderly. From 1953, after a fire, the building was considerably renovated. Today the manor house is used as a DRK nursing home.

Pipe jug

Developed in the early 20th century from a post office on the road from Friedland to Strasburg (Uckermark) .

Sandhagen

Church in Sandhagen

The original village complex was in the 13th century near the Putzarer See, in the 18th century further south than Willershagen , today finally on the road from Friedland to Ferdinandshof . Only the field name Olle Dbodstell reminds of the former location.

Schwichtenberg

Church in Schwichtenberg

Boulder garden at the MPSB in Schwichtenberg

The original manor between Putzarer , Galenbecker and Lübkowsee came in the time of the Crusades to the Friedlander Mary's Church, and later to the city of Friedland. After a fire that completely destroyed the place, Schwichtenberg was rebuilt as a regular village at the end of the 18th century. From here in 1937 the first work to drain the Friedland Great Meadow by the Reich Labor Service began . The work was completed in 1962 as part of a so-called Central Youth Object of the FDJ . In 1999 a small section of the Mecklenburg-Pomerania narrow-gauge railway was reopened as a museum railway in Schwichtenberg and expanded until 2004.

Wittenborn

Church in Wittenborn

The place was first mentioned in 1337, the village church dates from the early 15th century. The estate belonged to the von Rieben families from 1703 to 1945.

On July 1, 1950, the communities Friedrichshof and Galenbeck were incorporated into the community of Wittenborn.

politics

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 a torn neck fur and a crown and the inscription "* GEMEINDE GALENBECK * LANDKREIS MECKLENBURGISCHE SEENPLATTE".

Attractions

• The castle, built in the 13th century in what is now Galenbeck in the Brohmer Mountains, was built in the name of the Brandenburg margraves on the Pomeranian border. The castle and the Stargarder Land belonged to Mecklenburg from 1304 . In the middle of the 15th century the castle was destroyed. The castle tower, which is steeply inclined because of the swampy subsoil, has survived as a ruin over the centuries. In addition, you can still find remains of foundation walls and ramparts.
• Tanzlinde in Galenbeck
• Several stone churches from the 13th century, including the village church Klockow , village church Kotelow , village church Lübbersdorf
• Gatehouse in Kotelow from the 18th century
• Kotelow mansion with park from 1773
• Klockow mansion by Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel , 1853
• Common grave in the cemetery for German and Latvian soldiers who perished in April 1945
• Grave of a Polish man whose cause of death is unknown
• Schwichtenberg museum village with boulder garden , museum (exhibition “Von Huus un Acker”) and narrow-gauge railway
• Wittenborn castle wall

See also : List of architectural monuments in Galenbeck

Transport links

Galenbeck with its districts is a bit away from the highways and railway lines. The nearest train stations are in Strasburg (Uckermark) and Ferdinandshof in the neighboring district of Vorpommern-Greifswald . Ten kilometers south of Galenbeck there is a connection to the federal highway 20 (junction Strasburg ). From Friedland the bus route 501 of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommerschen Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVVG) runs to the districts of the community of Galenbeck.

Personalities

Kotelov

• August von Oertzen (1777–1837), Minister of State and President of the Chamber
• Carl von Oertzen (1788–1837), administrative officer and manor owner
• Pauline Arndt (1833–1915), German writer

Luebbersdorf

• Wilhelm von Oertzen , landowner, district administrator, monastery captain in the Dobbertin monastery
• Wilhelm Thedwig von Oertzen (1921–2011), agricultural journalist, historian, secretary of the family association and editor of the Oertzen-Blätter

Schwichtenberg

• Ruth Siedel (1906–1995), writer, Federal Cross of Merit
• Heinz Trottnow (1921–2004), landowner, owner of the Sandhagen Castle hunting lodge on the south bank of Lake Putzar

literature

• Literature about Galenbeck in the state bibliography MV
• Sabine Bock : Stately houses on the estates and domains in Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Architecture and history. (= Contributions to the history of architecture and monument preservation, 7.1–3), Thomas Helms Verlag Schwerin 2008, ISBN 978-3-935749-05-3

Web links

Commons : Galenbeck  - Collection of Images

• Website Jagdschloss Kotelow
• Schloss Kotelow on gutshaeuser.de
• Village churches of Lübbersdorf Klockow , Kotelow and Schwichtenberg
• Schwichtenberg website
• Entry on Sandhagen Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".

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 2003
3. ^ Sabine Bock: Stately houses on the estates and domains in Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Architecture and history. (= Contributions to the history of architecture and monument preservation, 7.1–3), Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 2008, ISBN 978-3-935749-05-3 , Volume 1, pp. 246–263.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Sabine Bock: Stately houses on the estates and domains in Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Architecture and history. (= Contributions to the history of architecture and preservation of monuments, 7.1–3), Thomas Helms Verlag Schwerin 2008, ISBN 978-3-935749-05-3 , Volume 1, pp. 463–472.
5. ^ Sabine Bock: Stately houses on the estates and domains in Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Architecture and history. (= Contributions to the history of architecture and preservation of monuments, 7.1–3), Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 2008, ISBN 978-3-935749-05-3 , Volume 1, pp. 473–478.
6. ↑ Kotelow, Jagdschloss
7. ↑ Main Statute, Section 1, Paragraph 2
8. ^ Sabine Bock: Stately houses on the estates and domains in Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Architecture and history. (= Contributions to the history of architecture and preservation of monuments, 7.1–3), Thomas Helms Verlag Schwerin 2008, ISBN 978-3-935749-05-3 , Volume 1, pp. 473–478.