Gischow

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Gischow
City of Luebz
Coordinates: 53 ° 26 ′ 0 ″  N , 12 ° 1 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 58 m above sea level NN
Area : 16.87 km²
Residents : 233  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 14 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : May 26, 2019
Postal code : 19386
Area code : 038731

Gischow is a district of the city of Lübz in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany).

Geography and traffic

Gischow is about two kilometers south of Lübz in the Elden lowlands. Larger elevations are in the north at 74.3  m above sea level. NHN . South of the village of Gischow is the Burower Tannen forest area . The Müritz-Elde-Wasserstrasse runs east of Gischow and the federal road 191 runs north .

Village church in Gischow

history

Gischow was first mentioned in a document as Gissekow in 1304 . The place name comes from the Old Slavic locator Ješik , i.e. place of Ješik .

With effect from May 26, 2019, the community of Gischow was incorporated into the city of Lübz. The community belonged to the Amt Eldenburg Lübz with its seat in the city of Lübz. The districts Burow and Gischow belonged to the community . Between the two districts there is the smaller settlement Meierberg .

Attractions

The village church in Gischow is a simple half-timbered church from 1715, the nave of which is conspicuously overgrown with wild wine . The half-timbered tower has a pointed helmet, at the top of which there is a weather vane reconstructed in the 2000s with the date of construction and the Mecklenburg bull's head. The brick facade of the lower part of the tower dates from around 1900. The church is equipped with a Gothic triptych and a baroque pulpit . On a wooden panel in the organ loft, a Latin motto gives the construction date in encoded form as a chronogram . A Gischow church was first mentioned in 1304.

Web links

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

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. 49.
  2. ↑ Announcement of the Ministry of the Interior and Europe of January 16, 2019, Official Gazette. MV, p. 254
  3. ↑ § 2 of the main statute (PDF; 19 kB) of the municipality
  4. ↑ Zerniner Employment Initiative (ZEBI) eV and START eV (ed.): Village and town churches in the Parchim parish . Edition Temmen, Bremen / Rostock 2001, ISBN 3-86108-795-2