Gnewitz

This article describes the community Gnewitz in the district of Rostock. Gnewitz is also the name of a district of the Feldberger Seenlandschaft community in the Mecklenburg Lake District.

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	Coordinates: 54 ° 5 '  N , 12 ° 31'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Rostock
Office :	Ticino
Height :	38 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.09 km 2
Residents:	201 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	20 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	18195
Area code :	038228
License plate :	LRO, BÜZ, DBR, GÜ, ROS, TET
Community key :	13 0 72 034
Office administration address:	Alter Markt 1 18195 Ticino
Website :	www.tessin.de
Mayor :	Bodo Kretschmer (independent)
Location of the community Gnewitz in the district of Rostock

Gnewitz is a municipality in the Rostock district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). The municipality is administered by the Office of Ticino based in the city of Ticino . In the Gnewitz district there are prehistoric large stone graves , including, according to Ewald Schuldt, four passage graves , three rectangular dolmens  - so-called "extended dolmens" - and a huge bed without a chamber .

geography

The community Gnewitz is located in a ground moraine area about 30 kilometers east of Rostock . In a south-easterly direction, the terrain slopes down about 20 meters towards the Recknitz valley . The closest small towns are Ticino, Marlow and Bad Sülze .

Gnewitz is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Stubbendorf in the northeast, Thelkow in the southeast, Zarnewanz in the southwest and Sanitz and Dettmannsdorf in the northwest.

The districts of Barkvieren and Neubarkvieren belong to Gnewitz.

history

Gnewitz was mentioned for the first time in a document issued on August 29, 1297 in Rostock. The name Gnewitz comes from the Slavic (old Slavic Gnevu) which means something like Grimm, Zorn, i.e. place of the grim, angry people.

From 1801 to 1803, Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke (1800-1891) , who later became famous as Field Marshal General, spent his early childhood years in Gnewitz.

Attractions

• Great stone graves

See also: List of architectural monuments in Gnewitz

Great stone graves Gnewitz

Community representation

In addition to the mayor, the municipal council has six other members.

supporting documents

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. ↑ http://neu.stadt-tessin.de/amt-gemeinden/gnewitz/gemeindevertretung-gnewitz/

Web links

Commons : Gnewitz  - Collection of Images