Goldberg (Mecklenburg)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 35 '  N , 12 ° 5'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Ludwigslust-Parchim
Office :	Goldberg-Mildenitz
Height :	48 m above sea level NHN
Area :	64.84 km 2
Residents:	3434 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	53 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	19399
Area code :	038736
License plate :	LUP, HGN, LBZ, LWL, PCH, STB
Community key :	13 0 76 048
City structure:	9 districts
Office administration address:	Lange Strasse 67 19399 Goldberg
Website :	www.amt-goldberg-mildenitz.de
Mayor :	Gustav Graf von Westarp (Free Voters)
Location of the town of Goldberg in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district

Goldberg is a town in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It is the seat of the Goldberg-Mildenitz office , to which five parishes belong with Goldberg. The place is a basic center .

geography

Geographical location

The city lies on the Mildenitz and is flanked by the Goldberger See in the east, the Dobbertiner See in the northwest and the Großer Medower See in the south. The Buchholz , a peninsula in Lake Dobbertiner, belongs to Goldberg. The city is surrounded on three sides by the Nossentiner / Schwinzer Heide nature reserve . The North Sea-Baltic Sea watershed lies south of Goldberg . Neighboring communities (clockwise) are: Dobbertin , Neu Poserin , Gallin-Kuppentin , Passow , Werder and Techentin .

→ Main articles : Goldberger See  and Sternberger Seenlandschaft

City structure

The following districts belong to Goldberg:

Diestelow Grambov Lüschow	Medow Neuhof Sehlsdorf	Steinbeck Wendish goods Woosten

Neighboring communities

Goldberg is surrounded by the neighboring communities Dobbertin in the north, Neu Poserin in the east, Gallin-Kuppentin in the southeast, Passow in the south, Werder in the southwest and Techentin in the west.

history

Church in Goldberg

Ducal office building with parts of the old castle, later a vocational school

The area around Goldberg was already settled in the Stone Age. Settlements have also been found in the Bronze and Iron Ages . The Wenden area was populated until the 12th century .

Goldberg

Goldberg was in 1227 for the first time as Gols documented and received in 1248 as Goltberch the city charter by Prince Pribislaus awarded. The Gothic church was built in 1290; the angular west tower dates from the 15th century. Prince Johann III built in 1316 . from Mecklenburg in Goldberg a castle and founded the line Werle-Goldberg . After his death, the family died out and ownership passed to the princes of the Werle-Güstrow line . There is evidence of a school as early as 1331. Goldberg became a state town in Mecklenburg and as such was one of the towns in the Wendish district that were represented in the Mecklenburg state parliaments of the state estates united in 1523 until 1918 .

A major fire in 1500 completely destroyed Goldberg. The rebuilt city was not spared from the turmoil and destruction of the Thirty Years' War ; she had to endure billeting and the plague . In 1643 the church burned down after a lightning strike; however, it was rebuilt using old stones until 1650. At the beginning of the 18th century, the city was often the venue for regional disputes. In 1806, thousands of Prussians and French were quartered in Goldberg (the city then had about 1000 inhabitants).

The town experienced a phase of upswing after 1817, when Goldberg established itself as a spa ( Stahlbad Goldberg ) after the pharmacist Otto Kychenthal had developed an iron spring . After a few decades of strong growth, the spa business came to a standstill again after 1900.

The ducal office was built with the right wing in the 17th and the left wing in the 18th century on the site of the former castle. The moats were filled in in 1792. The town hall was built in 1828, the synagogue in 1845. In 1859 a cholera epidemic raged in the city. By 1870 Goldberg was connected to the road network to Karow , Lübz and Crivitz . The construction of the railway line from Wismar via Sternberg and Goldberg to the Karow junction in 1887 opened up new commercial opportunities (passenger traffic was discontinued in 1996). The city had the largest population in 1948: 5140, including many resettlers. Goldberg was a garrison town from 1963 to 1997. From 1963 to 1985 a larger housing estate with 768 prefabricated apartments was built .

The Jewish cemetery in Goldberg was on Güstrower Strasse. Funerals took place until 1920. In 1950 the Jewish state community sold the property to the city. The cemetery was leveled in 1953 and the area turned into a green area.

1964 was independent Artillery Division 8 (SAA 8) of the NVA of Star Buchholz Goldberg laid and in 1967 Rocket Division 8 (RA-8) renamed. In 1983 it was named after Hermann Schuldt .

From 1952 to 1994 Goldberg belonged to the Lübz district (until 1990 in the GDR district of Schwerin , then in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). In 1994 the city was incorporated into the Parchim district. Since the district reform in 2011 , it has been in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district .

After 1990 the apartments in the Goldberg prefabricated building area were modernized. The urban infrastructure, the town hall and some residential buildings in the old town have been renovated since 1991 as part of urban development funding. In 1997 the Bundeswehr site was closed.

On January 1, 2005, the free city of Goldberg merged with the former Mildenitz office to form the new Goldberg-Mildenitz office .

See also : Repatriation Camp in Goldberg

Districts

Diestelow belonged to the von Brüsewitz family in the 13th century . The village Distelowe (Ditelow) was also listed in the confirmation document of August 10, 1295 . The name comes from the Slavic and should be derived from doing or working , but it could also be a Slavic personal name Place of Zdislav .

Grambow was first mentioned in 1295. The Slavic name Grab (strong, thick) could be interpreted as the place of Grabov , the strong. The property was u. a. owned by the von Brüsewitz (13th / 14th century), von Weltzien (from 1379), Jobst Hinrich von Bülow (from 1733), von Passow (from 1738) and von Brandenstein (1896–1945) families . The estate was relocated after 1945. The manor house dates from around 1700.

Lüschow s first mentioned in 1237. The name is interpreted from the Slavic Lis, Liska for fox , but also as a personal name Luzcowe, Lucek . The first houses were built before 1882, further settlement houses followed in 1895, 1900 and after 1902. In 1884 a lime distillery was built, which produced until 1916.

Medow was first mentioned in a document in 1310. It was at Neuenkamp Monastery until 1455 . After that, farmers and kossats settled here . From 1757 to 1860 there was a brick factory. From 1843 to 1945 there was an estate with u. a. Sheep farming, which was relocated after 1934 and 1945.

Sehlsdorf was first mentioned in 1292 as Bossceldorpe and belonged to the Dobbertin monastery . Four farmers worked the land. The leased monastery property existed from 1637 to 1945; it was then settled.

Steinbeck: The domain Steinbeck was together with the adjacent domain Zidderich last in long lease .

Wendisch goods was first mentioned as Wendeschen Warne in 1296. The Slavic name Waren is derived from vranŭ for crow or raven .

Woosten came to the Neuenkamp monastery in 1296 . A castle on the island in the Woostener See from the 10th century was abandoned in the 13th century, and a castle was built in the place and later the manor house, which existed from 1740 to 1939. The village church of Woosten dates from the 14th century. The place was the seat of the von Woosten family (13th / 14th century). The von Grabow family owned the estate until 1752 ; after that it was ducal chamber property . It was relocated after 1945.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1950 Medow was incorporated into the city of Goldberg. On January 1, 2012, the independent communities Diestelow and Wendisch Waren were incorporated into Goldberg.

Population development

year Residents 1990 4987 1995 4398 2000 3931 2005 3680 2010 3277

year Residents 2015 3683 2016 3591 2017 3550 2018 3448 2019 3434

Status: December 31 of the respective year

The population increase in 2015 is due to the incorporation of Diestelow and Wendisch Waren in 2012.

politics

town hall

City council

The city council has 14 members and the mayor. They have been distributed as follows since the local elections on May 26, 2019:

Party / list	Seats
CDU	6th
Free voters Goldberg	4th
The left	1
Completely independent community of voters Wendisch Waren (AUWWW)	1
Independent voter group Diestelow (UWD)	1
Individual applicant Dieter Langer	1

mayor

• 2009–2019: Peer Grützmacher
• since 2019: Gustav Graf von Westarp (Free Voters)

Graf von Westarp was elected in the mayoral election on May 26, 2019.

coat of arms

Blazon : “In gold on a green hill, each side of which is covered with a green shamrock, a four-fold tinned red wall with two triple-tinned side towers and two windows each with daylight; between the side towers a looking, golden crowned black bull's head with a closed mouth and black horns. " The coat of arms was set on April 10, 1858 by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, redrawn in 1998 by the Schwerin heraldist Heinz Kippnick as part of the flag approval and registered under the number 160 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Reasons for the coat of arms: The coat of arms is based on the seal image of the SIGILLVM CIVITATIS GOLTBERGE - first handed down as an imprint in 1309 - and was determined in its current form in April 1858. With the arrangement of a hill (mountain) in the golden field, after the linguistic alignment of Goltz (golu = kahl) with gold, a talking mark for the Slavic-German mixed name of the city was created. The bull's head, which is typical of the Parchim-Richenberg line of the Mecklenburg dynasty, points to Mr. zu Parchim-Richenberg as the founder and lord of the city, the battlements flanked by towers to a fortified, well-fortified city.

flag

Flag of the city of Goldberg

The flag was approved on April 20, 1998 by the Ministry of the Interior.

The flag is striped lengthways in yellow, red and yellow. The yellow stripes each take up one sixth, the red stripe two thirds of the height of the flag cloth. In the middle of the red stripe is the city coat of arms, which is four-ninths of the height of the flag. The relation of the height of the flag cloth to the length is like 3: 5.

Official seal

The official seal shows the city coat of arms with the inscription "STADT GOLDBERG".

Attractions

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Goldberg (Mecklenburg)

• Goldberg town church , Gothic building from 1290, rebuilt after a fire in 1650 and restored in 1842
• Town hall, plastered building from 1828 with a neo-Gothic tower from 1853, renovated around 1996
• Goldberg Castle, Gothic brick building, converted into an office building in the 19th century
• Half-timbered houses in the historic city ​​center
• Goldberg Nature Museum with cottage garden in the former watermill from 1727 at Müllerweg 2 with exhibits on the history of the town and crafts, geology, archeology, flora and fauna
• Goldberger Windmühle, Werderstrasse, one of the largest Dutch windmills in northern Germany
• Memorial for the Franco-Prussian War of 1882, the Viktoria was designed by Christian Daniel Rauch as the only originally preserved Viktoria in Mecklenburg
• Memorial to the fallen soldiers of the First World War from 1924, the "Kneeling Mourners" comes from Wilhelm Wandschneider
• VVN -Ehrenmal from 1946 in the cemetery, remembering the Communist Karl Bichel, is one of thousands of victims in the sinking of the KZ -Schiffes Cap Arcona in 1945
• Draisinentour Karow- Borkow

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  Goldberg local history and nature museum in the watermill

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  Half-timbered house at 116 Lange Strasse, former home of John Brinckman

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  Former private school on Langen Strasse, directed by John Brinckman from 1846–1849

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  Clinker building from the Wilhelminian era, Lange Strasse 101

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  Half-timbered house in Jungfernstrasse

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  Dutch windmill in Werderstrasse

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Historic Goldberger sawmill on Bahnhofstrasse

Tourism in the region is taken care of by the tourist information office in the northern wing of the enclosure in Dobbertin Monastery . The entrance is on the north-east side of the cloister and church. Goldberg is characterized by small and medium-sized companies from various industries.

traffic

Street

Goldberg is on the B 192 federal road between Sternberg and Malchow and on the B 392 to Crivitz . The closest motorway junctions are Krakow am See at 27 and Malchow at 23 kilometers on the A 19 federal motorway ( Berlin - Rostock ).

Train and bus

Goldberg has no rail connection. The nearest train stations are in Güstrow , 28 kilometers away , Bützow , 31 kilometers away, and Parchim, 30 kilometers away .

The Goldberg (Meckl) station was on the Wismar – Karow railway line . Passenger traffic was stopped in 1996. The route is now used as a trolley train. Goldberg is connected to Parchim, Sternberg, Schwerin and Güstrow via regional bus services.

Public facilities

General

• Town hall, Lange Strasse 67
• City library, Lange Strasse 90
• Volunteer Fire Brigade, John-Brinckman-Str. 4th
• Police station, Lange Strasse 67
• Meeting place, sports field 4
• Tourist Information, Lange Strasse 63
• Youth club, Parkstrasse 14

schools

John Brinckman School

• "John Brinckman" primary school, Schützenplatz 2
• Regional school "Walter Husemann", John-Brinckman-Straße 39, all-day school for grades five to ten, built in 1980

Social

• Koboldland day care center, 13 John-Brinckman-Strasse
• Kindergarten Rohlack Foundation, Güstrower Straße 11
• Goldberg Play and Leisure Center, Bollbrügger Weg 1

Churches

• Evangelical Lutheran Parish, Kirchenstrasse 23
• New Apostolic Church - Parish Goldberg, Amtsstrasse 11
• Catholic Church, Parish Office Goldberg, Jungfernstrasse 32

societies

• TSV Goldberg 1902: The men's soccer team plays in the state class (Season III) Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the 2019/20 season.
• Naturschutzbund Germany (NABU): The local chapter dealt next planting especially with the bat and the identification and the Quartier care.
• The Goldberger Altstadtverein e. V. von 2003 is committed to the preservation of the historic Goldberg old town.
• Goldbergkunst e. V., Lange Strasse 76

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Karl von Suckow (1787–1863), Württemberg colonel
• Ludwig Gustav Kleffel (1807–1885), businessman, is considered a pioneer of photography
• Heinrich Alexander Seidel (1811–1861), writer
• Albert Koeppen (1822–1898), lawyer and university lecturer
• Carl Scholz (1836–1907), architect in Russia
• Max Burgmann (1844–1929), Mayor of Schwerin
• Max Brinckman (1846-1927), entrepreneur
• Karl Bernhard (1859–1937), civil engineer
• Karl Lindemann (1881–1965), businessman
• Ludwig Oldach (1888–1987), politician ( NSDAP ), SS standard leader
• Heinrich eingrieber (1896–1979), painter, founder of the Goldberg District Home Museum
• Fritz Tack (* 1942), politician (Die Linke)
• Peter Larisch (* 1950), handball player

Personalities associated with Goldberg

• Pancraz Krüger (1546–1614), principal of the Latin school in Goldberg
• Johann Christian Koppe (1757–1827), university librarian, lived in Goldberg
• Otto Kychenthal (1777–1841), pharmacist, discoverer of the spring and founder of the Goldberg steel bath
• Johann Bornemann (1791–1868), bath and fountain doctor, worked and died in Goldberg
• John Brinckman (1814–1870), writer, teacher in Goldberg from 1846 to 1849
• Johann Metelmann (1814–1883), teacher in Goldberg
• Rudolf Krüger (1898–1968), politician (NSDAP), teacher in Goldberg
• Peter Kurth (* 1957), actor, grew up in Goldberg
• Gerd Wessig (* 1959), high jumper and Olympic champion, grew up in Goldberg
• Karin Strenz (* 1967), politician (CDU), lives in Goldberg
• Fred Ruchhöft (* 1971), historian, director of the Goldberg Nature Museum

literature

• Ernst Duge: Documentary news about Goldberg and the surrounding area. Gadebusch 1883.
• Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume IV The district court districts of Schwaan, Bützow, Sternberg, Güstrow, Krakow, Goldberg, Parchim, Lübz and Plau. Schwerin 1901, reprint 1993, ISBN 3-910179-08-8 , pp. 342-349.
• Hugo Weczerka: City map Goldberg . In: German City Atlas , Volume III, 4 parts. (Heinz Stoob †, Wilfried Ehbrecht, Jürgen Lafrenz, Peter Johannek (Eds.): Acta Collegii Historiae Urbanae Societatis Historicorum Internationalis - Series C. On behalf of the Board of Trustees for Comparative Urban History and with the support of the German Research Foundation). Dortmund / Altenbeken 1984, ISBN 3-89115-004-0 .
• Christianity ends there . In: Der Spiegel . No. 44 , 1992, pp. 50 ff . ( online - about tourism and locusts in Goldberg).
• Michael Brocke, Eckehart Ruthenberg, Kai Uwe Schulenburg: Stone and Name. The Jewish cemeteries in East Germany (New Federal States / GDR and Berlin). Berlin 1994, 371f.
• Festschrift for the anniversary of the city of Goldberg 1248–1998. Ed .: Festkomitee der Stadt Goldberg, Goldberg 1998.
• Fred Ruchhöft: The development of the cultural landscape in the Plau-Goldberg area in the Middle Ages. Ed .: Kersten Krüger, Stefan Kroll, In: Rostocker Studies for Regional History. Volume V. Rostock 2001, ISBN 3-935319-17-7 .

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Printed sources

• Mecklenburg record book (MUB)
• Mecklenburg Yearbooks (MJB)

Unprinted sources

• State Main Archive Schwerin (LHAS)
  • LHAS 1.5-4 / 3 documents Dobbertin monastery.
  • LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Provincial Monastery / Monastery Office Dobbertin.
  • LHAS 5.12-4 / 3 Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests, Dept. Settlement Office.
• Goldberg City Archives
• Goldberg Museum

Web links

Commons : Goldberg  Collection of Images

• Office Goldberg-Mildenitz

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. ^ Regional Spatial Development Program West Mecklenburg (2011) , Regional Planning Association, accessed on July 12, 2015
3. ↑ § 10 of the main statute of the city (PDF; 118 kB)
4. ↑ Ernst Münch : Formation of rule and state formation in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania in the 13th and 14th centuries . In: Wolf Karge (ed.): A millennium of Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. Biography of a northern German region in individual representations . Hinstorff, Rostock 1995, ISBN 3-356-00623-1 , pp. 43-49, here p. 47.
5. ^ Wolfram Hennies: When cholera hit Mecklenburg. SVZ, Mecklenburg-Magazin, May 15, 2020.
6. ↑ MUB III. (1865) No. 2350
7. ↑ MUB III. (1865) No. 2350
8. ↑ MUB V. (1869) No. 3419.
9. ↑ MUB III. (1865) No. 2184
10. ^ 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. 155.
11. ^ Area changes , Statistical Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
12. ↑ Population development of the districts and municipalities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Statistical Report AI of the Statistical Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
13. ↑ City Council of the City of Goldberg , accessed on January 19, 2020
14. ↑ Hans-Heinz Schütt: On shield and flag - the coats of arms and flags of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and its municipalities . Ed .: production office TINUS; Schwerin. 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814380-0-0 , pp. 197/198 .
15. ↑ ^{a b} main statute § 1 (PDF).
16. ↑ Regional bus services. Verkehrsgesellschaft Ludwigslust-Parchim mbH, accessed on January 2, 2019 . 
17. ↑ Biography of Heinrich eingrieber on www.bildatlas-ddr-kunst.de