Gorlose

Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Ludwigslust-Parchim
Office :	Grabow
Height :	20 m above sea level NHN
Area :	53.1 km 2
Residents:	469 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	9 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	19294
Area code :	038755
License plate :	LUP, HGN, LBZ, LWL, PCH, STB
Community key :	13 0 76 049
Community structure:	5 districts
Office administration address:	Berliner Strasse 8a ; 19297 Grabow
Website :	www.grabow.de
Mayor :	Berthold Böttcher
Location of the municipality of Gorlosen in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district

The municipality of Gorlosen belongs to the Grabow district in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany).

The districts of Boek, Dadow, Grittel, Gorlosen and Strassen belong to the municipality.

location

The community is located in the sparsely populated area between Grabow (12 km away), where there is also the nearest railway connection , Lenzen (Elbe) (11 km) and Dömitz (15 km). The federal highway 191 is six kilometers north.

The Alte Elde flows through the municipality , into which the Meynbach flows south of Gorlosen .

history

Gorlose was first mentioned in a document in 1317 as Gorlose . The place name comes from Old Slavonic and could be derived from gora and lêsŭ for mountain forest place . In terms of the type of settlement, the place emerged as a cluster village .

Incorporations

Boek, Grittel and Strassen were incorporated on July 1, 1950. Dadow became a district of Gorlosen on June 13, 2004.

District Dadow

The place name comes from the Old Slavic dad for give . The district was once settled by the Lions who belonged to the tribal association of the Obodrites .

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 torn off neck fur and crown and the inscription "GEMEINDE GORLOSEN".

Personalities

Otto Karsten (* 1899 in Grittel; † 1967), CDU politician in the SBZ / GDR and Protestant preacher
Hans-Dietrich Sander (* 1928 in Grittel; † 2017), new right-wing publicist
Erasmus Behm (* 1939 in Gorlosen; † 2007), internist and pharmacist

Attractions

Gorlosen village church

The church in Gorlosen is a late Gothic field stone building with edges, older window frames and a circumferential jagged frieze made of brick , but contrary to the Dehio description, no molded stones . After the Thirty Years War the roof was not renewed until 1664. Most of the windows were later changed. An eight-sided, wooden roof tower with a pointed helmet was later built over the west gable. Wooden galleries are built inside. The richly painted wooden ceiling with an inscription from 1679 is remarkable. There are ornaments and medallions with Christ and the apostles on it . The furnishings also include a simple, wooden pulpit and a baroque baptismal stand made of wrought iron.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ 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 ).

↑ Read version of the main statute of the Gorlosen community. (PDF; 96 kB) p. § 2 , accessed on May 10, 2016 .

^ 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. 54.

↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states. Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .

^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2004

^ Paul Kühnel: The Slavic place names in Meklenburg. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 46, 1881, pp. 3–168, here p. 25.

↑ Main statutes, § 3, paragraph 2

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-MV-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] Read version of the main statute of the Gorlosen community. (PDF; 96 kB) p. § 2 , accessed on May 10, 2016 .

[3] 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. 54.