God's gift (near Schwerin)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 38 '  N , 11 ° 15'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Northwest Mecklenburg
Office :	Lützow-Lübstorf
Height :	58 m above sea level NHN
Area :	22.24 km 2
Residents:	756 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	34 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	19209
Area code :	038874
License plate :	NWM, GDB, GVM, WIS
Community key :	13 0 74 024
Office administration address:	Village center 24 19209 Lützow
Website :	www.luetzow-luebstorf.de
Mayoress :	Bärbel Jürß
Location of the community of Gottesgabe in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg

Gottesgabe is a community in the south of the district of Northwest Mecklenburg in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). The community is administered by the Lützow-Lübstorf Office , based in the Lützow community .

geography

The community of Gottesgabes is about 10 kilometers west of Schwerin in hilly terrain (up to 91 m above sea level ) on the North Sea-Baltic Sea watershed . Here are the sources of the Sude , which drains south to the Elbe . One of its tributaries, the Zare , runs east along the municipal boundary .

The gift of God is surrounded by the neighboring communities Brüsewitz in the northeast, Grambow in the east, Dümmer in the south, Perlin in the southwest, Schilden valley in the west and Lützow in the northwest.

The districts of Bergfeld, Groß Welzin, Klein Welzin and Rosenhagen belong to God's gift .

history

Divine gift as a place Davermoor was first mentioned on April 27, 1282. Helmold, Count of Schwerin, gives the Dome in Schwerin the property of 3 Hufen zu Davermoor (God's gift), with which the knight Ludolf Maltzan founded a vicarei .

The spelling Davermüre or Davermur also appears later . The neighboring moor took its name Dabelmoor from this medieval village . Dübels-Moor and Teufelsmoor are names from the vernacular. Davermor, the original Slavic place name in Middle Low German, means something like Daver tree bark or birch bark, and mor moor. The later German place name Gottesgabe can be described as a religiously motivated desired name. The estate belonged to the Maltzans , then a line of the Preen family lived on Davermoor and had their knight seat here. In the beginning of the 15th century the estate was in different hands, because neither the name of the Preens nor the knight's seat on Davermoor appears anywhere. According to the tax register, Gut Davermoor no longer existed in 1497. The church game Groten Brüsewitz (Groß Brütz) only included the villages of Groß Brütz, Brüsewitz, Grambow and Rosenhagen. So Davermoor no longer existed and God's gift did not yet exist, but the Feldmark belonged to the von Halberstadt family, who were then based on Groß Brütz.

In 1614, the Gottesgabe estate was built on the Davermoor corridor; it was owned by the Lüdeke and Hand Cuno von Halberstadt families until 1674 . Berend Hartwig von Plessen , whose ancestors came to Mecklenburg from the Göttingen area as military leader of Heinrich the Lion in the 12th century , had a gift from God from 1699 to 1716. After that it belonged again to the von Halberstadts. New trade routes were created for transports from Lüneburg to Wismar via Boizenburg, for example the Boizenburger Weg may have received its name. At that time there was probably also trade by Jewish traders. At the intersection of the path from Wodenhof (formerly Wendischhof) to Gottesgabe and the Boizenburger Weg, predatory disputes could have occurred at that time, because oral traditions mention a Jewish cemetery on the Feldmark Gottesgabe in Großer Holz .

The Gottesgaber manor house has a peculiarity among the Mecklenburg country estates. It was built from three wings that stood in a triangle to each other. The triangular courtyard was paved and open at the top. It was only roofed later, around the middle of the 19th century, and the facade was redesigned. The medieval foundations of the former moated castle were used and Klaus Störtebeker is said to have once sat in the cellar dungeon of the Gottesgabe Castle . At the end of the 14th century, the castle belonged to the family of one of his Vitalien brothers .

Historical representation of Körner on the evening before his death in the Gottesgabe manor (around 1880)

As a gift from God, the freedom poet Theodor Körner spent the last night before his death on August 26, 1813 in the Rosenow Forest fighting against Napoleon's troops .

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent municipality of Klein Welzin was incorporated.

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 off neck fur and crown and the inscription “GEMEINDE GOTTESGABE • LANDKREIS NORDWESTMECKLENBURG”.

Attractions

See also : List of architectural monuments in God's gift

• Closer to the village there is a well-preserved tower hill three meters high and a platform eight meters in diameter (documented mention 1336), which is still easily accessible and can be visited today. The surrounding ditches from the tower hill and the courtyard, which are open to the Dabelmoor lowland , were probably watered by the Wurzelbeck flowing past .
• The remains of a medieval moated castle in the middle of the village (documented mention in 1357): It is a trapezoidal structure, surrounded by ten to 18 meter wide ditches and ponds, which can only be guessed at. The old manor house with a round hall and the former school, which are privately owned, are also worth seeing.
• The two-storey manor house Klein Welzin from the middle of the 19th century was heavily reshaped through renovations and additions. It serves as a retirement and nursing home.

Transport links

God's gift is located near the federal highway 104 from Schwerin to Gadebusch . About 17 kilometers to the southwest there is a connection to the A 24 from Hamburg to Berlin ( Wittenburg junction ). The nearest train station is in the neighboring municipality of Brüsewitz , district of Groß Brütz ( Schwerin – Rehna railway line ).

Web links

Commons : God's gift  - collection of images

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. ↑ MUB III. (1865) No. 1627.
3. ↑ Wolf Lüdeke von Weltzien: Die von Halberstadt 1266 to 1788. 1989, p. 109.
4. ↑ Main Statute, Section 1, Paragraph 3