Grünow (near Prenzlau)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 19 ′  N , 13 ° 57 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Uckermark
Office :	Gramzow
Height :	63 m above sea level NHN
Area :	34.92 km 2
Residents:	932 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	27 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17291
Area code :	039857
License plate :	UM, ANG, PZ, SDT, TP
Community key :	12 0 73 261
Office administration address:	Poststrasse 25 17291 Gramzow
Website :	www.amt-gramzow.de
Mayor :	André Cunow
Location of the community Grünow in the district of Uckermark

Grünow is an official municipality in the Uckermark district in northeast Brandenburg (Germany).

geography

The Uckermark municipality Grünow is located immediately east of the district town of Prenzlau in a ground moraine area that spreads between the parallel valleys of the Ucker and Randow . The hilly area (35 to 87 m above sea  level ) is characterized by many small lakes and ponds as well as by intensive agriculture.

The village is on Grünower See (picture). In the vicinity of the village are the North and South Koppelsee in a south-westerly direction, further in a south-westerly direction the Moosbruchseen in the Moosbruch district .

The Klare See (north of Dreesch, on the road to Grünow) and the Prähnseen (Großer and Kleiner Prähnssee) to the southeast near the road to Bietikow are located near the Dreesch district .

Grünower See

Community structure

The districts belong to the community of Grünow

• Dams
• Dreesch
• Drense
• Grünow

as well as the expansion of the Weidendamm, Heises Hof and Mönchehof residential spaces.

history

Administrative affiliation

• 1817–1947: Prenzlau district , Brandenburg province , Prussia
• 1947–1952: Prenzlau district, Brandenburg state , SBZ / GDR
• 1952-1990: Kreis Prenzlau , Neubrandenburg , GDR
• 1990–1993: Prenzlau district, Brandenburg
• since 1993: Uckermark district , Brandenburg

The community belonged to the Prenzlau-Land office from 1992 until its dissolution in 2001 and then moved to the Gramzow office .

The places Damme and Drense were incorporated into Grünow on December 31, 1997.

Grünow district

Mentioned for the first time in 1287, Grünow was founded by German colonists with close connections to the nunnery in Seehausen . In the middle of the 17th century Grünow belonged to the Gramzow office. Around 1900 there was an estate in the village , half-farmers , working-class families and some craftsmen.

District of Damme

The place Damme appears for the first time in a document in 1354. In 1930 the estate was relocated: the new houses were close to the fields that belonged to them, so that today, at four kilometers, Damme is an extremely long village.

Dreesch district

Established as Vorwerk Drösch in 1792, the place belonged to the von Arnim family on Kröchlendorff . In 1977 there was a change from the former municipality of Bietikow (today Uckerfelde ) to the municipality of Grünow.

District of Drense

Today is Burgwall the ukrani seen in Drense, which dates back to the 8th century. The castle is mentioned in documents from 1240 to 1248. During excavations in the 1980s, goods from Poland , Moravia and the Kievan Rus were found.

Population development

year Residents 1875 393 1890 439 1910 465 1925 532 1933 455 1939 462 1946 723 1950 717

year Residents 1964 560 1971 532 1981 482 1985 471 1989 426 1990 419 1991 410 1992 400 1993 395 1994 437

year Residents 1995 442 1996 475 1997 959 1998 983 1999 1 008 2000 1 017 2001 1 032 2002 1 025 2003 1 031 2004 1 021

year Residents 2005 990 2006 982 2007 977 2008 957 2009 957 2010 923 2011 929 2012 923 2013 915 2014 951

year Residents 2015 941 2016 926 2017 945 2018 947 2019 932

Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31 (from 1991), from 2011 based on the 2011 census

politics

Community representation

The community council of Grünow consists of nine community representatives and the honorary mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Party / group of voters	Seats
We for Grünow	2
Single applicant Eckhard Kittendorf	1
Grünow volunteer fire brigade	1
Individual applicant Jens Seligmann	1
AfD	1
Single applicant Claudia Wegen	1
The left	1
Individual applicant Wolfgang Britt	1

André Cunow ran as both a community representative and mayor. Since he accepted the election as mayor, his seat in the municipal council remains vacant according to § 60 (3) of the Brandenburg Local Election Act.

mayor

• 1998–2003: Hans-Ulrich Metscher
• 2003–2014: Monika Borchert
• since 2014: André Cunow

In the mayoral election on May 26, 2019, Cunow was elected unopposed with 85.2% of the valid votes for a further five-year term.

Attractions

In the list of architectural monuments in Grünow are the monuments entered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.

• Sheepfold with restaurant and guest room on Grünower See
• Early Gothic stone church in Grünow

Economy and Infrastructure

In addition to agricultural production and a tree nursery, there are some smaller craft businesses in the community. Grünow was able to achieve a more favorable age structure through the arrival of young families from nearby Prenzlau.

traffic

Grünow is located on the L 25 national road between Prenzlau and the Prenzlau-Süd motorway junction on the A 20 ( Uckermark - Lübeck intersection ).

The next train station is in Prenzlau , about six kilometers away , after the branch lines Prenzlau – Löcknitz and Damme – Gramzow with the stops Grünow , Drense and Damme were closed in 1995.

Personalities

• Jean Villain (1928–2006), journalist and writer, lived in Dreesch
• Wolfgang Herrmann (* 1939), politician, lives in Dreesch

Web links

Commons : Grünow (near Prenzlau) municipality  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Grünow.de (private site)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population in the State of Brandenburg according to municipalities, offices and municipalities not subject to official registration on December 31, 2019 (XLSX file; 223 KB) (updated official population figures) ( help on this ).
2. ^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. Grünow community
3. ↑ Change of Office Gramzow Announcement of the Ministry of the Interior of October 5, 2001. Official Gazette for Brandenburg Common Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg, Volume 12, 2001, Number 43, Potsdam, October 24, 2001, p. 672 PDF
4. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities, see 1997
5. ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. District Uckermark . Pp. 18-21
6. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2017 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
7. ^ Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.): Statistical report AI 7, A II 3, A III 3. Population development and population status in the state of Brandenburg (respective editions of the month of December)
8. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
9. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 60
10. ↑ Results of the local elections in 1998 (mayoral elections) for the district of Uckermark ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ Local elections October 26, 2003. Mayoral elections , p. 34
12. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 25, 2014
13. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)
14. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019