Grabow-Below
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Grabow-Below
Eldetal municipality
Coordinates: 53 ° 16 ′ 45 ″ N , 12 ° 26 ′ 23 ″ E
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| Area : | 13.55 km² | |
| Residents : | 103 (December 31, 2017) | |
| Population density : | 8 inhabitants / km² | |
| Incorporation : | May 26, 2019 | |
| Postal code : | 17209 | |
| Area code : | 039925 | |
Location in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania |
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 Grabow village green
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Grabow-Below was a municipality in the southwest of the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania from 1959 to 2019 . The community was administered by the Office Röbel-Müritz with its seat in the city of Röbel / Müritz . Your area now forms part of the municipality of Eldetal .
geography
Grabow and Below are located in the southwest of the municipality, directly on the state border with Brandenburg, which is marked here by the Dosse river . The upper Dossetal is crossed by many drainage ditches. Grabow is about three kilometers northwest of Below. The Wittstock-Ruppiner Heide extends directly to the east of Below .
The town of Röbel / Müritz is about 18 kilometers away, the Brandenburg town of Wittstock / Dosse 17 kilometers. On December 31, 2017, there were 103 inhabitants in Grabow-Below on an area of 13.55 km². The community had the postcode 17209 and the telephone code 039925.
history
Probably originally Slavic populated locality Grabow - one of common place name (from the old Slavic grabu = "hornbeam") - was named in a Belehnungsurkunde 1344th While the landowners changed frequently in Grabow, the part of Below was knightly property. Below was from 1840 the seat of the municipal forestry department of the city of Wittstock.
In 1957 the suburbs Grabow and Below, about three kilometers apart, were merged to form the municipality of Grabow-Below. On May 26, 2019 Grabow-Below merged with Massow , Wredenhagen and Zepkow to form the new municipality of Eldetal . The last mayor was Ilgen Wegener.
Monuments
Architectural monuments
The Grabow Church was built in the second half of the 19th century by Gotthilf Ludwig Möckel in neo-Gothic style. The choir is formed by half an octagon and has three arched windows. The church tower, which was destroyed by a lightning strike, was renewed in 1899, the roof in 1999. The cemetery wall was rebuilt in 1992 as a dry stone wall based on the historical model.
Memorials
To the south of Below, in the city forest of Wittstock / Dosse, there is the Death March memorial in the Belower Forest , sponsored by the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation for the victims of the 1945 Sachsenhausen death march .
In 1946 an honorary grave was created in the village cemetery for 132 perished concentration camp prisoners. In Below and Grabow, one of a total of 120 information boards was set up on Dorfstrasse.
traffic
Grabow and Below are off the national road connections. The Bundesautobahn 19 ( Berlin - Rostock ) runs between the two places, but the Röbel and Wittstock junctions are almost 20 kilometers away. Grabow and Below can be reached from Bundesstraße 198 via Wredenhagen . The next train station is in Wittstock / Dosse.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistisches Amt MV - Population status of the districts, offices and municipalities 2017 (XLS file) (population figures in update of the 2011 census)
- ↑ Main statute of the municipality of Eldetal, December 2, 2019, online
- ↑ Statistisches Amt MV - Population status of the districts, offices and municipalities 2017 (XLS file) (population figures in update of the 2011 census)
- ↑ Ministry of the Interior and Europe Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: amalgamation of the municipalities Grabow-Below, Massow, Wredenhagen and Zepkow , accessed on February 19, 2019