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coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 26 '  N , 10 ° 45'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Ludwigslust-Parchim
Office :	Boizenburg country
Height :	18 m above sea level NHN
Area :	21.08 km 2
Residents:	721 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	34 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	19258
Area code :	038842
License plate :	LUP, HGN, LBZ, LWL, PCH, STB
Community key :	13 0 76 054
Community structure:	3 districts
Office administration address:	Fritz-Reuter-Strasse 3 19258 Boizenburg / Elbe
Website :	www.amtboizenburgland.de
Mayor :	Sigurd Prill (Gresse group of voters)
Location of the municipality of Gresse in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district

Gresse is a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). It is administered by the Boizenburg-Land Office , based in the non-official city of Boizenburg / Elbe .

The municipality is divided into the districts of Gresse, Badekow and Heidekrug.

geography

Gresse is on the federal highway 195 between the towns of Zarrentin am Schaalsee and Boizenburg. The Boize flows through the municipality in the direction of Sude .

history

Gresse was first mentioned in a document on June 9, 1297, when Count Nikolaus von Schwerin donated two Hufen land from Gresse to the Boizenburg Church . The village belonged - together with the villages Badekow, Beckendorf , Bengerstorf , Kladrum , Nostorf and Altendorf - to the extensive holdings of the von Sprengel family from the 14th century. During the Thirty Years' War , the family pledged the estate in Gresse in 1625, initially to Hartwig von Schack from Müssen and sold it to Friedrich von Thun shortly after the end of the war in 1651. In 1681 the estate was sold to Ernst Wilhelm von dem Knesebeck for 11,000 thalers . In the following centuries the property changed hands in quick succession: in 1784 it was acquired by A. Fr. von Witzendorf, in 1792 by Baron Otto von Hahn , in 1795 in Gebser, in 1792 in chief equerry Franz Ferdinand von Rantzau , in 1804 in August von Schilden, in 1817 in cavalry master Hans von Klitzing , 1837 the government councilor Albrecht von Lützow , 1845 Wilhelm Heerlein, 1849 the chamberlain Georg von Drenckhahn, 1860 Friedrich von Meyenn , before it became the property of the Hamburg guano importer Albertus von Ohlendorff in 1872 . The Badkow district remained in the possession of the von Sprengel family until 1736, whose last descendant died in Boizenburg at the end of the 18th century, completely impoverished.

The church of Gresse was mentioned for the first time in 1335. It was destroyed in the Thirty Years War and partially rebuilt by 1664. Under the direction of the former owner of Gut Gresse, Rittmeister von Knesebeck, a baroque style building was built from 1681 . The tower is covered with a bell-shaped tower, in which hangs a bell that was cast in 1736. From 1968 to 1970 remodeling work was carried out that helped shape the current appearance.

In 1936 the compulsory fire brigade of Gut Gresse was dissolved and a voluntary fire brigade was founded.

From March to the end of April 1945 Gresse was the command post for the Geesthacht - Dömitz defense section . Gresse and its residents saw the end of the war at the beginning of May 1945 with the invasion of British military units.

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent community Badekow was incorporated.

politics

mayor

The incumbent mayor is Sigurd Prill from the Gresse voter group.

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 GRESSE • LANDKREIS LUDWIGSLUST-PARCHIM".

Attractions

Entrance to the tumulus

• The town's architectural monuments are listed in the list of architectural monuments in Gresse .
• Gresse village church, with Albertus von Ohlendorff's burial chapel
• Manor house in the English neo-Gothic style , built by the Wismar architect Heinrich Thormann .
• Gresse barrow in the north-west of the village about 800 meters from the manor on the Finkenberg, a mound of earth with a diameter of 25 meters and a height of 6 meters. In the spring of 1899, Baron Albertus von Ohlendorff had the closed hill excavated. This resulted in an approximately 1.60 meter high, brick-lined passage into the interior of the hill, which is still intact today. In addition to the remains of corpses, tools such as axes made of stone, wedges and an ornate dagger made of flint were found during the excavation . The barrow was probably laid in the Copper Age or Bronze Age .

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  Gresse manor

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  Village church with cemetery

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  Ohlendorff burial chapel

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  Memorial stone portal church Wilhelm Friedrich von dem Knesebeck

Infrastructure

In Gresse there is a medical center, a kindergarten with after-school care, a primary school and, since 1971, a grocery store of the consumer cooperative Hagenow eG, Konsum for short .

literature

• Hugo von Pentz: Album of Mecklenburg goods in the former knighthood of Wittenburg. Schwerin 2005, pp. 55-58.

Web links

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

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. ↑ Main statutes of the municipality of Gresse. (PDF; 3.0 MB) § 1. Gresse municipality, March 13, 2013, accessed on August 8, 2016 . 
3. ^ Mecklenburgisches Urkundenbuch IV. (1867) No. 2452
4. ^ Friedrich Schlie , The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Volume 3, pages 126 ff., Presumed to be owned by those of Sprengel in Gresse as early as the 13th century
5. ↑ Dietmar Kreiß: A very sprightly 75-year-old jubilarian. In: Schweriner Volkszeitung : Hagenower Kreisblatt.Nr. 196/66, 23 August 2011, p. 15
6. ^ Command post Major General Heino Oetken, commander of the Elbe section Geesthacht-Dömitz
7. ↑ Main Statute, Section 2, Paragraph 3
8. ^ Robert Beltz: Hünengrave von Gresse (near Boizenburg). In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology, Volume 66, pp. 129-133. 1901, accessed November 2, 2012 .