Great Godems

Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Ludwigslust-Parchim
Office :	Parchimer area
Height :	65 m above sea level NHN
Area :	15.21 km 2
Residents:	387 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	25 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	19372
Area code :	038725
License plate :	LUP, HGN, LBZ, LWL, PCH, STB
Community key :	13 0 76 056
Office administration address:	Walter-Hase-Strasse 42 ; 19370 Parchim
Website :	www.amt-parchimer-umland.de
Mayor :	Lothar Barsuhn
Location of the community of Groß Godems in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district

Groß Godems is a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). It is administered by the Parchimer Umland Office based in Parchim.

Geography and traffic

About half of the municipality is covered by forest. Groß Godems lies in a very hilly terminal moraine landscape . The largest hill is the Tobiasberg at 103 m above sea level. NHN in the very east. Larger parts of the community area are forested. The Godemser Tannen forest is worth mentioning . There are no larger lakes or rivers in the municipality. Only the Rote Bach , which forms the northern boundary of the municipality, is to be mentioned. It flows into the Müritz-Elde-Wasserstraße a little north of the community .

The A 24 leads through the municipality in the south , which can be reached via the Parchim junction. The municipality is located about eight kilometers south of Parchim .

history

Groß Godems was first mentioned in 1291 as villa Wodamiz . The name comes from the Slavic word voda for water . The place name could mean place on the watercourse .

On July 1, 1950, Karrenzin was incorporated into Groß Godems. On January 1, 1951, the communities of Groß Godems and Wulfsahl merged to form the new community of Karrenzin.

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 neck fur and a crown and the inscription "• GEMEINDE GROß GODEMS • LANDKREIS LUDWIGSLUST-PARCHIM".

Attractions

Village church from the 17th century
Douglas fir forest on the Sonnenberg
Petition

Village church

Personalities

Carl Johann Theodor Abs (1851-1895), wrestler, also written Carl Abs, won the first world championship of wrestlers on May 18, 1884 in New York City with a victory over William Muldoon
Jürgen Heinrich (* 1945), actor and director
Erwin Binder (1932–1999), politician (DBD)

Web links

Commons : Great Godems - collection of pictures, 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 ).
^ 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. 52.
↑ Main Statute, Section 1, 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] 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. 52.

[3] Main Statute, Section 1, Paragraph 2