Great Varchow

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View of the church of Groß Varchow

The place Groß Varchow is a small village in the Mecklenburg Lake District . The Müritz is located about twenty kilometers southwest of the village. Groß Varchow is a district of the municipality of Möllenhagen and belongs to the Penzliner Land ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). It is located about twenty kilometers northeast of Waren (Müritz) and about ten kilometers northwest of Penzlin. The capital of the municipality of Möllenhagen is about six kilometers south of the village.

history

Varchow was first mentioned in a document on July 13, 1326 on the occasion of the dedication of the St. Nicolai Church as "Villa Verchowe". The name is of Slavic origin; it could be derived from the old Slavic root word "vrŭhŭ" = "summit" and mean something like "Hochdorf".

The aristocratic family Kruse lived here until the 17th century . It remained its trunk until 1700. He also owned the surrounding estates of Varchentin, Kraase and Bredenfelde. In 1700 Otto Dietrich von Winterfeld bought the entire estate, for which he received the feudal letter on April 23, 1702. In addition to the Kruses, the Kamptz family owned parts of the estate. Presumably these parts come from a dowry of the Kruses. After Varchow was sold to Winterfeld, Joachim Ernst von Kamptz was able to buy back the family share. This part later forms the Klein Varchow estate. In 1685 a glassworks was built near Varchow, which was demolished again in 1695. The Groß Varchow estate became the property of the von Klinggräff family in 1756 . In 1803 Johann Karl David Zimmermann bought the estate and from 1821 the Jenisch family became owners of the estate.

The Groß Varchow manor house was demolished after the Second World War. Parts of the estate (e.g. the manor barn) still exist.

Around 100 people currently live in Groß Varchow. With the territorial reform of 1992, Groß Varchow became part of the Möllenhagen office . On March 7, 1994, the place was incorporated into the municipality of Möllenhagen.

Culture and sights

View of the church of Groß Varchow
  • Brick church from 1326. The building is a rectangular brick building with an octagonal choir closure. The tower has ogival brick panels with sound openings. In 1860 the church was restored and the interior was rebuilt in a neo-Gothic style. In 2010 the roofs of the church and the tower were re-covered. The interior of the nave is spanned by a flat, ornamented wooden ceiling. Carved figures from around 1500 and the paintings of the pastors from before 1725 are part of the remarkable furnishings.
  • Manor barn

literature

  • Friedrich Steuer, Ludwig Wegener: Lehsten & Groß Varchow through the ages . Underpinned and explained by the regional history. Büdnerei, Lehsten 2002, DNB  987512005 , p. 159 .
  • The estate and parish village of Varchow . In: Friedrich Schlie (ed.): The district court districts of Teterow, Malchin, Stavenhagen, Penzlin, Waren, Malchow and Röbel (=  the art and historical monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ). tape 5 . Bear jump u. a., Schwerin 1902, p. 216-219 ( Internet Archive ).

Web links

Commons : Groß Varchow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Kühnel: The Slavic place names in Meklenburg. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 46, 1881, ISSN  0259-7772 , p. 149.
  2. ^ The estate and parish village of Varchow . In: Friedrich Schlie (ed.): The district court districts of Teterow, Malchin, Stavenhagen, Penzlin, Waren, Malchow and Röbel (=  the art and historical monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ). tape 5 . Bear jump u. a., Schwerin 1902, p. 216-219 ( Internet Archive ).

Coordinates: 53 ° 35 '  N , 12 ° 56'  E