Großzerlang

Großzerlang City of Rheinsberg Coordinates: 53 ° 11 ′ 15 ″  N , 12 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	60 m above sea level NN
Area :	13 km²
Residents :	413
Population density :	32 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	October 26, 2003
Postal code :	16831
Area code :	033921
Location of Großzerlang in Brandenburg

Großzerlang is a district of the city of Rheinsberg and is located in the far north of Brandenburg in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district on the border with Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The settlements Kolonie and Adamswalde also belong to this district.

geography

The place is located in the greater Mecklenburg Lake District , in the Stechlin-Ruppiner Land nature park, and is embedded in the 48,200-hectare nature reserve Ruppiner forest and lake area . Großzerlang and the neighboring Kleinzerlang to the west are about twelve kilometers from Rheinsberg.

Großzerlang is located on a peninsula, enclosed in the west and north by the Kleiner Pälitzsee and in the east by the Großer Pälitzsee . In the middle of the Kleiner Pälitzsee is the fictitious zero kilometer for the Rheinsberg-Zechliner waters in a south-westerly direction. To the northwest, it continues with the Müritz-Havel waterway to Hamburg or the North Sea . To the east, the water hiker can take the Obere Havel waterway to Berlin / Potsdam and to the northeast to the Havel spring lakes.

The area is characterized by the typical terminal moraine landscape of the Mecklenburg Lake District with moors , sandy areas, heather areas and deep pine forests with beech or Douglas fir stands.

history

The village church dates from the 18th century

The place name comes from the Slavic, probably from Schar like Graben and Lanke for swampy lowlands .

Oldest finds

The area was settled as early as the Neolithic (3000–1700 BC). From the subsequent Bronze Age (1700–600 BC), among other things, shards of vessels tell of settlements on the banks of the Pälitzsee. After that, the area was uninhabited. Only in the 6th century AD did the Slavs immigrate and find good conditions for agriculture, cattle breeding and fishing. These settlers also gave the place its name.

Later documents mention the place as "Szarlancke" (1524), "zu Zerlancke" (1540), "nach Zerlang" (1676) and "Großer Zerlang" (1697).

From the time when the German settlement in the east until it died out in 1524, Großzerlang belonged to the Counts of Lindow-Ruppin and then fell to the Mark Brandenburg . During the Thirty Years War , the settlement fell into desolation. In 1697 an outwork with a brewery, sheep and cattle sheds was mentioned again and the church was mentioned for the first time. In 1840 the village had 18 houses next to the estate.

Incorporation

On October 26, 2003 Großzerlang was incorporated into Rheinsberg.

Others

On the north shore of the peninsula on the Kleiner Pälitzsee is the federal tent site of the Association of Christian Scouts and Boy Scouts .

Individual evidence

1. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003

Web links

• Großzerlang on the Internet