Guest (Weitenhagen)
Guest is part of the municipality of Weitenhagen in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district .
geography
Guest is located around eight kilometers southeast of the center of Greifswald . The place lies on a slightly undulating surface from 12 to 34 meters above sea level .
The place is located in the area of the clay plates of the Western Pomerania lowlands. At the end of the Ice Age, melting glaciers deposited another two to eight meter thick layers of sand (parts of the so-called Franzburger Staffel) on a multi-layered ground made of marl with intermediate sands. Locally, flowing meltwater left gullies facing south, which were later mossed (today grassland or moor forest).
Today, agricultural areas and forests occupy almost the same size of the municipality. Most of the forest areas were cleared from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 19th century and only then reforested, but some areas (e.g. south of Guest) have always been forest.
history
Guest was first mentioned in a document as "Gustin" in 1249, when the Eldena monastery and the Lords of Behr agreed on the border between the village and neighboring Diedrichshagen . The document has only survived as a regest from the 16th century. The name "Güst" was not used until 1658; the current name was mentioned in 1806.
According to another interpretation, Guest was only mentioned in a document from the Gützkow counts in 1349 .
The name Guest (sometimes also written Güst ), on the other hand, is apparently the "Germanization" of an earlier (older) Slavic place name (probably Gustin or the like). Possibly it is corruption, because in Low German güst means as much as sterile , dry or not pregnant , which characterizes the soil properties of most of the areas around the place. In the Swedish survey card (matriculation card) the name was written as Just . The name means as much as dense in Slavic , referring to the surrounding forest, which was cleared only by the early German Hagensiedlungen.
When the village was first mentioned, the owners were the von Behr family . Around 1600 the estate then belonged to the Schmachtshagen family. When this family died out in 1656, the property fell back to the feudal lords - the Swedish kings. In the village there was only one farmer and the Kruger (innkeeper) in their cottages besides the farm workers . In 1747 the von Behr family bought the estate again, but in 1776 they sold it to Captain von Horn. But already in 1784 he sold it again and until 1865 (Berghaus report) and probably after that the owners kept changing, making it a so-called roller good .
Guest belonged to the parish of Weitenhagen. In 1865 it had 105 inhabitants, 7 residential houses, 1 factory building (mill) and 10 farm buildings. A special feature of the estate was the large flock of sheep with 930 animals.
Gut Guest existed until 1945. In 1945, the Red Army set up a horse hospital here, because around half of all transports in the vicinity were carried out with horses. As a result, Gut Guest was only divided up a few years later (probably in 1948 or 1949). According to the land reform, a new farmer's settlement was built next to the estate, which was built by refugees and resettlers mainly from East Prussia.
In Guest, in addition to the listed warehouse (now kindergarten), the manor house converted into a tenement house and several small buildings are well preserved. The stately stables were removed by TLG Immobilien in order to sell the areas for residential properties . In spite of the newly added buildings, the structures of the former estate and the settlement are still recognizable. In Guest there is a small manor park and the remains of an old orchard.
Until May 26, 2019 Guest belonged to the municipality of Diedrichshagen and was incorporated with this place into the neighboring municipality of Weitenhagen to the west.
proof
- ^ Klaus Conrad (arrangement): Pommersches Urkundenbuch . Volume 1. 2nd edition (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series 2, Vol. 1). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Vienna 1970, No. 485c.
- ^ Manfred Niemeyer: Ostvorpommern . Sources and literature collection on place names, vol. 2: Mainland (= Greifswalder contributions to place names, vol. 2), Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Institute for Slavic Studies, Greifswald 2001, ISBN 3-86006-149-6 ; P. 28 ff
- ↑ Hoffmann, Johannes; The county of Gützkow; Doctoral thesis 1946; Typescript in Greifswald University Library; P. 71
- ^ Statistical Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Area changes in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. February 6, 2019 to March 18, 2019
Coordinates: 54 ° 3 ' N , 13 ° 27' E