Hammer ad Uecker

Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Vorpommern-Greifswald
Office :	Torgelow-Ferdinandshof
Height :	10 m above sea level NHN
Area :	21.47 km 2
Residents:	464 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	22 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17358
Area code :	03976
License plate :	VG, ANK, GW, PW, SBG, UEM, WLG
Community key :	13 0 75 045
LOCODE :	DE HUC
Office administration address:	Bahnhofsstr. 2 ; 17358 Torgelow
Website :	www.amt-ferdinandshof.de
Mayoress :	Petra Madl
Location of the municipality of Hammer ad Uecker in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district

The municipality Hammer ad Uecker belongs to the Torgelow-Ferdinandshof office and is located in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Until March 24, 1994 the community was called Hammer a. Uecker .

geography

The community with the associated district Liepe is located on the west bank of the Uecker river in the middle of the Ueckermünder Heide . The area around Hammer is flat and wooded. To the east of the road from Hammer to Liepe is part of a military training area (Stallberg - Drögeheide - Spechtberg - Karpin). The community also includes the expansion of the forestry department.

Hammer ad Uecker is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Torgelow in the north, Viereck in the southeast and Jatznick in the southwest.

history

The name Hammer suggests that the lawn iron ore deposits in the area were processed as early as the Middle Ages. When an ironworks was built in nearby Torgelow in 1756 , the village of Hammer was under the administration of the ironworks there.

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent municipality of Liepe was incorporated.

The meadow and wooded area in the middle of the Ueckermünder Heide offers affordable residential areas for which the community has created good conditions. The road and path network has been redeveloped in recent years.

politics

mayor

1946–1947: Helene Medrow (* 1902; † 1976)
since May 2014: Petra Mädl

Election of the municipal council in 2014

in %

%

70

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

66.02%

13.32%

20.66%

CDU

Clementz ^b

Klementz ^c

Remarks:

^b Clementz single applicant

^c Single applicant Klementz

Community representation

The Hammer community council has six members.

Electoral group
CDU	4th
Single applicant Clementz	1
Single applicant Klementz	1

(Status: 2014 local elections)

State elections

In the state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2011 , 26 percent of voters voted for the NPD (2006: 18.1), 24 percent for the CDU (28.9), 21.9 percent for the SPD (21.3) and 15, 3 percent for Die Linke (15.3).

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 region of Western Pomerania . It shows an upright griffin with a raised tail and the inscription "GEMEINDE HAMMER AD UECKER * LANDKREIS VORPOMMERN-GREIFSWALD".

Attractions

Home parlor
350-year-old oak avenue in the Liepe district, a village school built in 1907 with an integrated chapel and a Swedish log house built after the Thirty Years War.

listed residential building in the hammer

Transport links

From the B 109 ( Berlin - Greifswald ) you can get to Hammer an der Uecker via the extended state road 32, to the north there is a road connection via Torgelow to Ueckermünde . Jatznick station is located three kilometers from Hammer on the main Berlin – Stralsund line .