Königsfeld (Mecklenburg)
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Coordinates: 53 ° 45 ' N , 11 ° 0' E |
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Basic data | ||
State : | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | |
County : | Northwest Mecklenburg | |
Office : | Rehna | |
Height : | 40 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 32.4 km 2 | |
Residents: | 960 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 30 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 19217 | |
Primaries : | 038872, 038873 | |
License plate : | NWM, GDB, GVM, WIS | |
Community key : | 13 0 74 042 | |
Office administration address: | Freiheitsplatz 1 19217 Rehna |
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Mayor : | Klaus Babbe | |
Location of the municipality of Königsfeld in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg | ||
Königsfeld is a municipality in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. The municipality is administered by the Rehna Office , based in the city of the same name .
The municipality of Königsfeld, whose name was taken over from a small part of the former municipality of Demern, is still quite young. On June 13, 2004, the previously independent municipalities of Bülow, Demern and Groß Rünz merged to form the new municipality of Königsfeld.
geography
The large municipal area extends over the hilly terrain between the river meadows of the Maurine in the west and the Radegast . At 74 m above sea level The highest altitude is reached near the district of Crimea. The district Woitendorf in the southwest of the municipality belongs to the Woitendorfer Moor to Schaalsee . From a spacious perspective, Königsfeld is about halfway between Schwerin and Lübeck .
Königsfeld is surrounded by the neighboring communities Rehna in the north and east, Roggendort in the south, Dechow in the south-west, Carlow in the west and Siemz-Niendorf in the north-west.
In addition to the "founding communities" Bülow, Demern and Groß Rünz, the districts of Besterade, Klein Rünz, Königsfeld, Krim, Warnekow and Woitendorf belong to the municipality of Königsfeld.
history
The parish was first mentioned in 1230 in the Ratzeburg tithe register . The Bülow district was the ancestral seat of the von Bülow family , who were among the main donors of the Rehnaer nunnery in the Middle Ages .
politics
Community representation
The election of June 7, 2009 had the following results:
- Village community Bülow / Warnekow: 3 seats
- Signal horn Groß Rünz: 2 seats
- General and Free Community of Voters Demern: 2 seats
- Active citizens for Königsfeld: 2 seats
- The left : 1 seat
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 torn off the neck fur and crown and the inscription "GEMEINDE KÖNIGSFELD • LANDKREIS NORDWESTMECKLENBURG".
Attractions
In addition to the monuments in the south of the municipality (5500 year old large stone grave and an approximately 4000 year old hill grave ), the village church in the Demern district from the 13th century and the Kastanienhof with a Low German hall house from 1851 and a historic farm garden in the Bülow district are worth seeing . A special attraction is the annual wheelbarrow race through the village pond in the Groß Rünz district. In the Demern district, the historian Gottlieb Matthias Carl Masch, who was important for the history of the Ratzeburg region, was pastor of the village church from 1838 until his death in 1878 . Next since 1947 reminds one VVN -Gedenktafel at his birthplace and childhood home to the communist deputies and local poet Rudolf Hartmann, 1945 in the Mauthausen concentration camp (as indicated on the table in the non Sachsenhausen concentration camp ) was killed.
Economy and Infrastructure
In addition to agriculture, tourism and gravel mining also play a role at Groß Rünz.
Transport links
The community is located in the triangle of the cities of Rehna, Gadebusch and Ratzeburg and can therefore be easily reached via the federal highways 104 and 208 . Ten kilometers to the north there is a connection to the Federal Motorway 20 (Lübeck– Rostock ). There is a train connection to Schwerin from the neighboring town of Rehna .
Personalities
- Rudolf Hartmann (1885–1945), Low German writer and communist politician, born in the Demern district
- Joachim Parbs (1868–1930), German rail freight forwarder, born in the Bülow district
Web links
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 ).
- ↑ Area changes from 01.01. until December 31, 2004 . Federal Statistical Office, tab “Area changes 2004”, July 1, 2007, accessed on November 4, 2016 (xls, 224 kB).
- ↑ Election results on www.rehna.de
- ↑ Main Statute, Section 1, Paragraph 2