Karow (Plau am See)

Karow City of Plau am See
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 19 ″  N , 12 ° 15 ′ 48 ″  E
Height :	75 m above sea level NHN
Area :	38.53 km²
Residents :	758  (Dec. 31, 2009)
Population density :	20 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2011
Postal code :	19395
Area code :	038738
Location of Karow in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Former manor house Leisten

Karow is a district of the town of Plau am See in the east of the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). Until 2010, Karow was an independent municipality in the Plau am See district .

geography

Karow is about twelve kilometers east of Goldberg and about nine kilometers north of Plau am See . The Plauer See lies on the southern edge of the former municipal area . The Nossentiner / Schwinzer Heide nature reserve borders in the north .

Large parts of the former municipal area, especially in the north, are forested. The Paschensee nature reserve is also located here . In the east there is the Samot lake in the nature reserve north shore Plauer See and south of Karow the nature reserve Brantensee , a wetland. The protected areas and other large parts are in the Nossentiner / Schwinzer Heide nature reserve . The elevations exceed just under 80  m above sea level. NHN . The Mildenitz runs west of Karow .

history

Karow was first mentioned in a document in 1254. At that time the region belonged to the Parchim-Richenberg domain . After the dissolution of the same, Karow came to rule Werle in 1255 . With the death of the last regent on September 7, 1436, Karow fell to the dukes of Mecklenburg.

The castle and the formerly associated farm dominate the village . The "Old Castle" was built in 1800/01 in the classicism style. In 1898 the Berlin entrepreneur Johannes Schlutius (1861–1910) acquired the palace and the Karow estate. The widow Schlutius and her son Haimo were expropriated without compensation in 1945 and the property became a public property . During the GDR era , a company vocational school for training farmers moved into the manor house. After extensive restoration, it has been a hotel and restaurant since 2007. The estate with the large and architecturally significant farm buildings was acquired by the Schlutius family in the 1990s.

In the northwest of the former municipal area, on the border of several forest areas and highways, one developed after the establishment pitcher the border town Grüner Jäger , whose importance, however, decreased with the construction of paved roads and the railway line in the second half of the 19th century and 1945 waste fell .

The previously independent municipality of Karow with the districts Karow, Leisten and Teerofen was incorporated into the town of Plau am See on January 1, 2011.

politics

coat of arms

Blazon : "Under the blue shield head in gold, the tinned red stepped gable front of a church with eight (1: 7) arched windows, in the open door a red high cross." The coat of arms and the flag were designed by the Glaisiner Manfred Sturzenbecher . It was approved by the Ministry of the Interior on March 28, 2003 and registered under No. 277 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Reasons for the coat of arms: The blue head of the coat of arms should indicate the location of the district of Leisten on the north bank of the Plauer See. The stepped gable front with the cross in the open door represents the newly built church in Karow in 1872. the four gables are decorated with neo-Gothic panels. The tinging of the coat of arms in blue, gold and red marks the affiliation of the former municipality to the state of Mecklenburg. Due to the incorporation in Plau am See on January 1, 2011, the coat of arms lost its status as a national emblem, but it can also be used in the future as an identification symbol by the inhabitants - who feel connected to their district.

flag

The flag was approved by the Ministry of the Interior on January 27, 2004.

The flag is evenly striped lengthways in yellow and red. In the middle of the flag, two thirds of the height of the yellow and red stripes, the district coat of arms is located. The length of the flag is related to the height as 5: 3.

Community partnerships

Karow has had a partnership with the Diekholzen community in Lower Saxony since 1993 .

Attractions

Village church in Karow

Karow Castle

See also : "Karow" in the article List of Architectural Monuments in Plau am See

• Paschensee nature reserve
• Railway trolley between Damerower barracks and Borkow
• Herrenhaus Karow : Classicist plastered building from the beginning of the 18th century with a central projection and around 1906 neo-baroque extension based on plans by Ernst von Ihne for Johannes Schlutius; Hotel since 2007
• Manor park as a romantic landscape park
• Dilapidated mausoleum of the Schlutius family, 1912/16 by the sculptor Wilhelm Wandschneider in a wooded area east of the park
• Brick-built village church without a tower, surrounded by the parish churchyard. In front of the funeral chapel, the bronze memorial Die Mourning by Wilhelm Wandschneider has stood since 1988 . The female figure shows many bullet holes from handguns. It originally stood in front of the Schlutius family mausoleum.
• Decaying station building from Karow (Meckl) train station from 1880 and empty outbuildings. Preserved signal boxes from 1938 and a water tower with covered roof structure built for the Reichsbahn .
• Water tower from 1907 of the former estate with a height of 26 m and 150 m³ storage volume.

traffic

Water tower at Karow train station, landmark visible from afar

The federal highway 192 runs through Karow , and the southern section of the federal highway 103 begins here . The federal autobahn 19 can be reached in around eight kilometers via the Malchow junction.

The Karow (Meckl) train station was an important crossing and transfer point until the 1990s. However, he lost this function with the cessation of passenger traffic on the Wismar-Karow routes in 1996 and Güstrow-Meyenburg in 2000. The last passenger traffic on the Mecklenburg Southern Railway was canceled on December 13, 2014, until April 30, 2015, the Hanseatic Railway offered independently operating trains to Parchim and Malchow. Today trains only run here on certain occasions

There are currently daily bus routes to Malchow, Plau and Meyenburg, and with a change to Parchim and Güstrow.

Web links

Commons : Karow  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2011 StBA
2. ↑ ^{a b} Hans-Heinz Schütt: On shield and flag - the coats of arms and flags of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and its municipalities . Ed .: production office TINUS; Schwerin. 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814380-0-0 , pp. 439 .
3. ^ Association of Technical State Museum Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (ed.): Technical monuments and sights in West Mecklenburg , Schwerin 2002
4. ↑ Passenger information ( memento of the original from February 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 735 kB) of the Mecklenburg Southern Railway, accessed on May 15, 2015.