Kluis

Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Western Pomerania-Ruegen
Office :	West Ruegen
Height :	13 m above sea level NHN
Area :	21.39 km 2
Residents:	416 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	19 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	18569
Primaries :	03838, 038305, 038309
License plate :	VR, GMN, NVP, RDG, RÜG
Community key :	13 0 73 045
Office administration address:	Dorfplatz 2 ; 18573 Samtens
Website :	www.amt-westruegen.de
Mayor :	Eckhard Koch
Location of the municipality of Kluis in the Vorpommern-Rügen district

Kluis is a municipality in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). The municipality is administered by the West-Rügen Office with its seat in the municipality of Samtens .

geography

The municipality of Kluis am Duwenbeek , the only larger river on Rügen, is located in the motherland of the island of Rügen about twelve kilometers northwest of Bergen on Rügen and seven kilometers northeast of Gingst .

Kluis is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Trent in the north, Rappin in the northeast, Patzig and Bergen auf Rügen in the east, Parchtitz and Gingst in the west.

The districts of Gagern , Pansevitz and Silenz belong to Kluis .

politics

coat of arms

The coat of arms was accepted by the municipal council on February 17, 1989 and registered under number 8 of the coat of arms of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Blazon : "In green, a silver, sloping, wavy bar, covered with a black double hook and accompanied: on top by a gold-armored silver head of cattle, below by a sloping golden ear of corn."

The coat of arms was designed by Gerhard Koggelmann from Sagard .

flag

The municipality's flag is striped transversely to the longitudinal axis of the flag cloth from green - white - green. The green stripes each take up a quarter, the white stripe takes up half the length of the flag cloth. In the middle of the white stripe is the municipal coat of arms, which takes up two thirds of the height of the flag. The length of the flag is related to the height as 5: 3.

history

The area was part of the Principality of Rügen until 1326 and then the Duchy of Pomerania . With the Peace of Westphalia of 1648, Rügen and thus also the area of Kluis became part of Swedish Pomerania . In 1815 Kluis came to the Prussian province of Pomerania as part of New Western Pomerania .

Since 1818 Kluis has belonged to the district of Rügen . Only in the years from 1952 to 1955 was it part of the Bergen district. The community then belonged to the Rügen district in the Rostock district until 1990 and became part of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the same year. The district of Rügen, which has been called this again since 1990, was merged in 2011 in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen.