Klütz

This article deals with the city of Klütz in Mecklenburg; for the place Klütz in Pomerania see Klucz (Stettin) . For the German soccer player and coach, see Jörg-Uwe Klütz .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 58 '  N , 11 ° 10'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Northwest Mecklenburg
Office :	Klützer Winkel
Height :	12 m above sea level NHN
Area :	44.13 km 2
Residents:	3053 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	69 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	23948, 23946 (Tarnewitzerhagen)
Area code :	038825
License plate :	NWM, GDB, GVM, WIS
Community key :	13 0 74 039
City administration address :	Schlossstrasse 1 23948 Klütz
Website :	www.kluetz-mv.de
Mayor :	Jürgen Mevius
Location of the city of Klütz in the north-west Mecklenburg district

Klütz [ klyːt͡s ] is a town in the north of the district of Northwest Mecklenburg in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). It is the seat of the office of Klützer Winkel , to which another five communities belong. The city is part of the Hamburg metropolitan region and is also a basic center for its surroundings .

geography

Geographical location

Klütz is the center of the Klützer Winkel region between Lübeck and Wismar near the Boltenhagen spa .

City structure

The following districts belong to the city of Klütz:

Klütz Arpshagen Christinenfeld	Goldbeck Grundshagen Hofzumfelde	Cooling stone Niederklütz Oberhof	Steinbeck Tarnewitzerhagen Wohlenberg

history

Surname

The name Klütz comes from the Old Polish noun kľuč (German: source ). The silva cliuz , i.e. the forest near Klütz, is mentioned in 1188. Clutse , Clütze (1237), Cluthze , Klutz (1267) and Cluze (1273) were then called in the 13th century, from which the Klütz today became.

Early history

Already during the Neolithic and the Bronze Age people settled around Klütz; until the Great Migration they were Germanic tribes , then Slavic tribes and from the middle of the 12th century German settlers. The forest area was mentioned as silva cliuz as early as 1188 , the place and the parish in 1230 in the Ratzeburg tithe register , which lists the villages that were then part of the Ratzeburg diocese according to parishes . Klütz was under Mecklenburg sovereignty in the Middle Ages. The spot was the economic center of an agricultural area.

The construction of the Gothic three-aisled town church St. Marien began in the middle of the 13th century. The square tower followed in the 14th century. The vault in the nave had to be replaced from 1701.

Knight families in the Klützer Winkel

The Knights of Plessen ruled the Klützer Winkel from the 14th to the beginning of the 18th century . Hans Caspar von Bothmer then bought large parts of the Klützer Winkel and owned around 7,000 hectares of land. The baroque castle of the Counts of Bothmer was built from 1726 to 1732 according to English and Dutch models and plans by Johann Friedrich Künnecke . The 11.7 hectare palace complex with the 250-year-old Festonallee made of linden trees that have been trellised and trimmed has become the city's landmark. Crafts and trade flourished, and from 1713 to 1924 only Klütz had market justice in the area . Market day on the first Thursday in October has had a special meaning since around 1660.

19th and 20th centuries

In 1873/74 the first solid road to Grevesmühlen was built. The Ramelow fashion house was founded in Klütz in 1872 . In 1905 the Grevesmühlen – Klütz railway line was opened. On April 1, 1938, Klütz was granted town charter and was the smallest town in Mecklenburg with around 1,300 inhabitants.

Shortly before the end of the Second World War , British troops occupied the city in early May 1945 and handed it over to the Red Army in late July . The population doubled due to the influx of refugees and displaced persons from the eastern German regions . From 1952 to 1994 Klütz belonged to the Grevesmühlen district (until 1990 in the GDR district of Rostock , 1990–1994 in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). Since 1994 the city has been in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg .

After 1991, the small city center was completely renovated as part of the urban development subsidy.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent communities Goldbeck, Grundshagen and Tarnewitzerhagen were incorporated. In the 1950s, the districts of Niederklütz, Steinbeck, Kühlenstein, Arpshagen, Hofzumfelde, Christinenfeld, Eulenkrug, Oberhof and Wohlenberg were connected.

Population development

year Residents 1990 3522 1995 3358 2000 3275 2005 3182 2010 3066

year Residents 2015 3095 2016 3116 2017 3133 2018 3114 2019 3053

Status: December 31 of the respective year

politics

City council

The city council of Klütz consists of 14 members and the mayor. Since the local elections on May 26, 2019, it has been composed as follows:

Party / group of voters	be right	Seats
Independent voter community (UWG)	41.7%	6th
CDU	28.2%	4th
SPD	11.9%	2
The left	09.2%	1
Individual applicant Alexander Marx	09.0%	1

mayor

• 2014–2019: Guntram Jung (CDU)
• since 2019: Jürgen Mevius (Independent Voting Association)

Mevius was elected in the mayoral election on May 26, 2019 with 63.8% of the valid votes for a term of five years.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In green, a silver owl sitting on two diagonally crossed, laterally curved, four-leaf golden linden branches, above two diagonally crossed three-leaved golden linden branches." The coat of arms was designed by the Weimar heraldist Michael Zapfe . It was approved by the Ministry of the Interior on April 2, 1997 and registered under the number 123 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Justification of the coat of arms: In the coat of arms, which was revised in 1997, the owl refers to the "Uhlennest" , as the city has been called since the previous century because of its many owls. The linden trees stand on the one hand for the avenues of lime trees surrounding the castle and Park Bothmer, on the other hand for the extensive deciduous forest in the city area. Since, according to the latest linguistic findings, the Slavic place name does not mean key, but source, a key symbol had to be dispensed with when the coat of arms was redesigned.

Historical city arms

	Blazon : "A torn green oak in gold." The coat of arms was designed by Hans Herbert Schweitzer . It was awarded on October 1, 1943 by the Reichsstatthalter in Mecklenburg.
	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms lost its validity soon after the end of World War II.

Blazon : "Sitting in gold on a silver Fries, a natural owl; the frieze is covered with alternating green oak trees and leaves; a black key lying in the red base of the shield. " The coat of arms was adopted by the city in 1957.

Foundation of the coat of arms: Since 1943, Klütz had a green oak in the gold coat of arms. Since the tree was not tied to tradition for the past of the place and had no relation to the place, the coat of arms was redesigned in 1957. The owl portrait refers to the "Uhlennest" , as Klütz has been called since the last century. The silver frieze symbolizes the wooded Klützer Winkel , while the key indicates the Slavic origin of the town's name. However, the coat of arms did not correspond to the heraldic design principles.

flag

The flag is striped lengthways in green, yellow and green. The green stripes each take up one twelfth, the yellow stripe five sixths of the height of the flag cloth. In the middle of the yellow stripe is the city coat of arms, which takes up two thirds of the height of the flag. The relation of the height of the flag cloth to the length is like 3: 5.

Official seal

The official seal shows the city's coat of arms with the inscription "STADT KLÜTZ • LANDKREIS NORDWESTMECKLENBURG".

Town twinning

Klütz has a partnership with Bad Arolsen ( Hessen ).

Sights and culture

→ See also the list of architectural monuments in Klütz

Buildings

• The brick church of St. Mary with a tower that can be seen from afar, a three-aisled hall and an indented choir , dates from the transition period between late Romanesque and brick Gothic
• Bothmer Castle , multi-wing structure, built for Hans Caspar von Bothmer until 1732 according to plans by Johann Friedrich Künnecke . The city therefore advertises with the name Schlossstadt Klütz .
• “Uwe Johnson” literary house in a renovated four-storey former bean and grain store from 1890
• Windmill Klütz , restored gallery Dutch mill that was converted into a restaurant in the 1980s
• Catholic Church of St. Mary of the Assumption
• Model park with works from the Mecklenburg Lake District model park in Neubrandenburg, which was dissolved in 2011
• Old brick dairy, now an art and culture house, Lübecker Straße 3
• Old forge, Rudolf-Breitscheid-Straße 12
• Old school, Boltenhagener Straße 18
• Former customs house, Rudolf-Breitscheid-Straße 1
• Remains of Arpshagen Castle (built after 1200) with manor house (around 1900) in the west of the city
• Oberhof mansion, two-storey, 13-axis plastered building from 1780 with neo-baroque renovation after 1900, park with old trees, today holiday apartments in the mansion and coach house
• Klütz station, Bahnhofstrasse 4, is a listed building
• Old cemetery on Wismarschen Strasse, grave complex from 1960, redesigned as a memorial in 1970, with a memorial stone for 16 of the more than 7,000 concentration camp prisoners who perished in the sinking of Cap Arcona, as well as graves of a prisoner known by name from Dachau concentration camp and an unknown Polish slave laborer . The mass grave and memorial are in the middle of the main path, then to the side.

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  St. Mary's Church

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  Bothmer Castle

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  Gallery Dutch mill

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  Klütz station (2015)

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  Cenotaph for the victims of the Cap Arcona

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  Literature House

Culture

• "Uwe Johnson" literature house, dedicated to the writer Uwe Johnson and his work. Two floors are home to a permanent Johnson exhibition and readings are held. At the same time, the house serves as the local library.

• Art and culture house industrial monument Alte Molkerei with monthly cinema program of the mobile cinema Filmklub Güstrow and the state association for film communication Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , other cultural events and a gallery

Klütz in literature

Klütz is the Jerichow in Uwe Johnson's literary work , the city of the Cresspahls in the speculations about Jakob and in the filmed anniversaries .

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

Many small and medium-sized companies have settled in Klütz and the surrounding area. Tourism with hotels, restaurants, pensions and private accommodation is important.

Train “De Lütt Kaffeebrenner” in Klütz station

traffic

Klütz is on Landesstrasse 01 between Dassow and Wismar . The closest motorway junction is Grevesmühlen on the A 20 ( Lübeck - Rostock ).

The Grevesmühlen – Klütz railway line was dismantled in 2006. In 2012–2014, the connection between Klütz and Reppenhagen was rebuilt as a narrow-gauge line and operation as a tourist railway with historical cars was started.

The nearest train station is Grevesmühlen on the Lübeck – Bad Kleinen railway line .

Public facilities

• Office Klützer Winkel, Schloßstraße 1
• Klütz City Library in the Uwe Johnson Literature House , Im Thurow 14
• Volunteer fire brigade Klütz, An der Festwiese 3

Education and Social

• Regional school Klütz, all-day school from 5th grade, Straße des Friedens 2
• Kindergarten and day-care center Schlossspatzen , Pfarrhufe 4
• Youth club
• Retirement home
• DRK residential complex

Sports

• SV Klütz, plays in the regional football league Schwerin-Nordwestmecklenburg in the 2020/21 season

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Johann Dietrich Mellmann (1746–1801), legal scholar
• Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Mellmann (1764–1795), classical philologist
• Carl Friederich Christian Kelling (1818–1898), New Zealand immigrant, co-founder of the German settlement Ranzau near Nelson
• Johann Friederich August Kelling (1820–1909), New Zealand immigrant, co-founder of the German settlement of Ranzau
• Carl Lueder (1840–1892), consular officer
• Kuno Leonhardt (1848–1931), member of the state parliament in Saxony-Meiningen
• Emil Kloth (1864–1942), trade unionist

Personalities associated with Klütz

• Carl Griewank (1795–1872), Provost in Klütz
• August Erdmann (1801–1883), pastor in Klütz
• Martha Frahm (1894–1969), mother of Willy Brandt , attended elementary school in Klütz
• Simone Oldenburg (* 1969), politician (Die Linke), teacher in Klütz

Web links

Commons : Klütz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Internet presence of the city of Klütz
• Everything about the city of Klütz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Search for "Stadt Klütz" in the German Digital Library
• Literature about Klütz in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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 ).
2. ^ Regional Spatial Development Program West Mecklenburg (2011). Regional planning association, accessed on July 12, 2015.
3. ^ Main statute of the city of Klütz. § 2. Accessed December 14, 2019 . 
4. ^ ^{A b} Ernst Eichler , Werner Mühlner: The names of the cities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Ingo Koch Verlag, Rostock 2002, ISBN 3-935319-23-1 .
5. ^ Dehio: Mecklenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1980, p. 178.
6. ^ Dehio: Mecklenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1980, p. 179.
7. ↑ Population development of the districts and municipalities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Statistical Report AI of the Statistical Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
8. ↑ Result of the local elections on May 26, 2019. Accessed on August 21, 2020 . 
9. ↑ A clear result surprised both candidates. In: Lübecker Nachrichten Online. May 19, 2019, accessed December 14, 2019 . 
10. ↑ ^{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. 169 .
11. ^ Heinz Machatscheck: Lexicon cities and coats of arms of the German Democratic Republic . Ed .: Heinz Göschel. 1st edition. VEB Verlag Enzyklopädie, Leipzig 1979, p. 223 .
12. ↑ ^{a b} main statute § 1 (PDF).
13. ↑ alte-molkerei-kluetz.de
14. ↑ De Lütt coffee burner. Retrieved September 4, 2014.