Knorrendorf

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 38 '  N , 13 ° 4'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Mecklenburg Lake District
Office :	Stavenhagen
Height :	58 m above sea level NHN
Area :	28.51 km 2
Residents:	555 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	19 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17091
Area code :	039602
License plate :	MSE, AT, DM, MC, MST, MÜR, NZ, RM, WRN
Community key :	13 0 71 079
Community structure:	6 districts
Office administration address:	Castle 1 17153 Stavenhagen
Website :	www.stavenhagen.de
Mayor :	Sebastian Henke
Location of the municipality of Knorrendorf in the Mecklenburg Lake District

Knorrendorf is a municipality in the Mecklenburg Lake District . It is located northwest of Neubrandenburg and belongs to the Stavenhagen office , which has its administrative headquarters in the Reuterstadt Stavenhagen .

Geography and traffic

Knorrendorf is about 14 kilometers southeast of Stavenhagen and 16 kilometers northwest of Neubrandenburg . The federal road 104 and the Bützow – Szczecin railway cross the community. In the northeast lies the Kastorfer See and south of it the Gädebehner See .

The districts of the community are Gädebehn, Friedrichsruh, Kleeth, Kleeth-Siedlung, Kastorf and Knorrendorf.

history

Knorrendorf is a former manor village, the basic structure of which can hardly be read in today's village structure. The former manor house and a village pond have been preserved. The estate was owned by the von Zülow family from ancient times until 1932 . In 1760 the Oldenburg family was named as the owner.

The districts of Friedrichsruh, Gädebehn, Kastorf and Kleeth were originally manor villages. Kastorf has a symmetrically laid out manor. The castle and some farm buildings have been preserved. Gut Kleeth was managed by Count Königsmark in the 1920s. Kleeth was resettled in the 1930s.

On January 1, 1951, the community of Knorrendorf was created through the merger of the forerunner communities of Kastorf and Kleeth.

politics

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 a torn off neck fur and crown and the inscription "GEMEINDE KNORRENDORF • LANDKREIS MECKLENBURGISCHE SEENPLATTE".

Attractions

→ See also the list of architectural monuments in Knorrendorf

• Manor house (castle) Kastorf from the beginning of the 18th century and neo-Gothic renovation in the 19th century; three-storey, nine-axis plastered building with central risalit and stepped gable
• Kastorf estate park with dendrological features
• Evangelical Church Kastorf as a brick building from 1788 with cemetery
• Gädebehn manor from around 1850 as a two-storey, 13-axis renovated plastered building with a medium risalit , today a restaurant
• Gutshaus Kleeth, clinkered, renovated building with a mansard roof , probably from around 1860, around 1955 demolition of a wing of the formerly T-shaped complex
• Yugoslavian ramparts Gädebehn - earth walls are no longer visible

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  Knorrendorf Manor, around 1980

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  Manor house in Kastorf

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  Church in Kastorf

Personalities

• Conrad Lüder von Pentz (1728–1782) born officer and genealogist in Gädebehn

Web links

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

• Knorrendorf at www.stavenhagen.de

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. ↑ Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy . Volume 2, Berlin 1856, p. 165
3. ↑ Main Statute, Section 1, Paragraph 2