Korswandt

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 55 '  N , 14 ° 10'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Vorpommern-Greifswald
Office :	Usedom-South
Height :	15 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.8 km 2
Residents:	589 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	46 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17419
Area code :	038378
License plate :	VG, ANK, GW, PW, SBG, UEM, WLG
Community key :	13 0 75 065
Office administration address:	Markt 1 17406 Usedom
Website :	www.amtusedom.de
Mayor :	Karl-Josef Wurzel
Location of the municipality of Korswandt in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district

Korswandt is a municipality near the seaside resort Heringsdorf on the island of Usedom in the so-called Achterland . The municipality is administered by the Usedom-Süd office based in the city of Usedom .

Geography and traffic

Korswandt is located three kilometers south of Ahlbeck on the B 110 in the middle of the Usedom Island Nature Park on Wolgastsee . The border with Poland is to the east of the municipality . The Gothensee lies in the western part of the municipality . In the forest east of the Ulrichshorst district is the Krebssee, southeast of the Wolgastsee is the Black Heart .

Community structure

Districts Korswandt Ulrichshorst

Desolations and living spaces Aldehuses (desert) Seehof (living space) Sennin (desert)

history

Korswandt

The area around Korswandt was settled early on, as evidenced by many prehistoric sites. South of Korswandt, for example, there is a group of Bronze Age barrows (1800 to 600 BC).

The place was first mentioned in documents in 1243 as "Szuroswantz", when Duke Barnim I of Pomerania donated the village, the Lassovnisza brook , the forest up to the Szampisza mountain and the Wolgastsee to the Stolpe monastery. The name is interpreted as holy or consecrated. The place was mentioned very often in documents, although the spelling shows many changes. It was only after 1900 that the spelling with “K” instead of “C” prevailed.

Duke Bogislaw V of Pomerania killed the last aurochs in Pomerania in 1360 near the town . A border dispute with Reimar von Neuenkirchen was settled in 1390. In 1468 Korswandt, Zirchow and Senin were sold to the Pudagla monastery .

After the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, the place became Swedish like all of Western Pomerania . In 1709 he was first called Korswandt. At the end of the Great Northern War , like the entire island of Usedom after 1720, Korswandt became Prussian. King Friedrich II had the Gothensee lowered and the Thurbruch drained to reclaim land . To this end, he commissioned the Szczecin Department Council Ulrich to found a colony. In the street village of Ulrichshorst, which was named after its founder, 30 families from Mecklenburg and Swedish Pomerania were settled.

After the administrative reform in 1815, Korswandt came to the Prussian province of Pomerania and belonged to the district of Usedom-Wollin from 1818 to 1945 . The place is a pure street village and consisted of farmsteads in the north and a row of farm workers in the south according to the Prussian original measurement table from 1835. Until 1920, the place expanded further south-west towards Ulrichshorst because the main road was moved closer to Wolgastsee and no longer through led the old town center in an arc to the northwest. A forest farm and the restaurant " Idyll am Wolgastsee " were built on the new road in the direction of Ahlbeck .

In the area of ​​the then district of Korswandt near the eastern bank of the Wolgastsee, the waterworks for the city of Swinoujscie went into operation in 1910 . After the end of the Second World War , Swinoujscie came to Poland, the waterworks continued to be in the area of ​​the Soviet occupation zone and, from 1949, the GDR . Through a state treaty between Poland and the GDR with a handover protocol from June 11, 1951, the waterworks came to Poland with a 75 hectare bulge along the border to the west. This bulge is known today in Poland as a “sack” (pl. Worek ).

From 1945 to 1952, the municipality, with the part of the district of Usedom-Wollin that remained in Germany after the Second World War, formed the district of Usedom in the state of Mecklenburg . This was in 1952 in the district of Wolgast in District Rostock on.

During the GDR era, VEB Gummiwerke Thüringen Waltershausen built and maintained a company holiday camp for the children of its employees.

The community has belonged to the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania since 1990. From 1994 to 2011 it belonged to the district of Ostvorpommern , which was added to the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald on September 4, 2011 . Until 2005, the community belonged to the Ahlbeck-Stettiner Haff district.

Ulrichshorst

→ Main article : Ulrichshorst

Aldehuses (desert)

Aldehusen was first mentioned in a document with the same name in 1239. The name is interpreted as West Germanic / Frisian with "old house". The location cannot be determined exactly, but is said to have been near Ulrichshusen on Lake Gothensee. According to this dating, there is only one false document from 1247, the place had fallen desolate.

Sennin (desert)

Sennin was first mentioned in a document in 1256 as "Scenin". The Slavic name of the place is interpreted as "hay".

→ Main article : Sennin

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 region of Western Pomerania . It shows an upright griffin with a raised tail and the inscription "GEMEINDE KORSWANDT * LANDKREIS VORPOMMERN-GREIFSWALD".

Attractions

• Wolgastsee with boat rental
• Ulrichshorst campsite

→ See: List of architectural monuments in Korswandt

See also

• List of border towns in Germany

Web links

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

• Korswandt municipality on the website of the Usedom Süd office

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. ^ Klaus Conrad (arrangement): Pommersches Urkundenbuch . Volume 1. 2nd edition (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series 2, Vol. 1). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Vienna 1970, No. 421.
3. ^ ^{A b} Hermann Hoogeweg : The founders and monasteries of the province of Pomerania. Vol. 2. Leon Saunier, Stettin 1925, p. 690.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Manfred Niemeyer: Ostvorpommern I . Collection of sources and literature on place names. Vol. 1: Usedom. (= Greifswald contributions to toponymy. Vol. 1), Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, Institute for Slavic Studies, Greifswald 2001, ISBN 3-86006-149-6 . P. 5
5. ↑ Hans Branig : History of Pomerania Part II: From 1648 to the end of the 18th century . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-412-09796-9 , p. 155.
6. ↑ Main Statute, Section 1, Paragraph 3 (PDF).