Kröpelin

Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Rostock
Height :	60 m above sea level NHN
Area :	67.34 km 2
Residents:	4752 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	71 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	18236
Primaries :	038292, 038294
License plate :	LRO, BÜZ, DBR, GÜ, ROS, TET
Community key :	13 0 72 058
; City administration address :	Market 1 ; 18236 Kröpelin
Website :	www.kroepelin.de
Mayor :	Thomas Gutteck
Location of the city of Kröpelin in the Rostock district

Kröpelin is an office- free small town and a basic center in the Rostock district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany).

geography

Geographical location

The city lies between the Hanseatic cities of Wismar and Rostock and is up to 80 m above sea level. NHN unusually high for its proximity to the Baltic Sea, which is about 12 km away. The reason for this is the wooded mountain range of the cooling system that extends between Kühlungsborn on the coast and Kröpelin , which is 129.7 m above sea level in Diedrichshagener Berg . Reached NHN.

City structure

The following districts belong to Kröpelin:


Altenhagen Boldenshagen Brusow Detershagen Diedrichshagen Hawking	Big Siemen Hanshagen horst Hundehagen Jennewitz	Klein Nienhagen Small Siemen Parchow expansion Schmadebeck Wichmannsdorf

Neighboring communities

Kröpelin is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Kühlungsborn and Wittenbeck in the north, Steffenshagen and Reddelich in the northeast, Retschow in the east, Satow in the south, Carinerland in the southwest, Biendorf in the west and Bastorf in the northwest.

history

City Church

Half-timbered house on the market

Name and coat of arms

The place name is of Slavic origin ( "crepelita" - quail field or "crepelice" - quail place). The name derivation from the term cripple is folk etymology . The coat of arms is a talking coat of arms , which is not based on the language root, but the pictorial implementation of the city name.

middle Ages

The first documentary mention was made in 1177 as Crapelin . The church village was designated as a Doberan monastery property in 1186. From a German village near the old Slavic settlement, a regular city system was created, oriented in an east-west direction. In a deed of donation from Prince Heinrich Borwin III. Kröpelin was first referred to as a city (oppidum) on August 25, 1250. The granting of the town charter of the city of Lübeck is accepted for the year before, i.e. 1249. Therefore, it was decided to celebrate the round city anniversaries a year before, for example the 750th anniversary in 1999.

Kröpelin became a country town in Mecklenburg and until 1918 was represented as part of the towns of the Mecklenburg district on state parliaments. The town church dates from the 13th century with the choir , the nave from the 14th and the tower from the 15th century. The upper floor of the tower and the spire were built in 1883.

Since the 19th century

At the beginning of the 19th century, Jews settled in Kröpelin, who in 1821 set up the Jewish cemetery in the Kahlwiesen . During the November pogrom of 1938 it was desecrated by the Nazis and then fell into disrepair until its remains were later given a memorial stone to commemorate the Jewish victims of fascism in the Shoah .

From 1952 to 2011 Kröpelin belonged to the Bad Doberan district (until 1990 in the GDR district of Rostock , 1990–2011 in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). The city has been in the Rostock district since 2011 .

The city center and town hall have been thoroughly renovated since 1991 as part of the urban development subsidy.

Until June 13, 2004, the city was a member and seat of the office of Kröpelin .

Incorporations

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent communities Brusow and Detershagen were incorporated. Altenhagen, Jennewitz and Schmadebeck were added on June 13, 2004.

Population development

year	Residents
1990	4431
1995	4331
2000	4211
2005	5029
2010	4745

year	Residents
2015	4787
2016	4773
2017	4780
2018	4784
2019	4752

Status: December 31 of the respective year

The strong increase in the number of inhabitants in 2005 is due to the incorporation of three places in 2004.

politics

City council

The city council of Kröpelin consists of 17 members and the mayor. The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following result with a turnout of 50.2%:

town hall

Party / list	Voices 2014	Voices 2019	Seats 2014	Seats 2019
CDU	41.3%	38.4%	7th	6th
Free community of voters Kröpelin	16.2%	28.0%	3	5
SPD	23.5%	15.1%	4th	3
The left	15.9%	12.2%	3	2
Alliance 90 / The Greens	-	06.3%	-	1

mayor

1791–1827: Daniel Konrad Heinrich Ciese
1827–1833: Konrad August Ackermann
1833–1850: Andreas Burchard Röper
1850–1852: Julius Joachim Konrad Moritz Störzel
1852–1855: Johann August Friedrich Otto Schultz
1855–1872: Ludwig Karrig
1872–1878: Ludwig August Theodor Busch
1879: Adolf Weltzin
1879–1900: Rudolf Karl August Louis Schmidt (acting)
1899–1900: Lange
1900–1935: Friedrich Pfenningsdorf
1935–1945: Hans Kähler
1945: Alex Michaels

1945: Karl Hillgraf
1945–1946: Hans Bülow
1946–1948: Hans Nünke
1948–1949: Erich Raabe
1949–1952: Martin Ziggel
1952–1954: Horst Didzus
1954–1957: settlers
1957–1974: Hans Kickbusch
1974–1990: Franz Zielinski
1990–1999: Karl-Heinz Schwarck (SPD)
1999-2008: Paul Schlutow
2008-2014: Hubertus Wunschik (Greens)
since 2017: Thomas Gutteck (independent)

Gutteck was elected in the mayoral election on February 26, 2017 without an opponent with 90.6% of the valid votes.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was established on April 10, 1858 by Friedrich Franz II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and registered under the number 66 of the coat of arms of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. On March 24, 1997, the city council decided to introduce the current coat of arms, which was approved by the Ministry of the Interior on June 8, 1999.

Blazon : “In blue a cripple crawling to the left with a silver robe, natural flesh color (exceptional color), with a golden cone hat, silver hair and golden blocks on the lower legs and in the hands; above the cripple a golden shield, leaning to the left, with a black bull's head with silver horns and a golden crown of prince, of which five prongs are visible. "

The crawling disabled person is represented in the Kröpelin seal with the bull's head as early as 1306. The black bull's head in the coat of arms represents the affiliation to the state of Mecklenburg through the reference to the Rostock branch line of the Mecklenburg princely house.

The coat of arms was redrawn by Michael Zapfe from Weimar and the color of the details changed.

Town twinning

A partnership has existed since 1990 with the Lower Saxony municipalities of Hude and Schwarmstedt and with the French city of Arnage , a southern suburb of Le Mans in the Sarthe department . In 2003 a town twinning with the Polish city of Włoszakowice in the powiat Leszczyński was concluded.

Sights and culture

View from the market to the mill

Buildings

Stadtkirche Kröpelin , Gothic brick church with a two-bay choir from the 13th century and a single - nave three-bay nave from the 14th century. The tower of the 15th century was in 1883, a new floor and a spire . The bronze baptismal font is dated to 1508, the baroque pulpit to 1786, the neo-Gothic altar wall to 1857 and the organ to 1845.

"Submersible" windmill from 1904 in Kröpelin. When you drive from the market in Kröpelin in the direction of Bad Doberan, you get the impression that the Galerieholländer windmill disappears into the ground and then reappears because of the change between hill and valley.

Erdholländermühle from 1876 (north of it) without blades and compass rose, used as an apartment

Wichmannsdorf mansion, renovated by 2007 (architect: Paul Korff ).

Building at Hauptstrasse 5 with the city library , city museum and Ostrock museum

Gallery Dutch windmill

Culture

City Library , City Museum , Ostrock Museum , opened in July 2015 , Hauptstrasse 5

Dorfrock in Schmadebeck (annually since 1996), where mainly well-known Ostrock bands perform

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

In the industrial area at the western entrance to the town of Kröpelin, several companies in the fields of services (tourism) and production (metalworking) are active. Around 170 jobs have been created in the Kröpelin workshops for people with disabilities . Agriculture continues to play an important role. Among other things, there is a dairy cattle facility on the outskirts. The companies in Kröpelin are exclusively medium-sized and sole proprietorships.

Transmitter

To the north of the district of Diedrichshagen at 54 ° 6'23 "north latitude and 11 ° 45'58" east longitude is a Deutsche Telekom AG transmitter. A 97 meter high, guyed steel truss mast is used as the antenna carrier. The following programs are broadcast:

Station name	frequency	ERP
NDR 1 MV	094.3 MHz	0.2 kW
N-Joy	103.7 MHz	, 05 kW

traffic

Kröpelin is on the federal road 105 (Rostock – Wismar), on the state roads L 11 ( Kühlungsborn –Kröpelin– Bützow ) and L 122 to Rerik . 15 kilometers south of the city is the Kröpelin junction of the same name on the A 20 Baltic Sea motorway .

The place has a train station on the Wismar – Rostock railway line . It is served by the regional train line RB 11 ( Wismar - Rostock - Ticino ).

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Johann Heinrich Reinecke (1755–1839), lawyer
Conrad August Ackermann (1791–1861), mayor from 1827 to 1833; Lawyer, writer and freemason
Johann Gottfried Tiedemann (1803–1850), printer
Christoph Hävernick (1810–1845), theologian
Johann Gustav Gildemeister (1812–1890), orientalist, born in Klein-Siemen
Carl August Ackermann (1829–1913), police advisor and editor
Carl Malchin (1838–1923), painter
Heinrich Klenz (1860–1925), literary scholar
Helmuth Borck (1863–1933), physician
Wilhelmlesenberg (1885–1914), art historian
Wilhelm Selke (1893–1945), trade unionist
Manfred Oeming (* 1955), theologian

Personalities associated with Kröpelin

Walter Schmidt (1858–1925), lawyer, court assessor in Kröpelin
Friedrich Pfenningsdorf (1870–1945), mayor of Kröpelin

literature

City of Kröpelin (ed.): The history of the city of Kröpelin: Chronicle . Keuer, Neubukow 1999, DNB 987792563 ( uni-rostock.de [PDF] (2 volumes, volume 1 with printed sheets from 1932)).
Schreiber, Heinrich: The witch of Kröpelin . Michaels, Kröpelin and Arendsee 1911 (using the record of weil. Cand. Theol. Rönnberg).
Schreiber, Heinrich: The witch of Kröpelin and other episodes about witchcraft and superstition . Ostsee-Bote, Kröpelin 1998, DNB 953573168 .

Web links

Commons : Kröpelin - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

↑ 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 ).

↑ Regional Spatial Development Program Central Mecklenburg / Rostock 2011 - Central locations and perspective development, planning region MMR, accessed on July 12, 2015

^ Main statute of the city of Kröpelin

^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2004

↑ Population development of the districts and municipalities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Statistical Report AI of the Statistical Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)

^ Local elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Municipal councils of the municipalities belonging to the district - final result. P. 88.

↑ [ https://www.stadt-kroepelin.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/entg%C3%BCltiges_Wahlverbindungen_SV_26052019.pdf City of Kröpelin, city representative election on May 26, 2019, final election result

↑ Thomas Gutteck is the new mayor. In: Ostsee-Zeitung , February 27, 2017.

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-MV-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 ).