Kraatz (Northwestuckermark)

Kraatz Northwestuckermark municipality Coordinates: 53 ° 23 ′ 25 ″  N , 13 ° 39 ′ 54 ″  E
Height :	92 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.37 km²
Residents :	142  (Dec 31, 2006)
Population density :	15 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	November 1, 2001
Postal code :	17291
Area code :	039852
Village church

Kraatz is a district of the municipality Nordwestuckermark in the district of Uckermark in the northeast of the state of Brandenburg . The place was incorporated on November 1, 2001 and was previously an independent municipality.

location

Kraatz is located in the northwest of the Uckermark in the Uckermärkische Seen nature reserve , 15 kilometers northwest of the district town of Prenzlau and three kilometers from the state border with Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The district of Kraatz borders in the north on the district of Hetzdorf of the municipality of Uckerland , in the east on Schapow , in the south on Ferdinandshorst , in the west on Fürstenwerder and in the north-west on Wolfshagen , which in turn belongs to Uckerland. Other neighboring towns are Schlepkow , Augustfelde , Wittstock , Wilhelmshayn , Bülowssiege and Ottenhagen . The district of Damerow belongs to Kraatz .

Kraatz is on Kreisstraße 7338, a junction of Landesstraße 25 between Fürstenwerder and Prenzlau. The highest elevations in the area of ​​Kraatz are the Mühlenberge located southeast of the core town with a height of 103.6  m above sea level. NHN .

history

The place Kraatz was probably founded around the year 1250 by colonists from the Altmark and first mentioned in 1321 with the spelling Kraz . The place name comes from Old Polish and means something like "beautiful place". Kraatz became a desert early on and remained uninhabited until after the Thirty Years' War , the place was not settled again until the beginning of the 18th century. First the place came into the possession of the local noble family von Arnim and finally to the von Wedel .

A school in Kraatz is documented for the first time in 1740. In the Schmettauschen map series from 1767/87 the place appears as a street village with the name Kratz . In 1820 the Kraatz manor was sold to a Schröder family, through whom the village finally came to a Wendland family in 1890. In 1902 the place received a train station on the Dedelow – Fürstenwerder railway line . In 1921 Kraatz was bought by the Joh. Hoffmann settlement company from Berlin, which had an extension built on the road to Prenzlau in the south of the village . On September 30, 1928, the Kraatz estate with the Damerow b. Wolfhagen united to form the new rural community of Kraatz. After the end of the Second World War there was another increase in the number of inhabitants after refugees from the German eastern regions were housed in the former manor house.

After the GDR district reform in 1952, the Kraatz community belonged to the Prenzlau district in the Neubrandenburg district . In 1960 the farmers in Kraatz merged to form an agricultural production cooperative, which in 1967 merged with LPG von Damerow. In 1968 the elementary school in Kraatz was closed. The station ceased operations in 1978. Since the turnaround and the Brandenburg district reform in 1993, Kraatz has belonged to the Uckermark district .

On November 1, 2001, the municipality of Kraatz and nine other municipalities merged to form the new municipality of Nordwestuckermark .

Attractions

See also : List of architectural monuments in Nordwestuckermark # Kraatz

Fallen memorial

• The Protestant village church in Kraatz was built in 1854 and was consecrated on December 2, 1855. The building is a hall construction made of split stone in the neo-Gothic style with a three-sided east end. The equipment of the building comes from the construction time. A church was built in Kraatz when the village was founded in the 13th century, but the place fell into desolation shortly afterwards. During the resettlement of the local area, a half-timbered church was built around 1720, similar to the village church in Dargersdorf near Templin . At the beginning of the 19th century, this now dilapidated church was destroyed in a storm.
• Also in 1854 a manor was built in Kraatz , the manor house was built as a two-storey plastered building with a gable roof . A small park was created at the same time. A granary and a brick barn from 1865 as well as a syringe house and a stable building from the early 20th century also belonged to the estate . In 1995 parts of the manor were demolished.

Population development

year Residents 1875 208 1890 161 1925 242

year Residents 1933 293 1939 399 1946 531

year Residents 1950 515 1964 325 1971 289

year Residents 1981 186 1985 154 1989 127

year Residents 1995 121 2000 136

Territory of the respective year

Web links

Commons : Kraatz (Uckermark)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kraatz on the side of the municipality of Nordwestuckermark

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Community and district directory. In: geobasis-bb.de. Land surveying and geographic base information Brandenburg, accessed on February 18, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin. Age - origin - meaning . be.bra Wissenschaft, Berlin 2005, p. 95 .
3. ↑ ^{a b} districts - Kraatz. Municipality of Nordwestuckermark, accessed on February 18, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Georg Dehio ; edited by Gerhard Vinken u. a .: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, p. 568 .
5. ^ Kraatz Church. Municipality of Nordwestuckermark, accessed on February 18, 2019 . 
6. ^ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. (PDF; 331 KB) District Uckermark. State Office for Data Processing and Statistics State of Brandenburg, December 2006, accessed on February 18, 2019 . 

1. ↑ From 1933 with the district of Damerow.