Kunow (Schwedt / Oder)

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Kunow (Brandenburg)
Kunow
Kunow
Location of Kunow in Brandenburg

Kunow village church
Kunow estate

Kunow is a village in northeast Germany and belongs to the city of Schwedt / Oder in the Uckermark district in Brandenburg .

The village with about 400 inhabitants on a district area of ​​approx. 15 km² is located on a plateau near the terminal moraine that stretches north of the catfish and forms a striking relief with heights of 40 to 50 meters above the Welsebruch. Wine was cultivated on this south-sloping terrain well into the 19th century.

In 1281 Kunow was first mentioned in a document as Conow , when Duke Bogislaw IV of Pomerania confirmed the patronage of the church in Gartz , which a knight Heinrich de Thenis had given the monastery. Brandenburg settlers immigrated in the 13th century . From 1563 to 1723 Kunow was owned by the Pomeranian aristocratic Wolde family . In 1726, Margrave Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg-Schwedt - called "the great Margrave" - ​​acquired the place. From 1771 to 1795 the estate and from 1788 the domain Kunow was leased by Johann Justus Bandel (1725–1813), who was married to Helene Catharina Copal (1726–1814). Bandel had previously been the margrave's tenant on the nearby Wildenbruch estate from 1759 to 1765 .

Kunow belonged to the Randow district of the Prussian province of Pomerania from 1817 to 1939 . With the dissolution of the Randow district in 1939, the Greifenhagen district came into being . The southern and eastern boundary of Kunow was for a long time the border between Pomerania and Brandenburg-Prussia ; until 1945 the village was the southernmost point of the province of Pomerania west of the Oder . From 1950 to 1993 Kunow was a municipality in the Angermünde district in the Frankfurt (Oder) district . Since December 6, 1993 the place belongs to the city of Schwedt / Oder.

The place name comes from the Slavic word kon (= horse).

The village is characterized by agriculture, in recent years old farms have been reconstructed and new homes have been built. Village life is determined by the village association, the tractor club, the volunteer fire department and the fire department history Kunow eV

The Kunow volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1927 by around 20 men. The Uckermärkische Feuerwehrmuseum Kunow operated by the fire department history Kunow eV is also located in the village.

The village church in the center of Kunow, surrounded by a former cemetery wall, stands on a hilltop that rises above the surrounding level by about ten meters. The early Gothic stone building from the period between 1250 and 1275 consists of a nave , a retracted rectangular choir with pointed arched windows and the square west tower with a top and a pointed helmet . The west tower was built in the middle of the 18th century, the altar donated by the von Wolde family dates from 1719, and the inventory also includes a baptismal angel and valuable church stalls . On the church pews there are 61 painted symbols from the 1720s, one of the most extensive series of pictures of this kind preserved in a Pomeranian church. A specialty are the three additional entrances on the north side in addition to the portals on the south and west sides, including one of these called "turning door" on the ship.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c Norbert Buske : The emblematic world of images of the parish church in Kunow. In: Pomerania. Journal of Culture and History. Issue 1/2010, ISSN  0032-4167 , pp. 12-19.
  2. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office

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Commons : Kunow (Uckermark)  - Collection of images

Coordinates: 53 ° 8 '  N , 14 ° 15'  E