Larz

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 17 '  N , 12 ° 45'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Mecklenburg Lake District
Office :	Röbel-Müritz
Height :	66 m above sea level NHN
Area :	43.11 km 2
Residents:	495 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	11 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17248
Area code :	039833
License plate :	MSE, AT, DM, MC, MST, MÜR, NZ, RM, WRN
Community key :	13 0 71 087
Office administration address:	Marktplatz 1 17207 Röbel / Müritz
Website :	www.amt-roebel-mueritz.de
Mayor :	Hartmut Lehmann
Location of the municipality of Lärz in the Mecklenburg Lake District

Lärz is a municipality in the south of the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). It is administered by the Office Röbel-Müritz based in the city of Röbel / Müritz .

geography

location

Lärz is located south of the Müritz - in the Mecklenburg Lake District - between the Müritzhafen Rechlin and the small town of Mirow . The canal leads through the municipality from Mirow to Vietzen, it is part of the Müritz-Havel waterway . The west and south of the wooded district of Lärz is rich in lakes with Thüren , Tralowsee , Nebel , Müritzsee and Müritzarm ; the Sumpfsee and the Kleine Müritz are also nearby. The upper Elde flows into the Müritzsee, which is connected to the Müritz by the Müritzarm. The slightly hilly terrain around Lärz reaches a maximum of 89 m above sea level. NHN . The town of Mirow is five kilometers away, the town of Röbel / Müritz about 15 kilometers away.

Lärz is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Rechlin in the north, Mirow in the east, Schwarz in the south, Wittstock / Dosse in the south-west, Buchholz and Priborn in the west and Südmüritz in the north-west.

Districts

The districts of Alt Gaarz, Gaarzer Mühle, Ichlim, Krümmel , Neu Gaarz and Troja belong to Lärz .

history

In 1237, the originally Slavic settlement appeared as Lositz in a document from Prince Nikolaus von Werle . In 1257 Loziz was mentioned as a property of the Dobbertin Monastery . The old Polish place name was originally * Losica and was formed with the noun * los "Elch". It can be represented with the location of the elk .

In Lärz, in contrast to the lawlessness of the farm workers in the neighboring communities, the peasants had their own “village rules” (regulation of leasing to the peasants in 1859 through trials against the Dobbertin monastery), which was progressive for the Mecklenburg conditions at the time.

From 1914 to 1993, Lärz (connected to the neighboring municipality of Rechlin an der Müritz) was a military base. In 1941 the stationing of various test squadrons and the formation of a test command in Lärz. Tests with the world's first jet aircraft ( Heinkel He 178 ) took place at the Lärz airfield .

The railway connection established in 1922 from Mirow, Starsow branch, to Ellerholz, Rechlin led via Lärz. In 1967 the passenger traffic was stopped, the route was mainly used for military transport. It was planned to reactivate the railway line for tourist use, but it was dismantled in 2007. From 1934 to 1935 the street Mirow, Lärz, Vietzen was built. From 1934 to 1936 the Müritz-Havel Canal was built from Mirow via Lärz to Vietzen.

Because of the military facilities in the area, Lärz was also the target of heavy bombardments in 1944 and 1945. On May 21, 1944, the first deep attack by American fighter-bombers took place on the airfield. On May 24, 1944, thirteen US bombers dropped more bombs and on April 10, 1945, 105 US bombers dropped 232 tons of bombs on the Lärzer airfield.

On May 2, 1945, the area was occupied by the Red Army , which continued to use the airfield. In the 1980s, for example, up to 2,000 members of the Soviet armed forces were stationed in Lärz (fighter-bomber and helicopter squadrons). In March 1993 the troops, now known as the CIS armed forces, withdrew from Lärz.

The airfield has been used as a civil airfield by the operating company Müritzflugplatz Rechlin-Lärz since 1994. The Rechlin-Lärz aviation museum is located on the airfield. In addition to an exhibition about the Rechlin test site, it also houses several aircraft that can be viewed (Mi-8, MiG-21, Breguet Atlantic, etc.).

In November 2018 took place in Larz and Black a referendum to an area amending treaty instead, after the two communities with Rechlin were merged. Both in Lärz and in Schwarz, however, a majority voted against a merger. In Lärz, of the 439 eligible voters, 252 voted against and 75 for a merger. The turnout was around 74 percent.

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 torn off neck fur and crown and the inscription "GEMEINDE LÄRZ".

Culture

The Fusion Festival takes place in the town every year and the at.tension theater festival of the Kulturkosmos Müritz eV every two years.

Attractions

Church of Lärz

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Lärz

• In the village church of Lärz , built in 1724, there is a pulpit altar and remains of baroque ceiling paintings. The organ comes from the Silesian organ building company Schlag & Söhne . It was built in 1895 and is the only completely preserved instrument from this company in Mecklenburg.
• In the wood-paneled village church Alt Gaarz from 1854/55 there is a Buchholz organ . The church was built by the court architect Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel .
• The aviation museum at the Müritz Airpark airfield shows aircraft and a helicopter on 800 m² of exhibition space. The Fusion Festival takes place on the airfield every year in June .

traffic

Lärz is located on the road from Mirow to Rechlin , which, in contrast to federal highway 198 , passes south of Lärz airfield. To the south there is a road connection to the Rheinsberg in Brandenburg . The Röbel motorway junction on the A 19 (Rostock - Wittstock / Dosse triangle ) is around 21 km away. The next train station is in nearby Mirow (railway line to Neustrelitz ).

See also : Wittenberge – Strasburg railway line

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Printed sources

• Mecklenburg record book (MUB)
• Mecklenburg Yearbooks (MJB)

Unprinted sources

• State Main Archive Schwerin
  • LHAS 1.5-4 / 3 documents Dobbertin monastery.
  • LHAS 2.12-3 / 5 church visits
  • LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Provincial Monastery / Monastery Office Dobbertin.
  • LHAS 3.2-4 Knightly fire insurance. Larz No. 560-566.
  • LHAS 5.12-4 / 2 Mecklenburg Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests.

Web links

Commons : Lärz  - collection of images

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. ↑ MUB I. (1863) No. 469.
3. ↑ MUB I. (1863) No. 790.
4. ↑ Ernst Eichler and Werner Mühlmer: The names of cities in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Ingo Koch Verlag, Rostock 2002. ISBN 3-935319-23-1
5. ↑ Nadine Schuldt: Nothing will come of the merger of Lärz, Rechlin and Schwarz. In: Nordkurier. November 11, 2018, accessed December 31, 2018 . 
6. ↑ main statute § 1
7. ↑ http://www.kulturkosmos.de/