Löcknitz

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Löcknitz
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Coordinates: 53 ° 27 '  N , 14 ° 13'  E

Basic data
State : Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County : Vorpommern-Greifswald
Office : Löcknitz-Penkun
Height : 34 m above sea level NHN
Area : 22.67 km 2
Residents: 3217 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 142 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 17321
Area code : 039754
License plate : VG, ANK, GW, PW, SBG, UEM, WLG
Community key : 13 0 75 079
Office administration address: Chausseestraße 30
17321 Löcknitz
Website : www.loecknitz.eu
Mayor : Detlef Ebert ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Löcknitz in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district
Brandenburg Landkreis Mecklenburgische Seenplatte Landkreis Vorpommern-Rügen Landkreis Vorpommern-Rügen Landkreis Vorpommern-Rügen Landkreis Vorpommern-Rügen Buggenhagen Krummin Lassan Wolgast Wolgast Zemitz Ahlbeck (bei Ueckermünde) Altwarp Eggesin Grambin Hintersee (Vorpommern) Leopoldshagen Liepgarten Luckow Luckow Lübs (Vorpommern) Meiersberg Mönkebude Vogelsang-Warsin Bargischow Bargischow Blesewitz Boldekow Bugewitz Butzow Ducherow Iven Krien Krusenfelde Neetzow-Liepen Medow Neetzow-Liepen Neu Kosenow Neuenkirchen (bei Anklam) Postlow Rossin Sarnow Spantekow Stolpe an der Peene Alt Tellin Bentzin Daberkow Jarmen Kruckow Tutow Völschow Behrenhoff Dargelin Dersekow Hinrichshagen (Vorpommern) Levenhagen Mesekenhagen Neuenkirchen (bei Greifswald) Weitenhagen Bergholz Blankensee (Vorpommern) Boock (Vorpommern) Glasow (Vorpommern) Grambow (Vorpommern) Löcknitz Nadrensee Krackow Penkun Plöwen Ramin Rossow Rothenklempenow Brünzow Hanshagen Katzow Kemnitz (bei Greifswald) Kröslin Kröslin Loissin Lubmin Neu Boltenhagen Rubenow Wusterhusen Görmin Loitz Sassen-Trantow Altwigshagen Ferdinandshof Hammer a. d. Uecker Heinrichswalde Rothemühl Torgelow Torgelow Torgelow Wilhelmsburg (Vorpommern) Jatznick Brietzig Damerow (Rollwitz) Fahrenwalde Groß Luckow Jatznick Jatznick Koblentz Krugsdorf Nieden Papendorf (Vorpommern) Polzow Rollwitz Schönwalde (Vorpommern) Viereck (Vorpommern) Zerrenthin Züsedom Karlshagen Mölschow Peenemünde Trassenheide Benz (Usedom) Dargen Garz (Usedom) Kamminke Korswandt Koserow Loddin Mellenthin Pudagla Rankwitz Stolpe auf Usedom Ückeritz Usedom (Stadt) Zempin Zirchow Bandelin Gribow Groß Kiesow Groß Polzin Gützkow Gützkow Karlsburg Klein Bünzow Murchin Rubkow Schmatzin Wrangelsburg Ziethen (bei Anklam) Züssow Heringsdorf Pasewalk Strasburg (Uckermark) Ueckermünde Wackerow Greifswald Greifswald Polenmap
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Löcknitz is a municipality in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany) and the administrative seat of the Löcknitz-Penkun office . It forms a basic center for its environment .

geography

Geographical location

The municipality of Löcknitz, located in the Western Pomerania region, is located at a ford of the Randow River between Pasewalk and Stettin (Szczecin). The wide floodplain of the Randowbruch extends north and south of Löcknitz. The Randow formed 14,000 years ago during the Rosenthaler Staffel in the Pomeranian stage of the Weichselian glacial period as the outflow of meltwater from the inland ice that was retreating in the 1,000 to 6,000 meter wide Netze Randow glacial valley . From the Randow, originally the left branch of the Oder , only a small river a few meters wide remains.

Community structure

The district of Gorkow belongs to the municipality of Löcknitz.

Places to live are Bollbrücke and Löcknitzer Kamp.

Neighboring communities

Clockwise, starting from the north, Löcknitz borders on the following communities: Rothenklempenow , Boock , Plöwen , Ramin , Bergholz and Rossow .

history

Surname

In a deed of gift of the Duke Bogislaw II. Pomeranian of 1212 is as witness Thomas de Lokenitz listed as episcopal Vogt of löcknitz castle and the name Loecknitz first mentioned. In another document] from 1267, the place Lokenitz (Slavic for river of puddles , swamp hole or pit depression ) is mentioned again in a document. The Randow, which flows through Löcknitz, was mainly called Lochnitza until around 1700 . The river was first mentioned with this name in a deed of donation from 1216, and again in 1288 in a deed describing the boundaries of the Uckermark. The term Randow, on the other hand, was originally just the name for the wetlands along the river in the Randowbruch.

Early history

The landmark of Löcknitz: Löcknitz Castle with the keep

Excavation finds show that the area was already settled in the Stone Age . In the 7th / 8th In the 19th century, Slavic Ukranians settled in the area. The Slavic castle Lokenitza was originally built by Pomerania probably around 1100 . In the 13th century, a German castle made of brickwork was built , probably under the Pomeranian Duke Barnim I “the city founder” .

middle Ages

Because of its location at the ford on the Randow River and on the border between Pomerania and Brandenburg, Löcknitz was often fought over. It belonged to the Duchy of Pomerania until 1250 . With the conclusion of the Landin Treaty , Löcknitz then switched to the Mark Brandenburg in an area swap , where it remained until 1373. From 1295 to 1373 the Uckermark and Löcknitz were fiercely contested between the Dukes of Pomerania, the Margraves of Brandenburg, the Dukes of Poland, the Bishops of Cammin, the Kings of Denmark and the Dukes of Mecklenburg. The Fürstenwalde Treaty temporarily pacified the area. In 1373, at the latest in 1385, Duke Swantibor III acquired. from Pomerania-Stettin castle and place Löcknitz from the diocese of Cammin. Löcknitz belonged again to Pomerania until 1468. After the destruction caused by wars, the Lords of Wussow began to renovate and expand the castle into a castle and kept Löcknitz until 1416. In 1433 at the latest, Löcknitz von Pomerania was given as a fief to the von Heydebreck family until 1468. After the death of Duke Otto III. of Pomerania-Stettin and the outbreak of the Stettin succession dispute, war broke out again between Pomerania and Brandenburg and Löcknitz was conquered by Brandenburg in 1468. In 1471 new castle captains and officials were appointed by Brandenburg . Löcknitz belonged to the Uckermark region in Brandenburg from 1468 until 1818 . Elector Albrecht III. In 1479 Achilles of Brandenburg enfeoffed Werner von der Schulenburg with the hereditary captaincy over the Löcknitz Castle , which was owned by this family until 1688. The family enlarged their possessions and had a castle built next to the castle in 1557.

16./17. century

In the Thirty Years War in 1627 imperial troops invaded the Uckermark, occupied u. a. Löcknitz and withdrew against payment of 9,000 thalers by the Duke of Pomerania. In the summer of 1627 imperial troops under Albrecht von Wallenstein again occupied the place and in 1630 Swedish troops; these remained. Due to the war and the plague of 1637/38, Löcknitz had only 48 of 197 farmers left, and only one of 80 farms . After the Peace of Westphalia, Löcknitz remained near Brandenburg.

Theatrum Europaeum 1633–1738 (Matthäus Merian): “Ground plan of the Hösten Grentzhauses Löckenitz. So the Swedes were taken afterwards but again conquered by Chur Brandenburg. This is what happened there on February 3rd A ° 1676 ”.

In the Swedish-Brandenburg War from 1674 to 1679, fighting again took place between Sweden and Brandenburg in the Löcknitz area in 1675. In order to prevent further incursions by the Swedes from Löcknitz to Brandenburg and the Uckermark, Brandenburg undertook its so-called Pomeranian campaign in 1675/76 . In 1676 she conquered the Löcknitz fortress.

In 1672 it said: “Löcknitz, where from time immemorial a town, but now ruined and there is nothing to be found here, besides the renovated fortress, a royal farm, the post house, the jug and a sheep farm, the mill and a few others Houses. ”The Huguenots also found settlements in the Uckermark, and brought with them the cultivation of tobacco and silk worms .

18th century

Place and castle Löcknitz from 1759

During the Great Northern War from 1700 to 1721 Russian , Prussian and Saxon troops crossed the Uckermark to fight Sweden. This and the plague of 1710 affected Löcknitz. In the Treaty of Stockholm in 1720, Sweden had to cede southern Western Pomerania to Prussia . The Löcknitz Fortress therefore lost its importance. Three stagecoach lines are known for Löcknitz for 1740.

By amelioration took place in the area from 1730 reclamation. The desired success did not materialize, however, as the lower Randowbruch between Löcknitz and Eggesin was still not regulated. Adjustment work on the Randow was stopped and continued around 1745.

In the Seven Years' War , Swedish troops conquered the place in October 1757 , but lost it in December. In 1760 there were only 25 houses left besides the castle, the castle, the remains of the fortress and the office.

19th century

Ruins of the keep and the vaulted cellar of Löcknitz Castle from 1842

In 1805 the castle chapel was demolished because of its desolate state of construction.
Prussia was occupied by French troops in 1806; on October 28th also Löcknitz. Billing and feeding of the French troops and those of their allies had to be accepted. To cover costs, the Löcknitz domain was dissolved in 1807 and large parts of the land were parceled out and, including the castle and palace, sold to private owners. From March 1812, Löcknitz had to take on again strong troop units of the French Grande Armée for billeting . Since April 1813 Prussian and Russian troops besieged Stettin, but they could not finally recapture the fortress and the surrounding area including Löcknitz until December 1813.

In 1818 an administrative reform took place in Prussia. Löcknitz moved from Brandenburg to Pomerania and from 1818 to 1939 belonged to the Randow district in the administrative district of Stettin in the Prussian province of Pomerania .

In 1832 a major fire broke out in Löcknitz, in which around half of the town was destroyed.
1820 was Chaussee Pasewalk-Loecknitz-Stettin built. With the construction of the Prenzlau - Pasewalk - Anklam - Stralsund road from 1832 to 1836, Löcknitz also found a connection to the national road network. In 1878/79 the Löcknitz- Brüssow- Prenzlau road followed and connected the place with Brandenburg and the Uckermark. In 1862 Löcknitz was connected to the
Prussian railway network by the Berlin-Stettiner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft . In 1863 the Angermünde-Pasewalk-Anklam-Stralsund and Pasewalk-Löcknitz-Stettin railway lines were opened.

Castle and keep around 1851

Larger parts of Löcknitz Castle stood until 1841, but the keep and the vaulted cellar were in fact only ruins. The castle was completely renovated in 1851 by the nearby castle brewery. In 1863/64 the provisional, dilapidated emergency church made of half-timbered timber like the old rectory was demolished. The new church was consecrated in 1871. Löcknitz benefited from the economic upswing of the Wilhelminian era , so that from 1890 onwards, houses and shops were built along Chausseestrasse, as well as various industrial companies. A savings bank has existed since 1881. In 1893 a new school building was built, today's community center ( old school ). From 1888 onwards, renovation and cultivation work was necessary again at the Randow.

20th century

War memorial for the soldiers from Löcknitz who died in the First World War

German Empire and First World War

Between 1910 and 1911/12 there were numerous fires in Löcknitz and a reconstruction with new residential and commercial buildings made of brick masonry. Shortly before the beginning of the First World War and in the 1920s / 30s, new streets and housing developments were built.

Weimar Republic

During the Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch in March 1920 there were also clashes between right-wing conservative troops and left-wing workers' organizations in the Löcknitz area.
In 1921 the community set up a compulsory fire brigade. In 1928 and 1935 the Chausseestrasse in Löcknitz was repaved. In 1926 and 1928 the water tower was built and the first water pipes were laid.

Under the motto "Löcknitz - a place of relaxation: water, forest and fresh air", the place became a recognized health resort in Pomerania in 1930 . In the 1930s / 1940s there were around 70 hotels, restaurants, department stores, shops and businesses, 35 craft businesses and two sawmills, a furniture factory, a construction company and a dairy, as well as a total of five industrial companies.

Third Reich

After a leaflet campaign by the KJVD in Löcknitz against fascism , National Socialism and the NSDAP, clashes between the KJVD and the Schutzstaffel (SS) or the Sturmabteilung (SA) took place here for the first time in June 1932 . With the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists of the NSDAP in January 1933, the KPD local group Löcknitz decided to go underground. By June 1933 the last KPD functionaries, including Gustav and Hermann Roggow, were arrested in Löcknitz.

A Jewish community in Löcknitz had existed since the 19th century. From 1933 to 1945, the total number of members of the Löcknitz Jewish community decreased significantly by 1938. During the November pogroms of 1938 and the news of the first acts of violence against Jews in Stettin, the von Löcknitz Jewish families went into hiding. At the same time, Jewish shops and the prayer room were looted and destroyed. Shortly after the beginning of the Second World War , Jewish residents were evacuated to the Generalgouvernement .

In 1939 the Greater Stettin Law enlarged the urban district of Stettin and at the same time dissolved the district Randow and its northern part with Löcknitz was incorporated into the district of Ueckermünde in the administrative district of Stettin in the province of Pomerania .

German soldier cemetery in the Löcknitz cemetery

In April 1945, Löcknitz became the main battle line during World War II . The Soviet Air Force bombed Löcknitz, causing severe damage to the place. Since Löcknitz lies deeper in the Randowbruch, the mutual massive bombardment of the Soviet and German troops caused further serious damage within the place. On April 27, 1945, Soviet troops occupied the place. Löcknitz was 66% destroyed.

Post-war and GDR times

A stream of refugees continued steadily over the next few weeks and months. As a result, the population of Löcknitz rose to 4,000 by September 1945. On May 5, 1945, the Red Army had a Soviet military administration in Löcknitz. From the German part of the old Randow district west of the Oder, a new Randow district emerged with Löcknitz. From 1945 to 1950 Löcknitz was the district seat. On July 1, 1950, the previously independent municipality Gorkow was incorporated. With the GDR district reform in 1950 , the Randow district was dissolved and Löcknitz was added to the newly formed Pasewalk district. From 1952, Löcknitz and the Pasewalk district belonged to the Neubrandenburg district until 1990 .
In 1985 the renaissance mansion Löcknitz from the 16th century north of the castle was blown up. Around 1900 the building belonged to the Löcknitzer brewery.

Open-air stage on the Löcknitzer See

After the turn

As a result of the district reform in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 1994, the new district of Uecker-Randow with Löcknitz was formed from the three former GDR districts of Pasewalk , Ueckermünde and Strasburg . As a result of the district reform in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2011 , Löcknitz is part of the Vorpommern-Greifswald district .

Since 1997, the historic town center in Löcknitz has been fundamentally renovated as part of urban development funding; the cityscape has improved a lot. Today the octagonal keep of the former medieval castle still stands in Schlossstrasse as a rebuilt and renovated monument.

800th anniversary celebration 2012

See 800th anniversary celebration 2012

History of the districts

See the history of the Gorkow district

See the history of the former district of Salzow and the Johanneshof

Incorporations

  • Salzow was incorporated into Löcknitz as a residential area in 1928, formed a district since 1935/38, was abandoned in 1978/79 and is now a desert.
  • Gorkow was incorporated as a district in 1951.

Population development

Population development of Löcknitz from 1862 to 2017

Following the general trend in Western Pomerania, the number of inhabitants in Löcknitz also fell steadily after 1990. Since Poland joined the European Union in 2004 and the Schengen area in 2007 , the number of inhabitants has increased again, as Löcknitz increasingly became a place of residence in the cross-border metropolitan region of Szczecin .

year Residents source
1862 1,144
1864 1,416
1910 1,666 *
1918 2,400
1925 2,205
1933 2,361
1939 2,681
1944 3,200
1945 > 4,000
1957 3,966
1962 3,651
year Residents
1990 3,699
1995 3,413
2000 3,195
2005 2,904
2010 3,021
2015 3,192
2016 3,090
2017 3,178
2018 3,188
2019 3,217
* Dorf Löcknitz (1,661 inhabitants), estate district Domain Löcknitz (0 inhabitants) and forest estate district Löcknitz (5 inhabitants)

from 1990: as of December 31 of the respective year

politics

Community representation

The Löcknitz municipal council has 13 members and has been composed as follows since the municipal elections on May 26, 2019:

Political party votes received % Seats
CDU 3,081 81.64 12
AfD 519 13.75 1

elections

In the local elections on May 26, 2019, the turnout was as follows:

Eligible voters Voters Voter turnout in% valid votes invalid votes
2,683 1,360 50.7 3,760 213

According to the state and municipal electoral law for the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (LKWG MV), voting is based on the system of a combination of proportional representation with personality elements. Each person entitled to vote has three votes, which he can distribute to only one or up to three parties / persons (Section 60 (1) LKWG MV). He can “pile up” (cumulate) his votes on a single applicant or distribute (variegate) between several applicants of the same nomination or different nominations. For this reason there are always far more votes cast than voters.

mayor

Löcknitz community center (old school): seat of the mayor.
Building of the office Löcknitz-Penkun.

The community leaders of Löcknitz were volunteers until 1922. CA Schmidt was the first community leader to exercise this office full-time in 1922, after he had sued the community of Löcknitz for two years. Up until 1945, the heads of a small community in Germany were usually referred to as local leaders or community leaders , and from 1945 officially as mayors . In the community of Löcknitz, the mayors are active on a voluntary basis today.

  • since 2014 Detlef Ebert ( CDU )

See: List of community leaders and mayors of Löcknitz

Mayoral election 2019 The result of the mayoral elections of the municipality of Löcknitz on May 26, 2019 is as follows:

candidate Political party votes received %
Detlef Ebert CDU 1.003 78.6

Detlef Ebert was re-elected Mayor of Löcknitz with 78.6 percent and 1,003 votes in favor against 273 votes against.

Constituencies

The municipality of Löcknitz belongs to the following constituencies:

coat of arms

Löcknitz coat of arms
Blazon : “Above a green shield base, in it a silver corrugated strip, in silver a red castle with a right-hand angular tower with an open black gate and a left-hand wall with four tin towers, the two in the middle raised and with two open black gates; accompanied in the left upper corner by a green oak leaf placed obliquely to the left. "

The coat of arms was designed by the Greifswald company Historika - Militaria - Faleristika GbR . It was approved on June 26, 2003 by the Ministry of the Interior and registered under the number 281 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Justification of the coat of arms: The main symbol of the coat of arms, a red castle, is reminiscent of the former Löcknitz Castle and its important role as a border fortress between Pomerania and Brandenburg. The wave ledge in the green shield base stands on the one hand for the Randow , which flows through the meadows of the floodplain of the Randowbruch and on the other hand for the ford that led through the Randow here in Löcknitz and its important military-strategic significance for the history of the castle and the village of Löcknitz. The oak leaf, on the other hand, is supposed to symbolically represent the millennial oak from Löcknitz "Irmtruds Eiche" and the wooded surroundings of the place.

flag

The municipality does not have an officially approved flag .

Official seal

The official seal shows the municipal coat of arms with the inscription "GEMEINDE LÖCKNITZ * LANDKREIS VORPOMMERN-GREIFSWALD".

Twin cities

Sister cities of Löcknitz
→ The friendship treaty between the community of Löcknitz and the city of Sassenberg was signed on October 5, 1991. The 20th anniversary of the signing of the contract was celebrated on October 5, 2011 in Löcknitz
→ The partnership agreement between the municipality of Löcknitz and the municipality of Stare Czarnowo was signed on April 30, 2004.

Sights and culture

Evangelical Church Löcknitz; Looking north-west from Chausseestrasse.

Buildings

See also the list of architectural monuments in Löcknitz

  • Evangelical village church Löcknitz as a neo-Gothic hall church from 1870/71 according to plans by building inspector Kühnle as well as the rectory with the rectory , Chausseestraße 99; the parish include the church places Loecknitz, Bergholz , Plowen , Wilhelmshof and Bismark and the localities Löcknitz Waldesruh, Loecknitz camp, border village, Gellin, Hohenfelde, left and left-Marienthal.
  • Remains of the renovated Löcknitz Castle from before 1212 with an octagonal keep
  • Municipal office (former Sparkasse), Chausseestraße 30
  • Alte Schule (community center), seat of the mayor of Löcknitz and the library, Chausseestraße 96
  • Field stone church and village smithy in the Gorkow district
  • Bronze relief blown leaves from 1999 on the market square with historical data from the history of the community
  • Night watchman Bartel with cat (Löcknitzer original) as bronze sculptures in front of the building of the office Löcknitz-Penkun, designed by the sculptor Thomas Jastram 2001. The anecdote of the Löcknitz night watchman Bartel is associated with the sculptures :
“Oll 'Bartel was a Löcknitzer original. If there was something that all Löcknitzer should know, he would go through the village with a heavy bell, it had a powerful handle and 'rang the bell'. Every 200 m he started again, unfolded a piece of paper and began to read. The residents then rushed to windows and doors so as not to miss anything. One of his duties as a night watchman was to run through the town with a horn in the event of a fire to raise the alarm. Around 1910/11 when there was a fire in Löcknitz, Bartel didn't toot! When called to the mayor, he explained that he no longer had any teeth and could no longer blow his horn. The night watchman got a set of teeth at the community's expense. The next fire was not long in coming. At this time there was a lot of fire in Löcknitz ... But again, night watchman Bartel didn't toot! Called to the mayor again and confronted, he said: 'Yeah, the doctor is fine, at night I should put my teeth in the water. And I can't do anything without a bit! '"

Natural monuments

  • Schälchenstein in the forest south of the Löcknitzer See near the weir on the Randow
  • Slavonic rampart Hühnerwinkel in the nature reserve Plöwensches Seebruch between Löcknitz and Plöwen .
  • Slavic Retzin castle wall on Leichensee between Löcknitz and Retzin-expansion as part of a Slavic castle complex from the 8th to 12th centuries.
  • Hudee oaks: In the forest north of August-Bebel-Straße behind the railroad tracks, there are around 30 up to 250-year-old oaks as remnants of the Hude economy from the 19th century. From 1870 to 1940 the Alte Schützenplatz was located in between.
  • Thousand-year-old oak from Löcknitz or Irmtrud's oak on Lake Löcknitz : Landmarks of Löcknitz, symbolically represented as an oak leaf on the Löcknitz coat of arms. Thoroughly renovated in 1995 and installation of a field stone with an inscribed bronze plate as a memorial stone. In April 2000 an eight-year-old offshoot of the millennium oak planted as a millennium oak at the parking lot at the Haus am See and at the same time a field stone with an inscribed bronze plate was erected as a memorial stone. The chest height is 6.73 m (2016).

Memorials and memorials

  • War memorial 1914/1918 for the soldiers from Löcknitz on the Löcknitzer See who fell in World War I , designed as a flat, fenced, massive square obelisk with the names and dates of death of all 79 fallen soldiers from Löcknitz.
  • Memorial stone for the victims of war, violence and displacement in the Löcknitz cemetery
  • German soldier cemetery in the Löcknitz cemetery
  • Soviet cemetery of honor at the exit of Löcknitz towards left / German-Polish. Border to Szczecin.
  • Memorial to the victims of fascism in the Soviet Cemetery of Honor. In the course of the renovation of the Soviet Cemetery of Honor in 2013, the memorial was also renovated.
  • Memorial stone for the Jewish community of Löcknitz and their persecution, expulsion and murder during the Shoah ; Erected in 1988 in a small green area on Chausseestrasse and the corner of Strasse der Republik. Until 1938/39 the business building of the Jewish family Schwarzweiß was located here with a prayer room for the Jewish community. The original black Labrador granite stone was stylized in the shape of a menorah . In the upper part there was another stylized seven-armed candlestick and a Star of David engraved below it. The stone had the following inscription: "In memory of the Jewish community of Löcknitz and their persecution on Kristallnacht 1938". The stone has been smeared and desecrated several times since 1990 with Nazi symbols . In 2003, after three attacks, it was so badly damaged that it was dismantled. In 2004 the municipality decided to completely redesign the small square with a new memorial stone as a field stone with a bronze plate with the same inscription. Since then the field stone has been smeared with Nazi symbols again in 2011 and 2013.
  • In August 2018, the first three stumbling blocks were laid in Löcknitz. (See: List of Stolpersteine ​​in Löcknitz )
  • Memorial stone for the forester Friedrich Francke (1862–1945), east of the Löcknitz Revierforsterei (Försterweg 15), who was shot in 1945 by Soviet Red Army soldiers because he had refused to hand over his hunting rifles.

Culture

Important and regularly occurring events in Löcknitz are the New Year's fire on the second weekend in January on the sports field behind the fire station, the Easter festival, which always takes place the weekend before Easter at the Löcknitzer Castle, and the Löcknitzer Schützenfest , which takes place for three days on the first weekend in June in the Löcknitzer area Open-air stage is held within sight of the Löcknitzer See. In addition, every summer on the first weekend in August, the beach festival takes place in the Löcknitz bathing establishment , during which not only Neptune cleans his baptized children with the element of water, but also numerous ship models are presented and demonstrated. A special event is the Löcknitz Castle Festival , which takes place annually on the first weekend in September with jousting, a medieval market and showmen in and around the historical ambience of the Löcknitz Castle and the keep. In the same place, on the grounds of the castle, the autumn festival takes place every year on October 3rd, the day of German unity . On the first weekend in October each year, however, the Löcknitzer Dance Cup takes place, at which The Real Dancers and The Mini Dancers as well as many other dance groups from the region present their dancing skills in the multi-purpose hall Randow-Halle . The Advent market takes place on the first weekend in December on the market square.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

The economy of Löcknitz is mainly characterized by agriculture and forestry. The wood processing industry, the construction and building materials industry as well as small and medium-sized handicrafts, commercial and service companies dominate. There are also two mixed commercial areas in the village, the “Pasewalker Straße” (“Bollbrücke”) industrial area and the “Löcknitzer Kamp” industrial area. Both are conveniently located thanks to their connection to the railway network, the federal highway and easily accessible motorways and the city of Szczecin with the seaport of Swinoujscie , which is only 25 kilometers away .

tourism

Overview map of the local recreation area around the Löcknitzer See.

The tourism sector is being expanded in Löcknitz and the surrounding area, with the focus being mainly on the forest and lake-rich surroundings of Löcknitz and, associated with this, on cyclists and camping tourists as well as on the nearby Polish city of Szczecin . The Randow and Randowtal as well as the 56.5 hectare Löcknitzer See can be explored by boat, fishing, swimming and the surrounding landscape, including the Am Stettiner Haff Nature Park . The distance cycling trail Oder-Neisse cycle path passes here. Accommodation options include the Löcknitz guesthouse, the Haus am See hotel , the Villa 69 - Barbara guesthouse , the Waldblick campsite and private holiday apartments and rooms.

traffic

The federal road 104 leads from Lübeck via Schwerin and Neubrandenburg through Löcknitz and further over the border crossing Linken to Stettin (Szczecin) in Poland, about 25 kilometers away . In addition, Löcknitz has connections to the federal motorway 20 with the Pasewalk-Nord, Pasewalk-Süd and Prenzlau-Ost junctions 23, 21 and 22 kilometers away . With the Schmölln and Storkow junctions 23 and 29 kilometers away, respectively, the federal motorway 11 is within reach.

Two second-order state roads also lead through Löcknitz. On the one hand the L 283 from Hintersee via Glashütte and Rothenklempenow through Löcknitz and on via Retzin, Glasow, Krackow, Penkun, Sommersdorf and Grünz to the state border with Brandenburg. On the other hand, the L 285 from Löcknitz past Bergholz and also to the state border to Brandenburg.

The Loecknitz station is located on the Bützow-Szczecin railway . From Lübeck to Stettin, diesel multiple units of the DB Regio Nordost class 623 run in both directions every 2 hours . In addition, in the evening a pair of trains runs from Stettin directly to Schwerin without changing in Bad Kleinen . Until December 2013, a train operated by Ostseeland Verkehr GmbH to Stettin and back to Neubrandenburg ran on Friday night .

The Oder-Neisse cycle path, which is important for cycling tourism, also runs in its 10th stage, coming from Penkun, via Krackow, Lebehn, Ramin, the Salzower Weg and the Johannisberg, directly through Löcknitz and along the federal road 104 on a cycle path further via Plöwen Blankensee. As a long-distance cycle path , it is part of the D-route network , a system of twelve Germany-wide long-distance cycle paths that form Germany’s cycle network as part of the national cycle traffic plan.

Public facilities

  • Police station (PS), Chausseestrasse 32, part of the main police station (PHR) Pasewalk in the police station (PI) Anklam of the police headquarters in Neubrandenburg (PP)
  • Löcknitz volunteer fire brigade , founded in 1921, Chausseestrasse 63
  • Rescue station of the German Red Cross (DRK) at the rural outpatient clinic , Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 5b
  • Library Loecknitz, founded in 1968, since 1996 Market Street 4 in the community center (Old School)

Municipal Community Euroregion POMERANIA e. V.

In Löcknitz, Ernst-Thälmann-Straße 4 is the office of the “Kommunalgemeinschaft Euroregion POMERANIA e. V. ", which together with the" club in the Polish communities of the Euro Region Pomerania "on 15 December 1995 Szczecin the Euro region Pomerania , as cross-border regions in Europe ( European Region and Euro Area ), founded. In addition to Germany and Poland, Sweden was also represented by the community association of Skåne from 1998 to 2013 . In addition, closer cooperation with Denmark and the local regions Sjælland (Zealand) as well as Hovedstaden with Bornholm is aimed for in the future .

education

schools

→ Founded in 1991 as "Gymnasium Löcknitz", since 1995 German- Polish Gymnasium Löcknitz and since 2002 European School. German-Polish joint project of the German district of Vorpommern-Greifswald (formerly Uecker-Randow ) and the Polish district of Police
  • Regional School Löcknitz (RS Löcknitz)
→ 1968 Polytechnic High School built (POS), after 1970 Gerhart Eisler named 1981 extended to elementary school 1991 was converted into the high school with Primary part and 1996 Related elementary and secondary school ; since 2002 regional school .
  • Elementary School Am See Löcknitz (GS Löcknitz)
→ Established in 1981 as an extension of the Polytechnic Oberschule, converted into a secondary school with elementary school in 1991, an independent elementary school since 1993.
  • Randow School - focus on "intellectual development"
→ Founded in 1991 as a special school for individual coping with life .

day care center

  • German-Polish day care center " Randow-Spatzen"
→ 2011 (formerly in the Rothemklempenower road) with space for 270 children in the areas at the new location at the meadow nursery , kindergarten and nursery opened. German-Polish joint project by Löcknitz and the Polish city of Police .
Office of the “Kommunalgemeinschaft Euroregion Pomerania e. V. "
  • Day care center Us world explorers
→ Newly opened in 2015 in Rothemklempenower Straße with space for 48 children in the crèche and kindergarten sponsored by the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) .

Sports

Randow Hall
Gerhart Eisler Sports Hall

Sports facilities

  • Randow Hall : 3-field multi-purpose hall from 2000
  • Gerhart Eisler Sports Hall

sports clubs

  • SV unit Löcknitz from 1958; Today (2014) with nine sections for tots Sport , PowerKids , cycling , canoeing / water walking , athletics , dance (The Real Dancers, The Dancers Mini), disabled sports , female gymnastics and fitness XXL
  • Sports shooting club 1990 Löcknitz from 1990; Löcknitzer Camp
  • Anglersverein Randowtal Löcknitz from 1949; Fishing home on the lake
  • VfB Pommern Löcknitz , 1920 SV Vorwärts Löcknitz , 1948 SV Holz Löcknitz , 1950 Ballsportgemeinschaft BSG Aufbau Löcknitz , 1955 merger with the sports community SG Dynamo Löcknitz , taken over in 1961 by the Army Sports Association ASV Vorwärts , 1964 Army Sports Association ASG Einheit Vorwärts Löcknitz , 1975 ASG Vorwärts Löcknitz , 1990 New sports and handball club 90 Löcknitz , 1991 joining of the soccer section from ASG Vorwärts Löcknitz , 2002 spin-off of the soccer section as VfB 1990 Pommern Löcknitz
  • Motor sports club Kamp 84 from 1990; Formerly the motorcycle all-around section of the Society for Sport and Technology (GST), clubhouse on Löcknitzer Kamp
  • Löcknitz judo sports club from 1966; Judo hall on the sports field

Other clubs and institutions

  • Löcknitzer Mandolin Orchestra '63 from 1963 as a school orchestra
  • Löcknitz home and castle association from 2005; between 1996 and 2001 Friends of Burgfried Löcknitz
  • Löcknitz choir from 1983
  • Löcknitz youth club on Wiesengrund

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Personalities associated with Löcknitz

literature

Books

  • Bernd Aischmann: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, excluding the city of Stettin. A historical perspective . 2nd Edition. Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 2009, ISBN 978-3-935749-89-3 .
  • Christopher Clark: Prussia. Rise and fall 1600–1947. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt , Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-421-05392-3 .
  • Stefanie Endlich, Nora Goldenbogen, Beatrix Herlemann and others: Memorials for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation. Volume 2: Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Thuringia. Federal Agency for Civic Education , Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-89331-391-5 .
  • Friends of Burgfried Löcknitz e. V. (Ed.): Ortschronik von Löcknitz. Part I: From the first settlement to 1945. Schibri-Verlag , Milow 1999, ISBN 3-933978-07-6 .
  • Friends of Burgfried Löcknitz e. V. (Ed.): Ortschronik von Löcknitz. Part II: From 1945 to the mid-1950s. Schibri-Verlag, Milow 2000, ISBN 3-933978-29-7 .
  • Friends of Burgfried Löcknitz e. V. (Ed.): Ortschronik von Löcknitz. Part III: The 50s and 60s. Schibri-Verlag, Milow 2001, ISBN 3-933978-51-3 .
  • Curt Jany: History of the Prussian Army. From the 15th century to 1914. Vol. 1, Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1967, ISBN 3-7648-1471-3 .
  • Wolf Karge, Hugo Rübesamen, Andreas Wagner (eds.): Inventory of political memorials of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Project: “Memorial work in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania” ( Political Memorials eV Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ), Schwerin 1998, ISBN 3-933521-00-9 .
  • Stefan Kleemann: Under the eagle with scepter and sword. Brandenburg-Prussian history. Schkeuditzer Buchverlag, Schkeuditz 2001, ISBN 3-935530-05-6 .
  • Hugo Lemcke : The architectural and art monuments of the administrative district of Stettin. Booklet 3: The Ückermünde district. Issue 5: The Randow District. Szczecin 1900/1901. (Historical reprints of the Uecker-Randow region, Vol. 7, Ed. Verlag Dr. Helmut Maaß, Buchhandlung Maaß, Pasewalk 2000, ISBN 3-89557-142-3 )
  • Werner Senckpiel: The history of the place Löcknitz. Council of the municipality of Löcknitz, Löcknitz 1959.
  • Hartmuth Stange: The secret and the uncanny between Ueckermünde and Penkun. The sagas and legends of a region. Van Derner Medien & Verlag, Diekhof 2012, ISBN 978-3-937747-13-2 .
  • Georg von Winterfeldt: Löcknitz Castle. A contribution to the Brandenburg-Prussian history. Prenzlau 1909. (Historical reprints of the Uecker-Randow region, Vol. 2, Ed. Verlag Dr. Helmut Maaß, Buchhandlung Maaß, Pasewalk 1995, ISBN 3-89557-047-8 )

Films and documentaries

→ At the 6th German-Polish Media Days from June 6th to 8th, 2013 in Wrocław (Breslau) , nominated for the 16th German-Polish Journalism Prize in the "Television" category.
  • Grenzgänger - Moving to Germany ”, documentation, Germany 2014. North German Broadcasting : Heiko Seibt, Hannes Agena.

Web links

Commons : Löcknitz  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

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  2. Regional Spatial Development Program Vorpommern (RREP) 2010 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Central local structure with regional, medium and basic centers, accessed on July 12, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rpv-vorpommern.de
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  5. Main statute of the municipality of Löcknitz, § 2
  6. ^ Förderverein Burgfried Löcknitz (Ed.): Ortschronik von Löcknitz (Part I) , p. 7 u. 10-12.
  7. a b Lemcke: The architectural and art monuments of the administrative district of Stettin , pp. 68–70.
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  10. Entry in the church book of the community Löcknitz from 1672, quoted from: Förderverein Burgfried Löcknitz (Hrsg.): Ortschronik von Löcknitz (Part I) , p. 22.
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  19. Municipal directory Germany 1900. Randow district.
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  32. a b main statute § 1 (PDF).
  33. a b community of Löcknitz. Twin cities.
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  41. Karge, Rübesamen, Wagner (ed.): Inventory of Politischer Memoriale , pp. 586-587.
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  49. Oder-Neisse cycle path. New web presence.
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