Lützow (Mecklenburg)

Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Northwest Mecklenburg
Office :	Lützow-Lübstorf
Height :	58 m above sea level NHN
Area :	24.83 km 2
Residents:	1513 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	61 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	19209
Area code :	038874
License plate :	NWM, GDB, GVM, WIS
Community key :	13 0 74 050
Office administration address:	; Village center 24 19209 Lützow
Website :	www.luetzow-luebstorf.de
Mayor :	Gerd Klingenberg
Location of the community Lützow in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg

Lützow is a municipality in the south of the district of Northwest Mecklenburg in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). The municipality is the administrative seat of the Lützow-Lübstorf office , to which another 15 municipalities belong.

geography

The community of Lützow is located in the headwaters of the Schilde in a ground moraine area about 15 kilometers west of Schwerin . The Machandelberg south of Lützow reaches a height of 92 m above sea level. NN.

The districts of Bendhof, Kaeselow and Rosenow belong to Lützow .

history

Lützow: The Lützow estate belonged to the von Lützow family from the 14th to the 17th century .
Since 1846 the estate belonged to the von Behr family and from 1866 to 1945 by marriage to the Counts of Bassewitz- Behr. In 1876 the neo-Gothic castle was built. After 1945 the mansion was used as a company vocational school for the Deutsche Reichsbahn until 1991. After that, it stood empty for a few years until it was sold in 2005 and renovated by the new owner in accordance with a listed building.

Rosenow became known through a skirmish in the forest of Rosenow, which took place between troops of the Lützow Freikorps and Napoleons . The writer Theodor Körner fell on August 26, 1813 . Wilhelm Wandschneider's Theodor Körner memorial has been a reminder of the battle since 1913 . Körner was buried in Wöbbelin .

Kaeselow: Kaeselow manor house was built around 1860 in the Tudor Gothic style . It belonged to the von Brock (Brook) families (until 1878), Oertzen and from 1902 to 1945 Both . On July 1, 1950, Kaeselow was incorporated.

politics

Community representation

In the election for the municipal council on May 26, 2019 , the distribution of seats was as follows with a turnout of 57.8%:

CDU	0seat
SPD	0seats
FWG	7 seats
Individual applicants	3 seat

coat of arms

Blazon : "Under a green wave shield head, inside two diagonally crossed golden swords, in gold a double-stemmed green oak growing out of the lower edge, covered with a golden triangular shield, inside a slanted four-lobed black scaling ladder."

The coat of arms and the flag were designed by the Schwerin heraldist Heinz Kippnick . It was approved together with the flag on December 15, 2010 by the Ministry of the Interior and registered under the no. 334 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Justification of the coat of arms: In the coat of arms, the head of the wave shield should indicate the location of the municipality in the source area of the shields. The crossed swords are a reminder of the battle of parts of the Lützow Freikorps under the leadership of Major Adolf Freiherr von Lützow (1782–1834) against the escort of a French ammunition transport near Rosenow on August 26, 1813, in which the Major's adjutant, the poet and playwright Theodor Körner (1791–1813) fell. The double-stemmed oak stands on the one hand for the so-called wonder oak in Lützow, to which miraculous healing powers are attributed in traditional legends. On the other hand, it refers to the wooded area around Lützow. The triangular shield is intended to express the connection between the von Lützow family and the historical development of the Lützow estate. The number of rungs on the ladder also symbolizes the four districts of the community.

flag

The flag is striped lengthways in yellow and green. The yellow stripe takes up a third and the green stripe takes up two thirds of the height of the flag cloth. In the middle of the flag, which is half the height of the yellow stripe and three quarters of the height of the green stripe, is the municipal coat of arms. The relation of the height of the flag cloth to the length is like 3: 5.

Official seal

The official seal shows the municipal coat of arms with the inscription "GEMEINDE LÜTZOW • LANDKREIS NORDWESTMECKLENBURG".

Attractions

Lützow Castle

In Lützow there is a 1876 neo-Gothic castle with a castle park in the English park style and a chapel. In the park there is a neo-Gothic mausoleum built before 1850, which shows a coat of arms above the entrance with a bear, the heraldic animal of the von Behr family. After 1945 the Deutsche Reichsbahn owned the castle and used it as a special school for the political administration. The railway sold the castle in 2005. The new owner renovated the manor house inside and out, and the park was also restored.
In Kaeselow there is a manor house from around 1860 in the Tudor Gothic style.
A Theodor-Körner memorial stands in the forest of the Rosenow district .

Transport links

Located on the B 104 , Lützow offers a convenient connection to all important cities in the vicinity. In Wittenburg , 17 kilometers away, there is a connection to the federal motorway 24 (Berlin – Hamburg). From the Lützow train station, ODEG trains run every hour in the direction of Schwerin and Parchim , as well as in the direction of Gadebusch and Rehna . The route has existed since 1897.

Personalities

Georg-Henning Graf von Bassewitz-Behr (1900–1949), SS group leader and lieutenant general of the Waffen SS and the police, perpetrator of the Holocaust, was born in Lützow and grew up there.

Web links

Commons : Lützow - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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 ).
^ Office Lützow-Lübstorf - announcements ...
↑ Hans-Heinz Schütt: On shield and flag - the coats of arms and flags of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and its municipalities . Ed .: production office TINUS; Schwerin. 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814380-0-0 , pp. 171/172 .
↑ ^a ^b main statute § 1 (PDF).

[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 ).

[2] Office Lützow-Lübstorf - announcements ...

[Wappenbuch-3] Hans-Heinz Schütt: On shield and flag - the coats of arms and flags of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and its municipalities . Ed .: production office TINUS; Schwerin. 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814380-0-0 , pp. 171/172 .

[HS-4] statute § 1 (PDF).