Northwest Mecklenburg District

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Coat of arms of the district of Northwest Mecklenburg Map of Germany, position of the district of Northwest Mecklenburg highlighted

Coordinates: 53 ° 49 '  N , 11 ° 15'  E

Basic data
Existing period: 2011–
State : Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Administrative headquarters : Hanseatic city of Wismar
Area : 2,118.51 km 2
Residents: 157,322 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 74 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : NWM, GDB, GVM, WIS, (HWI)
Circle key : 13 0 74
NUTS : DE80M
Circle structure: 83 municipalities
Address of the
district administration: 		Rostocker Strasse 76
23970 Wismar
Website : www.nordwestmecklenburg.de
District Administrator : Kerstin Weiss ( SPD )
Location of the district of Northwest Mecklenburg in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
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The district of Nordwestmecklenburg is a district in the northwest of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on the Baltic Sea coast. In addition to the mainland, the district area includes the Baltic Sea island of Poel . Neighboring areas are the Rostock district in the east, the independent city of Schwerin and the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in the south, and the Schleswig-Holstein district of Duchy of Lauenburg and the independent city of Lübeck in the west . The Hanseatic City of Wismar has been the district town since September 4, 2011 . In the previous district town of Grevesmühlen there is still a branch office of the administration.

geography

Northwest Mecklenburg belongs to the western part of Mecklenburg and has a share of the Baltic Sea coast of the Mecklenburg Bay at Klützer Winkel and east of Wismar near the island of Poel . The 118 meter high Lünenberg, located in the Passee municipality, is the highest elevation in the district.

Larger lakes are located with the Neuklostersee , Großer Wariner See and Groß Labenzer See in the Sternberg lake landscape in the east of the district, and the Schwerin outer lake is also part of the district territory. In the west, the district borders on the Schaalsee . There are no larger rivers in the district. Noteworthy rivers are the Wakenitz as a border river between Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein, the Brüeler Bach , the Stepenitz and the Wallensteingraben and, more historically, the Harkenbäk .

In terms of spatial planning , the district can benefit from its affiliation to the Hamburg metropolitan region and its location between the metropolitan regions of Berlin and Copenhagen-Malmö , as well as from the Rostock regiopolis and Szczecin with its cross-border metropolitan area .

history

The district was created in 1994 by merging the districts of Gadebusch (GDB), Grevesmühlen (GVM) and Wismar (WIS) as well as parts of the districts of Sternberg (STB) and Schwerin-Land (SN).

In the course of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania regional reform in 2011 , the previously independent Hanseatic city of Wismar was added to the Northwest Mecklenburg district . Since then it has also been the seat of the district and replaced Grevesmühlen. For the time being, however, large parts of the administration will remain in the previous headquarters, the historic malt factory.

cities and communes

Offices and municipalities

The regional center for the district is the city of Schwerin , which is not part of the district , and the regional centers of Rostock and Lübeck are geographically close. The largest cities in Northwest Mecklenburg are Wismar and Grevesmühlen , which are defined as medium-sized centers , with Wismar also assuming central functions (e.g. through its university, its economic importance and as a port location).

In the regional spatial development program West Mecklenburg of 2011, the following basic centers in the district are also defined: Bad Kleinen , Dassow , Gadebusch , Klütz , Lüdersdorf , Neukloster , Rehna , Schönberg and Warin .

(Residents on December 31, 2019)

Municipalities not in office

  1. Grevesmühlen , City  ** (10,434)
  2. Poel Island (2463)
  3. Wismar , Hanseatic City and Large District City (42,963)

** Grevesmühlen-Land office without its own administration - Formation of an administrative community with the city of Grevesmühlen with simultaneous transfer of the tasks of the transferred sphere of activity of the office to the city

Offices with municipalities and cities
belonging to the office * Seat of the official administration

  1. Bad Little (3652)
  2. Barnekow (581)
  3. Bobitz (2485)
  4. Village Mecklenburg  * (3121)
  5. Big Stieten (570)
  6. Hohen Viecheln (638)
  7. Luebow (1592)
  8. Metelsdorf (493)
  9. Ventschow (702)
  1. Dragun (750)
  2. Gadebusch , City * (5463)
  3. Kneese (332)
  4. Krembz (873)
  5. Mills Eichsen (969)
  6. Roggendorf (989)
  7. Rögnitz (198)
  8. Veelböken (639)
  1. Bernstorf (337)
  2. Gägelow (2610)
  3. Rye peat (457)
  4. Ruetting (520)
  5. Stepenitztal (1672)
  6. Testorf-Steinfort (623)
  7. Upahl (1584)
  8. Warnow (621)
  1. Boltenhagen (2454)
  2. Damshagen (1265)
  3. Hohenkirchen (1257)
  4. Kalkhorst (1747)
  5. Klütz , town * (3053)
  6. Zierow (800)
  1. Alt Meteln (1150)
  2. Brüsewitz (1980)
  3. Cramonshagen (513)
  4. Dalberg-Wendelstorf (534)
  5. God's gift (756)
  6. Grambov (672)
  7. Klein Trebbow (1116)
  8. Lübstorf (1476)
  9. Lützow  * (1513)
  10. Perlin (379)
  11. Pingelshagen (526)
  12. Pokrent (674)
  13. Schilden Valley (770)
  14. Seehof (957)
  15. Zickhusen (507)
  1. Benz (654)
  2. Blowatz (1123)
  3. Boiensdorf (487)
  4. Hornstorf (1157)
  5. Krusenhagen (586)
  6. Neuburg  * (2112)
  1. Bibow (383)
  2. Glasin (782)
  3. Jesendorf (489)
  4. Luebberstorf (216)
  5. Neukloster , City * (3960)
  6. Passee (192)
  7. Warin , City (3214)
  8. Zurow (1304)
  9. Züsow (292)
  1. Carlow (1205)
  2. Dechow (178)
  3. Large Mol Tooth (393)
  4. Holdorf (394)
  5. Koenigsfeld (960)
  6. Rehna , town * (3573)
  7. Rieps (338)
  8. Schlagsdorf (1179)
  9. Thandorf (181)
  10. Utecht (422)
  11. Wedendorfersee (653)
  1. Dassow , City (4063)
  2. Greaves (163)
  3. Luedersdorf (5288)
  4. Menzendorf (241)
  5. Roduchelstorf (235)
  6. Schönberg , City * (4730)
  7. Selmsdorf (3110)
  8. Siemz-Niendorf (635)

Territory changes

In the years between 1994 and 2005, extensive area changes took place in the area of ​​the Northwest Mecklenburg district, as in the entire state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

After the regional reform was completed on January 1, 2005, the original 14 offices became 8 offices. The cities of Gadebusch and Schönberg lost their freedom of office. The number of municipalities decreased from 112 to 94. As a result of further incorporations and mergers in the course of 2009, the number of municipalities decreased to 91.

Office dissolution, office merger, change of office of municipalities

Incorporation, new congregations

Name changes

  • from municipality of Vitense Parber to municipality of Vitense (February 11, 1992)
  • from the municipality of Köchelstorf b. Rehna to the municipality of Köchelstorf (August 1, 1999)
  • from the community of Neuburg-Steinhausen to the community of Neuburg (January 1, 2002)
  • from Badow-Renzow municipality to Schildenal municipality (October 1, 2009)

politics

District council

Election of the Northwest Mecklenburg District Assembly in 2019
Turnout: 59.3%
 %
30th
20th
10
0
23.0
21.4
16.4
12.4
9.8
6.1
4.6
1.8
1.4
1.3
1.8
LUL f
Otherwise.
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
 % p
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
-5.6
-3.5
-1.6
+7.6
+4.5
± 0.0
+1.1
-0.5
± 0.0
-1.2
-0.8
LUL f
Otherwise.
Template: election chart / maintenance / notes
Remarks:
f Rural areas, the environment, agriculture
h 2014: Free voters NWM

District election 2019

According to the result of the district council election on May 26, 2019 , the district council is composed as follows:

Distribution of seats in the
Northwest Mecklenburg District Council 2019
          
A total of 61 seats

Since the election on May 26, 2019, the 61 seats in the district council have been distributed among the individual parliamentary groups as follows:

fraction Seats composition
CDU 14th CDU (14 members)
SPD 13 SPD (13 members)
LEFT 11 DIE LINKE (10 members), Free Voters (1)
AfD 08th AfD (8 members)
Green 06th GREEN (6 members)
FDP / pirates 04th FDP (3 members), PIRATES (1 member)
LUL 04th LUL (4 members)
Non-attached 01 NPD (1 member)

Previous elections

Parties and constituencies Percent
2019 		Seats
2019 		Percent
2014 		Seats
2014 		Percent
2011 		Seats
2011 		Percent
2009 		Seats
2009 		Percent
2004 		Seats
2004 		Percent
1999 		Seats
1999 		Percent
1994 		Seats
1994 		Percent
1990
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 23.0 14th 28.6 18th 24.2 15th 31.7 17th 39.9 21st 38.1 22nd 27.2 15th 24.9
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 21.4 13 24.9 15th 36.3 22nd 23.5 13 19.6 10 26.8 15th 34.2 19th 26.9
THE LEFT. THE LEFT. 16.4 10 18.0 11 18.3 11 20.3 11 18.7 10 19.9 11 19.4 11 14.0
AfD Alternative for Germany 12.4 08th 04.8 03 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0-
GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens 09.8 06th 05.3 03 07.2 04th 03.8 02 03.0 01 01.6 0- 03.9 0- 01.5
LUL Rural, environment and agriculture 06.1 04th 06.1 04th 03.2 02 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0-
FDP Free Democratic Party 04.6 03 03.5 02 03.9 03 08.4 05 05.1 03 04.3 0- 06.3 04th 04.5
FREE VOTERS FREE VOTERS 01.8 01 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0-
PIRATES Pirate Party Germany 01.4 01 01.4 01 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0-
NPD National Democratic Party of Germany 01.3 01 02.5 02 04.3 03 03.3 02 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0-
FW NWM Free voters in Northwest Mecklenburg 0- 0- 02.3 01 01.9 01 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0-
PENSIONER Pensioners Party Germany 0- 0- 01.0 01 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0-
Otherwise. Others 00.3 0- 00.6 0- 0- 0- 06.1 03 08.7 05 07.5 04th 08.5 04th 28.3
EB Individual applicants 01.6 0- 01.0 0- 00.1 0- 02.8 0- 04.7 03 01.6 01 00.5 0- -
total 100 61 100 61 100 61 100 53 100 53 100 53 100 53 100
voter turnout 59.3% 48.4% 51.5% 51.0% 48.0% 52.7% 65.9% k. A.

  • The Left took up the position of PDS until 2004 .
  • Other: 2019: FPA (0.3%); 2014: WGB (0.2%), WG Upahl-Hanshagen (0.2%) and WIR (0.2%); 2009: Bv (5.3%), WG (0.5%), BsG (0.2%) and WG SVS 93 (0.1%); 2004: Bv; 1999: Bv; 1994: Bv (6.2%), WFN (1.1%), FORUM (0.8%) and AWG (0.4%).
  • Individual applicants: 2014: Martin Reininghaus (0.4%), Hans-Peter Gossel (0.4%) and Torsten Born (0.2%); 2011: Tino Schroeter; 2009: Günter Becker (0.8%), Hans Rotermann (0.8%), Hans-Peter Gossel (0.6%), Holger Hinze (0.2%), Torsten Born (0.2%) and Detlef Lukat (0.2%); 2004: Günter Becker (1.3%), Hans Rotermann (1.1%), Hans-Peter Gossel (1.1%), Steffen Mey (0.7%), Detlef Lukat (0.4%), Holger Hinze (0.3%) and Anke Ziegler (0.1%); 1999: Günter Becker (0.6%), Jörg Autrum (0.5%), Dorothea Wende (0.3%), Eckhard Tegtmeier (0.2%) and Uwe Grimm (0.0%); 1994: k. A.
  • The results of the district council elections before 2011 relate to the territorial status at that time (excluding the Hanseatic City of Wismar).

More information on the electoral process and legal provisions : District Council (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)

District administrators

coat of arms

District coat of arms of Northwest Mecklenburg
 Blazon : “Split; in front in gold a half-looking, gold-crowned black bull's head at the crack with a torn red mouth, silver teeth, a knocked out red tongue, torn neck fur and silver horns; in the back in a three-fold field of silver and red, a crook in mixed up colors. "

The coat of arms and the flag were designed by the Freudenberg heraldist Manfred Gerth . It was approved together with the flag on February 16, 2012 by the Ministry of the Interior and registered under number 341 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Justification of the coat of arms: The bull's head stands for the rulership and the later Duchy of Mecklenburg, while the bishop's staff (crook) depicted on the other half of the coat of arms symbolizes the areas that once belonged to the Ratzeburg monastery . The history of the Hanseatic city of Wismar is illustrated by the three-fold background of the bishop's staff in the colors silver and red. Originally this was the sea flag of the Wismar ships in the Middle Ages. In addition, the new district coat of arms is strongly based on the coat of arms of the city of Wismar, which was given to the Hanseatic City of Wismar in 1858 and is known in the relevant specialist literature as the bull's head coat of arms. The city of the district seat is also pointed out.

For the individual coats of arms of the cities and municipalities in the district see: List of coats of arms in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg .

Historical coat of arms

see also the coat of arms of the district of Northwest Mecklenburg

District coat of arms of Northwest Mecklenburg 1996-2011
 Blazon : “Split; in front, in gold, a half-looking, gold-crowned black bull's head at the crack with a torn red mouth, silver teeth, a knocked out red tongue, neck fur torn off in seven points and silver horns; behind in blue a golden crosier. "

The coat of arms was designed by the Schwerin heraldist Heinz Kippnick . It was approved on July 1, 1996 by the Ministry of the Interior and registered under No. 106 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms with the two symbols reminds of the larger territorial rulers that existed in today's district in the Middle Ages. While the bull's head with the torn neck skin, which has been typical for the Mecklenburg line of the Princely House since 1260, symbolizes the larger eastern part of the district, the former rule of Mecklenburg, the bishop's staff stands for the smaller western part of the district, for the former collegiate land of the Ratzeburg diocese. The bishop's staff is borrowed from the monastery coat of arms, which is first included in the seal image of Detlev von Parkentin, Bishop of Ratzeburg (from 1395 to 1419). This figure is also intended to remind of the areas that once belonged to the Stiftsland of the Ratzeburg diocese.

flag

FIAV 100000.svg Flag of the district of Northwest Mecklenburg

The flag is split evenly and transversely to the longitudinal axis of the flag cloth. The leech half is yellow. On it lies in the middle of the gap, 14/15 the height of the flag cloth, a figure of the county coat of arms: a half-looking, golden crowned black bull's head with a torn red mouth, silver teeth, a knocked out red tongue, torn neck fur and silver horns. Half of the cantilever end is evenly striped lengthways with white, red, white and red. On it lies in the middle near the gap, 14/15 the height of the flag cloth, a figure of the district coat of arms: a crook in mixed up colors. The height of the flag is related to the length like 2: 3.

Historic flag
Flag of the district of Northwest Mecklenburg 2006-2011

The flag was designed by Ulf-Peter Schwarz from Plüschower and approved on January 10, 2006 by the Ministry of the Interior.

The flag is striped evenly and across the longitudinal axis of the flag cloth of blue and yellow. In the middle of the flag is the coat of arms of the district, spanning one third of the length of the blue and yellow stripes. The relation of the height of the flag cloth to the length is like 3: 5.

Official seal

The official seal shows the district coat of arms with the inscription "LANDKREIS NORDWESTMECKLENBURG".

Economy and Transport

In the Future Atlas 2019 , the district of Northwest Mecklenburg was ranked 377 out of 402 districts, municipal associations and independent cities in Germany, making it one of the regions with "high future risks".

economy

The settlement of companies in the eastern catchment area of Lübeck (in Selmsdorf , Lüdersdorf , Dassow , Herrnburg and Schönberg ) as well as tourism on the Baltic Sea ( Boltenhagen , Poel Island ) are important.

traffic

The federal highways 20 and 14 run through the district (the interface is the Wismar motorway junction ), as well as the federal highways 104 , 105 , 106 , 192 and 208 .

The railway lines Wismar – Bad Kleinen – Schwerin – Ludwigslust / Hamburg , Lübeck – Bad Kleinen and Bad Kleinen – Rostock open up the district in a roughly star-shaped manner, with all lines coming together in Bad Kleinen . In the web-regional traffic bath small therefore forms a central transfer point can be where hourly switched between different lines. The Schwerin – Rehna railway also connects the south-west of the district directly with the state capital , while the Wismar – Rostock railway crosses the far northeast.

Off the main highways, local traffic is ensured by the local NAHBUS Nordwestmecklenburg GmbH . Their buses have been running every hour since the beginning of 2016 (every two hours on weekends) at a uniform fare on all relevant connecting routes. The peripheral areas of the district are comprehensively developed daily by dial-a- bus.

religion

In the district of Northwest Mecklenburg there are Evangelical Lutheran parishes, these belong to the Evangelical Luth. Mecklenburg Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany . The Catholic parishes belong to the Schwerin deanery of the Archdiocese of Hamburg . There are four congregations of the New Apostolic Church in the district, they belong to the Schwerin district in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania District Church , which is subordinate to the Apostle District of Northern Germany.

Protected areas

There are 39 designated nature reserves in the district (as of February 2017).

License Plate

On June 12, 1994, the district was assigned the distinctive sign NWM . With the exception of the Hanseatic City of Wismar, which kept its HWI , it is still issued today.

Until around 2005, vehicles from the old districts received special identification numbers:

area Letters numbers
Altkreis Grevesmühlen A to H 1 to 999
AA to HZ 1 to 99
Old district of Wismar J to S 1 to 999
YES to SZ 1 to 99
Old district of Gadebusch T to Z 1 to 999
TA to ZZ 1 to 99

Since April 2, 2013, due to the license plate liberalization , the distinguishing marks GDB (Gadebusch), GVM (Grevesmühlen) and WIS (Wismar, for the then district) have been available.

See also

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Nordwestmecklenburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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. ^ Regional Spatial Development Program West Mecklenburg (2011) , Regional Planning Association, accessed on July 12, 2015
  3. ↑ 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 ).
  4. ↑ The State Returning Officer Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Final result of the district election 2019 , accessed on January 20, 2019
  5. ^ Parliamentary groups in the district council
  6. ↑ service.mvnet.de ( Memento from May 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Result of the 2014 district election.
  7. ↑ service.mvnet.de Result of the district election 2011.
  8. ↑ service.mvnet.de Result of the district election 2009.
  9. ↑ service.mvnet.de Result of the 2004 district council election.
  10. ^ Service.mvnet.de Result of the district council election 1999.
  11. ↑ service.mvnet.de Result of the district assembly election 1994.
  12. ^ Election results 1990 ( memento of August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) p. 95.
  13. ↑ a b c main statute § 2 (PDF).
  14. ↑ a b 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. 153/154 .
  15. ↑ Prognos Future Atlas. Retrieved July 12, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Route network map for regional rail transport
  17. ↑ Timetables for regional bus transport