Lassan

This article deals with the place in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald. For other meanings, see Lassahn (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 57 '  N , 13 ° 51'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Vorpommern-Greifswald
Office :	At the Peenestrom
Height :	7 m above sea level NHN
Area :	27.98 km 2
Residents:	1483 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	53 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17440
Area code :	038374
License plate :	VG, ANK, GW, PW, SBG, UEM, WLG
Community key :	13 0 75 074
Office administration address:	Burgstrasse 6 17389 Wolgast
Website :	www.lassan.de
Mayor :	Fred Gransow ( CDU )
Location of the town of Lassan in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district

Lassan is one of the smallest cities in Germany and the third smallest city in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The place on the island of Usedom belongs to the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald and is administered by the Am Peenestrom office based in Wolgast . The city is the capital of the Lassaner Winkel .

geography

Geographical location

Lassan is located on the west bank of the Peene River across from the island of Usedom and is a good 40 km east of the regional center of Greifswald , about 15 kilometers south of Wolgast and 15 kilometers northeast of Anklam . The rural area with its districts, forests and fields is the Lassaner Winkel . Lassan is the eastern end of the holiday route Vorpommersche Dorfstraße and is located on the Way of St. James Via Baltica , which leads from Usedom via Greifswald to Osnabrück .

The coastal region is part of the Usedom Island Nature Park and the Peenetal River Landscape Nature Park .

City structure

According to its main statute, Lassan consists of the following districts:

Lassan Little Jasedow Papendorf

Pulow Washow

history

Lassan

Lassan 1761

Surname

The name of the landscape - terra Lesane - was mentioned in a document from Emperor Lothar in 1136. The name changed to Lessan in 1168 , Lessaz in 1177 and Lassan in 1295 . The old Polish Lěšane possibly means " inhabitant from the forest ". Niemeyer also interprets similarly: "forest dwellers", also "woodland".

middle Ages

The original Slavic fishing settlement with a castle was the center of the Lesane landscape . The place with a castle was first mentioned in 1136. From 1200 the dukes of Pomerania laid out the place according to plan. He received from 1264 to 1278, the city charter and was in 1291 as civitas and 1299 as oppidum called. Due to the favorable location on the Peene River , the port and the city gained in importance. The hall church of St. Johannis was also built around 1291 .

In the Middle Ages and early modern times, fishing was an essential source of income for the place. That is why the now uncommon name Lassansche Wasser for the backwater can be found on maps from this time . At that time Lassan - the only town directly on the backwaters - held the fishing rights for these waters.

Recent history

In 1664 a city fire destroyed the place to the ground. In the autumn of 1837 124 of the approximately 1400 residents fell ill with cholera ; 65 sick people died during this wave of infections.

A Jewish community with a Jewish cemetery has been known in Lassan since the middle of the 19th century . Their story ends in the 1940s, the cemetery was cleared. Although its area has been preserved to a limited extent, it is neither marked by the city nor is it even noticed.

In 1896 the Anklam-Lassaner Kleinbahn was put into operation. This gave Lassan a better connection to the surrounding area.

In 1929 the place got a bathing beach. In the last days of the Second World War , Lassan and the rest of the districts were occupied by the Red Army .

After the end of the GDR, the inner city with the church, city wall and town hall has been fundamentally renovated as part of urban development funding since 1991. In 1996 the water hiking rest area was created. Then the harbor area was expanded.

Marketplace 1908 (Zeppelin fitted)

From 1952 to 1994 Lassan belonged to the Wolgast district (until 1990 in the GDR district of Rostock , 1990–1994 in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). In 1994 the city was incorporated into the Ostvorpommern district. Since the district reform in 2011 , it has been in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district .

On June 7, 2009 the previously independent community Pulow was incorporated into Lassan.

History of the districts

town hall

Houses in the market

Klein Jasedow was first mentioned in 1547 as Jasdow and in 1859 with the current name of Klein Jasedow . The significance of the Slavic foundation has not yet been shown. Klein Jasedow is a Vorwerk to the Gut "Vorwerk" north of Lassan. It was a typical manor village that consisted only of the manor with the administrator's house and 2 farm workers' cottages. After 1945 it became a cluster of new farms and residential buildings.

Papendorf was first mentioned in 1547 when Jacob von Zitzewitz had a sheep farm established here. The name is derived from Pape = pastor / priest. Since the nearest church is in Lassan, this name interpretation can be questionable.
Papendorf became an estate village with the estate and the farm worker data line. Owners were u. a families von Krassow (from 1669), von Buggenhagen (after 1784) and the barons of Le Fort ( Lefort ) and heirs (1833–1945). Papendorf was their ancestral property with the Pertinenzen (subsidiary estates) Pulow and Klein Jasedow.
Since 1897 Papendorf had its own connection to the Anklam-Lassaner Kleinbahn (ALKB), which, like all other lines, was dismantled in 1945 as a repair.

Pulow was first mentioned in documents as Pulowe in 1291 . It is a Slavic foundation with no name interpretation. The tower hill dates from after 1230. The Pulow estate changed hands several times and has been a subsidiary of the Barons von Le Fort family since 1875. The neo-baroque manor house was built around 1900.

→ See also main article: Pulow

Vorwerk was first mentioned in a document in 1328. It is located north of Lassan and served with the properties for the maintenance of Lassan Castle ( castrum lesane ). Lords were u. a the Ramel families (13th century), von Köller , von Zitzewitz , von Weißenstein, von Quistorp and von Buggenhagen (1845–1945). The now ruinous manor house dates from the 19th century.

Waschow was first named as Warsekow in 1320 and as Waschow in 1658 . The name is interpreted as a derivation from a personal name. At Waschow there are three large stone graves from the Neolithic (5500 to 1800 BC). But they actually belong to the Wehrland-Bauer district. This proves an early settlement of the area.

Waschow was an estate village with the estate and the farm workers' data sheet on the road to Lassan. All that remained of this estate was a manor house that had been altered in no style. The coat of arms of the builder is still visible on the manor house, it is the coat of arms of the von Hackewitz family. The former estate park is only partially available and overgrown. After 1945 the village developed into an elongated street village.

Warnekow was first mentioned in documents in 1432. The Slavic founding name is not interpreted. It was an old town and consisted only of a few small farms. Due to the remoteness and the poor transport connections, the residential area was given up in modern times. The place was still inhabited until the 1970s. Now only the dirt road with the tree planting and the completely bushy orchards remind of the place.

Population development

year Residents 1990 1859 1995 1696 2000 1548 2005 1410 2010 1597

year Residents 2015 1518 2016 1513 2017 1532 2018 1510 2019 1483

Status: December 31 of the respective year

politics

City council

The city council of Lassan has again eleven elected members since the local elections on May 26, 2019 . The mayor is a member and chairman of the city council.

Party / group of voters	2014	2019
CDU	6th	5
Free voters	-	2
Individual applicant Christian Hilse	-	1
Lassaner Winkel citizens' list (FOAG)	1	1
The left	2	1
AfD	-	1
SPD	1	-
NPD	1	-
All in all	11	11

The representatives of the Free Voters and the AfD formed a parliamentary group.

In 2014 the NPD won two seats, but only placed one applicant. In 2019, Christian Hilse's share of the vote corresponded to two seats. In both cases, one seat in the city council had to remain vacant.

mayor

• since 2009: Fred Gransow (CDU)

Gransow was elected in the mayoral election on May 26, 2019 with 67.0% of the valid votes for a further term of five years.

State and federal elections

In the state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2016 , the NPD achieved its second-highest result in the entire state with a second vote share of 23.1 percent in Lassan. The right-wing populist AfD had a second vote share of 24.0 percent.

In the 2017 federal election , the NPD received 11.4 percent and the AfD received 24.7 percent of the second vote.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the city of Lassan in the Greifswald district building

Blazon : "In blue a silver fish, circularly accompanied by three above and below by four six-pointed golden stars." The coat of arms was designed in 1972 by Albert Püschel from Lassan and redrawn in 1996 by the Schönherr & Maciejewski design office from Anklam. It was registered under the number 112 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Justification of the coat of arms: In the coat of arms designed in 1972 based on the seal image of the SIGILLVM CIVITATIS LASSAN from the 13th century, the fish is supposed to indicate one of the oldest sources of income for the inhabitants, fishing. But it could also be that the settlers there associated the wording of the Slavic place name (Lěšane = forest dweller) with the term salmon and made the figure of a salmon as a symbol of the city. This is also based on the legend according to which the place is said to have got its name after the salmon caught in the backwater and in the Peene - Lasse in Low German . The stars are said to symbolize the number of council members. However, since their number has changed frequently over time, it is more likely that the seven stars symbolize the seven stars, which, according to ancient tradition, are considered to be the protective stars of fishermen.

The historical coat of arms can be seen in the coat of arms frieze of the 24 lords and 3 cities of the administrative district council of the district of Greifswald in the district house on Markt 10/11.

flag

The city does not have an officially approved flag .

Official seal

The official seal of the city shows the city coat of arms with the inscription "STADT LASSAN * LANDKREIS VORPOMMERN-GREIFSWALD".

Sights and culture

City Church of St. Johannis

Watermill 1908

Watermill, now a museum

→ See: List of architectural monuments in Lassan

primary school

Attractions

The elongated old town of Lassan with its small town flair, the scenic location on the water and the forests in the area are attractions for tourism.

• Stadtkirche St. Johannis , brick church in Gothic style from the 13th / 14th centuries Century, inside there is an altar and a pulpit from the 18th century, both from the workshop of Elias Keßler . The organ was built by Carl August Buchholz in 1832 .
• Remains of the medieval city wall
• Wooden front doors
• Restored half-timbered houses, etc. a Wendenstrasse 32, 59, 76 and the rectory
• Lassaner mill, partly from the 15th century, as well as the Friedrich-von-Lösewitz-Halle, museum facilities that are looked after and managed by the Lassan Local History Interest Group. In addition to the old mill technology, exhibits relating to the history of the city and historical agricultural implements and machines are shown.
• Pomeranian fisherman's carpets , commercially knotted in Lassan from 1962. The responsible PGH Folk Art on the Baltic Sea had its warehouse as well as its workshop and dye works in Langen Strasse. A total of around 20 women were employed until the PGH went bankrupt in 1992.
• Pulow Tower Hill
• Manor house in Pulow in neo-baroque style (around 1900)
• Pulower See , a rinnensee shaped by the Ice Age with a historic tombstone (Baron Körting)
• Hand weaving, to be seen in the Pulow country workshop
• Fragrance and touch garden for the visually impaired and blind in Papendorf
• Papendorfer Lakes
• Papendorf manor house
• Waschow manor house and manor park
• Gutshaus Klein Jasedow (half-timbered building)
• Klanghaus am See in Klein Jasedow
• Moraine landscape with many lakes (dead ice jam landscape)
• Vogelparadies Polder Waschow

Films shot in Lassan

• 1938: marriage fraud
• 2004: The Settlers. In the ass of the world ("A documentary western in the east" by Claus Strigel )
• 2008: Rosenstolz : Give me some sun (music video)
• 2010: Pastor Braun: Pig! (Director: Wolfgang F. Henschel , with Ottfried Fischer , Sonja Kirchberger , Udo Schenk etc.)
• 2010: Pfarrer Braun: Kur mit Schatten (Director: Wolfgang F. Henschel, with Eleonore Weisgerber , Nicki von Tempelhoff etc.)
• 2017: Teufelsmoor (Director: Brigitte Maria Bertele , NORDFILM on behalf of NDR and ARD Degeto )

Lassan in music

The songwriter Wolf Biermann owned a summer house on the opposite bank and occasionally came to Lassan. In honor of the city he composed the song: The old city of Lassan .

Economy and Infrastructure

Port 1908

Port and marina

Companies

In addition to the Lassaner Bäckerei & Konditorei eG and the Nowack cider factory, the small town has a few smaller craft businesses and sales facilities as well as two campsites.

traffic

Lassan is located on Kreisstrasse 31 between Wolgast and Anklam .

The city has no rail connection. The nearest train station is Anklam on the Berlin – Stralsund railway line . A small railway connection from 1896 via the Anklam-Lassaner small railway , through which Lassan was connected to Anklam and Buddenhagen , was dismantled in 1945 after the end of the Second World War .

The local company Omnibus Pasternak operates two regional bus routes that connect Lassan with Anklam and Wolgast.

The port of Lassan is of great importance for the city. The water hiking rest area has 42 berths. Adjacent is the small fishing port.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Bernt Notke (~ 1435– ~ 1509), sculptor
• Alexander Caroc (1643–1711), legal scholar, state syndic of Swedish Pomerania
• Balzer Peter Vahl (1718–1792), businessman, mayor of Greifswald
• Ernst von Quistorp (1784–1831), Prussian officer
• August von Quistorp (1786–1849), Prussian officer
• Johann Dettloff Prochnow (1814–1888), pastor and missionary of the Goßner Mission
• Wernher von Quistorp (1856–1908), landowner and Prussian politician
• Theodor Bartus (1858–1941), museum technician and Asian researcher
• Alfred Roloff (1879–1951), painter and illustrator
• Otto Roloff (1882–1972), painter, brother of Alfred Roloff
• Kurt Wulfert (March 7, 1891 - August 18, 1970), elementary school teacher and recipient of the Leibniz Medal for his services in the field of rotifers
• Michael Schwarz (* 1940), art historian

Personalities associated with Lassan

• Johann Joachim Spalding (1714–1804), pastor in Lassan from 1749 to 1757
• Johannes Heimrath (* 1953), head of the Klein Jasedow community

Quotes

• "In Lassan the gates are closed with a turnip instead of a lock."
• "On the Peene dear Rande, / on a well-known youth track / I follow the beach on and on, / and so I came to Lassan." (1st stanza of the poem by Karl Lappe : An Lassan , 1838)
• "On Peenestrom, on Peenestrom / Da is a wreck of wood and stone / For five hundred times the same Year n / the old city Lassan." ( Wolf Biermann : Ballad of the old city Lassan , 1974)

literature

• Albert Georg von Schwarz : Diplomatic history of the Pomeranian-Rügischen cities of Swedish sovereignty. Chapter: From the origin of the city of Lassahn. Hieronymus Johann Struck, Greifswald 1755, pp. 445–451. ( Full text online )
• The cholera of autumn 1837 in Lassan. From an official report by Dr. Anderssen, general practitioner there , in: Dr. Johann Nep. Rust (ed.): Magazine for the entire medicine with special consideration for the general sanitary system in the Königl. Preuss. Staate , Third Booklet, Chapter XIII, Verlag G. Reimer, Berlin 1839, pp. 499-521. ( Full text online )
• Karl Viohl: History of the city of Lassan from its oldest times to the present. From the works of Pomeranian historians and the city files , Berlin 1862, 152 pages. (City chronicle with sources that extended beyond the middle of the 19th century.) ( Full text online )
• The city of Lassan. in: Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen (edited by Heinrich Berghaus ), Part IV, Volume II, Anklam 1868, pp. 858–931. (City chronicle with statistical information from the first half of the 19th century and with an appendix to documents.) ( Full text online )
• Gustav Kratz : The cities of the province of Pomerania. Outline of their history, mostly based on documents , Berlin 1965, pp. 243–246. ( Full text online )
• Interest group in the Kulturbund: "Brief Heimatgeschichte Lassan", 1983.
• Manfred Niemeyer: East Western Pomerania. Collection of sources and literature on place names. Vol. 2: Mainland. (= Greifswald contributions to toponymy. Vol. 2), Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Institute for Slavic Studies, Greifswald 2001, pp. 79, 101, 139, 141; ISBN 3-86006-149-6 .

Web links

Commons : Lassan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Lassan in the Topographia Electoratus Brandenburgici et Ducatus Pomeraniae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• Literature about Lassan in the Landesbibliographie MV
• Lassan - City on the Peenestrom: www.lassan.eu
• Lassaner-Winkel: www.lassaner-winkel.de
• Lassaner Winkel: www.lassaner-winkel.info

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. ↑ Main statute of the city of Lassan, § 2
3. ↑ Ernst Eichler and Werner Mühlmer: The names of cities in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Ingo Koch Verlag, Rostock 2002, ISBN 3-935319-23-1
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Manfred Niemeyer: Ostvorpommern . Collection of sources and literature on place names. Vol. 2: Mainland. (= Greifswald contributions to toponymy. Vol. 2), Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, Institute for Slavic Studies, Greifswald 2001, ISBN 3-86006-149-6 . P. 56 ff
5. ↑ Edwin Kuna & Hannelore Deya: New historical lexicon. Haff-Verlag: 2011 (e-book; reading sample A: Aachen to Adar )
6. ↑ The cholera of the fall of 1837 in Lassan. From an official report by Dr. Anderssen, a general practitioner there , in: Magazine for the whole of medicine with special regard to the general medical system in the Königl. Preuss. Staate , Berlin 1839, pp. 499-521. ( Full text online )
7. ↑ Berliners want to revive Gutshaus Waschow In: Ostsee-Zeitung from February 19, 2017.
8. ↑ Population development of the districts and municipalities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Statistical Report AI of the Statistical Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
9. ↑ §39 (2) of the municipal constitution of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Retrieved April 27, 2020 . 
10. ^ Result of the local elections on May 25, 2014
11. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
12. ↑ Mayor and city council. Retrieved April 27, 2020 . 
13. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019
14. ↑ ^{a b} State Office for Internal Administration Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Final results of the state election on September 4, 2016
15. ↑ ^{a b} Torsten Hampel: Pflug and Trug In: Der Tagesspiegel . 5th March 2017.
16. ↑ ^{a b} Torsten Hampel: The trick question In: Der Tagesspiegel . 16th September 2016.
17. ^ Marcel Pauly, Lukas Bombach: State election Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania - results of the cities and communities. In: welt.de . September 5, 2016, accessed October 7, 2018 . 
18. ↑ https://wahlen.mvnet.de/daten/atlanten/verbindungen.2017/bundestagswahlonlineatlas.html
19. ↑ Hans-Heinz Schütt: On shield and flag production office TINUS, Schwerin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814380-0-0 , p. 365 ff.
20. ↑ ^{a b} main statute § 1 (PDF).
21. ↑ Lassaner doors. In: lassaner.tumblr.com. Retrieved June 20, 2016 . 
22. ↑ Flyer: Lassan , from the series Im Schwed'schen , without date
23. ↑ Klaus Kieper, Reiner Preuß and Elfriede Rehbein: Narrow-gauge railway archive. Pp. 99-105. transpress publishing house for transport, Berlin 1980.
24. ^ Rector Kurt Wulfert on the 50th anniversary of his death in the Goethestadt Kurier , Bad Lauchstädt, edition 6/2020.
25. ^ Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander (ed.): German Sprichwort Lexikon. Volume 5. Leipzig 1880.