Leizen
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Coordinates: 53 ° 22 ′ N , 12 ° 29 ′ E |
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Basic data | ||
State : | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | |
County : | Mecklenburg Lake District | |
Office : | Röbel-Müritz | |
Height : | 73 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 27.75 km 2 | |
Residents: | 483 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 17 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 17209 | |
Area code : | 039922 | |
License plate : | MSE, AT, DM, MC, MST, MÜR, NZ, RM, WRN | |
Community key : | 13 0 71 088 | |
Office administration address: | Marktplatz 1 17207 Röbel / Müritz |
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Mayoress : | Stefanie Nuremberg | |
Location of the municipality of Leizen in the Mecklenburg Lake District | ||
Leizen is a municipality in the west of the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. It is administered by the Office Röbel-Müritz based in the city of Röbel / Müritz .
geography
The municipality of Leizen in the Mecklenburg Lake District is located in a hilly, forest and lake-rich area, which is 120.5 m above sea level with the Dusterholzberg. Reached NHN . Between the great lakes Müritz and Plau are in the municipality Leizens some smaller lakes, the Tangahnsee , the Small Kreßinsee which Minzower See and the Steinfortsee . The city of Röbel / Müritz is about eight kilometers away.
Leizen is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Walow in the north, Groß Kelle in the northeast, Röbel / Müritz in the east, Bütow in the southeast, Fincken in the southwest and Fünfseen in the northwest.
The districts of Leizen, Minzow and Woldzegarten belong to the community.
history
Incorporations
Woldzegarten was incorporated on January 1, 1974. Minzow has been part of Leizen since June 13, 2004.
Leizen
The former Slavic Rundling Leizen first appeared in the local church chronicle in 1298. A tower hill castle already existed in the Middle Ages , later a castle was built near it. From the 14th century until the 18th century, Leizen, along with other villages in the area, was owned by the von Knuth family and in 1750 came to the district councilor Ernst Friedrich von Gundlach with surrounding lands . The Wilhelminian manor house was built in 1898. The place was dominated by agriculture until the present day. In 1996 the South Mecklenburg industrial and commercial park was opened.
Minzow
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The district of Minzow is also of Slavic origin. The Lords of Below owned several hooves in the farming village in the 15th century . After building its own church in 1862, Minzow became an independent parish. Minzow was an independent municipality until the merger with Leizen in 2004.
Woldzegarten
The Woldzegarten district was owned by the von Flotow family from the 15th to the 20th century . After the owner and the manager were evicted in 1945, various community facilities were housed in the manor house. After the fall of the Wall, the estate fell into disrepair, but was then extensively renovated in the late 1990s. The manor house now serves as a hotel, the large farm building as a culture barn.
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 LEIZEN".
Economy and Infrastructure
In the traditionally agricultural area of the municipality , several service and handicraft businesses have settled in the South Mecklenburg industrial park , which is located directly on the motorway , since the 1990s .
The transmitter tower of the Röbel-Woldzegarten station is on the Dusterholzberg near Woldzegarten .
Leizen is conveniently located at the intersection of federal highway 198 with federal highway 19 (Berlin – Rostock), which forms the Röbel highway junction . The next train stations are in Malchow and Ganzlin .
Attractions
- The Leizen village church is a rectangular stone church from the 13th century. Its walls were partially renovated with bricks in the 18th century. A boarded-up square tower with a high and pointed eight-sided helmet is placed on the roof in the style of a roof ridge. The carved altar from around 1500 and a Knuth tombstone from 1370 are among the important furnishings of the church.
- The Leizener manor house, built in 1898 in the Wilhelminian style, now serves as a hotel, the former warehouse of the estate is u. a. used by the volunteer fire department.
- The estate in the Woldzegarten district has now also been converted into a hotel. The manor's large granary serves as a culture barn, among other things, for various cultural purposes.
- The village church Minzow was built in place of the burned down manor house.
- Large stone graves near the district of Woldzegarten
- Kroneiche Minzow with a circumference of 9.90 meters and an estimated age of 400–600 years
Web links
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 ).
- ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1st, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
- ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2004
- ↑ main statute § 1
- ^ Entry in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017