Lenten wipe

This article describes the community of Lenzerwische. For the Lenzer Wische wetland see there.

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 5 '  N , 11 ° 21'  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Prignitz
Office :	Lenzen-Elbtalaue
Height :	15 m above sea level NHN
Area :	42.07 km 2
Residents:	455 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	11 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	19309
Area code :	038758
License plate :	PR
Community key :	12 0 70 246
Office administration address:	Kellerstraße 4 19307 Lenzen (Elbe)
Mayoress :	Nadine Mewes
Location of the municipality of Lenzerwische in the Prignitz district

Lenzerwische (from Wische , Low German for meadow, pasture land ) is a municipality in the Lenzen-Elbtalaue office in the Prignitz district in Brandenburg .

geography

The municipality is located in the wetland of the same name between the Elbe and Löcknitz rivers and is the westernmost municipality in the Prignitz district and thus also in Brandenburg . It is located on the Brandenburg border triangle with Lower Saxony and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

Community structure

The following inhabited parts of the community belong to Lenzerwische:

• Baarz
• Dispatched
• Gaarz
• Kietz
• Possible
• Unsent
• Wootz

The living spaces also belong to the community

• Little Wootz
• Rose village

Markings

The following districts exist in the municipality , order from west to east:

• 123719 Baarz-Gaarz
• 123718 dispatched
• 123720 unsent
• 128738 Kietz
• 128737 Wootz
• 128739 Possible

history

The current municipality belonged from 1816/18 to 1952 to the Brandenburg district of Westprignitz , from 1952 to 1990 to the district of Ludwigslust in the Schwerin district and from 1990 to 1992 to the Ludwigslust district in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. On August 1, 1992, the then independent municipalities Besanders and Wootz came to the Brandenburg district of Perleberg , which was merged with the district reorganization law of the state of Brandenburg in 1993 in the district of Prignitz.

In 1972 Kietz (Elbe) and 1973 Mödlich were incorporated into Wootz.

Lenzerwische came into being on October 26, 2003 from the voluntary amalgamation of the previously independent communities Besendet and Wootz.

In the 2005 Bundestag elections , the turnout in Lenzerwische was 80.3%, the highest of all municipalities in the state of Brandenburg.

Population development

year	Dispatched	Wootz		year	Lenten wipe		year	Lenten wipe
1981	171	513		2003	525		2015	466
1990	129	501		2005	536		2016	449
1995	111	459		2010	510		2017	447
2000	116	448		2011	484		2018	458
2002	109	425		2012	483		2019	455
				2013	473
				2014	473

Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31 (from 1991), from 2011 based on the 2011 census

politics

Community representation

The community council consists of eight community representatives and the honorary mayor.

Voter group	Seats
Lenzerwische voter group	6th
Individual applicant Kenny Stibbe	1
Individual applicant Ingolf Drescher	1

(As of: local elections on May 25, 2014)

mayor

• 2003–2019: Klaus-Jürgen Borrmann (Lenzerwische voter group)
• since 2019: Nadine Mewes

Mewes was elected in the mayoral election on June 16, 2019 with 71.0% of the valid votes for a term of five years.

Attractions

Kietz village church

The list of monuments in Lenzerwische includes the monuments entered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.

• The Church of St. Johannis was built in the open field in 1894. The floor plan is cross-shaped, with patronage boxes in the transverse arms of the ship. The altarpiece dates from 1706.
• The village church Wootz is a half-timbered church from the beginning of the 17th century. In the interior there is a late Gothic carved altar.

traffic

Lenzerwische is on the federal highway 195 between Dömitz and Wittenberge .

Personalities

• Wilhelm Unger (1849–1910), lawyer, born in Lenzerwische

literature

• Historical Gazetteer Brandenburg - Part 1 - Prignitz - A-M . Modifications made by Lieselott Enders . In: Klaus Neitmann (Ed.): Publications of the Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv (State Archive Potsdam) - Volume 3 . Founded by Friedrich Beck . Publishing house Klaus-D. Becker, Potsdam 2012, ISBN 978-3-88372-032-6 , pp. 507 .

Web links

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

Footnotes

1. ↑ Population in the State of Brandenburg according to municipalities, offices and municipalities not subject to official registration on December 31, 2019 (XLSX file; 223 KB) (updated official population figures) ( help on this ).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Lenzerwische community - inhabited parts of the community - living spaces. Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs of the State of Brandenburg, accessed on February 12, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
4. ↑ BrandenburgViewer of the state survey and geographic base information Brandenburg (LGB)
5. ↑ State Main Archive Brandenburg - District Prignitz
6. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003
7. ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Prignitz district . Pp. 22-25
8. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2017 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
9. ^ Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.): Statistical report AI 7, A II 3, A III 3. Population development and population status in the state of Brandenburg (respective editions of the month of December)
10. ↑ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019. Accessed on July 16, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Local elections October 26, 2003. Mayoral elections , p. 31
12. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)
13. ^ Result of the mayoral election on June 16, 2019