Levenhagen

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	Coordinates: 54 ° 5 '  N , 13 ° 16'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Vorpommern-Greifswald
Office :	Landhagen
Height :	3 m above sea level NHN
Area :	13.18 km 2
Residents:	424 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	32 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17498
Area code :	03834
License plate :	VG, ANK, GW, PW, SBG, UEM, WLG
Community key :	13 0 75 076
Community structure:	4 districts
Office administration address:	Theodor-Körner-Strasse 36 17498 Neuenkirchen
Website :	http://www.gemeinde-levenhagen.de
Mayor :	Steffen Boos
Location of the municipality of Levenhagen in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district

Levenhagen is a municipality in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald. It is administered by the Landhagen office based in Neuenkirchen .

Geography and traffic

Levenhagen is about five kilometers west of Greifswald , south of the river Ryck . The federal highway 109 runs through the municipality, which ends east of the municipality in the bypass road for Greifswald ( federal highway 105 ). The federal motorway 20 can be reached via the Greifswald junction (around five kilometers).

A bypass is in the works for the place. This is completed according to OpenStreetMap and relieves the place with the historic church or chapel.

Districts

Levenhagen Old disgrace Boltenhagen Heilgeisthof

Desolations and living spaces in the community area Krauelshorst (desert) Levenhagen Hof I (living space) Levenhagen Hof II (living space)

history

Levenhagen

Levenhagen was first mentioned in documents as Liuuenhagen in 1280. It is a German foundation with the name meaning Leben . The name itself is certainly a derivation of the Low German form of the family name Leve = lion .

In the 15th century until the Reformation, Levenhagen was a place of pilgrimage. The small chapel at the entrance to the cemetery still tells of this today. After the secularization, the University of Greifswald received patronage over the Levenhäger Church.

Old disgrace

A late Slavic settlement was archaeologically proven in the village area. The following settlement was founded by Sassian (Lower Saxony) settlers.

Alt Ingnade was first mentioned in a document in 1280 as Radolfesdorp . The form of the name injustice is not documented until 1357. The nearby Eldena Monastery has been named as the owner of the area since 1249. It was also the landlord of the other places in the community, except for the Heilgeisthof. As its name suggests, it belonged to the Heilgeisthospital in Greifswald . However, the Eldena Monastery and, after its abolition in the course of the Reformation, the Duke of Pomerania also asserted ownership claims here.

The places belonging to the secularized Eldena Monastery were transferred to the University of Greifswald in 1634 by the last Duke of Pomerania, Bogislaw XIV . It owned both until it was expropriated as part of the land reform in 1945.

A part of Ingnade was cut off in the 18th century and in 1787 a linen weaver settlement was set up on it, which was named Neu-Ingnade . New injustice was assigned to the parish of Dersekow in the 19th century . Today this place belongs to the political municipality Dersekow.

Boltenhagen

The place was first mentioned in 1248 as Bolteshaghen . Later with slight but insignificant name changes. In 1932 the name Akademisch-Boltenhagen was introduced because the village and estate belonged to the University of Greifswald. This was introduced to differentiate it from today's Neu Boltenhagen . Neu-Boltenhagen, on the other hand, was called Adlig-Boltenhagen at this time (from 1956 Neu-Boltenhagen). It was not until 1956 that the name was changed to Boltenhagen. It is located west of Greifswald and has nothing to do with the namesake Neu-Boltenhagen, it is located some distance east of Greifswald.

From 1341 the place name Boltenhagen disappears from the documents, because the place including the estate was united with the place injustice. It was not until 1786 that Boltenhagen was disgraced at the instigation of the university and given its name again.

Heilgeisthof

Heilgeisthof was first mentioned in a document in 1294 as sancti Spiritus . In 1463 the name Hilghenghesteshoff was documented. Many different forms of name are known until 1859, only then does the current name become common.

In 1280 the land around the later village of Heilgeisthof was sold by the Eldena monastery to the St. Spiritus Hospital.

In modern times, the Heilgeisthof was developed into an estate village. According to MTB in 1920, but since 1835 according to PUM, it consisted only of the estate and a small farm worker data line.

The estate is only preserved in relics. The village developed into a larger residential area with smaller businesses. The village is on the B 109 road from Greifswald to BAB 20.

Krauelshorst (desert)

Krauelshorst was first mentioned in 1357 as Crowelshorst . According to the name, it is an early German foundation - names with Horst were mostly clearings in forest areas that were still closed at the time. In the 19th century, an estate was settled there, but it disappeared in the 1920s. The last two houses were abandoned in the 1970s. Now there is only a landfill left there.

Levenhagen Hof I (living space)

Levenhagen Hof I has been listed as a place in the municipal directories since 1995. Already according to the Mes Tischblatt (MTB) from 1880, it is a homestead separated from the main town in the south-east, which has meanwhile been developed as a living space.

Levenhagen Hof II (living space)

Levenhagen Hof II is also separated from the main town according to MTB 1880, but counts as a residential area in Levenhagen.

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 region of Western Pomerania . It shows an upright griffin with a raised tail and the inscription "GEMEINDE LEVENHAGEN * LANDKREIS VORPOMMERN-GREIFSWALD".

Attractions

→ See: List of architectural monuments in Levenhagen

• Marienkapelle Levenhagen - specialty as a pilgrimage chapel
• The Alt Ungnade chapel is a neo-Gothic brick building by Schinkel's student Menzel from 1851. There is a pointed arch-shaped panel with a round window and a gable tower above the west portal .

Levenhagen Church

Levenhagen Church

During work in the choir of Levenhagen church in 1966, foundations of the previous church from the 13th century were found. The eastern part of today's brick church dates from the end of the 14th century, the nave (two-bay stepped hall with ribbed vaults) from the beginning of the 15th century. The huge west portal walled up after the Reformation and the peculiar side chapels on the main nave indicate its importance as a pilgrimage church. Late Gothic vault paintings were uncovered during renovation work in 1965. On the west wall you can see Mary with the child and John , above the handkerchief of Saint Veronica held by angels . The baroque altar dates from 1646. On it, the Lord's Supper is connected with the manna miracle during the Exodus of Israel (Exodus chapter 16). These pictorial representations are flanked by fully plastic figures: Johannes d. Baptist and a prophet (maybe Isaiah) on the first floor, and Moses and Aaron on the upper floor. Some of the Protestant wooden fixtures were removed in the 1960s. This applies to the pulpit (19th century), the west gallery including the organ built in 1874 by the Berlin organ builder F. Dinse, and the baroque box stalls. The twelve- sided baptismal font made of Gotland limestone and decorated with incised drawings of the Twelve Apostles from the first half of the 14th century is a rarity . Today's stalls come from the chapel in Alt Ungnade that was sold in 1980.

The tiny St. Mary's Chapel in the entrance area of ​​the cemetery, which is the smallest chapel in Northern Europe with a size of three m², dates from the middle of the 15th century. The interior of the chapel used to be decorated with an image of Mary . Levenhagen was one of the Pomeranian pilgrimage sites with a Marian tradition at least from the 14th century until the Reformation. The blind and lame are said to have received special healing powers. Legends about this have been remembered, the earliest records of which date back to the 18th century. Popular piety continued the tradition of the Levenhäger Marienkapelle as a healing place into the 17th century. This has caused offense under the church authorities since the early 17th century. In 1633 the evangelical pastor was asked to quietly clear away the idol in the chapel, to find himself out of the frembde and nehe people and to bring superstitious sacrifices . But the tradition of the chapel pilgrimage apparently remained alive among the people and can be traced back to the second half of the 19th century in the form of regular votive and coin offerings. The church was renovated or redesigned after the Thirty Years War , 1839-1840 and 1965-1968. Since 1922, memorial plaques in the Marienkapelle have been commemorating the local victims of the First World War.

literature

• Buske, Norbert: The chapel in Levenhagen. On the history of piety in the environment of Greifswald, in: Mitteldeutsches Jahrbuch für Kultur und Geschichte, Vol. 15 (2008), pp. 21-30.
• Buske, Norbert: Levenhagen (Kr. Greifswald), in: ders./ Gerd Baier, Dorfkirchen in der Landeskirche Greifswald, Berlin 1984, p. 193, ill. P. 124 and 125.
• Buske, Norbert: The building history of the church in Levenhagen. A report on the results of the 1965/1968 excavations, in: Baltic Studies, NF 59 (1973), pp. 17-26.
• Buske, Norbert: The Marienkapelle in Levenhagen, in: Baltic Studies, NF 55 (1969), pp. 33–43.
• Augustine by Balthasar, Jus Ecclesiasticum Pastorale. Notes on the Pomeranian Church Ordinance, Vol. I Rostock / Greifswald 1760, p. 838, note 786.
• 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 University of Greifswald, Institute for Slavic Studies, Greifswald 2001, ISBN 3-86006-149-6 . Pages 73, 81, 134

Web links

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

Wikisource: The Chapel at Levenhagen - Pomeranian Sage.  - Sources and full texts

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. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} 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. 12 ff
3. ↑ Main Statute, Section 1, Paragraph 1 (PDF).
4. ^ Burkhard Kunkel: Reception - Renovation. Reformation design of medieval furnishings in Pomeranian churches between aesthetics and catechesis . In: Gerhard Eimer, Ernst Gierlich, Matthias Müller (eds.): Ecclesiae ornatae . Bonn 2009, p. 269-290, here pp. 272-273 .