Lindow (Mark)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 58 ′  N , 12 ° 59 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Ostprignitz-Ruppin
Office :	Lindow (Mark)
Height :	41 m above sea level NHN
Area :	65.46 km 2
Residents:	3003 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	46 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	16835
Area code :	033933
License plate :	OPR, KY, NP, WK
Community key :	12 0 68 280
City structure:	6 districts
Office administration address:	Strasse des Friedens 20 16835 Lindow (Mark)
Website :	www.lindow-mark.de
Mayor :	Udo Rönnefahrt ( FDP )
Location of the town of Lindow (Mark) in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district

Lindow (Mark) is a town in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district in Brandenburg ( Germany ). It is the seat of the office Lindow (Mark) .

geography

The city is located about 60 km north of Berlin on the Deutsche Tonstrasse in the Stechlin-Ruppiner Land nature park in the middle of pine and mixed forests on a land bridge, surrounded by three lakes: the Wutzsee , the Gudelacksee and the Vielitzsee .

Market square and street of peace in Lindow

City structure

The following districts and residential areas belong to the city:

Districts

Banzendorf , Hindenberg , Keller , Klosterheide , Schönberg (Mark)

Living spaces

Birkenfelde, steam mill, Grünhof, Gühlen, Kramnitz, Kramnitzmühle, Rosenhof, Rudershof, Werbellinsee settlement, Lindow sports school, Wilhelmshöhe

history

In the 13th century Lindow became the seat of the Lindow Monastery , a nunnery of the Cistercians or Premonstratensians . This cannot be determined with certainty, as the files were lost during the Reformation. The founders were the Counts of Lindow-Ruppin, who owned the Ruppin estate . The monastery was surrounded by several small villages, which at that time belonged to the monastery property. After the Reformation and the later destruction of the church, the remaining buildings became an evangelical monastery for noble, unsupervised women; the last inmates of the monastery died in the 1960s. The canons' cemetery is next to the church ruins.

Four kilometers away from Lindow is the former church village of Gühlen, now part of Lindow.

In the district of Klosterheide, the SS organization Lebensborn ran the Lebensbornheim Kurmark from September 1937 to the end of 1944 .

On August 4, 1952, a Soviet military plane crashed on the "Freedom of Office", a square in the urban area of ​​Lindow. Both the inmates ( pilot and weapons system officer ) and a resident of Lindow were killed.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the former head of state of the GDR, Erich Honecker , retired to a government home near the city for a few days until civil protests forced him to move out.

Lindow (Mark) has been a state-approved resort since 1998 .

Administrative history

Lindow has belonged to the Ruppin rule since the 14th century, to the Ruppin district in the Mark Brandenburg since 1524 and to the Neuruppin district in the GDR district of Potsdam from 1952 . Lindow has been located in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district in Brandenburg since 1993.

Banzendorf, Keller and Klosterheide were incorporated into Lindow on December 31, 2001; Hindenberg and Schönberg (Mark) joined on October 26, 2003.

Population development

year Residents 1875 1 984 1890 1 933 1910 1 649 1925 1 923 1933 2 131 1939 2 248 1946 3 414 1950 2,887

year Residents 1964 2,517 1971 2 807 1981 2 716 1985 2 705 1989 2,655 1990 2 585 1991 2 515 1992 2,489 1993 2,473 1994 2,490

year Residents 1995 2,483 1996 2,503 1997 2 513 1998 2 565 1999 2 582 2000 2 606 2001 3 104 2002 3 068 2003 3 386 2004 3 309

year Residents 2005 3 276 2006 3 243 2007 3 194 2008 3 159 2009 3 102 2010 3,097 2011 3,075 2012 3,047 2013 3 038 2014 2,991

year Residents 2015 2 966 2016 3 028 2017 3 054 2018 3 091 2019 3 003

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

politics

City Council

Local elections 2019

Turnout: 55.8%

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30th

20th

10

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29.4%

19.0%

17.6%

17.2%

16.8%

CDU

LL ^b

Green

SPD

FDP

Remarks:

^b Lindow Land

The city council of Lindow consists of 16 city councilors and the honorary mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Party / group of voters	Seats
CDU	5
Voting Community Lindow Land	3
Alliance 90 / The Greens	3
SPD	3
FDP	2

mayor

• 1998–2008: Dieter Eipel (CDU)
• 2008-2014: Wolfgang Schwericke (SPD)
• 2014–2019: Heidrun Otto (CDU)
• since 2019: Udo Rönnefahrt (FDP)

Rönnefahrt was elected in the mayoral election on June 16, 2019 with 53.3% of the valid votes for a term of five years.

coat of arms

The city's coat of arms was approved on March 29, 2001

The Lindow coat of arms shows a rooted green linden tree with a golden background as a symbol. A small red shield leans against the trunk of the tree, in which a gold-armored silver eagle spreads out. The shield with the eagle is the family coat of arms of the city's founders, the Counts of Lindow-Ruppin.

Town twinning

Since 1967 there has been a partnership with the city of Harfleur from Normandy in France . Today's Lindow district of Banzendorf has had a partnership with Jemiołów from Poland since 2001 . In 2010 the partnership with Březnice in the Czech Republic was concluded.

Sights and culture

Buildings

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Lindow (Mark)

Town hall in Lindow

Evangelical parish church in Lindow

Church in Schönberg

• Lindow Monastery , from the Cistercian monastery founded in 1230 on the banks of the Wutzsee , some components have been preserved in a ruinous state after being destroyed in the 17th century
• Evangelical parish church, a baroque hall building that was built from 1751 to 1755, the organ and pulpit altar from the time it was built are worth seeing
• Catholic Church of St. Joseph from 1931
• Town hall, classicist building from 1809
• Monastery mill
• Red lock
• Dollhouse

Monuments

Stumbling blocks

• Boulder in the cemetery on Neue Straße in memory of six victims of the death march of concentration camp prisoners in April 1945
• The Jewish cemetery in Harnackstrasse at the level of the city park, laid out in 1824, survived the Nazi era unscathed and was restored in 1988
• Monument in the city park to the victims of the wars and the victims of fascism
• Stumbling blocks for murdered Jewish citizens

Regular events

• Sled dog race in the sports school Lindow on the second weekend in March (since 1992)
• “Literature & Music” in the monastery ruins on the first Sunday in September
• Wutzseelauf is organized by the Lindow Sports School at the beginning of June (since 2004).

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Lindow is on Landesstraße 19 between Rheinsberg and Kremmen .

The Lindow station is on the railroad track Lowenberg Patch Zechlin and year-round by the Regional line operated RB 54 from Rheinberg to Lowenberg. Individual trips are tied through to Berlin.

The Ostprignitz-Ruppiner local passenger transport company connects Lindow with a PlusBus and other regional bus routes.

education

State schools

• Three Lakes School

Independent schools

• Vocational school for sport Lindow of the European Sport Academy State of Brandenburg

Sports

The men's volleyball team of SV Lindow-Gransee will play in the 2nd North Volleyball Bundesliga in the 2019/20 season .

Personalities

Born in Lindow

• Theodor Zechlin (1818–1895), local historian from the Altmark region
• Friedrich Kienscherf (1818–1890), organ builder in Eberswalde
• Paul Bonte (1862–1940), naval general physician in the German Imperial Navy
• Max Zell (1866–1943), industrialist in the lignite industry

Connected to Lindow

• Heinrich Steinhausen (1836–1917), writer, pastor in Lindow around 1875.

Born in the church

• Dieter Stellmacher (* 1939), philologist and university professor, born in Klosterheide
• Jimmi D. Paesler (* 1942), painter, born in Klosterheide

literature

• Robert Rauh: Lindow. In: Fontanes Ruppiner Land. New walks through the Mark Brandenburg. Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-86124-723-4

Web links

Commons : Lindow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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

• Website of the city of Lindow (Mark)
• Website of the tourism service of the city of Lindow (Mark)

Individual evidence

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. ↑ Service portal of the state administration / municipalities / district Ostprignitz-Ruppin / Amt Lindow (Mark) / Stadt Lindow (Mark)
3. ↑ Change of the name of the community Schönberg, announcement of the Ministry of the Interior of September 22, 2000, Official Gazette for Brandenburg, Joint Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg, Volume 11, Number 42, Potsdam, October 25, 2000, p. 919 (was changed to Schönberg (Mark)), PDF
4. ↑ The homes of the "Lebensborn". Traces of life e. V., accessed on May 17, 2012 . 
5. ↑ Volker Koop : Giving the Führer a child . The SS organization Lebensborn eV Böhlau, 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-21606-1 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
6. ↑ Christian Schoenberg: Cloud of smoke over freedom of office  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  In: Ruppiner Anzeiger from August 17, 2012
7. ↑ Erhard Kleps: Chronicle September 1989 - March 1990. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 27, 2013 ; Retrieved May 17, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Thomas Kunze : former head of state. D. The last years of Erich Honecker. Links Verlag, 2001, ISBN 978-3-86153-247-7 ( limited preview in Google book search).
9. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see the corresponding years
10. ^ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Landkreis Ostprignitz-Ruppin . Pp. 18-21
11. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2017 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
12. ^ 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)
13. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
14. ↑ Results of the municipal elections in 1998 (mayoral elections) for the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district ( memento of the original from April 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
15. ↑ Local elections in the state of Brandenburg on September 28, 2008. Mayoral elections , p. 10
16. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 25, 2014
17. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)
18. ^ Result of the mayoral election on June 16, 2019
19. ^ Peter Tresp: Stumbling blocks. Tourist information of the city of Lindow / Mark, accessed on May 17, 2012 .