Loewitz

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Loewitz
municipality Ducherow
Coordinates: 53 ° 43 ′ 1 ″  N , 13 ° 43 ′ 26 ″  E
Height : 7 m above sea level NN
Area : 30.67 km²
Residents : 438  (Dec. 31, 2007)
Population density : 14 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : June 7, 2009
Postal code : 17398
Area code : 039726

Since June 7, 2009, Löwitz has been part of the municipality of Ducherow in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany.

Geography and traffic

Löwitz is west of federal highway 109 and east of federal highway 197 . Anklam is about seven kilometers north of the municipality. The federal motorway 20 can be reached via the connection Neubrandenburg -Nord (approx. 23 km). The Große Landgraben flows through the south of the municipality .

history

Field stone church in Löwitz
Marstall von Löwitz (2 horse heads on the gable)
Memorial to Field Marshal Kurt C. von Schwerin at the Greifswald Museum in 1978, the first to be erected in Löwitz

Löwitz was first mentioned in a document in 1533 as Lowitz . The Slavic founding name was interpreted as Rindenbach .

Gut Löwitz was owned by the von Schwerin family from 1533 to 1945 , namely Christoffer von Schwerin when it was first mentioned in 1533. He was followed by his son Klaus. In 1620 Antonius Dettlow von Schwerin was the owner.

The later famous Prussian Field Marshal Kurt Christoph von Schwerin was born on the old family seat in 1684 . He was raised to the rank of count in 1740 . He fell off Prague in 1757 .

In 1880, Hans Graf von Schwerin had the Berlin builder Eduard Titz design and build a representative, historicizing , two-storey palace with playful corner towers. The 17th century park was redesigned after 1880 and surrounded with a brick wall that was still in place. The well-known statue of Field Marshal Kurt von Schwerin originally stood in front of the castle, which was then transferred to Schwerinsburg, was at the museum in Greifswald after the war and is now in the Deutsches Museum in Berlin after the von Schwerin family decided .

The property was also leased at times. Hans von Schwerin-Löwitz and from 1918 his widow Maria owned the estate from 1888 to 1932, after which it was administered by the Count of Schwerin from Ziethen. During the war, the castle was used as a military hospital, after the expropriation it was initially a brief accommodation for refugees and displaced persons, until it was soon used as a children's home until around 1964. After 1964 the castle fell into disrepair and was partially removed in 1987. The children's home was completely relocated to Ducherow. A side wing that was still present was then removed after 1990.

The other manor buildings were used by the new farmers of the land reform and later by the local LPG. Some are ruinous, others, like the stables in the walled churchyard, are still in pretty good shape.

On January 1, 1951, the previously independent community Schmuggerow was incorporated.

In 1994/95 the park was cleared and redesigned through a job creation measure, and provided with information boards (used here as a source).

On June 13, 2004, the previously independent municipality of Schwerinsburg was incorporated into Löwitz.

The districts of the former community of Löwitz were Schmuggerow, Sophienhof, Löwitz and Schwerinsburg .

At the same time as the local elections on June 7, 2009, the previously independent communities of Löwitz and Rathebur were incorporated into Ducherow.

Attractions

→ See: List of architectural monuments in Ducherow

  • Löwitz estate
  • Löwitz manor park with wall and design elements
  • Marstall Gut Löwitz
  • Loewitz Church

Personalities

literature

  • 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 . S.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 84
  2. ↑ Eduard Titz on bildindex.de ; accessed on January 10, 2014
  3. ^ Hubertus Neuschäffer: Western Pomerania's castles and mansions . Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft 1993, p. 124, ISBN 3-88042-636-8
  4. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2004
  5. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 2nd to December 31st, 2009