Matzlow

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Matzlow (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
Matzlow
Matzlow
Location in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Matzlow is a district of the community Lewitzrand in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

geography

Matzlow is about nine kilometers northwest of the district town of Parchim and 25 kilometers southeast of Schwerin on the edge of the Lewitz . The Elde and an oxbow lake of this river run north of the village . The location is mainly surrounded by meadows and arable land. The flat terrain falls from about 40 m above sea level. NHN in the town center at 38 meters towards the Elde.

history

Village church in Matzlow from the east
War memorial 1914/18

The first written mention of the place comes from the year 1370 as Maslowe . Since 1920 Matzlow was an independent municipality in the Neustadt district. The area around the village has been shaped by the renovation work in the Lewitz since 1958 . In 1965 Matzlow and Garwitz merged to form the Matzlow-Garwitz community.

At the same time as the local elections held in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on June 7, 2009, the communities of Matzlow-Garwitz, Raduhn and Klinken united to form the new community of Lewitzrand.

Attractions

Village church

Today's half-timbered church with a three-sided east end was consecrated in 1789. The half-timbered tower on the west side dates from 1831 and houses two bells from 1931 and 1961. The interior includes a carved crucifix with evangelist symbols from the 15th century, a simple altar and a pulpit clock . Carved reliefs and round pictures come from an amateur artist from the 1990s. There was also a church in Matzlow before 1789; the first was destroyed in the Thirty Years War .

monument

Next to the church are the memorial for those who fell in World War I in front of the cemetery and the former school on Parchimer Straße is a listed building.

traffic

State road 9 runs through Matzlow from Crivitz to Parchim. From this, the state road 81 branches off in the direction of Neustadt-Glewe . Kreisstraße 59 creates a connection to Spornitz , where the nearest train station is on the Ludwigslust – Parchim railway line . The Bundesautobahn 24 can be reached in twelve kilometers via the Neustadt-Glewe connection .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matzlow-Garwitz timeline ( memento from September 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Heimo Reinitzer : Tapetum Concordiae. Peter Heymans tapestry for Philip I of Pomerania and the tradition of the pulpits carried by Moses . De Gruyter, Berlin 2012. ISBN 978-3-11-027887-3 . P. 210.
  3. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Deutscher Kunstverlag, revision, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6 , p. 338
  4. ↑ Zerniner Employment Initiative (ZEBI) e. V. and START e. V. (Ed.): Village and town churches in the Parchim parish . Edition Temmen, Bremen / Rostock 2001, ISBN 3-86108-795-2 , p. 162
  5. ↑ Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Monument List (as of 1997) on landtag-mv.de (PDF; 956 kB)

Coordinates: 53 ° 27 '  N , 11 ° 42'  E