Melz

This article describes the community of Melz . For the German politician see Alois Melz .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 20 '  N , 12 ° 35'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Mecklenburg Lake District
Office :	Röbel-Müritz
Height :	68 m above sea level NHN
Area :	17.94 km 2
Residents:	338 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	19 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17209
Area code :	039923
License plate :	MSE, AT, DM, MC, MST, MÜR, NZ, RM, WRN
Community key :	13 0 71 097
Office administration address:	Marktplatz 1 17207 Röbel / Müritz
Website :	www.gemeinde-melz.de
Mayor :	Martin Haulsen
Location of the municipality of Melz in the Mecklenburg Lake District

Melz is a municipality in the south of the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It is administered by the Office Röbel-Müritz based in the city of Röbel / Müritz .

geography

The municipality of Melz am Melzer See is located in the Mecklenburg Lake District , between Röbel / Müritz and the upper Eldetal . The slightly hilly terrain around Melz reaches 76  m above sea level. NHN . The city of Röbel / Müritz is about eight kilometers away, Priborn about three kilometers.

Melz is surrounded by the neighboring communities Röbel / Müritz in the north, Südmüritz in the northeast, Priborn in the east, Buchholz in the southeast, Kieve in the southwest and Bollewick in the west and northwest.

The districts of Augusthof, Friedrichshof, Karbow and Melz belong to the community .

history

Melz village church

The area of ​​Melz was already settled at the beginning of the Bronze Age about 3800 years ago. This is indicated by the dagger finds from the 1970 excavations. Melz first appeared in a document in 1298. The owners of the goods in Melz included the von Werle , von Hahn , von Knuth and most recently (from 1732 to 1945) von Ferber families . The manor house, built after 1810, was destroyed by arson in May 1945.

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 state of Mecklenburg. It shows a looking bull's head with torn off neck fur and crown and the inscription "GEMEINDE MELZ".

Attractions

• Melz village church made of brick from 1816; the previous building from the end of the 13th century was demolished.

→ See also the list of architectural monuments in Melz

Economy and Infrastructure

Melz is now a modern village with numerous new homes. Agriculture and small craft businesses shape the community, which, contrary to the trend in Mecklenburg, has kept its population largely constant.

traffic

The federal highway 198 from Plau am See to Neustrelitz runs through the municipality. The Röbel motorway junction of the Federal Motorway 19 (Berlin – Rostock) is about twelve kilometers away, the nearest train station is about 16 kilometers and is in Mirow .

societies

The Förderverein Dorf-Kirche-Melz , founded in 2005 and already counting 50 members in 2008, advocates the renovation of the village church, the improvement of the water quality of the Melzer See, the appreciation of a historical personality of Melz, the architect Hermann Willebrand , and the participation shaping village life.

literature

• Harry Wüstemann: The daggers and staff daggers in East Germany. Prehistoric bronze finds. Department VI Vol. 8, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1995.

Web links

Commons : Melz  - Collection of Images

• Community website

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. ^ Friedrich Ludwig Anton Hörschelmann: Friedrich Ludwig Anton Hörschelmann's genealogical nobility history , first part of the first volume, Erfurt 1772, p. 103 f.
3. ↑ main statute § 1