Melzow
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Melzow
Oberuckersee municipality
Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 3 ″ N , 13 ° 53 ′ 27 ″ E
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| Height : | 72 m above sea level NHN |
| Residents : | 209 (Dec. 31, 2006) |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1970 |
| Incorporated into: | Warnitz |
| Postal code : | 17291 |
| Area code : | 039863 |
 Village church
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Melzow is a residential area belonging to the Warnitz district of the Oberuckersee community in the Uckermark district in Brandenburg . Until it was incorporated into Warnitz on January 1, 1970, Melzow was an independent municipality.
location
Melzow is located in the Uckermark on the western edge of the Melzower Forest , 17 kilometers as the crow flies south of Prenzlau and northwest of Angermünde . Surrounding towns are Trumpf in the north, Meichow in the northeast, Polßen in the east, Grünheide in the southeast, Pfingstberg and Stegelitz in the south, Suckow in the west and Warnitz in the northwest.
Melzow is at a junction of the district road 7315, which runs north of the village. The federal highway 11 runs east of the local area, the junction of Warnitz is about four kilometers away. West of Melzow is the Berlin – Stralsund railway line .
history
The local area around Melzow was settled in the Neolithic Age, as evidenced by a funeral beaker culture from around 3700 BC. BC on a high ground ridge can be proven. Later, Slavic colonists settled in Melzow. The place was first mentioned in 1540 with the spelling Melsow , the place name goes back to the Slavic personal name "Milesch". A year before it was first mentioned, Melzow came to the Gramzow-Seehausen monastery office in the course of the dissolution of the Gramzow monastery.
Until 1952 Melzow belonged to the Angermünde district , which until 1946 belonged to the Prussian administrative district of Potsdam . After the GDR district reform, the community came to the Prenzlau district in the Neubrandenburg district . On January 1st, 1970 Melzow and the neighboring Grünheide were incorporated into Warnitz. After the reunification , Melzow belonged to the Uckermark district .
On December 31, 2001, the Warnitz municipality merged with Blankenburg , Potzlow and Seehausen to form the new municipality of Oberuckersee .
Attractions
- The Protestant village church of Melzow was built in the 13th century. It is a rectangular field stone building with a boarded western roof tower from the 18th century. The windows were subsequently enlarged with a round arch , and there is a group of three windows on the east wall. The church has a wooden altarpiece from the 16th century, which was renovated between 2005 and 2007.
- The forester's house Melzow (Friedhofstraße 13) is a mud brick building with a crooked hip roof from the early 19th century. Several farm buildings belong to the forester's house, including a stable from 1796 and an old laundry room from 1908.
Population development
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Community and district directory. In: geobasis-bb.de. Land surveying and geographic base information Brandenburg, accessed on February 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Ulrich Dirks, Joachim Stark: A burial place of the early to older funnel cup culture near Melzow, district Uckermark at academia.edu
- ↑ Reinhard E. Fischer: The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin. Age - origin - meaning . be.bra Wissenschaft, Berlin 2005, p. 115 .
- ^ Melzow - Oberuckersee community. In: uckermark-region.de. Retrieved February 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Georg Dehio ; edited by Gerhard Vinken u. a .: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, p. 690 f .
- ^ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. (PDF; 331 KB) District Uckermark. State Office for Data Processing and Statistics State of Brandenburg, December 2006, accessed on February 24, 2019 .