Merz (Ragow-Merz)
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Merz
Community Ragow-Merz
Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′ 53 " N , 14 ° 20 ′ 36" E
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| Height : | 51 m above sea level NHN |
| Residents : | 239 (2006) |
| Incorporation : | June 1, 2002 |
| Postal code : | 15848 |
| Area code : | 03366 |
.JPG) Kirchweg in Merz
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Merz ( Lower Sorbian Měrc ) is an inhabited part of the municipality Ragow-Merz of the office Schlaubetal in the Oder-Spree district in Brandenburg .
geography
The place is three kilometers east of Ragow and seven kilometers southwest of Müllrose . The neighboring towns are Försterei Ragow in the north, Müllrose in the northeast, Mixdorf in the east, Grunow in the southeast, Schneeberg and Oegeln in the southwest, Ragow in the west and Radinkendorf in the northwest.
history
On July 25, 1952, the Merz community became part of the new Beeskow district . Since June 23, 1992 the place has been administered by the Office Schlaubetal and since December 6, 1993 it has been part of the Oder-Spree district.
On June 1, 2002, the previously independent municipalities of Merz and Ragow merged to form the new municipality of Ragow-Merz.
- Population development
| year | 1875 | 1890 | 1910 | 1925 | 1933 | 1946 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2006 |
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| Residents | 309 | 184 | 225 | 257 | 215 | 304 | 208 | 216 | 209 | 212 | 218 | 225 | 238 | 239 | 234 | 239 |
Culture and sights
- The village church of Merz is a late Gothic stone church . Inside there is a late Baroque pulpit altar with a pulpit from the first half of the 17th century.
Web links
- Merz in the historical directory of the association for computer genealogy
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Land surveying and geographic base information Brandenburg (ed.): Local and community directory Brandenburg . 2007.
- ↑ "Merc" entry in the Lower Sorbian place names database on dolnoserbski.de
- ↑ Ragow-Merz community - inhabited parts of the community - living spaces. In: service.brandenburg.de. Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs of the State of Brandenburg, accessed on December 2, 2016 .
- ↑ BrandenburgViewer of the state survey and geographic base information Brandenburg (LGB)
- ↑ State Office for Data Processing and Statistics Brandenburg (ed.): Community key numbers in the state of Brandenburg (valid from 05/06/12/1993) - key bridge between the new and the old community key numbers . Potsdam 1993.
- ↑ a b State Office for Data Processing and Statistics State of Brandenburg (Ed.): Contribution to statistics - Historical municipality register of the State of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005 - Landkreis Oder-Spree . tape 19.9 . Potsdam 2006, p. 35 ( statistik-berlin-brandenburg.de [PDF; 363 kB ; accessed on December 2, 2016]).
- ^ Government of the German Democratic Republic - Central Statistical Office (Ed.): Systematic and alphabetical directory of the municipalities of the German Democratic Republic - (territorial status January 1, 1952) Status of the population as of October 29, 1946 .