Mescherin

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 15 '  N , 14 ° 26'  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Uckermark
Office :	Gartz (Or)
Height :	4 m above sea level NHN
Area :	31.03 km 2
Residents:	822 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	26 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	16307
Area code :	033332
License plate :	UM, ANG, PZ, SDT, TP
Community key :	12 0 73 393
Office administration address:	Kleine Klosterstrasse 153 16307 Gartz (Oder)
Website :	www.gartz.de
Mayor :	Volker Schmidt-Roy
Location of the municipality of Mescherin in the Uckermark district

Mescherin is a municipality in the northeast of the Uckermark district . It is located in the state of Brandenburg (Germany) in the metropolitan area of Szczecin . The municipality is administered by the Gartz (Oder) office based in the city ​​of the same name .

geography

The Seeberg, looking east

church

The western municipality is located in the area of ​​a terminal moraine , which is located on the western edge of the Oder valley with heights of about 65 m above sea level. NHN pulls along. The main town of Mescherin, on the other hand, is located directly on the steep bank of the Westoder , which arises ten kilometers upstream from the division of the main stream, which here is only centimeters above sea level. The Westoder (Polish: Odra Zachodnia ) is the border river to the Republic of Poland , the parallel flowing Ostoder (Polish: Odra Wschodnia ) is located entirely on Polish territory. Two kilometers north of Mescherin the Westoder is Polish on both sides; here begins the approximately 55 km long section of the land border with Poland, which stretches north to the Szczecin Lagoon .

Mescherin is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Nadrensee in the north, Gryfino in the east, Gartz (Oder) in the south, Tantow in the southwest and west, and Penkun in the northwest.

The closest cities are Gryfino (Greifenhagen), Gartz (Oder), Penkun and Stettin . Mescherin is the northernmost municipality in the Lower Oder Valley National Park .

Community structure

Districts and inhabited districts

• Mescherin with the community part Staffelde
• Neurochlitz
• Radekow
• Rosow with the municipality part Neu-Rosow

Living space

• Crow place

history

Mescherin was first mentioned in a deed of donation in 1297. After the Thirty Years' War , which badly affected the entire area, Mescherin belonged to Swedish Pomerania for 72 years .

In the middle of the 19th century, the initial sand pits became a real mining site. Two wooden bridges were built over the Oder in 1857, followed by an iron bridge in 1911, which was destroyed in 1945 after prolonged fighting.

With the construction of weekend houses and a campsite from 1977, the development of the community for tourism began. In 1999 the bulwark on the Westoder was restored so that sport boats can moor there today.

Administrative history From 1817 to 1939 Mescherin and its current districts belonged to the Randow district , and from 1939 to the Greifenhagen district in the Prussian province of Pomerania .

The Randow district was re-established after 1945 and assigned to the state of Mecklenburg . After the GDR district reform of 1950, Mescherin and its current districts belonged to the Angermünde district in the state of Brandenburg (from 1952 in the Frankfurt (Oder) district ). Since 1993 the places have been in the Brandenburg district of Uckermark.

On December 31, 2002, the previously independent communities of Mescherin, Neurochlitz, Radekow and Rosow merged. Since then, they have been part of the community of Mescherin.

Population development

year Residents 1875 819 1890 746 1910 840 1925 613 1933 638 1939 692 1946 784 1950 611

year Residents 1964 634 1971 616 1981 469 1985 431 1989 382 1990 377 1991 365 1992 386 1993 390 1994 408

year Residents 1995 406 1996 401 1997 396 1998 398 1999 417 2000 411 2001 397 2002 809 2003 800 2004 785

year Residents 2005 776 2006 778 2007 783 2008 777 2009 788 2010 785 2011 760 2012 791 2013 784 2014 795

year Residents 2015 786 2016 802 2017 825 2018 825 2019 822

Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31 (from 1991), from 2011 based on the 2011 census

The population increase in 2002 is due to the merger with three previously independent municipalities.

According to the results of the 2011 census, the community has a share of 13.8% foreigners, all of whom are Polish citizens .

politics

Community representation

The Mescherin community council consists of 10 community representatives and the honorary mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Voter group	Seats
Village association on the Oderstrom	6th
Joint Mescherin	4th

mayor

• 1998-2003: Karl Menanteau
• 2003–2019: Wilfried Burghardt (Pro Neurochlitz)
• since 2019: Volker Schmidt-Roy (Dorfverein am Oderstrom)

Schmidt-Roy was elected in the mayoral election on May 26, 2019 with 52.1% of the valid votes for a term of five years.

Observation tower

Attractions

Rosow Memorial Church

In the list of monuments in Mescherin are the monuments entered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.

• Observation tower, 11 m high, with a curved roof that was modeled on the wings of cranes. It was inaugurated in 2014 and allows bird watching in the Staffelder polder.
• Rosow Memorial Church , German-Polish memorial for flight, expulsion and a new beginning

See also : List of soil monuments in Mescherin

traffic

Mescherin is the end of the federal highway 113 from Penkun . At its continuation to the east is the border crossing Mescherin – Gryfino over the Oder to the neighboring Polish town of Gryfino . The B 2 ( Schwedt – Szczecin) runs two kilometers west of Mescherin . The nearest motorway junction (twelve kilometers away) is Penkun on the A 11 Berlin – Szczecin.

The nearest train station is Tantow on the Berlin – Szczecin line . The Rosow train station in today's Rosow district was shut down in 1980.

References

1. ↑ Population in the State of Brandenburg according to municipalities, offices and municipalities not subject to official registration on December 31, 2019 (XLSX file; 223 KB) (updated official population figures) ( help on this ).
2. ^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. Mescherin community
3. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2002
4. ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. District Uckermark . Pp. 22-25
5. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2017 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
6. ^ Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.): Statistical report AI 7, A II 3, A III 3. Population development and population status in the state of Brandenburg (respective editions of the month of December)
7. ↑ Census 2011 ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
9. ↑ Results of the local elections in 1998 (mayoral elections) for the district of Uckermark ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ Local elections October 26, 2003. Mayoral elections , p. 34
11. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)
12. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019
13. ^ Message from the city of Schwedt

Web links

Commons : Mescherin  - collection of images

• Mescherin in the genealogical directory