Meyenburg
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Coordinates: 53 ° 19 ′ N , 12 ° 15 ′ E |
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| State : | Brandenburg | |
| County : | Prignitz | |
| Office : | Meyenburg | |
| Height : | 82 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 50.74 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 2065 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 41 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 16945 | |
| Area code : | 033968 | |
| License plate : | PR | |
| Community key : | 12 0 70 280 | |
| Office administration address: | Freyensteiner Strasse 42 16945 Meyenburg |
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| Mayor : | Falko Krassowski | |
| Location of the city of Meyenburg in the Prignitz district | ||
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Meyenburg is a town in the Prignitz district in Brandenburg (Germany) and the administrative seat of the office of the same name .
geography
Meyenburg is located on the southern bank of the Stepenitz (Elbe) and borders Mecklenburg in the north . In addition to the Stepenitz, the Dosse rises near Meyenburg , the upper reaches of which form the border with Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The Elde rises northeast of Meyenburg, in Altenhof (Mecklenburg) . Despite the poorly structured landscape, the three rivers flow in different directions, the Stepenitz initially to the west, the Dosse to the south and the Elde initially to the east.
City structure
Meyenburg includes the Schmolde district , the inhabited districts Bergsoll , Buddenhagen , Griffenhagen , Penzlin , Penzlin-Süd and Schabernack as well as the brickworks residential area .
history
Meyenburg is located near the Mecklenburg border on the upper reaches of the Stepenitz on an old major trade route, originally protected by a margraves' castle, which was built here before 1285. The settlement leaned against this castle to the south and received town charter around 1300. The rib-shaped urban plan developed on both sides of the street running from south to north. A rectangular market place has been cut out in the middle of the main street. The castle and church are located on the less deep eastern half of the city.
As an important border town, Meyenburg was always a coveted property by the Mecklenburg dukes. Finally, in the middle of the 14th century (before 1364), Meyenburg came to the Lords of Rohr, who came from Bavaria, as a margravial fief. The history of Meyenburg has been closely linked to the von Rohr family ever since. It provided twelve bailiffs since 1350 and captains of the Prignitz since the 15th century and thus stood for a long time next to the Noble Gans and the von Quitzow at the head of the Prignitz and Ruppin nobility. In the Landbuch der Mark Brandenburg of 1373, in addition to the noble Gans zu Putlitz, those of Bosel and those of Quitzow, only the lords of Rohr as “nobiles” (nobles) of the Prignitz are particularly emphasized.
The castle outside the city of Meyenburg was probably abandoned at the beginning of the 14th century. The oldest parts of today's castle date from this time. The multi-parted castle building, which emerged in parts from the city wall and is essentially medieval, was first built by the von Rohr family, who had two separate residences here, especially from the 15th to the 19th century. It was not until the knighthood director Otto von Rohr (1810-1892) that the two adjacent medieval houses were united and significantly expanded by the Berlin builder Friedrich Adler 1865-1866 through a connecting structure and the addition of a short, symmetrically structured west wing to form an impressive, elongated castle building in the neo-Renaissance style . Today the Meyenburg Castle is one of the outstanding secular architectural monuments in the Prignitz. In the course of these renovations, the farm buildings adjoining the castle to the south were also laid down. The area was redesigned by the court gardener Finck in the 1860s into an extensive landscape park along the Stepenitz, which extended to the road to Freyenstein and covered an area of 30 acres .
At the end of the Thirty Years War , Meyenburg was completely depopulated. From medieval times, only the remains of the city wall built from field stones in the east and northeast, the castle and the church, which is essentially late medieval, are preserved in Meyenburg. The brick church tower dates from 1850. All other buildings, mostly eaves - standing two-storey half-timbered buildings, essentially date from the time after the great city fire of 1795. The two city gates were demolished in the 19th century. In the founding years there was an expansion of the city along the roads to Pritzwalk and Freyenstein.
With the connection of the city to the railway lines to Neustadt (Dosse) and Güstrow on December 11, 1887, there was a modest economic boom. The triangular Wilhelmsplatz, which is characterized by buildings from the Wilhelmsian period, was created to connect Bahnhofstrasse and the city.
Meyenburg had belonged to the Ostprignitz district in the province of Brandenburg since 1817 and to the Pritzwalk district in the GDR district of Potsdam from 1952 . The city has been in the Brandenburg district of Prignitz since 1993.
- Incorporations
Buddenhagen has been part of Meyenburg since January 1st, 1974. Schmolde was incorporated on December 31, 2001.
Population development
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Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31 (from 1991), from 2011 based on the 2011 census
politics
City Council
The city council of Meyenburg consists of 12 city councilors and the honorary mayor.
| Party / group of voters | Seats |
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| Meyenburg voter community | 6th |
| Independent group of voters "Citizens for Meyenburg" | 3 |
| AfD | 1 |
| Individual applicant Manfred Kreibich | 1 |
| FDP | 1 |
(As of: local election on May 26, 2019)
mayor
- 1998–2003: Michael Kenzel
- since 2003: Falko Krassowski
In the mayoral election on May 26, 2019, Krassowski was elected unopposed with 92.2% of the valid votes for a further five-year term.
coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved on July 21, 1999.
Blazon : “In silver, a two-tower red castle; the tinned towers are each provided with two silver-framed, black pointed arched windows and red-buttoned blue pointed roofs; Above the closed blue gate grows from a brick stepped gable a four-leaf green branch with a left-facing black bird. "
Attractions
- Meyenburg Castle with the fashion museum, library, castle museum and castle park
- Evangelical parish church with a late Gothic hall and choir. The neo-Gothic freestanding brick tower was built in 1848–50 by the builder Rosainsky. On the gravestone of Helmut von Rohr, who died in 1589, there is a large coat of arms of the von Rohr family .
- Memorial from 1946/47 on Wilhelmsplatz to honor the resistance against fascism
- Memorial stone from 1948 in front of the Catholic chapel St. Maria Hilf on the road to Freyenstein in memory of the victims of the death march of concentration camp prisoners in April 1945
- Memorial wall at the war cemetery in the cemetery in memory of the victims of war and tyranny
Other listed houses are listed in the list of architectural monuments in Meyenburg .
Economy and Infrastructure
economy
The main branch of industry in the region around Meyenburg is the furniture industry with the Meyenburger Möbel Werk, which has been based here since 1946 (in the GDR under the name VEB Meyenburger Möbel). The approximately 450 employees produce furniture on an area of approximately 4000 m². Among other things, the Billy shelves are manufactured for the Swedish furniture store IKEA .
The Meyenburg stud farm, where Trakehner , Oldenburg and Hanoverian sport horses are bred, has existed in the Penzlin-Süd district since 2005 . There are about 20 broodmares available. The horses from the stud can now be found all over Europe and in other countries around the world. The horses are used in leisure time and in equestrian sports and are sometimes successful up to advanced level in dressage .
traffic
Meyenburg is on the federal highway 103 ten kilometers north of the A 24 Berlin - Hamburg motorway ( Meyenburg junction ). There is also a connection to the Röbel junction of the A 19 Berlin – Rostock via the B 103 and the B 198 that branches off north of the city . The state road L 14 connects Meyenburg with Parchim and Wittstock .
The city lies on the Neustadt – Meyenburg railway line . Meyenburg station is served every two hours by the regional train line RB 74 Pritzwalk –Meyenburg of the Hanseatic Railway (HANS) .
From Berlin there was the Kremmen – Meyenburg line of the former Ruppin Railway , which has not existed between Wittstock and Meyenburg since 1967. The Güstrow – Meyenburg railway line has not been used for passenger traffic since 2004.
sons and daughters of the town
- Wilhelm Wilde (1829–1881), physician
- Hugo Hermes (1837–1915), member of the Prussian House of Representatives , member of the Reichstag
- Otto Hermes (1838–1910), director of the Berlin aquarium Unter den Linden , member of the Reichstag
- Paul Schraermeyer (1884–1955), District Administrator of the Hechingen District
- Hans Hermann Wilhelm (1892–1975), writer, born in Buddenhagen
- Hermann Wanckel (1895–1953), doctor in Parchim
- Martin Schmidt (1928–2003), hydraulic engineer
- Hans-Georg Kempfert (* 1945), civil engineer, professor of geotechnics
- Heidrun Möller (* 1945), politician ( SPD ), member of the Saarland state parliament
- Jörg A. Hoppe (* 1952), TV producer
literature
- Historical Gazetteer Brandenburg - Part 1 - Prignitz - A-M . Modifications made by Lieselott Enders . In: Klaus Neitmann (Ed.): Publications of the Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv (State Archive Potsdam) - Volume 3 . Founded by Friedrich Beck . Publishing house Klaus-D. Becker, Potsdam 2012, ISBN 978-3-88372-032-6 , pp. 566 ff .
- Torsten Foelsch: Meyenburg Castle. In: Palaces and Gardens of the Mark. Edited by Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger, Berlin 2002 (2nd edition 2010).
- Claus-Peter Golberg: Meyenburg / Prignitz. Contributions to the history of its inhabitants from a family history perspective. The city protocol books. Volume 1: 1736-1809. AMF, Leipzig 2007 (= series of AMF 47).
- Edeltraut Pawelka, Torsten Foelsch, Rolf Rehberg: Cities of Prignitz. In: archive images. Erfurt 2004.
Web links
- City of Meyenburg on the website of the Meyenburg Office
- Schmolde in the RBB program Landschleicher on January 26, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 ).
- ^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. City of Meyenbueg
- ↑ Christopher Clark : Prussia: Aufstieg und Niedergang 1600–1947 (= Federal Center for Political Education: series of publications, 632). Federal Agency for Political Education, Bonn, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89331-786-8 ; P. 59.
- ^ A b Edeltraud Pawelka, Torsten Foelsch, Rolf Rehberg: Cities of Prignitz . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2004, ISBN 3-89702-707-0 .
- ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
- ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2001
- ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Prignitz district . Pp. 22-25
- ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2017 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
- ^ 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)
- ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
- ↑ Results of the local elections in 1998 (mayoral elections) for the district of Prignitz ( Memento of the original from April 14, 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.
- ↑ Local elections October 26, 2003. Mayoral elections , p. 31
- ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)
- ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019
- ↑ Coat of arms information on the service portal of the state administration of Brandenburg
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