Moraas

Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Ludwigslust-Parchim
Office :	Hagenow Land
Height :	24 m above sea level NHN
Area :	16.78 km 2
Residents:	491 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	29 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	19230
Area code :	03883
License plate :	LUP, HGN, LBZ, LWL, PCH, STB
Community key :	13 0 76 099
LOCODE :	DE MRA
Office administration address:	Bahnhofstrasse 25 ; in 19230 Hagenow
Website :	www.amt-hagenow-land.de
Mayor :	Ingo Prehn
Location of the municipality of Moraas in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district

Moraas is a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). It is administered by the Office Hagenow-Land , based in the city of Hagenow .

geography

Moraas is about seven kilometers east of Hagenow. The Sude , the Klüßer Mühlenbach, the Strohkirchener Bach and other small rivers flow through the municipality or at its borders . The place lies within the rail triangle Schwerin - Ludwigslust - Hagenow. The next train station is in Strohkirchen .

history

The first written mention of the place comes from 1227. Here the place was mentioned in a deed of donation from the Counts of Schwerin to the Commandery Kraak . Earlier place names were Mratzu ( Slavic for darkness ), Moraz (1227), Moratz (e) (1397), Morats (1500), Moratze (1520). In terms of the type of settlement, the place was round . Moraas has always been characterized by agriculture. A central sewage disposal system was created in the 20th century, and the community was connected to the natural gas route.

politics

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Split; in front in gold a resisting black dragon; behind in red half a silver Maltese cross at the gap. " The coat of arms and the flag were designed by the Schwerin heraldist Karl-Heinz Steinbruch . It was approved on April 2, 1998 by the Ministry of the Interior and registered under the number 159 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms combines the symbols of the two medieval landlords of the place. The lindworm, borrowed from the count's seal, is intended to remind of the Count of Schwerin and the Maltese cross of the Order of St. John.

flag

Flag of the municipality of Moraas

The flag was approved by the Ministry of the Interior on October 24, 2001.

The flag is evenly striped in red and yellow across the longitudinal axis of the flag cloth. In the middle of the flag, spanning a third of the length of the red and yellow stripes, is the municipal coat of arms. The length of the flag is related to the height as 5: 3.

Official seal

The official seal shows the municipal coat of arms with the inscription "GEMEINDE MORAAS • LANDKREIS LUDWIGSLUST-PARCHIM".

Attractions

Village church

→ See also the list of architectural monuments in Moraas

Brick church with a gable roof and a wooden tower as a roof turret
Low German hall house from 1785 with hipped roof; originally a through house with a central kitchen, rebuilt in the 19th century.

Infrastructure

The community center and the fire brigade are located in the center of the village. These are also the center for club and cultural life in the community.

Web links

Commons : Moraas - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ 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 ).
^ Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : Documents of the Comthurei Kraak and the Priorei Eixen. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 1, 1836, ISSN 0259-7772 , pp. 197-232, ( digitized version ).
^ Paul Kühnel: The Slavic place names in Meklenburg. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 46, 1881, pp. 3–168, here p. 97.
↑ Hans-Heinz Schütt: On shield and flag - the coats of arms and flags of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and its municipalities . Ed .: production office TINUS; Schwerin. 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814380-0-0 , pp. 136 .
↑ ^a ^b main statute § 1 (PDF).

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-MV-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] Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : Documents of the Comthurei Kraak and the Priorei Eixen. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 1, 1836, ISSN 0259-7772 , pp. 197-232, ( digitized version ).

[3] Paul Kühnel: The Slavic place names in Meklenburg. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 46, 1881, pp. 3–168, here p. 97.

[Wappenbuch-4] Hans-Heinz Schütt: On shield and flag - the coats of arms and flags of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and its municipalities . Ed .: production office TINUS; Schwerin. 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814380-0-0 , pp. 136 .

[HS-5] statute § 1 (PDF).