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coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 49 '  N , 12 ° 47'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Mecklenburg Lake District
Office :	Malchin at the Kummerower See
Height :	3 m above sea level NHN
Area :	46.82 km 2
Residents:	1741 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	37 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17154
Area code :	039956
License plate :	MSE, AT, DM, MC, MST, MÜR, NZ, RM, WRN
Community key :	13 0 71 109
City structure:	8 districts
Office administration address:	Lindenstrasse 4 17139 Malchin
Website :	www.stadt-neukalen.de
Mayor :	Willi Voss ( CDU )
Location of the city of Neukalen in the Mecklenburg Lake District

Neukalen is a Mecklenburg country town in the north of the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Until 2005, the city was part of the Am Kummerower See office and has been part of the Malchin am Kummerower See office since then . Since 2012 it bears the official name affix "Peenestadt".

geography

Geographical location

View over Neukalen to Lake Kummerower

Boathouses on the Peene

Neukalen is located west of the Kummerower See on the banks of the Teterower Peene around ten kilometers north of Malchin . The city lies partly in the nature park Mecklenburgische Schweiz and Kummerower See .

City structure

The following districts belong to Neukalen:

Recalculation Karnitz Schlakendorf	Schönkamp Schorrentin Warsow

history

Surname

The name Kalen or also Kalno and Kalna comes from Old Polish and means swamp (kal) or morass. Today's Altkalen was first mentioned in 1174, in 1232 as urbs (city) et stagnum (lake) Kalenth and in 1244 and 1283 as civitas et castrum Kalant . In 1306 it is called Novum Kalant and 1366 Nygenkalant .

middle Ages

(Alt-) Kalen was first mentioned in a document from 1174, according to which Prince Borwin I had a city built. After 1236 Kalen, today Altkalen , on the trade route from Stettin to Rostock , was owned by Prince Heinrich Borwin III. to Rostock as a city with strong fortifications. The new town got lands and in 1253 it was granted the town charter of Lübbe. As early as 1281, for an unknown reason, the city was relocated to another location by his son, Prince Waldemar von Rostock, with all of its rights. Probably the growing cities of Gnoien , Teterow and Malchin had changed the flow of trade, and it was no longer convenient in terms of traffic. So they found a better place ten kilometers south in the town of Bugelmast. According to the document, the town of Kalen was re-established here in 1281, hence the name Neukalen. The old Kalen became a village again, to Altkalen. Within a few decades, the citizens rebuilt their city. The ground plan of the city is almost circular, traversed by streets running at right angles to each other, which were then unpaved. In the center, surrounded by the cemetery, is the church, the construction of which began very soon. A document mentions a church for the first time in 1318.

In 1314 Neukalen came to the Principality of Werle , and in 1382 the entire urban area was pledged to the von Levetzow family . A city wall with ramparts and moats as well as two city gates, the mill gate and the Malchiner gate, were built. In the early 15th century the single-nave late Gothic town church of St. John was built. The tower with its octagonal spire was completed 1439th Neukalen was a country town in Mecklenburg and as such one of the towns in the Wendish district that were represented on the Mecklenburg regional parliaments of the 1523 regional estates until 1918 .

Modern times

In 1809 the dilapidated Malchiner Gate was demolished, and in 1875 the mill gate.

On May 1, 1945, the city was occupied by the Red Army , which resulted in looting and rape. Numerous citizens committed suicide.

From 1952 to 1994 Neukalen belonged to the Malchin district (until 1990 in the GDR district of Neubrandenburg , then in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania). In 1994 the city was incorporated into the Demmin district. Since the district reform in 2011 , the city has been in the Mecklenburg Lake District .

The city center and town hall have been fundamentally renovated since 1991 as part of urban development funding.

History of the districts

Karnitz

The village was first mentioned in a document dated April 4, 1232. In 1314 there were 16 farm positions, but these were gradually laid . In the middle of the 18th century, Karnitz came into the possession of the von Levetzow auf Lelkendorf family . There was a brick factory and a windmill (until 1908). In 1932, Professor Hass from Hamburg bought the estate, but had to leave it in 1945. During the land reform , the land was divided. The manor burned down in 1978.

Schlakendorf

The place was first mentioned in a document dated March 30, 1287. Around 1314 it was a very important place in the country of Hart . The village had 25 farms and a church built in 1305 with a pastor's office and sextonry. The peasants had been laid down in the course of time, and the village came under ducal administration ( domain ) in the middle of the 17th century . In 1738 the dilapidated church collapsed. In 1756 the administration of the Neukalen office was relocated to Schlakendorf and a large two-story building was added. When Dargun took over the administration from 1782, the new tenant Döhn moved into the large house. In 1888, master bricklayer Wilhelm Harm built a small cemetery chapel that was well worth seeing on the cemetery that was newly laid out in 1879. The school building dates from 1887. The last tenant of the property, Ahlert, had to leave Schlakendorf in 1945.

Franzensberg

At the beginning of the 19th century a new forester's house was needed for the ducal forest. This forest farm was built near the ducal forest and was named Franzensberg in honor of the reigning Duke Friedrich Franz I of Mecklenburg . In 1821 the forester Georg Friedrich Pflugradt moved into the new forest farm. From 1913 the homestead was leased out as a farm with changing owners. It has been used as a country school home since 1958.

Schönkamp

The ducal lease from 1756 with day laborer's cottages and farm buildings was named Schönenkamp in 1758 . Tenants cultivated the 306 hectares until 1945, most recently the Mussäus family. The dilapidated mansion was demolished around 1990. Today there are only a few residents left in Schönkamp.

Schorrentin

Schorrentin was after his first Slavic owners Skoreta as Skoretin named. A holy place was a linden grove, in which the Slavs made offerings to their gods. The first German settlers are likely to have arrived by the middle of the 13th century at the latest. Then there was the old Slavic village and some distance away the new German Schorrentin with a church. The first church was built around 1230/1260; the nave as a replacement followed until 1390. The Slavic village existed independently until at least the second half of the 16th century. Schorrentin and the church were mentioned in a document on June 16, 1305. Landowners were u. a. the families of Levetzow (1366 - after 1755) and Viereck (1826–1917).

Warsow

The former farming village is mentioned for the first time in a document dated April 4, 1232. The original village center with the Low German hall houses is no longer recognizable. The residential buildings are spread out over the Feldmark, after eleven Büdnereien were built between 1829 and 1831 on the way from the so-called Judentannen to the forest on the northern edge of the village - formerly known as Eisser Born - and from 1908 they also built houses on the road from Neukalen to Dargun were.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1951, the previously independent communities Schlakendorf, Schorrentin and Warsow were incorporated.

Population development

year Residents 1990 2602 1995 2512 2000 2392 2005 2187 2010 2022

year Residents 2015 1779 2016 1758 2017 1749 2018 1736 2019 1741

Status: December 31 of the respective year

religion

34 percent of the population are Protestant , 8 percent Catholics .

Churches of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Neukalen are the Johanneskirche Neukalen and the cycling church Schorrentin . The community belongs to the Rostock region in the Rostock parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .

The Catholic Church Neukalen, which was only consecrated in 1994, belongs to the parish of St. Petrus in Teterow in the Archdiocese of Hamburg .

politics

City council

The city council of Neukalen consists of 12 members and the mayor. Since the local elections on May 26, 2019, it has been composed as follows:

Party / list	Seats
CDU	10
SPD	01
Single applicant Ilona Rettig	01

mayor

• since 2008: Willi Voß (CDU)

Voss was confirmed in the mayoral election on May 26, 2019 with 91.9 percent of the valid votes in his office without an opponent.

coat of arms

Blazon : “An open red city gate in silver, consisting of two triple-tinned side towers connected by an arch, each with two black windows and an inward-facing, supported pinnacle platform, on the arch a tower with three black windows, pinnacle plate and pointed roof; in the archway a leaning golden shield, inside a golden crowned black bull's head with a closed mouth and silver horns, on the shield a sideways turned blue bucket helmet with a peacock feather rosette in natural colors. " The coat of arms was established on April 10, 1858 by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, redrawn around 1978 and registered under the number 131 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Justification for the coat of arms: The coat of arms, based on the seal image of the SIGILLVM CIVITATIS DE CALANT - first handed down as an imprint in 1283 and containing an incorrect reproduction of the helmet ornament - and in its current form in April 1858, combines an urban symbol, an open gate, with the oldest Coat of arms of the Rostock rule. The city gate symbolizes a fortified city, the black bull's head with its closed mouth symbolizes that Neukalens belonged to the Rostock rulership of that time .

flag

The city does not have an officially approved flag .

Official seal

The official seal shows the city coat of arms with the inscription "PEENESTADT NEUKALEN".

Attractions

See also : List of architectural monuments in Neukalen

• Parish church of St. Johannes , first mentioned in 1318, Gothic brick church with a nave from around 1400 and west tower from 1439
• Catholic Church from 1994
• Old town with numerous streets in circular settlement planning
• Schoolhouse from around 1863 in Tudor style
• Windmill from 1866, today a house without wings
• Railway station from 1908, today the Railway Museum
• Harbor with resting place for water hikers on the Peene near the Kummerower See
• Jewish cemetery with about ten gravestones
• Village church Schorrentin with nave from the 14th century, church tower from 1767. Next to the church is the mausoleum of the Viereck family.
• Schorrentin manor house in Tudor style
• Memorial stone for Willi Schröder, a member of the communist state parliament , who was murdered in Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1944 , in Schorrentin on the outskirts towards Neukalen
• Nature reserve Neukalener Moorwiesen, Kleine Rosin and Große Rosin

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  Peene landscape

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  Neukalen town hall

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  Parish Church of St. John

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  Schorrentin manor house

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  Schorrentin village church

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Neukalen is located on the national roads L 20 between Dargun and Malchin and L 201 from Neukalen to Gnoien .

The city has no rail connection. The nearest train station is Malchin on the Bützow – Stettin line . It is served by the regional express line RE 4 ( Lübeck - Stettin ).

The Neukalen and Schorrentin stations were on the Malchin – Dargun line . Passenger traffic was stopped in 1996. Since 2002, the line on the Dargun – Neukalen – Salem section has been used as a draisine route ( Dargun Nature Park Draisine ).

education

• AWO Spatzenschule Neukalen ( independent primary school ), Thomas-Müntzer-Str. 4 a

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Theodor Diederich von Levetzow (1801–1869), Minister of State in Mecklenburg-Schwerin, born in Karnitz
• Gustav Pflugradt (1828–1908), landscape painter, born in Franzensberg
• Sigmund Hirsch (1845–1908), entrepreneur
• Willi Schröder (1897–1944), politician ( KPD ), born in Schorrentin
• Hans Wilhelm Viereck (1903–1946), plant collector in Mexico, born in Schorrentin
• Anke Borchmann (* 1954), rower, Olympic champion and two-time world champion

Personalities associated with Neukalen

• Johann Mantzel (1643–1716), pastor in Neukalen
• Ludwig Kreutzer (1833–1903), writer, lived in Neukalen
• Paul Lindemann (1871–1924), mayor of Neukalen
• Marc Reinhardt (* 1978), politician (CDU), lives in Neukalen

literature

• Wolfgang Schimmel: From the history of Neukalens. In: Festival magazine for the 700th anniversary of the city of Neukalen 1281. O.O. 1981, pp. 12-16.
• Annual booklet: The village of Schorrentin. Neukalener Heimatverein, Neukalen 2004, 2005, 2006.
• Annual magazine: 775 years of Warsow. Neukalener Heimatverein, Neukalen 2007.
• Annual issue: 250 years of Schönkamp. Neukalener Heimatverein, Neukalen 2008.
• Annual booklet: 725 years of Schlakendorf. Neukalener Heimatverein, Neukalen 2010, 2011, 2012.

Web links

Commons : Neukalen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Topographia Saxoniae Inferioris: NewenCalen  - Sources and full texts

• Official website of the city of Neukalen

Individual evidence

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. ↑ Press release from the Ministry of Interior of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (PDF file; 95 kB)
3. ↑ § 2 of the main statutes of the Peenestadt Neukalen
4. ↑ Ernst Eichler , Werner Mühlner: The names of the cities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Ingo Koch Verlag, Rostock 2002, ISBN 3-935319-23-1 .
5. ↑ The end of the war in 1945. at www.stadt-neukalen.de
6. ↑ Population development of the districts and municipalities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Statistical Report AI of the Statistical Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
7. ↑ Population by gender and religion 2011
8. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
9. ↑ Mayor Willi Voss for 10 years . on www.stadt-neukalen.de
10. ↑ Neukalen's mayor re-elected with a clear result. In: Nordkurier , May 26, 2019.
11. ↑ Hans-Heinz Schütt: On shield and flag production office TINUS, Schwerin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814380-0-0 , p. 288/289.
12. ↑ ^{a b} § 1 of the main statute of the Peenestadt Neukalen (PDF).
13. ^ Website of the Dargun Nature Park Draisine
14. ↑ Willi Schröder memorial at www.stadt-neukalen.de