New monastery

Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Northwest Mecklenburg
Office :	Neukloster-Warin
Height :	30 m above sea level NHN
Area :	27.49 km 2
Residents:	3960 (December 31, 2019)
Population density :	144 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	23992
Area code :	038422
License plate :	NWM, GDB, GVM, WIS
Community key :	13 0 74 057
Office administration address:	Hauptstrasse 27 ; 23992 Neukloster
Website :	www.stadt-neukloster.de
Mayor :	Frank Meier
Location of the city of Neukloster in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg

Neukloster is a town in the east of the district of Northwest Mecklenburg in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). The city is the administrative seat of the Neukloster-Warin Office , to which eight other communities belong. The place is a basic center .

geography

Geographical location

Neukloster is about 45 kilometers from Rostock and about 20 kilometers from Wismar . The place is part of the Hamburg metropolitan region . The area around Neukloster is part of the extreme northwest of the Sternberg lake landscape . Neukloster is located on Neuklostersee , the formation of which can be traced back to the effects of the last Ice Age. The Selliner See is located near the Ravensruh district .

Neighboring Neukloster are Lübberstorf , Glasin , Zurow , Benz and Züsow .

City structure

The districts of Neuhof, Nevern, Ravensruh, Sellin and Rügkamp belong to Neukloster.

history

New monastery

The Kussiner Castle was located in the Neukloster area around 1170. It is believed that it was in what is now the inner city.

The Sonnenkamp Monastery, founded by Heinrich Borwin I , was still located in the small village of Parchow near Ilow Castle . The Parchow monastery was relocated to Neukloster just eight years after it was founded and was first mentioned there in 1219. The castle fell into disrepair over time, but the monastery developed into a cultural and economic center for the area. In 1235 the nearby town of Bryzelaz (now a desert) is mentioned. In the mid-14th century, lands and possessions were most extensive. The monastery was dissolved in 1555 and its property fell to the sovereigns of Mecklenburg , who managed it from then on.

In the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, both Neukloster and Wismar fell to Sweden . The new monastery office was established. Neukloster's Swedish times were marked by poverty and need. Swedish rule over Neukloster and Wismar ended de facto in 1803, when Sweden pledged Neukloster with the Malmö lien against payment of 1,250,000 thalers for 99 years to the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . Neukloster formally reverted to Germany in 1903, and Sweden waived the redemption of the pledge.

Teachers' seminar with monument to Friedrich Franz II by Hugo Berwald (destroyed)

Neukloster's local importance increased when the teachers' college from Ludwigslust was relocated to the small town in 1862 and the state institution for the blind was opened in Neukloster in 1864. The influx to Neukloster increased rapidly; Crafts and trades flourished. In 1887 Neukloster was connected to the regional rail network via the Wismar – Karow railway line .

Neukloster received town charter on April 1, 1938; the population doubled from around 2,500 to almost 5,000 after the Second World War.
The city changed and took on a small-town appearance. The cityscape was increasingly determined by the influx and new buildings. A library, a cinema, an old people's home, a stadium, schools, a kindergarten, the Catholic Church and the market square were built.

From 1952 until joining the Federal Republic of Germany in 1990, Neukloster was in the GDR district of Rostock . At the district level, the city belonged to the district of Wismar-Land between 1952 and 1994 and since then to the district of Northwest Mecklenburg in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

The inner city has been completely renovated since 1991 as part of the urban development subsidy.

Ravensrest

Gut Ravensruh was founded in 1787. The manor house dates from 1806. The manor complex has served as a sociotherapeutic addiction facility since 1995.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent communities of Neuhof near Neukloster and Nevern were incorporated.

Population development

year	Residents
1990	4743
1995	4634
2000	4285
2005	4142
2010	3950

year	Residents
2015	3863
2016	3881
2017	3928
2018	3925
2019	3960

Status: December 31 of the respective year

politics

City council

The city council of Neukloster consists of 15 members and the mayor. The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following result:

Party / group of voters	be right	Seats
CDU	25.8%	4th
We for Neukloster (WFN)	25.7%	4th
SPD	18.2%	3
AfD	13.0%	2
The left	09.4%	1
Rural, Environment and Agriculture (LUL)	07.9%	1

mayor

1990–2009: Klaus Becker
since 2009: Frank Meier (independent)

Meier was confirmed in the mayoral election on September 24, 2017 with 81.8% of the valid votes for a further eight years without an opponent.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Split; in front in gold a half-looking, gold-crowned black bull's head at the crack with a torn red mouth, silver teeth, a knocked out red tongue, torn neck fur and silver horns; behind in red a slanting silver abbess's staff with a golden curve turned to the left, accompanied on both sides by a silver heraldic lily. "

The coat of arms was awarded on August 16, 1903 by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , redrawn in 1993 in the course of the flag approval and registered under number 78 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms was awarded by the ruling Grand Duke on the occasion of the centenary of the reunification of the Domanialamt Neukloster with Mecklenburg-Schwerin. In the coat of arms, the bull's head as a small sovereign symbol of the Mecklenburg ruling house is intended to refer to the founding of the monastery by Heinrich Borwin I, Prince of Mecklenburg, and to the fact that the patch belongs to the duchy, from 1815 the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, as well as the abbess staff and the off the lilies borrowed from the monastery seal from 1231 remind us of the former nunnery itself. The tinging of the fields is intended to refer to the diocese of Schwerin, whose then Bishop Brunward confirmed the founding of the monastery.

Historical coat of arms

	Blazon : "In gold over a green three-mountain, a radiant red sun topped with a golden swastika." The coat of arms was designed by Hans Herbert Schweitzer . It was awarded in the spring of 1941 by the Reich Governor in Mecklenburg.
	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms lost its validity soon after the end of World War II.

flag

The flag was designed by Roland Bornschein from Wismar and approved on January 25, 1994 by the Ministry of the Interior.

The flag consists of a fifth of the length of the flag cloth from a black stripe across the longitudinal axis of the flag cloth and four fifths, which are five times striped by yellow and red lengthways. In the middle of the alternating longitudinal stripes above everything is the city coat of arms, which is four-ninths of the height of the flag. The relation of the height of the flag cloth to the length is like 3: 5.

Official seal

The official seal shows the city coat of arms with the inscription "STADT NEUKLOSTER • LANDKREIS NORDWESTMECKLENBURG".

Sights and culture

Monastery church

Romanesque monastery church Sonnenkamp from around 1219 with valuable pieces of Gothic furnishings , St. Mary's altar and the second oldest colored church window in Northern Europe. The Propsteig building and the bell tower, which was restored in the 1990s, have been preserved.

Former clerk's house with local history museum operated by the Neukloster Museum Association

The fisherman's house and the listed complex of the school for the visually impaired and the state institution for the blind , built in the 19th century .

Cenotaph for the victims of National Socialism from 1951 on the Sonnenberg

Swedish oak in the city center; Remembrance of belonging to Sweden from 1648 to 1803

Figures of nuns in front of the town hall (clinker sculptures)

Monastery and the memorial stone on the Centennial Mountain ,

Cenotaph for the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig in 1813.

Village cinema of the parish as a facility of the Association for Film Communication and the Güstrow Film Club with regular cinema programs .

Wind orchestra from 1959, as Klasbachtaler wind music ; she plays bohemian brass music.

Economy and Infrastructure

In addition to shops in the city center, Neukloster has two industrial and commercial areas. One of them is fully developed and built on by companies, the other is in a planning and construction phase.

traffic

Neukloster can be reached via the motorway connection of the same name on the A 20 federal motorway . The federal highway 192 ( Wismar - Neubrandenburg ) runs three kilometers west of the city. The state road L 14 to Bützow crosses Neukloster.

The Wismar – Karow railway line leading through Neukloster was closed in 1998 and dismantled as a result of the construction of the A 20 motorway. The nearest train stations are in Hornstorf on the Wismar – Rostock railway line and Blankenberg on the Bad Kleinen – Rostock railway line . The train stations in Wismar and Blankenberg can be reached daily from Neukloster by regional buses.

education

Primary school, old nursery 1
Regional school , August-Bebel-Allee 6

Personalities

Honorary citizen

1957, March: Ernst Puchmüller (1897–1976), director of the state institute for the blind and the rehabilitation center for the blind in Neukloster

sons and daughters of the town

Caspar Bussing (1658–1732), theologian, mathematician and heraldist
Carl Heinrich Romberg (1810–1868), Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and editor
Robert Hesse (1816–1885), doctor and 1848/49 member of the Mecklenburg Assembly of Representatives
Karl Kneebusch (1849–1902), author of traveling literature
Emil Krückmann (1864–1944), ophthalmologist, professor at the Universities of Königsberg and Berlin
Hans Held (1866–1942), physician and embryologist, professor at the University of Leipzig
Paul Krückmann (1866–1943), legal scholar, professor at the Universities of Greifswald and Münster
Hermann Winter (1897–1968), aircraft designer, professor of aircraft construction
Herta Meyer-Riekenberg (1910–1984), union official, board member of DAG , DAK and BfA
Christine Wernicke (* 1960), politician (BVB / Free Voters), member of the Brandenburg State Parliament

literature

Sabine Schöfbeck, Tilo Schöfbeck, Detlef Witt: Sonnenkamp Monastery in Neukloster. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-385-4 .
Michael Buddrus , Sigrid Fritzlar: The cities of Mecklenburg in the Third Reich. A handbook on urban development under National Socialism, supplemented by a biographical encyclopedia of the mayors, city councilors and councilors. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8378-4029-2 . (On Neukloster: pp. 319–323).
Josef Traeger : St. Maria in Sonnenkamp. A contribution to the history of the former Cistercian priory Neukloster 1219-1555. St. Benno-Verlag, Leipzig 1970.

Web links

Commons : Neukloster - collection of pictures, 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 ).
^ Regional Spatial Development Program West Mecklenburg (2011) , Regional Planning Association, accessed on July 12, 2015
↑ § 14 of the main statute of the city of Neukloster
↑ Population development of the districts and municipalities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Statistical Report AI of the Statistical Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
↑ The veteran of local politics turns 75. In: Ostsee-Zeitung , November 21, 2017.
↑ From today new boss in the town hall. In: Schweriner Volkszeitung , August 1, 2009.
↑ Mayor of Güstrow, Neukloster re-elected. In: Focus , September 24, 2017.
↑ ^a ^b 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. 173/174 .
↑ ^a ^b Main Statute of the City of Neukloster, § 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] Regional Spatial Development Program West Mecklenburg (2011) , Regional Planning Association, accessed on July 12, 2015

[3] § 14 of the main statute of the city of Neukloster

[4] Population development of the districts and municipalities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Statistical Report AI of the Statistical Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)

[5] Result of the local election on May 26, 2019

[6] The veteran of local politics turns 75. In: Ostsee-Zeitung , November 21, 2017.

[7] From today new boss in the town hall. In: Schweriner Volkszeitung , August 1, 2009.

[8] Mayor of Güstrow, Neukloster re-elected. In: Focus , September 24, 2017.

[Wappenbuch-9] 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. 173/174 .

[HS-10] Main Statute of the City of Neukloster, § 1 (PDF).