Picher

This article describes the Mecklenburg community of Picher . For the city of the same name in Oklahoma, United States, see Picher (Oklahoma) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 21 '  N , 11 ° 21'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Ludwigslust-Parchim
Office :	Hagenow Land
Height :	51 m above sea level NHN
Area :	39.09 km 2
Residents:	632 (December 31, 2019)
Population density :	16 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	19230
Area code :	038751
License plate :	LUP, HGN, LBZ, LWL, PCH, STB
Community key :	13 0 76 111
Community structure:	2 districts
Office administration address:	Bahnhofstrasse 25 in 19230 Hagenow
Website :	www.amt-hagenow-land.de
Mayor :	Holger Hille
Location of the municipality of Picher in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district

Picher 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 .

The district of Jasnitz belongs to Picher.

geography

Picher is located in the north of the Griesen area , a wooded area ( Pichersche Heide north of the municipality) between the rivers Sude , Elde and Elbe . The flat undulating area reaches 66 m above sea level. NN at the southern exit of Picher the highest point in the northern Griesen area. The New Canal flows through the municipality and further ditches flow into it.

Picher is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Rastow in the north, Lüblow in the northeast, Warlow in the east, Ludwigslust in the southeast, Alt Krenzlin in the southwest, Bresegard near Picher in the west and Strohkirchen and Moraas (point of contact) in the northwest.

history

neo-Gothic church from the 19th century

Picher was first mentioned in a document as Pychere in 1291 , once belonged to the County of Dannenberg until it changed to the County of Schwerin at the beginning of the 14th century . In 1303 the Eldena Monastery bought property from Detlef von Plöne. In 1319 a church from the 13th century is mentioned for the first time, which was expanded several times, but demolished in 1875 due to dilapidation and due to the limited space and then replaced by a larger building in neo-Gothic style. Picher was a communion village until it was taken over by the sovereign in 1588 . Craftsmen settled in the village, which is quite large with 35 hooves , at an early age. In the 18th century there was a smelting furnace for silver extraction from the drifting sands found near Picher.

Jasnitz was first mentioned in a document as Yotzenisse from 1458. Due to the high density of game, hunting was pursued intensively in a grand ducal game garden that was created in 1873 from a so-called sucking species . Forestry also played an economic role.

In the state competition “Our village should become more beautiful - our village has a future ”, Picher took first place in 2010, which was due to the wide-ranging infrastructure and the well-kept condition of the historic buildings.

politics

coat of arms

Blazon : "In green under a silver fallow deer shovel, a slanted silver ear with seven black awns and a silver hammer slanted to the left." The coat of arms and the flag were designed by the Schwerin heraldist Karl-Heinz Steinbruch . It was approved on November 27, 2002 by the Ministry of the Interior and registered under the number 270 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms symbolizes the economic foundations of both districts: the fallow deer shovel stands for the district of Jasnitz, which is mainly characterized by hunting, and the Ähre and Hammer for the district of Picher, which is particularly characterized by agriculture and crafts.

flag

The flag was approved by the Ministry of the Interior on January 29, 2004.

The flag is made of green cloth. It is covered in the middle with the figures of the municipal coat of arms: at the top with a white fallow deer shovel, below with a white ear of wheat placed at an angle to the left along with seven black awns and a white hammer placed at an angle to the right. The fallow deer shovel takes up a quarter, the ear and the hammer each take up half the height of the flag cloth. 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 PICHER • LANDKREIS LUDWIGSLUST-PARCHIM".

Attractions

→ See also the list of architectural monuments in Picher

• A brick church was mentioned as early as 1319 . Today's neo-Gothic , three-aisled brick church in Picher was built according to plans by Georg Daniel from 1875 to 1879 and is surrounded by a stone wall. The brick building with choir and drawn -in five-eighth end , choir flank turrets, polygonally ending cross arms and a four-storey tower and roof turrets placed in front of the nave has the dimensions of a small town church. Inside there is a wooden ceiling supported by massive belt arches . The slide organ on the west gallery of the church was built in 1880 by Johann Heinrich Runge . A comprehensive renovation took place from 1998 to 2008.

traffic

Jasnitz station

The federal highway 5 passes two kilometers south of Picher (before the completion of the highway in 1983, the transit road from Hamburg to Berlin ).

In the Jasnitz district, 4.5 kilometers away, the Jasnitz train station is on the Berlin – Hamburg line . Trains run every two hours on the RB 14 line on the Hagenow –Ludwigslust route, operated by the East German Railway .

The next larger cities are Ludwigslust (12 km away) and Hagenow (16 km), from these places there is a motorway connection ( A 24 Berlin - Hamburg).

Personalities

• Carl Heinrich Romberg (1810–1868), Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and editor, pastor in Picher from 1854 to 1868

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. ↑ § 1 of the main statute (PDF; 36 kB) of the municipality
3. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Picher is the most beautiful village in the country , NDR Online, accessed on July 5, 2010
4. ↑ ^{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. 141/142 .
5. ↑ Main statute § 2 (PDF).

Web links

Commons : Picher  - Collection of Images

• Building history of the church and description of the organ