Plau am See

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 27 '  N , 12 ° 16'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Ludwigslust-Parchim
Office :	Plau am See
Height :	72 m above sea level NHN
Area :	116 km 2
Residents:	6049 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	52 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	19395
Primaries :	038735, 038738 (Karow)
License plate :	LUP, HGN, LBZ, LWL, PCH, STB
Community key :	13 0 76 114
City structure:	8 districts
City administration address :	Market 2 19395 Plau am See
Website :	www.stadt-plau-am-see.de
Mayor :	Norbert Reier ( The Left )
Location of the town of Plau am See in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district

Plau am See is a small town in the far east of the Ludwigslust-Parchim district . It is the seat of the Plau am See office and a sub-center in southern Mecklenburg. For the health resort , which has been officially recognized since 1998 , tourism is of growing importance.

geography

Geographical location

The small town of Plau am See is 72 km south of Rostock and 60 km east-southeast of the state capital Schwerin . The city is located at the exit of the Müritz-Elde waterway from the Plauer See (Mecklenburg) . The hilly area around Plau was formed by the last Vistula glaciation 20,000 years ago and reaches 109.3  m above sea level. NHN at Gaarz the highest point, while the mirror of the Plauer See at 62 meters above sea level. NHN lies. At the southern end of the city lies the Plauer Stadtwald nature reserve .

City structure

The city consists of the following districts:

Plau am See (city center) Gaarz Lalchow farm Karow	Glue Afford Quetzin Reppentine

Other places to live within the urban area are Appelburg (Silbermühle), Heidenholz, Plötzenhöhe and Seelust. The Karow district includes a tar stove and hut.

history

Old town from the south with St. Marien

The city was called Plawe around 1235 like the area . The name lasted until the 16th century and was then written according to its phonetic form Plau . Plawe is the Polish field name for the place where rafting was carried out. On January 11, 1994, the name of the town of Plau was supplemented by the addition of am See in order to avoid confusion with Plaue , Plauen and Plaue (Brandenburg an der Havel) .

Prehistory and early history

Evidence of traces of human settlement and culture in the Plau area goes back to the Mesolithic . A stool grave found during gravel extraction in 1846 is attributed to the Duvensee Group 7000 to 6000 BC. Assigned. A deer antler ax, two longitudinally divided boar tusks and three deer teeth, two of which were pierced, were added to the burial. The early finds include a stone pointed hoe recovered in Stietzstrasse , a core ax made of black flint stone found in Grosse Burgstrasse and a disc ax found during excavation work in the Elde near the lock . Traces of settlement from the Neolithic Age (4000 to 1800 BC) include the large stone graves that were destroyed in the 19th century . Some barrows date from the Bronze Age (1800 to 600 BC) . During the period of the Great Migration , the urn graves were built southwest of Plau near Reppentin, which were archaeologically examined and documented by Robert Beltz .

The individual finds are complemented by numerous finds that were recovered from an archaeological excavation west of the city in the old district of Klebe in 2016 . The excavation was carried out in advance of the construction of the bypass (north bypass). Here, too, the finds go back to around 7000 years ago.

On the Germanic following Slavic colonization began in the region about the time around 700 n. Chr. In Plauer Stadtwald early Slavic is Burgwall Gaarz from the 8th century, probably a castle of Bethenzer , the north-east in the 10th century against the located newly founded Slavic castle Quetzin lost its importance.

12th to 15th centuries

Plauer Fischer (2018)

→ Main articles : Quetzin (Plau am See)  and Burg Plau

Plau am See emerged in the 13th century from the Slavic settlement of the fishermen and raftsmen Plawe . This settlement structure can still be seen today in the oval plan of the eastern old town. Most of the Slavic archaeological finds were recovered in this area. The northern Slavic castle and settlement Quetzin , whose dendrochronological evidence goes back to the late 10th century, was a cultural center of the Slavic tribe of the Warnower . After the castle was destroyed in 1164 and the conquest and Christianization by Heinrich the Lion , the state of Kuissin belonged to the Mecklenburg dominion and in 1234 it fell to the Parchim-Richenberg dominion through the first major division of Mecklenburg . Quetzin, which was rather hidden, now increasingly lost its importance to the Plau settlement, which is far more favorably located for trade on the important trade route from the Mark Brandenburg to Rostock . This now experienced its boom and was first mentioned as a city in 1235. The town charter confirmed in this document was granted in 1225 or 1226 by the princes Heinrich Borwin I and Heinrich Borwin II at the same time as Parchim . The construction of St. Mary's Church began around 1225 and was completed at the end of the 13th century. A first bridge over the Elde in place of a ford had become necessary due to the rise in the water level after the construction of two water mills. In its first construction phase, the bridge has been archaeologically dated to around 1222/24, a necessary increase was made around 1246/1251. In 1273 Plau is the seat of a princely bailiff .

In 1287, a princely house (castle) built by Prince Nikolaus II von Werle on a headland jutting out into the Plauer See is mentioned for the first time, which was expanded into a castle from 1448. The expansion with extensive fortifications took place between 1448 and 1463 to protect against robber barons from Prignitz, south of the city . Vogt Lüdecke Hahn had his seat here from 1449 to 1463. From 1538–50 it was further developed into an important fortress. It was only through the filling of the ramparts and the excavation of the moat that the complex now became an island.

At the end of the 13th century, the place was further protected by a city wall with three large (castle, stone and Eldentor) and one small city gate (mill gate). The city gates were preserved until the 19th century. Hidden remains of the wall and moat can still be seen in the north and northeast. The three-aisled parish church of St. Mary, built in the 13th century, is impressive .

The original city ​​field mark with a size of 60 hooves has been considerably expanded to its present size through the purchase of several surrounding village field marks. The so captured villages Slapsow (1244), Gedin (1292), Grapentin (1292), Gardin (1300?), Wozeken (1323) and the old Gaarz (1376/1381) fell desolate , only the village of Quetzin, acquired in 1308, remained as a district Preserved to this day.

While the 13th century brought the city a great boom, especially in the course of the 14th century - as in all of Mecklenburg - a decline is unmistakable.

Rulers of the city

→ Main article : Obodrites (noble family)

• until the beginning of 1227: Heinrich Borwin I.
• 1229–1238: Johann I (Mecklenburg) (as guardian of his brother Pribislav)
• 1238–1256: Pribislaw I.
• 1256–1272: princely relatives for the disempowered Pribislav
• 1272–1277: Nicholas I (Werle)
• 1277–1280: his sons Heinrich I and Johann I together
• 1280–1283: Johann I alone
• 1283–1293: his son Prince Nicholas II (Werle)
• 1293–1295: Pledged to the knight Hermann Ribe
• 1295–1298: Pledged to Prince Wizlaw II of Rügen (1260–1302)
• 1298–1316: again Nicholas II. Von Werle
• 1316–1337: Johann II. (Werle)
• 1337-1356: Nicholas III. (Werle)
• 1356–1375: Pledged to Albrecht II (Mecklenburg)
• 1361–1375: Pledged to the knights Heinrich von Stralendorff , Otto von Dewitz and Dankwardt von Bülow
• 1375–1400: Lorenz von Werle-Güstrow († 1400)
• 1375–1403 / 05: Pledged to knight Heinrich von Bülow called Grotekop and his brothers and children, namely Vicke von Bülow
• 1400–1436: Balthasar (Werle) , Johann VII. (Werle) and Wilhelm (Werle)

After the Werle rule had lapsed , Plau was a state town in Mecklenburg from 1436 and as such one of the towns in the Wendish district that was represented in the Mecklenburg provincial assemblies of the 1523 state estates until 1918 . In 1496 the city had 616 adult residents, children were not counted. The small castle from 1287 was attached to the castle complex in 1448/1463.

16th to 18th century

Castle tower

At the beginning of the 16th century, Duke Heinrich the Peaceful devoted particular attention to the fortunes of the city. In 1514 he had a vineyard laid out on the southern slope of the Klüschenberg. A vineyard had existed north of the castle since 1507. After the Duke's death, viticulture was given up again. From 1538 to 1550, Duke Heinrich the Friedfertigen expanded it into one of the largest fortresses in northern Germany. During the Thirty Years' War , several sieges by imperial and Swedish troops devastated the city from 1626. In 1630/1631 and 1638 more than 600 victims were recorded by devastating plague epidemics . According to the parish's visitation report in 1649, of around 1,500 inhabitants before the war, only 238 adults (aged 15 and over) were still alive, children were not mentioned. After 1660 the fortress was razed . Are obtained the ramparts, the castle tower and 1822 on the vault of the former armory built administrative and postal master house.

Several fires hit the city. Around 1455, among other things, the town hall burned down. In 1553 60 houses and outbuildings were lost. No damage reports have been received about the fires of 1560 and 1563. In 1631 61 houses and outbuildings burned down. 133 of 177 houses (including the school and rectory) were destroyed in 1696. In 1726 68 houses and 25 barns went up in flames. The fire of 1756 destroyed 244 houses and 179 outbuildings and thus 95 percent of the development. The church was preserved. After that, many houses were rebuilt on the old floor plans based on the model of the Lower Saxony hall house.

From 1735 to 1787 the town and the Plau office were pledged to the Crown of Prussia . A squadron of Prussian hussars, who had to be fed by the citizens , lived in the castle and in the city during this time. The textile industry gained a certain importance at that time. A private and a grand ducal cloth factory produced fabrics for uniforms in the 19th century .

19th century

The 19th century began for Mecklenburg with the French period . At the beginning of November 1806, 18,000 men of General Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult's corps plundered the city for three days, causing 70,000 thalers in damage  .

The following period was marked by the economic upswing. In 1830 a grand ducal machine wage institution (cloth factory) was established in the city, and in 1840 a machine factory with an iron foundry. In 1845 the first side paddle steamer Alban drove across the Plauer See to Röbel . In 1850 Hermann Daries sen. at the outflow of the Elde from the Plauer See a lime distillery (lime kiln), and in 1868 a brick factory was added. In the middle of the century the city was built with 553 "well-built" houses. From around 1880 many house facades were modernized, with half-timbered facades being clad with exposed brickwork or plaster. In 1882 Plau received a railway connection. A Plauer sailing club was founded in 1884. The imperial post office was built in 1887. Two years later, the town hall in neo-renaissance style followed on the market ; the old one had burned down shortly before. The waterworks was not put into operation until 1926, until then the citizens had to obtain water from wells with moderate water quality.

Recent history

Parseval Airplane

In 1910, pioneers in aviation technology focused on Plau and the Plauer See. Major August von Parseval tested a seaplane he had designed. Despite some successful flights, the attempts were not very successful and were not continued. In the same year the Mecklenburg Motor Yacht Club (MMYC) chartered a barge and built a launch pad for one-man glider pilots on it. After a series of tests with dummies , members of the club could try their hand at this new fun sport. The landing after only a short flight was always in the water. This chapter of flight technology was also discontinued.

While there were three casualties for Plau and the surrounding area in the Franco-Prussian War , there were 146 in the First World War. The number of victims in the Second World War cannot be precisely determined. Various memorials commemorate them. On May 3, 1945, the Red Army entered the city without a fight. The population had almost doubled to around 8,000 due to refugees from the east . The hotels and spa houses served as refugee accommodation. The land reform reached the city when the reppentin and gaarz estates were settled. The Appelburg fur farm with breeding stock of 328 minks and 799 silver foxes (1950) was taken over by the Soviet military administration. In the GDR all of the larger companies were nationalized.

From 1952 to 1994 Plau belonged to the Lübz district (until 1990 in the GDR district of Schwerin , then in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). In 1994 the city was incorporated into the Parchim district. Since the district reform in 2011 , it has been in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district .

Solidarity after the town hall fire

Fire under the roof

In January 1985 - six months before the city's 750th anniversary - the town hall burned down. Unnoticed by the employees, a smoldering fire had developed in the locked roof structure. Alarmed by passers-by, the employees opened the attic, which led to a blaze in the whole house. The fire brigade could not extinguish the fire because the hose connections were frozen at −8 ° C. The bell of the town hall clock fell from the belfry and smashed through two ceilings . The building burned down to the outer walls. The Schwerin district was unable to finance the reconstruction and recommended demolition. In unprecedented solidarity, the Plauer raised 70,000 marks within a few days . The city administration moved into the cultural center , which had been remodeled and refurbished free of charge by the local craftsmen. Building material was obtained in barter . Now the Schwerin district had to go along with it. The house was restored for more than 1 million marks. A few days before the beginning of the city anniversary, the city administration was able to move back into the town hall.

turn

At the time of the turning point and peaceful revolution in the GDR , Provost Albrecht-Joachim Boldt and Pastor Klaus Rziha were of central importance in Plau. From 1991, the listed historic city center with its many half-timbered houses and the buildings in the castle area was included in the urban development subsidy and, to a large extent, completely renovated. The cityscape has improved significantly since then. After almost all industrial companies had to close in the post-reunification years, tourism, which has seen a very positive development since 1991, and the health system (hospital and two rehabilitation clinics) are of supraregional importance.

Pledge of the Bundeswehr

In 1997, Mayor Jarchow initiated the Bundeswehr's first (and only) solemn pledge in Plau. On October 16, 1997, 700 recruits were sworn in in the presence of 2000 guests. The soldiers came from Lower Saxony, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. At that time the supply battalion 141 in Karow was still “local” . The battalion commander Dietrich Robaszkiewicz and Parchim's district administrator Klaus-Jürgen Iredi paced the front.

See also : List of NVA locations in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania  and military ceremonies

Incorporations

• October 26, 1921: Quetzin
• July 1, 1950: Reppentine
• January 1, 1973: Klebe and Hof Lalchow
• January 1, 2011: Karow with its districts of Leisten and Teerofen

Population development

year Residents 1990 6376 1995 6060 2000 6036 2005 5830 2010 5648

year Residents 2015 6055 2016 6076 2017 6013 2018 6037 2019 6049

Status: December 31 of the respective year

The increase in the number of inhabitants between 2010 and 2015 is due to the incorporation of Karow in 2011.

religion

Evangelical parish

→ Main article : Parish Church of St. Marien (Plau am See)

The Evangelical Lutheran Church Congregation has existed since 1532 when the Reformation reached the city. Since then, the Lutheran doctrine has been preached in St. Mary's Church . The community belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany with the episcopal and administrative seat in Schwerin.

Around 1380 parishioners make up the largest Christian group in the city. Since January 1, 2005, the parish has been connected to the neighboring parish of Barkow / Broock (210 parishioners). Since May 1, 2007, the parish has been occupied by a pastor couple with a total of 150% of the workforce. In addition to community service, hospital pastoral care is an important area of ​​activity in the Plauer clinics.

Since 1980, the Plau summer music summer has been held in the Marienkirche with weekly concerts (Wednesdays 8 p.m.) a wide audience. As a state trombonist, Martin Huss enriches services and concerts.

Catholic parish of St. Paul

After the introduction of the Reformation in Plau, the Catholic faith played no role in the city for a long time. It was not until the late 19th century that agricultural workers ( reapers ) came to Mecklenburg, mainly from Poland, and thus also to the Plauer area. They went to church services in Meyenburg and Parchim , where Catholic parishes had already formed. The wish for an own place of worship in Plau only came true in 1921, when a businessman bought the former synagogue and gave it to the community as a place of worship. It served as a church service room until it was closed by the building authorities due to the risk of collapse in 2003. Until autumn 2007, when a new parish hall with a chapel was inaugurated in a converted and renovated half-timbered house on the market square, services were held in the Protestant Marienkirche. The Catholic parish with around 300 members is administered by the parish in Goldberg . The upper administration is incumbent on the Archdiocese of Hamburg .

New Apostolic Congregation

A New Apostolic preacher appeared publicly in Plau for the first time in 1927. The small community found it difficult to establish itself against the resistance of the Protestant and Catholic Churches. It experienced its greatest growth at the end of the Second World War with the refugees from the eastern regions of the German Empire . The church services and gatherings used to take place in private houses, but from the 1980s until 2014 it had its own meeting house. In December 2014 she gave up her independence and joined the parish in Goldberg.

Jewish community

→ Main articles : Synagogue (Plau am See)  and Jewish cemetery (Plau am See)

There is no news of a Jewish community in Plau in the late Middle Ages. At the beginning of 1753, the first two protective Jews moved into the city. The number of people in the Plau community was never very large: 1769 = 5 protected Jews and their families, 1792 = 6 protected Jews with families, 1810 = 53 people (without small children), 1830 = 63, 1860 = 65, 1890 = 36, 1925 = 13, since the beginning of 1939 no Jew has lived in Plau.

The new synagogue on Strandstrasse was solemnly consecrated on October 23, 1840. There is evidence of a previous synagogue in Judengasse (first mentioned in 1763), but this was only a small prayer room in a residential building. A small Jewish cemetery on Klüschenberg, which was laid out in the 1750s and expanded several times, still exists today with several historical tombs. The last burial took place in 1951. The tombs were cleaned and repaired in September 2008. A memorial stone was erected on September 16, 2008.

politics

town hall

City council

The city council of Plau consists of 19 members and the mayor. The election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Party / group of voters	Election 2014	Election 2019
CDU	8th	8th
We live democracy 1	3	5
SPD	5	3
The left	3	3
All in all	19th	19th

¹ 2014: We live

For civil chief , the Chairman of the Local Board in 2014 Dirk tactile (CDU) has been selected and confirmed in this capacity of 2019.

mayor

Mayor Reier (2015)

→ Main article : List of the mayors of Plau am See

• 1990–1994: Axel Tohtz (independent, CDU)
• 1994–2001: Hans-Heinrich Jarchow ( SPD )
• since 2001: Norbert Reier (PDS / Die Linke)

coat of arms

Seal of the city of Plau, drawing after an impression from 1354

Historical seal mark with the figures of the city arms

Blazon : “In gold a red city gate standing on a pedestal with five battlements, on each side an arched projection with two battlements; in the gate opening a looking, golden crowned black bull's head with closed mouth and black horns. " 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 number 56 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Explanation of the coat of arms: The coat of arms, based on the seal image of the SIGHILLVM CIVITATIS PLAWE - first handed down as an imprint in 1354 - and established in its current form in April 1858, combines an urban symbol and a symbol of power. While the city gate marks Plau as a well-fortified city, the Richenberg bull's head is intended to make clear that the city belonged to the former rule of Parchim-Richenberg.

flag

Flag of the city of Plau am See

The flag was designed by Manfred Kruse , both from Plau am See, based on a design by Heidemarie Ruchhöft and was approved by the Ministry of the Interior on May 28, 1996.

The flag is striped lengthways with red, yellow and red. The red stripes each take up one sixth, the yellow stripe two thirds of the height of the flag cloth. The yellow stripe in the middle is covered with the figures of the city coat of arms in tinging appropriate to the flag: with a red city gate with five battlements on a pedestal, on each side an arched projection with two battlements each; in the gate opening with a looking, yellow crowned black bull's head with closed mouth and black horns. The figures take up five ninths of 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 city coat of arms with the inscription "STADT PLAU AM SEE".

Town twinning

• Plön , Schleswig-Holstein (since 1990)
• Diekholzen , Lower Saxony

(according to official information 2018)

Sights and culture

Buildings

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Plau am See

There are more than 220 individual monuments in the old town that are under monument protection. Numerous half-timbered houses are remarkable. especially the Gretchenheim (Rahmwallstr. 1), Bergstr. 6, Große Burgstraße 28, Markt 13 and 15, Am Eichberg 13/15, Ensemble Auf dem Eichberg 1, Stietzstraße 6, 8 and 31, Steinstraße 16 and 18, Eldenstraße 19. In many houses there are still doors from the period 1800 to 1900 received.

Particularly noteworthy are:

• Ev. Parish church of St. Marien , early Gothic building from the 13th century
• Remains of Plau Castle with the accessible castle tower from 1448 with an eleven meter deep dungeon and three meter thick walls
• Former mill at the sluice, which was mentioned in a document as the Plauer watermill in 1273 and was rebuilt after the town fire in 1756
• Former (new) synagogue in Strandstrasse (built in 1840)
• Citizens' school in Langen Strasse, today's Kantor-Carl-Ehrich-Grundschule (built 1858–1860)
• Town hall on the market in the style of the Dutch Neo-Renaissance with its clock tower (built in 1888)
• Former imperial post office in Steinstrasse (built in 1889)
• Water tower on the Klüschenberg (in the meantime no longer suitable as a vantage point, as the surrounding trees no longer reveal the view, built 1926–1927)

Technical monuments are:

• Lift bridge with a lift of 1.60 meters, built in 1916 with the help of prisoners of war
• Eldeschleuse with “ hen ladder”, built in 1834 and modernized several times

Monuments and memorial stones

Wilde Monument

Monuments

1881: Fallen from 1870/71 on the market

1882: Honorary Citizen Wilhelm Wilde at the Dr. Wilde House

1921: Fallen from 1914–1918 on the Klüschenberg

1922: Monument to the fallen of St. Marien 1914–1918 by Wilhelm Wandschneider

1941: honorary citizen Dr. Ernst Alban in the cemetery

1998: Memorial for the victims of the Second World War on Klüschenberg

Memorial stones

1892: City forester Diedrich Fockenbrock on the Klüschenberg

1954: Victim of fascism "Unity / Peace / Freedom" (stored)

2008: Jewish cemetery

Sculptures by the sculptor Wilhelm Wandschneider

1903: Coriolan on the lake promenade

1906: Winner in the Seglerhafen

1935: Sower and Mowing Farmer (left and right of the cinema)

1936: Penny boy at the former Sparkasse Steinstrasse

Nature and relaxation

Lock, "chicken ladder" and mill building

4. Waterway

The promenade on the Elde from the lock to the port shows impressions of a fishing and rafting town and continues from the port to the Plauer See. With the redesign of the former fishing site "Kalkofen", a new location was created for the water police and a pier with a 13.5 meter high lighthouse , which also serves as a lookout tower . The Elde can be crossed either at the so-called chicken ladder (bridge by the lock), the historic lift bridge or at the Neue Brücke from the bypass road ( B 103 ) at the marina.

The Plauer See offers a few bathing spots on its largely natural shores. The north shore of the lake is under nature protection ( Nossentiner / Schwinzer Heide Nature Park ).

The city is part of the clay and brick road , which includes the area south / south-west of the city with the villages of Ganzlin (old distillery), Gnevsdorf (clay museum), Retzow (felt factory), Wangelin (herb garden) and Petrol (old brickworks).

To the south of the city is the Plauer Stadtwald nature reserve with several small forest lakes. A nature trail offers nature lovers the necessary information.

Museums

The castle museum consists of the castle tower with an eleven-meter-deep dungeon, as a special attraction, the functional former church tower clock from 1581 and the museum in the castle courtyard. It is particularly dedicated to the Plau handicrafts and 19th century industry. The focus is on the inventor of the high-pressure steam engine Ernst Alban . A historical high-pressure steam engine (model) and other historical machines, including an almost complete printing shop, can be viewed in operation.

The Prof. Wandschneider Sculpture Museum shows documents and sculptures by the Plau sculptor Wilhelm Wandschneider , an honorary citizen of the city. It was founded in 1994 and has been incorporated into the castle museum since May 2014.

The bee museum and a private apiary are north of the city in Plau-Quetzin on the B 103.

Regular events

Bathtub rally (2010)

The Plau Music Summer has been presented by the Protestant parish of St. Marien since 1980 with around 15 concerts (end of June to beginning of September on Wednesdays at 8 p.m.).

The tractor meeting , an attraction for thousands of tractor and vintage car enthusiasts from all over Germany and beyond, takes place annually (since 2015 every two years) at the end of June.

The Plauer bathtub rally , organized by the Plauer bathtub association since 1989 on the second weekend in July on the Elde, is the city's largest festival.

Germany's largest seaplane meeting with more than 100 seaplane enthusiasts taking part with their model airplanes has been organized by the Salzwedel model flying club on Plauer See in the Seelust district since 1992. It takes place in the week around May 1st.

The Plauer Knight Days for fans and friends of medieval culture and art have been established at the end of July since 2014.

The Müritz Fish Days have been taking place at the end of September since 2007. The restaurants are offering their fish specialties these days. Also since 2007 the cooking association plau-kocht.de has organized regular cooking events and participates in the organization of many city events.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Plau am See station building

Street

In the north-south direction (Güstrow – Pritzwalk), Plau is on federal road 103 , which has been stepped down to state road 37 in the northern section. Bundesstrasse 191 leads to the west (Parchim) and Bundesstrasse 198 to the east (Neustrelitz) . Federal motorway 19 runs east of Plau . After Rostock you can take the Malchow junction (16 km); But that's 15 km more than over the country road and Krakow am See . You drive to Berlin via the Röbel / Müritz junction (22 km) and the Wittstock / Dosse motorway triangle . On the federal motorway 24 to Hamburg you come on the B 191 via Lübz and Parchim-West (50 km). There are more motorway and more kilometers on the southern route via Meyenburg and the Suckow junction (25 km).

train

Plau is on the Güstrow – Meyenburg railway line , which has not been used regularly since September 24, 2000 and is now owned by the private RegioInfra . Occasionally there are still freight trains running, in summer traditional trains too. Are regularly served Güstrow , the station Pritzwalk who Wittstock (Dosse) railway station and (still) Malchow with the important connections to goods . Until the end of August 2020, Plau is connected to the national rail network on Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday. The East German Railway will then extend the Hagenow-Land / Ludwigslust – Parchim connection via Karow to Plau. In the south, the Hanseatic Railway has extended the RB 74 from Pritzwalk via Meyenburg to Ganzlin.

bus

The bus company Verkehrsgesellschaft Ludwigslust-Parchim mbH operates lines to Meyenburg in the south, Lübz , Parchim and Schwerin in the west, Krakow am See and Güstrow in the north, Malchow and Röbel / Müritz in the east.

ship

In summer, a shipping line connects Plau with Waren.

Clinics

The KMG-Klinik Silbermühle in Appelburg serves the medical rehabilitation of cardiological and oncological patients. At the other end of the city, the MediClin hospital enables acute care in important subjects. The clinic includes a medical care center and two rehabilitation clinics for neurology and orthopedics. With around 800 employees (2020), MediClin is the largest employer in the region.

Sport and recreation

Marina on the Metow (2016)

Plau am See and the surrounding area offer many opportunities for sport and relaxation.

The youth hostel Plau am See is one of the few accommodation facilities with places to stay for the physically handicapped as well as cultural and sports activities in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

The city of Plau has so far granted honorary citizenship to seven people who have earned their place in urban development:

• 1841: Ernst Alban (1791–1856), head of the mechanical engineering factory in Plau
• 1880: Wilhelm Wilde (1829–1881), doctor, first director of the Plau City Hospital
• 1883: Carl Ehrich (1802–1886), cantor in Plau
• 1887: Gustav Bardey (1826–1905), head of the Plau water sanatorium
• 1899: Christian Eichbaum (1815–1905), treasurer and senator in Plau
• 1904: Heinrich Haukohl (1841–1906), wholesale merchant, head of the Haukohl Foundation
• 1926: Wilhelm Wandschneider (1866–1942), sculptor, lived in Plau

sons and daughters of the town

Since the maternity ward of the Plauer Hospital was closed in 1966, no more children have been born in the city.

• Anna von Mecklenburg (1485–1525), princess, countess of Hesse
• August von Hedemann (1785-1859), Prussian general
• Adolph Alexander (1799–1869), politician and member of the Hamburg parliament
• Carl Genzke (1801–1879), veterinarian and human medicine
• Gustav Hempel (1804–1864), Mecklenburg regional researcher and author
• Friedrich Johann Meyer (1814–1882), Mayor of Malchow and Minister
• Diedrich Fockenbrock (1819–1906), city forester
• Friedrich Lange (1834–1875), history painter
• Friedrich Bohndorff (1848–1921), Africa traveler and ornithologist
• Wilhelm Lemke (1873–1953), composer and music teacher
• Hans Koch (1876–1939), painter
• Alfred Brunswig (1877–1927), philosopher
• Ludwig Düwahl (1879–1940), illustrator
• Wilhelm Pargmann (1884–1944), politician (SPD)
• Martin Karsten (1890–1995), politician (CDU)
• Wilhelm Techmeier (1895–1971), painter
• Friedrich Täubrich (1920–1993), veterinarian and politician (CDU)
• Rudolf Elvers (1924–2011), musicologist
• Jürgen Gundlach (1926–2014), philologist and dialectologist
• Jürgen Andrees (* 1935), politician (CDU)
• Peter Paetzold (* 1935), chemist
• Gerhard Andrées (* 1936), painter
• Hans Peter Günther (1941–2015), church musician
• Peter Hackbusch (* 1958), soccer player
• Philipp-Sebastian Kühn (* 1977), politician, member of the Hamburg Parliament

Personalities associated with Plau

• Swartepape (patrician family) (13th / 14th century), lived in Plau
• Evert Wichtendal (2nd half of the 16th century), bronze caster, lived in Plau
• Johann Dornblüth (1784–1857), doctor in Plau
• Ferdinand Klitzing (1807–1883), Mayor of Plau
• August Wiegand (1864–1945), pastor in Plau
• Magda Wiegand-Dehn (1867–1938), textile artist, lived in Plau
• Albrecht-Joachim Boldt (* 1933), Provost in Plau
• Wolfgang Muchow (1933–2002), painter, lived in Plau
• Wolfgang Nußbücker (* 1936), master organ builder, founder of the organ building workshop "Mecklenburg Orgelbau" in Plau
• Adelheid Geck (* 1937), musicologist, professor, former cantor in Plau am See
• Rüdiger Döhler (* 1948), surgeon, chief physician in Plau
• Michael Schulz (* 1963), jazz musician and composer, lives temporarily in Plau
• Fred Ruchhöft (* 1971), historian and archaeologist
• Hinnerk Schönemann (* 1974), actor, lives in Plau
• André Thieme (* 1975), show jumper, lives in Plau

literature

• Heidemarie Ruchhöft: Chronicle of the city of Plau am See . Plau am See 2009, 208 pp. (Ed .: Druckerei AC Froh, Inh. Thomas Leppin, Plau am See).
• Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : History of the city of Plau and its surroundings. Schwerin 1852. ( digitized by the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Library )
• Heidemarie Ruchhöft, Fred Ruchhöft: Plau in old views (part 1). Zaltbommel 1992, ISBN 90-288-5473-8 .
• Heidemarie Ruchhöft, Fred Ruchhöft: Plau in old views (part 2). Zaltbommel 1996, ISBN 90-288-6266-8 .
• Fred Ruchhöft: The development of the cultural landscape in the Plau-Goldberg area in the Middle Ages. (Rostock Studies on Regional History, Volume 5), Rostock 2001, ISBN 3-935319-17-7 .
• Dieter Rühe: The Parseval flying machine from 1910 and other flight projects on Lake Plauer. Schwerin 2001, ISBN 3-928820-12-5 .
• Ingeburg Baier: My Plau am See - as I experienced it. Rostock 2004, ISBN 3-937179-38-0 .

Web links

Commons : Plau am See  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Plau am See  - travel guide

• Plau am See
• Official website of the Plau am See office

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. ^ Regional Spatial Development Program West Mecklenburg (2011) , Regional Planning Association, accessed on July 12, 2015
3. ↑ amtplau.de - "Development and Chronicle after the Wende"
4. ↑ § 2 of the main statute (PDF; 588 kB) of the city
5. ↑ plav = swim, float, flood
6. ^ Ernst Probst: Germany in the Stone Age, Orbis-Verlag 1999 (based on the original edition Bertelsmann-Verlag 1991), pp. 203, 210 ff., ISBN 3-572-01058-6
7. ↑ Fred Ruchhöft: Prehistoric finds with pickaxe and collar bottle fragment from the Plau old town, In: Archäologische reports aus Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Volume 2 1995, p. 27 ff.
8. ↑ https://www.svz.de/lokales/zeitung-fuer-goldberg-luebz-plau/spuren-aus-der-mittelsteinzeit-id18523301.html (accessed on December 8, 2017)
9. ^ Gustav Hempel: Geographical-statistical-historical manual of the Meklenburger country , first part. Guestrow 1837
10. ↑ Ulf D. Wenzel: The fur animal book. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Cologne 1990, p. 28
11. ^ Office of Plau
12. ↑ T [ungsten] H [ennies]: Ceremonial vow on the Klueschenberg . Plauer Zeitung 1997, p. 10
13. ↑ Population development of the districts and municipalities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Statistical Report AI of the Statistical Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
14. ↑ http://goldberg.nak-nordost.de/db/35678/Aktuelles/Weihnachtsgottesdienst
15. ↑ Announcement of the final election results 2019 - Election of the city council of the city of Plau am See (PDF)
16. ^ Plau: Start for the new agency. In: Schweriner Volkszeitung , June 19, 2014.
17. ↑ 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. 205-207 .
18. ↑ ^{a b} main statute § 1 (PDF).
19. ↑ Lighthouse Plau on deutsche-leuchtfeuer.de
20. ^ The bee museum in Plau am See. A permanent exhibition on the history of beekeeping.
21. ↑ Plauer Zeitung of June 17, 2020
22. ↑ KMG Klinik Silbermühle
23. ↑ Barrier-free youth hostel , accessed on October 6, 2014