Poseritz

Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Western Pomerania-Ruegen
Office :	Mountains on Rügen
Height :	20 m above sea level NHN
Area :	40.18 km 2
Residents:	964 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	24 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	18574
Primaries :	038304, 038307
License plate :	VR, GMN, NVP, RDG, RÜG
Community key :	13 0 73 065
Office administration address:	Markt 5–6 ; 18528 Bergen on Rügen
Mayor :	Hans Lange
Location of the community Poseritz in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen

Poseritz is a village and a municipality in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The municipality is administered by the Bergen auf Rügen office based in the city of the same name .

Geography and traffic

Poseritz is located in the south of the motherland of the island of Rügen directly on the Strelasund . State road 29 from Garz / Rügen leads through the village of Poseritz to the Strelasund crossing .

Districts

The districts of Poseritz belong to:

history

The municipality was part of the Principality of Rügen until 1326 and then the Duchy of Pomerania . With the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, Rügen became part of Swedish Pomerania . In 1815 it became part of New Western Pomerania to the Prussian province of Pomerania .

Since 1818 the community has belonged to the district of Rügen . It was only called Kreis Putbus from 1952 to 1955 . The community then belonged to the Rügen district in the Rostock district until 1990 . The district of Rügen, which has been called this again since 1990, was merged in 2011 in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen.

Mellnitz:: The manor house dates from around 1830, built on an older vaulted cellar.

As a Gutsdorf, Neparmitz had many owners. The Neparmitz manor house, built for Ehrenfried Gustav Holz in the second half of the 19th century , belonged to the Wahnschaffe family from 1900 to 1945. Due to vacancy after 1990 and vandalism, the facility is falling into disrepair.

Poseritz was a longstanding property of the von Zuhm and von ancestors . The brick Marien Church was built as a single-nave nave until 1325, the ribbed vault , the choir and the tower until around 1450.

Puddemin was first mentioned in 1314. The four large stone graves date from the late Neolithic . In 1577 the city of Stralsund owned the place. In 1637 there were six farms. A hall house dates from 1681 and has been part of the Puddemin Rügen museum courtyard since 2013 .

Renz: In 1582, Erich von Kahlden , the landowner of Groß Schoritz in Renz, had the Renaissance manor house built. It is one of the oldest manor houses on Rügen. The two-story house has a stair tower and has the character of a solid house. Gut Renz with 371 hectares belonged to the von der Lancken family in 1945 , who were then expropriated. Refugees from the eastern regions were housed in the manor house.

Swantow: The St. Stephen's Church was built in the 14th century of brick and fieldstone; until 1469 the choir , then the nave and around 1500 the half-timbered tower.

Üselitz was first mentioned in 1311 as Uselitze . Landowners were u. a. the Dukes of Pomerania, then the von Zuhme (from 1562), von Ahnen (from 1644), Putbus (from 1664), von Normann (from the end of the 17th century), von Langen (from 1706 to 1939). Baron Carl-Friedrich von Langen - living in Parow - was the first German Olympic champion in show jumping and dressage in 1928. The Üselitz mansion dates from after 1580.

politics

Of the ten community representatives who were elected in the local elections on May 25, 2014 , seven belong to the “Poseritz Voting Community”, two to the “Alliance for Rügen” and one to the CDU .

Coat of arms, flag, official seal

The municipality has no officially approved national emblem, neither a coat of arms nor a flag . The official seal is the small state seal with the coat of arms of the region of Western Pomerania . It shows an upright griffin with a raised tail and the inscription "GEMEINDE POSERITZ".

Attractions

Protestant village church St. Marien der brick Gothic : 1302 to 1325 the nave , around 1450 choir and tower from, renovated after 1989.
Evangelical St. Stephanus Church in Swantow , Gothic choir from 1469 and then the nave with ribbed vault and around 1500 the half-timbered tower on a field stone base.
Üselitz manor from after 1580
Puddemin : resting place for water hikers and natural harbor
Gut Neparmitz : Two-story mansion from 1885 with a mezzanine floor
Mellnitz-Üselitzer Wiek

economy

In Poseritz there are mainly farms and small businesses.

gallery

St. Marien , Protestant church in Poseritz
Village community center
(former school) in Poseritz
Parish widow's house and St. Marien church in Poseritz

The school was partially demolished in 2010, rebuilt and is now used as a community center (“Uns Dörphus”).

Sons and daughters of the church

Ernst Heinrich Wackenroder (1660–1734), Lutheran clergyman, church historian
Michael Nestius (1721–1794), Provost in Bergen, from Swantow
Adolph Detlef von Usedom (1726–1792), Prussian general, from Venzvitz
Christian Pistorius (1763 / 1765–1823), German writer and translator
Heinrich Julius Pistorius (1781–1861), lawyer, mayor of Wolgast
Ernst Holtz (1854–1935), b. in Renz, District Administrator and District President in Silesia, Chief President of the Audit Office of the German Reich
Friedrich Freiherr von Langen (1860–1935), b. in Ueselitz, manor owner, MdR

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 ).
^ Hubertus Neuschäffer: Western Pomerania's castles and mansions . Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft 1993, p. 166, ISBN 3-88042-636-8
↑ Main Statute § 1 (PDF).

Web links

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

Literature about Poseritz in the state bibliography MV

[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] Hubertus Neuschäffer: Western Pomerania's castles and mansions . Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft 1993, p. 166, ISBN 3-88042-636-8

[3] Main Statute § 1 (PDF).