Rögnitz

This article describes the community Rögnitz in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg , for the river of the same name see: Rögnitz (river) .

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 37 '  N , 11 ° 1'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Northwest Mecklenburg
Office :	Gadebusch
Height :	51 m above sea level NHN
Area :	11.42 km 2
Residents:	198 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	17 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	19205
Area code :	038853
License plate :	NWM, GDB, GVM, WIS
Community key :	13 0 74 070
Office administration address:	Am Markt 1 19205 Gadebusch
Website :	www.gadebusch.de
Mayor :	Gerhard Wilk
Location of the community Rögnitz in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg

Rögnitz is a municipality in the south of the district of Northwest Mecklenburg in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). The community is administered by the Gadebusch office based in the city ​​of the same name .

Place name

The place name is derived from the Old Slavic word rogŭ or rakyta for horn and means something like Horndorf.

geography

The community of Rögnitz in the Schaalsee biosphere reserve is only a few kilometers east of the Schaalsee , which forms the state border with Schleswig-Holstein . The hilly area around the municipality belongs to the catchment area of the Schilde , which flows over the Schaale and Sude into the Elbe . In the south, the municipality borders on the Ludwigslust-Parchim district .

Rögnitz is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Krembz in the north and east, Wittendbod in the south and Zarrentin am Schaalsee in the west.

The districts of Bentin (incorporated on July 1, 1950) and Woldhof belong to Rögnitz.

The community is still characterized by agriculture.

Rögnitz is the only municipality in the former Hagenow district that has been incorporated into the Northwest Mecklenburg district.

politics

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 state of Mecklenburg. It shows a looking bull's head with torn off neck fur and crown and the inscription "GEMEINDE RÖGNITZ • LANDKREIS NORDWESTMECKLENBURG".

Attractions

• old manor house on the village square framed by linden trees
• Houses built from boulders in Rögnitz and in the Woldhof district

→ See also the list of architectural monuments in Rögnitz

Transport links

The small town of Gadebusch is 14 kilometers north of Rögnitz . There is a connection to the national trunk road network ( Bundesstrasse 208 , Bundesstrasse 104 ) and a rail connection to Schwerin . The Wittenburg motorway exit is around 15 kilometers away ( A 24 from Hamburg to Berlin ).

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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. ^ Paul Kühnel: The Slavic place names in Meklenburg. in: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. - Vol. 46 Schwerin 1881
3. ↑ Main Statute, Section 1, Paragraph 2

Web links

Commons : Rögnitz  - Collection of Images