Raben Steinfeld

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 36 '  N , 11 ° 30'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Ludwigslust-Parchim
Office :	Crivitz
Height :	60 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.6 km 2
Residents:	1047 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	109 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	19065
Area code :	03860
License plate :	LUP, HGN, LBZ, LWL, PCH, STB
Community key :	13 0 76 117
Office administration address:	Amtsstrasse 5 19089 Crivitz
Website :	www.amt-crivitz.de
Mayor :	Klaus-Dieter Bruns
Location of the municipality of Raben Steinfeld in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district

Raben Steinfeld is a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is located southeast of the state capital Schwerin and is administered by the Crivitz Office , based in Crivitz .

Geography and traffic

Housing estate in Unterdorf, in the background: the Schwerin television tower

Raben Steinfeld is located on the southeastern shore of Lake Schwerin north of the Lewitz lowland. The community is located on federal highway 321 in the immediate vicinity of federal highway 14 . Surrounding cities are Schwerin and Crivitz . A large part of the community (almost 50 percent) is forested and part of a nature and landscape protection area. The place consists of two separate districts. The lower village lies south of the B 321. The upper village begins north of this main road at the end of the Charlottenberg and extends from there to the north and west.

history

Raben Steinfeld was first mentioned in a document on January 11, 1410. But there was a German castle here as early as 1160. The name is made up of "Raben" from the von Raben family and "Steinfeld" from the very stony fields in the area (terminal moraine).

After the Thirty Years War in 1648, the place came to Mecklenburg and the estate passed into ducal possession. In 1847 it became the property of the Grand Dukes of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . The grand ducal stud opened in 1881. In 1886/1887 the former hunting lodge was converted into a grand ducal summer residence. At Schloss Raben Steinfeld a. a. Heinrich to Mecklenburg . As Prince of the Netherlands, he often visited with his wife, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands . Wilhelmina loved "Steinfeld Castle", as she called it. The palace later served the Grand Duchesses of Mecklenburg as a widow residence.

Memorial to the victims of the 1945 death march

The death march for 18,000 of the 33,000 exhausted prisoners from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp ended on May 2, 1945 near the town of Stör . A day later the place was occupied by the Red Army . The Stör on the outskirts and the eastern shore of Lake Schwerin was the demarcation line between the troops of the Soviet Union and the western powers for a few weeks. A memorial for the death march has been located on the Stör since 1973 .

A forestry engineering school was founded in the ducal castle in 1946 and closed in 1995.

politics

coat of arms

Blazon : “In gold, three black stones between two blue flank stake threads; on the middle, larger stone, a black raven, armed with gold and ready to fly. " The coat of arms was created after a proposal by the Crivitzer Dr. Klaus Plüschke designed by Viola Westphal from Schwerin . It was approved by the Ministry of the Interior on August 3, 2000 and registered under the number 221 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Justification for the coat of arms: In the coat of arms, the black raven, borrowed from the von Rabe (n) family's coat of arms, and the stones as speaking symbols establish the visual reference to the community name. At the same time, the raven is intended to commemorate the aristocratic family who determined the development of the place from the beginning of the 15th century to 1678. The stones are also used to symbolize the pebbles in the area that have existed since the Ice Age and are still widely used by people today. The flank pile threads refer to the location of the community between the southern end of the Schweriner See and the Pinnower See.

flag

The municipality does not have an officially approved flag .

Official seal

The official seal shows the municipal coat of arms with the inscription "GEMEINDE RABEN STEINFELD".

Attractions

The formerly grand ducal hunting lodge stood empty for a long time and was taken over by the municipality in 2019.

The former water tower is a quarter for bats.

→ See also the list of architectural monuments in Raben Steinfeld

• Grand Ducal Hunting Lodge (brick building, also the seat of the ducal stud, in the neo-Renaissance style ) from 1886/1887. It is to be redeveloped by the community.
• Twelve family stud caretakers' houses, built on the English model between 1863 and 1869
• English landscape park with 34 Raben Steinfeld oaks (the strongest has a circumference of 7.40 meters).
• Memorial stone from 1949 in front of the bridge over the Stör in memory of the liberated prisoners of the death march of the Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück concentration camps in April 1945
• Memorial from 1973 with the monumental sculpture by the sculptor Gerhard Thieme Die Mutter , plus four relief steles by the same artist since 1976
• Memorial from 1996 on the B 321 in the forest behind the motorway exit by the sculptor Wieland Schmiedel in memory of the victims of the death march
• Rock garden as an external location for the Federal Horticultural Show 2009
• Geological Museum Raben Steinfeld
• The water tower in the park was converted into a roost for bats

Personalities

• Günter Millahn (* 1930 near Schwerin ; † 2018), forester, educator, hunter and author; from 1957 to 1995 lecturer at the Raben Steinfeld Forestry College

literature

• Günter Millahn : Raben Steinfeld. History of a forest school . Bjoern-Verlag, Krefeld 1997, ISBN 3-922348-03-3 .
• Margot Krempien et al .: Raben Steinfeld memorial . 2nd Edition. Historical Museum Schwerin, Schwerin 1986.
• Hans-Dieter Krienke, Karsten Obst: Raben Steinfeld and the Ice Age: Landscape development and geological sights southeast of Schwerin . In: Brandenburgische geoscientific contributions , vol. 18 (2011), no. 1/2, pp. 107–123 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Raben Steinfeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ↑ Wilhelmina: Lonely and yet not alone . Evangelisches Verlagswerk, Stuttgart 1961, p. 95.
3. ↑ Wilhelmina: Lonely and yet not alone . Evangelisches Verlagswerk, Stuttgart 1961, pp. 101–103, pp. 112–113 and more often.
4. ↑ 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. 207 .
5. ↑ ^{a b} main statute § 2 (PDF).