Raduhn

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Raduhn
Community Lewitzrand
Coordinates: 53 ° 29 ′ 1 ″  N , 11 ° 41 ′ 17 ″  E
Height : 41 m above sea level NN
Area : 13.25 km²
Residents : 515  (Dec. 31, 2007)
Population density : 39 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : June 7, 2009
Postal code : 19374
Area code : 038722

Raduhn is a district of the community Lewitzrand in the west of the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

Geography and traffic

Raduhn is located a little northeast of the confluence of the Müritz-Elde waterway and the Stör Canal in the Lewitz nature reserve . Another river is the Raduhner Bach, which flows into the Klinkener Kanal in the former municipality . Large parts of the former municipality are used for agriculture. But there are also smaller forest areas, such as the Ruscher firs . The highest elevation in the former municipality is the Hohe Berg at 61.9  m above sea level. NHN .

Raduhn is 15 kilometers west of Parchim and 14 kilometers south of Crivitz . The federal highway 321 runs north of the former municipality. The federal motorway 24 can be reached via the Neustadt-Glewe junction.

Districts of the community were Raduhn and Rusch.

history

Raduhn was first mentioned in a document as Radun in 1264 . The name comes from the Slavic word radŭ for happy or it was named after the Slavic locator Radon or Radun Place of the Radon of the Radun .

Rusch is the Low German word for reeds and rushes and is used as a basic or defining word in the field names "Auf dem Rusch" in Raduhn as well as in Spornitz .

At the same time as the local elections on June 7, 2009, the communities of Raduhn, Matzlow-Garwitz and Klinken merged to form the new community of Lewitzrand .

Attractions

Raduhn village church
  • Village church ( completely rebuilt in 1859 in neo-Gothic style)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Kühnel : The Slavic place names in Meklenburg. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 46, 1881, ISSN  0259-7772 , pp. 3-168, here p. 115.
  2. Otto Clausen: Field names Schleswig-Holstein , Rendsburg 1952, p. 81.
  3. Dieter Greve: Field names in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with a lexicon of field name elements (field names from A to Z) , Schwerin 2016, p. 109.
  4. StBA: Area changes from January 2nd to December 31st, 2009