Ragow-Merz

Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Oder-Spree
Office :	Schlaubetal
Height :	45 m above sea level NHN
Area :	43.79 km 2
Residents:	521 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	12 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	15848
Area code :	03366
License plate :	LOS, BSK, EH, FW
Community key :	12 0 67 397
Community structure:	2 districts
Office administration address:	Bahnhofstrasse 40 ; 15296 Müllrose
Website :	www.amt-schlaubetal.de
Mayor :	Werner Groeschke
Location of the municipality of Ragow-Merz in the Oder-Spree district

Ragow-Merz ( Rogow-Měrc in Lower Sorbian ) is a municipality in the Oder-Spree district in Brandenburg . The municipality of Ragow-Merz belongs to the office of Schlaubetal with its seat in the city of Müllrose .

Community structure

The community consists of the two districts Ragow and Merz as well as the residential areas Försterei Ragow, Försterei Schwarzheide and Ragower Ablage.

history

The street village Ragow was first mentioned in 1344 as Rogow and in 1491 as Rago . The Slavic name roughly means settlement on a horn, a headland . Merz was first mentioned in 1341 under the personal name of Johannes de Mertz . In 1405 the village is recorded as Merzik , Mertz . According to the Brandenburg place-name book, the name also comes from Slavic and could designate a settlement near dry wood, bushes .

Ragow and Merz belonged to the Beeskow-Storkow district in the province of Brandenburg since 1836 and to the Beeskow district in the GDR district of Frankfurt (Oder) from 1952 . Since 1993, the places have been in the Oder-Spree district of Brandenburg.

The municipality of Ragow-Merz was created on June 1, 2002 through the merger of the two eponymous municipalities.

Population development

year	Ragow	Merz	year	Ragow-Merz	year	Ragow-Merz
1875	358	309	2002	573	2018	514
1910	234	225	2005	534	2019	521
1939	279	224	2010	478
1946	356	304	2011	515
1950	416	343	2012	516
1971	311	242	2013	510
1990	250	213	2014	504
1995	266	209	2015	516
2000	321	239	2016	507
2001	330	234	2017	514

Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31 (from 1991), from 2011 based on the 2011 census

politics

Community representation

The municipality of Ragow-Merz consists of eight municipal representatives and the honorary mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Voter group	Seats
Ragow-Merz civic alliance	5
Voting group fire brigade Merz	3

mayor

since 2003: Werner Gröschke

In the mayoral election on May 26, 2019, Gröschke was elected unopposed candidate with 87.0% of the valid votes for a term of five years.

Attractions

Listed and restored late Gothic stone church in Merz

In the list of architectural monuments in Ragow-Merz and in the list of ground monuments in Ragow-Merz are the monuments entered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.

The village church of Merz is a late Gothic stone church . Inside there is a late Baroque pulpit altar with a pulpit from the first half of the 17th century.

traffic

Ragow-Merz is located on the federal highway 87 , which connects Beeskow and Frankfurt (Oder) .

The community is part of the Berlin-Brandenburg transport association . The BOS bus line 442 between Beeskow and Frankfurt (Oder) stops in both districts.

The nearest train station is Beeskow on the Königs Wusterhausen – Frankfurt (Oder) line . It is served by regional train line 36 .

In the municipality Siehdichum is located airfield Eisenhüttenstadt-Frankfurt (Oder).