Rechlin

This article covers the municipality of Rechlin . For more meanings of this name, see Rechlin (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 20 '  N , 12 ° 43'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Mecklenburg Lake District
Office :	Röbel-Müritz
Height :	67 m above sea level NHN
Area :	77.29 km 2
Residents:	2041 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	26 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17248
Area code :	039823
License plate :	MSE, AT, DM, MC, MST, MÜR, NZ, RM, WRN
Community key :	13 0 71 122
Office administration address:	Marktplatz 1 17207 Röbel / Müritz
Website :	Rechlin at amt-roebel-mueritz.de
Mayor :	Wolf-Dieter Ringguth ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Rechlin in the Mecklenburg Lake District

Rechlin is a municipality in the south of the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The community is administered by the Office Röbel-Müritz with its seat in the city of Röbel / Müritz . Rechlin is a state-approved resort and forms a basic center for its surroundings .

geography

The largest municipality in the Röbel-Müritz district is located on the Kleine Müritz , a lake arm connected to the southern part of the Müritz . Rechlin is connected to the Havel via canals and lakes and to the Elbe via the Müritz-Elde waterway . In addition to the twelve-kilometer-long south-east bank of the Müritz, the municipal area includes numerous other lakes ( Woterfitzsee , Leppinsee , Kotzower lakes ). The north of the municipality has a share in the Müritz National Park .

Rechlin is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Waren (Müritz) (sea border) and Kargow in the north, Kratzeburg in the northeast, Mirow in the east, Lärz in the south and Südmüritz (partly sea border) in the west.

Districts

The districts of Amalienhof, Boek, Boeker Mühle, Kotzow, Rechlin Nord, Retzow, Vietzen and Zartwitz belong to Rechlin .

In November 2018 took place in Larz and Black a referendum to an area amending treaty instead, after the two municipalities were merged with Rechlin. Both in Lärz and in Schwarz, however, a majority voted against a merger.

history

In 1256 a knight Johann von Havelberg was mentioned as the owner of the Boek estate. From 1841 until the seizure of property in 1920 due to the events during the Kapp Putsch in Waren (Müritz), it was owned by the Le Fort family . The place Rechlin was first mentioned in 1374.

In 1916 the pilot training and research institute was established here . After the end of the First World War, the existing systems were dismantled. In the mid-1930s, as part of the armament of the Wehrmacht, the area became the Rechlin test site of the German Air Force , which tested new aircraft, bombs and technical equipment there.

From 1943 to 1945 a barrack camp of the Reich Labor Service (RAD) was converted into a concentration camp in Retzow , which initially served as a reception camp for the overcrowded Oranienburg concentration camp . The 1000 to 1500 male prisoners were deployed in the expansion of the Lärz airfield . From the middle or end of 1943, the Retzow concentration camp was used as a satellite camp of the Ravensbrück concentration camp and was occupied by an average of 2,000 to 3,000 women by the end of the war. The camp was liberated by the Red Army on May 1, 1945.

At the end of the Second World War, most of the residents of Rechlin had fled. Soviet troops were stationed on the grounds of the Rechlin air force test site and the area was surrounded by a wall. Rechliners were officially not allowed to enter this part. After the troops withdrew, part of the area became a forest settlement. The former officer's houses at the testing site became single-family and semi-detached houses.

The Arboretum Erbsland , which is also located on the site of the test site, had been forgotten for the second time due to the lockdown and is open to visitors.

Church in Rechlin North

The church Rechlin in Rechlin Nord was transferred from the Bundeswehr possession back to the church through the commitment of the then site commander, Olaf Bauer. It has been renovated and in addition to church services, events are also held there. What is special about the church is that its choir faces west, not east, as is usual in church construction.

Since 1991 the historic town center has been thoroughly redeveloped as part of urban development funding; the townscape has improved a lot.

Since the summer of 2010, Rechlin and the Boek district have been recognized as state resorts.

politics

coat of arms

Blazon : "In red, four silver right side wedges ending obliquely on the left and three blue arrowheads one above the other on the left." The coat of arms designer is currently unknown. It was approved on November 5, 1990 by the Ministry of the Interior and registered under No. 1 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Justification for the coat of arms: The coat of arms combines the coats of arms of the noble families von Kerberg (previously Kerkberch) and von Retzow, who have determined the fortunes of the place for centuries, while maintaining the traditional tinging, but in a slightly different position. The von Kerberg family had four silver left side wedges in red; the von Retzow family in red three (2: 1) blue arrowheads.

flag

The flag was designed by Joachim Markner from Röbel and approved by the Ministry of the Interior on November 20, 2007.

The flag is striped in red, white and red across the longitudinal axis of the flag cloth. The red stripes each take up a quarter, the white stripe takes up half the length of the flag cloth. In the middle of the white stripe is the municipal coat of arms, which takes up two thirds of the height of the flag. The relation of the height of the flag cloth to the length is like 3: 5.

Official seal

The official seal shows the municipal coat of arms with the inscription "GEMEINDE RECHLIN • LANDKREIS MECKLENBURGISCHE SEENPLATTE •".

Culture and sights

Village church of St. Johannis in Boek

Bolter mill

Aeronautical Museum in Rechlin Nord

Port village of Rechlin

Buildings

See also : List of architectural monuments in Rechlin

• Classicist church in Rechlin Nord
• District Boek: Entrance to the Müritz National Park , village square
• Memorial stone from 1980 in the Retzow district on the site of the former satellite camp of the Ravensbrück concentration camp for the victims of forced labor
• The neo-Gothic St. John's Church in Boek was built by Carl Peter von Le Fort in 1847. Le Fort was the grandfather of the writer Gertrud von le Fort . The oldest surviving organ from 1853 by the organ builder Wilhelm Sauer is in the Boeker Church. A private donation allowed the organ to be restored in 2003 and is now playing again. All necessary renovation work on the church is financed by a development association. Concerts and exhibitions take place regularly in summer.
• Bolter Mill : An old water mill founded by the Order of St. John Mirow in 1665 , which is now used as a guest house, cultural and excursion site
• “White houses”: four concrete bunkers and bullet plates from the time of the Third Reich form a mysterious ensemble around seven kilometers east of Rechlin (coordinates 53.32275, 12.8291), a test facility for bomb-proof houses in the world capital Germania ?

museum

• Aeronautical Museum Rechlin

Economy and Infrastructure

tourism

Favored by the location on the Müritz and the southern entrance to the Müritz National Park in the Boek district, tourism in Rechlin and the surrounding area is an important branch of business. There are holiday resorts, guest houses, campsites, surf school, hotels and other tourist facilities. Many Rechliners rent out holiday apartments in their houses or boathouses.

Rechlin can be reached from several directions by houseboats and leisure boats. Bicycle paths through the nature park are well maintained and well signposted.

Regular buses (with bicycle transport trailers) connect with numerous stops in the nature park and its north entrance.

The migration of wild geese and cranes attracts a particularly large number of naturalists in autumn.

Established businesses

The town's largest employers are in the Rechlin Nord district: a film manufacturer, a Bundeswehr depot and, as the municipality's largest private employer, a charter company with an attached shipyard . In the industrial area in the south of Rechlin, companies have settled that are mainly active in the marine technology sector.

VEB Schiffswerft Rechlin (in the shipbuilding combine ) manufactured sports boats and lifeboats during the GDR era . As part of consumer goods production in the GDR , Nagetusch caravans were also manufactured under license in the 1960s . After the unsuccessful privatization of the company after the fall of the Wall , the site was auctioned. Many of the old production halls were then torn down and contaminated sites disposed of. Since 1998 the holiday complex "Hafendorf Müritz" has been built. In April 2010 99 holiday homes were available, and more are under construction.

Part of the shipyard site will continue to be used for shipbuilding. Houseboats are built here. Around 90 new jobs have now been created here.

traffic

Via the federal highway 198 , Rechlin is connected to the federal autobahn 19 ( Berlin - Rostock ) as well as the nearby towns of Neustrelitz and Mirow . Röbel / Müritz and Waren (Müritz) can be reached via state roads . The regional airport and two yacht harbors ( marinas ) complete Rechlin's well-developed infrastructure. Rechlin is located at the connection between Müritz-Elde-Wasserstraße and Müritz-Havel-Wasserstraße and can be reached by water from Hamburg as well as from Berlin and the southern Baltic Sea (Stettiner Haff).

Local public transport is operated by the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Transport Company. There is a bus connection via Röbel / Müritz and Waren (Müritz) to Neubrandenburg ( datBus ), as well as u. a. after Mirow . There are also several lines that serve the villages in the surrounding area in the morning and early afternoon. From the "Hafendorf Rechlin", a tourist bus line runs to the Müritz National Park in summer . Every bus on this line has a trailer for free bicycle transport .

The Müritz Airpark with two runways (2.3 and 1.8 km) in Lärz , in the south of the municipality, has been converted into a civilian airfield . The popular Fusion Festival is held on the site every year .

Personalities

• Wilhelm Joachim von Hammerstein (1838–1904), politician of the German Conservative Party , editor-in-chief of the Kreuzzeitung

literature

• Gerhild Meßner: Gutsdörfer around the Müritz. Schwerin 2008.

Web links

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

• Aeronautical Museum Rechlin

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. ↑ Regional Spatial Development Program Mecklenburg Lake District (2011) , Regional Planning Association, accessed on July 12, 2015
3. ↑ Nadine Schuldt: Nothing will come of the merger of Lärz, Rechlin and Schwarz. In: Nordkurier. November 11, 2018, accessed December 31, 2018 . 
4. ↑ See Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 4: Flossenbürg, Mauthausen, Ravensbrück. CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-52964-X , pp. 592-593.
5. ↑ Message from the Office Röbel (PDF; 927 kB)
6. ↑ Hans-Heinz Schütt: On shield and flag production office TINUS, Schwerin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814380-0-0 , p. 321/322.
7. ↑ ^{a b} main statute § 1 (PDF).
8. ↑ MVVG bus connections