Reetzow

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Reetzow
Benz municipality
Coordinates: 53 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  N , 14 ° 5 ′ 45 ″  E
Height : 3 m above sea level NHN
Incorporation : 4th September 1973
Postal code : 17429
Area code : 038379
Reetzow (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
Reetzow

Location of Reetzow in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Reetzow is a district of the municipality of Benz on the island of Usedom .

Geography and traffic

Reetzow is located in the Usedomer Achterland in the northern part of the Thurbruch , an approximately 16 square kilometer fen area. To the east lies the Gothensee, which is around 5.5 square kilometers in size . About one kilometer west of the village is the approx. 58 meter high Kückelsberg with a viewing tower from which the Thurbruch can be seen. The closest places are Sellin in the north, Alt-Sallenthin in the northeast, accessible via the K 39 district road, the Benz district Labömitz in the southwest, also located on the K 39, and Benz in the northwest.

There is no direct connection to the rail network. The nearest stop of the Usedomer Bäderbahn is Bansin Seebad ( Züssow – Wolgaster Fähre – Swinemünde line ).

history

To the north of Reetzow there are two prehistoric discovery areas that are part of the local area. There are barrows, grooved stones and stone settings that date from the Bronze Age (1800 to 600 BCE). The island settlement on the west bank of the Gothensee is from the late Slavic period.

Reetzow was first mentioned as "Redessowe" in two supposedly dating from the 1238 certificates, with the Duke Barnim I the Monastery Grobe the village Labömitz to have given. The documents were later recognized as forgeries. This was followed by mentions in alleged but also bogus documents from the years 1239 and 1247.

In many cases the monastery forged documents, including their ducal confirmations, in order to obtain estates or justice, as in this case the "blood spell" (at 356). The documents were modeled on the real ones (e.g. from 1267), often with the same witnesses and different details, which later struck the scientists.

Probably only the document from 1267, in which Duke Barnim I confirms the possessions of the Grobe monastery, is to be considered the first mention of the place, it contains the place name "Redessow". The Slavic name is interpreted as "fat soil".

Towards the end of the Thirty Years' War , the place was destroyed by Swedish mercenaries, many residents were murdered. Hunger and plague did the rest. Two thirds of the Pomeranian population were dead.

Reetzow was around 1835 (according to PUM) a long oval rural village with the function of a farming and fishing village. A rare cross-deck barn with a stable part also comes from the time before, it is covered with reeds. The green is still there, but the shape of the village has changed into an elongated street green village.

On September 4, 1973 Reetzow was incorporated into Benz.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Conrad (arrangement): Pommersches Urkundenbuch . Volume 1. 2nd edition (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series 2, Vol. 1). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Vienna 1970, No. 356 u. 357
  2. ^ Klaus Conrad (arrangement): Pommersches Urkundenbuch . Volume 1. 2nd edition (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series 2, Vol. 1). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Vienna 1970, No. 365.
  3. ^ Klaus Conrad (arrangement): Pommersches Urkundenbuch . Volume 1. 2nd edition (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series 2, Vol. 1). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Vienna 1970, No. 453.
  4. ↑ Manfred Niemeyer: Ostvorpommern I . Collection of sources and literature on place names. Vol. 1: Usedom. (= Greifswald contributions to toponymy. Vol. 1), Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, Institute for Slavic Studies, Greifswald 2001, ISBN 3-86006-149-6 . P. 49 ff

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