Rehna

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Rehna
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Coordinates: 53 ° 47 '  N , 11 ° 3'  E

Basic data
State : Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County : Northwest Mecklenburg
Office : Rehna
Height : 24 m above sea level NHN
Area : 44.3 km 2
Residents: 3573 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 81 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 19217
Area code : 038872
License plate : NWM, GDB, GVM, WIS
Community key : 13 0 74 065

City administration address : 		Freiheitsplatz 1
19217 Rehna
Website : www.stadtrehna.de
Mayor : Hans Jochen Oldenburg
Location of the city of Rehna in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg
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Rehna is a country town in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). It is the administrative seat of the office of the same name , to which ten other communities belong besides Rehna. The place is a basic center .

geography

Geographical location

The town of Rehna, located in the heart of the district, is about 25 kilometers away from Lübeck , Schwerin and the Baltic Sea coast . It lies on both sides of the Radegast river - the old town with the former nunnery on the left bank. The area around Rehna is quite hilly, near the northeastern district of Othenstorf it is 83 m above sea level. Reached NHN .

The city of Rehna is part of the Hamburg metropolitan region .

City structure

The following districts belong to the city of Rehna:

  • Brützkow
  • Falkenhagen
  • Gletzow
  • Loewitz
  • Nesow
  • Nesow village
  • New Vitense
  • Othenstorf
  • Parber

history

12th century to date

Rehna Monastery

Rehna was founded in the middle of the 12th century by settlers from the Hessian Rhena . The first church in Rehna is mentioned as early as 1230 in the Ratzeburg tithe register , which lists the localities that belonged to the diocese of Ratzeburg at that time according to parishes . On December 26th, 1237 the Ratzeburg bishop Ludolf I solemnly confirmed the new Rehna monastery . Rehna, however, never belonged to the bishopric or later to the principality of Ratzeburg ( Mecklenburg-Strelitz ). Rather, it was a country town in Mecklenburg and until 1918 represented as part of the towns of the Mecklenburg district on state parliaments.

The district of Löwitz was first mentioned around 1230 under the names Lovetse and Lowitze , the remains of Lovetze Castle are still in the manor park.

At least 20 people (18 women, 2 men) got into witch trials in 1595–1684, of which eleven were probably executed. In 1668 Ilse Klink, the widow of the former mayor Hinrich Klink, was burned. She was only forced to give a confession after being tortured several times. When she revoked her confession, she was subjected to the torture again.

After the introduction of the Reformation and the dissolution of the monastery, Rehna became the personal treasure of the widows and unsupervised daughters of the Mecklenburg dukes and the seat of a bailiff . 1734–1768 the Rehna office was in the possession of the Electorate of Hanover . In 1791 the place received city ​​rights .

From 1952 to 1994 Rehna belonged to the Gadebusch district (until 1990 in the GDR district of Schwerin , 1990–1994 in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). Since the district reform of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 1994 , the city has been in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg .

The city center and the monastery building were redeveloped as part of urban development funding in the period from 1991 to 2005, with around nine million euros in funding being approved. The redevelopment of the city has now largely been completed.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1950, Othenstorf was incorporated into Brützkow and Falkenhagen to Löwitz; Brützkow was again incorporated into Rehna on July 1, 1973. Since June 13, 2004 the place belongs to Rehna. On May 25, 2014 Nesow and Vitense were incorporated into the city.

Population development

year Residents
1990 2714
1995 2602
2000 2794
2005 3084
2010 2984
year Residents
2015 3507
2016 3492
2017 3497
2018 3510
2019 3573

Status: December 31 of the respective year

The strong increase in the number of inhabitants in 2005 is due to the incorporation of Brützkow in 2004, the considerable population growth in 2015 is due to the incorporation of Nesow and Vitense in 2014.

politics

City council

The town council of Rehna consists of 14 members and the mayor. The local elections on May 26, 2019 had the following result:

Party / community of voters Seats 2014 Seats 2019
Alternative voter community Rehna (AWG) 6th 6th
Citizens for Rehna 3 3
Free community of Rehna - 2
CDU 2 1
Vitense independent voter community 1 1
Löwitz community of voters 1 1
SPD 1 -
Individual applicant Alfred Böttcher 1 -
Active citizens for Nesow 1 -
All in all 16 14th

mayor

  • since 2009: Hans Jochen Oldenburg

Oldenburg was elected in the mayoral election on May 26, 2019 with 98.7% of the valid votes for a further term of five years.

coat of arms

Coat of arms in the GDR
Coat of arms of the city of Rehna
 Blazon : "In gold, a gold-crowned black bull's head looking forward with a torn red mouth, silver teeth, a knocked-out red tongue, seven-pointed neck fur and silver horns."

The coat of arms was established on April 10, 1858 by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, redrawn in 1997 by Michael Zapfe from Weimar as part of the flag approval and registered under the number 125 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms is based on seal images from the 17th and 18th centuries and on a coat of arms from 1792 that was once installed in the Rehna church. It shows the bull's head as the small sovereign symbol of the Mecklenburg ruling house and thus reminds of the fact that the place belonged to the rulership, from 1348 to the Duchy of Mecklenburg and the later city to the Duchy, from 1815 the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
Historical coat of arms
Coat of arms of the city of Rehna 1940–1945
 Blazon : "A continuous silver rune of life in red."

The coat of arms was designed by Hans Herbert Schweitzer . It was awarded on September 14, 1940 by the Reichsstatthalter in Mecklenburg.

Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms lost its validity soon after the end of World War II.

flag

The flag is evenly striped lengthways in yellow and black. In the middle of the flag is the city coat of arms, two thirds of the height of the yellow and black stripes. The length of the flag is related to the height as 5: 3.

Official seal

The official seal shows the city coat of arms with the inscription "STADT REHNA • LANDKREIS NORDWESTMECKLENBURG".

Attractions

German house

Buildings

The German House is one of the oldest houses in the monastery town of Rehna. Even if the house can only guess at its original size today, the origin can be recognized on closer inspection. The distance between the containers is 1.8 to 2 meters and still indicates a roof covering made of straw. The approximately four meter high ground floor takes up the large hall in the rear area.
The house is a hostel for the martens man . This custom is first mentioned in 1520. Every year on Martin's Day the Mecklenburg princes are sent a ton (barrel) of wine so that they can get along.
Today the German House is used as the town's club house and houses the Rehna town library.
Löwitz manor around 1870
  • Loewitz manor house
The manor house, built in the neo-Gothic style in 1856 , was the first manor house by the 28-year-old Schwerin architect Georg Daniel . At that time he had not yet passed his second building examination, but needed money for his first study trip to Vienna . Daniel designed a plastered building in Tudor Gothic forms and enhanced the two-storey manor house, especially with towers, crenellated wreaths and balconies and with ornamentation based on Schinkel's buildings, such as Babelsberg Castle .
The Löwitz estate was u. a. owned by the von Bülow families (from the Middle Ages), von Pentz (from 1803), Joachim Heinerich Koch and Erben (1855 to 1919), von Soden and von Forstner (until 1945).
After 1945, the manor house housed a kindergarten, later a dormitory for apprentices, from 1972 the LPG's kitchen and a culture and meeting room. It fell victim to vandalism after the fall of the Wall and fell into disrepair. After a change of ownership, renovation is to take place from 2020

Monuments

  • Great stone grave Nesow , megalithic grave complex
  • Eight graves of forced laborers for four Polish women and four men, all known by name, who were victims of forced labor, are in the cemetery. Initially it was wooden crosses, but since 1986 memorial stones have been commemorating these victims among the 3,000 to 4,000 men and women, mostly from Poland, who had to do forced labor on property and with traders in the administrative area of ​​Rehna during the Second World War .
  • Memorial for the anti-fascist resistance in the cemetery from 1949, reminds u. a. To the communist city ​​councilor Friedrich Dreyer, who was one of the victims of the April 1945 death march . An information board for the murdered communist hangs in Friedrich-Dreyer-Strasse.

Economy and Infrastructure

Local businesses

Awek Protech GmbH, based in the Am Kajatz industrial park, produces cable assemblies and system technology for automation technology as well as components for robot technology. The company has been based there since 1990 and is one of the largest employers in the region.

traffic

Rehna station

Rehna is on the B 104 federal road between Lübeck and Schwerin . The Schönberg junction on the A 20 motorway is around eight kilometers away.

Rehna station is on the Schwerin – Rehna railway line and is served by the regional train line RB 13 (Rehna – Schwerin - Parchim ). Plans to extend the railway line beyond Rehna to Schönberg on the Lübeck – Bad Kleinen railway line were pursued until the 1940s, but were never realized except for a few bridges.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities associated with Rehna

literature

  • Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume II: The district court districts of Wismar, Grevesmühlen, Rehna, Gadebusch and Schwerin. Schwerin 1898, reprint Schwerin 1992, p. 423 ff., ISBN 3-910179-06-1 .

Web links

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

swell

  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 West Mecklenburg (2011) , Regional Planning Association, accessed on July 12, 2015
  3. ^ Main statute of the city of Rehna
  4. ^ Verena Friedrich: The former monastery church of St. Maria and Elisabeth in Rehna , Passau; P. 2
  5. ↑ Sönke Lorenz : The sources, The witch trials in the Rostocker Spruchakten from 1570 to 1630 , Frankfurt am Main 1983
  6. ↑ Katrin Moeller: That arbitrariness would go over right, witch persecution in Mecklenburg in the 16th and 17th centuries (Hexenforschung Volume 10), Bielefeld 2007, pp. 112, 114, 296, 452, 453.
  7. ↑ a b Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
  8. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2004
  9. ↑ Statistical Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Area changes in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania January 18 to March 15, 2014
  10. ↑ Population development of the districts and municipalities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Statistical Report AI of the Statistical Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
  11. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
  12. ↑ Mayor receives badge of honor. In: Schweriner Volkszeitung , January 10, 2016.
  13. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019
  14. ↑ a b 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. 175/176 .
  15. ↑ a b main statute § 1 (PDF).
  16. ^ Horst Ende : Georg Daniel as an architect and preservationist in Mecklenburg. Lecture on February 11, 2004 on the occasion of Georg Daniel's 175th birthday at the State Office for Monument Preservation in Schwerin.
  17. ^ Gutshaus Löwitz near Gadebusch on gutshaeuser.de
  18. ^ SVZ: Manor "Schloss Löwitz" is in new hands
  19. ↑ Katrin Moeller: That arbitrariness would go over right, witch persecution in Mecklenburg in the 16th and 17th centuries (Hexenforschung Volume 10), Bielefeld 2007, pp. 112, 114, 296, 452, 453.