Stavenhagen

This article covers the small town. For further meanings see Stavenhagen (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 42 '  N , 12 ° 54'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Mecklenburg Lake District
Office :	Stavenhagen
Height :	43 m above sea level NHN
Area :	40.84 km 2
Residents:	5723 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	140 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17153
Area code :	039954
License plate :	MSE, AT, DM, MC, MST, MÜR, NZ, RM, WRN
Community key :	13 0 71 142
City administration address :	Castle 1 17153 Stavenhagen
Website :	www.stavenhagen.de
Mayor :	Stefan Guzu (independent)
Location of the city of Stavenhagen in the Mecklenburg Lake District

Stavenhagen is a small town in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The Mecklenburg city ​​is the official seat of the Stavenhagen Office and has had the name Reuterstadt in front of its name since July 12, 1949 . The place is a basic center for its surroundings .

geography

Geographical location

Stavenhagen is located northwest of Neubrandenburg , north of Neustrelitz and northeast of Waren .

City structure

The following districts belong to Stavenhagen:

Basepohl Basepohl Am See Klockow Kölpin	New courtyard Pribbenow Wüstgrabow

climate

An average of 565 mm of precipitation falls (average for the years 2001–2012). In 2009, Stavenhagen was the driest place in Germany according to the weather report of the German Meteorological Service with a rainfall of 442 mm per year.

history

Stavenhagen Castle, park side

Stavenhagen Castle, portal side with tower

13th to 19th centuries

Stavenhagen was first mentioned in a document in 1230 as Stovenhage . Just 34 years later, the settlement received city ​​rights . From the confirmation document of May 29, 1282 from Duke Bogislaw IV. It can be seen that Stavenhagen the town charter, whose document has not been handed down, jointly by the Dukes Barnim I and Wartislaw III. had received. In the 13th century Stavenhagen was the capital of a country of the same name (terra) under the rule of the Dukes of Pomerania . This came in 1282 first as a pledge, then finally to the Lords of Werle in 1317 . After their extinction in 1436, Stavenhagen became a state town in Mecklenburg and as such was one of the towns in the Wendish district that were represented in the Mecklenburg state parliaments of the 1523 state estates until 1918 . Towards the end of the Thirty Years War , the city was destroyed in 1648. The major fires of 1727 and 1746 also destroyed large parts of the city. Today's castle was built around 1740 on the foundation walls of earlier castles.

Jews had lived in the village since the middle of the 18th century and established the Stavenhagen Jewish cemetery in 1764 , which was devastated by the Nazis during the November pogrom in 1938 and leveled in 1943. Since 1880 there was also a synagogue , also desecrated and set on fire in 1938, later used as a carpentry shop.

The town church was rebuilt between 1774 and 1790 and the town hall was built between 1783 and 1788. During the term of office of Mayor Georg Johann Jakob Reuter from 1808 to 1845 there was the first economic upswing through the introduction of new agricultural crops, stable feeding and the establishment of Mecklenburg's first lager brewery.

In 1810 Fritz Reuter , the son of the mayor, was born in the town , who became known as one of the most important writers and poets of Low German literature. He described the city several times, especially in My Father's City Stavenhagen (1861).

Founded in 1866, the Katharinenstift is now a diaconal institution.

In 1864 Stavenhagen got a connection to the railway network. The Demmin – Stavenhagen – Bredenfelde small railway, which went into operation in 1913 , was dismantled in 1945 as a reparation payment . In the founding years during the term of office of Mayor Fritz Schultetus from 1879 to 1905, industrial development began in Stavenhagen. A sugar factory, a dairy, a slaughterhouse, a steam mill , a sawmill, a brick factory, an electricity plant, a fire station and a hospital were built.

Recent history

In order to support the defense against the Kapp Putsch , on March 16, 1920, Stavenhagen farm workers joined the general strike called on March 13 with work stoppages. As a result of the collapse of the right-wing coup on March 17, the government tried to regain control of the ongoing strikes by deploying the Reichswehr. On March 19, 1920, the Demmin Reichswehr moved into Stavenhagen under the leadership of Lieutenant Meinecke (Jarmen battalion). The otherwise calm urban population was gathered in the city center. Since the order to clear the road could not be given immediately, the crowd was shot. To mediate, the 60-year-old city councilor August Seidel took to the street with his hands up and was shot immediately after a few words. The legal proceedings against Meinecke were dropped for alleged self-defense. Today a tomb in the cemetery commemorates the city council.

In 1928 the city received a central water supply , and in 1932 the Catholic Church of St. Paul was consecrated.

From 1952 to 1994 Stavenhagen belonged to the Malchin district (until 1990 in the GDR district of Neubrandenburg , then in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania). In 1994 the city was incorporated into the Demmin district. Since the district reform in 2011 , the city has been in the Mecklenburg Lake District .

The Fritz Reuter Literature Museum was established in 1960 in the old Stavenhagen town hall on the market. In 1972 the most important private commercial enterprise in what was then the Neubrandenburg district, Koffer KG Hermelink, was forcibly nationalized as one of the last well-known companies and their owners were driven out of the country. In 1974 a location for a helicopter squadron of the National People's Army was built in the Basepohl district .

After the political change, the historic city center was fundamentally renovated from 1991 onwards as part of the urban development funding; the cityscape with the castle has improved significantly as a result.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent communities of Kölpin, Neubauhof and Stavenhof were incorporated. Basepohl, Klockow and Pribbenow joined them on January 1, 1951.

Population development

year Residents 1990 8907 1995 8329 2000 7104 2005 6400 2010 5857

year Residents 2015 5586 2016 6127 2017 5766 2018 5741 2019 5723

Status: December 31 of the respective year

politics

City council

Former town hall of Stavenhagen with Fritz Reuter monument, today as Fritz Reuter literature museum dedicated to the poet

The city ​​council of Stavenhagen consists of 17 members and the mayor. Since the local elections on May 26, 2019, it has been composed as follows:

Party / list	Seats
CDU	5
The left	5
Independent parliamentary group Stavenhagen	4th
Reuterstädter Bürgergemeinschaft	2
SPD	1

mayor

• 1985–2019: Bernd Mahnke
• since 2020: Stefan Guzu (independent)

Mahnke was mayor for 34 years and thus the longest-serving full-time mayor in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. At first he was a member of the SED ; After leaving in 1990, he continued to hold office for several months as a non-party member, joining the CDU in 1991, from which he left again in 2009.

Guzu was elected in the mayoral election on November 17, 2019 with 69.6 percent of the valid votes.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In gold, a looking, gold-crowned black bull's head with a closed mouth, a knocked-out red tongue and silver horns." The coat of arms was drawn by Carl Teske in 1884, established on April 10, 1858 by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and registered under number 13 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Justification of the coat of arms: The oldest town seal of Stavenhagen - first handed down as an imprint in 1353 - shows a triangular shield with an upright griffin, the coat of arms of the dukes of Pomerania. More recent city seals contain a bull's head as a small sovereign symbol of the Mecklenburg ruling house. When designing the coat of arms in 1857, Friedrich Lisch opted for the Werleschen bull's head and had a coat of arms that was completely identical to the Krakow city coat of arms created and specified, disregarding the principle of exclusivity. The coat of arms, with the bull's head typical of the Werler line of the Mecklenburg dynasty, reminds of the lords of Werle and the princes of Wenden as city lords of Stavenhagen from the end of the 13th century and from 1317 to 1436.

Historical coat of arms

	Blazon : "In gold, an upright black griffin." The coat of arms was designed by Hans Herbert Schweitzer . It was awarded on September 30, 1939 by the Reich Governor in Mecklenburg.
	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms is based on the oldest town seal of Stavenhagen - handed down by an imprint from 1353 - which shows a triangular shield with an upright griffin. The coat of arms lost its validity soon after the end of World War II.

flag

The city does not have an officially approved flag .

Official seal

The official seal shows the city coat of arms with the inscription "REUTERSTADT STAVENHAGEN".

Town twinning

• Preetz (Schleswig-Holstein) since July 7, 1990
• Werdohl in the Sauerland (North Rhine-Westphalia) since August 10, 1990
• Šilalė in Lithuania since November 2, 1994

Attractions

City Church

See also the list of architectural monuments in Stavenhagen

• Former town hall, birthplace of Fritz Reuter , serves as the Fritz Reuter literature museum . In front of it stands the Fritz Reuter memorial created by Wilhelm Wandschneider in 1911 .
• Stavenhagen Castle, plastered building from around 1740, to which a round stair tower was added around 1890. The facility was a school until the 1970s and is now the administrative seat and registry office of Stavenhagen.
• City church , built in 1782, contains furnishings from various eras, in addition to an altar and gallery from the time it was built, a pulpit from around 1600 and the Lütkemüller organ from 1861 with an older organ front
• Former synagogue , survived the Nazi era, but was in ruins for decades. A comprehensive renovation was carried out from 2013 to 2017. It is now used for an exhibition on the history of the Jewish community in Stavenhagen and is used for concerts, readings and other events.
• Oak near Klockow with a chest height circumference of 7.56 m (2016).

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

In the GDR , the VEB Dauermilchwerk Immergut, potato processing plant and case factory were located in Stavenhagen . After the fall of the Wall , Stavenhagen was able to record an astonishing takeover, expansion and settlement of companies for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In two commercial areas there are mainly food industry companies such as Pfanni GmbH & Co. OHG, Pommernland Fleisch- und Wurstwaren GmbH, Immergut Dauermilch GmbH and Tutower Senf GmbH, as well as the forwarding industry, for example KP Logistik GmbH and Dachser GmbH & Co. KG. The Netto supermarket OHG has its central warehouse in Stavenhagen.

Due to the trade tax revenue, the city has been debt-free since 2005. This brings a number of comforts for families, such as a so-called welcome allowance for newborns, which has been paid since 2007, and allowances for kindergarten and school meals. As a side effect, it is hoped to be able to counteract the declining population development.

traffic

Stavenhagen station

In Stavenhagen the federal highways B 104 ( Teterow - Neubrandenburg ) and B 194 ( Waren - Stralsund ) cross. The closest motorway junction is Altentreptow on the A 20 ( Rostock - Kreuz Uckermark ) approx. 30 km away.

The station Stavenhagen on the northern outskirts is located on the railway line Bützow-Szczecin . It is served by the regional express line RE 4 ( Lübeck - Stettin ).

Connections to the surrounding villages exist with the regional bus lines of the MVVG . The central bus station is located on Reuterplatz in the city center .

education

• Fritz Reuter Primary School, Goethestrasse 14
• Reuterstädter Comprehensive School, Straße am Wasserturm 1

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Fritz Reuter (1810–1874), writer
• August Drechsler (1821–1897), judge and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
• Bernhard Caspar (1844–1918), banker and consul general
• Hartwig von Bülow (1871–1939), major general in the Reichswehr
• Max Michels (1874–1925), writer
• Manfred Brümmer (* 1947), actor, dramaturge and author
• Bert Papenfuß-Gorek (* 1956), poet
• Anke Behmer (* 1961), athlete
• Ralf Bartels (* 1978), shot putter and honorary citizen of the city of Stavenhagen

Personalities who worked in Stavenhagen

• Georg Johann Reuter (1776–1845), mayor and city judge
• Ernst Lübbert (1879–1915), painter, lived in Stavenhagen in his youth
• Arnold Hückstädt (* 1935), director of the Fritz Reuter Literature Museum
• Cornelia Nenz (* 1950), director of the Fritz Reuter Literature Museum

Web links

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

• Literature about Stavenhagen in the state bibliography MV
• stavenhagen.de
• Places in MV: Stavenhagen ( Memento from September 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

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. ↑ Main statutes of Reuterstadt Stavenhagen § 1 (PDF; 39 kB)
4. ↑ Stavenhagen climate diagram at de.climate-data.org, accessed on March 20, 2017
5. ↑ Mechthild Henneke: Weather extremes in Germany 2009 . In: Südkurier from April 28, 2010
6. ↑ Dietmar Lucht: The urban policy of Duke Barnims I of Pomerania 1220-1278 . Publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania, Series V: Research on Pomeranian History, Vol. 10. Cologne / Graz 1965, p. 62.
7. ↑ Hempe, Mechthild: Rural society in crisis. Mecklenburg in the Weimar Republic, pp. 79/80.
8. ↑ Gümbel: Four years of political murder, p. 54., under: https://archive.org/stream/vierjahrepolitis00gumb/vierjahrepolitis00gumb_djvu.txt
9. ↑ Population development of the districts and municipalities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Statistical Report AI of the Statistical Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
10. ↑ Stavenhagen: Guzu elected mayor. on www.ndr.de
11. ↑ Frank Pergande: Stavenhagen: Back to party independence . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 11, 2009. Accessed August 20, 2017. 
12. ↑ Stefan Guzu becomes the new mayor of Stavenhagen. In: Nordkurier , November 17, 2019
13. ↑ ^{a b} Hans-Heinz Schütt: On shield and flag production office TINUS, Schwerin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814380-0-0 , p. 289/290.
14. ↑ ^{a b} main statute § 1 (PDF).
15. ↑ Monument of the Month December 2013 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Old Synagogue Stavenhagen, Kulturwerte MV, accessed on June 30, 2015 
16. ↑ Old synagogue in Stavenhagen saved ( memento from May 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on ndr.de on October 16, 2015
17. ↑ Old Synagogue Stavenhagen. Retrieved January 28, 2018 . 
18. ^ Entry in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017
19. ↑ Article in the Hamburger Abendblatt from December 16, 2006