Rossow (Wittstock / Dosse)

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Rossow
Coordinates: 53 ° 2 ′ 51 ″  N , 12 ° 33 ′ 54 ″  E
Height : 56 m above sea level NN
Area : 29.95 km²
Incorporation : October 26, 2003
Postal code : 16909
Rossow (Brandenburg)
Rossow

Location of Rossow in Brandenburg

Rossow was a municipality in the former Wittstock-Land office and is now part of the town of Wittstock / Dosse in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district in northern Brandenburg . The place is on the Dosse river east of the Wittstock-Ruppiner Heide .

history

Map of Mecklenburg
(1866 to 1934)

Around 1490 Rossow belonged to the Ruppin rule . However, the manorial rule was exercised by the dukes of Mecklenburg . Until 1937 the place was like Schönberg a Mecklenburg exclave and belonged to the office and later district Waren / Müritz. The place passed to Prussia in 1937.

During the Reichspogromnacht on November 9, 1938 , a house was set on fire in Rossow by the SA . When the local pastor Aurel von Jüchen wanted to put out the fire, the Nazi authorities persecuted him, but also a church disciplinary procedure. In this dispute, however, von Jüchen was supported by a large part of the residents.

Rossow stayed with Brandenburg after the Second World War and came to the Potsdam district in 1952 .

On October 26, 2003, Rossow was incorporated into Wittstock.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003

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