Rothemühl

coat of arms	Germany map
Help on coat of arms	Coordinates: 53 ° 35 '  N , 13 ° 49'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Vorpommern-Greifswald
Office :	Torgelow-Ferdinandshof
Height :	25 m above sea level NHN
Area :	30.49 km 2
Residents:	304 (December 31, 2019)
Population density :	10 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17379
Area code :	039772
License plate :	VG, ANK, GW, PW, SBG, UEM, WLG
Community key :	13 0 75 118
Office administration address:	Bahnhofstrasse 2 17358 Torgelow
Website :	www.rothemühl.de
Mayor :	Solveig Voltz
Location of the community of Rothemühl in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district

Rothemühl is a municipality in the district of Western Pomerania-Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It is administered by the Torgelow-Ferdinandshof office based in the city of Torgelow .

geography

Entrance

Rothemühl is located 13 kilometers southwest of Torgelow on the southwest edge of the Ueckermünder Heide and south of the Friedländer Große Wiese in flat terrain. Immediately to the south of the community rises the chain of terminal moraines of the Brohmer Mountains , which here with the Schanzenberg reach a height of up to 125  m above sea level. NN reached.

Rothemühl is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Wilhelmsburg in the north, Jatznick in the east and south, Strasburg (Uckermark) in the south-west and Heinrichswalde in the north-west.

In addition to the main town of Rothemühl, the community also includes the residential areas Expansion and Nettelgrund . The neighboring towns are Mühlenhof in the north, Eichhof and Herrnkamp in the northeast, Jatznick , Expansion and Nettelgrund in the southeast, Burgwall , Klepelshagen and Neuensund in the southeast, Gehren in the west and Heinrichswalde in the northwest.

history

In 1454 there was a customs post on the border with the Uckermark at "Roden Born" and a rest stop. The first mention of the village "Roden Born" (Rothemühl) can be found in 1507 in the files of the town of Torgelow with eight half-farmers and a restaurant (at that time still without a mill). In 1575 the customs station was closed and the service station was also given up. After 1580 the watermill at Roden Born was built under Duke Ernst Ludwig .

On February 27, 1627, Swedish troops passed the mill in the Thirty Years' War and stocked up on supplies. In 1630 the mill was abandoned because of its defenseless location, a year later a document proves that the mill was completely destroyed and that the construction costs were too high to be rebuilt. With the Treaty of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, Rothemühl came under Swedish sovereignty.

In 1690 a tar furnace was built. During the Swedish survey of Western Pomerania in 1693, the Rothemühl (also Karrenberg ) rampart was recorded. By 1700, one was Vorwerk in the area of the destroyed mill built. In 1715 the Swedish rule over Pomerania ended and Rothemühl came under Prussian rule.

The first schoolmaster of Rothemühl in 1746 was Samuel Koch. At that time the place was still without a school building, a classroom was set up in a private house. In 1748 the head forester's office in Rothemühl was established, which was responsible for the Rothemühl, Nettelgrund, Grünhof and Burgwall districts.

In 1758 glassworks were built in Rothemühl, which were closed again in 1767, instead wool spinning colonies were founded. In 1787 there was a fire in the Rothemühler Krug. After long negotiations, a school house and an adjacent house were built in 1802 at royal expense. In 1811 the tar furnace was closed. After the tar production ended, woodworking trades in particular remained in the community. Four colonist buildings were destroyed in a fire on November 7, 1815, affecting 33 families.

Around 1850 a new windmill was built on the Mühlenberg southwest of the village, which burned down completely in 1904.

On July 1, 1950, the Heinrichswalde community was incorporated and on January 1, 1957, it became an independent community again.

politics

Community representation

When the municipal council was elected in 2014, the "Uecker-Randow Civic Alliance" was the only electoral association and thus achieved 100% of the votes cast. In 2019 the "Citizens' Alliance with Competence for Western Pomerania" (formerly Uecker-Randow) competed against 5 individual candidates. 66.39%, thus 4 seats in the community council and the seat of the mayor, was given to the citizens' alliance. Two seats went to individual candidates, one of which was not accepted. This seat will now remain vacant until the next local election.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In silver over a green shield base, inside two crossed golden axes with silver handles, a red Dutch windmill, accompanied on both sides by a three-leaved green oak branch with a red acorn."

flag

The municipality does not have an officially approved flag .

Official seal

The official seal shows the municipal coat of arms with the inscription "GEMEINDE ROTHEMÜHL * LANDKREIS VORPOMMERN-GREIFSWALD".

Transport links

Rothemühl is eight kilometers from the federal highway 109 ( Berlin - Greifswald ) and the Berlin - Stralsund railway line . About 15 kilometers south there is a connection to the federal highway 20 (Baltic Sea highway ).

Attractions

• Rothemühl castle wall , Slavic castle wall, settled in the 7th to 9th centuries
• Rothemühl church , brick building from the 19th century

See also : List of architectural monuments in Rothemühl

Personalities

• Otto Bruchwitz (1877–1956), German educator and local researcher

Web links

Commons : Rothemühl  - Collection of Images

Wikisource: The underground water at Rothemühle  - sources and full texts

• Rothemühl in the genealogical directory
• The community of Rothemühl in the Pommern information system

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. ↑ ^{a b c} Geodata Viewer of the Office for Geoinformation, Surveying and Cadastre of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ( information )
3. ↑ Main Statute, Section 1, Paragraph 2 (PDF)
4. ↑ ^{a b} main statute § 1 (PDF).