Schoenberg (Mecklenburg)

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Coat of arms of the city of Schönberg
Schoenberg (Mecklenburg)
Map of Germany, position of the city of Schönberg highlighted

Coordinates: 53 ° 51 '  N , 10 ° 56'  E

Basic data
State : Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County : Northwest Mecklenburg
Office : Schönberger Land
Height : 7 m above sea level NHN
Area : 52 km 2
Residents: 4730 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 91 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 23923
Area code : 038828
License plate : NWM, GDB, GVM, WIS
Community key : 13 0 74 074
City structure: 10 districts

City administration address : 		Am Markt 15
23923 Schönberg
Website : stadt-schoenberg.de
Mayor : Stephan Korn
Location of the city of Schönberg in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg
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Schönberg is a town in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). It is the administrative seat of the office of Schönberger Land , to which, in addition to the cities of Schönberg and Dassow, six other communities belong. Schönberg is a basic center for its surroundings. The city historically was the capital of about Mecklenburg-Strelitz associated Principality Ratzeburg .

geography

Oberteich
View over the Oberteich to the St. Laurentius Church

Geographical location

Schönberg is located about 15 kilometers east of Lübeck on the Maurine River . The hilly area east and west of the Maurin Valley reaches heights of up to 83 m above sea level. NHN ( Bockholzberg ). Standing waters in the local area are the Oberteich , located in the city, with a size of eleven hectares, the Rupensdorfer ponds and the reed pond.

The municipality is part of the Hamburg metropolitan region and is located in the catchment area of ​​the city of Lübeck .

City structure

Until 1937 Schönberg consisted of three legally independent municipalities:

  • the city of Schoenberg whose territory the Ratzeburger end to the Cold dam handed
  • the municipality of the district of Schönberg around the Amtsstraße (meanwhile Straße des Friedens ) and the Lübecker Straße with the administrative buildings
  • the community building yard Schönberg , the domain building yard on Dassower Strasse , the former episcopal table estate , whose tenant was also the community leader.

The following districts belong to Schönberg today:

  • Groß Bünsdorf
  • Courtyard Lockwisch
  • Klein Bünsdorf
  • Small field
  • Bait
  • Malzow
  • Petersberg
  • Retelsdorf
  • Rupensdorf
  • Sabow

Neighboring communities

In a clockwise direction, starting in the north, the following cities and communities border on Schönberg: Dassow , Stepenitztal , Menzendorf , Roduchelstorf , Siemz-Niendorf , Lüdersdorf and Selmsdorf .

history

From the 13th century until today

Principality of Ratzeburg with the capital Schönberg, western exclave of the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Map: 1866–1934)

Schönberg was first mentioned in a document in 1219 as Sconenberge . It became the residence of the bishops of Ratzeburg at the beginning of the 14th century under Bishop Markward von Jesowe . The Bishopric of Ratzeburg, general Country Boitin called, fell after the Thirty Years' War as a Principality of Ratzeburg to Mecklenburg and was from 1701 to the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz .

The districts of Malzow (as Malsowe ) and Rupensdorf (as Rubenestorp ) were mentioned for the first time in 1194 in the Isfried partition agreement .

During the Wars of Liberation , on September 4, 1813, Schönberg was the scene of a skirmish between the retreating French troops under François Antoine Lallemand and soldiers of the Hanseatic Legion under Major Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig von Arnim-Suckow , who fell at Wesloe the following day. In the course of this, the French troops destroyed the bridge over the Maurine and set the houses on the road leading to the bridge on fire. 21 houses were destroyed.

In 1822 Schönberg received city ​​rights as the main town and administrative seat of the exclave . After the unification of the empire in 1871, Schönberg was in the economic shadow of neighboring Lübeck.

In 1934 the offices of Grevesmühlen and Schönberg were merged to form the district of Schönberg in the course of the reunification of the two Mecklenburgs , the seat of the district administration was Schönberg.

The district administration was relocated to Grevesmühlen , 20 kilometers to the east, in 1949 .

Due to its location on the inner-German border , the city was hit hard and has been slowly recovering since reunification. The old town center was thoroughly renovated from 1994 with the help of urban development funding.

In August 2018, Schönberg hit the headlines nationwide because strangers had twice painted swastikas on a spot in the village where a Syrian child had previously died in an accident.

From 1952 to 1994 Schönberg belonged to the Grevesmühlen district (until 1990 in the GDR district of Rostock , 1990–1994 in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). Since 1994 the city has been in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg .

Incorporations

On April 1, 1937, the municipality of Schönberg was incorporated into Schönberg and on April 1, 1938, the municipality of Bauhof Schönberg was incorporated into Schönberg. On July 1, 1950 the communities Groß Bünsdorf, Klein Bünsdorf, Kleinfeld and Rupensdorf and on January 1, 1951 Petersberg were incorporated. On January 1, 2019, the Lockwisch community was incorporated into the city of Schönberg. Until then, Lockwisch was administered by the office of Schönberger Land, based in the city of Schönberg.

Population development

year Residents
1990 4655
1995 4357
2000 4462
2005 4462
2010 4335
year Residents
2015 4347
2016 4398
2017 4409
2018 4751
2019 4730

Status: December 31 of the respective year

politics

Half-timbered town hall in Schönberg (Markt 15)

City council

The city council of Schönberg consists of 18 members and the mayor. The local elections on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Party / group of voters Seats
Municipal electoral community Schönberg (KWG) 8th
SPD 4th
CDU 3
The left 2
Individual applicant Rainer Jörke 1
total 18th

mayor

  • 1873–1914: Ludwig Bicker
  • 1914–1920: Karl Koch
  • 1926–1933: Karl Koch
  • 2004–2009: Michael Heinze (Die Linke)
  • 2009–2011: Lutz Götze (Die Linke)
  • 2011–2014: Michael Heinze (Die Linke)
  • 2014–2019: Lutz Götze (SPD)
  • since 2019: Stephan Korn (Schönberg Municipal Voting Association)

After the local elections in 2004, Michael Heinze ( Die Linke ) was mayor of the city. With over 72% of the votes cast, he was re-elected in the local elections on June 7, 2009. When it became known that Heinze, in addition to his previous function as commander of the border troops of the GDR, was also an unofficial employee of the Ministry for State Security until 1989 , he was removed from his office on July 14, 2009 by the city council (majority decision). The above-mentioned processes were reviewed by the state's interior ministry from August 2009. On November 12, 2009, Lutz Götze (Die Linke) was elected deputy and thus incumbent mayor. The Schwerin administrative court then ruled on June 9, 2011 that the mayoral election 2009 was valid. Heinze could therefore return to his office.

Lutz Götze (SPD) won the mayoral election on May 25, 2014 with 53.8% of the vote.

On May 26, 2019, Stephan Korn (municipal electoral community Schönberg) was elected as the new mayor for a term of five years with 63.1% of the valid votes.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the city of Schönberg
 Blazon : "In a shield divided by blue, gold and red, a red heart shield, inside a silver high cross, overlaid by a golden crown."

The coat of arms was redrawn by Michael Zapfe in 1997 in the course of the flag approval, after the coat of arms drawing by Carl Teske (1884), and registered under the number 139 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms was drawn by Carl Teske in 1884 based on the seal image of the city of Schönberg from 1822. With the heart shield, the coat of arms of the former Principality of Ratzeburg, it reminds of Schönberg's earlier affiliation to the Principality that emerged from the secularized Stiftsland of the Diocese of Ratzeburg in 1648. The tinging of the places on the main shield refers to the Mecklenburg state colors and thus to Schönberg's affiliation with Mecklenburg.
Historical coat of arms
Coat of arms of the city of Schönberg 1943–1945
 Blazon : "In red a silver Tyr rune emerging from the lower edge."

The coat of arms was designed by Hans Herbert Schweitzer . It was awarded on October 1, 1943 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 was designed by the Weimar heraldist Michael Zapfe and approved on October 22, 1997 by the Ministry of the Interior.

The flag is evenly striped lengthways of blue, yellow and red. In the middle of the yellow stripe, at a quarter of the height of the blue and red stripes, is a red shield with a floating white high cross, which is topped with a yellow princely crown becomes. The length of the flag is related to the height as 3: 2.

Official seal

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

Town twinning

Since October 7, 1990 there has been a town partnership with the nearby Ratzeburg in Schleswig-Holstein and since October 3, 2005 with the Swedish municipality of Färgelanda in Västra Götalands län .

Sights and culture

Buildings and monuments

City Church of St. Laurentius
  • Old town
  • Town hall, two-storey half-timbered gable house under a half- hip roof , built around 1800. It became the town hall in 1925 and the interior was significantly changed. The city coat of arms above the entrance was executed in 1922 using the sgraffito technique.
  • St. Laurentius Church with the historic winegrower's organ from 1847, which is almost completely preserved in its original form as the largest still existing organ of the winegrower
  • Luther memorial at St. Laurentius Church
  • Late Gothic Mordwange (atonement stone), also on the church
  • Folklore Museum , documents the cultural independence of the city in the former Principality of Ratzeburg
  • Open-air facility of the Bechelsdorf Schulzenhaus from 1525
  • Monument from 1951 in the city park 'for the victims of fascism
  • Bust of Rudolf Hartmann ( communist member of the state parliament and local poet, who was murdered in Mauthausen concentration camp in 1945 ) by the sculptor Hans-Peter Jaeger from 1985. The work of art was desecrated and damaged; it has been in the local history museum since 1990.

Regular events

  • Coat of arms of August I of Lüneburg above the altar of the St. Laurentius Church

  • Winegrower's organ from 1847

  • Former local museum

  • Market pension

  • Editorial house on the market

  • Old post

  • Gabled house market 3

  • Former Elisabeth Hospital

  • Bechelsdorfer Schulzenhof

  • Luther monument with relief by Albert Manthe (1883)

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

In addition to medium-sized companies in furniture production (Palmberg) and the IT industry as well as the manufacturer of aerosol valve technology (LINDAL Group), there are numerous smaller craft companies.

traffic

Schönberg (Meckl) train station

Schönberg is located on the federal highway 104 from Lübeck to Schwerin and on the state road L 01 between Dassow and Ratzeburg . The closest motorway junction is Schönberg on federal motorway 20 between Lübeck and Wismar .

The station Schönberg (Meckl) on the railway line Lübeck-Bad Kleinen is from the regional express -line RE 4 ( Lübeck - Stettin ) served.

Traffic on the Schönberg – Dassow railway was stopped in 1951. A direct connection to Schwerin was planned in the 1940s, but the missing link between Schönberg and Rehna was never completed, apart from some alignment work and bridge construction.

The Lübeck Airport is about 15 kilometers away.

energy

In the vicinity of the Sabow district there are two Enercon E-82 E2 wind turbines with a nominal output of 2300 kW, a hub height of 138 m and a rotor diameter of 82 m. The wind turbines completed in 2010 are the highest in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In 2019, the wind farm project developer BayWa re will build eight more wind turbines from Enercon with a total height of over 200 m as part of a repowering project.

To the northwest of the city (belonging to the municipality of Selmsdorf) is the Ihlenberg landfill (also known as Schönberg landfill ), which has been in operation since 1977 and has been treating and disposing of household and hazardous waste for many years.

education

  • Ernst-Barlach-Gymnasium with around 650 students, Realprogymnasium, which emerged from the Ratzeburg Cathedral School in 1823 , with graduates such as Werner Siemens and Ernst Barlach . The school building was built in brick in 1928/29 under building officer W. Brückner in the style of homeland security architecture.
  • Primary school at Oberteich , building from 1846
  • Special School Anne Frank (sponsor: Northwest Mecklenburg District)
  • Evangelical Primary School of Diakonia (since 2006/07)

  • Ernst-Barlach-Gymnasium

  • Primary school at Oberteich

Sports

Schönberg became known nationwide through his football club FC Schönberg 95 , which from 1999 to 2004 reached the DFB Cup main round as the state cup winner for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and only failed against renowned opponents such as Bayern Munich and Hamburger SV . In the 2019/2020 season, the team plays in the Landesliga West Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Personalities

Daughters and sons of the city

Personalities associated with Schönberg

literature

  • Gerd Baier, Horst Ende, Brigitte Oltmans, General Editor Heinrich Trost: The architectural and art monuments in the Mecklenburg coastal region with the cities of Rostock and Wismar. Henschel Verlag GmbH, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-362-00523-3

Web links

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

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 West Mecklenburg (2011) , Regional Planning Association, accessed on July 12, 2015
  3. ↑ Heidemarie Frimodig: Schoenberg in Ratzeburger country: a reader. BoD 2003 ISBN 978-3-8311-4928-5 , p. 15f
  4. ↑ § 1 of the main statute of the city of Schönberg
  5. ↑ MUB I, No. 250 [1]
  6. ↑ Christian Ludwig Enoch Zander : History of the war on the Lower Elbe in 1813: with 7 plans. Lüneburg: Herold & Wahlstab 1839 ( digitized version ), p. 195f.
  7. ↑ "How can one act so inhumanely?" Spiegel.de, August 6, 2018, accessed on August 21, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Historical key points ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 24, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nordwestmecklenburg.de
  9. ↑ Population development of the districts and municipalities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Statistical Report AI of the Statistical Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
  10. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
  11. ↑ Chimney blasting finally canceled. In: Ostsee-Zeitung , May 29, 2019.
  12. ↑ The Stasi mayor . 3sat, August 13, 2009
  13. ↑ Kreis refers the Heinze case to Schwerin . In: Ostsee-Zeitung, August 7, 2008 ( Memento from September 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  14. ↑ Michael Heinze back in office , svz.de of June 10, 2011
  15. ^ Götze new mayor in Schönberg. In: Ostsee-Zeitung , May 26, 2014
  16. Jump up victory for Korn and KWG. In: Ostsee-Zeitung , May 27, 2019.
  17. ↑ 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. 177/178 .
  18. ↑ a b main statute § 2 (PDF).
  19. ↑ Gerd Baier, Horst Ende , Brigitte Oltmans, general editor Heinrich Trost The architectural and art monuments in the Mecklenburg coastal region with the cities of Rostock and Wismar Henschel Verlag GmbH, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-362-00523-3 , page 69
  20. ↑ Jürgen Lenz: Schönberg wants to grow. In: Ostsee Zeitung. Retrieved March 14, 2019 .