Schönermark (Northwestuckermark)

Schönermark Northwestuckermark municipality Coordinates: 53 ° 19 '52 "  N , 13 ° 42' 27"  E
Height :	61 m above sea level NHN
Incorporation :	November 1, 2001
Postal code :	17291
Location of Schönermark in Brandenburg

Schönermark is a village in the municipality of Nordwestuckermark in the Brandenburg district of Uckermark . It is the seat of the municipality of Nordwestuckermark.

Municipal administration (west wing of the former castle)

The village first appeared in the documents in 1321 and, together with the neighboring Arendsee, was a very early fief of the von Winterfeld family . Schönermark had a status as a central location for the surrounding villages very early on. This can be seen not least in the Schönermarker Feldsteinkirche , which was designed as the mother church for many of the surrounding communities. The sculptural grave slabs from the 16th and 17th centuries should be emphasized there.

In 1686 the estate came into the possession of the Counts of Schlippenbach . General Karl Friedrich von Schlippenbach was buried here in 1723 . Today the municipal administration of Northwestuckermark is housed in the moated castle , which is surrounded by ramparts and ditches .

The Wilhelmshof Vorwerk, which was newly established in 1838 under Count Albert von Schlippenbach (1800–1886) , has belonged to the community of Schönermark since the 1950s. Albert von Schlippenbach was an important poet and writer. In 1848 he founded the Fideikommiss Schönermark, with Arendsee, Christianenhof, Raakow, Wilhelmshof, Wittstock and Ferdinandshorst.

The collectivization of agriculture in the form of LPGs was completed in both places in 1960. During the GDR era, the country's most modern feed pellet plant was located here. In the course of the Brandenburg regional reform , the municipality of Schönermark was incorporated together with the Wilhelmshof district on November 1, 2001 into the newly formed municipality of Nordwestuckermark, the main town of which became Schönermark.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Franz Menges :  Schlippenbach, barons and counts. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 92 f. ( Digitized version ).
2. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2001

literature

• Lieselott Enders : Historical local lexicon for Brandenburg, Part VIII, Uckermark , Weimar 1986, ISBN 3-7400-0042-2 .

Web links

• Schönermark on the website of the municipality of Nordwestuckermark