Schmatzin

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 55 '  N , 13 ° 33'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Vorpommern-Greifswald
Office :	Züssow
Height :	19 m above sea level NHN
Area :	17.65 km 2
Residents:	284 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	16 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17390
Area code :	039724
License plate :	VG, ANK, GW, PW, SBG, UEM, WLG
Community key :	13 0 75 125
Community structure:	3 districts
Office administration address:	Dorfstrasse 6 17495 Züssow
Website :	amt-zuessow.de
Mayor :	Jan-Henrik Hempel
Location of the community of Schmatzin in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district

Schmatzin is a municipality in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald . The municipality has been administered by the Züssow office since January 1, 2005, with its headquarters in Züssow . Before that, the community belonged to the Ziethen district . It has 356 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2015).

geography

Geographical location

Schmatzin is about six kilometers south of Züssow and about ten kilometers east of Gützkow . The area in the community consists of flat, agriculturally used arable and meadow areas. There are only smaller forest areas. There are no bodies of water apart from a few pools and ponds. In the south are some peat bogs that were used before the 19th century. Elevations are not higher than 28 meters above sea level, whereby the surface height of the level is already approx. 20 meters above sea level.

Community structure

Districts Schmatzin Schlatkow Wolfradshof

Desolations and living spaces Spaceuiz (historical desert)

Neighboring communities

These are: Züssow in the N, Klein Bünzow in the O, Groß Polzin in the S and Gützkow (city) in the W.

history

Municipal area

In the early Middle Ages, the municipality was part of the province (county) of Gützkow. After the counts died out, it belonged to the Bailiwick of Gützkow until the beginning of the 17th century .

During the Thirty Years War , the Swedish King Gustav II Adolf landed in Pomerania, and the Peace of Westphalia made the country Swedish from 1648 to 1815. During this time, the community area belonged to the Wolgast office, later to the Greifswald office and district.

The community has always been characterized by a good economy. After 1945 all goods were expropriated and given to poor farmers, refugees and displaced persons from the former German eastern areas as new farms of 10 hectares each  . Until 1960, agriculture was collectivized in the LPGs .

After 1990 there was a reorganization of the ownership structure with the turnaround .

Schmatzin

Inspector's House Gut Schmatzin

Kidney pommel sword by Schmatzin

Prehistoric finds prove an early settlement of the area. The field name "Teufelskirchhof" refers to a large stone grave from the Neolithic, west-northwest of Schmatzin, which has long since disappeared . Several barrows from the early Bronze Age have been found in the area. In 1930 two kidney pommel swords were found during the construction of the forge . One had disappeared since the find (private property), the other was in the University's Greifswald collection. The find is assigned to the younger Bronze Age according to the typification Montelius V (920-730 B.C.).

Schmatzin is the name of a Slavic foundation and means something like fir bush . The village was first mentioned in a document in 1168 as a Spacenitz in the country of Gozchowe (Gützkow). In a confirmation letter from Camminer Bishop Konrad I. von Salzwedel it was mentioned as the property of the Grobe Monastery on Usedom . In 1175 this property was attested again by Duke Casimir I. The name was first mentioned in 1426 as Smertzin and then in 1657 as Schmatzin .

On December 13, 1254, the village changed from monastic to noble ownership and became a manor ; a knight Tammo became master of the village. In the church registers, a chapel was mentioned in Schmatzin between 1230 and 1350 .

From 1391 the von Horn family became owners of the estate for about three and a half centuries . A Claus Horn is named as the first owner. Later owners were the von Kreplin, von Lepel and then the Wolffradts. In 1652 Behrend II. Wulfradt ( von Wolffradt ) acquired Gut Schmatzin and two farms in Polzin. In 1671 the son of Behrend II. Wulfradt, Hermann II. Wulfradt, took over the goods in the Greifswald district. The formerly pledged goods were confirmed as property by the Swedish royal family during the reduction. He bought some land and owned Lüssow, Polzin, Owstin, Schmatzin and Schlatkow. Everything remains in the family's possession until 1839. Then the Mönnich and von Nathusius families follow . From 1859 the von Wolffradt family and Johann Gustav owned the property again.

In 1865 Schmatzin had 174 inhabitants, 1 school, 13 residential buildings, 1 factory building and 19 farm buildings.

By a purchase agreement of March 19, 1890, Hermann Runge took over the Schmatzin estate from the heirs of Mr. von Wolfrath. Primarily caused by fire damage in the village, the village school building and five farm workers' houses were rebuilt between 1893 and 1910. The Runge family moved into the very old manor house and lived there until their death in 1945. The manor house was demolished in the 1970s after it had largely fallen into disrepair.

Under the title “Vorpommersches Gut abrannt”, the Mecklenburgische Zeitung reported on July 13, 1934 about a “devastating large fire” in Schmatzin. Except for an old half-timbered barn and the cowshed that had been newly built two years earlier, all farm buildings were cremated. Reconstruction, which was initiated immediately, led to the state of the art in business management, animal husbandry and breeding (horses, pigs, sheep, cattle), agricultural engineering and agriculture to a modern farm.

After the end of the Second World War in 1945, the property was expropriated as part of the land reform, settled and given to settlers in small units (mostly 10-12 hectares).

The management was soon taken over by newly founded agricultural production cooperatives (LPG) until 1991.

After reunification, the descendants of the Runge family, Johannes Runge, leased and bought the land allocated to them from land reform settlers and BVVG Bodenverwertungs- und Verwaltungs GmbH Berlin and founded a farm focused on arable farming. The manor building, the park with Runge's grave and the surrounding area were reconstructed and redesigned on behalf of Runge.

A special feature of the village environment are the stone bars on the fields and meadows, which are partially covered with earth and covered with old trees. In the village, too, such dry stone walls have been built from field stones and have been partially renewed by the estate.

In 2005 the village had 156 inhabitants, in 2009 only 137.

On December 31, 2014 Schmatzin had 130 residents with a main residence and 14 with a secondary residence.

On December 31, 2015, Schmatzin had 128 residents with a main residence and 14 with a secondary residence.

Schlatkow

Schlatkow village church

Schlatkow was first mentioned in 1168 as "Sclathkewiz", then very often as being in the province (county) of Gützkow. In 1604 the current name Schlatkow was mentioned for the first time . The Slavic name comes from morass or from gold , both variants can hardly be associated with the place.

In 1327 Schlatkow belonged to Count Johannes and Henning von Gützkow, who received the village together with Groß Bünzow as a marriage property from the Duke. After that, the von Horn owners were probably at Ranzin and Schlatkow. Schlatkow owned them until 1684. As a result, Schlatkow was probably farmed together with Schmatzin. From 1671 to 1839 the estate, like Schmatzin and other villages, belonged to the Wolffradt family.

On April 18, 1807, the Schlatkow armistice was signed between Swedish and French troops in Schlatkow . The 100th anniversary in 2007 was the occasion for the opening of a German-Swedish museum in the manor house and for a reenactment of the peace negotiations by the Anklamer Theater .

Ernst Hermann von Wolffradt had been the owner since 1827, but leased it to Balthasar.

In 1865 Schlatkow had 188 inhabitants, a church, a school, 14 houses, a mill and 14 farm buildings.

Schlatkow achieved supraregional importance through the Pomeranian Milking School established in 1934 in the estate, where milkers were trained for the goods on behalf of the Reichsnährstand . After the end of the Second World War, the Schlatkow estate was expropriated as part of the land reform. The land was given to the new farmers. After 1960 the LPG took over the field and livestock farming.

Agrargesellschaft Klein Bünzow mbH, headquartered in Groß Jasedow, has been cultivating approx. 2000 hectares in the territory since 1990. The village surroundings, the estate, as well as the church and churchyard have been reconstructed and partly redesigned. The former milking school and the half-timbered building opposite were completely renovated, and the milking school was set up as a village community room, small museum, library, etc. The other building was set up as a biker hotel for cyclists, but had to be closed in 2012 because the building's half-timbering is so dilapidated that it would be too dangerous to continue operating. The community lacks the necessary funds for a reconstruction.

Schlatkow was incorporated on July 1, 1950.

In 2005 the village had 175 inhabitants, in 2009 only 151, on December 31, 2014 there were 134 inhabitants with main residence and 34 with secondary residence. The high number of residents with a secondary residence is due to the youth educational residential complex "Mattisburg". On December 31, 2015, the town had 147 residents with a main residence and 34 with a secondary residence.

Schlatkow is the birthplace of the Protestant theologian Martin Seils (* 1927).

Wolfradshof

Park side of the Wolfradshof manor house

The Hilgenberg hill grave is located near the village, it dates from the Bronze Age (1800 to 600 BC) and indicates an older settlement.

In 1848 Wolfradshof was founded as a preliminary work by Gut Schlatkow with the name "Wolffradtshof". From 1859 the simplified spelling was used with the current name. It became the seat of the von Wolffradt family and was therefore named after them with a government decree from January 5, 1850. The first manager was the third son of the owner Ernst Hermann Samuel von Wolffradt, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm v. W.

The estate is still intact, although some of the farm buildings are in ruins, but the estate was sold to private customers and has been reconstructed, which also applies to the park, which has some special features, e.g. B. a round linden tree. A name cartridge (W. v. B.) on the inspector's house has not yet been identified.

In 2005 the village had 30 inhabitants, in 2009 only 28.

On December 31, 2014, Wolfradshof had 27 residents with a main residence and 4 with a secondary residence.

On December 31, 2015, Wolfradshof had 29 residents with a main residence and 4 with a secondary residence.

Spaceuiz (historical desert)

The place was mentioned several times from 1168 as Spaceuiz . It cannot be precisely localized, but the archaeological preservation department assumes that the place with the archaeological Slavic settlement directly to the east near Schlatkow is identical to this. After 1254 the place seems to be desolate, it was not mentioned again.

politics

Coat of arms, flag, official seal

The municipality has no officially approved national emblem, neither a coat of arms nor a flag . The official seal is the small state seal with the coat of arms of the region of Western Pomerania . It shows an upright griffin with a raised tail and the inscription "GEMEINDE SCHMATZIN * LANDKREIS VORPOMMERN-GREIFSWALD".

Attractions

Buildings

See also : List of architectural monuments in Schmatzin

Fuchsberg Schmatzin barrow

• Gut Schmatzin with manager's house, farm buildings, courtyard and park: Among the farm buildings, the storage building (modern silo annex) with break and evening bells and the barn storage facility made from a combination of field and brick should be emphasized. The courtyard area consists of cobblestone, in places the paving of the formerly incorporated light rail tracks is still visible. In the middle of the courtyard is a historic pigeon house.
• Memorial and memorial stone First and Second World War on the village square in Schmatzin: The stone was prepared as a memorial in 1921, but could not be transported to the village by the manor due to its weight. Only the son of the landlord succeeded in doing this with modern technology after 1990. The stone was re-inscribed, expanded with a dedication to the Second World War and placed on the village square. Subsequently, it was determined by the ground monument preservation that the stone is a cult stone : It is a Bronze Age bowl stone (1800 to 600 BCE).
• Historic manor complex in Schlatkow with information and museum site Swedish Pomerania in the manor house, milking school and parallel building (both half-timbered), as well as the large barn (now the community's festival barn).
• Schlatkow village church , a hall church from the 13th century, which was built from field stones . Inside there is a wall painting from the 15th century, which shows, among other things, the Last Judgment , the crucified Apostle Andrew and Saint Christopher . The high-quality altarpiece and the pulpit date from 1692, the organ by Barnim Grüneberg from 1863. The belfry is in the churchyard area, as the church has no tower. The churchyard is surrounded by a dry stone wall.
• Boulder sculpture "Meeting Point" (weight: seven tons) in front of the school and community center
• Gut Wolfradshof with manor house, inspector's house and farm buildings

Green spaces and recreation

• Schmatzin Park with hereditary burial stake and dry stone walls
• Steinriegel in the Feldmark and on the edge of the village
• Barrows from the Bronze Age (1800 to 600 BCE) on the Fuchsberg, south of the forest in Schlatkow, and northeast of Wolfradshof
• Gray heron colony on the Fuchsberg - former area natural monument (1954 to 2013). The colony was abandoned after considerable storm damage to the colonies and major disruptions from logging. The gray herons moved their breeding and nesting areas to the flooded areas of the Anklamer Stadtbruch and the Menzliner Polder.
• Wolfradshof estate park with the "Twelve Apostles-Winterlindenrondel", as well as several art objects

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

The community is dominated by agriculture, otherwise there are only small businesses.

traffic

The federal highway 111 runs northwest of the municipality and the federal highway 109 runs northeast . The federal motorway 20 can be reached via the Gützkow junction (about twelve kilometers). Further connections are the district and municipal roads.

A rail connection was and is only available via the neighboring village of Klein Bünzow. The community villages did not have a small railway connection.

literature

• Heinrich Berghaus: Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen, IV. Part Volume II, Anklam 1868, p. 504 ff. And 1086 ff.
• Manfred Niemeyer: East Western Pomerania. Collection of sources and literature on place names. Vol. 2: Mainland. (= Greifswald contributions to toponymy. Vol. 2), Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, Institute for Slavic Studies, Greifswald 2001, ISBN 3-86006-149-6 . Pages 119, 120, 125 and 146

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 d} Amt Züssow, residents of the administrative area Züssow, as of December 31, 2015
3. ^ Wilhelm Petzsch, communications from the collection ... of the University of Greifswald, No. IX. von 1936, pp. 20-23
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Manfred Niemeyer: Ostvorpommern . Collection of sources and literature on place names. Vol. 2: Mainland. (= Greifswald contributions to toponymy. Vol. 2), Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, Institute for Slavic Studies, Greifswald 2001, ISBN 3-86006-149-6 . P. 119 ff
5. ↑ Contemporary witness, J. Runge
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Züssow office, residents of the Züssow administrative area, as of December 31, 2014
7. ^ History , website of the Schmatzin community, accessed on September 2, 2015.
8. ↑ Main Statute, Section 1, Paragraph 2 (PDF).

Web links

Commons : Schmatzin  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Schmatzin community
• District Schlatkow and the community Schmatzin