Schorssow

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 41 ′  N , 12 ° 34 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Rostock
Office :	Mecklenburg Switzerland
Height :	8 m above sea level NHN
Area :	30.9 km 2
Residents:	451 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	15 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17166
Area code :	039933
License plate :	LRO, BÜZ, DBR, GÜ, ROS, TET
Community key :	13 0 72 094
Office administration address:	von-Pentz-Allee 7 17166 Teterow
Website :	www.schorssow.de
Mayor :	Bernhard Scharrer
Location of the community of Schorssow in the Rostock district

Schorssow is a municipality in the south of the Rostock district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). The municipality is administered by the Mecklenburg Switzerland Office with its seat in the non-official city of Teterow . The community was formed on June 13, 2004 from the previously independent communities Bristow and Bülow (near Malchin) . In contrast to many other municipal mergers, no double name was chosen here, but the name of the former Bülower district Schorssow.

geography

The municipality of Schorssow in the heart of Mecklenburg Switzerland is located on the northwestern shore of Lake Malchin in the geographical center of the state. While the partly steeply sloping bank area is only slightly above sea level, the north-western parts of the municipality in the terminal moraine area of Mecklenburg Switzerland reach heights of up to 80 m above sea level. NN. near the city of Teterow and while the west of the municipality is only a few meters above sea level at the outflow of the Teterower See towards Peene , the main terminal moraine in the east in the Hardtberg reaches 122 m above sea level. In the north of the municipality there is the approx. 5 km² large nature reserve Gruber Forst - a refuge for various eagle species . The Mecklenburg Lake District is bordered to the east of the Schorssow district .

Schorssow is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Teterow in the north, Malchin in the east, Dahmen in the south and Hohen Demzin in the west.

Districts

The community consists of the districts Bristow , Bülow , Carlshof , Glasow , Grube , Neu Tessenow , Schorssow and Tessenow .

history

The area was already settled in Slavic times, as evidenced by ceramic finds from the area.

Schorssow was first mentioned in a document in 1372. The destroyed desert church came from the middle of the 14th century. Gut Schorssow belonged to the von Maltzahn (1400–1545), von Moltke (until 1816), von Hahn (from 1820), von Tiele-Winckler (1890–1929) families and the mill owner Kurt Kampffmeyer from Potsdam, who owned the estate until 1945 . The manor house dates from 1730, was rebuilt in a classicist style in 1812 , was a day nursery, company kitchen and community office after 1945 and is now a hotel.

Bristow was first mentioned in 1297. The Bristow village church was built around 1590. The Bristow estate has been owned by the von Hahn family since 1352 and by the Counts of Bassewitz- Levetzow from 1845 to 1945 (see below). Bristow belonged to the Malchin district until 1952 and then to the Teterow district .

Bülow: The village church of Bülow dates from around 1235. Gut Bülow was owned by Volrath Hanensee until 1372, followed by von Moltzan auf Schorssow and in the middle of the 17th century by the von Moltke family, 1816 Johann Heinrich Degener, 1845 Karl Christian Erbrecht, In 1859 the von Bülow family, in 1890 the von Tiele-Winckler family , until in 1929, together with Schorssow, it came to the mill owner Kurt Kampffmeyer, who owned the estate until 1945. The classicist manor house dates from around 1800. Bülow and its district of Schorssow belonged to the district of Waren until 1952 , so they were separated from Bristow by a district boundary. From 1952 they belonged to the Teterow district.

Attractions

Schorssow

• Castle with park: Built in the 1730s as a mansion on the shores of the Haussee, rebuilt in a classicist style around 1810 .
• Fisherman's kate
• dendrological nature trail at the Haussee in Schorssow.
• Desert Church : built in the middle of the 14th century as the late Romanesque patronage church of the feudal lord von Schorssow Heinrich von Moltzan ; destroyed around 1540 during the introduction of the evangelical faith.

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  Schorssow Castle

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  "Desert Church"

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  House lake

Bristow

• The Bristow village church is the oldest Protestant village church in Mecklenburg, donated in the 1590s by Werner Hahn (1515–93) from the Basedow family and splendidly furnished in the Renaissance style by his son Hans Hahn (1558–1633) . The altar, pulpit and organ gallery are still original from the time it was built around 1600. A special feature is Werner Hahn's testament, carved in four limestone tablets. The German Foundation for Monument Protection took part in the restoration of the church and organ in the 1990s.
• Manor with royal stables from 1866 in Tudor style , granary built in 1868 by Count Carl August von Bassewitz-Levetzow, field stone barn, dovecote from 1891 and other farm buildings from 1865 in Tudor style. The one-storey manor house with a columned portal burned down in 1919, after which the estate manager's house next to it was occupied by the Bassewitz family.
• Bassewitz's mausoleum was built next to the church in 1874 in the neo-Renaissance style. When the manor house burned down in 1919, the von Bassewitz family moved into a farm building converted for residential purposes. In the three-storey pigeon house, a “Cinderella Museum” was set up, which explains the cultural history of pigeon keeping.

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  Bassewitz's mausoleum and church in Bristow

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  Renaissance altar of the Bristow village church

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  Marstall in Bristow

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  Storage in Bristow

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  Pigeon House in Bristow

Bülow

• The Gothic village church of Bülow, built around 1235 from field stone and molded parts from brick, has a crypt belonging to the von Moltke family . The German Foundation for Monument Protection participated in the renovation of the church from 1999 to 2003.
• Classicist , single-storey manor house with a mezzanine floor and a two-storey central risalit from around 1800.

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  Manor house in Bülow

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  Village church in Bülow

See also : List of architectural monuments in Schorssow

Economy and Transport

In addition to the traditionally formative agriculture, the development of tourism in the Mecklenburg Switzerland area has become an important economic factor. In recent years, among other things, a castle hotel has been built from the old Schorssow manor house.

The parts of the community are connected to one another by the road on the high bank of Lake Malchiner. The districts of Schorssow and Carlshof are close to the B 108 from Teterow to Waren (Müritz) . The nearest train station is in Teterow ( Güstrow - Neubrandenburg line ).

Personalities

• Werner Graf von Bassewitz-Levetzow (1894–1964), sea captain in World War II and commander of the 2nd Marine Infantry Division; born in Bristow

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. ↑ StBA Area: changes from 01.01. until December 31, 2004

Web links

Commons : Schorssow  - Collection of Images

• Literature about Schorssow in the state bibliography MV
• Literature about Bristow in the state bibliography MV
• Literature about Bülow in the state bibliography MV