Schreyahn

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Schreyahn
Coordinates: 52 ° 56 ′ 12 ″  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 21 ″  E
Height : 22 m above sea level NN
Postal code : 29462
Area code : 05843
Schreyahn (Lüchow-Dannenberg district)
Schreyahn

Location of Schreyahn in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district
Schreyahn Artists' Court

Schreyahn in the south of the Lower Saxony district of Lüchow-Dannenberg is a suburb of the city of Wustrow (Wendland) . The Rundlingsdorf is located in Wendland about eight kilometers southwest of the district town of Lüchow (Wendland) and about seven kilometers east of Clenze .

history

Schreyahn was first mentioned as Screy or Screye around the year 1360. The neighboring town is Lensian , whose round shape already disturbed a cutting street in earlier centuries.

Buildings

View of the Rundlingsdorf, 2012
About the same perspective in 1904

With its ten four-column buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries with varied timbered gable structures, Schreyahn is considered to be one of the best-preserved round villages in Wendland. It has been declared the winner several times in the Lower Saxony competition “ Our village should be more beautiful ”. The imposing half-timbered building of the restaurant at the entrance to the village, as well as the two remaining houses on the way to Wustrow, date from the early 20th century, when the potash industry made for prosperity.

Culture

In Schreyahn, the state of Lower Saxony has been running a scholarship establishment Künstlerhof Schreyahn since 1979 , in which artists from the fields of music and literature can live for a limited period as scholarship holders. Three, six or nine-month scholarships are offered for writers and composers.

Until 2007, the Schreyahner Herbst literature and music festival took place every September in Schreyahn .

Schreyahn is also a regular venue for the cultural country party and the Lüchow-Dannenberger book spring.

Others

A pair of storks broods regularly on the roof of a Schreyahner house.

Near the agrarian today place there was a potash - mine until the exploitation after the First World War was no longer profitable.

A few hundred meters south-east of Schreyahn lies the 25 hectare large nature reserve salt Flora area at Schreyahn .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ districts / villages. Samtgemeinde Lüchow (Wendland), accessed on December 9, 2018 .