Stargard Castle

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 30 '  N , 13 ° 19'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Mecklenburg Lake District
Office :	Stargarder Land
Height :	53 m above sea level NHN
Area :	76.55 km 2
Residents:	5384 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	70 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17094
Area code :	039603
License plate :	MSE, AT, DM, MC, MST, MÜR, NZ, RM, WRN
Community key :	13 0 71 021
City administration address :	Mühlenstrasse 30 17094 Stargard Castle
Website :	www.burg-stargard.de
Mayor :	Tilo Lorenz (CDU)
Location of the town of Burg Stargard in the Mecklenburg Lake District

Stargard Castle (until 1929: Stargard ) is a small town southeast of Neubrandenburg in the Mecklenburg Lake District in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The medieval castle Stargard , which gave the town and the Stargard its name, stands on the castle hill . The place has been the seat of the Stargarder Land office since 1992 , to which another five municipalities belong.

geography

Geographical location

The city is located about eight kilometers south of the district town of Neubrandenburg in the valley of the linden tree , which is dammed in the city in the mill pond. In the south of the urban area are the Gramelower and Teschendorfer See. A ground moraine with heights up to 126.8 m above sea level. NHN near Loitz determines the Stargarder Land (a historical landscape name). The distinctive elevations within or near the urban development include the approximately 90 meter high Burgberg, the 89 meter high Galgenberg and the 86.3 meter high Klüschenberg. The terrain falls in the west to the Tollensesee up to 14.8 m above sea level. NHN from. On this ten kilometer long lake, the city limits a part of the shore. The Stargarder Land with cultivation areas on the Burgberg and the nearby Rattey Castle is the northernmost wine-growing region in Germany.

The place southeast of the regional center of Neubrandenburg is a basic center according to the spatial development program .

City structure

The following 11 districts belong to Burg Stargard:

Bargensdorf Cammin Godenswege Gramelov	Kreuzbruchhof Lindenhof Loitz Quastenberg	Riepke Saber Teschendorf

history

Surname

The place, presumably the castle, was first mentioned in 1170 as Stargart , which was given to the diocese of Havelberg (allegedly) for the foundation of the Broda monastery . However, the document in question has proven to be a forgery and the place Staregart in it as an addition from a later time, probably dating to around 1244. Translated from Old Polish , stary means old and gard means castle , so old castle . In the early modern period, the city was also called Alt Stargard , in contrast to Stargard in what is now West Pomerania . Since the castle was incorporated into the urban area in order to avoid confusion with the other cities with the same name, the city has been called Burg Stargard since 1929 .

middle Ages

Keep of Stargard Castle

The German settlement of traders and craftsmen grew since the early 13th century at the foot of a late medieval castle, which was of central importance for the colonization of the Slavic area and which soon became the political center of the Stargard rule named after it . 1250 was the keep . For older predecessor settlements, which are variously suspected, there is still no scientific evidence. Archaeological investigations on the castle hill also provided no evidence for previous Slavic buildings.

1259 Stargard was enfeoffed with the Brandenburg town charter. After the marriage of Heinrich II. (The lion) in 1292 as a Wittum from the Ascanians into the hands of the princes, later dukes of Mecklenburg , Stargard was one of the residences of the Mecklenburg-Stargard branch of the Mecklenburg dynasty from 1352 to 1471 . Stargard became a country town in Mecklenburg and, as such, part of the towns in the Stargardian district , which were represented in the Mecklenburg regional parliaments of the 1523 unified states until 1918 .

17th to 19th century

In the Thirty Years War , Stargard was the headquarters of the Imperial General Tilly (1631) for the last time of strategic importance. In the following years the castle quickly lost its importance and became the seat of a ducal administrative office.

The city was affected by the general decline of the area after the Thirty Years' War and was largely destroyed in a major fire in 1758. After that, the city of Stargard (from 1929: Stargard Castle) sank into an insignificant country town and lost the last supra-local authorities in the early 20th century.

Modern times

During the period of National Socialism, the Jewish couple Sehlmacher from Berlin lived in an apartment on Papiermühlenweg. After being denounced for “listening to enemy broadcasts ”, wife Gertrud was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp for extermination, while husband Ernst perished in Dreibergen- Bützow prison . During the Second World War , Jewish women from Poland , the Soviet Union and France had to build a sub-camp of the Ravensbrück concentration camp in the Nemerower Holz under the most primitive conditions , where production facilities and underground paths for the manufacture of parts for the V 1 were made. 1200 to 2000 women had to do forced labor here. In April 1945, the "Silviculture" camp was cleared and the concentration camp prisoners were driven on a death march to Malchow , where those who were still alive were liberated by the Red Army .

Burg Stargard belonged since 1934 to district Stargard in Mecklenburg and from 1946 to the District Neubrandenburg , in the same 1952 GDR - district was incorporated (since 1990 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern). From 1994 until the district reform in 2011 , the city was in the Mecklenburg-Strelitz district , and since then in the Mecklenburg Lake District .

After the political change and accession to the Federal Republic of Germany, the renovation of the castle and the historic town center began in 1991 as part of urban development funding. However, since then central areas of the old town have increasingly fallen into disrepair. As the basic center of the region, Burg Stargard is today a popular place to live in the suburb of the nearby regional center of Neubrandenburg with a slightly increasing population .

Until November 2015, there was a zoo at Stargarder Klüschenberg Castle, which when it was built in 1968 was primarily intended as a destination for residents of the district town of Neubrandenburg. The city of Neubrandenburg withdrew from the financing after 1990, so that the small town of Burg Stargard could no longer raise the annual subsidy of 150,000 euros (with an annual municipal budget deficit of around 800,000 euros). In addition, extensive investments would have been necessary in the park, which is in great need of renovation. A petition initiated by the animal park association was rejected because not enough signatures could be collected. In January 2017 the last animals were picked up from the Stargarder zoo. With funds from the state, the zoo is to become an excursion park again with a newly designed space at the open-air stage. The closest zoos are in Neustrelitz , near Altentreptow ( Mühlenhagen nature park ) and in Ueckermünde .

For the changes in the membership of the city to the administrative community Amt Stargarder Land since 1992 see the corresponding article.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent municipality Sabel was incorporated.

With effect from September 27, 2009, the municipality of Teschendorf was incorporated with the districts of Gramelow and Loitz.

On May 25, 2014, Cammin was incorporated with the districts of Godenswege and Riepke.

Population development

year Residents 1990 3824 1995 4176 2000 4607 2005 4624 2010 5002

year Residents 2015 5496 2016 5387 2017 5398 2018 5402 2019 5384

Status: December 31 of the respective year

politics

City council

In the local elections on June 7, 2009, May 25, 2014 and May 26, 2019, the seats of the city council were distributed as follows:

Party / group of voters	Seats 2009	Seats 2014	Seats 2019
CDU	5	8th	8th
The left	4th	2	3
Stargard 2030	-	1	3
AfD	-	-	2
Individual applicants	3	2	-
SPD	3	1	-
Cammin voter group	-	1	-
Stargard Free Voting Association	-	1	-
NPD	-	1	-
Stargard voter group	2	-	-
FDP	1	-	-

mayor

• 1965–1984: Ernst Gay

• 2001–2008: Bärbel Bredemeier
• since 2008: Tilo Lorenz (CDU)

Lorenz was elected in the mayoral election on May 3, 2015 with 79.5 percent of the valid votes for a further term of seven years.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In silver, a red eagle armed with gold." The coat of arms was redrawn before 1978 and registered under the number 214 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms shows the coat of arms of the Margraves of Brandenburg, the red eagle, based on older city seals and thus refers to the margrave as the city's founder and lord.

flag

The flag is striped in red, white and red across the longitudinal axis of the flag cloth. The red stripes each take up one fifth, the white stripe three fifths the length of the flag cloth. The center of the white stripe is covered with the figure of the city's coat of arms: a red eagle reinforced with yellow. The figure takes up three fifths of the height of the flagcloth. The length of the flag is related to the height as 3: 2.

Official seal

The official seal shows the town's coat of arms with the inscription "STADT BURG STARGARD • LANDKREIS MECKLENBURGISCHE SEENPLATTE".

Town twinning

• Marne in the Dithmarschen district in Schleswig-Holstein since 1990
• Tychowo in the powiat Białogardzki of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland since 2006

Sights and culture

Attractions

Stargard Castle

See also : List of architectural monuments in Stargard Castle

Castle complex

Castle chapel

City church in the old town

• The Burg Stargard , the northernmost mountain castle in Germany, dates back to the 13th century. It was originally built as a brick building for the Margrave of Brandenburg and today comprises eleven buildings, including a. Main castle, royal stables with local history museum, gatehouse, remains of the keep (reconstruction 1821–23 by Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel ), old manor house (15th century), new upper gate (16th century), clerk's house (18th century), Burgschänke (19th century), stable house (19th century).
• City church , built after the city fire in 1758 as it is today. Originally a three-aisled pillar basilica made of field stones from the 13th century stood in its place . The medieval west tower was replaced by a neo-Gothic brick tower in 1894 .
  • Equipment: pulpit altar (1770), baptismal font (13th century)
• Heilig-Geist-Hospital, oldest preserved building in the city (1290) made of field stone; In 1576 the original church was converted into a hospital building.
• Historic city center with the right-angled street network, created after the city fire of 1758
  • Former inn Zum Weißen Hirsch from 1760
  • Home of the painter Marie Hager with a permanent exhibition
• Three memorial stones on the memorial mountain , a hill behind the church, for those who fell in the wars of 1870/71 and 1914/18 and for the victims of fascism 1933–1945
• Memorial stone from 1948 (or 1952) on the grave of the Jewish couple Sehlmacher, who fell victim to the Shoah
• Soviet military cemetery near the train station with a memorial stone for the 18 victims of war and forced labor buried there
• Summer toboggan run on the outskirts of the city
• Stargarder Land wine-growing area , is considered the northernmost wine-growing area in Germany, wine-growing on the Teufelsbruch and Burg vineyards ; Altogether there are 1200 vines of the Regent, Blauer Portugieser, Müller-Thurgau, Phoenix, Ortega and Elbling varieties in Burg Stargard on an area of ​​approx. 0.2 ha.

Bargensdorf

• Village church , late Gothic , towerless field stone building from the end of the 15th century

Cammin

• Field stone church from the 13th century
• Historic manor house from 1862 based on plans by Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel

Quastenberg

• Village church from 1842 by Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel

Events

Every year, on the second weekend in August, the castle festival takes place at Stargard Castle.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Burg Stargard station

The federal highway 96 leads through the west of the urban area from Berlin to Neubrandenburg. From this the state road L 31 branches off, which leads through the city center and connects to the federal road 104 in Alt Käbelich . Via the L 331, which begins in Burg Stargard, you come south to Stolpe to the federal road 198 . The nearest motorway junction is Neubrandenburg-Ost on the A 20 ( Rostock - Uckermark triangle ). It can be reached in about 17 kilometers.

Burg Stargard has a train station on the Berlin-Stralsund railway line served by the RE 5 regional express line ( Stralsund- Berlin- Wünsdorf -Waldstadt ) .

There are other connections to the surrounding villages with the regional buses of the MVVG .

education

• Elementary school Kletterrose, Klüschenbergstrasse 17
• Regional school Burg Stargard, Klüschenbergstrasse 13

Sports

Sports facilities

Sports field on Gartenstrasse from 2010, gym of the regional school, motocross track

societies

• SV Burg Stargard 09, whose football team plays in Season I of the Mecklenburg Lake District District League in the 2019/20 season; the handball players play in the district class east.
• VfL Burg Stargard with athletics, mass sports, yoga groups
• Fichtenring Motorsport Club
• Rifle club Burg Stargard
• Sport fishing club Burg Stargard

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 1901: Friedrich Wilhelm Blank, cantor and teacher
• 1968: Max Reinfarth, active in rebuilding the city after the war, helped establish the consumer cooperative in the city and district
• 1998: Ernst Gay (1927–2012), mayor and local chronicle

sons and daughters of the town

• Magnus III, Duke of Mecklenburg (1509–1550), bishop and administrator of the Schwerin diocese
• Karl (Charles) Rümker (1788–1862), astronomer
• Karl Friedrich Vollrath Hoffmann (1796–1842), geographer, publicist
• August Dühr (1806–1896), classical philologist and high school professor
• Wilhelm Bahr (1821–1876), painter and photographer
• Daniel Zander (1823–1905), teacher, musician and historian
• Volker Schmidt (1942–2002), archaeologist, Rethra researcher
• Jürgen Dassow (* 1947), mathematician, professor of computer science

Personalities associated with Burg Stargard

• Gottlob Burchard Genzmer (1716–1771), an important Mecklenburg naturalist of the late Enlightenment, was pastor and prepositive here
• Friedrich Genzken (1817–1875), lawyer, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly, was the town councilor and mayor here
• Fritz Scharenberg (1846–1916), lawyer, magistrate and mayor
• Mathilde Block (1850–1932), painter and art embroiderer, worked for four and a half years as an educator at Stargard Castle
• Johanna Beckmann (1868–1941), silhouette artist, spent her childhood and youth here
• Marie Hager (1872–1947), landscape and architecture painter
• Ernst Gay (1927–2012), Mayor of Burg Stargards from 1965 to 1984, honorary citizen since 1998

literature

• Klaus von Oertzen: History of the Stargard Castle in Mecklenburg. Brünslow, Neubrandenburg 1887.
• [Castle] Stargard: name, history, castle, keep, crooked house, church, local facility, town church, small works of art, chapel of the Holy Spirit (hospital), town hall, town houses, maiden fountain, welcome . In: Art and history monuments of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz . On behalf of the Ministry (Department of Education and Art). I. Volume, III. Department: The district court districts Friedland (2nd half), Stargard and Neubrandenburg - edited by Georg Krüger. Commission publisher of the Brünslowsche Verlagbuchhandlung (E. Brückner), Neubrandenburg 1929, p. 87–127 ( digitized [accessed August 12, 2018]).
• Paul Steinmann: Stargard Castle. Niederdt. Observer, Schwerin 1938.

Stargard Castle was the literary setting in the short story The Iron Cross by Heiner Müller , which deals with the suicide of a Stargard family when the Red Army approached the war towards the end of the war .

Web links

Commons : Burg Stargard  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Stargard, Burg Stargard in the genealogical directory
• Literature about Burg Stargard in the state bibliography MV
• burg-stargard.de

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 Mecklenburg Lake District (2011) , Regional Planning Association, accessed on July 12, 2015
3. ↑ Main statute of the city of Burg Stargard . April 10, 2019, § 1 - Name / coat of arms / flag / official seal - 2) - ( Sitzungsdienst-stargarder-land.de [PDF; 5.5 MB ; accessed on September 30, 2019]).
4. ↑ Ernst Eichler , Werner Mühlmer: The names of cities in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Ingo Koch Verlag, Rostock 2002, ISBN 3-935319-23-1
5. ^ Philipp Hainhofer, 1617, quoted in III. In the land of Gothic and magic . In: Guide to the routes of the Lubinian map . lubinus.pl,, p. 48.
6. ↑ Helge bei der Wieden , Roderich Schmidt (Ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 12: Mecklenburg / Pomerania (=  Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 315). Kröner, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-520-31501-7 , pp. 12-13. [wrongly in ERNST / MÜHLMER: after 1933.]
7. ↑ A town charter in 1253 by Pomeranian Duke Barnim I does not refer to the (later) Mecklenburg town (castle) Stargard, but to Stargard (Pomerania) .
8. ^ Tierpark-Aus: Burg Stargard is looking for people interested in 250 zoo animals , Nordkurier , October 31, 2015
9. ↑ Burg Stargard Zoo: The last residents are moving out , NDR , December 25, 2016
10. ^ Area changes in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 1.1. until December 31, 2009. (PDF; 108 kB) Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Statistical Office, January 11, 2010, p. 4 , accessed on August 27, 2015 . 
11. ^ Area changes in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 1.1. until December 31, 2014. (PDF; 63 kB) Statistical Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, January 13, 2015, p. 3 , accessed on August 27, 2015 . 
12. ↑ Population development of the districts and municipalities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Statistical Report AI of the Statistical Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
13. ↑ Official Journal “Stargarder Zeitung” , May 2014 edition, accessed on February 26, 2018
14. ↑ Announcement of the final results of the local elections on May 26th, 2019 for the city council of Burg Stargard
15. ↑ CDU man Lorenz remains mayor of Stargard Castle. In: Die Welt , May 3, 2015.
16. ↑ Hans-Heinz Schütt: On shield and flag production office TINUS, Schwerin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814380-0-0 , p. 292.
17. ↑ ^{a b} main statute § 1 (PDF).
18. ↑ ^{a b} honorary citizen of the city
19. ↑ The chronicle was his life's work. In: Stargarder Zeitung , September 28, 2013.
20. ^ In: Heiner Müller: Works. Volume 2: The prose . Edited by Frank Hörnigk. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1999. pp. 72-74.