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Evangelical Church in Strasen

Strasen has been a district of the town of Wesenberg with around 220 inhabitants since January 1, 2000 and is located in the upper Havel area in the middle of the typical Mecklenburg forest and lake landscape . The place is on the border with Brandenburg between the Großer Pälitzsee in the west and the Ellbogensee in the east. Both lakes are connected to each other via the Strasen lock . The Müritz-Havel waterway and the Upper Havel waterway meet at Strasen .

Names

The name is derived from the Old Slavic word strag or strêg for guard. This should relate to the strategic location of the castle. The origin of the locator of the place would also be possible : Place des Strazim .

history

In 1317 a Strasen castle was first mentioned as Strasym in the document of the Peace of Templin . Their location is unknown, but is likely to have been in today's local area. The castle was mentioned as a protective castle of the Mark Brandenburg against the Mecklenburg princes. Through the peace, the land around Strasen with the rule of Stargard came to Mecklenburg. The Mecklenburg princes sold parts of the village or the whole village in 1403 and 1471. In 1619, the Duke of Mecklenburg again owned thirteen farm positions. As a result of the Thirty Years' War , only three farms were counted in Strasen in 1639. In the years 1785 and 1864, large parts of the village burned down. In 1889, Strasen was the largest village in the Mirow district with 397 inhabitants. The construction of locks in Fürstenberg / Havel and Steinförde around 1830 gave Strasen a connection to the waterway network. For the connection to the Elbe, additional locks were added between 1831 and 1836, including one in Strasen.

On January 1, 1969, Strasen merged with Priepert to form the new municipality of Strasen-Priepert. On May 7, 1990 the place became an independent municipality again.

Attractions

Lock in Strasen

The half-timbered church was built between 1782 and 1784 by forest engineer JC Draeseke. The west facade has meanwhile been renewed in massive construction. The tower was demolished in 1968 because it was in disrepair. The interior furnishings include a pulpit altar with enclosure from the years when the church was built.

A wooden cross in the 1996 cemetery on the grave of two Hungarian Jewish women who perished during the march commemorates the victims of the death march of April 1945. There is also a stele at the entrance to the village from 1997, which young people erected under the guidance of the artist Wolf Leo in memory of the concentration camp prisoners of the death march. There is also such a stele with the inscription Ravensbrück at the exit of the town on the road to Wustrow .

The Strasen lock is also worth seeing.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2000
  2. ^ Paul Kühnel: The Slavic place names in Meklenburg in year books of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology . - Vol. 46 (1881), p. 138
  3. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
  4. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Deutscher Kunstverlag, revision, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6

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Coordinates: 53 ° 12 '  N , 13 ° 0'  E