Straw churches

This article deals with the Mecklenburg community of Strohkirchen. A district of the municipality of Bernstorf in the north-west Mecklenburg district also bears the name Strohkirchen.

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 24 '  N , 11 ° 19'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Ludwigslust-Parchim
Office :	Hagenow Land
Height :	25 m above sea level NHN
Area :	14.78 km 2
Residents:	317 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	21 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	19230
Area code :	038751
License plate :	LUP, HGN, LBZ, LWL, PCH, STB
Community key :	13 0 76 131
Office administration address:	Bahnhofstrasse 25 19230 Hagenow
Website :	www.amt-hagenow-land.de
Mayoress :	Bärbel Romanowski
Location of the community of Strohkirchen in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district

Strohkirchen is a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is administered by the Office Hagenow-Land , based in the non-official city of Hagenow .

Geography and traffic

Strohkirchen is located about 20 kilometers south of the state capital Schwerin and seven kilometers east of Hagenow on the northern edge of the Griesen area . The New Canal , which merges into the Strohkirchener Bach , as well as other small rivers flow through the municipality . The place has a stop for local trains on the Berlin – Hamburg line .

history

In terms of the type of settlement, Strohkirchen is a street village. Farmers, Büdner and Häusler built their houses along different roads. A predatory miller named Strohkark is said to have given the place its name. The farming village, which has always been shaped by agriculture, was once administered by the Domanialämter Neustadt and Hagenow.

politics

coat of arms

Blazon : “Divided by a lowered golden wave thread; above, in red, a golden gable front of a Lower Saxon farmhouse with black half-timbering and black gable boards with turned away horse heads; below in green an eight-spoke, eight-blade golden mill wheel below. " The coat of arms and the flag were designed by the Schwerin heraldist Karl-Heinz Steinbruch . It was approved on September 23, 1999 by the Ministry of the Interior and registered under the number 194 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Reasons for the coat of arms: In the coat of arms, the wave thread symbolizes the Jasnitz and the gable symbolizes the Lower Saxon farmhouses that characterize the village. The mill wheel is intended to symbolize the watermill located on the Jasnitz on the one hand, and to refer to the legend of the origin of the place on the other. According to legend, the first five settlers are said to have built their houses so close to one another to protect themselves effectively from the Müller Strohkark, which is wreaking havoc in the area. As it were, he operated a water mill on the Jasnitz as a cover-up for what he was actually doing - robbery and highway robbery. When his captivity was supposed to put an end to his criminal activities for years, he had previously fled. Later, the residents of the nearby houses built a new mill below the ruined mill. However, the name of the miller was transferred to the small settlement.

flag

Flag of the municipality of Strohkirchen

The flag was approved on April 18, 2007 by the Ministry of the Interior.

The flag is striped in green, yellow and green across the longitudinal axis of the flag cloth. The green stripes each take up seven thirties, the yellow stripe sixteen thirtieth of the length of the flag cloth. In the middle of the yellow stripe is the municipal coat of arms, which takes up two thirds of the height of the flag. The relation of the height of the flag cloth to the length is like 3: 5.

Official seal

The official seal shows the municipal coat of arms with the inscription "GEMEINDE STROHKIRCHEN • LANDKREIS LUDWIGSLUST-PARCHIM".

Attractions

→ See also the list of architectural monuments in Strohkirchen

• Büdnerei from Raseneisenstein, Waldweg 6

Web links

Commons : Strohkirchen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ↑ Giese, JJJ: The robber miller on the Jasnitz, a tributary of the Sude, between Ludwigslust and Hagenow . In: Niederhöffer, Albert (Ed.): Mecklenburg's Volkssagen . tape 2 . Leipzig 1859.
3. ↑ Hans-Heinz Schütt: On shield and flag - the coats of arms and flags of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and its municipalities . Ed .: production office TINUS; Schwerin. 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814380-0-0 , pp. 146 .
4. ↑ ^{a b} main statute § 2 (PDF).