Tarnow (Mecklenburg)

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 47 '  N , 12 ° 1'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Rostock
Office :	Bützow-Land
Height :	20 m above sea level NHN
Area :	40.5 km 2
Residents:	1062 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	26 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	18249
Area code :	038450
License plate :	LRO, BÜZ, DBR, GÜ, ROS, TET
Community key :	13 0 72 104
Office administration address:	Am Markt 1 18246 Bützow
Website :	www.gemeinde-tarnow.de
Mayor :	Ingo Sander
Location of the municipality of Tarnow in the Rostock district

Tarnow is a municipality in the west of the Rostock district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). It is administered by the Bützow-Land office based in the city of Bützow .

geography

The municipality of Tarnow south of the city of Bützow extends from the Warnowtal in an arc over a wooded ground moraine area to the fog lowlands . The Lurrbarg is 67 m above sea level. NN the highest point in the area around Tarnow. The municipality of Dreetz is located between Tarnow and the district of Zernin .

Tarnow is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Bützow and Dreetz in the north, Gülzow-Prüzen in the east, Witzin in the south and Warnow in the north-west.

Community structure

Districts:

• Boitin - first mentioned in 1233 as a round village, incorporated on June 13, 1999
• Grünenhagen - no sources exist before the middle of the 16th century
• Zernin - first mentioned in 1248, incorporated on January 1, 2000

history

The place name, which comes from the Slavic word for thorn , appears in a document as early as 1223 . The church in Tarnow was built in the 14th century , one of the few two-aisled in Mecklenburg. Until its dissolution on December 31, 2004, Tarnow was the administrative seat of the Steintanz-Warnowtal Office . The volunteer fire brigade in Tarnow, as a base fire brigade , is also responsible for tasks outside of the municipality. There is a day care center, a shooting club and a carnival club in the community.

Attractions

→ See also the list of architectural monuments in Tarnow (Mecklenburg)

• Gothic , two-aisled , four-bay village church Tarnow from the 14th century.
• A tourist specialty is the large stone grave in the Tarnower Forest and the 3000 year old prehistoric cult and burial site near the Boitin district - the Boitiner stone dance . The village church of Boitin from the first half of the 14th century can also be seen there.
• Memorial stone for Ernst Thälmann and Rudolf Breitscheid , who were both murdered in Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944 , in the center of the village .

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  two-nave church in Tarnow

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  Church in Zernin

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  Boitiner stone dance - large circle

Transport links

The community is located on the road connecting Bützow to Goldberg . The federal road 104 (Güstrow - Schwerin ) leads through Prüzen , three kilometers away . The next train station is in the nearby town of Bützow.

Personalities

from Boitin

• Arnold Fratzscher (1904–1987), politician (CDU)

from Tarnow

• Paul Vorbeck (1899–1946), politician (NSDAP)

Web links

Commons : Tarnow  - collection of images

• Literature about Tarnow in the state bibliography MV
• Literature on Boitin in the Landesbibliographie MV
• Literature about Grünenhagen in the state bibliography MV
• Literature about Zernin in the state bibliography MV
• Local history

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: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1999
3. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2000