Trassenheide

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 54 ° 5 '  N , 13 ° 52'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Vorpommern-Greifswald
Office :	Usedom-North
Height :	1 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.5 km 2
Residents:	917 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	141 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17449
Area code :	038371
License plate :	VG, ANK, GW, PW, SBG, UEM, WLG
Community key :	13 0 75 133
Office administration address:	Möwenstrasse 1 17454 Zinnowitz
Website :	www.seebad-trassenheide.de
Mayor :	Horst Freese
Location of the municipality of Trassenheide in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district

Trassenheide is a seaside resort on the island of Usedom , set back on the shores of the Baltic Sea . The municipality is administered by the Usedom-Nord office , based in Zinnowitz. Until 2005, the community was part of the office at the Peene mouth .

Geography and traffic

Trassenheide beach

Trassenheide is one of the smallest seaside resorts on Usedom. It lies between Zinnowitz and Karlshagen . The community can also be reached by train (Trassenheide train station on the Wolgaster Fähre – Heringsdorf route and Trassenmoor stop on the Zinnowitz – Peenemünde route ). About eight kilometers west of the community is the city of Wolgast and four kilometers east of the Zinnowitz official seat. Since 2005, the heavy through traffic towards Peenemünde, especially in the summer months, has been regulated by a traffic light at the town's largest intersection. A cycle path was laid out next to the road in the direction of the neighboring town of Karlshagen. Thus a further section was added to the extensive network of cycle paths in Usedom.

history

In 1779 a mutton stall was named in the heather northeast of Mölschow , which was supposed to protect flocks of sheep from sudden flooding by the Baltic Sea or the Peene River. This became a settlement in 1786. In 1824, the place "Hammelstall" was founded from parts of the fiscal forest district and parts of the Mölschow domain. In 1840 there were already 138 inhabitants.

Mutton was part of the Kingdom of Prussia since the Treaty of Stockholm in 1720 . After the administrative reform in 1815 it became part of the Prussian province of Pomerania and from 1818 to 1945 belonged to the district of Usedom-Wollin .

Already before 1880, according to the measuring table sheet, a forest farm was built north of the village, which was named "Trassenmoor". This name was named in honor of the forester Trassen, who sank into the local moor . That was the model for the naming of the place Hammelstall. Where the promenade is now, the Hammelstall boat station was located in 1880.

In 1908 the Hammelstall colony applied for the name "Trassenheide". At this time the tourism started, therefore this renaming was necessary. In 1910 the name was approved and since then the place, which was made an independent municipality in 1928, has been called Trassenheide.

On 17./18. August 1943, the place was badly damaged in a British bombing raid ( Operation Hydra ), which was actually aimed at the neighboring Peenemünde Army Research Center (and the scientists' accommodation in Karlshagen ). 621 inmates of the “Trassenmoor” labor camp and the camp in the south-west of Karlhagen were killed.

From 1945 to 1952, the municipality, with the part of the district of Usedom-Wollin that remained in Germany after the Second World War , formed the district of Usedom in the state of Mecklenburg , which was added to the Wolgast district in the Rostock district in 1952 .

Planned refugee accommodation after an arson attack in November 2015

During the GDR times there was the central pioneer tent camp " Raymonde Dien " of the Neubrandenburg district. It was looked after and managed by the VEB repair shop in Neubrandenburg . It was placed directly behind the dunes in the forest and consisted of barracks, tents and permanent sanitary buildings. Besides the Prerower camp, it was one of the largest central holiday camps on the Baltic coast. After the fall of the Wall, the camp was leveled and the large health clinic was built there.

In addition, a Polytechnic Oberschule (POS) in Bad Köstritz maintained a holiday camp that had been abandoned to decay since 1990.

The community has belonged to the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania since 1990 . Since 1994 Trassenheide has belonged to the district of Ostvorpommern , which was added to the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald in 2011 . In July 2006 the place was given the title "Ostseebad".

In the early morning hours of November 15, 2015, strangers carried out an arson attack on a planned refugee accommodation in Strandstrasse. The attack, in which the ready-to-move building became uninhabitable, was preceded by an attempted arson attack in October.

politics

Community representation

The local elections on May 25, 2014 led to the following result with a turnout of 68.5%:

Party / list	Share of votes	Seats
Action alliance for Trassenheide	57.16%	5
Alliance for Trassenheide	27.71%	2
Citizens in the center	15.13%	1

The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following result with a turnout of 73.3%:

Party / list	Seats
Alliance for Trassenheide	5
Action alliance for Trassenheide	2
Citizens in the center	1

coat of arms

Blazon : "A blue main shield post in silver, topped with a silver salmon, accompanied on both sides by a green heather stem with nine green leaves and nine red flowers." The coat of arms was designed by Michael Zapfe from Weimar . It was approved on November 18, 2002 by the Ministry of the Interior and registered under the number 269 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Justification for the coat of arms: In the coat of arms, the main shield post as the first letter "T" indicates the place name. In addition, the heather, which is a special feature in the community hallway, is used as a speaking symbol to create a visual reference to the place name. On the one hand, the salmon is said to represent the abundance of fish in the bordering waters of the Baltic Sea, and on the other hand, fishing as a former main source of income for the inhabitants.

flag

The municipality does not have an officially approved flag .

Official seal

The official seal shows the municipal coat of arms with the inscription "GEMEINDE OSTSEEBAD TRASSENHEIDE".

Attractions

Trassenheide butterfly farm

The world is upside down, the house is upside down

→ See also the list of architectural monuments in Trassenheide

• Butterfly farm, the largest such facility in Europe with an area of ​​5000 m²
• House upside down (The world is upside down)
• Adventure mini golf pirates of the Baltic Sea
• Wild Life Usedom (May to October)
• Usedom Park - Trassenheide children's area
• Promenade on the Baltic Sea
• Karlshagen memorial and memorial
• Station building
• Dutch windmill in Mühlenstrasse
• Pirate Island Usedom (Hotel Seeklause)

Web links

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

Wikivoyage: Trassenheide  - travel guide

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. ↑ Manfred Niemeyer: Ostvorpommern I . Collection of sources and literature on place names. Vol. 1: Usedom. (= Greifswald contributions to toponymy. Vol. 1), Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, Institute for Slavic Studies, Greifswald 2001, ISBN 3-86006-149-6 . P. 20 ff
3. ^ [1] Trassenheide: Refugee accommodation on Usedom burned out. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
4. ↑ Office Usedom-Nord ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 8 kB) 
5. ↑ Hans-Heinz Schütt: On shield and flag production office TINUS, Schwerin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814380-0-0 , p. 372.
6. ↑ ^{a b} main statute § 1 (PDF).
7. ↑ Europe's largest butterfly park. Retrieved August 1, 2019 .