Usedom (city)

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 52 '  N , 13 ° 55'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Vorpommern-Greifswald
Office :	Usedom-South
Height :	3 m above sea level NHN
Area :	38.54 km 2
Residents:	1725 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	45 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17406
Area code :	038372
License plate :	VG, ANK, GW, PW, SBG, UEM, WLG
Community key :	13 0 75 137
City structure:	14 districts
City administration address :	Markt 1 17406 Usedom
Website :	www.stadtinfo-usedom.de
Mayor :	Jochen Storrer
Location of the city of Usedom in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district

St. Mary's town church and parish hall

Usedom is a country town on the island of Usedom in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). It belongs to the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald and is the administrative seat of the Usedom-Süd office , to which another 14 communities belong. To distinguish it from the island of Usedom, it is also called the town of Usedom or Usedom town .

geography

The country town is located in the southwestern part of the island of the same name , in the so-called Achterland , on the northwestern shore of Lake Usedomer , a bay in the Szczecin Lagoon . The area of ​​the city is bounded by the Peenestrom in the west and north .

According to the criteria , the city ​​of Usedom has not yet fulfilled a central function , the closest basic center determined in the spatial planning is the northeastern Heringsdorf , the closest middle center is the southwestern Hanseatic city of Anklam .

City structure

The following districts belong to the city of Usedom:

Usedom Gellenthin Gneventhin Karnin Kölpin

Mönchow Ostklüne Paske Vossberg Welzin

Westklüne Wilhelmsfelde Wilhelmshof Drinker

history

City of Usedom

Surname

The name of the city of Usedom is derived from the Slavic " uznam ". “ Uznoimia civitas ” was first attested to in 1124/1125 by the biographers of Bishop Otto von Bamberg, who was missionary here, for the city in the southwest of the island. Perhaps Uznoimia is based on the Slavic word znoj for stream or mouth or flowing around . The name changes to Uznam, Uznom (1175), Uznoim, Usdum to Usedum in 1421.

middle Ages

The region has been settled since the Neolithic and by Slavs from the 8th to 9th centuries. The complex of finds on the Schlossberg, the so-called building yard, brought a lot of evidence of a fortified settlement from this time. There was also another settlement further north-east near the official mills. A Slavic burial ground was found east of it near the current cemetery. A Slavic castle settlement has stood on today's Schlossberg since the 10th century. The "urbs Osna" was destroyed around 1115/1119 by the Danes under King Niels . That was also without a date in the Knytlinga c. Called 123.

View 1611/15. Stralsund illuminated manuscript - center right - Bauwiek, top right - official mills

View from 1652 after Merian

In 1128 the Wendish noble West Pomerania accepted Christianity on the Usedomer Schlossberg under pressure from Wartislaw I. The meeting was often referred to as the first state parliament of Wartislaw's territory. Usedom Castle, the center of the " terra Wanzlow ", was first mentioned in a document in 1140 when the Pope confirmed the Pomeranian diocese . A castle was rebuilt around 1159 and at the same time a planned town with its market was created.

In 1155 the Grobe monastery was built near the town . In the years 1173, 1177 and 1178 Usedom was again conquered and destroyed by Danes under King Waldemar I.

Until the middle of the 13th century, Usedom was one of the main residences of the Dukes of Pomerania, as evidenced by the many documents they carried out there. Later it lost this importance in favor of Wolgast and Stettin .

In the 13th century, the German settlement of Usedom began as part of the eastern colonization . Usedom was first mentioned as vicus - i.e. as a village - in 1240 and as oppidum in 1267. On December 23, 1298 Usedom received by Duke Bogislaw IV. Lübeck law .

16th to 19th century

In the 16th and 17th centuries, the city built a ring wall with three city gates, only one of which has survived. The Stralsund illuminated manuscript conveys a good picture of the city at that time, which was also the model for the vignette on the Lubin map from 1618. During major fires in 1475 and 1688, the city burned down completely.

After the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, Usedom belonged to Swedish Pomerania , with the Treaty of Stockholm on February 1, 1720, the city became Prussian.

According to the Prussian original measurement table from 1835, Usedom has hardly developed outside the city wall. Only along the northern road to the Amtsmühlen and to the southeastern Amtswiek were smallholder settlements (arable citizens). Since 1876 the city has had a railway connection with a train station on the Ducherow-Swinoujscie route. The city now also continued to develop outward.

From the 20th century

Paul Trömel

Mayor Trömel as Foreign Legionnaire in Algeria (May 1913)

Trömel on his return from Algiers in France (November 1913)

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Mayor of Usedom, Paul Trömel, made a name for himself across Europe. He disappeared without a trace in February 1911, was then recognized in Paris and stated that he did not know how he got there. He was subjected to a psychiatric examination and came to the conclusion that Trömel led a “psychological double life” and suffered from “pathological wandering instinct”. In disciplinary proceedings, he was acquitted because of this, and he resumed his mayor's office and exercised it to everyone's satisfaction. In March 1913 he disappeared again immediately after a district council meeting and appeared a few weeks later in Algiers as a member of the French Foreign Legion , which triggered enormous press coverage and gave rise to adventurous speculations. On the trip he had adopted a new name: the press spoke of “Tunzel”, “Funze”, “Tunke” or “Tunge”; in the Legion documents it was called “Tunzé”. According to reports, he called himself "Kunze" when embarking and was then misunderstood. In the late summer of 1913 he wrote to his wife that he was “tired of the legion” and then returned to Germany after he had been officially retired by the French military authorities because of “hearing impairment”. In 1914 an autobiographical short novel appeared under his name, in which he describes his experiences; then his traces are lost.

In the course of the Ducherow – Swinemünde railway line , the Karnin lift bridge was built in 1932/33 , which was blown up in 1945 shortly before the end of the war by troops of the retreating Wehrmacht.

The city center and the town hall have been completely renovated since 1991 as part of the urban development subsidy.

Districts

Gellenthin

Gellenthin was first mentioned in a document in 1254 as "Gelendin". The Slavic name is interpreted as "nanny" or "poor swallower".

In terms of shape, Gellenthin is a street green village and in terms of its function it is a farming village, which, however, is more of a small-scale farming community. It has no public buildings and, apart from bus connections, no transport connection.

Gneventhin

Gneventhin was first mentioned in 1218 as "Gnewetyn". The Slavic name is interpreted as "anger". Like the neighboring Gellenthin, it is often mentioned in written records up to the 19th century.

Gneventhin is a clustered village, but is structured on a large scale. The farmsteads are larger three-sided courtyards, the structure of which is still partially recognizable today. This place also has no recognizable infrastructure apart from roads. Two farms are listed for "Farm Holidays".

On July 1, 1950 Gneventhin was incorporated into Karnin.

Karnin

Karniner Bridge

Karnin was first mentioned in 1267 as "Carnyn". The Slavic name is interpreted as "small growth".

→ Main article : Karnin (Usedom)

Kölpin

Kölpin was given the same name in 1589 and from 1911. It is not identical to the place Kölpinsee, although the names have a similar origin. The name is interpreted as "swan".

Further information → see Regezow.

→ Main article : Kölpin (Usedom)

Mönchow

Church in Mönchow

The place Mönchow was first mentioned in 1168 as "Minichsow" and "Minuchowe". In it, Bishop Conrad II confirmed his possessions to the Grobe monastery. The name is interpreted as "created by monks".

The place consisted of a homestead, which was later expanded into a Vorwerk, and an adjoining brick factory. The associated place of residence, where the church and the cemetery of Mönchow and Karnin was located, was further northwest. The place was called "Kolonie Mönchow" in 1920 because settlers received land there. At that time the brickworks had also closed.

Ostklüne

Ostklüne was first named in 1756 as "Ost-Clüne". The Slavic name is interpreted as "branch" or "tip", referring to the headlands at the "throat", the narrow area from the Peene river to Lake Usedom. However, it is not identical to the Klüne desert, which was roughly at the point that was built over by Gut Wilhelmshof.

In 1779 the "Vorwerk Ostkluene" was called, it was probably the place where the brickworks was later built.

In 1835, according to PUM (Preußisches Urmestischblatt), the place consisted of two parts, the brickworks - approx. 500 m east of the "throat" and the village directly on the "throat". The cemetery lay further north between the two parts, it disappeared before 1920. In addition to the settlement on the water, there was a pilot station and the ferry station to Westklüne and Wilhelmshof in 1835. In the district map from 1900 there is a windmill between the cemetery and the brickyard, but it disappeared in 1920. The pilot station was closed before 1920 and relocated to Westklüne for better accessibility. Only one yard remained at the Ostklüne bank settlement, it was probably the ferry station. The brickworks and the estate were also closed before 1920.

The estate disappeared after 1945 and was developed as a housing estate. The settlement on the banks of the "throat" was also expanded. There is no official ferry connection, only private boats for the crossing. Otherwise, the further route around the Usedomer See to the city must be taken.

Paske

Paske was first mentioned in 1709 as "Pasch". This is interpreted as a “forest clearing” or “bee garden”. The place is on the northern foothills of the Usedomer See opposite the "Bauhof" district of Usedom. It was just a small farming and fishing village and was shaped like a dead end village. It was not until 1920 that a village cemetery was built further east and a small boat yard to the south-east on the “White Mountain”. There was a small port at the site, from which there was probably a short-term boat ferry connection to the city.

The village and the shipyard were insignificant places to live after 1945 and still are today.

Vossberg

Vossberg or modern spelled Vossberg was first mentioned in 1906 in the index of places. The place is on the B 110 halfway between Zecheriner Bridge and Usedom (city). Even after it was founded, it was only a single farm in 1920.

During the GDR era, an agricultural complex (LPG) was built there around 1974 and residential units and homes were built for its employees, which enlarged the place considerably. After 1990 the complex was privatized, expanded and modernized.

Welzin

The oldest written mention of Welzin as "Weltzyn" from 1267, like many of the Grobe monastery, is considered a forgery. The document from 1286 named “de Welzhin” is really the first. In it, Duke Bogislaw IV gave the Grobe monastery some villages and justice. A Wisco and a Johannes de Wilzhin appeared as witnesses. The Slavic place name is interpreted as "enlarged" or "praised".

According to the property map from 1530, the strip of land from Welzin to the north belongs to the Pudagla monastery.

Welzin is located southeast of the city of Usedom between Lake Usedom and the lagoon. In 1835 the place was a small village of farmers and fishermen with a brick factory on the bank of the lagoon. The settlement had hardly changed until 1920, only the brickyard was abandoned and a place to live was created there. The farmsteads were given a clear structure as three- and four-sided farms.

Even during the GDR era, the structure hardly changed, only the commercial buildings became fewer, as the farmers belonged to the LPG after 1960 and there was hardly any private economy left. Tourism hardly touched or touched the area.

Westklüne

Westklüne was first officially called "Ziegeley Westkluene" in 1779. The Slavic name "Klüne" is interpreted as "branch" or "tip", referring to the headlands at the "throat", the narrow area from the Peenestrom to Lake Usedom. However, it is not identical to the Klüne desert, which was roughly at the point that was built over by Gut Wilhelmshof.

According to the Prussian Urmes Tischblatt of 1835, Westklüne consisted only of a ferry farm. By 1920, according to MTB, this was reduced and consisted only of a small pilot station. The ferry station was moved to Osklüne. After 1945 and during the GDR era, Westklüne grew considerably, but also because the former Wilhelmshof housing estate was added to the place, the border became the rift between Westklüne and Wilhelmshof.

The small village in the shape of a stretched street village has little tourist infrastructure, there is not even a boat ferry for cyclists and hikers to the other side of the throat.

Wilhelmsfelde

Halfway along the former road from Gneventhin to Wilhelmshof was an unnamed farm. This settlement was founded in 1838 by the landowner Johann Lutz, a farm belonging to Karnin and the land of the Gellenthiner Schulzengut. This farm was officially named Wilhelmsfelde for the first time in 1858. In 1920 the settlement had only grown by one more homestead.

It was not until the GDR era that a residential area was created around these courtyards, which now became the right place in Wilhelmsfelde.

Wilhelmshof

To the north and south of today's town there was an extensive Slavic settlement (600 to 1200).

In 1388 there is said to have been an independent estate that was separated from Mönchow. In 1722, on the orders of King Friedrich Wilhelm I, a dominal property was formed from the monastery field (Kavelacker and Klüne) of the Grobe / Pudagla monastery and the Mönchower Hufen of the Lord of Restorf. This was named Wilhelmshof in honor of the king and was first officially called “Willhellmshoff” in 1731 and with its current name in 1779.

As early as 1835 (according to PUM) it was a considerable estate with a somewhat remote farm workers' list and small craft settlement, both of which are now part of Westklüne. By 1920 the estate was again expanded considerably, the Katenzeile gave way to a newly created estate park, and the farm workers lived directly on the estate or in the settlement (today Westklüne).

As a result of the land reform of 1945, the estate was sprawled, and scattered new farms were built in the direction of Wilhelmsfelde. Most of the remnants were retained, then became an LPG property around 1960 and privatized after 1990.

Drinker

Zecheriner Bridge (crossing of the Peene River)

Zecherin is said to be mentioned several times between 1160 and 1194 as Sikeriz, Sikerina and Secheriz (according to authors Beyersdorf (1878), Rolfs (1933) and Hasselbach (1843)). On July 1, 1950, Zecherin was incorporated into Karnin.

→ Main article : Zecherin (Usedom)

Historic living spaces

Official mills

Official mills were first officially mentioned under this name in 1693. The place was mentioned in the register of places until 1906. The name of the living space referred to the 3 Dutch windmills located there, which were already marked in the PUM (Prussian Urmeßtischblatt) before 1835. Two of them had disappeared before 1920, one was still after. Before that there were two windmills belonging to the Pudagla Office - hence the name "Office Mills".

At this place there was a rare Slavic body burial ground (600 to 1200), the old and the new Usedom cemetery and the Usedom Jewish cemetery. Only the new cemetery is still there.

In the Stralsund illuminated manuscript (see picture above) from 1612 the official mills were drawn in front of the city wall on the hill.

This residential area in the northeast of the city was later integrated into the city of Usedom after 1920. It is now crossed by the B 110 in the direction of seaside resorts and built over on both sides.

Amtswiek

The Amtswiek was first named in 1693 as "Amtswyk" and referred to as "the old suburb" of Usedom. This place belonged to the office Pudagla - hence the prefix "office", the suffix "Wiek" comes from the Pomeranian "city" or "marketplace", but also "small bay".

In the Stralsund illuminated manuscript (see picture above) from 1612 the Amtswiek was drawn in front of the city wall at the Peenetor, the same situation is also drawn in the vignette of the Lubin map from 1618.

The Amtswiek formed its own municipality until the 20th century, with 99 inhabitants in the 1939 census. The community included the area around Wieckstrasse near today's port.

Kavelacker

Kavelacker was first called "Kawellacker" in 1694. The last mention was made in 1722 with "Cavel Acker". Then the settlement was built over with the current "Wilhelmshof".

Sandfurt

At Karnin there was a place to live that was called "Sandford" in 1835 and "Sandfurt" in 1920.

→ For details, see Karnin

Desolation

Building yard

Bauhof was officially named as a place of the same name in 1709. It was an "ancient" homestead - farms were then called "construction yards". This courtyard belonged to the early Slavic ramparts and castle and was used to supply them. The entire complex of the castle hill, which is still visible today, is still only referred to as a building yard.

This archaeological site became known as early as 1128 through the biographers of Bishop Otto von Bamberg, who converted the rulers gathered here at the castle to Christianity with Duke Wartislaw I. That is why the Christianization monument now stands on the castle hill.

Again and again, even a few years ago, the building yard was archaeologically examined and brought spectacular results and finds. It is a large ground monument. Next to the Schlossberg there is a homestead, probably built around 1920, which has nothing to do with the historic residential area. Because of this, however, this area is unfortunately not archaeologically researchable.

Bresiz

Bresiz was first mentioned with this name in 1168. Several mentions were made up to 1267, after which the place disappears, it is desolate. The exact location is not known, the place was east of Mönchow. The Slavic founding name means birch or birch grove.

Rough

Grobe was first mentioned in 1159 as "Grobe", "Groben" and "villa Groben". The Slavic name is interpreted as "settlement protected by moats". The place was mentioned in documents until 1317 and was still drawn on historical maps in 1662.

The Grobe monastery was founded in 1155 and the monastery was moved to Pudagla in 1309 . The desert is very well documented archaeologically.

→ Main article : Grobe Monastery

Gumzin

Gumzin was named as Gumeczin, Gumeci and Gummetzin for the first time in three documents in 1286. The name is not interpreted. Gumzin was located between Usedom and Krienke and was ceded in 1286 with high and low jurisdiction to the Grobe monastery by Duke Bogislaw IV. The village was named until 1861 and was then united with Krienke with corridor and forest.

Hooves

Hufe was first mentioned in 1709 as "Huff". The name is derived from the early German area of ​​the hooves . It was called until 1756. The place was in the so-called Usedomer Winkel, the island ledge to today's Zecheriner bridge. Between the towns of Gneventhin and Gellenthin it was a small noble estate. This homestead was drawn and labeled in the PUM 1835 (Prussian Urmes Tischblatt).

Little Werder

The place "Kleine Werder" was first mentioned in 1575 as "that small werder". In "old times" (quote) on the northern side of the island "Anklamer Fähre" there was a pre-island in the Peene River that was inhabited. It was mentioned again in 1709. In the PUM 1835 (Prussian Urmes Tischblatt), the island was still drawn as such, no development can be seen. The island was then covered with the dam to the location “Anklamer Fähre” and today's peninsula was created. Now the "Kleine Werder" is again built with holiday homes. Strangely enough, according to the source, this desert island belongs to the city of Usedom and not to Anklam, like the island "Anklamer Fähre" to the east.

Klüne

Klüne was first mentioned in 1267 as "Clvne". In 1310 the place was called "Clune" and in 1709 "Klüne". The place was south of the city of Usedom. It was a Gut Klüne am Haff, but not identical to today's Ost- und Westklüne. It was built over with Gut Wilhelmshof after 1722 (last documented mention). The Slavic name is interpreted as "branch" or "tip", referring to the headlands at the "throat", the narrow area from the Peene river to Lake Usedom. A single house in this old settlement, the pilot's station, has been preserved in Westklüne to this day.

→ see also Wilhelmshof and Ost- und Westklüne

New

Neufähr was first mentioned in 1537 as "Nige Vehre". In 1575 the names "Neuwe Fähr" and "Nya Färd" followed. This place is said to have existed near Mönchow as a ferry point to the mainland and to have fallen desolately in the Thirty Years War. In the old maps, there is a landing site where the Vorwerk and brickworks were later built.

Regezov

The place was officially named from 1267 to 1901 with "Regezo" (1829 and in PUM 1835) and "Regezow". The documents from 1267 (twice) and from 1317, which name Regezow, are forged like many of the Grobe and Pudagla monasteries.

Therefore, the first mention with a real document is only to be assessed as "Reghezowe" for 1337. Why Kölpin appears in between with 1589 is unclear, because this naming is based on a source (Koser) from 1672. Regezow is specified in Niemeyer as a desert with an imprecise location, but, as said, is an identical location and form in the PUM (Prussian original table sheet) of 1835 like today's place Kölpin. A previously undocumented renaming between 1901 and 1911 can be assumed. The Slavic place name is interpreted as "reeds".

In 1835 Regezow had a brick factory right on the spot and a second close to Karnin. In between was a larger farm, which was later known as Kölpin and was built over with an estate. The local brickworks were built over with the new Kölpin and the brickworks near Karnin fell victim to the construction of the railway and the bridge.

→ see also Kölpin

Sluteuiz

This place was first mentioned in 1216 as "Sluteuiz". In this document, Bishop Sigwin von Cammin confirms the old and new possessions of the Grobe monastery, including this village near the city of Usedom. The Slavic name is interpreted as "gold". The location later disappears from the records.

Vanzaseuiz

"Vanzaseuiz" was first mentioned in a document with this name. Another mention with "Wanzasevitz" comes from the same year. In the first document, Bishop Sigwin confirms the properties of the Grobe monastery with the status of 1198, including this named place, as well as new acquisitions. The place is no longer mentioned afterwards. The location was only given with the area near Usedom. There is also no name interpretation.

Administrative history

After the administrative reform in 1815, Usedom came to the Prussian province of Pomerania and belonged to the district of Usedom-Wollin from 1818 to 1945 . From 1945 to 1952, the city, 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 . This was in 1952 in the district of Wolgast in District Rostock on. The community has belonged to the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania since 1990. Since 1994 Usedom has belonged to the district of Ostvorpommern , which was added to the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald in 2011.

Population development

year Residents 1990 2272 1995 2051 2000 2010 2005 1936 2010 1892

year Residents 2015 1785 2016 1810 2017 1776 2018 1747 2019 1725

Status: December 31 of the respective year

politics

City council

The city council of the city of Usedom consists of 12 members and the mayor. The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following result, with a turnout of 55.7%:

Party / group of voters	2014	2019
Independent Citizens List (UBL)	4th	5
SPD	3	2
CDU	3	2
NPD	1	1
AfD	-	1
Single applicant Yvonne Leppin	-	1
The left	1	-

mayor

• since 2005: Jochen Storrer (independent citizen list)

Storrer was elected in the mayoral election on May 26, 2019 with a turnout of 53.0% with 66.3% of the valid votes for a further term of five years.

coat of arms

Blazon : “In silver, a side-swept blue spangenhelm with a golden crown and natural peacock bump. On the shield there is a forward-facing, golden crowned blue spangenhelm with blue-silver covers and a natural peacock bump enclosed by two blue-silver flags. " The coat of arms and the flag were redesigned by Michael Zapfe from Weimar . It was approved on November 24, 1997 by the Ministry of the Interior and registered under No. 145 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Justification of the coat of arms: Based on the newly designed coat of arms attached to the Anklamer Gate, the Spangenhelm is intended to commemorate the city founder and city lord Bogislaw IV. Duke of Pomerania-Wolgast. This gave the place Lübisches town charter in 1298.

flag

Flag of the city of Usedom

The flag was approved by the Ministry of the Interior on February 13, 1998. The flag is striped in blue, white and blue across the longitudinal axis of the flag cloth. The blue stripes each take up one fifth, the white stripe three fifths the length of the flag cloth. In the middle of the white stripe is the city's full coat of arms, which takes up two thirds of the height of the flag. The length of the flag is related to the height as 5: 3.

Official seal

The official seal shows the city coat of arms with the inscription "STADT USEDOM".

Town twinning

Usedom's twin cities are Henstedt-Ulzburg (Schleswig-Holstein), Maurepas in France and Wollin in Poland.

Attractions

Anklamer gate

→ See: List of architectural monuments in Usedom (city)

• Anklamer gate
• Marienkirche
• Schlossberg with the Christianization monument, which commemorates the conversion of Pomerania to Christianity by Otto von Bamberg in 1128
• Usedom Harbor Festival . Since 2008, plays have been performed annually in the summer months on an open-air stage at Usedom harbor.
• Zecheriner Bridge
• Karnin railway station with museum
• Ruins of the Karnin lift bridge
• Former Usedom train station, in the current Klaus-Bahlsen-Haus is the nature park center with exhibitions about the nature of the local areas
• Mönchow village church and mausoleum of the Dannenfeldt family

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  Old town view

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  Schlossberg monument

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  Usedom train station

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  Pilot tower and lift bridge Karnin

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  Karnin station, station name: Carnin

Bicycle ferry on the way from Karnin to Kamp over the Peenestrom; in the background the Szczecin Lagoon

traffic

The federal road 110 (B 110) from Anklam to Swinoujscie runs through the city of Usedom as a southern connection to the island of Usedom .

The nearest train station is Anklam on the Berlin – Stralsund railway line . Until 1945 the city had a train station on the Ducherow – Swinoujscie railway line . The route no longer exists since the Karnin Bridge was blown up at the end of World War II . Usedom train station now houses the nature park center of the island of Usedom. In the immediate vicinity of the remains of the railway bridge there is a ferry dock, from which a bicycle ferry runs to Kamp .

Usedom has a small port on Lake Usedom, which has a narrow connection (the “throat”) to the Stettiner Haff . From Heringsdorf Airport , 18 km away, there are seasonal scheduled flight connections to German and some destinations in Central European countries.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Ludwig Protzen von Schramm (1777-1856), Prussian major general
• Johann Bolljahn (1862–1928), founder of German teaching in Korea, born in Paske
• Rudolf Lange (1887–?), Politician (NSDAP)
• Wilhelm Süssmann (1891–1941), Lieutenant General in the Air Force
• Kurt Binding (1904–1971), lawyer, district president in Hildesheim

Personalities associated with the city

• August Heinrich von Pachelbel-Gehag (1795–1857), landowner in Karnin
• Hermann Ferno (1812–1895), landowner in Ostklüne and Welzin
• Karl von Böhlendorff-Kölpin (1855–1925), landowner in Kölpin
• Robert Burkhardt (1874–1954) school principal in Usedom and local researcher

literature

• Gustav Kratz The cities of the province of Pomerania. Outline of their history, mostly based on documents. Berlin 1865, pp. 534-538 ( full text ).
• Lutz Mohr : The Christianization of Pomerania and "The Cross of Usedom" (Otto von Bamberg monument in the city of Usedom). In: Heimathefte für Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwerin, Vol. 10, Issue 4/2000, pp. 21-25.

Web links

Commons : Usedom (city)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Usedom in the Topographia Electoratus Brandenburgici et Ducatus Pomeraniae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• City of Usedom

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 Vorpommern (RREP) 2010 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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. - Central local structure with regional, medium and basic centers, accessed on July 12, 2015 
3. ↑ Main statute of the city of Usedom, § 1
4. ↑ Herbord II, 39
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa from} Manfred Niemeyer: Ostvorpommern I . Collection of sources and literature on place names. Vol. 1: Usedom (= Greifswald Contributions to Place Names, Vol. 1). Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, Institute for Slavonic Studies, Greifswald 2001, ISBN 3-86006-149-6 , p. 5 ff
6. ↑ Ernst Eichler , Werner Mühlmer: The names of cities in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Ingo Koch Verlag, Rostock 2002, ISBN 3-935319-23-1 .
7. ^ Checkinginger Vita III, 4
8. ^ Gustav Kratz : The cities of the province of Pomerania. Outline of their history, mostly according to documents. Berlin 1865, p. 535 .
9. ↑ Saxo p. 892 and Knytlinga c. 125-126
10. ↑ From Mayor to Foreign Legionnaire: The Riddle of My Life. A novel I experienced myself (bibliographical evidence at the German Digital Library ); accessed on August 16, 2016.
11. ↑ Volker Mergenthaler: Völkerschau, cannibalism, Foreign Legion: On the aesthetics of transgression (1897-1936). Niemeyer, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-484-15109-9 , pp. 164-175.
12. ^ R. Burkhardt: Chronicle of the island of Usedom. Swinoujscie 1909–1922, p. 122.
13. ^ Municipality of Amtswiek. In: Information System Pomerania. Pomeranian Research Association, accessed February 18, 2017 . 
14. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Usedom-Wollin district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
15. ↑ Measurement table sheet from 1925 with the city of Usedom and the municipality of Amtswiek ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2017 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. 
16. ↑ Population development of the districts and municipalities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Statistical Report AI of the Statistical Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
17. ^ Result of the local elections on May 25, 2014
18. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
19. ↑ The new port makes me proud. In: Ostsee-Zeitung , February 11, 2019.
20. ↑ Announcement of the final results of the mayoral election of Usedom on May 26, 2019 , accessed on June 13, 2019
21. ↑ Hans-Heinz Schütt: On shield and flag production office TINUS, Schwerin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814380-0-0 , p. 373/374.
22. ↑ ^{a b} main statute § 1 (PDF).
23. ↑ Stadt-Info Usedom
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25. ↑ Wracamy do Heringsdorfu. (No longer available online.) Eurolot SA, December 19, 2013, archived from the original on December 31, 2013 ; Retrieved December 30, 2013 (Polish). 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.