Varchentin

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Varchentin
Groß Plasten municipality
Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 59 ″  N , 12 ° 50 ′ 59 ″  E
Height : 45 m above sea level NHN
Area : 17.31 km²
Residents : 291  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 17 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : May 26, 2019
Postal code : 17192
Area code : 039934

Varchentin is a district of the municipality of Groß Plasten in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). The districts Beckenkrug and Carolinenhof belong to Varchentin.

geography

Varchentin in the Mecklenburg Lake District is located on the approx. 200 hectare large Varchentiner Lake . A few hundred meters southwest of the town center is the Little Varchentiner See , which, like its large neighbor , is surrounded by a belt of reeds .

Varchentin is located on the federal highway 194 halfway between Waren (Müritz) and Stavenhagen , which are both 14 km away from Varchentin. The nearest train stations are also in these two cities. A country road connects Varchentin with Möllenhagen on the B 192 .

history

In 1333 the place Varchentin, whose name comes from Slavonic , appeared for the first time in a document. The Varchentine Church was built between 1270 and 1280 . The old village of Varchentin lay on the banks of the Great Varchentiner Lake and was rebuilt in 1827 southeast of the church. The settlers were day laborers from the Varchentin estate, whose owners often changed, including von Ferber , a mayor of Waren and the Rostke family.

In 1836 the banker Gottlieb Jenisch acquired the estate and had Varchentin Castle built there, which passed into the possession of Count Grote from his daughter Marie (she was married to Count Adolf Grote ). From 1924 the company experienced its economic boom. The castle estate included over 1700 hectares of the surrounding land; practically the entire population of the places in it was dependent on the count's family. Its last head, the Nazi agricultural functionary Friedrich Franz Graf Grote (1901–1942), worked with the Artamans , who set up a training camp here. The Nazi functionary and SS-Oberführer Grote fell in Russia in 1942. His wife of American descent was able to emigrate to the USA with the children. The place survived the Second World War almost unscathed. Russian troops were quartered in the castle from 1945 to 1947, after which the castle property was used as an agricultural school and a hotel.

Varchentin is still dominated by agriculture today. The fire station built in the mid-1990s and the adjacent village square are the focal points of village life.

With effect from May 26, 2019, Varchentin was incorporated into the neighboring municipality of Groß Plasten to the south. The last mayor was Jana Düring.

Attractions

  • Varchentin Castle : built in Tudor style in 1847 by the Hamburg banker Gottlieb Jenisch according to plans by the Swiss architect Auguste de Meuron , later expanded to include a south wing. The spacious castle includes several stately farm buildings, including the orangery and pheasantry located a little further away, as well as the mausoleum of the Counts Grote, located south of the castle in the forest and built in 1895 in the neo-renaissance style . The landscape park was designed by Peter Joseph Lenné . In the park there is an artificially created canal connection between the two Varchentin lakes, which has dried up due to the lower water table.
  • The church is a Gothic brick building from the 13th century, with a two-aisled , two-bay nave , originally with ribbed vaults on a central pillar, today with a flat roof. The retracted choir has a ribbed vault. The church was rebuilt several times and received a square wooden west tower in the 19th century.
  • Windmill in the Beckenkrug district: The 150 year old thatched mill was converted into a holiday apartment.

  • Varchentin Castle , main building and north wing

  • Lenné Park and Castle

  • Mausoleum of the Counts Grote

  • Church in Varchentin

Personalities

literature

  • Marcus Köhler: Park, Varchentin. in: Bund Heimat und Umwelt in Deutschland (Ed.): White paper on historical gardens and parks in the new federal states ; 2nd edition, Bonn 2005; ISBN 3-925374-69-8 ; Pp. 79-81.

Web links

Commons : Varchentin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistisches Amt MV - Population status of the districts, offices and municipalities 2017 (XLS file) (population figures in update of the 2011 census)
  2. ↑ Artur Jost Pflegehar: Artamanen auf Varchentin. In: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte, 9th year, No. 107 (1933), November, pp. 545-546.
  3. ↑ Michael Buddrus (ed.): Mecklenburg in the Second World War. The meetings of Gauleiter Friedrich Hildebrandt with the NS leadership bodies of Gau Mecklenburg 1939–1945. An edition of the meeting minutes. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2009, p. 1019 (joined the NSDAP on December 1, 1931, membership number 851877).
  4. ↑ Announcement of the Ministry of the Interior and Europe of February 20, 2019, Official Gazette. MV p. 359