Veelböken

Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Northwest Mecklenburg
Office :	Gadebusch
Height :	58 m above sea level NHN
Area :	32.53 km 2
Residents:	639 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	20 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	19205
Area code :	03886
License plate :	NWM, GDB, GVM, WIS
Community key :	13 0 74 081
Office administration address:	Am Markt 1 ; 19205 Gadebusch
Mayor :	Steffen Timm
Location of the community Veelböken in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg

Veelböken is a municipality in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is administered by the Gadebusch Office based in the city of the same name .

geography

The municipality of Veelböken lies between Schwerin and Lübeck in a ground moraine area between the Radegast and Stepenitz rivers .

The municipality includes the districts of Botelsdorf, Frauenmark, Hindenberg, Passow, Passow expansion, Paetrow, Rambeel and Veelböken.

history

Passow was mentioned in a document as Parsowe in 1230 . The name comes from the Old Slavic prah and points to the Slavic locator , i.e. place of Parš .

In 1944 American airmen were murdered in the community, for which six people, including the Veelböken block warden , were sentenced to death in the Dachau aviation trials .

politics

Coat of arms, flag, official seal

The municipality has no officially approved national emblem, neither a coat of arms nor a flag. The official seal is the small state seal with the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg. It shows a looking bull's head with a torn off neck fur and crown and the inscription "GEMEINDE VEELBÖKEN • LANDKREIS NORDWESTMECKLENBURG".

Attractions

Hindenberg Manor

Manor house in Veelböken: two-storey plastered building, conversion to a retirement and nursing home
Hindenberg Manor : two-storey brick building from the 19th century that was rebuilt several times (1833, 1896)
Various farmhouses in Passow and Rambeel

Economy and Transport

economy

Agriculture plays a major role in Veelböken, several farms cultivate the areas and operate dairy farming and pig breeding. The former manor house in the municipality was converted into a modern old people's and nursing home. The nature in the area is largely intact, besides storks you can watch the now rare sea eagles .

traffic

The federal highway 208 from Wismar to Gadebusch leads 1 km past Veelböken. In the town of Gadebusch, 6 km away, there is a rail connection to the state capital Schwerin .

Personalities

Michael Tryanowski (1919 - 2018), street musician and Rostock original

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ 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 ).

^ Paul Kühnel: The Slavic place names in Meklenburg. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 46, 1881, ISSN 0259-7772 , pp. 3-168, here p. 104.

↑ Summary of the judgment ( memento of the original from July 19, 2014 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Main Statute, Section 1, Paragraph 2

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-MV-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] Paul Kühnel: The Slavic place names in Meklenburg. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 46, 1881, ISSN 0259-7772 , pp. 3-168, here p. 104.