Square (Western Pomerania)

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Square (Western Pomerania)
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Viereck highlighted

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '  N , 14 ° 3'  E

Basic data
State : Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County : Vorpommern-Greifswald
Office : Uecker-Randow valley
Height : 15 m above sea level NHN
Area : 54.75 km 2
Residents: 1027 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 19 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 17309
Primaries : 039744, 039748
License plate : VG, ANK, GW, PW, SBG, UEM, WLG
Community key : 13 0 75 138
Office administration address: Lindenstrasse 32
17309 Pasewalk
Website : www.amt-uecker-randow-tal.de
Mayor : Axel Marquardt (DIE LINKE)
Location of the municipality of Viereck in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district
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The municipality Viereck is located in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald in the east of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). The community is administered by the Uecker-Randow-Tal office based in the city of Pasewalk .

geography

location

The community area extends from the east bank of the Uecker to the Randowtal . The area around Viereck is flat and very wooded (part of the Ueckermünder Heide ). North of the square there is a large training area (Stallberg-Drögeheide-Specht-Berg Karpin) as well as in the Ernst-Thalmann settlement the Kürassier barracks where the Panzergrenadier battalion is stationed 411th

Community structure

The following eight districts belong to the municipality:

as well as the following four living spaces:

Incorporations

Stallberg and Uhlenkrug were incorporated on July 1, 1950. Marienthal joined on January 1, 2002.

history

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The village of Viereck was founded by 10 settler families from the Palatinate in 1748 following an appeal by Frederick the Great . Of the numerous Palatinate colonies founded in Pomerania and Brandenburg at that time, only Viereck, the double colony Wilhelmine - Coccejendorf and Hoppenwalde have survived to the present day. Only in Viereck is the Palatine dialect, known as "Vierecksch", spoken to this day.

The place initially called "Jägersberg" was renamed in 1751 in honor of the state minister responsible for the colonists, Adam Otto von Viereck . Some among are in Viereck from the founding period listed building houses standing condition.

The place Viereck is 7 km north of Pasewalk .

politics

Community representation

The Viereck municipal council consists of 10 members:

  • CDU : 4 seats
  • Voter community "Viereck": 6 seats

Viereck acted several times as a venue for the right-wing extremist scene.

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 region of Western Pomerania . It shows an upright griffin with a raised tail and the inscription "GEMEINDE VIERECK * LANDKREIS VORPOMMERN-GREIFSWALD".

religion

The newly built Catholic Church of the Birth of Mary
in Viereck in 1911 ; View from the southwest
The Randow near Borken

Founded by Catholic settlers, Viereck is still a Catholic place in a Protestant environment. Already a hundred years after the village was founded, the settlers erected the first church building in 1848 with the simplest means. Today's Catholic Church of the Birth of Mary was planned by the Berlin architect August Kaufhold and built from bricks in the neo-Gothic style in 1911 . It is a listed building as an architectural monument . The parish of Viereck has been part of the St. Otto parish in Pasewalk since 2004 .

Attractions

  • Neo-Gothic Church of the Birth of Mary (1911) in Viereck, Kirchstrasse 21
  • Manor house in Borken in the area of ​​the Randowniederungen

Transport links

Viereck is located on the national road 321 from Pasewalk to Torgelow , via which the place can be reached with the 901 bus. The next train station is in Pasewalk. The long-distance cycle route Berlin – Usedom runs through Viereck . Viereck (Western Pomerania) and Uhlenkrug station were on the Pasewalk – Gumnitz railway line .

Personalities

  • Paul Holz (1883–1938), draftsman, born in the Riesenbrück district

Web links

Commons : Square  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Square in the genealogical index of places

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. ^ Main statute of the municipality of Viereck . Viereck December 2, 2019, § 4 (1) districts, p. 2 ( amt-uecker-randow-tal.de [PDF; 2.0 MB ; accessed on December 23, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Geodata viewer of the Office for Geoinformation, Surveying and Cadastre of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ( information )
  4. ↑ Municipalities in 1994 and their changes since January 1st, 1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
  5. ↑ Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2002. Federal Statistical Office
  6. ^ A b Peter Wiesinger: Phonetic-phonological investigations on vowel development in the German dialects. Walter de Gruyter, 1971, ISBN 978-3-11-088124-0 , p. 325 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  7. ↑ cf. Cantow in Western Pomerania, since 1748 .
  8. ↑ Landtag printed matter 6-2691 ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2016 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) verfassungsschutz-mv.de, accessed on June 23, 2017, (.pdf file). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.verfassungsschutz-mv.de
  9. ↑ Why the NPD is wrongly talked to death. In: sinnundwert.wordpress.com. April 3, 2017. Retrieved June 23, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Main Statute, Section 1, Paragraph 2 (PDF).
  11. ^ Archdiocese of Berlin: Press release: Palatinate in Viereck. The Church of the Birth of Mary has existed for 100 years. In: erzbistumberlin.de. September 1, 2011, accessed June 23, 2017 .