Weitenhagen (District of Western Pomerania-Rügen)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 54 ° 13 '  N , 12 ° 47'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Western Pomerania-Ruegen
Office :	Franzburg-Richtenberg
Height :	19 m above sea level NHN
Area :	17.04 km 2
Residents:	197 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	12 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	18461
Area code :	038322
License plate :	VR, GMN, NVP, RDG, RÜG
Community key :	13 0 73 097
Office administration address:	Ernst-Thälmann-Str. 71 18461 Franzburg
Website :	www.amt-franzburg-richtenberg.de
Mayor :	Hartmut Thurow
Location of the municipality of Weitenhagen in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen

Weitenhagen is a municipality west of Stralsund in the district of Western Pomerania-Rügen . The municipality is administered by the Franzburg-Richtenberg Office , based in the city of Franzburg .

Geography and traffic

Weitenhagen is located about 25 km southwest of the Hanseatic city of Stralsund and about 18 km south of Barth . The B 105 runs north of the municipality .

history

The district of Behrenwalde was first mentioned in a document in the middle of the 14th century. With the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, the place came under Swedish rule after it had previously belonged to the Duchy of Pomerania . In 1815 the municipality and Western Pomerania came to the Prussian province of Pomerania .

The community was then part of the Franzburg-Barth district until 1952 and then belonged to the Stralsund district in the Rostock district until 1994 . Weitenhagen has been part of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania since 1990.

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 WEITENHAGEN * LANDKREIS VORPOMMERN-RÜGEN".

Attractions

Behrenwald chapel and communal mourning hall

→ See also the list of architectural monuments in Weitenhagen (district of Vorpommern-Rügen)

• Brick half-timbered houses with various animal busts on the gables of the dormers.
• Manor house and park in Behrenwalde
• Chapel (from 1964) with extensive principal pieces by Gerhard Becker

Districts

• Expansion of Behrenwalde
• Behrenwalde
• Behrenwalde south
• Koitenhagen
• Weitenhagen

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, Section 1, Paragraph 2 (PDF).

Web links

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