Wesenberg (Mecklenburg)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 17 '  N , 12 ° 58'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Mecklenburg Lake District
Office :	Mecklenburgische Kleinseenplatte
Height :	61 m above sea level NHN
Area :	89.44 km 2
Residents:	3031 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	34 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17255
Primaries :	039828, 039832, 039833
License plate :	MSE, AT, DM, MC, MST, MÜR, NZ, RM, WRN
Community key :	13 0 71 159
Office administration address:	Rudolf-Breitscheid-Strasse 24 17252 Mirow
Website :	www.wesenberg-mecklenburg.de
Mayor :	Steffen Rißmann ( CDU )
Location of the city of Wesenberg in the Mecklenburg Lake District

Wesenberg is a country town in the south of the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). She belongs to the Mecklenburgische Kleinseenplatte office . Historically, Wesenberg belongs to the Mecklenburg-Strelitz cultural region .

The Wesenberg, which is rich in water and characterized by tourism, is a state-approved resort and forms a basic center for its surroundings . It is one of the main places in the Neustrelitzer Kleinseenland holiday area in the Mecklenburg Lake District .

geography

Geographical location

Wesenberg is located in the upper Havel area , on the Woblitzsee and not far from the Great and Small White Lakes and the Great Labussee (Klein Quassow district). Naturally , it is part of the Neustrelitz Kleinseenland in the Mecklenburg Lake District . Nearby are Neustrelitz and the Müritz (the largest lake in Germany ) with the national park of the same name . In the southern part of the municipality on the border with Brandenburg are the Große Pälitzsee and the Ellbogensee as the intersection of the Müritz-Havel waterway and the Upper Havel waterway . The lakes are connected to one another via the Strasen lock .

City structure

The following districts belong to the city of Wesenberg:

Wesenberg Ahrensberg Below Hard country	Little Quassow Pelzkuhl Roads Zirtow

history

13th century until today

Documents from the 13th century report that Wesenberg was founded in 1252 by Prince Nikolaus I von Werle , but passed into the possession of Margrave Otto IV of Brandenburg as early as 1276 after a battle near Groß Trebbow . Only two years later, Schwerin's town charter was confirmed and a castle was built in 1282. In 1292, as part of the Stargard rule and thus part of the Wittum of the Brandenburg margrave's daughter Beatrix, the place came into the hands of the Mecklenburg people when they married Prince Heinrich II (the Lion) of Mecklenburg. Wesenberg became a country town in Mecklenburg and, as such, part of the towns in the Stargardian district , which were represented in the Mecklenburg provincial parliaments of the territorial estates united in 1523 until 1918 . In 1326, Wesenberg came into the possession of Ritter von Plote. A few years later, the city suffered setbacks in economic development and the decline in population caused by the plague and epidemics. The Buristsorpe desert was mentioned in the 14th century .

St. Mary's Church

The Reformation reached Wesenberg at the latest in 1529, when Duke Heinrich the Peaceful summoned the preacher Laurentius Cassube to the Wesenberg parish. In 1610, the chronicler Latomus described the place as "a pretty well- situated town, rich in water and wood, but agriculture is a bit poor ... there is also a manor house there, on which a bailiff is kept, the Havel drives a two-part grain and fulling mill." In 1648, Wesenberg, like many other cities, was on the verge of ruin after the Thirty Years' War . For many decades, the city's situation did not improve significantly. Several fires raged there. As an important finding from this, it was stipulated that in the future the houses should be built with a greater distance from one another, which can still be seen in many cases today. Looting in the 18th century also made the economic upswing difficult. In 1806 French troops occupied the city and stayed there for a few years.

The country school regulations of 1825 led, at least in the Domanium , to compulsory schooling all year round. As a result, Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel built a new school in Hohen Strasse in 1832/33 . The post office was built the following year. The first gymnastics and sports club in the city was founded in 1886.

In 1890 the city was connected to the Buschhof – Neustrelitz line of the Neustrelitz-Wesenberg-Mirower railway company (later the Friedrich Wilhelm railway company ). On May 17th, the first train from Neustrelitz to Mirow drove on the new route.

In 1897 a distillery was built at the train station, where schnapps was distilled from potatoes until the 1970s. In 1908 the place received electricity. In the 1920s and 1930s a volunteer fire brigade, a new train station and in 1937 a cinema that is now back in operation were built in Wesenberg.

During the GDR times, a youth hostel was built on Lake Labus , which was also used as a children's holiday camp and is now run as a family hotel .

In the second half of the 1960s at Lake Woblitz, numerous jobs were created for the city and the surrounding areas in the wood processing industry, which emerged from a smaller sawmill. After 1990 operations could no longer be maintained.

From 1992 onwards, extensive renovation of the city and the castle began. a. as part of urban development funding .

From 1952 to 1994 Wesenberg belonged to the Neustrelitz district (until 1990 in the GDR district of Neubrandenburg , then in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania). In 1994 the city was incorporated into the Mecklenburg-Strelitz district. Since the district reform in 2011 , it has been in the Mecklenburg Lake District .

Ahrensberg

The current district of Ahrensberg remained an exclave of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in the Strelitz part of the state after the Mecklenburg main state division in 1701 until its unification in 1934 .

Incorporations

Strasen was spun off from what was then Strasen-Piepert on January 1, 2000 and incorporated into Wesenberg.

Population development

year Residents 1990 3094 1995 3041 2000 3378 2005 3289 2010 3051

year Residents 2015 3078 2016 3040 2017 3024 2018 3020 2019 3031

Status: December 31 of the respective year

The increase in the number of inhabitants in 2000 is due to the incorporation of Strasen in 2000.

politics

Marketplace

City council

The city council of Wesenberg consists of 14 members and the mayor. The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following result:

Party / list	be right	Seats
CDU	41.8%	6th
Alliance for Wesenberg / Greens	28.3%	4th
The left	16.3%	2
AfD	08.2%	1
SPD	05.4%	1

mayor

• 2001–2019: Helmut Hamp (citizen for Wesenberg)
• since 2019: Steffen Rißmann (CDU)

Rißmann was elected in the mayoral election on October 20, 2019 with 50.1% of the valid votes (two votes ahead of his competitor).

coat of arms

Blazon : “In silver on a green mountain, three red towers; the middle a round tower with a pointed roof and golden high cross; the outer pinnacle towers with two growing, facing each other, golden armed red eagle heads. " The coat of arms was redrawn around 1978 and registered under the number 219 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Justification for the coat of arms: The coat of arms is based on the seal image of the S (IGILLVM) CIVITATIS DE WESENBERGE - made before 1300, first handed down as an imprint in 1354. In the national emblem, the green mountain is likely to be a talking symbol that depicts the place name (wese = meadow), which comes from Middle Low German. The towers symbolize a fortified, defensive city. The two red eagle heads and the main colors red and silver indicate the rule of the Margraves of Brandenburg, who confirmed the town charter in 1278 Wesenberg.

flag

The flag was designed by the Wesenberger Helmut Rumich and approved on September 14, 2001 by the Ministry of the Interior.

The flag is evenly striped lengthways with green, white and red. In the middle of the white stripe, at half the height of the green and red stripes, is the city coat of arms. 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 WESENBERG * LANDKREIS MECKLENBURGISCHE SEENPLATTE".

Town twinning

Quakenbrück ( Lower Saxony ) is twin town of Wesenberg. The partnership was established on September 21, 1990.

Attractions

Castle

• Market square with the war memorial in memory of the fallen in 1870/71
• St. Mary's Church , Gothic building from the 14th century
• Wesenberg Castle , symbol of the city
• Museum for tin toys in the Villa Pusteblume, Burgweg 1
• Cinema, as a movie theater with a front typological theater facade (brick porches with plastered surfaces) and an attached functional building, the cinema, built in 1936/37. The listed building closed its doors before 1990, until it was reopened in 2001 by a private investor after complete renovation and modernization. It is now the longest-serving movie theater in the region.
• Thälmannpark from 1970 with a memorial stone for the chairman of the KPD Ernst Thälmann , who was murdered in the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944
• Stele in memory of the concentration camp prisoners of the death march , in early 1945 on the site of Thälmann park in 1997 by young people under the guidance of the artist Wolf Leo built
• Manor and village church Ahrensberg

See also : List of architectural monuments in Wesenberg (Mecklenburg)

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Wesenberg station

Wesenberg is on the B 198 federal highway between Mirow and Neustrelitz and on the B 122 , which begins in Wesenberg and leads to Neuruppin .

The Wesenberg train station on the Neustrelitz – Mirow line ( Kleinseenbahn ) is served by the Hanseatic Railway every two hours during the day. There are further connections to surrounding towns on weekdays with MVVG buses .

Wesenberg is connected to national and international cycle paths , such as the Berlin-Copenhagen cycle path (connects Wesenberg with Rostock and Berlin) and the sun route of the EuroVelo cycle route network (EuroVelo 7), which runs from the North Cape in Norway to Malta .

Sports

The largest sports club in town is SV Union Wesenberg . It includes the departments of boxing, football, canoeing and athletics as well as sports groups for bowling, weight training, cycling, senior sports and tennis.

Organized sport began in Wesenberg in 1886. The Union Wesenberg sports club was founded in 1925 with the first official and victorious football game against Mirow. The club was then called the Arbeiterportverein Wesenberg, Sportclub Wesenberg, Turnsportverein Wesenberg, Sports Community Friendship Wesenberg, BSG Tractor Wesenberg and BSG Union Wesenberg. The club has been called SV Union Wesenberg since 1990.

The volleyball department separated from the club in 1990 and reorganized under the club name FS Wesenberg . The men's competition team was integrated into the volleyball department of PSV Neustrelitz as Team Wesenberg in 2009.

The local fishing club has been active since 1990 under the name Sportfischerverein Wesenberg .

education

• Regional school with Wesenberg elementary school, In den Wwall 9a

societies

• Castle Association Wesenberg, founded in 1995
• De Wesenbager Burgsängers, male choir, founded in 1997

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Heinrich Plütschau (around 1676–1752), missionary
• Otto Bollhagen (1861–1924), painter
• Paul Wustrow (1890–1945), professor of dentistry
• Christian Berg (1908–1990), pastor, co-founder of Bread for the World
• Heinz Musculus (1917–1976), caricaturist and book illustrator

Personalities associated with Wesenberg

• Adolf Goetze (1792–1868), educator, rector in Wesenberg
• Friedrich Genzken (1817–1875), city judge in Wesenberg
• Helmut Sakowski (1924–2005), writer, lived in Wesenberg
• Mark Frank (* 1977), javelin thrower, grew up in Wesenberg

Web links

Commons : Wesenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature about Wesenberg (Mecklenburg) in the state bibliography MV

supporting documents

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. ↑ Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Swimming Association , accessed on March 20, 2014.
3. ↑ Regional Spatial Development Program Mecklenburg Lake District (2011) , Regional Planning Association, accessed on July 12, 2015.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} main statute § 1 (PDF).
5. ^ Werner Lexow: Railway in Mecklenburg-Strelitz . P. 74.
6. ↑ Population development of the districts and municipalities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Statistical Report AI of the Statistical Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
7. ↑ Announcement of the final results of the local elections on May 26, 2019 (PDF) Accessed on March 14, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Farewell to the mayor with a town hall cake. In: Nordkurier , May 19, 2019.
9. ^ Result of the mayoral election on October 20, 2019
10. ↑ Hans-Heinz Schütt: On shield and flag production office TINUS, Schwerin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814380-0-0 , p. 302/303.
11. ↑ Timetable for the Neustrelitz – Mirow route
12. ↑ Mecklenburg stage | Berlin - Copenhagen. Retrieved May 4, 2017 . 
13. ↑ translator2: EuroVelo 7 - EuroVelo. Retrieved May 4, 2017 . 
14. ^ Website of the SV Union Wesenberg
15. ↑ Homepage of the fishing club. Retrieved February 7, 2017 .