Wessin
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Wessin
City of Crivitz
Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 23 " N , 11 ° 43 ′ 36" E
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| Height : | 58 m |
| Residents : | 438 (Dec. 31, 2009) |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 2011 |
| Postal code : | 19089 |
| Area code : | 03863 |
Wessin is a district of Crivitz in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany).
Geography and traffic
Wessin is on federal highway 392 . The federal motorway 14 (approx. 17 km) can be reached via the Schwerin-Ost junction. The place is about six kilometers east of Crivitz . The Mordkuhle forest is located in the south of the former municipal area . The highest points of the former community are an unnamed hill in the northwest at 73.3 m above sea level. NHN , the Black Mountain (71.3 m) and the Elsterberg at 70.3 m above sea level. NHN south of the town of Wessin.
history
The name is of Slavic origin and means something like "to turn" or "to turn around".
On July 1, 1950, the previously independent municipalities Badegow and Radepohl were incorporated.
On January 1, 2011, the municipality of Wessin with its districts Badegow, Radepohl and Wessin was incorporated into Crivitz. The community had an area of 17.07 km² and 438 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2009). Before the incorporation, the municipality was administered by the Crivitz office.
Attractions
- Half-timbered manor house
- one of the largest and oldest tulip trees in Germany (height of 32 meters and a trunk diameter of 1.40 meters) in the old manor park
- Wessin village church
Personalities
- Friedrich Christian Gottlieb Albert Schütze (* 1829 Wessin, † 1912 Ludwigslust), 1850–1856 teacher in England, 1864 rector in Rehna , 1882 prepositus.
