Wokuhl-Dabelow

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 16 '  N , 13 ° 12'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Mecklenburg Lake District
Office :	Neustrelitz-Land
Height :	73 m above sea level NHN
Area :	46.15 km 2
Residents:	576 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	12 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17237
Area code :	039825
License plate :	MSE, AT, DM, MC, MST, MÜR, NZ, RM, WRN
Community key :	13 0 71 162
Office administration address:	Marienstraße 5 17235 Neustrelitz
Website :	www.amtneustrelitz-land.de
Mayor :	Manfred Marczok
Location of the municipality of Wokuhl-Dabelow in the Mecklenburg Lake District

Church in Wokuhl

Church in Dabelow

Wokuhl-Dabelow is a municipality in the south of the Mecklenburg Lake District in southern Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). The municipality is administered by the Neustrelitz-Land office, which is based in the non-official city of Neustrelitz .

geography

The municipality is located in the Müritz National Park and the Feldberger Seenlandschaft nature park on the border with the Brandenburg district of Oberhavel . The area is rich in forests and lakes (including Dabelowsee , Großer Brückentinsee and in the north of the Große Fürstenseer See ) and has a strong relief that was shaped by the Ice Age. Wokuhl is about twelve kilometers from Neustrelitz, Dabelow about twelve kilometers from Fürstenberg / Havel . The two main parts of the community are five kilometers apart.

Community structure

The community emerged from the merger of the two independent communities Wokuhl and Dabelow until May 5, 2001. The districts of Brückentin, Carolinenhof, Comthurey, Grammertin, Herzwolde, Neubrück and Wutschendorf also belong to the municipality.

history

In the Middle Ages, an important freight route led through today's districts of Wokuhl and Neubrück, which later became the Poststrasse and which has been preserved over long distances to this day. It ran from Rostock to Lychen - from here in an easterly direction with a connection to Stettin and the Oderknie as well as continuing to trade routes in the Danube-Balkan area; in a westerly direction to Brandenburg , Magdeburg and to trade routes on the Rhine and Danube . It can be assumed that the districts of today's municipality of Wokuhl-Dabelow once benefited from the transfer of goods along this freight route - especially at the weddings of the Hanseatic League .

The Brückentin district has been home to the Brückentin Youth Conservation Academy with residential and seminar houses since 1994, sponsored by the Berlin Green League .

Wokuhl

The first written mention of the place Wokuhl comes from the year 1285. The place name is of Slavic ( Redarian ) origin. The oldest known name of the place Wokuhl (13th century) was Wokun . From this the meaning “place where perch live” can be derived. Another interpretation explains the derivation of okno or okulu , which would indicate round or well . On July 1, 1950, the previously independent municipality of Herzwolde was incorporated.

Comthurey

The Gardow Commandery had been located near the Comthurey district since the end of the 13th century . This was secularized in 1648 . The place Gardow itself was called desolate in 1548.

During the Nazi era (1934–1944), Comthurey was home to an experimental farm for “dynamic biological agriculture” under the direction of Oswald Pohl . This concept was based primarily on the cultivation of "German", in this case to be interpreted as "regional" types of fruit, vegetables and herbs, as well as the keeping of "German-bred" farm animals such as pigs, cows and chickens imported from Germany Should make foreign countries independent. Pohl, who was also the head of the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office (WVHA), was a strong advocate of this cultivation method, which is why he not only furnished the estate, but also moved in with his family in the manor house there and invested a lot of money. Forced laborers from the Ravensbrück concentration camp , especially Jehovah's Witnesses , who viewed the imprisonment as a test of God and therefore made no attempt to escape or resist, were deployed there. Compared to the concentration camp, the living conditions were more bearable, nevertheless the prisoners were exploited, but hardly guarded (due to the low risk of escape, etc.). Pohl's children, especially their adoptive daughter Heilwig, who was born in a Lebensborn home, even considered most of the prisoners housed in the barracks to be family members and had a relatively good relationship with them. However, they perceived Pohl and his wife Eleonore as bossy and used the prisoners as cheap labor, also for private purposes such as repairs in the house. During the evacuation, the prisoners were taken and the estate, including the Pohl family's treasures, was plundered by the Red Army.

Dabelow

The first documentary mention of the place Dabelow comes from the year 1286. The name "Dobelowe" is derived from the Slavic word dobli for "strong" and "noble".

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 torn off neck fur and crown and the inscription "GEMEINDE WOKUHL-DABELOW * LANDKREIS MECKLENBURGISCHE SEENPLATTE".

Attractions

→ See also the list of architectural monuments in Wokuhl-Dabelow

• Village church in Dabelow from the 19th century as a half-timbered building and with roof turrets according to plans by Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel
• Baroque village church in Wokuhl from 1736 with a massive west tower, extended by two windows in 1780; baroque furnishings.
• Rectory in Wokuhl as a brick building with a crooked hip .

Transport links

The municipality of Wokuhl-Dabelow is about six kilometers east of the federal highway 96 ( Berlin - Stralsund ) and the Berlin-Stralsund railway line . Smaller country roads lead from Strelitz-Alt and Godendorf-Düsterförde to Wokuhl-Dabelow.

The connection to Neustrelitz and Strelitz-Alt is the week with the buses of MVVG ensured (Bus 639). During the school holidays, the offer is limited to individual days of the week.

Personalities

Wokuhl

• Max Blum (1864–1902), businessman and Low German writer

Grammertin

• Julius Curtius (1877–1948), Reich Minister of Economics and Reich Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic, was the owner of the leasehold
• Hans Bernd von Haeften (1905–1944), German lawyer and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime (Kreisauer Kreis), was the owner of the leasehold

Web links

Commons : Wokuhl-Dabelow  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature on Wokuhl-Dabelow in the state bibliography MV

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. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2001
3. ^ Bruckentin Youth Conservation Academy ( Memento from August 21, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on August 21, 2014
4. ^ Mecklenburgisches Urkundenbuch (MUB), No. 1797
5. ^ Julius Bilek: The Slavic place names of the Neustrelitz district. In: Erwin Kasten, Erich Zimmermann (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch des Kreis Neustrelitz. Individual representations from the history of our circle. Council of the Neustrelitz District, Neustrelitz 1954, pp. 71–80.
6. ^ 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. 160.
7. ^ Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : History of the Johanniter-Comthureien Nemerow and Gardow. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 9, 1844, pp. 28-96, 249-288, ( online ; Appendix online ).
8. ^ Dorothee Schmitz-Köster: Child L 364: a life-born family story. Rowohlt, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-87134-564-7 .
9. ^ Mecklenburgisches Urkundenbuch (MUB)
10. ^ Paul Kühnel: The Slavic place names in Meklenburg. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 46, 1881, pp. 3–168, here p. 35.
11. ↑ Main Statute, Section 1, Paragraph 2