Wustrow (Wendland)

Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Lüchow-Dannenberg
Joint municipality :	Lüchow (Wendland)
Height :	17 m above sea level NHN
Area :	30.01 km 2
Residents:	2774 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	92 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	29462
Area code :	05843
License plate :	DAN
Community key :	03 3 54 026
Website :	www.luechow-wendland.de
Mayoress :	Andrea Heilemann (Bunte List Wustrow (FOAG))
Location of the city of Wustrow (Wendland) in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district

Wustrow

Half-timbered houses in the Rundling Güstritz

Merian engraving around 1654

Wustrow (Wendland) is a town in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district in Lower Saxony .

Surname

The name Wustrow comes from the Slavic ( "Wendish" ) name in the Polabian language Wåstrüw (compare Czech ostrov , Russian остров ostrov ), which means "island".

geography

location

The small town is located in the south of the Lüchow-Dannenberg district, about six to eight kilometers as the crow flies from Lüchow and Salzwedel .

The Jeetzel flows through the city, four kilometers west of the B 248 and only a few kilometers north of Saxony-Anhalt . In the north of the urban area, the Wustrower Dumme flows into the Jeetzel.

Neighboring communities

The city of Wustrow (Wendland) borders in the west on the municipality of Luckau (Wendland) , in the north on the municipality of coastal and on the district town of Lüchow (Wendland) , in the east on the municipality of Lübbow and in the south on the district town of Salzwedel in Altmarkkreis Salzwedel (Saxony Stop).

Nature reserves

There are two nature reserves in the city :

the 25 ha large salt Flora area at Schreyahn
the 108 hectare Blütlinger wood

City structure

The city of Wustrow (Wendland) consists of the following districts:

history

From 1991 to 2001, excavations to the northwest of Güstritz were carried out on a Slavic burial ground from the 9th to 11th centuries because it was endangered by commercial sand mining and was partially destroyed by it. A total of 164 skeletons were found in 186 graves and remains. The consistently poorly preserved skeletons were examined by the anthropologist Bettina Jungklaus . Most of the buried were of adult age. Child mortality was very low at 13%. Children under three were completely absent. Maybe children had been buried elsewhere. A special feature of this pre-industrial burial ground was that twice as many men as women were found. A high surplus of men was often typical of places with high levels of immigration. The burial ground dates from an era that was associated with numerous armed conflicts for the Slavs. The Slav uprising of 983 in particular also had an impact on the Wendland , which as a border region perhaps had a special attraction. At certain times this area west of the Elbe may have offered a certain protection, as it was more on the edge of political events. At least one man who was buried in the cemetery was actively involved in a fight, because a large section of the back of the left head was cut off by a sword blow. The average young age at which men died could also indicate an early death in war. Dental caries could only be detected in 16% of the buried. This indicates a rather meat-rich diet. Degenerative diseases of the joints and vertebrae and bone fractures were common compared to other finds.

Around 1217 the castle was founded by Tidericus (or Thiedherd) von Wustrow in the confluence of the Dumme in the Jeetzel to secure the shipping traffic between Salzwedel and the Elbe. In 1377 Wustrow was first mentioned as a town in documents. In a big fire in 1691 only five houses, a barn and the right part of the castle were spared.

In Wustrow, Christian Hennig von Jessen recorded a large part of the Polish language for the first time in the 18th century .

Incorporations

On July 1, 1972, the communities of Blütlingen, Güstritz, Klennow, Lensian and Teplingen were incorporated.

politics

Since November 1, 2006, Wustrow has been part of the Lüchow (Wendland) community . The city also belongs to the state electoral district 48 Elbe and to the federal electoral district 38 Lüchow-Dannenberg - Lüneburg .

Since the local elections on September 11, 2013, the city council has 13 members, including the mayor.

Colorful List Wustrow - 4 seats
CDU - 4 seats
SPD - 3 seats
Citizens' community instead of bureaucracy City of Wustrow (Wendland) (BsB) - 2 seats

Culture

Sights are:

Museum Wustrow with changing exhibitions and the permanent exhibitions “Colonial Goods” and “GDR Consumption”.
Industry history trail “Potash and Linen” (industrialization approaches in the Wustrow area from 1874 to 1928).
In the district Schreyahn is located Künstlerhof Schreyahn a scholarship place for authors and composers.
In the immediate vicinity of the market square in a tight bend, the “Bend Wustrow. Education and meeting place for nonviolent action e. V. “their seat.
Conference house Königshorst No. 1 (seminar room and guest room)
In the Lensian district : there is the Schwarzer Hahn cultural association with a cabaret as well as a seminar and conference center
German Storchenstrasse (Teplingen, Wustrow, Schreyahn)

Fehlhaus in Wustrow (Wendland) after renovation and reopening

societies

The Wustrow gymnastics club was founded in 1891 and the first women's department was set up in 1921. The sports club was founded in 1920. In 1937 the two clubs were merged to form the Wustrow gymnastics and sports club.

Personalities

Pastor Christian Hennig von Jessen, 1705: "Vocabularium Venedicum": Drawänopolabische language, a dialect of Polabischen, which belonged to the Lechitischen branch west Slavic languages
Werner Meiner, Mayor of the city of Wustrow and later District Administrator of the district
Axel Kahrs (born March 6, 1950 in Wustrow (Wendland)) is a German writer
Joachim Galuschka (died 2020) Mayor 1991–2001 (SPD), member of the city council 1968–2006, member of the district assembly 1978–2001 (with a short interruption), member of the council of the Lüchow municipality 1972–2006

Honorary citizen

Otto Telschow (1876–1945) (politician (NSDAP)), since August 23, 1933 - withdrawn on July 1, 2008

Web links

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

Wikisource: Wustrow in the Topographia Braunschweig Lüneburg (Matthäus Merian) - sources and full texts

Historical recordings and history
Museum Wustrow. In: museum-wustrow.de. September 4, 2011, accessed October 1, 2019 .

Individual evidence

↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
↑ project Güstritz, medium Slavic burial ground. In: anthropologie-jungklaus.de. Retrieved June 4, 2017 .
^ Bettina Jungklaus: The Slavic burial ground of Güstritz in the Hannoversche Wendland - results of the anthropological investigation . In: Felix Paul Biermann (Ed.): Settlement Structures and Castles in the West Slavic Region: Contributions of the Section on Slavic Early History at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Central and East German Association for Research on Classics in Halle an der Saale, March 19-21, 2007 . Verlag Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-941171-12-1 , p. 339-348 .
^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 233 .
↑ Landtag constituencies from the 16th electoral term. Constituency division for the election to the Lower Saxony state parliament. Annex to Section 10 (1) NLWG, p. 4. ( PDF ( Memento from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ); 87 KB)
↑ Description of the constituencies. Annex to Section 2, Paragraph 2 of the Federal Election Act. In: Eighteenth law amending the federal electoral law. Annex to Article 1. Bonn March 18, 2008, p. 325 ( PDF ( Memento of July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ); 200 KB)
^ Wustrow curve. Education and meeting place for nonviolent action e. V.
↑ Further topics. In: Bunte-fraktion-wustrow.de. May 10, 2009, accessed October 1, 2019 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-NI-1] State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).

[2] project Güstritz, medium Slavic burial ground. In: anthropologie-jungklaus.de. Retrieved June 4, 2017 .

[3] Bettina Jungklaus: The Slavic burial ground of Güstritz in the Hannoversche Wendland - results of the anthropological investigation . In: Felix Paul Biermann (Ed.): Settlement Structures and Castles in the West Slavic Region: Contributions of the Section on Slavic Early History at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Central and East German Association for Research on Classics in Halle an der Saale, March 19-21, 2007 . Verlag Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-941171-12-1 , p. 339-348 .

[4] Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 233 .

[Landtagswahlkreiseinteilung-5] Landtag constituencies from the 16th electoral term. Constituency division for the election to the Lower Saxony state parliament. Annex to Section 10 (1) NLWG, p. 4. ( PDF ( Memento from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ); 87 KB)

[Bundestagswahlkreiseinteilung-6] Description of the constituencies. Annex to Section 2, Paragraph 2 of the Federal Election Act. In: Eighteenth law amending the federal electoral law. Annex to Article 1. Bonn March 18, 2008, p. 325 ( PDF ( Memento of July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ); 200 KB)

[7] Wustrow curve. Education and meeting place for nonviolent action e. V.

[bunte-fr-Weitere-8] Further topics. In: Bunte-fraktion-wustrow.de. May 10, 2009, accessed October 1, 2019 .