Zapel

Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Ludwigslust-Parchim
Office :	Crivitz
Height :	61 m above sea level NHN
Area :	11.57 km 2
Residents:	434 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	38 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	19089
Area code :	03863
License plate :	LUP, HGN, LBZ, LWL, PCH, STB
Community key :	13 0 76 158
Community structure:	2 districts
Office administration address:	Amtsstrasse 5 ; 19089 Crivitz
Website :	amt-crivitz.de
Mayor :	Hans-Werner Wandschneider
Location of the municipality of Zapel in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district

Zapel is a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is administered by the Crivitz Office and borders directly on the city of Crivitz.

Geography and traffic

The community is located about three kilometers southeast of Crivitz and about 20 kilometers northwest of Parchim . It is located on federal highway 321 . The federal motorway 14 (approx. 14 kilometers) can be reached via the Schwerin-Ost junction. The Schwerin – Parchim railway runs through the municipality . The next train stations are in Crivitz and Ruthenbeck . In the south of the municipality is the Settiner Tannen forest and this is where the Gramnitzbach rises. In the northeast of the municipality is the highest point in the municipality at 67.8 m above sea level. NHN .

The districts of the community are Zapel and Zapel Hof, which was incorporated on January 1, 1951.

history

The name is of Slavic origin and means something like "place of the herons" or "heron place". It has not been established whether the settlement was built on the old Slavic residential area. The repeatedly appearing representation that the church is on a castle wall has been refuted by drilling into the ground. The church stands on a hill, the highest point in the village center.

On January 1, 1951, the previously independent municipality of Zapel, Hof (also Hof Zapel) was incorporated into the municipality of Zapel, Dorf (also Dorf Zapel).

The municipality lost around a quarter of its population in 2004.

politics

coat of arms

Blazon : “In green a silver heron armored in gold with a raised left gold stand; Accompanied: in the upper right corner by two falling golden acorns on a slanted golden stem, in the upper left corner by two falling golden acorns on a golden stem placed obliquely to the left. "

The coat of arms and the flag were designed by Karl-Friedrich Röhl from Hamburg . It was approved together with the flag on April 26, 2006 by the Ministry of the Interior and registered under the number 301 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Explanation of the coat of arms: In the coat of arms, the heron is supposed to be used as a talking symbol to create a visual reference to the Slavic place name (czapla = heron). According to the design principle of the pars pro toto, the acorns represent an outstanding natural monument in the community, a solitary kingdom lasting several centuries. The importance of this oak for the townscape was recognized as early as 1859 when the resident pastor Theodor Joachim Wilhelm Mecklenburg asked the Grand Duke in verse to prevent its intended felling through his princely objection.

flag

Flag of the municipality of Zapel

The flag is striped in green, white and green across the longitudinal axis of the flag cloth. The green stripes each take up a quarter, the white stripe takes up half the length of the flag cloth. In the middle of the white stripe is the municipal coat of arms, which takes up two thirds of the height of the flag. The relation of the height of the flag cloth to the length is like 3: 5.

Official seal

The official seal shows the municipal coat of arms with the inscription "GEMEINDE ZAPEL".

Attractions

Village church in Zapel

→ See also the list of architectural monuments in Zapel

Late Gothic stone church from the beginning of the 15th century, half-timbered tower from 1749
Memorial stone from 1960 in front of a barn on the B 321 in the 25 concentration camp prisoners of the death march of April 1945 by SS men were killed.
Memorial plaque from 1976 on the B 321 near the Parchimer Strasse 2 property on the death march
Memorial stone from 1950 next to the Chausseehaus to 18 (in fact there were 25) murdered concentration camp prisoners
Stela from 1996 on the B 321 between Zapel and Neu Ruthenbeck by the sculptor Wieland Schmiedel in memory of the death march

Sons and daughters of the church

Herbert Säverin (1906–1987), Lord Mayor of Wismar 1945–1950
Christian Bunners (* 1934), Protestant theologian and musicologist.

Individual evidence

↑ 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 ).
↑ ^a ^b ^c § 1 of the main statute (PDF; 30 kB) of the municipality
↑ Hans-Heinz Schütt: On shield and flag - the coats of arms and flags of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and its municipalities . Ed .: production office TINUS; Schwerin. 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814380-0-0 , pp. 216/217 .

Web links

Commons : Zapel - collection of images, videos and audio files

Office of Crivitz

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-MV-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 ).

[Hauptsatzung-2] § 1 of the main statute (PDF; 30 kB) of the municipality

[Wappenbuch-3] Hans-Heinz Schütt: On shield and flag - the coats of arms and flags of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and its municipalities . Ed .: production office TINUS; Schwerin. 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814380-0-0 , pp. 216/217 .