Zemitz

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 59 '  N , 13 ° 45'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Vorpommern-Greifswald
Office :	At the Peenestrom
Height :	9 m above sea level NHN
Area :	30.94 km 2
Residents:	698 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	23 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17440
Primaries :	03836, 038374
License plate :	VG, ANK, GW, PW, SBG, UEM, WLG
Community key :	13 0 75 147
Community structure:	5 districts
Office administration address:	Burgstrasse 6 17438 Wolgast
Website :	www.amt-am-peenestrom.de
Mayoress :	Susanne Darmann
Location of the municipality of Zemitz in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district

Zemitz is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district. The community has been administered by the Am Peenestrom Office , based in Wolgast , since January 1, 2005 . Until December 31, 2004, Zemitz was part of the Wolgast-Land office .

geography

Zemitz is about seven kilometers south of Wolgast and seven kilometers north of Lassan . In the east the community borders on the Peene river . The Brebowbach flows through the municipality to the Peenestrom. The only notable lake is the Hohe See near the Hohensee district. Southeast of Zemitz is the highest point in the municipality, 43  m above sea level. NHN high Rauhe Berg .

Community structure

Districts Farmer Hohensee Seckeritz Wehrland Zemitz

Desolations and living spaces Farmer Sandhof (living space) Bauerberg (living space) Fischerhaus Bauer (residential area) Milchhorst (living space) Negenmark (living space)

Lepelsruh (desert) Lütkendahl (desert) Weiblitz (desert)

history

Farmer and old farmer

The district of Bauer was first mentioned in 1320 as "Bower". It is not certain whether this meant farmer or old farmer .

The place was first owned by the von Köller family and from 1493 belonged to the von Lepel family, who sold it in 1867 to the von Quistorp family , who in turn owned it until it was expropriated in 1945.

According to the measuring table sheet from 1919, Alt Bauer was north of Wehrland on the other side of the Bauerbach only 300 m away and Bauer 1000 m west of it. The manor house was in Alt Bauer and the farmyard in Bauer. Wehrland belonged to this estate as a pertinence. Bauer / Alt Bauer also includes a settlement on the Bauerberg, where the Bauer fisherman's house, a brick factory and an excursion restaurant were located on the mountain. The fisherman's house is still there as a residential house, the brickworks disappeared before 1865, the property on the mountain is now an accommodation for catamaran sailors .

View to the Bauerberg

Hohensee

High lake in Hohensee

The district of Hohensee was first mentioned in 1344 as Hoghense . The name was derived from the small lake, the high lake , on which the place is located.

→ see main article Hohensee (Zemitz)

Seckeritz

A Bronze Age (1800 to 600 BC) burial ground was discovered in the Seckeritz district around 1960. The secured house urns and many other artifacts were spectacular. This proves that the area was settled at an early stage, as the surrounding areas, such as Wehrland and Bauer, indicate this with large stone graves from the Neolithic. In the park of Seckeritz there is a tower hill, this type of construction is assigned to the early German period from 1230.

Seckeritz was first mentioned in 1319 as "Zekeris". The Slavic founding name means "ax" because the place was created on a clearing. The first known owner was the von Nienkerken (Neuenkirchen) family. From 1369 to 1833 the manor was owned by the von Lepel family, the first bearer of the name was the knight Martin von Lepel († around 1400). The last of the family in Seckeritz was the childless Ludwig von Lepel (1758–1836), who in 1833 sold the estate. From 1833 the estate became the property of the Dudy family, after which it belonged to Adolf von Corswant .

The village is a typical manor village with the dominant property and the farm workers' list a little different from the former. This clear structure is still recognizable today, even if after 1945 a residential area of ​​the village with settlement houses was built on the road Hohensee - Lassan (L 26). The stately estate had a separate manor house surrounded by a moat. This complex indicates a moated castle from the period between 1300 and 1600, which was then built over with a manor house / castle while retaining the moat with walling.

In 1912, the farmer and agricultural scientist Paul Gerhard Hepner acquired the ruined manor. He turned it into a recognized potato seed breeding company. He also devoted himself to breeding the Edelland pigs . Until the expropriation in 1948, the company was managed as a model property by the Hepner family. The burial place of Paul Gerhard Hepner still exists there today.

The mansion was destroyed in a fire in 1965. The estate showed the following coat of arms: Six crossbars, from bottom left to top right. The sign symbolizes a ploughshare. In the upper square there is an "L", for the family "von Lepel" (such a coat of arms is not recorded by the Lepels, it must mean something else).

Wehrland

Church, belfry and churchyard of Wehrland

The Wehrland district includes a large number of large stone graves and barrows from the Neolithic (5500 to 1800 BCE) and barrows from the Bronze Age (1800 to 600 BCE). The Slavic period has not yet been adequately archaeologically proven on site, as is borne out by the place names in the vicinity.

The construction of the church began as early as the 12th century, as the building analyzes prove. At the time, however, there was no documentary evidence of the location. This is probably due to the fact that Alt Bauer and Bauer were the main locations, there were the separate mansion in Alt Bauer and the farm in Bauer (according to MTB 1920). Wehrland was always just pertinence to this property. All three places are close together.

Wehrland is a German foundation that was first mentioned in 1618 on the Lubin map as "Werlant". The place was designated in 1626 as Lepel's property.

At the Brebowbach on the Wehrlander side there was a watermill from before 1835 (according to PUM), but it disappeared by 1920.

In 1817 a large fire destroyed almost all the houses in the village. In 1867 August von Quistorp acquired the Bauer and Wehrland estates and built the manor house in Alt Bauer , which still existed in the 21st century . The family remained owners until 1945.

In the course of the land reform , the land was expropriated, divided and given to new farmers .

In the direction of the Rauen Berg and the desolation of Weiblitz, the place developed considerably after 1945 through the land reform settlements. The Pertinenzgut was built over with the LPG buildings and can only be recognized in form and structure. The old town center with the church continued to shrink.

After 1990 the Quistorps set up a hereditary burial in the Wehrlander Kirchhof again. The origin was the grave of Ulrich von Quistorp (1860–1903). The Lepel and Quistorp families were significantly involved financially in the restoration of the seriously endangered Wehrlander Feldsteinkirche , the Quistorps as the last owners before 1945 and the Lepels, because their family members have burials in the church and the place was one of the family's old estates.

Zemitz

The numerous archaeological finds from the Neolithic (5500 to 1800 BCE) with the large stone graves on the border to the Bauer / Wehrland district and the tumuli that followed from the Bronze Age (1800 to 600 BCE) indicate an early settlement of the area. Slavic settlement findings, as the place name suggests, are still insufficient. For the early German period there is a suspicion of a tower hill castle northwest of the former estate, this has yet to be confirmed archaeologically.

Zemitz was first mentioned in 1504 as "Sumentz". The name is of Slavic origin and is derived from Zemlya for earth . In 1504 a Krienker Brünnig Lepel owned the entire Zemitz estate . The von Lepel family owned the estate until 1843. Then the owners of Zemitz changed many times.

In 1901 the Zemitz estate was relocated, and the widely distributed settlements on the arterial roads arose. The estate was still present as a remnant yard. The manor house was demolished around 2003.

Even after the settlement and to this day, Zemitz was and remained a street village with the somewhat secluded church.

At the intersection of the L 26 with the access roads to Seckeritz and Bauer, a large LPG complex including a new building area was built in GDR times. The LPG farm was cleared after 1990.

Farmer Sandhof (living space)

"Farmer Sandhof" was just a field name before 1835 according to PUM and after 1920 according to MTB. In 1957 the name appeared in the lists of places and was marked in the TK 10 cards in 2003. As a separate living space, it belongs to the Bauer district.

Bauerberg (living space)

According to PUM, "Bauerberg" has been known as such since before 1835 and was marked in 2003 on TK 10 cards. A brick factory on the northern slope existed before 1835 and was closed and demolished around 1920. There is now a garden and bungalow settlement, as well as the former restaurant on the mountain, the current sailing club with stairs to the small mooring and storage area for catamarans and sailing boats.

Fischerhaus Bauer (residential area)

The Fischerhaus Bauer was marked on cards TK 10 in 2003. It is still inhabited today, but its name is no longer in its function.

Milchhorst (living space)

The district of Seckeritz called "Milchhorst", which was first mentioned in 1859, was a pertinence to Gut Hohendorf. It is north of Sekeritz and is only a small place to live today. It was originally a mill farm, the mill was already there before 1880 according to MTB and was still in place after 1920.

Negenmark (living space)

Negenmark was founded with the same name in 1707 and is mentioned in a document. The place belonged as a pertinence to Gut Hohensee.

Today Negenmark is a small place with a few buildings on the banks of the Peene River and has a small boat harbor.

Lepelsruh (desert)

Lepelsruh was named in 1868, it was a pertinence to Wehrland - then it soon fell into desolation. Today there is only the field name .

Lütkendahl (desert)

Lütkendahl was first mentioned in 1782 as "Lüttendahl" (Low German = small valley). It was a brickworks on the Peene and was a pertinence to Bauer. It was also called Kleinthal. After 1868 it fell desolate. It was east of Sekeritz close to the lagoon.

Weiblitz (desert)

Weiblitz was not officially mentioned as such until 1851. But it was called an old Slavic settlement, which was already lost in the Thirty Years War.

The place was then rebuilt in the 19th century as a Vorwerk to Bauer / Wehrland. At the time, the Vorwerk also had a post mill a little further west.

In 1995, the place Weiblitz was named in the regional map of Usedom and Google Maps also called part of the place Wehrland as Weiblitz. Both are confused, the former Vorwerk has been just a collection of ruins since the 1970s, as can be clearly seen on the satellite images.

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 region of Western Pomerania . It shows an upright griffin with a raised tail and the inscription "GEMEINDE ZEMITZ * LANDKREIS VORPOMMERN-GREIFSWALD".

Attractions

St. Michael in Zemitz

Baroque painting of the ceiling in St. Nikolai zu Bauer

→ See also the list of monuments in Zemitz

• Church of St. Michael was built as a chapel in the 18th century. In 1913 it was converted into a hall church with a baroque western tower.
• St. Nikolai zu Bauer : The field stone church was built in the 13th century; the choir around 1285. On the north wall of the choir there are two epitaphs that are reminiscent of the von Quistorp family : Hans Ulrich von Quistorp (1904–1946) and Ulrich von Quistorp (1860–1903). Opposite, two more epitaphs remind of Albert Voss (1842–1866) and the von Lepel family . Inside there is a flat beamed ceiling with baroque ornamental painting, which was created around 1708. In addition to the gold-colored tendrils, several putti and the title of the church cantata "Gloria In Excelis Deo" (Glory to God in the highest) by Johann Sebastian Bach can be seen. The building also houses Remler's only organ in Western Pomerania from 1866.
• Bauer estate, the Wehrland , Hohensee and Seckeritz estate
• The barrows around Wehrland and Bauer
• Lookout point on the Bauerberg , accessible via a dirt road east of St. Nikolai
• Seckeritz tower hill

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

The community is predominantly characterized by agriculture. There are few approaches to tourism.

traffic

The federal road 111 runs north of the municipality . The area is opened up by state and district roads.

Personalities

• Claudia Schulz (* 1977), agricultural ecologist and politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ), grew up in Zemitz

literature

• Manfred Niemeyer: East Western Pomerania. Collection of sources and literature on place names . Vol. 2: Mainland. (= Greifswald contributions to toponymy. Vol. 2), Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, Institute for Slavic Studies, Greifswald 2001, ISBN 3-86006-149-6

Web links

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

• Literature about Zemitz 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. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m} Manfred Niemeyer: Ostvorpommern . Collection of sources and literature on place names. Vol. 2: Mainland. (= Greifswald contributions to toponymy. Vol. 2), Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, Institute for Slavic Studies, Greifswald 2001, ISBN 3-86006-149-6 . P. 9 ff
3. ↑ Historisch-Genealogisches Handbuch der Familie v. Lepel (Lepell). Developed by Andreas Hansert and Oskar Matthias Frhr on the basis of family history sources. v. Lepel with the assistance of Klaus Bernhard Frhr. v. Lepel and Herbert Stoyan. German Family Archives, Volume 151, Verlag Degener & Co., owner Manfred Dreiss, Insingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7686-5201-8
4. ↑ Main Statute, Section 1, Paragraph 3 (PDF).